Auto-eject S-Pen feature looking likely on the Samsung Galaxy Note 5
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Last month, we came across a patent that Samsung had filed for what looked like an auto-eject feature for a stylus – we can only imagine that this stylus is Samsung‘s own S-Pen. Using two sets of electromagnets, the S-Pen would essentially be launched from its docked position to a second position where most of the S-Pen would be sitting outside of the device for you to pull out yourself – conversely, the electromagnets would also serve as a way to keep the S-Pen locked in position when not in use. We had suspected the this feature would surface in the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, but a number of images from case maker Ringke appears to have confirmed this today- check out the incriminating images below:
If you look carefully at the housing of the S-Pen on the Galaxy Note 5, you’ll see that the top (or bottom) of the S-Pen sits flush with the bottom of the Galaxy Note 5 – that is, you won’t be able to use your finger to pull out the S-Pen even if you wanted to. This can only mean that there is some kind of mechanism that allows your S-Pen to emerge from within the body of the Galaxy Note 5 by itself – sounds a lot like an auto-eject S-Pen feature to me. Of course, we’re yet to find out exactly what the trigger for the S-Pen to come out is, but if the rumours are to be believed, we’ll be finding out more details sometime next month.
What do you think about an auto-eject S-Pen feature on the Samsung Galaxy Note 5? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: SamMobile via TalkAndroid
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LG G Pro 3 or LG Nexus: Mysterious LG device shows up on Geekbench running a Snapdragon 808
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There are murmurs around the Internet that LG is preparing a phablet smartphone for release soon, most likely called the LG G Pro 3 (though the name LG G4 Pro has also been thrown around). Earlier this month, a rumour confirmed the existence of this device and suggested that it would have top of the line specifications, including a yet-to-be-released Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB RAM, 6-inch Quad HD display, and 20.7MP rear camera. Interestingly, a benchmark on Geekbench has shown up recently which appears to depict a LG F600L going through the paces, but rocking a Snapdragon 808 instead and 4GB RAM, which has us wondering whether this is the LG G Pro 3 or possibly even the LG Nexus.
Instinctively, we have to assume that this device is going to be the LG G Pro 3 – the LG G Pro 2 had a model number of F350 – however there is also the possibility that this could be the LG Nexus – If you’re wondering how a device running a Snapdragon 808 could possibly be one of LG’s new devices, a revelation revealed yesterday that the Snapdragon 820 processor might not be ready for the Huawei Nexus also implies that it wouldn’t be ready for any device releasing before December, the LG G Pro 3 and LG Nexus included. LG’s preference for the Snapdragon 808 in the LG G4 instead of the Snapdragon 810 would naturally imply that they’d prefer it as a workhorse going forward if nothing else better was available.
What do you think about this device that could be the LG G Pro 3 or LG Nexus? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: Geekbench via TalkAndroid
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A hitchhiking robot needs your help getting to California
Normally, picking up hitchhikers is a really bad idea. You never know what sort of ax-wielding entrepreneur you’re going to get. But if you happen to see this friendly LED face on the side of the road, consider giving it a lift. That face belongs to hitchBOT, of Port Credit, Ontario, Canada. On Friday, it left the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts for an adventure on America’s highways. Its final destination: San Francisco’s Exploratorium. On the way, hitchBOT hopes to see some sights including Time Square in New York City; Millennium Park in Illinois; Mount Rushmore in South Dakota and the Grand Canyon in Arizona. If only there were hotels it could stay at or shows it could see along the way. There’s no timetable for when it will finally reach the City by the Bay, but you can be sure that it will have plenty of tales to tell once it does.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/132664186
Ready for the USA from hitchBOT on Vimeo.
Filed under: Science, Internet, HD
Source: Vimeo
OPPO officially announces three-year partnership with Spanish soccer team FC Barcelona
Chinese smartphone manufacturer OPPO has just secured its role as the official mobile phone partner to the Spanish soccer team FC Barcelona. The three-year partnership, which was first announced on May 31st, will see OPPO serve as the official partner from the beginning of the current season until 2018.
The new partnership covers a vast amount of activities including soccer events, fan activities, TV advertisements and even accessories. OPPO’s logo will also be displayed prominently in FC Barcelona’s home soccer stadium, Camp Nou.
