Simmer down: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 815 will run cooler than the 810
By now, everyone knows that the Snapdragon 810 may or may not be experiencing issues regarding its temperature. There are claims that the processor from Qualcomm gets abnormally hot, worrying some hardware manufacturers to the point where they have opted for in-house solutions. The Galaxy S6, regardless of market, will use an Exynos processor from Samsung. HTC is sticking with the Snapdragon 810 anyways. The truth is that there is so much confusion regarding the matter. What we do know is that the Snapdragon 810’s successor will run cooler than it.
Tests were conducted to compare temperatures between the Snapdragon 801, 810, and 815. Those are the past, present, and future processors for Qualcomm. All tests were based on devices with 3GB of RAM and a 5-inch, 1080p display. The game Asphalt 8 Airbone was used to put the processors to work. The upcoming Snapdragon 815 had a lower maximum temperature than the other two, staying cool at 38°. The Snapdragon 801 reached 42° and the Snapdragon 810 touched 44°.
If the Snapdragon 810’s heating issues has you all worked up, either look at a device without it or wait until Qualcomm’s next processor.
Source: STJS Gadgets Portal
Via: Phone Arena
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Universal reportedly wants Spotify to scale back its free streaming
Spotify might have bent over backwards to lift restrictions on its free streaming service a couple of years ago, but at least one music label appears eager to turn back the clock. Financial Times sources understand that Universal is using licensing negotiations to squeeze Spotify and demand more limits for those who don’t pay up, such as restricting the amount of time they can play tunes in a given month. The publisher isn’t confirming anything, but CEO Lucian Grainge has lately been chastising the free, ad-based streaming model — it’s no secret that he would like more paying customers. According to one insider, Universal believes that Spotify is directly hurting sales at stores like iTunes.
Whether or not Spotify gives in is another matter. It can’t afford to lose one of the major labels, but it’s also adamant that having an enticing free tier is crucial to getting listeners to pay. Other music companies, such as Beggars Group, would argue that Spotify is much better than alternatives like YouTube, where there are far fewer limits for free users. And simply speaking, Spotify may have the industry over a barrel — when streaming is more popular than CDs in the US, pulling a whole catalog could leave a lot of money on the table.
Filed under: Internet, Software
Source: Financial Times
Apple Watch specs
The Apple Watch comes in two sizes, three collections, and with over a dozen different band styles to choose from.
The first new product category Apple has introduced since the 2010 iPad, and the first new device interface since the 2007 iPhone, the Apple Watch is also Apple’s first post-iPod wearable, the first running a variation of iOS, and the first connected — through an iPhone 5 or iPhone 6 – to iCloud. It will run WatchKit apps and extensions, and be available for purchase starting April 24, 2015. Here are your complete Apple Watch specs.
Operating system
- WatchOS
Navigation
- Capacitive touch (tap, swipe)
- Force touch (press)
- Digital crown (scroll, zoom, home, time, accessibility, Siri)
- Button (Friends, Apple Pay, power)
For more on Apple Watch navigation, see how to control Apple Watch.
Sensors
- Ambient light
- Accelerometer
- Gyroscope
- Heart rate
Connectivity
- Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (LE)
- Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n 2.4GHz (system use only)
Battery life
- 18 hours
- 3 hours talk time
- 6.5 hours audio playback
- 6.5 hours workout use
- 48 hours time check
- 72 hours power reserve (time only)
For more on Apple Watch battery live Apple Watch battery life tests
Inductive charging time
- 1.5 hours to 80%
- 2.5 hours to 100%
Water resistance
- IPX7 under IEC standard 60529
Processors
- Apple S1 computer-on-a-chip
