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As was expected, Samsung finally officially introduced its flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S5, on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain, on Monday (02/24/2014) local time.
"I do not want to make you wait any longer," said JK Shin, President and CEO Head of IT and Mobile Communications Division, Samsung Electronics, while showing video Galaxy S5 for the first time.
At first glance, the Galaxy S5 has a design that is not much different than that of the Galaxy S4. At the front, there are no significant differences too. There are two soft buttons, which is accompanied by a physical button.
Changes actually seen happen in the back shell of the Galaxy S5. Samsung calls the design of this section with the word "modern glam".
As quoted from Engadget, Tuesday (25/02/2014), in fact Samsung uses material "skin-like" in that section. However, do not think that part is similar to the material used in the Galaxy Note 3. In these areas, the South Korean company is said to use a polycarbonate material that is mixed with glass fiber, similar to the Nexus 7. Use of the material is said to make this device does not feel slippery when used.
As an illustration, in the previous series, the Samsung using a smooth plastic material, which makes it feel quite slippery when held.
One of the biggest differences was compared to the previous Galaxy S series is the ability of Galaxy S5 for withstand water and dust. The device comes with IP67 certification.
Galaxy S5 is directly equipped with Android 4.4.2 Kitkat spans a larger screen than the Galaxy S the previous generation. Galaxy S5 is equipped with a screen of 5.1 inches, 5 inches versus the Galaxy S4. Both use the same Super AMOLED display panel with Full HD quality.
In terms of inside, the Samsung Galaxy S5 comes with a high specification. The phone is equipped with a Snapdragon processor 801 2.5 GHz quad-core processor, 2 GB RAM, storage capacity of 16 or 32 GB, and a 2,800 mAh battery.
Concern, the Galaxy S5 equipped only 2 GB of RAM, whereas other Samsung products, the Galaxy Note 3, which was released recently has been using 3 GB of RAM. While Sony's latest Android, Xperia Z2, also had been taking 3 GB of RAM.
Of the sector of the camera, the Galaxy S5 has a 16 megapixel sensor that has the ability to record in quality UHD (4K) and real-time HDR. On the front there is a 2.1 megapixel camera.
Samsung finally applying fingerprint recognition sensor in the Galaxy S5. The sensor is located at the physical Home button. Its function is to unlock the phone.
In addition, it can also run Private Mode, in which the user can open the folder "secret", which contains documents, photographs, and others. Finger print identification can also be used for mobile payment verification.
Galaxy S5 supports 4G network connection, Bluetooth 4.0, infra-red, and NFC. As for WiFi, the device uses a component called MIMO WiFi (802.11ac). Samsung claims, WiFi is capable of achieving twice the speed of a standard WiFi.
Samsung Galaxy S5 will be released to the market globally to 150 countries on 11 April. Unfortunately, Samsung has not revealed the price of the device.
Google developed a smartphone equipped with sensors 3-dimensional (3D). Currently, the smartphone has created a prototype and deployed to multiple developers to test it. Project this 3D smartphone by Google was named "Project Tango."
"The purpose of Project Tango is to provide understanding space of the capabilities of mobile devices and the equivalent of human movement," wrote Google's official statement.
BBC website preach on Friday (02/21/2014), as many as 200 devices smartphone has offered by Google to developers. With the 3D sensor, a developer can imagine a variety of possibilities that can be made and make it happen.
For example, with a smartphone that has the ability to detect the location and existence around it, developers can create applications that can help blind people to walk in the room without needing help other people.
According to Google, 3D sensors embedded in smartphones has a 3D measurement capability of 250 thousand times a second, while always renews its position in real-time.
Analysts said that today many companies are waiting for new technologies that can be used every day to attract more consumers.
"The focus is not only on hardware owned devices, but also what the device can do," said Bryan Ma, Associate Vice President of IDC told the BBC.
Once created, these devices will also be accompanied by a commercial application. It is expected that the demand will arise not only from individuals, but also from companies.
