Acer announced its new Windows powered tablet at IFA 2014. It comes with full Windows 8.1 support with an affordable price tag. The specifications are:
Before 6 months, Xperia Z2 was announced and now Sony got us another flagship Smartphone, Xperia Z3. A little thicker at 8.2 mm and IP65/68 rating for dust and water resistance. The bezels are also shrunken a little bit. Other features are nearly the same as that of Xperia Z2. Here it is:
We all knew Note 4 was coming. The metal-frame around the Note 4 is the new alteration with somewhat same faux-leather lacking minus stitching all the way around. Here are other specs of Galaxy Note 4:
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CPU/GPU |
Snapdragon 805, Quad-core 2.5 GHz Krait 450 / Adreno 420 |
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CPU/GPU (Select markets) |
Exynos 5 Octa 5433, 64-bit, Octa-core 4 X 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53 + 4 Cortex-A57 / Mali T760 |
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Display |
5.7-inch, 2560 x 1440, 515 ppi |
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RAM |
4GB |
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Memory |
16/32/64 GB,nmicroSD up to 128GB |
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Battery |
Said to be 20mAh more than Note 3 (3220mAh) |
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Camera |
16MP/3.7MP, BSI Sensor, Optical Image Stabilization, LED flash |
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Connectivity |
WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, GPS / GLONASS, NFC, Bluetooth® v 4.0 (LE), IR LED (Remote Control), MHL 2.0 |
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Network |
2.5G/3G (HSPA＋ 42Mbps), 4G LTE |
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Sensors |
UV, fingerprint scanner, heart rate monitor |
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OS |
Android 4.4.4 KitKat with TouchWiz |
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Dimensions |
Not Available |
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Colors |
Charcoal Black, Blossom Pink, Frost White, and Bronze Gold |
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge is pretty much same specification as that of Galaxy Note 4 will quite small screen size and of-course the edge display added as the name suggests. It offers tons of cool features such as it is used for notifications, playback controls, news, sports scores and can help you as a night clock without a need to turn the main screen display. Also, the edge screen is a part of an AMOLED screen family. It has swipe gesture features supporting upto 7 screens left to right and quick setting from up and down. You can also set shortcut for applications allowing home-screen free from dock bar. Also, developers can take advantage of the edge screen as SDK is on the way to be released.
Samsung Gear S is pretty much the same as previously mentioned.
Samsung Gear VR is a new smart device from Samsung doing partnership with Oculus. It works as so sort of shell to Note 4 which works as the main display. Note 4 can be popped inside the device only to become one with VR headset. Back button is at the side and down below it is a touchpad for navigating the UI of smartphone without the need to pull it out. Speakers are placed right above the ears and two lenses transfer image into your eyes. Scroll button is placed at the top for adjusting display, in case anybody needs it.
3D cinema, VR Games and educational usage are the first priority when this device comes to the market.
Now tha IFA trade show started at Berlin, Lenovo showcased its two new Gaming Rigs: Touch laptop Y70 and Erazer X315 Desktop.
Next is the Desktop lineup from Lenovo. Erazer X315 will be powered by AMD Karveri A10 APU and AMD-based video card which will go up to a Radeon R9 255. The case of this desktop PC is designed to look like a knight’s armor. Other features includes 12GB memory, customer’s mechanical hard drive choice (up to 4TB), a hybrid hard drice (up to 2TB) or a 256 SSD. Erazer X315 is only marketed in North America now. The Y70 Touch is said to go on sale from October at price of $1299 and Erazer X315 will start at $599 which will go on sale from November.
Sony was one of the company to think out of the crowd and introduced to the world their smartphone cameras. Those were QX10 and QX100. They provide users to capture great pictures with that camera lens and using smartphone as a view-finder. Now, the followup camera QX1 has now hit the web, noted from Xperia blog and Sony Alpha rumors.
Like QX10 and QX100, the new QX1 will enhance the photo taking experience on android devices. But unlike last years model, the camera itself comes in two parts: Sensor and Lenses. Ya, you heard it right, lenses are detachable and inter-changeable from the sensor. It allows users to attached E-mount lenses that are used on Alpha series of Sony’s mirror-less cameras. Also, it is believed to use A6000 sensor found in Alpha series cameras.
Now for the price, its certainly won’t come cheap. According to the information, the pricing starts at around $395 and that only for the sensor. If you want to attach 16-50mm lens on that sensor, the price bumps to $590. That isn’t a cheap at all. How many of you think you could grab this hardware when it is available?
Smartphone use is booming and so is the performance. As the new product is launched, its comes bundle with top-notch specifications with larger battery capacity and most importantly with larger screen size and form-factor. Although many of the consumers like this trend, some are in the category of having a mobile device that can easily be handled with one hand with the latest and greatest specifications. Same is listened by one manufacturer, Sony.
Although the event Sony is planning to hold at IFA is one more day left, the pictures of latest compact counterpart of flagship smartphone by Sony leak in wild. The color variants are new and not only the device but its specifications also got leaked as well.
To summarized the specs, we have:
With such specs in small form-factor, Sony is only one of the manufacturer to do so. It is following this trend since it first release Xperia Z1 compact. It will be announced at Sony pre-IFA press conference tomorrow along with Xperia Z3, Xperia E3 and Xperia Z3 tablet compact (8″ tablet).
Dell recently announced its Gaming PC Alienware Area-51. Now, Dell has something else for those folks who want the gaming experience to be on-the-par. Alongside Alienware Area-51 which is powered by Intel’s Haswell-E core i7 processor, they announced their first curved display monitor. Desll UltraSharp U3415W is a 34-inch curved display monitor which will be launching in China coming November and rest of the world will get in December.
This monitor is ultra wide-angle with 21:9 aspect ratio display. Other specs include:
Back at Google I/O, Google planned for Android One program partnering with Indian Smartphone manufacturers. Android One is Google’s new strategy of bringing Nexus devices at budget price with somewhat mid-range specs. Karbonn, Micromax and Spice are among the first to be producing Android One smartphone.
This is all coming into play within few weeks as Google sent invites for September 15 event that is going to be held in India. The title of the event “block your date” may hint of Google touching some ideas behind its Google Ara Project. Initially, Google Ara was Motorola’s project but since Lenovo purchased Motorola, Google kept the patent for itself. Whatever the case may be, just stick around for what Google might share to the World.
Motorola Moto G is the best in class mid-range smartphone which pachs 4.5″ 720p diaplay, 1GB RAM, 5MP rear camera with 3G connectivity with fixed storage of 8GB or 16GB without microSD expansion. Moto G 4G comes along with now 4G connectivity and room for microSD expansion. It is now updated to latest 4.4.4 KitKat in most part of the world.
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Android is an Open Source Google’s Mobile Operating System. Cyanogen Inc. is one of the Company that is facilitating from this feature creating custom builds ROMs for various OEMs which provide stock like experience to any device that supports their ROM. Their latest build, CM11S which ships stock with OnePlus One smartphone is the most simple as well as feature packed ROM.
Seeing the growth and popularity, many of big brands like Google, Microsoft etc. are watching the company as potential purchase or partner. The growth of Cyanogen within Android’s ecosystem can prove it to provide services and applications without having to deal with Google directly. According to informations, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella sat down with the people behind CyanogenMod. It is still unknown why Microsoft has such interest with this company.
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