TENAA certifies Oppo A51kc with 5-inch display
The Oppo A51kc received certification from TENAA. The device is a watered-down version of the Oppo A51, which released last month.
The A51kc will come with a 5-inch qHD (960×540) resolution. It will be powered by a quad-core 1.2GHz CPU, and 1GB of RAM is on board. The rear side of the device will boast a 8MP camera and the front will include a 5MP for selfies and video chats. The device will come with 8GB of internal storage, and be expandable via a micro-sd card slot.
Android 5.1.1 pre-loaded with Oppo’s Color OS 2.1 on top of it.
The upcoming device measures 7.65mm thick and has a mass of only 160g. The only color option known at this time is white.
More information on the device will be available in the coming days.
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[Deal] Verizon’s LG G4 comes with a $100 Visa prepaid card through August 12
This is not the first time we are hearing about a deal on the LG G4. LG has teamed up with many partners in the past offering a variety of deals associated with buying an LG G4. This time around, LG is partnering with Verizon.
From now through August 12, Verizon is giving a free $100 Visa prepaid card with every purchase of a new LG G4. The deal is available online or you can claim it at the carrier’s retail stores.
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Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo confirmed to get Lollipop in the UK
On Twitter, Samsung confirmed that the Galaxy Note 3 Neo will be getting the Lollipop software update in the United Kingdom shortly. Samsung stated that it hasn’t forgotten about it and is currently working on it.
The new build, based on Android 5.0, will include the Material Design overhaul and 64-bit ART compiler that makes apps open faster. It will also come with updated features such as a redesigned recent apps menu, new lock-screen card notifications, easier accessible quick settings, and improved battery life.
This will only be the second update the handset has ever received since it launched with Android 4.3 out of the box, the current build is Android 4.4.3. Thus will be a pretty sweet update.
Source: Samsung UK (Twitter)
Via: YouMobile
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IndyCar racers use LEDs to show their positions in real-time
It’s sometimes hard to keep track of positions in an IndyCar race, especially if you’re in the stands and don’t have the luxury of a broadcaster or data stream to point things out. Never fear, though: as of this weekend, the league’s cars are carrying LED panels that display the driver’s race position in real-time by working in conjunction with timing lines embedded in the tracks. They’re also smart enough to switch to pit stop times, so you’ll know if that tire swap is running too long.
The technology is getting its first proper shakedown at the Mid-Ohio race on August 2nd (today, if you’re reading this in time) at 1:30PM Eastern. However, some teams already see potential problems. While the LED array is only 0.11 inches thick, it’s still adding small amounts of weight and wind resistance to the car. There’s also a concern that pit crews might be distracted with a display just inches away from where they’re working. They may not have much say in the matter, mind you — IndyCar is a spectator sport at its heart, and the sacrifices might be justified if they help fans make sense of vehicular chaos.
Filed under:
Transportation
Via:
The Verge
Source:
IndyCar
Tags: car, indycar, led, race, racing, transportation, vehicle
Honda looks to developers to make its robotic stool useful
Honda has always been more than a car company. In addition to its car and motorcycle business, it also manufacturers marine vehicles, generators, a weird robot and even planes. To keep that spirit of just making as much stuff as possible alive it introduced the Uni-Cub personal mobility system in May 2012. It’s been refined since then, but it’s still not something you can run down the dealer and purchase. Honda is looking to developers to expand the its use cases beyond rolling you around a museum with an upcoming API for the rolling bar stool. Slideshow-308697
The Uni-Cub remote API will be released by the Honda Developer Studio this fall. Interested developers will be able to remotely control the vehicle’s speed and directions. At the grand opening of its Silicon Valley R&D studio it demoed a Uni-Cub being controlled by hand gestures using a Leap Motion. It was a nice demo, but developers could potentially give the little chair another life including using it for guided tours without rider input, adding a bin to it and having it deliver office packages, or pairing it with a VR headset and playing the world’s slowest yet fully immersible car racing game. Or better yet, a very slow jousting game.
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Misc, Transportation
Source:
Honda Developer Studio
Tags: API, Honda, RD, Uni-Cub, video
[Deal] Get $100 Visa prepaid card from Verizon when you buy an LG G4
If you are in the market for an LG G4, Verizon has a pretty great deal for you. Receive a $100 Visa prepaid card when you buy a G4 from Verizon.
The rules are quite simple. Buy a LG G4 from Verizon between August 1st-12th then head to Verizon’s rebate page before August 31st. The only real requirement other than buying the phone is you must be over 18.
Eligible LG G4 versions include the Genuine Leather Black, Metallic Gray and Ceramic White.
Source: Verizon
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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: Facebook drones and giant slides
Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.
Tesla’s Model S got a lot of press when Elon Musk unveiled a “Ludicrous” upgrade that goes from 0-60 in 2.8 seconds — but a new car built by a team of German students can go even faster than that. The electric vehicle can accelerate from 0-62MPH in a blistering 1.779 seconds, and it’s currently awaiting confirmation for a Guinness World Record. In other news, Facebook just unveiled a solar-powered airplane that will beam the internet to remote locations. The Aquila has the wingspan of a Boeing 737, yet it weighs less than 1,100 pounds. This week, Inhabitat reporter Marc Carter spotted Chrysler’s camouflaged new Town & Country minivan on the streets of LA — and it looks like it’s going to be a plug-in EV. Google’s Street View cars show us towns and cities throughout the world — and now they’re getting equipped with pollution sensors to monitor the air we breathe. And if you’re planning a road trip this summer, we’ve got two amazing mobile dwellings for you to check out: a stylish wood cabin on wheels and an old-school bus that’s been retrofitted into a remarkable little home.
