Huawei teases “unique” smartphone for IFA 2015
Huawei social media accounts have released a couple of teaser images this morning, pointing to a new handset that will be unveiled at this year’s IFA conference on September 2nd, which takes place in Berlin.
The teasers don’t reveal too much, but the poster released by president of Huawei’s consumer business, Zhu Ping, translates to “Unique S”. A separate teaser posted by a marketing manager from Huawei Italy reads “A Better S” and the “Mate S”, which seems to point to a new entry in Huawei’s Mate series of larger smartphones.
A few days ago, leaked images for a new Huawei smartphone hit the internet, which looks very much like a new phone in the Mate series. Perhaps the phone will be named the Mate 7S? There are also mumblings that a Mate 7 Mini and/or Plus are rumored to launch on the same day at IFA.
We don’t have much else to go on at the moment, apart from a few rumored specifications. Huawei’s next smartphone may come with a 5.7-inch 1080p display, Kirin 935 octa-core processor, 3GB of RAM and a 13 megapixel rear camera. An AnTuTu listing also suggests that Huawei has a 4.7-inch smartphone with the same specifications in the works too, but we will just have to wait until September for the official word.
Any thoughts on the Huawei teasers? What would you like to see from the company at IFA?
Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge Plus battery confirmed?
Another day, another leak and the latest could answer one question that a lot of people seem to have about Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge Plus smartphones: just how big is that battery going to be?
Both the GN5 and GS6e+ sport 3000mAh batteries. pic.twitter.com/yHcWg8Hj75
— Evan Blass (@evleaks) August 11, 2015
A leak from perennial tipster Evan Blass (aka @evleaks) has revealed both of Samsung’s upcoming smartphones will be powered by a 3000mAh battery, which is 450mAh larger than the Galaxy S6 and 400mAh larger than the Galaxy S6 Edge. Naturally, all leaks have a habit of being met with a degree of skepticism but Blass definitely has a history of being accurate and one of the tweeted replies seems to corroborate that the battery is 3000mAh on Samsung’s upcoming devices.
@evleaks I can confirm this. I've played with both devices at work
— Tom Finn (@Tommyfinn) August 11, 2015
By way of comparison, if accurate, these batteries are smaller than the 3220mAh removable battery on the Galaxy Note 4 and Samsung says the 14nm manufacturing process with its Exynos processors delivers better battery life than previous processors. However, the lack of removable battery is expected to be one feature that will disappoint loyal Galaxy Note users, given the Note 5 will be the first in the range to feature a non-removable battery and back cover.
Aside from the battery, we’ve already heard what the rest of the specs are expected to be; based on a Galaxy S6 Edge Plus specs leak yesterday and given the two handsets should be almost identical, we expect both to have a 5.67-inch Super AMOLED Quad HD display, be powered by Samsung’s own Exynos processor and have 4GB RAM.
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On the back is expected to be a 16MP rear camera with Optical Image Stabilisation, rapid autofocus and 4K video recording while the front snapper could be a 5MP or 8MP snapper. Other notable specs include a plethora of connectivity options (including dual wireless charging and quick charging like the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge), a slimmed down optimised TouchWiz interface, a heart rate sensor and a fingerprint sensor built into the home button beneath the display.
Both handsets should sport the metal and glass design from this year’s Galaxy S flagships, with a metal frame flanked by glass front and rear panels. The key difference between the two devices is that the Galaxy Note 5 will have a standard display with an S-Pen while the Galaxy S6 Edge will have a dual-curved display but will drop the S-Pen feature.
Samsung Galaxy Note 5 rumor roundup (updated 8/5)
What do you think of the supposed 3000mAh battery on the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge Plus? Will this put you off buying Samsung’s upcoming smartphones? Let us know your views in the comments below guys and don’t forget to tune in tomorrow as we’ll be at Samsung’s London and New York events bringing you all the info as it happens.
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Twitter gives companies access to its full archives
Twitter has just launched a new tool called “Full-Archive Search API,” which gives brands access to every public tweet ever made from the microblogging site’s inception nine years ago. If you recall, the company also opened up its archives to research institutions last year. That project was launched for science, though — this one was obviously created for business. The new tool was developed by Gnip, a long-time Twitter data partner that the company acquired in 2014 in order to sell data directly to advertisers and brand managers.