Samsung rumored to be introducing the latest flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S5, in the event Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, on February 24, 2014.
A reliable source told Bloomberg on Wednesday (19/02/2014), that the Galaxy S5 will be launched together with the smart device Galaxy Gear watches.
One improvement on the Galaxy S5 is a larger screen that is 5.2 inches. Not only that, the screen color quality will be improved so that makes it more "shiny."
Sensors Camera and battery components on the device will also be improved. In addition, there is the possibility it the South Korean company is still using technology on the Galaxy S5 eye scanner.
Just for the record, Samsung's flagship Android phone the previous generation, the Galaxy S4, carrying the 5-inch wide-screen design, and equipped with a 13MP camera.
According to analyst Roberta Cozza of Gartner research institute, specs are important, but equally important for the Samsung are going to find a way for consumers to choose their products.
"They must find a way to hook users into selecting the Samsung brand in various types of devices to better compete with Apple," he said.
Although still the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, Samsung has to face the delivery rate decreases. According to research agency IDC, Samsung send 112 million units of smartphones in the fourth quarter of 2013, down from 113.6 million units of mobile phones in the same quarter of 2012.
Sales flagship phone Galaxy S4 also known decreased. Based on the amount of data collected by Bloomberg, since released in April 2013, Samsung reported to have sold 63.5 million units of the Galaxy S4 until now. This figure is lower than the Galaxy S3 sales, which reached 65.6 million units.
While the Galaxy S4 toughest competitors, namely Apple's iPhone 5S, since the sale in September to December 2013, sales reached 51 million units.
The news that Sony will introduce the new tablet at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014 at the end of February in Barcelona, Spain, is likely to become a reality. The rumors were supported by the circulation of photographs showing the physical form of the tablet.
Twitter account @ evleaks, published photographs showing the tablet design with thick black frames. On the upper left side of the tablet, the Sony logo plastered. However, the back of the tablet was not disclosed.
According to rumors circulating in the industry, the tablet will be named Xperia Tablet Z2, which means the second generation tablet under the Xperia trademark. Xperia brand itself is usually used by the product line Android smart phones made by Sony.
Xperia Tablet Z2 will carry 10.1-inch wide landscape display with a resolution of 1,920 x 1,200 pixels. The shape is getting thin, only 6.4 mm or 0.25 inches, and the body is designed to be waterproof.
Hardware components using a quad-core processor speed of 2.3 Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 3GB of RAM, and 16GB internal memory. There is also a slot for MicroSD, 6.000mAh capacity battery, and runs Android 4.4 operating system (KitKat).
Having announced the G Pro 2 Series, the Korean smartphone manufacturer, LG will be the center of attention in the mobile industry's largest exhibition in the world, the Mobile World Congress to be held end of February 2014.
Because, at the annual event LG's will feature third-generation smartphone line L Series. What is greatness? By launching the latest L Series, LG became the first vendor to make mid-/low-end smartphone equipped with the latest OS, Android KitKat.
L Series to be launched by LG is a series L40, L70, and L90, which carries a variety of screen sizes, from 4.5 to 4.7 inches. All lines L Series of the latest LG is equipped with 1.2 GHz dual core processor, 1 GB RAM, and 4GB/8GB of internal storage.
Quoted from The Next Web (2/17/2014), midrange smartphone made by LG-down is intended for markets in developing countries, because it does not include support LG LTE connection.
Interestingly, the latest LG LSeries will also be equipped with what is called the LG with the smart cover (Quick Window). In addition to working to protect the smartphone from scratches or collision, the transparent cover that allows users to see information on the screen without having to open the lid.
LG has not announced how much the price of each device.
L series third generation was launched LG to compete with mid-end smartphone smartphones made by Lenovo and Huawei. Based on Gartner's research, in the fourth quarter of 2013, LG became the fourth largest vendor with a market share of 4.5 percent, while Lenovo's 4.6 percent.
Huawei, in the same period has a market share of 4.8 percent. Gartner said that Huawei smartphone sales increased 85 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013 and occupies the third position.
