Daily Archives: March 4, 2016

Pokémon Go will begin field testing in Japanese Beta later this month

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Nintendo’s highly anticipated mobile game scheduled for release this year (still no estimation as to when the game will actually launch) will begin undergoing actual Beta testing in Japan late this month.

The Beta program is intended to improve the existing build of the new mobile geo-based game. Users in Japan can sign up for the Beta but some areas you wander in might not even work. Even these users who are unable to use the Beta are required to keep the content of the unreleased game under wraps. So we might be able to see some early leaks in the next couple of months.

Users are asked for their name, smartphone type (iOS or Android phone), Ingress username, and the level that you’ve reached on Ingress. The Ingress questions are optional to answer, but it would be in The Pokémon Company’s best interest to select users who have experience with the GPS based game with essence of capture-the-flag.

Pokémon Go was announced this past fall for release on mobile platforms: iOS and Android. The game was influenced by Niantic Labs first GPS based game called Ingress. Google was once the parent company of Niantic Labs until Nintendo invested into the independent company.

When the trailer came out in the fall, gamers everywhere flipped their shit. They’d now be able to play Pokémon outside in the real world and other Pokémon trainers and maybe even encourage the younger generation to go outside and explore.

If you haven’t already, check out the Pokémon Go trailer release back in September.

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Telus delays Marshmallow updates for Galaxy Note5, S6 edge, S6 edge+

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The carrier Telus has some problems with the Marshmallow updates for the Samsung Galaxy Note5, Galaxy S6 edge, and Galaxy S6 edge+. Previously the Note5 and S6 edge+ were supposed to get the Marshmallow firmware on March 9 while the S6 edge update was scheduled for March 16.

As it turns out, Telus had some minor setbacks, and those updates will be postponed for a few days. The Note5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ updates will arrive on March 13 while the S6 edge firmware will be ready for distribution on March 30.

The regular Galaxy S6 Marshmallow update for the Telus model is still coming on April 13, no changes…

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‘Dragon Quest Builders’ Review: It’s Better Than Minecraft

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Dragon Quest is one of those strangely landlocked series of games. As it is hugely popular in Japan but almost unheard of in the West. It has a long lineage though and when Square Enix announced a new spin-off called Dragon Quest Builders, many dismissed it as a poor Minecraft clone. They could not have been more wrong, as this game delves back deep into the world of Dragon Quest and as a result creates something entirely new and fresh.

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Google files patent for popup books with AR elements

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The first time I’ve ever seen anything with Augmented Reality was when using the AR cards that came with the Nintendo 3DS. This blew my mind back in 2011: You set a card on a coffee table or a desk and looked through the handheld console’s telescopic 3D screen to find some characters pop up right out of the card. Moving the handheld around the card shifts the view of the 3D character on the screen.

Google filed a couple of patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office which outlined a story telling experience enhanced with AR elements that could be interacted with.

The first patent was filed for an “interactive book” using pressure and motion sensors that are built into the pages. Next, a small lens would project images onto the pages depending on what the user presses or does to the pages. There would also be speakers embedded in the device to add to the experience.

The other patent was for a kind of tablet that is embedded into the book, then, every page in the book has a secondary ‘vertical page’ of sorts which would display content that compliments the physical page.

As always, patents don’t usually mean something will become real products, not even experimental hardware may ever be a reality. Even at this point In time, I’m surprised that we haven’t really seen a sort of children’s book with AR or VR elements used to enhance it.

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Why You Should Be Playing ‘Clash Royale’

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There are things about mobile games that rub people the wrong way. They rely on microtransactions for income, they’re hampered by timegates, they’re a grind, etc. I get that. It’s for those reasons people might not give Supercell’s Clash of Clans a chance, and it’s for those reasons people might decide to skip the developer’s new game, Clash Royale. And that would be a shame. Because Clash Royale is a fresh, tense and meticulously constructed game. It’s worth your time.

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Tim Sweeney: Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform Must, And Will, Die

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Strong words coming from Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney today. Microsoft has recently been making a push to unify the Windows platform across PC, Xbox and mobile, and Sweeney is not a fan. In an editorial in The Guardian, the veteran game developer argues that Microsoft is trying to close down the Windows platform and monopolize all of its app business. He reminds us that Microsoft has had flirtations with monopoly in the past:

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Samsung to shut down Milk Music, reports say

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I remember when I was working as a Samsung rep inside Best Buy last year, I was instructed to install Milk Music and Milk Video to every Samsung Phone that we handled. Many customers loved the idea of free radio stations with no ads for a year, and I am sure most of them didn’t like the idea of continuing to pay for premium service after the year was up.

Samsung seems to have given up on Milk Music and reports say Samsung is going to shut it down for good. The idea of having a music service that is exclusive to Galaxy phones was a great idea, however, the problem was that Samsung didn’t leverage it as well as it should have, it didn’t give customers a compelling music service that wasn’t already a lot like Pandora.

Even so, Samsung has left Milk Music out of its new lineup of TVs when there was no mention of being able to use the music service. Also, Samsung’s Galaxy S7 and S7 edge announcement in MWC last month didn’t make any mention of Milk Music either.

