Monday, 4 November 2013

Steve Wozniak wants that Apple and Google to become partners

In a program broadcast on BBC News, Steve Wozniak said that he wished that Google and Apple are partners. As we know, in 1970 Steve Jobs met Steve Wozniak, then along with Ronald Wayne created this successful company called Apple.
During the program, Wozniak said voice recognition software system on Android is more accurate compared to Siri. It often happens that when visiting their favorite restaurant, it is not recognized by Siri, but Android. Steve says that this is because the Android operating system fully benefit from the Google search engine and a possible partnership between Apple and Google as its desire most.
Steve believes that this possible Apple-Google partnership would lead to an enormous development of technology in portable terminals such as smart watches or spectacles like Google Glass. Wozniak today is no longer a man behind Apple, after retiring, so it does not affect the statements made in any future plans of Apple. 

Android dominate the market

More than 204 million Android phones sold globally in the last quarter only operating system supported by Google managed to climb this year to 81.3% market share. For comparison, in the same period last year were shipped 129.6 million Android platform holding 75% of the market share dominated .
No. 2, Apple lose more market share, reaching iOS phones system to represent only 13.4% of total sales in the smartphone market, compared to 15.6% last year. Surprisingly, the decline comes amid increasing volume of mobile units shipped to 33.8 million over last year's result. The explanation comes from the Android camp, where sales have grown faster than last year, countering Apple's performances.

Microsoft has seen double the market share of Windows Phone mobile aside from 2% to 4%. The result is a 178% increase in sales volume from 3.7 million units a year ago to 10.2 million units this year. The Windows Phone platform is the fastest growing market share year after year. According to the Strategy Analytics, growth enjoyed by the Windows Phone platform is due almost entirely to sales of Nokia Lumia, well received in the markets of Europe, Asia and the United States.

Thursday, 17 October 2013

The launch of new iPad 5 and iPad Mini 2.

 October 22 
"We still have a lot to cover" the message Apple event where the company will present these tablets.

About the new generation of big brother, the iPad, rumors discuss a model lighter and thinner, an 8MP camera and some of the "toys" on the iPhone 5S, and the ability to shoot in slow-motion, and the famous TouchID.
 

Samsung Galaxy S4 battery problem

Samsung has decided to offer free battery users have reported problems with battery Galaxy S4.

In a press release, Samsung asks the users to go to your nearest Samsung Electronics, where they will receive a battery without paying anything in return, write Geeky-Gadgets.

According to data provided by the source, one of three Samsung Galaxy S4 models has problems with battery.

Fingerprint Reader on iPad 5??


Presence Sensor Touch on iPad ID 5 seems to be confirmed with a spy image presented on a Chinese blog, what's right is not very well focused. Like the iPhone, iPad tablet will be released 5th genre with a simple slide of the finger across the Home button and log in compatible applications will be possible without a password.

Nexus 5 Coming Next Month


Google has put the final touches to launch Android 4.4, the new OS will be presented with the LG Nexus 5 in the official event scheduled to take place just this month.
Last year on October 29 we first official contact with the platform Android 4.2 and Nexus phone 4 officially announced at an event hosted by Google. Nearly a year later, Google launched a hint on Twitter, alluding to the famous song "Everybody dance now!" group C + C Music Factory, formerly known under the name 28th Street Crew. The mystery was cleared with a second clue - "This is it", referring to the name of the famous film dedicated singer Michael Jackson, whose premiere took place in cinemas on 28 October 2009.

Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Apple iPhone 5s benchmark


Mysterious M7 co-processor used for continuous monitoring of the gyroscope, magnetometer and accelerometer is a chip manufactured by NXP, formerly Philips division model is NXP LPC18A1. It is interesting that Apple chose a dedicated solution instead of A7 CPU usage, but probably NXP solution offered a much lower energy consumption.
The first 64-bit processor appeared on a mobile handset, Apple uses the architecture ARMv8 A7 and A6 as the previous model, uses an internally developed by Apple and not a licensed directly from ARM.
Called the Cyclone, the new processor is also a dual-core product clocked at the same frequency of 1.3 GHz, which is an improved version and expanded support processor ARMv8 previous Swift. Apple promised jump performance was not just a word in the wind, this solution beyond quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 in some tests and being in the same league with the new Bay Trail Intel.