Gadgets party Mobile World Congress (MWC) actually started on February 24, 2014. However, before the event actually starts, existing vendors began introducing its flagship phone.
One such vendor is LG. The South Korean company has introduced its newest flagship phone, the LG G Pro 2.
The device itself is a successor of the G Series Pro, which was released to the market in 2012.
No different than the first-generation device, the LG G Pro 2 can be put in a category phablet. This one product is equipped with a span of 5.9-inch screen Full HD 1,920 x 1,080 pixels. LG G Pro first generation has a screen measuring 5.5 inches.
In terms of "the inside", the LG G Pro 2 has a very powerful specifications. It was equipped with a 2.6 GHz Snapdragon processor 800 quad-core processors from Qualcomm, 3 GB RAM, storage media 16/32 GB, and a 3,200 mAh battery.
The camera has a 13 megapixel image sensor on the back. The features of the camera is quite special, which is capable of taking pictures in 4K resolution and slow-motion up to 120 FPS.
LG G Pro 2, as quoted from Pocket-Lint, on Thursday (13/02/2014), itself will run on the Android 4.4 operating system KitKat. The product will also be equipped with a variety of interesting features, such as dual-browser Web surfing, Knock On (turn on the screen simply by tapping it), and lock the content in the device.
Dates of attendance and the price of the LG G Pro 2 is still yet to be announced. The device is said to already be on display at the upcoming MWC.
Sapphire is a crystal form that is very hard, and it looks like a diamond. These crystals come in many colors, such as orange, purple, green, yellow and red. And the most famous is the red, which is often called rubies.
In addition, crystals of this one was quite expensive. More recently came the news, if the giant American smartphone, Apple, will make a scratch-resistant screen of the crystal stone. Certainly not easy and inexpensive to develop.
But in a report showing, if Apple was investing money to develop a scratch-resistant sapphire glass. The first time they will purify the stone that has been mined, separated from iron, titanium, chromium, copper, or magnesium which makes color as usually found in the mine.
So that the resulting screen will not color. As for the strength of sapphire crystal used Mohs scale, where diamond has a strength of about 10 Mohs, and for sapphire crystal has the power 9 Mohs.
However, there are constraints in terms of cost, where the manufacture of glass scratch would cost about 10 times that of Gorilla Glass. So it is not possible if a smartphone that will be produced has relatively more expensive price.
But Apple itself has not been willing to release products using a scratch-resistant sapphire glass this.
Currently, BlackBerry, in cooperation with Foxconn, known is developing low-end phones that have code names "Jakarta". This device has been rumored to be exhibited at the upcoming Mobile World Congress event.
All eyes now it is looking toward the device Jakarta. How not, BlackBerry expect much so that phones can be, at least, make them survive in the midst of crisis.
However, it seems in 2014, BlackBerry will not only release Jakarta alone. This Canadian company is reportedly preparing another device with different segments, namely the high-end. This product is said to have a code name "Ontario".
News about Ontario was actually already started circulating since the end of 2013. However, information about this new product re-emerged in recent years.
Crackberry is a site that re-blew the news about the product. They claimed to have gained a bit of leaked information about the hardware specs of Ontario.
Leaked information obtained from the test page (benchmarks) from the application Geekbench 3. Apparently, there are BlackBerry employees who conduct testing with Ontario and accidentally upload the results to the virtual world.
From the test results, it appears that this product will use Snapdragon 800 processor and 2 GB RAM. Uniquely, it has been running on the operating system are much newer than they are today, the BlackBerry 10.3.
Just for information, recently a new BlackBerry released BlackBerry software update 10.2.1.
In these pages, the name of Ontario does not mention. Only the words "Unknown" in the product name. However, based on these specifications, the Crackberry suspect that the product is Ontario.
Until now, BlackBerry still has not commented on the news.