Check out these OPPO devices
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While it’s made significant progress over the years, OPPO is still known as an up-and-coming OEM in the smartphone world. This partnership will likely increase the manufacturer’s brand awareness worldwide, which is something that will probably be quite valuable to a company that is attempting to make itself a household name.
If you’d like more information on the OPPO partnership, feel free to check out the press release below.
The rise of global smartphone brand OPPO has remained under the international radar for much of the company’s 10-year history. However, all is set to change for the emerging mobile phone powerhouse thanks to a new three-year partnership with FC Barcelona, which is sure to increase public awareness and interest and cement OPPO’s status as a true global player.
The partnership, announced on May 31st, will see OPPO serve as Barcelona’s official partner for the mobile phone device category starting from the current season until 2018. The agreement covers a wide range of activities including soccer events, fan activities, TV advertisements and accessories. OPPO’s logo will also be prominently displayed at the Spanish football club’s home stadium, Camp Nou.
With Barcelona’s position as one of the world’s most recognized sports teams, this groundbreaking partnership is set to bring OPPO closer to the legions of fans that follow every move of the football club and its star players such as Lionel Messi and Neymar. Barcelona is the first sports team to amass more than 85 million fans on Facebook, with many of them in countries as diverse as Indonesia, Egypt, Brazil, and Mexico.
FC Barcelona Chief Executive Officer Ignacio Mestre expressed his enthusiasm for the collaboration, saying, “We are thrilled to team up with OPPO and hope that the partnership will excite fans around the world. As a global leading smartphone brand that values artistry of design and innovation in technology, OPPO is more than at home in Barcelona.”
Driving expansion forward with cross-brand partnerships and campaigns
This deal with Barcelona comes as the smartphone maker charges forward with a new global expansion strategy that was put in place in 2014, as an integral part of OPPO’s mid to long-term growth strategy. As of April 2015, the brand has been registered in 116 countries worldwide.
“OPPO has been focusing heavily on overseas expansion in recent years,” says OPPO CEO Tony Chen. “From the very beginning, we have positioned ourselves as a global company and our dynamic expansion strategy fully demonstrates this commitment.”
Founded in 2004, OPPO started its business journey as a global electronics and technology service provider by manufacturing high-quality MP3 and MP4 devices before adding Blu-ray DVD players to its line-up of products, the latter of which continues to do well in the US market. It started its foray into the mobile phone market in 2008 and made its first step overseas the following year, outpacing many of its rivals in terms of global outlook.
In 2009, OPPO entered its first overseas market, Thailand, with lively campaigns and creative marketing strategies. Today, it is a top smartphone brand in the country. OPPO smartphones are currently available in over 20 global markets as well as being sold online in an additional 50 countries via 3rd party online store OPPOstyle.com.
OPPO’s global expansion
OPPO made a big splash in 2011 when it enlisted Hollywood superstar Leonardo DiCaprio to star in the commercials for its Find smartphone series. In 2014, the company took part in a co-branding campaign with the action movie Transformers 4 for its promotional tour in Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam. This was followed up in the following year by a similar agreement in 10 countries with the blockbuster film The Fast and the Furious 7. This year, has seen OPPO make huge advances into the fashion industry; participating in 2015’s New York Fashion Week, with another major global fashion event this summer.
Thanks to its highly successful global marketing strategy that has put cross-brand partnerships and entertainment, fashion, and sports campaigns at the forefront, OPPO has seen its profile rise significantly, especially in Southeast Asia and South Asia. In 2014, the smartphone brand achieved registered market shares of 10% in Indonesia, 11% in Vietnam, and 12% in Malaysia, and has even established its first overseas assembly plant in Indonesia to service booming demand in the region. A second assembly plant is set to follow in India this year, as OPPO remains on target to ramp up its sales in the country to match that of the China market within the next five years.
In another recent global development, this July, saw OPPO enter into a partnership with leading Australian technology retailer Dick Smith to bring the full range of OPPO handsets to its 400+ outlets across the country.
With a series of diverse and worldwide partnerships in full swing, OPPO is well on track in its quest to establishing itself as a true global brand.
About FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona was founded on November 29, 1899 by initiative of a Swiss gentleman called Hans Maximilian Gamper, popularly known as Joan Gamper. Since it was founded, the club has had 44 different presidents. From Walter Wild to Josep Maria Bartomeu, Barça has grown into a massive social phenomenon that reaches far beyond the bounds of mere sport. The club has grown along with the city around it, and has come to represent Barcelona and Catalonia all around the world.
FC Barcelona is one of the football clubs with more members in the world and its achievements have also made it one of the most successful. The many famous victories and all-time greats that have played for the club (Kubala, Cruyff, Maradona, Romário, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Messi, and so many more) form an important part of the Barça legacy. But these would be no more than historical anecdotes if it wasn’t for the extraordinary social reality behind the events.
About OPPO
OPPO is a leading global technology brand dedicated to providing consumers across the Americas, Africa, Europe, Oceania, and Asia with pioneering products that never fail to inspire and excite. At OPPO we design, manufacture, and promote our own products, combining innovative technology with unique design, to ensure our customers always receive the best.
Founded in 2004, OPPO quickly proved itself in the market with its intense obsession to details. Each OPPO product encompasses a carefully selected array of attributes to specifically cater for users, combining impressive features with elegant designs. After entering the mobile phone market in 2008, OPPO quickly expanded into overseas markets a year later. OPPO mobile phones are currently available in over 20 markets and offered for online purchase in over 50 additional countries, with the brand already registered in 116 countries as of April 2015.
But OPPO doesn’t stop there. Using our passion for design and commitment to new technologies, OPPO has made a big impact in the audio-visual market by offering world-renowned, premium Blu-ray players in the United States and across Europe. For more information, please visit http://www.oppo.com/en/.
Trade the limited edition ‘Halo 5’ code for a disc, if you want
The Halo 5: Guardians Collector’s Edition costs $250 and comes with a fair amount of stuff for die-hard fans, including this pretty little statue, a special box, a metal Guardian model and a download code for the full game. That last part was a disappointment to some potential players who were looking forward to a physical game disc in such a pricey package. Now, developer 343 Industries says that fans will be able to exchange the digital code for a physical copy of the game at no additional cost. As 343i writes on Halo Waypoint: “When we last left off, we let you know that we had heard the feedback that some of you prefer a physical disc instead of a digital copy…. We’ll get into details as we get closer to launch, and we’d like to once again thank you for the feedback.”
Filed under: Gaming, HD, Microsoft
Source: Halo Waypoint
Hulu might launch an ad-free pricing tier sometime this fall
Television streaming service Hulu has one of the widest varieties of exclusive channels, TV shows and movies available on the web. For the low rate of $7.99 per month, you can watch all of the shows you’d like, whenever you want, on your television, computer and even your mobile device. But one main issue most consumers have with Hulu is that, even though the company charges $8 per month, it still shows you ads before, during and after each show or movie. But according to a report from The Wall Street Journal, that may all change sometime soon.
Hulu may be planning to add an advertisement-free streaming option, according to people familiar with the matter. The new pricing tier, codenamed “NOAH”, which stands for “No Ads Hulu”, may debut as early as this fall for somewhere between $12 and $14 per month.
With competitors like Netflix, who charge users $7.99 per month for ad-free content, it’s difficult to tell whether or not this new pricing tier would catch on. The report notes that, since this new NOAH pricing tier is considered high in the streaming world, this will show consumers that the company doesn’t necessarily want to encourage a large number of existing subscribers to shift to the new ad-free service.
These are just rumors for now, but if this actually comes to fruition, would you be on board with a $14 ad-free Hulu subscription?
Google hires team behind cleaning startup to help find you a plumber
This morning, Homejoy, an on-demand cleaning service startup in San Francisco, announced that it would be shutting down on July 31st. CEO Adora Cheung told Re/Code that the decision came about in large part due to four ongoing lawsuits brought against the company by workers who wanted to be reclassified as employees. This, in combination with the recent uptick in scrutiny over the on-demand “gig economy,” has made it a lot harder to raise enough funding to keep business afloat, according to Cheung. But before Homejoy can even start licking its wounds, Re/Code reports that Google has already swooped in to hire some of Homejoy’s engineers for its own upcoming home-services program.