The second novelty of the new platform is the graphics core Apple, iPhone 5S is the first commercial product that uses the sixth-generation Power VR graphics processors. The solution chosen by Apple's PowerVR G6430, this member of Rogue generation programmable providing architecture as AMD or NVIDIA dedicated solutions, four processing units by 16 units of parallel computing, which makes it the fastest graphics processor available today on a cell phone.


Monday, 16 September 2013

iPhone 5S Hands on

iPhone 5S has launched Tuesday in the United States and the bosses from Apple promised us that we will see three important things to this phone: fingerprint sensor, an extremely fast processor and a camera firsthand. Immediately after the event, the press had a chance to play with this new phone.

Journalists from CNET conducted a hands-on video with smartphone iPhone 5S, in which they wanted to see how it works main features.





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Monday, 9 September 2013

iPhone 5S launches on the September 10

The company sent invitations with message "This SHOULD brighten everyone's day" . Apple will launch at least one model of the iPhone, and though there are many indications of the existence of a low-cost model, called iPhone 5C.
Rumors on iPhone 5S are: The presence of a camera with dual-LED flash and embellished Home button, which changes the mark square with a fingerprint reader. Considerable improvement over the previous model, 8MP camera optical sensor coupled to a F2.0 aperture lens, thereby low-light performance. Element will be the main attraction but extending shooting function with support for 1080p capture at 120 frames per second! 1.2MP front camera resolution is used with FaceTime app and supports capture at 720p HD resolution.4 inch screen with Retina technology retains 640x1136 pixel resolution, corresponding to a density of 326ppi. Internet access is provided with a wireless LAN dual-band N (2.4 / 5 GHz) and 3G HSPA +.
However, the big surprise of the event on September 10 could be an iPhone model for emerging markets. About iPhone 5C there are many rumors.
Cheaper iPhone will have the same socket as the iPhone 5 and lightning in the same place. According to Chinese sources quoted by specialized websites price will be between 249 and 399 dollars, and the subscription can be sold at very low prices. Both the iPhone 5S and 5C iPhone (if it is released) will come with the new operating system iOS 7 preinstalled.
 

Monday, 2 September 2013

Google preparing own SmartWatch

It seems that not only Samsung is preparing a SmartWatch for the next period,  Google want to make the same thing, which is however in the beginning of the project. Search engine giant would have bought the company Wimm Labs technologies required to get the package.
Wimm Labs is a company in Los Altos, California, and the acquisition took place last year. This team at this firm is made up of professionals not only need a hardware device worn on the wrist, and software engineers. Wimm Labs is responsible for a platform for Android developers created especially for terminals that can be worn as accessories.
In 2011 the company launched even SmartWatch for developers, because last year has suddenly disappear off the radar, being bought by Google. Initially it was rumored that Apple would have made ​​the purchase, but apparently not.

Samsung Galaxy Gear

Some of the specifications of the Samsung GALAXY Gear:

- 2.5-inch OLED display with 320 x 320 pixel resolution;

- Dual-core processor at 1.5 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 6 or 8 GB of storage;

- Android Jelly Bean;

- Bluetooth 4.0, accelerometer;

- 4 megapixels and video at 720p;

- Autonomy would be up to 10h, speakers included.

Samsung GALAXY Gear will be presented at IFA Berlin 2013 with Samsung Galaxy Note III. He spoke in 2013 of smart watches, smart watch and GALAXY Gear seems to be one of them. Apple would have something similar in the pipeline, although a few weeks never discussed anything about him, not even enough information at the web.