Daily Archives: January 5, 2016

ZTE launches Nubia website for direct sales

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ZTE has launched a new website today under its Nubia subsidiary brand for selling Nubia products directly to consumers.

The website is currently live with several compatible languages, with European sales slated to go live before expansion to other countries. According to Nubia Co-founder and SVP Felix Fu, there are “at least eight new countries on the horizon.” Right now, Nubia is promoting the Z9, Z9 mini and My Prague, but that product portfolio should expand.

Head on over to Nubia.com now to check it out.

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Lenovo Link gives you control of your Android device from your Windows computer of choice

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Lenovo has announced an interesting little accessory today that turns your Windows computer into a control center for your Android device.

Compatible with any Windows 7, 8 and 10 machine, the Lenovo Link is a 32GB flash drive looking device that connects to a USB 3.0 port and then your Android phone to provide a picture-in-picture view of your Android device on your PC. Your phone is completely accessible in this mode, allowing you to use a mouse and keyboard on your phone, drag and drop files, copy and paste text, and more.

The Lenovo Link will be available this March for just $39. Not bad, eh?

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Fitbit blaze smart fitness watch coming in March for $199

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While they aren’t grabbing headlines as frequently as some of the more powerful wearables on the market, Fitbit continues to be the leader in this now crowded space.

At present they are still best known for simpler fitness bands like the Flex, Charge and Charge HR that are geared towards those with solely fitness in mind. Last year’s Fitbit Surge, started to blur the lines between smartwatch and fitness band with a number of notifications possible, but despite recently getting the nod from Obama as his wearable of choice, at $249 the Surge may be flying too close to full smartwatch prices.

Well Fitbit is back today to take another crack at consumers that aren’t ready to take the plunge on a full blown smartwatch, but would like to get a little more out of their fitness wearable.

Enter the Fitbit Blaze, available for pre-order today at fitbit.com and due out in March. The Blaze is launching at a more palatable $200 and maintains the strong fitness first focus, but has upped its game a bit on the smartwatch side.

Fitbit is still definitely ceding the smartwatch game to others and goes out of its way to identify this as a smart fitness watch rather than a smartwatch. The Blaze is the first Fitbit to feature a color screen and it has added custom clock faces. As far as connectivity with your smartphone it can pass through info on calls, texts and calendar updates. You can accept or reject calls from the Blaze and control your music playback. There is not an app store for the Blaze however, so the baked in functionality will be all you get. Time will tell whether this is Fitbit knowing or underestimating the desires of its customer base.

On the fitness front the Blaze has also learned a new trick. Along with the expected step, sleep and heart rate tracking is FitStar.

FitStar offers guided workouts on your Blaze with animated images to show you what to do and exists entirely on the Blaze, so no need to have a smartphone along with you.

If you do have your smartphone along for your workout the Blaze can take advantage of its GPS to give you pinpoint accuracy on the distance of your workout.

Another feature that was added to some existing Fitbit devices (Charge HR and Surge) late last year and found on the Blaze is SmartTrack which automatically identifies what kind of exercise you are doing in order to properly credit you with that exercise rather than reducing everything to steps.

Fitbit also learned from the positive response to the interchangeable bands of the Apple Watch and is offering similar functionality for the Blaze. You can easily swap between steel ($129), leather ($99) or elastomer ($29) straps. I sincerely hope we see more companies cluing into this one in the next year as these devices that are to be worn all day have to be able to morph with our needs.

Battery life is a definite advantage for the Blaze over virtually every smartwatch out there, save for the Pebble line, with 5 days between charges.

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Huawei Mate 8 ya a la venta en España a través de Amazon

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Huawei ha demostrado a lo largo de este pasado año 2015 que, pese a la gran competencia en China, sigue siendo una de las marcas a tener en cuenta. Han sido varios los teléfonos que han presentado, entre los que destacan el Huawei G7 Plus o el Huawei Mate S. Aunque si hay algo que debamos destacar, esto es la colaboración que han realizado junto a Google para crear el Google Nexus 6P, el último buque insignia de la familia Nexus y que se presentó hace escasos tres meses.

Junto a los anteriormente mencionados, también se presentó en noviembre el Huawei Mate 8. Este gran phablet viene a sustituir el exitoso Huawei Mate 7 presentado en 2014 e incluye unas características realmente excelentes, entre las que destaca la continua apuesta por los procesadores Kirin, fabricados por la propia Huawei. Y no estamos hablando precisamente de principiantes en el tema, puesto que en unas pruebas que salieron a la luz poco antes de presentarse el teléfono, en Antutu obtenía la mejor de las valoraciones, superando la hegemonía de Samsung en la clasificación.

