Apple launched two new iPhones during their keynote which had so many glitches over their official livestream. The iPhone 6 comes with 4.7 inch display and the iPhone 6 Plus comes with a larger 5.5 inches.
I was not impressed by the 8MP iSight camera announcement, Have they hit a wall at innovation because they still talked about optical Image stabilisation in this century, and wait the front camera is now 2 mega pixels, am pretty sure competition is laughing.
Apple says its new iPhones come with Retina HD display, that has a 1334×750 pixel at 326 ppi for the iPhone 6 and 1920×1080 at a 401ppi for the iPhone Plus. Apple slimmed its iPhones to 6.9mm and 7.1 mm in width.
Apple also launched ApplePay, a feature that uses NFC to make one press purchases without using a credit card, they claim the cashier won’t know your name because it creates a virtual card
The iPhone come with voLTE and calling over wifi, NFC and 802.11ac wifi.
The new iPhone 6 will cost $199, $299, $399 for the 32gb, 64Gb and 128Gb models of the iPhone 6 and the $299, $399, $499 for the iPhone 6 Plus respectively on contract. And starting $649 off contract
Well you must be already wondering why Samsung used such a weird name. The Galaxy Edge is practically a Galaxy note 4 spec-wise with a curved screen, screen-wise.
Announced yesterday with the Note 4, the Edge changed the way we perceived Smartphone Screens.It’s a thin beautiful phone that has a curved screen along its right Edge, the “ticker”.
The Edge is practically 2 screens in one this gives this beast the 3D kinda feel when using it. It has an identical Quad HD display identical to the Note 4 and a thin strip having icons and widgets.
In the hands, this device feels good to use. It has accurate detection so it’s really hard to accidentally activate it with stray fingertips.
The Edge by default harbours the go-to column of frequently used apps like Ruler, stop watch and weather; when in the app, the column fades away and can be brought back by a simple swipe with the thumb. The curved screen makes moving through Photos and Apps really cool plus the Animation effects that add Icing to the cake.
The camera controls are all on the curved Edge while the main Menu only has images. The curved screen also comes in handy with a black and white night-clock. This is really convenient as you can tell the time from your bed as the phone lies on the table.
Lefties don’t even wait for the Samsung release of the left-handed version. This beast can be flipped upside down triggering a 180 degrees rotation. Definitely the home button will be up but what the hell you can still use it anyway.
It also has a Stylus, heart-rate monitor, fingerprint scanner and almost whatever the Note 4 has. However, this amazing device will not have a Gear VR, not even the one for the Note 4 is compatible. The 5.6” screen phablet is powered by a 3,000mAh battery.
Besides being somewhat uncomfortable to grip, other specs are practically similar to the Note 4.
There you have it. The SDK will be out pretty soon for developers to put that curved screen to good use.
This genius piece of equipment will be available in your Samsung store in black and white very soon
Early Wednesday, Samsung introduced two new beasts; the Note 4 and the Note Edge. Well here is all you need to know about the Note 4.
The note 4 phablet has a 5.7 inch Super AMOLED display; it also has a metal band wrapping its side pretty much like the Galaxy Alpha. It also has a virtual-reality headset known as the Gear VR which will be sold as a companion to the Note 4 but won’t work with other Galaxy devices. It still has its old school faux-leather style back but all these slight changes go a long way to making it a better phone than its predecessors. Samsung is in the bid to keep up with its design strategy pacing up with Apple that is rumoured to launch a 5.5 inch beast a week from now.
This bad boy is pretty much designed to attract Gamers. It also features an improved pen stylus with double the pressure sensitivity of the Note 3 and related software as a handwriting alternative to typing with the keypad.
Multitasking is much easier on this device taking advantage of its massive screen. There’s also this feature of shrinking an app into a smaller window that can hover over top of another running app. Apps can also be put in a two-app split-screen view which is really exciting.
Although this amazing phone is packed with cool new features and the latest hardware specs, there is almost nothing in the Note 4 that will excite old users, many mobile phone analysts suggest.