Display sizes
- 38mm: 340×272 pixels
- 42mm: 390×312 pixels
Case sizes
- 38.6mm high, 33.3mm wide, 10.5mm deep
- 42mm high, 35.9mm wide, 10.mm deep
More on Apple Watch sizes
Collections
- Apple Watch Sport (7000 Series aluminum or anodized aluminum)
- Apple Watch (316L stainless steel or diamond-like carbon coated stainless steel)
- Apple Watch Edition (18 karat yellow or rose gold)
More on Apple Watch collections
Case weights
- 38mm Apple Watch Sport (aluminum): 25g
- 38mm Apple Watch (stainless steel): 40g
- 38mm Apple Watch Edition (rose gold): 54g
- 38mm Apple Watch Edition (yellow gold): 55g
- 42mm Apple Watch Sport (aluminum): 30g
- 42mm Apple Watch (stainless steel): 50g
- 42mm Apple Watch Edition (rose gold): 67g
- 42mm Apple Watch Edition (yellow gold): 69g
Band sizes
- 38mm sport band: 130-180mm, 150-200mm
- 38mm modern Buckle: 135-150mm, 145-165mm, 160-180mm
- 38mm classic buckle: 125-200mm
- 38mm Milanese loop: 130-180mm
- 38mm link bracelet: 135-195mm
- 42mm sport band: 140-185mm, 160-210mm
- 42mm leather loop: 150-185mm, 180-210mm
- 42mm classic buckle: 145-215mm
- 42mm Milanese loop: 150-200mm
- 42mm link bracelet: 140-205mm
Apple Watch Sport band weights
- 38mm black sport band: 37g
- 38mm pink sport band: 42g
- 38mm green sport band: 43g
- 38mm blue sport band: 44g
- 38mm white sport band: 47g
- 42mm black sport band: 37g
- 42mm pink sport band: 42g
- 42mm green sport band: 43g
- 42mm blue sport band: 44g
- 42mm white sport band: 47g
More on Apple Watch Sport bands
Apple Watch band weights
- 38mm classic buckle: 16g
- 38mm modern buckle: 23g/23g/24g
- 38mm Milanese loop: 33g
- 38mm black sport band: 37g
- 38mm white sport band: 47g
- 38mm steel link bracelet: 65g
- 42mm classic buckle: 19g
- 42mm leather loop: 30g/33g
- 42mm black sport band: 40g
- 42mm white sport band: 51g
- 42mm Milanese loop: 41g
- 42mm steel link bracelet: 75g
More on Apple Watch bands
Apple Watch Edition band weights
- 38mm black sport band: 38g
- 38mm modern buckle: 40g/40g/41g
- 38mm white sport band: 48g
- 42mm classic buckle: [20g]
- 42mm black sport band: 42g
- 42mm white sport band: 53g
More on Apple Watch Edition bands
Apple Watch pricing
- 38mm Apple Watch Sport: $349
- 42mm Apple Watch Sport: $399
- 38mm Apple Watch with sport band: $549
- 42mm Apple Watch with sport band: $599
- 38mm Apple Watch with classic buckle: $649
- 38mm Apple Watch with Milanese loop: $649
- 42mm Apple Watch with classic buckle: $699
- 42mm Apple Watch with Milanese loop: $699
- 42mm Apple Watch with leather loop: $699
- 38mm Apple Watch with modern buckle: $749
- 38mm Apple Watch with link bracelet: $949
- 42mm Apple Watch with link bracelet: $999
- 38mm Apple Watch with black link bracelet: $1049
- 42mm Apple Watch with black link bracelet: $1099
- 38mm Apple Watch Edition with sport band: $10,000
- 42mm Apple Watch Edition with sport band: $12,000
- 42mm Apple Watch Edition with classic buckle: $15,000
- 38mm Apple Watch Edition with modern buckle: $17,000
Band pricing
- Sport bands: $49
- Classic buckle: $149
- Milanese loop: $149
- Leather loop: $149
- Modern buckle: $249
- Link bracelet: $449
Pre-order dates
- April 10, 2015: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, U.K., U.S. (Including: Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Isetan in Tokyo and Selfridges in London)
Release dates
- April 24, 2015: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, U.K., U.S. (including: Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Isetan in Tokyo and Selfridges in London, Colette in Paris, Dover Street Market in London and Tokyo, Maxfield in Los Angeles and The Corner in Berlin.)
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Apple Watch specs
The Apple Watch comes in two sizes, three collections, and with over a dozen different band styles to choose from.
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Operating system
- WatchOS
Navigation
- Capacitive touch (tap, swipe)
- Force touch (press)
- Digital crown (scroll, zoom, home, time, accessibility, Siri)
- Button (Friends, Apple Pay, power)
For more on Apple Watch navigation, see how to control Apple Watch.
