With family and friends spread far and wide, most of us now use social media as a way to share our thoughts, photos, and news of what’s going on in our lives. On the one hand, social media is great. It keeps us up-to-date about everything from birthdays to baby’s first steps and can be a source of comfort in difficult times. On the other, social media can be awful, causing pain and ruining reputations.
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Battery life is a huge point of contention between customers and smartphone manufacturers. Consumers have cried out, declaring that battery life needs to be improved, while manufacturers are still pursuing the goal of making slimmer and slimmer devices. The result has been a mixed bag, with manufacturers opting for new charging tech rather than increasing battery size.
Fast charging has become far more prevalent and plenty of manufacturers are continuing to offer different power saving options. But even though we charge devices faster and eek a bit more battery life out, the issue remains that most phones can barely make it through a full day on a single charge. As of now, the only real solution looks to be making batteries larger.
According to a new FCC filing, Samsung looks to be doing just that with the upcoming Galaxy S7 edge. The FCC filing for the device points out that it will be fitted with a whopping 3600mAh battery, which is significantly larger than last year’s 3000mAh unit. You can compare this new battery to the battery king, the DROID Turbo 2, which utilizes a 3750mAh battery. Unless the device demands extravagant amounts of power, the Galaxy S7 edge could rise to offer some of the best battery life available in a smartphone.
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Se esperaba como el agua de mayo, pero le ha costado muchísimos meses tras su presentación acabar por llegar a España. Estamos hablando del Sony Xperia M5, el terminal de gama media al que le ha costado llegar a la península, pero que por fin lo ha hecho. Se trata de un gama media con el que ya podréis jubilar al antiguo Xperia M4 Aqua.
Como nos informan desde El Androide Libre, se puede adquirir por un precio de 399 euros y una variedad distintas de colores: blanco dorado y negro. Uno de sus problemas va a ser si con este retraso y la cantidad que cuesta, un poco mayor a lo que estamos acostumbrados a ver por este tipo de smarpthones, será capaz de competir contra los otros gamas media que sí han salido en su día adecuado en nuestro país.
Si nos tenemos que preguntar por dónde puede venir su precio de lanzamiento en España, una de las cosas en las que nos debemos fijar es en la gran calidad de su cámara principal. Es de 21 megapíxeles y posee un autofocus híbrido de 0,25 segundos, es decir, que puede captar de forma casi instantánea una imagen con muchísima precisión. Otra de sus bendiciones es la posibilidad de grabar vídeos en 4K, algo que prácticamente sólo se puede conseguir con una buena cámara compacta.
No sólo la cámara trasera posee unas buenas características, ya que la frontal es de 13 megapíxeles y permite grabar vídeos en Full HD, algo que deja muy lejos a los objetivos frontales de otros muchos gamas media conocidos.
Si nos centramos en el diseño, es importante saber que trae un acabado de aluminio tanto en la parte trasera como en la frontal, pero lo mejor de todo es el material que posee en las esquinas del terminal, pues son de acero inoxidable, evitando de esta manera una mayor probabilidad de romperse en el caso de caídas o golpes.
Otras de las especificaciones generales del Xperia M5, a pesar de que ya las hayamos comentado antes son:
Pantalla 5 pulgadas Full HD con BRAVIA Engine 2
Procesador 64 bits Mediatek Helio X10 a 2 GHz
Memoria RAM de 3GB
Memoria interna de 16 GB con la posibilidad de ampliar con tarjetas microSD hasta 200GB.
Batería 2.600 mAh
Android Lollipop 5.0, aunque Sony ya ha confirmado su actualización a la 6.0 Marshmallow.
La cámara y los materiales son grandes argumentos para tener en cuenta la adquisición del Xperia M5, pero su tardanza en llegar a España y el precio nos pueden dar un poco el bajón. ¿Estáis vosotros interesados en comprar este terminal?
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It’s Safer Internet Day 2016, and Google just announced two big changes for Gmail that will make it even more secure. Starting this week, the company will make it easier to identify unencrypted and unauthenticated emails to make life even harder for scammers. It’s often easy to tell when you’ve received a scam email — a large
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It’s been said that the most effective leaders share one important ability: They are excellent decision makers. But having access to a great amount of information to help us make decisions doesn’t mean that we’re always looking at the right information.
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After many, many months of leaks about it, Microsoft is finally about to make the Lumia 650 official around the middle of this month (with in-store availability following closely). Before that happens, however, we’ve got another bit of leaked info regarding the mid-ranger.
This time around the news comes from Ireland, where the device will allegedly be sold for 199.99 sans contract. That pretty much fits with previous pricing information we’ve seen, be it from the Czech Republic or the UK.
Aside from this tidbit, we also get to peek at the alleged store card you can see above, which neatly lists the Lumia 650’s main features – thus confirming them yet again.
So, the handset should have a 4.97″ touchscreen, an 8 MP rear camera, a 5 MP selfie snapper, a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor, 16GB of built-in storage, HD voice support, and Glance Screen. It will obviously run Windows 10 Mobile. The metal construction gets a mention…
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Twitter’s a great place for keeping up with online trends and consequently, a great medium for setting them – a fact that Twitter’s advertising clients know too well. With First View, the social giant aims to open up a whole new area of possibilities for social marketing. The idea is simple – give an advertiser the exclusive rights to the very top advertising spot in the timeline.
This theoretically means that every time you open the app, or log in on the website, you will be greeted by said sponsored content. This is quite a powerful outlet, so we can only imagine it won’t sell cheap at all. Also, most likely to prevent user annoyance, Twitter will be limiting each advertising deal to 24 hours, after which it will be substituted for another one, which will get absolute rights to the spot for another 24 hours and so forth. The ad itself will have text and also a promoted video, which, by the looks of it, will autoplay – an even better attention-drawer.
The new First View feature won’t be available to everyone at launch. Instead Twitter intends to test it out with a circle of its “managed users” in the US, or in other words, major advertisers. A global rollout is scheduled for the coming months.
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Curious eyes have staked out regulatory organs around the world, looking for Galaxy S7 findings (water resistance, Always On display). The latest comes from the FCC, where Samsung disclosed the battery capacity and connectivity features of the S7 and S7 edge.
The Samsung Galaxy S7 edge will have a 3,600mAh battery, a solid bump over the 3,000mAh battery of the S6 edge+. The phone has LTE, Wi-Fi ac, Bluetooth and NFC. This filing was for the South Korean version, which will come in SK Telecom, KT and LG U+ flavors.
The Samsung Galaxy S7 will have the same connectivity options. This too was a Korean model, which will hit the three major carriers in its home country. Battery capacity is not specified, it should be lower though (smaller size and…
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The new opening cinematic to ‘Dark Souls III’ is an exciting taste of what’s to come.
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Amazon has made a massive move to challenge China’s Alibaba Group for global e-commerce/cross border dominance, to court Chinese consumers and brands, and compete with FEDEX and UPS, in one fell swoop. Their new venture “Amazon Global Supply Chain” (AGSC) is now a reality, with a launch date set for this year. At stake is a projected $1 trillion in cross border e-commerce revenue by 2020.
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