Samsung is in a bid to recover from the 2 year decline in the market share. This is majorly due to the Galaxy S5 that was released in April which caused massive disappointment to highly anticipated users. Research puts it that the older flagship, iPhone 5S out sold the Galaxy S5; a failure to deliver major improvements from its predecessor. Samsung however reveals that it will focus on a narrower set of products and also get more aggressive on pricing to recover from the decline.
Taking a closer look at the specs, we have a 5.7” Super AMOLED Capacitative screen protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 3. It’s packed with an expandable 32 GB of internal memory and an amazing 3 GB of RAM.
Internet speeds of 40 Mbps up to 300 Mbps depending on your Service provider. A 16MP camera with simultaneous HD video recording. Also having a secondary Camera with 3.7MP
It has a heart-rate monitor as earlier Galaxies from this year and a fingerprint sensor as well running on Android v4.4.4 Kitkat.
The SM-N910S model has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 chipset and the Exynos 5433 for the SM-910C powered by a 3220 mAh battery.
Well, as said earlier, there’s nothing mind blowing about the Note 4 that its bigger brothers haven’t done already.
Gear VR
It will be available at your trusted Samsung outlet in black, white, pink and bronze.
You might have seen profile photos of writers in your Google Search result recently, or perhaps a name of the author of a new story in Google Search results. That’s what Google Authorship is. As a blogger, Google Authorship has been an awesome link between authentic authors and Google search results, it gave authors, bloggers and writers this pride when users looked up their content on the web. In fact one was able to see the count of all posts a particular author had writer.
Setting it up wasn’t a piece of cake either since you had to edit meta data and link accounts, Today the service was silently killed, because your results won’t show up in the search results anymore, and John Mueller a webmaster and Trends analyst at Google shared a post on his Google Plus explaining that leaving the code in your head won’t be harmful and Google will treat just like any other meta-data in your website.
[quote_box_center](If you’re curious — in our tests, removing authorship generally does not seem to reduce traffic to sites. Nor does it increase clicks on ads. We make these kinds of changes to improve our users’ experience.) – John Mueller – Google [/quote_box_center]
Google also claims that they carried out varies experiments which proved that removing Google Authorship from search results didn’t reduce traffic to website and neither did it increase AD clicks.
Most publishers will probably raise their virtual candles to the death of a feature we loved
The Internet is one global handshake that connects most of us, It the biggest way of connectivity today. But we have to ask our selves, where is the the internet? On what device does it reside? These are questions John Matherly answers using his company Shodan. Shodan was able to create an image visualization of the location of all devices on the internet pinged.
You will then notice that the biggest concentration is in Developed countries and Africa is almost dark, with some countries only showing a mere-small dot. The connected devices in Africa are mostly located in the capitals and big cities.
[quote_box_center]This leaves many wondering what steps Africa needs to take because grumbling about our problems won’t solve them, rather innovations from start ups, Telecoms and governments are required to extend internet access to more people in Africa. In Uganda, Google Fibre is being laid and companies like Facebook are working with ISPs to bring the dark world to the light of the Internet. [/quote_box_center]
There is however doubt it whether the proclaimed “Internet of things Search Engine” (Shodan) was able to ping all devices since its technically not possible since some devices are hidden under NAT restrictions and some configurations on some networks do not allow external pinging.Some tweet users questioned him about Canada which appeared dark but its figures show large Internet activity.
However this image still gives us a bigger picture of the location of most internet enabled devices.
Airtel Uganda has today hosted an Enterprise Expo in Mbarara district, Western Uganda, as part of efforts to provide practical and modern business solutions to its High Value Customers. The Enterprise Expo took place at the Mbarara Lake View Hotel with Airtel’s customers and other business owners receiving training to support their organizations’ communication needs.
Already a market leader in Enterprise Business Telecommunication Solutions, Airtel Enterprise Business supports Businesses, Enterprises and Organisations with telecommunication solutions that are customised to meet the ever increasing demand for Information Technology.
Speaking at the expo, Mr. Tom Gutjahr, Airtel Uganda’s Managing Director noted that the Telecom Company provides a host of business-oriented services which, “…we believe, have enabled our customers to fully realize the potential of their enterprises.”