Sensors
- Ambient light
- Accelerometer
- Gyroscope
- Heart rate
Connectivity
- Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy (LE)
- Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n 2.4GHz (system use only)
Battery life
- 18 hours
- 3 hours talk time
- 6.5 hours audio playback
- 6.5 hours workout use
- 48 hours time check
- 72 hours power reserve (time only)
For more on Apple Watch battery live Apple Watch battery life tests
Inductive charging time
- 1.5 hours to 80%
- 2.5 hours to 100%
Water resistance
- IPX7 under IEC standard 60529
Processors
- Apple S1 computer-on-a-chip
Display sizes
- 38mm: 340×272 pixels
- 42mm: 390×312 pixels
Case sizes
- 38.6mm high, 33.3mm wide, 10.5mm deep
- 42mm high, 35.9mm wide, 10.mm deep
More on Apple Watch sizes
Collections
- Apple Watch Sport (7000 Series aluminum or anodized aluminum)
- Apple Watch (316L stainless steel or diamond-like carbon coated stainless steel)
- Apple Watch Edition (18 karat yellow or rose gold)
More on Apple Watch collections
Case weights
- 38mm Apple Watch Sport (aluminum): 25g
- 38mm Apple Watch (stainless steel): 40g
- 38mm Apple Watch Edition (rose gold): 54g
- 38mm Apple Watch Edition (yellow gold): 55g
- 42mm Apple Watch Sport (aluminum): 30g
- 42mm Apple Watch (stainless steel): 50g
- 42mm Apple Watch Edition (rose gold): 67g
- 42mm Apple Watch Edition (yellow gold): 69g
Band sizes
- 38mm sport band: 130-180mm, 150-200mm
- 38mm modern Buckle: 135-150mm, 145-165mm, 160-180mm
- 38mm classic buckle: 125-200mm
- 38mm Milanese loop: 130-180mm
- 38mm link bracelet: 135-195mm
- 42mm sport band: 140-185mm, 160-210mm
- 42mm leather loop: 150-185mm, 180-210mm
- 42mm classic buckle: 145-215mm
- 42mm Milanese loop: 150-200mm
- 42mm link bracelet: 140-205mm
Apple Watch Sport band weights
- 38mm black sport band: 37g
- 38mm pink sport band: 42g
- 38mm green sport band: 43g
- 38mm blue sport band: 44g
- 38mm white sport band: 47g
- 42mm black sport band: 37g
- 42mm pink sport band: 42g
- 42mm green sport band: 43g
- 42mm blue sport band: 44g
- 42mm white sport band: 47g
More on Apple Watch Sport bands
Apple Watch band weights
- 38mm classic buckle: 16g
- 38mm modern buckle: 23g/23g/24g
- 38mm Milanese loop: 33g
- 38mm black sport band: 37g
- 38mm white sport band: 47g
- 38mm steel link bracelet: 65g
- 42mm classic buckle: 19g
- 42mm leather loop: 30g/33g
- 42mm black sport band: 40g
- 42mm white sport band: 51g
- 42mm Milanese loop: 41g
- 42mm steel link bracelet: 75g
More on Apple Watch bands
Apple Watch Edition band weights
- 38mm black sport band: 38g
- 38mm modern buckle: 40g/40g/41g
- 38mm white sport band: 48g
- 42mm classic buckle: [20g]
- 42mm black sport band: 42g
- 42mm white sport band: 53g
More on Apple Watch Edition bands
Apple Watch pricing
- 38mm Apple Watch Sport: $349
- 42mm Apple Watch Sport: $399
- 38mm Apple Watch with sport band: $549
- 42mm Apple Watch with sport band: $599
- 38mm Apple Watch with classic buckle: $649
- 38mm Apple Watch with Milanese loop: $649
- 42mm Apple Watch with classic buckle: $699
- 42mm Apple Watch with Milanese loop: $699
- 42mm Apple Watch with leather loop: $699
- 38mm Apple Watch with modern buckle: $749
- 38mm Apple Watch with link bracelet: $949
- 42mm Apple Watch with link bracelet: $999
- 38mm Apple Watch with black link bracelet: $1049
- 42mm Apple Watch with black link bracelet: $1099
- 38mm Apple Watch Edition with sport band: $10,000
- 42mm Apple Watch Edition with sport band: $12,000
- 42mm Apple Watch Edition with classic buckle: $15,000
- 38mm Apple Watch Edition with modern buckle: $17,000
Band pricing
- Sport bands: $49
- Classic buckle: $149
- Milanese loop: $149
- Leather loop: $149
- Modern buckle: $249
- Link bracelet: $449
Pre-order dates
- April 10, 2015: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, U.K., U.S. (Including: Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Isetan in Tokyo and Selfridges in London)
Release dates
- April 24, 2015: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, U.K., U.S. (including: Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Isetan in Tokyo and Selfridges in London, Colette in Paris, Dover Street Market in London and Tokyo, Maxfield in Los Angeles and The Corner in Berlin.)