A recent leaked on Smartphones with OS Tizen re-emerged. This time is a Korean site to upload a Smartphone photo series named Samsung ZEQ9000. Smartphones are believed to be strong as the first Tizen Mobile circulated in the Korean market. Broadly speaking, the look of the phone resembles the Samsung Galaxy series lineup that carries android.
Tizen itself is an operating system developed by Samsung. Just as Android, Tizen also Linux-base, Project Tizen is actually a continuation of OS MeeGo that first was developed by Nokia and Intel. After Nokia ended the project has now been taken over by Samsung and renamed as Tizen.
Back to Samsung ZEQ9000 alleged first Tizen smartphone known as Zeke. Although the truth can not be ascertained, but a phone that carries the model number SM-Z9000 SM-Z9005 showing attractive user interface. Reporting from PhoneArena, Samsung Zeke using Tizen OS version 2.1 with a symmetrical appearance, in contrast to Samsung's TouchWiz style. This smartphone uses a screen measuring 4.8 inch 1280 × 720 pixel Super AMOLED manifold. While in the kitchen sector runway, Samsung Zeke pinned Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset that flank the Quad core Krait 400 processor, the collaboration is expected to result in speeds up to 2.2 GHz. Adreno 330 graphics processor and 2 GB of RAM also procured to sustain performance.
Unfortunately, there are no more details about the specifications of the camera and connectivity sector. The first Tizen smartphone is scheduled to go on sale in August 2014 olehSamsung, we'll wait.
Apple again obtain new patents. This time, electronics manufacturers bearing the Apple fruit was rewarded patent on a technology called "electronic device display module" by the Office of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
The technology, as reported by BGR, a screen is installed on the back side of the Apple MacBook laptop screen. In addition to load the Apple logo, the screen would later serve as a touchscreen at the same solar panels to collect electricity from sunlight.
So, there will be two screens, a conventional laptop displays in the usual places as well as an additional screen in the back that serves as a touchscreen and solar panels.
The screen doubles solar panels can be made with special glass materials are transparent so that light can reach the solar cells in series behind it. This glass can also display the logo, the LCD screen, and a capacitive touch sensor types. Other materials such as metals, ceramics, plastics and composites can also be used.
The issuance of a patent does not mean MacBook that the will come equipped with a touchscreen and will soon be solar panels. However, at least it has shown interest in the company's utilization of solar energy in electronic devices.
Later, analysts also predict that Apple will release the iPhone is equipped with sapphire crystal glass and made of solar panels.
Samsung as a provider of smartphones, televisions, refrigerators, ovens, and other household items, as if not wanting to miss with other vendors. So is the latest technology which can be used as glasses or wearable smart. After Google plans to mass produce the Google Glass, Samsung also took part enliven the wearable market with plans to launch a smart glasses with the name of Samsung Galaxy Glass.
It's Based on a recent report from Korea Times quoted officials who do not want to be named Samsung claims his company is currently developing a smart glasses competitor Google Glass. The Samsung Galaxy Glass will debut at the IFA trade show in Berlin in September this year. One of the Samsung official said that "wearable device or that can be used can not turn a profit quickly., But with the release of this device Samsung will demonstrate the company's commitment as market leader in smart glasses".
The phrase he says is very similar to what was said before the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Gear announced at the IFA event last year. The goal for the Korean giant is building a first mover advantage in the sector as a device that can be used. Samsung Galaxy Glass will be connected with a smartphone and allows you to receive phone calls and listen to music, and can also function as a companion of the Samsung Galaxy Gear.
iPhone is made by Apple to have a lot of functions. But it turns out, the smart phone still had a features that may not yet be known.
There are times when the user is typing a lengthy text on the iPhone, but the text accidentally erased, or mixed with unwanted posts.
If the computer it may be resolved by feature 'undo', then how to deal with it on the iPhone?
Apple's smart phone also proved to have a similar feature. To restore the text as usual, you just need to shake the iPhone for a few seconds. Then came the option to 'undo'.
This feature can be used in almost all series of iPhone. But despite a long time, but it seems not many users who know the secret shake.
