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Sony unveiled PlayStation Now, which will offer Netflix-style subscription options, during a keynote at CES 2014,
and opened up beta registrations shortly afterwards. The beta is only
available to residents in the US, with the service expected to roll out
across America this summer.
Yesterday, a
Digital Foundry report stated that PlayStation Now is only currently
being planned to stream PlayStation 3 titles, and that PS1/PS2 titles will run on PS4 via local emulation.
For more information on Sony's new cloud streaming service, formerly known as Gaikai, GameSpot has compiled everything we currently know about PlayStation Now.
Harvard and MIT Students Create "NSA-proof" Email Service
Squad ex-students of Harvard and MIT make created a new netmail papers titled ProtonMail. The students met while employed at the European Administration for Atomic Research (CERN) in Svizzera and mutual their popular want of edifice a fortify email mating. Their aim was to make an telecommunicate author which would be justified many close than Lavabit - Edward Snowden's telecommunicate function of prize for releasing all his online connexion.
The founders of the telecommunicate upkeep exact that ProtonMail is so obtain that symmetric the NSA can't passage accumulation from it. The operate has rightful been free in its beta stage. On their website, the creators say that "all someone accumulation is preserved by the Land Fed Data Assets Act (DPA) and the Land Agent Collection Indorsement Naming (DPO) which offers whatever of the strongest concealment endorsement in the humankind for both individuals and entities. Only a hotel dictate from the Cantonal Entourage of Genf or the Land Yankee Dominant Assembly can cause us to soul information is never getatable to change the founders as it provides zero attain to somebody collection. Andy Yen, one of the founders of the telecommunicate pairing says,"Straight we don't mortal the cognition to construe that telecommunicate. If we can't scan it, we evidently can't slip it over to any government agencies."
ProtonMail also features a Snapchat-like goodie which lets users idea their emails to self-destruct once they get been in the acquirer's inbox for a predictable point of quantify. It is a disengage to use pairing but in inflict to get unneeded premium features, a individual instrument condition to pay other money meet same the Dropbox's expose where you start supply and pay author for other storage. Premium users will require to pay $5 a month to use its mating has also been reviewed by computer warrant experts at CERN and was launched in a beta stage on May 01. Already, the care has qualified nearly 1,000 users. Currently, the founders necessity people to try and maturate bugs as shaft as distribute suggestions to turn the upkeep.
ProtonMail's front-end developer, Jason Husbandman says, "We're definitely not for 100 proportionality of the universe but for those who don't same what the polity is doing."
Samsung May Launch the Galaxy Tab S Tablets on June 12
Samsung is planning to launch its Galaxy
Tab S tablets at the Samsung Galaxy Premier event on June 12. Samsung
has already sent out press invites for the event with the slogan “Tab
into color”.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S will have a 10.5
inch display with 2560 x 1600 pixels resolution and 287 ppi pixel
density. Samsung may also launch two more tablets called the Klimt which
is an 8.4" version and the Warhol which is a bigger 13.3 inch variant.
While the 10.5 inch and 8.4 inch variants will support the AMOLED
display, the 13.3 inch variant is expected to support an LCD display.
All three tablets will have premium
features including fingerprint sensors and will come in Wi-Fi only and
cellular form (likely 3G LTE). Connectivity options included in the
tablets are Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, WiFi and an IR Blaster. Other rumored
features include a Exynos 5420 chipset with Android 4.4 with Samsung's
Magazine UI. All the tablets are expected to have 8 MP rear cameras and 2
MP front cameras. Reports suggest that the Samsung Galaxy Tab S will
come with octa-core Exynos 5420 processor coupled with 2GB of RAM.
Blackberry Confirms that its New Phone Will Feature a Square 4.5-inch, 453ppi Display
BlackBerry on Wednesday published software development kit BlackBerry 10.3 beta for developers to test applications on the OS ahead of its launch. The update is targeted only for new device hardware being introduced later this year. The SDK is available to download via BlackBerry's developer site.
While inviting developers for testing, the company noted that it has delivered 'a variety of new features and tooling improvements' in the BlackBerry 10.3 SDK beta. Developers will see some visual changes and new functionality been introduced. Also, the SDK simulator (download) will show a square screen. BlackBerry says that it is for 'a new device with a 1440x1440 resolution and pixel density of 453 DPI,' which if one calculates, would indicate a display with a diagonal length of 4.5 inches.