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Promotional videos from AT&T show the Samsung Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge, and HTC One M9
Promoting a new device is typically done through the manufacturer itself, but carriers have some work to do as well. These days, devices are released through multiple carriers; therefore, they need to make sure that consumers choose a specific device on their network. That is the reasoning for the carriers releasing promotional videos focusing on certain handsets. For two of the year’s most popular devices, AT&T has gone the route of in-depth promotional videos. The carrier has a single video covering the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge while another video highlights the HTC One M9. Covered in the videos are specifications and unique services bundled with the devices.
Hit the break for the videos.
Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge:
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HTC One M9:
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AC editors’ apps of the week: Lampshade.io, Tube Map, Stick Hero and more
Our weekly app picks
It’s Appday Sunday and that means we’re back with more of our favorites to share. Every week we bring a handful of great apps to the table and share them with everyone. Sometimes they are new apps, sometimes old standards, but every time they are apps we love to use.
Give these a look and then take a minute to tell us all about the apps you are using and love so we can give them a try. We all find some of our favorites right in the comments on these posts!
LG G Flex 2 is targeted for a specific group in Taiwan
While carriers in the United States have yet to release the handset, consumers in other markets have been able to purchase the LG G Flex 2. The unique curved display separates itself from almost every other handset available. It must be targeted at someone, right? An executive from LG Taiwan revealed the consumers targeted with the G Flex 2.
Jee Hyung Lee, CEO and President of LG Taiwan, said that business consumers who are 30-45 years old will make up most of the handset’s sales. By the end of this year, the company is expected to sell 20,000 units in Taiwan. That is almost triple the amount of original G Flex’s sold in Taiwan last year. Lee did not provide any reasoning for the expectations.
Source: Focus Taiwan
Via: Phone Arena
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Beyond Facebook: What you need to know about texting apps
If you live in the United States, you might’ve been surprised when Facebook purchased WhatsApp for $19 billion — or, in other words, thing-you’d-think-you’d-have-heard-of money. Facebook identified what those of us in the US with texting plans and Apple Messages haven’t noticed: There are whole ecosystems of social networking and instant messaging separate from those we customarily use.
There are a number of advantages services like Line and WhatsApp have over basic texting: They’re cross-platform and international, allowing people to talk to other users in other countries, on other devices and other networks, with no extra cost. Of course, for individual users, there’s only one thing that distinguishes one service from others: the presence of their friends.
What are the major services?
WhatsApp claims the largest user base of any mobile messaging app, with 700 million active users worldwide as of January. Of that group, the largest concentration (approximately 70 million monthly active users) is in India. Anecdotally, it’s also extremely popular in the Middle East. “Everyone in the Middle East uses WhatsApp,” said Mohammed Taher, president of Brave Wave Productions, the company behind WhatsApp, which was eventually bought by Facebook. “I use it mainly to keep in touch with my family and work colleagues. You can’t really escape it.”
The app, created in 2009 by former Yahoo employees Brian Acton and Jan Koum, allows users to send text, images, video and audio messages. Users create accounts by entering their phone numbers, then have the option to search their contacts for other WhatsApp users.
It’s not free: After one year of use, WhatsApp charges 99 cents a year. But that’s a lot less expensive than a texting plan, especially for users who frequently send messages internationally. WhatsApp announced last year that this fee will be waived in India, due to low credit card adoption and other “ecosystem issues.”
Line is a cute, bright-green messaging app with 50 million users in Japan, as of February 2014. Over 560 million users worldwide have memberships, of whom 181 million are considered monthly active users. It also claims the largest market share among messaging apps in Indonesia, Taiwan and Thailand. Thirteen countries, including the US, have over 10 million Line users each.
The app offers text, voice and video chat, as well as photo sharing, but its trademark feature is also its monetization method: stickers. Line sells packs of “stickers,” emoji-style images that can be sent in chat. Sticker packs range from popular anime and pop culture licenses, to Line’s original characters, to user-created collections from the Line Creators Market. It’s possible to communicate using only promotional Linkin Park cartoons, animated Hello Kittys and farting bears.
It’s possible to communicate using only promotional Linkin Park cartoons, animated Hello Kittys and farting bears.
Line also offers separate apps that connect to the messaging service, including the Line Game portal and standalone games like Disney Tsum Tsum, a camera app, drawing tools, e-cards and others. The company plans to launch a streaming-music option and recently started a payment service to enable users to link their credit cards and pay for goods and services online through Line. Meanwhile, outside of the virtual world, Line is opening a store in Harajuku, Japan, that sells exclusive merchandise of its popular characters, in case one of your friends needs a Swarovski-encrusted doll of Cony the rabbit. There’s even a taxi service.