For the uninformed, Homejoy was a service that matched users with professional cleaners. Though it hasn’t been confirmed, it appears that Google seeks to do very much the same thing — not just with cleaners, but plumbers, electricians, handymen and all manner of home-service providers. The idea, according to Buzzfeed sources, is that you’ll just search for “plumber” in Google, and it’ll connect you directly to the people you want instead of redirecting you to a variety of third-party sites like it does now. In essence, it appears that Google is seeking to create a competitor similar to Angie’s List or Amazon Home Services.
While some of Homejoy’s employees have a second chance thanks to the crew over at Mountain View, its fall from grace does raise some concerns over whether other “gig economy” startups will have the same fate. Not only has presidential candidate Hillary Clinton brought the worker classification issue to light, even the Department of Labor has jumped in the fray and published a brief explainer outlining the differences between an employee and an independent contractor. It’s unclear if Uber and its ilk will face similar challenges, but hey, maybe Google has a ridesharing alternative in the works to save the day.
Update: We’ve heard confirmation from Google that a portion of the Homejoy team is indeed joining its ranks. It has nothing to share beyond that.
Filed under: Misc, Internet, Google
Source: Re/Code (1), (2)
eBay and PayPal officially part ways today
We knew eBay and PayPal were headed to splitsville this year, and now it’s actually happening. The auction site and the payment service separated into two disparate companies today, PayPal is getting its own stock ticker, starts trading on the New York Stock Exchange come Monday and, according to Business Insider that doesn’t look so good for eBay. As the site tells it, PayPal’s been the reason for “most” of eBay’s gains for the past three years, and “nearly all” of it for 2015. eBay revenues have already jumped seven percent thanks to higher demand for PayPal, according to Reuters. Maybe the online auction house can use the $925 million it got from the PayPal sale to figure out a way to become profitable — crazier things have happened.
[Image credit: Associated Press]
On July 20 we will be a publicly traded company on @Nasdaq for the 2nd time in our 17 year history. #PYPL
– PayPal (@PayPal) July 16, 2015
Filed under: Internet
Source: eBay, PayPal (Twitter)
MacRumors Giveaway: Win a Telescope for Your iPhone From iCandiApps
For this week’s giveaway, we’ve teamed up with iCandiApps to give two MacRumors readers a chance to win one of the company’s first hardware products – the Night Sky MiniScope.
The Night Sky MiniScope is a telescope that connects to your iPhone and works in conjunction with the Night Sky app to help you gaze at and capture images of celestial bodies like stars and planets. It has offers 50x optical zoom and 500x digital optical zoom when paired with the app.
Priced at $349, the MiniScope comes with a telescope, a tripod, and an iPhone case to connect the device to your phone. It’s compatible with the iPhone 4, 4s, 5, 5c, 5s, 6, and 6 Plus.
Night Sky MiniScope is easy to use, lightweight, small, sturdy, powerful and sublime. Everything you need is supplied in a handcrafted luxurious box. Night Sky MiniScope works seamlessly with the Night Sky stargazing apps.
Locate a celestial object with the Night Sky app and get the perfect image with Night Sky MiniScope.
The Night Sky MiniScope not a tiny device, but it’s small enough that it’s able to be carried in a bag or backpack to be taken on trips and star-viewing excursions. It can capture some impressive photos of the moon and stars.
Moon photo captured with the Night Sky MiniScope
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Video Review: The Juiceboxx Keeps Your MacBook Charger Cord From Fraying
For our latest video review, we went hands-on with the Juiceboxx, a MacBook accessory that originated on Kickstarter. Many of us MacBook owners have suffered from a frayed MacBook charger cord, which is a condition that the Juiceboxx aims to prevent.
The Juiceboxx is a small plastic cover that wraps around the bottom of a MacBook charger, with a portion that extends out over the spot where the cord attaches to the power adapter. This keeps that spot from being bent or damaged in a way that could lead to fraying.
The Juiceboxx is available in six colors, including blue, black, white, red, magenta, and teal. There are versions available for all MacBook models, including the 12-inch Retina MacBook, the MacBook Pro, and the MacBook Air. It can be purchased from the Juiceboxx website for $19.99.
Note: MacRumors received no compensation for this review.
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