If you dig through the details of the 10.3 SDK, you’ll notice that there is support for the screen resolutions we’re all used to: 1:1 and 16:9, with a dpi of 720×720 and 1280×720, respectively. In addition to that, there’s a simulator for a 1:1 ratio device with a resolution of 1440×1440. Naturally, BlackBerry gave no other details on what that device might be. In a blog post this afternoon, the folks over at BlackBerry DevBlog let developers know that the SDK for OS 10.3 is now available. The blog post has some pretty interesting information in it, including a pretty nice little confirmation about the anticipated BlackBerry Classic, as well as our first bit of news on OS 10.3.1.
Sennheiser Launches Two Premium Audiophile Products in India
Sennheiser today announced the launch of IE800 in-ear headphone and headphone amplifier set HDVD 800 and HDVA600.
The IE 800, developed and designed at
Sennheiser's headquarters in Germany, comes with features such as the
scratch-resistant ceramic housing. Created to harmonize perfectly with
the Sennheiser High-End headphone line, the HDVD 800 and HDVA 600
headphone amplifiers have a fully symmetrical layout that is supposed to
deliver clear and distortion free audio.
The IE 800 is priced at Rs 54,990. The HDVA 600 is priced at Rs. 1,19,990, while the HDVD 800 is priced at Rs 1,59,990.
HTC One Mini 2 Now Official
HTC has just announced the One mini 2, the successor of last year’s One Mini. It has brushed metal body with tapered edges, similar to the HTC One (M8), but comes with a smaller 4.5-inch HD screen. It is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat) with Sense 6 on top. It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, BSI sensor, f/2.2 lens, 1080p video recording and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera with BSI sensor.
Even though it lacks Ultrapixel camera, it has HTC Zoe and Zoe Highlights. As usual it has dual front-facing BoomSound speakers.
HTC One mini 2 Specifications
- 4.5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD display
- 1.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor
- Android 4.4 (KitkKat) with Sense 6, HTC BlinkFeed
- 13MP rear camera with LED Flash, BSI Sensor, f/2.2 aperture, 1080p video recording
- 5MP HD front-facing camera, 1080p video recording
- 10.6mm thick and weighs 137 grams
- 3.5 mm headset jack, HTC BoomSound
- 1GB RAM, 16GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 128GB with microSD
- 4G LTE / 3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS with GLONASS, NFC
- 2100 mAh battery
BlackBerry Z3 Jakarta Edition Goes Official, Priced Under $200
BlackBerry launched a low-cost touchscreen device in Jakarta, the Z3, as the embattled smartphone maker looks to revive sales in emerging markets like Indonesia where its once-fervent following has withered.
The handset, to be presented at a glitzy launch event in the Indonesian capital on Tuesday, is the first in a line of devices being made with FIH Mobile, a unit of Foxconn, best known for producing Apple iPhones and iPads. The success of the handset retailing for less than $200 could well decide the outcome of both BlackBerry’s tie-up with the contract manufacturing giant and its own future in smartphones. The Z3 Jakarta Edition will hit store shelves on May 15.
The Z3 is the first phone to be launched by BlackBerry since new Chief Executive John Chen took the helm late last year. It’s initially being launched in Indonesia, but will be gradually introduced in other markets as well. Tech2 has learnt that India is one of the countries where the BlackBerry Z3 will be launched following the Indonesia debut. If so, the device could well retail for under Rs 13,000, competing against the likes of the Nokia Lumia 630 and Moto G.
Chen hopes that the Z3 and other devices to follow spark a change in the company’s fortunes. The Z3 is being launched at a price point below $200 to address one of the big turnoffs for consumers in emerging markets – BlackBerry 10 devices being too pricey. “From conception to delivery, the BlackBerry Z3 Jakarta Edition was designed specifically with out Indonesian customers in mind,” Chen said in a statement before the launch. The device will allow users to type in Bahasa and come with a special set of BlackBerry Messenger, or BBM Stickers featuring local characters.
The BlackBerry Z3 has a 5" qHD (540 x 960) display, 8 GB of expandable on-board storage, 1.5 GB of RAM to accompany the dual-core 1.2 GHz Snapdragon 200 processor. The cameras are a 5 MP unit on the back along with a 1.1 MP 720p unit on the front. There are no physical QWERTY keyboards here, this is a full touch device. The BlackBerry Z3 will carry BlackBerry OS version 10.2.1 and be powered by a 2,500 mAh battery.