As the 2016 presidential race heats up, candidates are beginning to announce their environmental platforms. Hillary Clinton revealed plans to boost US solar power by 700 percent, but we still think Bernie Sanders may be our best defense against climate change. In other news, a new report shows that large-scale solar is nearly as cheap as other fuels in the world’s three biggest markets, and a gadget called the SunPort allows you to power any device in your home with energy from the sun. It was also a big week for wind power as the United States’ first offshore wind farm finally broke ground off the coast of Rhode Island.
Rotterdam, Netherlands, is building the largest electric vacuum cleaner in the world — but it’s not for tidying up your living room. The 23-foot-tall Smog Free Tower will suck pollution out of the sky and turn it into jewelry. In other architecture and design news, Spatial Design wants to combat homelessness by installing hanging pod homes on the sides of existing buildings. San Francisco has a public urination problem — and the city plans to address it by coating buildings in liquid-repellent paint that bounces pee back on offenders. In London, Anish Kapoor’s twisting Orbit Tower is being transformed into the world’s longest and tallest tunnel slide. French architect Jacques Rougerie envisioned a giant self-sustaining city that looks like an enormous manta ray. And Israeli fashion student Danit Peleg debuted an amazing line of 3D-printed clothing that shows just how far the technology has come.
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Household, Transportation, Internet, Facebook
Tags: climate change, Drones, eco-friendly, EV, facebook, Green, Solar, Tesla, Wind
The After Math: Stupid-fast storage and what’s in a Windows number?
Already immersing yourself in Windows 10? Trying to block out the not-so-favorable memories of Windows 8? Good for you. This week involved a new smartphone from a new challenger, and several new smartphone from a once-dominant player. And we don’t mean Nokia, which was busy dipping its toes into the world of VR cameras. Because of course. Slideshow-308185
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Desktops, Storage, Science, Microsoft
Tags: aftermath, microsoft, theaftermath, windows, windows10
Amazon lets anyone put Alexa voice control in their devices
Amazon released the Alexa Appkit last month in hopes that developers will create cool new features for the voice technology that powers the Echo. This time, the e-commerce giant is offering the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) itself as a developer preview, which both hobbyists and legit hardware manufacturers can integrate into their own connected devices. The best part is the company’s allowing the use of its technology for free. “By adding Alexa to your device, your users can request and receive information in the same way they would from an Amazon Echo,” the company’s Getting Started Guide reads. That means devices loaded with Alexa will also be able to answer questions about the weather and look up stuff or the traffic conditions online.
The devices’ users, according to Amazon, will be able to:
- Ask their device all kinds of questions, like math problems or facts about famous people, dates and places
- Stay informed on the news with Flash Briefing, a customizable news feed that includes podcasts and headlines from sources like ABC News, Good Morning America, Fox Sports and more…
- Play and buy music by artist, song, album or genre from Amazon Music
- Explore Prime Music, which provides unlimited, ad-free access to over a million songs, hundreds of playlists and personalized stations – free with Amazon Prime
- Enjoy podcasts, music and live radio from iHeartRadio
- Listen to audiobooks from Audible using their Audible or Kindle Unlimited subscription
- Add items to their To-Do and Shopping lists
- Get traffic updates for their daily commute
- Check the weather in their home town or in other locations around the world
- Access millions of Wikipedia articles
- Check appointments or weekend plans in Google Calendar
- Listen to jokes
- Play Simon Says
- Hunt for fun Easter Eggs, like “Alexa, I am your father”
- Set voice triggers for recipes created in If This Then That (IFTTT)
- Access new capabilities that you and other developers create using the Alexa Skills Kit
- Use the free Alexa companion app (available on Fire OS, Android, iOS and desktop browsers)
We doubt an Alexa-powered internet-connected gadget other than the Echo will pop up for sale soon, since this is just a developer preview and all, but we’ll keep an eye out for you all. To note, the voice assistant has been getting great reviews, and even our senior editor who reviewed the Echo ended up falling in love with her for her amazing capability to understand natural language.
Source:
Amazon
Tags: alexa, amazon, developer, DeveloperPreview, VoiceRecognition
Roku’s Dropbox channel puts cloud files on your TV
You can already access your Dropbox files on all your PCs and mobile gadgets, but what if you want to put them on your TV? If you have a Roku player, you’re set. Roku has launched a Dropbox channel that lets you browse your photos and videos on its set-tops, including in slideshows. Yes, you now have an easy way to recap your vacation on a big screen without turning to other cloud services. The channel isn’t flawless — TechCrunch notes that you can’t play long videos, so this won’t work if you’re trying to stream full-length movies. Even so, it’s a big help if you’d rather not have everyone gather around your computer to see your snapshots.
Filed under:
Home Entertainment, Storage, Internet, HD
Via:
Zats Not Funny, TechCrunch
Source:
Roku
Tags: cloud, cloudstorage, dropbox, hdpostcross, internet, roku, storage, television, tv
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