Telegram is a project of Berlin’s Telegram Messenger, a company founded by Nikolai and Pavel Durov, who created the Russian VK network. Its user base is more diffuse than the other services; there doesn’t seem to be a particular “hotspot” among its 50 million users. And it’s likely that the ambiguity about location is by design: Telegram’s selling point is privacy. Users have the option to set up end-to-end encryption with each individual to whom they connect, and can set up self-destructing messages as well. The claim of security is bolstered by a $300,000 bounty for anyone who cracks the app’s encryption.
All Telegram clients (the service is, as of now, available on iOS, Android, Mac, PC, Windows Phone, Linux and as a Chrome browser app) are open source, and the service is free. The Telegram Messenger company is a nonprofit, not just in the sense of “not for profit,” but also as in “not really looking for any money.” As the FAQ on the website puts it: “Pavel Durov, who shares our vision, supplied Telegram with a generous donation through his Digital Fortress fund, so we have quite enough money for the time being. If Telegram runs out, we’ll invite our users to donate or add non-essential paid options.”
WeChat, originally Weixin, is a product of China’s Tencent, a massive company that also runs the QQ chat network and many online games, and owns the majority of League of Legends developer Riot Games. Unsurprisingly, the majority of the service’s 468 million users are in China, but the WeChat app is available worldwide, with around 70 million users outside of China as of last year. The app, available on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Symbian and Blackberry, offers voice and text chat, a “broadcasting” ability, photo sharing and a “walkie-talkie” feature for instant group voice chats. It also features a Line-like sticker shop.
KakaoTalk also resembles Line, with cute cartoon stickers along with voice, video and text chat — and even a suite of connected apps for music, games and other services. But whereas Line is a Japan-native app from a Korean company, KakaoTalk is used mostly in South Korea, and is shockingly prevalent there: A reported 93 percent of smartphone users in the country use KakaoTalk.
Part of the popularity stems from its connection to popular online games: many free-to-play games for the Korean market, like the mobile DJMax rhythm games, use Kakao accounts. As with the other apps, of course, the main draw of KakaoTalk is access to friends in Korea, since they’re extremely likely to be using it. There are some concerns about security and privacy around both WeChat and KakaoTalk. In October, WeChat censored public messages in mainland China containing photos related to protests in Hong Kong, not the first instance of censorship. Depending on the content of your messages, it may bother you to have the Chinese government potentially looking over your shoulder.
Privacy concerns
For KakaoTalk, there is a concern on the part of some users about privacy — specifically, privacy from the government of South Korea. In late 2014, the government announced a crackdown on false information posted online, partly in response to rumors spread about President Park Geun-hye. That crackdown officially included monitoring of public posts on social networks, but many KakaoTalk users also received notification that their personal accounts had been investigated. Daum Kakao co-CEO Sirgoo Lee apologized to users for violating their privacy. As a result of this issue, an estimated 610,000 had visited Telegram, the privacy-focused network, as of October. KakaoTalk implemented end-to-end encrypted “secret chats” to address the concern.
Chances are, if you’re in the US, you already use at least one messaging service, probably many. But these services all offer something different: Unlike Apple’s Messages app, they aren’t tied to one company’s products. Snapchat offers self-destructing messages like Telegram or KakaoTalk, but veers heavily toward images instead of multimedia or text messaging, and it’s possible to retrieve messages even after their time limit elapses. Facebook has stickers now, like Line, but it also has the people you went to high school with.
As far choosing one over the others, however, these services are all roughly equivalent feature-wise; you can voice chat with other users, send text messages and share photos no matter what you use. The choice of which chat app you use comes down to what chat app your friends use, and that’s likely decided by geography.
Or just put them all on your phone. They’re (mostly) free.
[Image credits: Line (Pricing map); AP (WeChat, KakaoTalk)]
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Get ready to pay more for apps on Windows Store from next month
Microsoft will update the price tier values for Windows Store during the week of April 13, 2015. Windows Store supports 96 tiers that publishers can use to price paid apps and in-app products. These price tier values are updated periodically to maintain consistency across currencies, accounting for changes in foreign exchange rates, taxes, and other geographic pricing considerations. The information comes through an email Microsoft has sent out to developers, alerting them of the change.
Beginning April 13, the price tier values will be updated and while the US Dollar (USD) price in each tier will remain the same, the prices in all other currencies adjusted relative to the USD price.
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