Moto E Officially Launched in India for Rs. 6,999
Motorola has just officially launched the most affordable smartphone from the company yet, the Moto E is coming in shelves of India and the UK. In the UK, the Moto E will be available unlocked for just $89 while in India it will be Rs. 6,999 or around $120.
According to Motorola, the development
of Moto E focuses on four key factors: build, power, style and software.
And primarily, at this consumer-friendly rates you can have the Moto E
with the resemblance of Moto G/X that features an edge-to-edge 4.3-inch
qHD display with 256 ppi density. It’ll be utilizing Android 4.4 Kitkat
with exclusive ads such as Motorola Alert and Emergency Mode.
Under-the-hood, there’s a combination of
a Snapdragon 200 SoC pumped by two Cortex A7 cores clocked at 1.2GHz
and a 400MHz Adreno 302 GPU working on the general and graphics
processing. There’s also a 1GB RAM and 4GB of internal memory with
microSD card slot that can bloat up Moto E’s storage capacity up to
32GB. And while you enjoy selfies, it doesn’t have a front-facing camera
but just a 5MP main camera at the back. The battery also is rated with
1,980 mAh that can last an entire day on a single charge.
You can also choose the color that fits
your style, there are five color variants of grip shells and Moto E
will be available in 9 color tones.
At the end of June, the company will be
offering three new handsets with Moto G, Moto E which is under $150 and
mainly signifies that the company is ending its featurephone quests.
LG Unveils New G Pad 7, G Pad 8 and G Pad 10.1
LG has announced three new tablets, the
LG G Pad 7.0, G Pad 8.0 and G Pad 10.1 which will be unveiled at the
MedPi 2014 event in Europe. The event will be held between May 13 and
May 16.
The three LG Android tablets will have
some unique features taken from the LG's smartphone range, including
Knock Code, which allows the user to unlock the smartphone by tapping on
the screen in a custom pattern. The new tablets will also feature LG's
proprietary UX feature like QPair 2.0 which allows users to connect to
their Android-powered smartphones via Bluetooth to receive notifications
of calls, messages and respond directly from the G Pad.
According to LG, The G Pad 7.0 is
designed to be held in one hand while the mid-sized G Pad 8.0 supports
multi-tasking. The G Pad 10.1 has the biggest screen and battery, among
the trio of tablets that have been announced. For now, LG has disclosed
screen sizes only. No information has been given about the price,
availability or other specifications of the tablets.
LG launched the GPAD 8.3
at the IFA 2013. The tablet features an 8-inch full HD display, a 1.7
GHz quad-core processor with 2 GB of RAM. It has a 5MP rear camera and a
1.3MP front camera. The tablet runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and packs
a 4600mAh battery.
Samsung Launches 6000mAh External Battery Pack For Galaxy S5
Samsung has launched an external battery pack that has the same faux-leather design as the Galaxy Note 3. With a capacity of 6,000mAh, the battery pack is capable of charging the Galaxy S5 two times.
The Samsung EB-PG900B battery pack measures 74 x 140 x 11mm, which is quite compact. A neat feature is the built-in retractable microUSB cable used for charging.
The battery pack weighs 173 grams and packs an LED charging indicator. Currently, it is available only in white and retails for $60 (INR 3,599). If the accessory goes outside India, which it likely will, we expect its European price to be about €40.
Microsoft Files Patent For a Sports-Focused Smartwatch
Microsoft has filed a patent for a
smartwatch with a removable display that can be docked on gym equipment.
The wearable would come with a number of biometric sensors to monitor
your heart rate. The patent was first flied by Microsoft in 2012, but
released only last week.
The patent application also states that
the smartwatch will have an inbuilt music player, alarm clock, messaging
as well as other phone elements. Input sources to the processor include
an optical sensor, touchscreen, and a GPS unit with internal compass.
The device comes with a magnetic dock that can be used as a charger for
the wearable and as an alarm clock as well. The new Microsoft watch is
rumored to come with a removable band in red, black, yellow and blue
colors and is stated to be made of a translucent form of the metal
called oxynitride aluminium.
According to rumors, a prototype of the device was running on a modified
version of Windows 8 which supports integration with other Windows
devices. It is expected to have a 1.5-inch display screen, 6 GB of
storage, and LTE network support. The project is believed to be headed
by former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, who now leads Microsoft's Devices
division.
Nokia Lumia 630 Launched in India, Starts at Rs. 10,500
Nokia has launched a new smartphone, Lumia 630 in India. The phone comes in two variants – Single SIM and Dual SIM. This is the first Windows Phone smartphone to feature dual SIM functionality.