“Our office package is made up of several high-end products and services that are both data and product based,” Gutjahr added.
Speaking at the same function, the Enterprise Director, Airtel Uganda, Mr. Oladapo P. Sorinolu said “We provide internet solutions that for instance, allow our customers to communicate via email and make Voice over Protocol calls. This is in addition to offering Leased Lines,Hosting or Co-location services, E1 Voice and PABX Services as well as APN (Access Point Name) Solutions for our clients whose needs consume less data.”
He went on to point out the wide range of customers for these services who include, Government institutions, financial service providers, NGOs, manufacturing and energy institutions. Oladapo also praised Airtel’s countrywide and global presence which allows clients to access the business solutions from anywhere in the country and in any of Airtel’s operative countries world-wide. “This makes it easy to work on the move and access data and information remotely.”
Oladapo concluded by reiterating Airtel Uganda’s commitment to creating innovative products and services that serve the needs of the modern client.
The Airtel Uganda Enterprise Expo will be held in other locations across the country where the Company will continue to showcase its product range.
Samsung Just unveiled a new smart watch dubbed the Samsung Gear S. The Gear S isn’t an mere upgrade to the Gear 2, but rather a 3G enabled smart watch. The 3G connectivity brings at twist to smart watches because the Gear 2 doesn’t entirely rely on your smartphone’s wireless or Bluetooth to keep online. In fact you can still recieve or send texts and make calls even outside the range of your smartphone’s WiFi or Bluetooth.
Samsung however didn’t use Android Wear in this watch but rather used Tizen OS to power the Samsung Gear S. The watch has a 2-inch AMOLED screen, a rather powerful dual-core 1GHz CPU, GPS, motion sensors, and heart rate which are all powered by a 300mAh battery which Samsung claims can last up to two days of normal usage.
Well Samsung usually equips its gadgets with tonnes of feature and the Gear S wasn’t left out this time. The Gear S comes with features like pedestrian navigation from Nokia’s HERE, support for Facebook, 24-hour news and views service from The Financial Times ‘fastFT’, works together with advanced-reading technology from Spritz, and fitness apps like Nike +.
The Gear S was unveiled together with the the Gear Circle, a headset that reads notifications to users who have paired it with their smartphone.
Below are the Tech Specs for the Gear S
Network
900/2100 or 850/1900 (3G)
900/1800 or 850/1900 (2G)
WhatsApp which was bought by Facebook 6 months ago has had an increase in the number of active monthly users by a whooping 150 million active Users. Koum was proud to share these figures in a Tweet.
Now serving 600,000,000 monthly active users. Yes, active and registered are very different types of numbers…
You must know that active users are different from registered users. This makes the statistic quite relevant in Facebook’s conquest to extend its 1.23 billion user reach. However we may state that some users are registered on both platforms but they definitely use one a little more than the other.
This growth of active monthly users defies the odds and claims by privacy advocates for advocated for other apps like Telegram which I must say is slowly disappearing in terms of activity.
There has been a lot of crying and whining about the cheap feel of all major Samsung flagships. The Samsung boys have come out to sooth the long cry. Without further ado, I bring you the Samsung Galaxy Alpha.
Rocking a rich and yet sexy Aluminium and glass look, It’s going to be the slimmest Smartphone from the Samsung camp ever. The Alpha will focus on optimising portability with a 4.7” screen so don’t except a Phablet kinda device. It will be packed with an Exynos chipset rather than Snapdragon, 12MP Camera sensor, An Octa-core processor which is precisely a 1.3GHz Cortex-A7 and 1.8GHz Cortex-A15, 2GB RAM, Fingerprint Scanner, Heart-rate Monitor, Motion and gesture Control plus an 1860mAh Battery.
This is a device that will probably give the iPhone 6 a beating it requires. This awesome device will definitely add more nuclear to the bloody Smartphone war already in place.
Samsung has registered a decline selling hand devices of late particularly in the last few months. Well this is yet another trick in the box after the revolutionary Galaxy gear and the Fit. Hope they pull this off.
The Alpha is still undergoing manufacturing. It is rumoured to hit the Russian market on 12th this September and then other markets shortly after.