Full-Archive Search API gives Gnip’s customers the power to look up public tweets — any of the 500 billion or so available — instantly. They can use it to quickly search for context when responding to customers on Twitter. And they can use it to analyze tweets to see what’s the most effective way to get your attention when launching a product or an advertising campaign. As for how this development will affect you, it just means you have to be even more vigilant and scrutinize trends more closely if you hate being manipulated by corporations.
Introducing the Full-Archive Search API, answering the enterprise need for instant access to any public Tweet – ever https://t.co/cyDaWTG03B
— Gnip, Inc. (@Gnip) August 11, 2015
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Misc
Via:
Wired
Source:
Twitter
Tags: social, SocialNetworking, twitter
Ola Cabs teams up with OnePlus in India to let customers experience the smartphone
Earlier today, India’s most popular travel app, Ola Cabs, took to its official blog to announce that it has now formed an exclusive partnership with OnePlus, in order for customers using the service to experience the company’s latest smartphone is they so desire.
You may be asking yourself: “How can you experience a smartphone if you’re taking a cab?” Well, a select number of vehicles in Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi will have a OnePlus 2 on board for their fares to dabble with.
Customers who wish to acquaint themselves with the device can book these cabs in the same way they hail other Ola cabs. However, when using their mobile app they will need to ensure they tap the OnePlus 2 icon, followed by the Ride Now button.
The cabs will be rolling out in Bengaluru and Chennai on 17/18 August, Hyderabad and Mumbai on August 21/22, and Kolkata and Delhi on 25/26 August.
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Source: Ola Cabs
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[Deal] Expansys USA discounts the 16GB WiFi Nexus 9 to $290
Online retailer Expansys has just kicked off a pretty good deal on the 16GB Wi-Fi variant of the Nexus 9, but you will have to be quick. For the next 24-hours only, residents in the United States can bag themselves one for $290, which is a whopping $109 shaving off the usual price.
Just in case you need a refresher on its specifications, the Nexus 9 packs an 8.9-inch display with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels, a NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor, 2GB of RAM, an 8MP camera and a 6,700mAh battery.
If you’re based in the United States, like the sound of the Nexus 9 and would like to pick one up for the discounted price of $290 – hit the source link below.
Source: Expansys
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Huawei Ascend Mate 7S is likely the name of the mysterious Huawei device, invites set for IFA 2015
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For the last few days, we’ve been seeing leaks of a mysterious Huawei device that looks awfully like last year’s Huawei Ascend Mate 7 – given rumours that the Ascend Mate 8 was going to be delayed till 2016, we were left with the conclusion that this would be an upgraded variant of the Ascend Mate 7, but what would its name be? Names like the Ascend Mate 7 Plus had been floated, but according a teaser posted by Zhu Ping, President of Huawei‘s consumer business, we’re strongly lead to believe that the device Huawei is going to announce at IFA 2015 is going to be the Huawei Ascend Mate 7S – the giant “S” is a dead giveaway.
Of course, the teaser also sets a date for the announcement, namely September 2nd. While the Ascend Mate 7S is no doubt going to headline Huawei’s event, we’re also wondering whether the Huawei Watch is also going to make an appearance after Huawei started teasing its release again. Whatever the case, Huawei’s event is going to be an exciting one given its growing profile in the global smartphone market.
What do you think about the Huawei Ascend Mate 7S? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: GizmoChina via Phone Arena
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Noodlecake takes revenge on pirates with an unbeatable game
Piracy blights major and indie developers alike, so Noodlecake Studios decided to seek a little revenge on the thieves. The studio uploaded a modified, unbeatable version of its lasted title, Shooting Stars, to popular torrent sites and watched the drama unfold.
The modified version of Shooting Stars features an unbeatable boss at level 3, which doesn’t appear in the usual game. “Daft Premium” sends a wave of very high health bosses at the player, and has unlimited health himself should the player somehow make it that far. Upon death, pirates are greeted with a suggestion to buy the actual game.
The idea began after Noodlecake discovered that only 11 percent of Android users had actually purchased its Wayward Souls action-RPG, while the other 89 percent had pirated the game. Unfortunately, the company claims that piracy is much higher on Android that it is on iOS, so uploading a tweaked APK seemed like the right choice to have the most impact.