On the hardware front, the phone is powered by 1.2GHz Snapdragon 400 quad-core processor accompanied by 512MB of RAM and 8GB of internal memory, with up to 128GB external memory support. The RAM, in our opinion, should have been increased to 1GB to ensure better performance. Nokia however claims that it is sufficient for running the new UI smoothly.
The phone comes with a 5-megapixel rear camera, which supports burst mode and also includes various photo editing tools. Surprisingly, it misses out on a flash and a front camera. We will tell you more about the camera in our detailed review. Also included are connectivity options like 3G, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS and a 1,830mAh battery, which the company says will give 16 hours of talk time.
The Lumia 630 has been announced for $159 for the single SIM variant and $169 for dual-SIM variant. Considering the launch price of the Lumia 625, Nokia is likely to launch the new device between Rs 13,000 and Rs 15,000 in India. It will be a good deal for Windows Phone lovers, but the device will face some tough competition from Android smartphones like the Motorola Moto G, HTC Desire 310 and the Lenovo A526 among others.
Twitter Lets Users Reset Passwords with Text Message
Twitter last week introduced a
redesigned password reset process in an attempt to make the social
networking website more secure and more convenient for users. The new process allows users to select
the e-mail address or phone number registered with your account to
receive the reset information. “That way, whether you’ve recently
changed your phone number, or are traveling with limited access to your
devices, or had an old email address connected to your Twitter account,
you’ve got options,” points out Twitter in a blog post.
Twitter has rolled out a new password
reset process for Android and iOS users. Twitter explains that it has
developed a system that analyses log in attempts on users' account by
considering factors such as location, device and log in history and
identifies suspicious behaviour.
“If we identify a login attempt as
suspicious, we’ll ask you a simple question about your account —
something that only you know — to verify that your account is secure
before granting access. We’ll also send you an email to let you know
that we’ve detected unusual activity so you can update your password if
need be,” adds Twitter.
With online security and privacy
becoming a prime concern, Twitter's new security feature is certainly a
welcome move. Twitter has been long targeted by cyber criminals, though it has made various efforts to improve security features on the social network.
Samsung to Launch Tizen-based Smartphone in Russia and India
Rumor is that Samsung will launch a Tizen-based device in Russia in May. Samsung is long rumored to be working on its own operating system dubbed as Tizen, and launched it in the latest Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches.
According to a new report from WSJ, citing people familiar with the matter, Samsung may launch its first Tizen-based device in Russia and India in the coming weeks.
The report says that Samsung is preparing for the launch of the purported device in Moscow in the coming weeks, and should come around at a time when Tizen Developer Conference will take place. Just so you know, the Tizen Developer Conference is set to take place from June 2-4th in San Francisco.
“The South Korean company is planning an event in Moscow in the coming weeks to introduce a smartphone running on the Tizen operating system, the people said. The Russia release would be presented at an event similar to the format that Samsung uses to unveil its flagship devices, one of the people said. The event will be timed to take place around a developer’s conference that Tizen’s backers organized for early June in San Francisco,” according to WSJ.
In addition, the report mentions the handset will also launch in India as well. It also mentions Tizen for TVs is under development as well, but there’s no launch date available at the moment for the Tizen-powered TV product.
LG Confirms G3 to Have a 5.5-inch QHD AH-IPS LCD Display
LG’s next flagship smartphone has been long rumored to offer users a high-resolution display, and the company has just confirmed just how great its screen will be. In a press release, LG said that a 5.5-inch Quad HD (QHD) AH-IPS LCD panel for smartphones was certified as a QHD display after passing tests by NEMKO, the Norway-based international testing and certification organization for electrical products. LG has recently confirmed that the G3 will be available to buyers in the second quarter, scheduling a massive press event for May 27 to announce it.
The 5.5-inch display will feature a 2560 x 1440 resolution, or four times the resolution of HD panels and 1.8 times higher than Full HD displays. The G3 will have a 538 pixel per inch (PPI) ratio, and the panel will meet the 100% RGB color reproduction standard, according to the company. LG added the QHD display has reached the same level of brightness as Full HD screens, thanks to improved technology in the LTPS backplane.
Finally, the G3’s display is also ultra-slim, measuring just 1.2mm in thickness, and has a 1.15mm bezel, which is 0.05mm smaller than last year’s panels.
