Another tablet? Seriously Samsung? Oh Wait! It’s Samsung right? New tablets, same designs, same old boredom for customers? Samsung apparently on Wednesday launched its ‘Made in India’ tablet in the country, the Samsung Galaxy Tab Iris or so it’s called and is priced at Rs. 13,499. The highlight of the tablet which is actually targeted at government and corporate employees due to its biometric authentication features along with bearing an iris scanner that is Aadhaar, STQC, and UIDAI certified. However, Samsung feels it’s too soon to actually release some information like release schedule etc. We know nothing as of now.
Well, a cloud storage based phone? Haha? Like really? Yes! This is a new approach by Nexbit. This is very unique than an average smartphone. How? Check it out.
“It just works.”These three words stood smugly behind Steve Jobs at many press conferences during his second stint at Apple. It represented his desire for Apple to create simple, easy-to-understand products. It was this promise that was behind the cutesy advertising campaign “I’m a PC, I’m a Mac” that started running 10 years ago, which aimed to convince PC owners that Mac computers were more accessible.
At the top of the corporate world, Apple and Google are in a back-and-forth battle to be number one.It's not clear which of the two Silicon Valley giants will emerge on top in a contest which highlights the contrast of very different business models.For a brief time early this year, Google parent Alphabet overtook Apple as the world's largest company by market value.Apple then regained, lost and recovered the leader position in May in a battle that appears set to continue for some time.
Google announced two new messaging apps – the text-based Allo and a video-calling app called Duo. While Google announced that Allo would support end-to-end encryption, that feature will be presented as an option to users, and will not be on by default. This has prompted a negative response from none other than NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.According to Snowden, Google should have activated end-to-end encryption by default. Popular messaging apps such as Telegram, Apple FaceTime, WhatsApp among others have end-to-end encryption turned on by default. Snowden calls it ‘dangerous’ and has stated that the app should be avoided for now.
Coolpad has officially launched its flagship smartphone, Coolpad Max in India. At Rs 24,999, it’s a big leap for Coolpad which is known for its sub-Rs 10,000 smartphones. Coolpad has built a reputation for its Note 3 series smartphones and now it wants to establish itself in the premium mid-segment flagship category.
Lenovo has started sending invites for the launch of a new Zuk-branded smartphone, with May 31 the chosen date. Not details about global availability have been announced.Not much is known about the smartphone till now, apart from it being a smaller variant of the Lenovo Zuk Z2 Pro that was launched last month.
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