Imagen del Huawei Mate 8

Como podemos leer en El androide libre y pese a que Huawei aún no lo tiene en su página web, ya es posible adquirir las diferentes versiones del teléfono desde Amazon. Así, la versión negra de 32 GB y 3 GB de RAM la encontramos por 548,88 euros. La versión dorada de 64 GB y 3 GB de RAM nos saldría por 680,99 euros. Mientras que la versión dorada de 128 GB y 4 GB de memoria RAM ascendería hasta los 776,99 euros.

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Huawei Mate 8 de 128 GB 774,01 € COMPRAR
PVP – € 879 euros € COMPRAR

Sin lugar a dudas son unos precios muy elevados si tenemos en cuenta la competencia actual, pero hay que tener en cuenta que estamos hablando de un teléfono que cuenta con unas especificaciones tope de gama que se pueden resumir en una pantalla de 6 pulgadas con resolución FullHD, un procesador Kirin 950 de ocho núcleos a 1,8 GHz, 3 o 4 GB memoria RAM según la versión que elijamos, cámaras de 16 y 8 megapíxeles, 4.000 mAh de batería y toda la conectividad que cabría esperar. Todo esto, además, funcionando bajo la última versión de Android, la 6.0 Marshmallow.

Sin lugar a dudas es una apuesta muy fuerte por parte de Huawei y llega con un precio bastante alto para lo que nos tiene acostumbrados la compañía. De todas formas es muy posible que, una vez presentado oficialmente en nuestro país, el precio se rebaje un poco y pueda competir mejor con los teléfonos de su gama.

¿Qué os parece el Huawei Mate 8? ¿Consideráis que es una opción a tener en cuenta o preferiríais otras alternativas que existen actualmente en el mercado?

¿Y tú que piensas? Pásate por Huawei Mate 8 ya a la venta en España a través de Amazon para dejar tu huella.

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Analogix introduces an updated NANO CONSOLE dock with SlimPort video output through HDMI

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Well, here is the new SlimPort NANO CONSOLE USB-C for Mobile Devices with USB Type-C Connectors from Analogix, along with a photo and there is no denying that it looks pretty. But, if that cryptic title left you a little lost as to what exactly this small red and white box does, then here is the short story.

The device is essentially intended to act as dock for your portable device and output video from it through an HDMI port, while also providing an USB input for peripherals (most-likely a keyboard and mouse). The detachable top part is simply a Bluetooth remote that can have some convenient uses in multimedia consumption.

If this sounds terribly familiar to Microsoft’s Continuum, it is (minus the dedicated Windows 10 desktop UI, that is). In fact, from a technical standpoint, the device is similar to an MHL dock or cable, for example, like the one offered by Samsung and achieves the same end goal, only not thorough MHL, but rather the alternative SlimPort technology.

SlimPort is most-notably supported by Nexus devices, dating back to the Nexus 4 and a lot of LG phones as an alternative to having MHL, so if you own one of the model, listed on the slimportconnect website, then this is your solution to outputting video, along with a USB input or at least one of Analogix’s products is.

Unlike previous accessories, the new NANO CONSOLE utilizes a USB-Type C connector, instead of a micro-USB, which is supposedly futureproof. This means that it is compatible with USB-Type C devices that have SlimPort, which by our best estimate, currently includes only the latest Nesux pair.

Like MHL, SlimPort offers support for video output up to 4K at 30 frames, with MHL advancing further to include 7.1 surround sound and DHCP 2.2 content protection in its 3.0 speck. SlimPort, on the other hand, seems to be more versatile by design – as an implementation of the Mobility DisplayPort standard, it can actually output to Display Port devices, HDMI, DVI and VGA (up to 720p). But, we already drifted way too much into the technical details. Back to the point.

The SlimPort NANO CONSOLE USB-C will start shipping in Q2 2016 and there is no word yet on pricing. So, if you were wondering about a video out solution for your new Nexus, be sure to keep Analogix in mind.

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Microsoft Adds $349 ‘Name Your Game’ Bundle To Xbox One’s Hardware Lineup

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Still seeking the perfect bundle to take the next-gen Xbox plunge? Microsoft seems determined to create it. By my conservative estimates, they’ve already released about 967 Xbox One bundles during the the console’s lifespan, and today the platform holder is adding two additional bundles to the list.

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