Despite the less than subtle hints, a cracked version of the store APK has already appeared online, to combat the unbeatable version of the game. Which is pretty disappointing, as Shooting Stars is on sale for just $0.99 right now, before it pops back up to its usual retail price of $2.99.
Noodlecake isn’t all that bitter about the piracy rate though, the company recognises that it probably didn’t lose out on many sales and views this little experiment as an advertising campaign as much as anything else. Still, it’s a pretty good way to get one back at the pirates.
Hillary Clinton to turn over her private email server
Hillary Clinton has decided to surrender the private email server she used during her time as Secretary of State to the Department of Justice. A few hours after the Intelligence Community Inspector General told Congress that some of her correspondences have now been classified as “top secret,” she has instructed her team to turn over not just the server, but also three back-up thumb drives containing over 30,000 emails. These are supposedly the same emails she already handed over to the government and the same ones slated to be released in 2016. It’s unclear whether anything will come out of investigating her old server, though, as she admitted to deleting personal messages and ultimately wiping it clean long ago.
Republicans have been demanding the server’s surrender for months, but Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus wasn’t impressed with Clinton’s recent decision:
If Hillary Clinton believed in honesty and transparency, she would have turned over her secret server months ago to an independent arbiter, not as a last resort and to the Obama Justice Department. Of course, if she really cares about transparency, she would never have had a secret server in the first place.
Clinton spokesperson Nick Merrill, however, said that Hillary pledges to cooperate with the government’s security inquiry:
This past spring, Hillary Clinton asked the Department of State to publish the 55,000 pages of the work emails she provided to the Department last fall. As she has said, it is her hope that State and the other agencies involved in the review process will sort out as quickly as possible which emails are appropriate to release to the public, and that the release will be as timely and transparent as possible. In the meantime, her team has worked with the State Department to ensure her emails are stored in a safe and secure manner. She directed her team to give her email server that was used during her tenure as Secretary to the Department of Justice, as well as a thumb drive containing copies of her emails already provided to the State Department. She pledged to cooperate with the Government’s security inquiry, and if there are more questions, we will continue to address them.
While the thumb drives with the emails are already with the Justice Department, the parties involved are still working on the logistics of handing over the server itself.
[Image credit: Marc Nozell/Flickr]
Filed under:
Misc
Source:
ABC News, CNN, The Hill, NPR
Tags: email, government, hillaryclinton
HTC pulls the One M9+ from shelves in the Netherlands
It was only last month that HTC launched the up scaled variant of its flagship smartphone in Europe and now it’s being removed from the shelves of retail stores in the Netherlands as a result of its 4G LTE connectivity issues.
Independent retailer, Phone House, sent out the following bulletin to its stores: “At the request of HTC, we ask you to withdraw the HTC M9+ immediately from sale. We will let you know how to deal with this further in a few days.”
To provide some explanation for its decision to pull the handset, HTC published this official statement on its website: “We put the quality of its products and providing an optimal user experience first. In that context, [we] are currently investigating the One M9+.
So there you have it, folks. The One M9+ has been pulled from stores in the Netherlands. We currently don’t have any information as to whether any other countries will receive the same treatment, but if it’s an LTE issue, it’s more than likely they will.
Via: MobileCowboys
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Skype for Business is coming to your mobile device
Two months after Microsoft launched Skype’s Business edition, which integrates into MS Office Calendar and allows for group messaging/video chats/calls for up to 250 people, the video conferencing company announced on Tuesday that a mobile version for both iOS and Android devices is in the works. The mobile app will feature a central dashboard from which the user can search for contacts, check for and RSVP to upcoming meetings and dig through past archived conversations. Additionally, actually contacting people will be easier thanks to larger onscreen buttons and a full-screen video chat option.
The apps aren’t ready quite yet though. Skype is currently recruiting businesses to participate in its preview program. Corporate IT managers can sign to eight employees (four for iOS, four for Android) up for the preview at www.skypepreview.com before August 17th. Once the apps actually go live “later this year,” users will need to have Lync 2013, on which this system is built, installed on their device in order to use them.
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Filed under:
Internet, Mobile, Apple, Microsoft, Google
Source:
Microsoft Office Blog
Tags: android, apple, calendar, google, ios, messaging, microsoft, mobiledevice, mobilepostcross, office, skype, video, VideoConferencing
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