Let’s not forget that Samsung pulled the plug on Milk Video after just one year of launching the service in 2014. What did you all think of Samsung’s Milk Music? Did you find it compelling at all? Did you ever use it on any occasion?

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HTC 10 reportedly won’t have a version running Windows 10 Mobile

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It looks like you’re not likely to see a Windows logo on an HTC smartphone ever again. Or not anytime soon, anyway. Back in 2014, the One (M8) for Windows was basically the Windows Phone running version of the Android One (M8). Hence, some people may have hoped for HTC to pull the same stunt with this year’s upcoming flagship device, which will be called 10. The hopes were there despite the fact that 2015’s One M9 did not get a Windows variant.

According to Evan Blass (of @evleaks fame), neither will the HTC 10. He firmly stated today that there won’t be an iteration of the HTC 10 running Windows 10 Mobile.

So it turns out that HTC has chosen to stick with Android alone for its smartphones, at least for the foreseeable future. On the other hand, if you’re looking for a high-end Windows-powered handset, HP has surprisingly announced one at MWC – and obviously there’s also Microsoft’s very own Lumia 950 and 950 XL…

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La mejor aplicación de notas para Android

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Smartphone y libreta

El mundo avanza, cambia y nos tenemos que adaptar. Atrás quedaron, más o menos, los tiempos en los que era importante recordar pequeñas cosas y detalles o escribirlas en una pequeña libretita que llevabas a todas partes. Si el asunto era de vital importancia, te lo escribías hasta en la mano si hacía falta, aunque ahora ya no se dan tantas situaciones así gracias a la revolución de los smartphones, que llegó a ser la expansión tecnológica más grande de nuestra historia.

Atrás se quedan servicios como Google Keep o Trello. La primera destaca por ser una aplicación utilizada para usar notas rápidas o listas de verificación y acceder a ellas en todo momento. La segunda ya está destinada a un ámbito más profesional, para usar de forma colaborativa y facilitando opciones tan útiles como crear tarjetas y dentro de las mismas tienes más opciones, como añadir personas, archivos o comentar.

Evernote se trata nada más y nada menos de la mejor aplicación para tomar notas, guardar apuntes rápidos o crear recordatorios que te gustaría tener en mente. Al menos ese es el objetivo básico, pero también cuenta con importantes funciones como adjuntar archivos, crear listas de verificación, organizar recibos o facturas y la posibilidad de compartir libretas en caso de que tengas un proyecto en equipo y desees trabajar en conjunto con tus compañeros en todo momento. Además cuenta con un cómodo Work Chat para estar en contacto en todo momento sin necesidad de abandonar la aplicación.

Caracterísitcas de Evernote

Cuenta con una cómoda interfaz, muy pulida y limpia teniendo en cuenta la cantidad de opciones que ofrece, que fue actualizada a Material Design con la versión 7.0. Podremos navegar de forma intuitiva y crear notas con todo tipo de opciones, por ejemplo podemos añadirle etiquetas para después poder filtrar las listas y buscar alguna nota en concreto, función muy útil cuando hay muchas notas y se necesita cierto control. Según algunos medios como PC Mag, Evernote es una herramienta imprescindible para trabajar de forma organizada.

Además, como todo servicio de éste estilo que se precie, cuenta con versión web y soporte para la gran mayoría de dispositivos del mercado. De ésta forma, podremos acceder a archivos o notas desde cualquier lugar, ampliando su funcionalidad una vez más. También ofrece widgets para que su uso se realice con mayor rapidez y facilitar el proceso, es decir, en cuanto desbloqueas la pantalla ya puedes guardar una nota, perfecto para anotar cosas con urgencia. En cuanto a almacenamiento puede cojear un poquito, pues solo ofrece 60MB de espacio mensuales, una cifra un poco escasa.

Obviamente, los desarrolladores nos ofrecen la posibilidad de pagar por un servicio de mayor calidad. En el caso de Evernote, podemos encontrar dos versiones de pago distintas: Evernote Plus y Evernote Premium. Éste último proporciona ventajas como no necesitar conexión a internet, mayor privacidad, mejores búsquedas y la posibilidad de hacer nuevas subidas de archivos de hasta 10GB cada mes. También nos añade una función nueva al uso de PDF, permitiendo realizar anotaciones y facilitando la navegación por los archivos.

Imagen de portada de Evernote

También hay que tener en cuenta su presencia en otros servicios de gran importancia, pues cuenta con una integración muy elaborada que nos permitirá, por ejemplo, guardar fotos de instagram, checkins de Foursquare, tus tweets favoritos de Twitter o tus noticias preferidas de servicios como Google Reader, que aunque fue cerrado hay alternativas. A parte, también podremos hacer garabatos de ideas o reuniones para así enviarlos directamente a la cuenta, desde donde podremos compartirlos con los demás.

Aclaremos las ideas, si solo deseas una aplicación para tomar un par de notas de forma rápida, la mejor opción que puedes elegir es Google Keep. Si deseas organizar un trabajo de la forma más eficiente, deberías echarle un vistazo a Trello. Sin embargo, si quieres una aplicación que tenga ambas funciones y cuente con muchas opciones, sea fácil de usar y gratuita, la mejor aplicación que hay para ti es Evernote.

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