Daily Archives: July 22, 2015

Skype for Android gets updated looks for better usability

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Skype for Android has received an update today, which should already be rolling out through the Google Play Store.

Skype 5.6 for Android brings with it a refreshed design that aims to make the app even easier to use than before.

First off, you can now see more chats at a glance in the Recent tab. And obviously you can still jump back into one of those chats with just a tap.

Round avatars are now present throughout the app, finally making your friends' profile pictures consistent no matter where you may see them in Skype for Android. Additionally, your friends' online status will be shown on top of their avatars everywhere in the app.

Inside each chat, the bubbles now have a new color, which makes the text stand out more. The messages thus become clearer, but you can also easily tell apart what you said from what everyone else did. Apparently those who do group chats with many participants should benefit most from this.

As always, there are also a number of unnamed fixes and improvements in the new version of Skype, all designed to make the app more stable.

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Industrie 4.0 is Ready to Take Off

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Industrie 4.0 is a thinly veiled marketing campaign led by the German government and big allies in business like Robert Bosch GmbH and Siemens.  At first blush the concept sounds cool, if a bit forced as though its backers have something to sell.  New field data collected by SCM World however suggests that realizing the vision of “smart manufacturing” is imminent and that its impacts could be enormous.

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ZTE unveils Axon Lux, Axon Mini and Axon Watch

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As part of its market expansion strategy ZTE announced three new Axon devices for China – two smartphones and a smartwatch.

ZTE Axon Lux

ZTE Axon Lux is the best spec'd device of the lot – it's has a 5.5" Quad HD display and Snapdragon 810 chipset. The Axon Lux features Antimicrobial Gorilla Glass, 4GB of RAM, 128GB expandable storage, a 3,000 mAh battery and 8MP front camera. On the back of the Axon Lux there is a dual-camera setup with a 13MP and a 2MP sensors.

ZTE Axon Lux bets on the faux-leather design and runs on Lollipop with MiFavor 3.2 UI on top. It features three types of biometric security – fingerprint scanner, voice recognition and eye-scanner. NFC secure payments are supported, of course.

The ZTE Axon Lux will launch at $625 and for now it will be on sale only in China.

ZTE Axon

The regular ZTE Axon, which already debuted in USA and Canada, has now be confirmed it will make it to China as well. It doesn't have a the faux leather back, comes with a lower 1080p resolution 5.5" display, keeps the Antimicrobial Gorilla Glass and the Snapdragon 810 chip but with "just" 3GB RAM, and comes with 32GB expandable storage. The battery is still a 3,000 mAh unit.

ZTE Axon has the same camera setup as Axon Lux 13MP+2MP over the back plus an 8MP sensor at the front. It supports all three types of biometric security, too.

The ZTE Axon costs $435 in the USA and will be released in Canada and China as well.

ZTE Axon Mini

Finally, the ZTE Axon Mini is the mysterious one of the trio. It was announced as the first phone to feature force touchscreen and will rely on a 5.2" Super AMOLED unit. No other specs have been confirmed at this point. Pricing and availability are a mystery too.

ZTE Axon Watch

ZTE also announced the Axon Watch with 1.4" circular display, sapphire glass coating and IP67 certification. The Axon Watch other key specs include 4GB storage, 512MB RAM, Bluetooth 4.1, and a 300 mAh battery.

The Axon Watch will run on the Tencent OS, not Android Wear, and will be sold exclusively in China.

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Microsoft Send quiere ser el nuevo ‘ninja’ de los emails

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Google creó Inbox y Microsoft ha decidido ponerse a la altura (más o menos) con Send. Esta nueva aplicación acaba de ver la luz y busca ayudar a todos los interesados a gestionar su correo de manera eficiente y rápida, apoyándose además para ello en …

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Microsoft unveils Send, a simple email client for quick chats

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Today Microsoft has announced a new email app called Send. It's available already for iOS, and will come to Android and Windows Phone too in the future.

Send is very simple, being aimed at "in-and-out email". In other words, it looks like a chat client, but works with your Outlook email account and surfaces your Outlook contacts.

For now Send is working in the US and Canada for people with Office 365 business and school email accounts. It's supposed to become more broadly available at some point "in the coming months".

All of your Send conversations can be seen in Outlook, but inside Send you'll only get those threads you started from the app. Send lets you quickly blast out messages to people without entering a subject or using formal constructs. This is why Microsoft says Send is designed for "in-and-out" interactions. You get in, you quickly type a short message, then you get out.

Send has some built-in quick replies to make things even easier. These are accessed with a simple swipe. And like in the case of popular messaging apps, you also get to see when someone is typing.

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Samsung añade en su hoja de ruta la producción de los Exynos FinFET de 10nm

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Logo de Samsung Exynos

Unas semanas atrás conocimos los propósitos de Samsung para su próxima generación de procesadores Exynos. La firma surcoreana quiere posicionarse por encima de cualquier otra y lograr ser los primeros en fabricar el primer procesador para dispositivos móviles de 10nm, antes incluso que TSMC.

Actualmente la fabricación del Exynos 7420 se encuentra en los 14nm, y viendo los buenos resultados quieren de nuevo dar el salto aunque esta vez a FinFET de 10nm con tal de reducir el consumo energético, mejorar su eficiencia y poder aplicar frecuencias más altas sin repercutir en la autonomía de la batería.

Es oficial, la hoja de ruta contiene el FinFET de 10nm

Kelvin Low de Samsung Foundry ha confirmado en el siguiente vídeo que la fundición de la firma está comenzando el largo proceso de desarrollo de la siguiente generación de procesadores Exynos, pasando de los 14nm a los 10nm de objetivo que tienen actualmente.

Los diseñadores de chips aseguran todas las bondades que esto ofrecerá al segmento de los móviles Android, principalmente un rendimiento y consumo de energía significativo respecto al Exynos 7420, por lo que podemos esperar verlos en su próximo buque insignia, el Samsung Galaxy S7.

Esto es un movimiento muy fuerte en el mercado, capaces de adelantarse en producción a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company para quitarle valiosos socios y clientes como Qualcomm, que a pesar de sus malos resultados con el actual Snapdragon 810 tiene un gran club de seguidores a sus espaldas demandando su producto por los todas los beneficios que presenta.

Deberemos prestar mucha atención en el futuro próximo de los procesadores, porque Samsung podría convertirse en el mayor desarrollador y fabricante de chips para dispositivos móviles dado los avances tecnológicos que están logrando.

Esperemos que Qualcomm confíe en Samsung y puedan producir ambos su siguiente generación de procesadores, el Snapdragon 820, que de ser así y superior al Exynos 7420 estaríamos ante una revolución del rendimiento, la eficiencia energética y todo ello a falta de la versión final de Android M. Ambos prometen, y mucho.

¿Y tú que piensas? Pásate por Samsung añade en su hoja de ruta la producción de los Exynos FinFET de 10nm para dejar tu huella.

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