From plummeting fuel prices to disastrous disruptions, 2015 was an action-packed year across the global supply chain. But it’s time to move on. What about 2016? In the spirit of “everybody has one,” I reached out to a number of our industry’s thought leaders, anxious for their opinions and unwilling to let them off the hook without at least one solid prediction. I deliberately stayed away from listing the popular trends and have limited the following summary to the not-so-obvious:
If you’re shopping for your design team this holiday season, we’ve got some bad news and some good news. First the bad: designers are seriously difficult to shop for due to their discerning tastes. What if they don’t like the typography in the book you bought them? But there’s good news too. As designers ourselves, we know just what’s on you design team’s wish list this time of year. Even better, many of these are gifts your designers won’t even know they want. Here is a round-up of the best holiday gifts for your design team.
While, unlike here on Earth, there weren’t any Galaxies, Satellites, Novas, Saturns, Meteors or Rocket 88s, there were plenty of Speeders and Droids, tanks and troop transporters.
We’ve all suffered the commute from hell. Traffic jams, tailgaters, inept drivers and near misses can get us to work late, stressed and crabby. But with driverless cars (also known as connected autonomous vehicles) just around the corner, your daily commute could soon become a lot less stressful—perhaps even enjoyable.
The Inventor of Auto-Tune
Auto-Tune — one of modern history’s most reviled inventions — was an act of mathematical genius. For inventor Andy Hildebrand, it was the result of years of rigorous study, statistical computation, and the creation of algorithms previously deemed to be impossible.
Ming-Chi Kuo is perhaps the world’s most prolific creator of predictions and analyses regarding Apple’s future plans. And now he’s at it again.
According to the KGI Securities analyst, the iPad Air 3 will be outed sometime during the first half of next year. That could mean there’s a chance it will join the Apple Watch 2 and the much-rumored 4-inch iPhone 6c at a March unveiling event.
Kuo goes on to say that the successor to the iPad Air 2 will not feature the 3D Touch tech that’s built into the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, being billed as one of their main new (and differentiating) features. This looks to remain exclusive to the iPhones for the time being, and the reason why it’s not headed to the next iPad Air reportedly has to do with production issues.
These have plagued the iPhone 6s and its bigger sibling too, with the 3D Touch components said to be “one of the most severe production bottlenecks in iPhone 6s supply chain”. Perhaps for the same reason the iPhone 7 is rumored to come with 3D Touch hardware that will be incredibly similar to what’s inside its…
Buying video games as gifts is a tricky business. For new releases, people generally know what they want, and there’s less gifting fun to be had when you’re just fulfilling an order. Whenver I have to by games for people, I go cheap, and get a bunch of them. There can be something immensely satisfying about receiving three or four games instead of just one — even if some are just digital codes. There are a whole bunch of games out there, but below is a little guidance: 9 excellent Ps4 games for under $20.
Si el HTC One A9 se consideraba la última oportunidad de HTC para recuperarse de las numerosas pérdidas de estos últimos dos años (126 millones de euros el pasado trimestre) y recuperar su fama de compañía pionera de smartphones Android, hoy conocemos el smartphone que se espera que sirva como un salvavidas más: el HTC One X9.
Ha sido otra vez TENAA, la agencia china encargada de supervisar que los productos cumplen las regulaciones impuestas por la ley, quien ha filtrado hoy más imágenes sobre este rumoreado terminal. A mediados de noviembre TENAA ya filtro algunas de las características de este nuevo terminal, y hoy vuelve a la carga con más material.
HTC ONE X9: Recuperado el BoomSound frontal y el logo de HTC
Pese a su buen aspecto físico, si algo le falta (entre muchas otras cosas) al HTC One A9era el característico altavoz frontal, considerado de los mejores altavoces en un smartphone. Bien, parece que HTC rectifica y en las primeras imágenes que vemos de este nuevo terminal el altavoz frontal vuelve en la parte superior, junto al logo de HTC, recolocado también debido a las enormes críticas que recibió en su salida.
Gracias a estas nuevas fotografías confirmamos que HTC vuelve a apostar por el metal como acabado en el One X9. En consecuencia, su peso es de 174 gramos, considerado alto para un terminal que se espera que sea de gama alta. En ellas también vemos una cámara trasera que se rumorea que sea de 13 megapíxeles, junto con una frontal de 5 megapíxeles.
También se confirma el slot para tarjetas microSD, un botón de bloqueo con posible detector de huellas al medio del margen derecho, doble flash led y unas dimensiones estimadas de 153.2 de alto por unos 75.9 milímetros de ancho, e incorpora una pantalla de 5,5 pulgadas.
Aunque falta ver a fondo sus características internas, por fuera el One X9 parece un terminal diseñado para mejorar el One A9, con las características ausentes más importantes que le faltaban. De esta forma, quizá HTC espera conseguir otra vez la esperanza de sus fieles seguidores, los cuales se esperaban con el A9 terminal digno de una recuperación por parte de HTC.
Por otra parte, con los rumores de hardware que han sido revelados, no tiene pinta que el X9 sea digno de un terminal de gama alta, pero puede que como todo smartphone HTC, nos acabe sorprendiendo a todos tanto para bien como para mal.
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