“Leaks” and “promotion” are starting to blend together as yet more official images of the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL have “leaked” on Microsoft’s own website. The list of images even include one of the actually unofficial leaks from earlier.
Microsoft Lumia 950 XL “leaks”
At this point little about the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL remains a secret, save for the price. They should be unveiled on October 6. The screens are 5.2″ and 5.7″ respectively, both QHD, 20MP Zeiss cameras and Windows 10.
Microsoft Lumia 950
Interestingly both the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL have USB Type-C cables and Microsoft plans to use the combined data-transfer and video out capabilities of the new connector along with the Windows 10 Continuum feature to turn the handsets into portable desktops.
I so dislike Internet jargon, even though I’m guilty of resorting to it. The most annoying current phrase is: Mobile First. It’s standard fare in press releases. It’s thrown around at industry events with pomp and bluster. It’s the go-to sound bite to hype a strategic direction — even if staffing and content plans to back it up are nonexistent. So far, the best of Mobile First leads to responsive page design that neatly squeezes desktop news formats into smaller devices. FORBES, along with our traditional media brethren and the startup news darlings, too, have all done that, each with a twist. Well, the time has finally come — at least for us. The responsive play is no longer enough. We’re determined to pave a new path forward.
Our goal is to turn mobile into a way of doing business across our company. The chart below explains why. Mobile ad spending, after a steady march to parity with the desktop, is about to surge ahead. Desktop’s long reign as the digital money machine for publishers will soon be over. The mobile/millennial juggernaut will see to that. And that’s only half the story, perhaps not even the toughest half, as the ad industry faces dramatic restructuring in a platform world. Facebook’s mobile ad dollars account for 75% of its total revenue, sucking business from everyone. Plus, Instant Articles, and the speed at which Facebook can deliver content to mobile consumers, represents a new threat. And if that’s not enough, here comes Apple News, a new content aggregation app, and iOS9, which makes ad blocking a fearful reality on phones, too. Who knows what Google, which has ruled digital advertising for a decade, has up it’s sleeve.
As the trends became clear, we began to plot our mobile future, choosing a familiar path. Back in 2010, the purchase of True/Slant, with its social journalism DNA, helped FORBES transition away from a portal universe. Native advertising was also part of the play. Audience and revenue followed. Today, digital ad sales represents 70% of our total ad revenue, compared with 25% at traditional competitors. This time around, FORBES bought a young app startup (Camerama) for its mobile-product, data-centric DNA. The first result: a kind of social networking app (with a unique Web play) for our growing Under 30 franchise. It will be released on Oct. 4 at our second Under 30 Summit in Philadelphia as the first in a series of apps for passionate communities attached to our brand.
The real fun comes next as we reorganize our staff into small units for the mobile web, still the predominant way consumers access news. The plan is to build an all new, streamlined experience for social news consumers that will look, feel and function nothing like Forbes.com on smartphones today.
Here’s a preview of where we’re headed:
— An accelerator unit that drives a mobile product ethos with developers, data scientists and a range of editorial roles.
— A quick-loading consumer experience that accounts for mobile attention spans and consumption habits.
— A design and formats that recognize social networks will be the main driver of audience growth moving forward.
— A feature set focused on sharing, saving, video and different forms of impulse participation.
— An ad model that leverages our BrandVoice native ad platform, first launched in Nov. 2010 and now with 100 marketing partners across digital and print.
On top of this ambitious list: opportunities for editors, reporters, producers, designers, product and sales people to learn a new way, with incentive-based programs to reward great ideas and regular editorial contributions.
The Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, cloud, and consumer-based technologies are changing how companies drive more value and new revenue opportunities. No industry, segment, or market is immune. Even the food packaging market is evolving to become interactive, aware, and intelligent. The industry calls this evolution “smart packaging”. Early leaders in smart packaging include firms like Amcor, BASF, Ball Corporation, Bemis Company, Landec Corp., and Nypro in packaging and software vendors like Amtech Systems, EFI, IBS Software, Oracle’s JD Edwards, and SAP in ERP, Big Data, and cloud.
In the mid-eighteenth century, Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste D’Alembert began publishing their twenty-eight volume encyclopedia with contributions from Enlightenment greats such as Rousseau, Montesquieu and Voltaire. The Encyclopédie endeavored to categorize and widely disseminate secular knowledge systematically in order to shift people’s thinking toward a secular Enlightenment worldview. It is perhaps fitting, therefore, that Pascal Saura, a former scholar of Diderot and professor of philosophy has been among those leading the charge at the World Bank to catalog and make searchable the know how of its 27,000 employees, consultants, and alumni.
After letting its youngest products explore out ahead for the first half of the year, Jive Software is bringing them aboard the enterprise social networking mothership.
The people in charge of keeping us all safe in the air when we fly are now worried about what a million American’s will be giving their children – or the overgrown boys you call husbands – for Christmas this year: surface-to-air missiles capable of taking down airliners.
Hoy es día señalado para LG al llevar a cabo la presentación de dos nuevos dispositivos. Uno de ellos es el ya mencionado LG V10, un completo, potente e innovador terminal tope de gama que tiene mucha personalidad propia y ofrece una alternativa a los habituales smartphones.
Por otro lado, inesperadamente la firma ha lanzado la renovación, o mejor dicho la segunda generación de su actual LG Watch Urbane, que también mejora buena parte de sus características y ofrece algunos aspectos únicos en su categoría.
LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition, una original y nueva generación
Como bien dice su nombre comercial, el nuevo LG Watch Urbane de segunda generación ha sido presentado oficialmente, presumiendo de una característica única: ser el primer smartwatch con Android Wear que no requiere en absoluto de un terminal para su completo funcionamiento.
Esto quiere decir que, el propio reloj puede ser usado como un dispositivo más y no como un añadido de utilidad, accesibilidad o funcionalidad sumada a nuestro smartphone, yendo un paso más allá que las actuales apuestas del resto de fabricantes.
El dispositivo cuenta con un cuerpo fabricado en acero inoxidable y con correa hipoalergénica TPSiV, dos botones adicionales en el lado derecho para facilitar la interacción con el mismo, y por tanto siendo más sencillo su control y navegación.
En las especificaciones técnicas encontramos un panel P-OLED de 1,38 pulgadas con resolución 480 x 480 píxeles y 348ppp, bastante conseguido de hecho. El corazón del reloj es el archiconocido Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 a 1,2 GHz, acompañado de 768 MB de RAM LPDDR3, 4 GB de almacenamiento interno y todo ello alimentado con una batería de 570 mAh.
Además, LG ha implementado un modo de ahorro energético para ayudar a prolongar su autonomía junto con la mejora en la capacidad de la batería y con los habituales añadidos como Bluetooth, acelerómetro, giroscopio, barómetro, GPS y lo más importante: conectividad 3G, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi para un total uso sin ningún tipo de necesidad de estar emparejado con un terminal.
Precio y disponibilidad
Lamentablemente y siguiendo la tradición, LG se reserva la información para el momento decisivo de lanzamiento que sí está confirmado que estrenará en Estados Unidos y Corea, para así próximamente llegar al resto de mercados, con también a un precio desconocido.
Sin duda alguna, una muy interesante apuesta desmarcándose de lo habitual y ofreciendo calidad y especificaciones por encima del resto. Si su precio es acertado y no supera lo razonable, se augura unas ventas muy positivas y un gran resultado y satisfacción para los usuarios.
¿Se posiciona el LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition como el mejor smartwatch hasta la fecha?
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