For all of those who have been waiting for the new Samsung Galaxy device, the wait is over.
With a single video with no sound Samsung give usa sample about the next “Unpacked” event that’s gonna be held during MWC 2016 in Barcelona, to be more precise February the 21st
Something we can imagine thanks to the video is that Samsung is going to have the event with VR compatibility as the person in the video is using the Gear VR-
But without further add, here’s the video:
As you can see is pretty straight forward, with zero to none about anything, but the device itself had have lots of leaks by now and for all of them we can tell almost no differences between the current model and new upcoming one.
Maybe and if we’re lucky an SD card slot, but apparently removable batteries are dying as manufactures already realized how profitable is selling power banks (Samsung has plenty offers in that department).
Now let us know! Will you get the next big thing from Samsung? Or are you going to skip this version and wait for the S8? Sound off in the comment section or tweet us using @jimboireland or @VicenteA_George
There has been an array of new case ideas showcased at CES this year and here is one that we have had our eye on and it has now officially launched on Kickstarter… This idea is somewhat different than what we could call the norm when it comes to cases and those that have the ability to charge too,If you are a music or festival lover this will be for you.We have been speaking with the team over the last few weeks and they have asked us to show you their product.
Inspired by the energy and music embodied in Burning Man, chemist-turned-inventor Matt Sikora is launching a Kickstarter campaign to put Candel, an interactive phone case, into the hands of music lovers.
Candel cases give owners a new medium of expression, while offering protection for Apple, Samsung, and other mobile phones. Sikora was inspired to create the product after his first experience on the playa at the annual Burning Man festival.
“I began attending more festivals, and developing a personal sense of individuality,” Sikora said. “There was this unique commonality for everyone who attended. We bonded over our love for the music experience. Burning Man awakened a new sense of energy and purpose — an urge to build, create and invent. I became more confident and ready to start this project.”
The cases are powered by a small, intelligent microprocessor designed to react to various levels of sound – from the soft cadence of a voice to the booming bass of a festival speaker. As amplitude climbs and falls, the cases respond accordingly, illuminating personalized and branded images with multicolored lights that brighten and recede with the beat.
Candel cases are made out of durable material. A rechargeable battery inside of the case offers 100 percent more battery life to phones, making Candel cases a must-have to light up crowds for hours.
Candel’s light up phone cases are designed for music lovers. Beautiful and functional, this portable light show also works as a charging phone case to keep you charged and flashing all night long. Candel is the world’s first phone case that lights up and features extra battery to power your phone. The case lights up to the sound of music, voice and ringtone. They are the coolest, most unique and fun phone cases to date. Choose a light up image from our selection or select the special tier and we will make a custom light up case just for you!
The Inner Workings of the Candel Case
Candel case inner workings are more technologically advanced than other cases. Our goal was to design a case slimmer than our competitors as well as house all of the components needed to support innovative smart functions.
We developed proprietary hardware and software to accomplish the design within our constraints. The electronics pick up sound from the surrounding environment. This input is then sent to a processor where the amplitude is measured and constant gain is adjusted. This allows the case to light up perfectly no matter how close or far away you are from the sound source.
The case has an internal battery that performs two functions.
1. Provides enough juice to light up for 12 – 28 hours
2. Enough power to fully recharge your phone (however, this does depend on how long you use the light up feature)
The Candel phone case has been under development for over two years and the technology is ready to go mainstream. We need your support to move from prototype to production so we can deliver Candel cases directly to you, the consumer.
Like the idea? Head over to Kickstarter now and back the guys right away and see some more on this new idea.
For quite a time now we’ve had Chrome OS the system used to run Android on a PC like environment.
But sometimes it feels short when competing against monsters like Windows or Mac OS and then is when this newly additions enters the scene.
Discover Remix OS 2.0
What is it?
Is an Android based operating system, design to offer the best of both worlds, the almost unlimited selection of app the Google Play Store has at your disposal and a almost full desktop experience you’ve dreaming of.
Remix OS has it all:
True Multitasking
A Taskbar
A Notifications Center
Full Keyboard commands
A working Right-click
A File Manager
Full suite of Google Play apps
Future software Updates
This OS has being developed by the Jide team, previously known for making pretty good Android tablets and its built upon the Android x86 initiative.
And they have made a pretty impressive system, worth notice! This is not a public software, although is available for everyone from Jide’s page, for the moment is meant for developers as is still on “Alpha”.
But if you’re interested on this, you’ll be able to dual boot Windows/Mac and “Android” on you PC, the best part of it is that you can even install the OS on a pendrive us booted up directly from there!
On Remix OS you’ll have two offerings, the well known Google Play Store and their own “Remix Store” for full compatible apps.
Everything on the OS looks really well design, but has a strong influence from Microsoft’s Windows 10 like the Notification Tray
All future software updates will hit the place you have destined for it, and it’ll run on most PCs without a particular OS version needed it, which is pretty awesome.
Obviously this desktop software attempt is really solid, but is has the occasional bugs and it won’t replace you current fully working (in most cases) OS.
Are you interested in try it out? you can go over HERE
If you do, please let us know in the comment section, or tweet us using #techbuzzireland
Samsung’s keynote was one of the most unexpected yesterday at CES and they did what they do best, impress everyone with something unexpected.
The Galaxy TAB line is really well known by now, keeping Android on the tablet market for a while. But this time though the Galaxy line has seen a step in other direction.
Meet the Galaxy Tab Pro S
And as you can see its looking like a Surface Pro.
The new slate from Samsung runs on Windows 10 OS and they claim to have a “truly powerful 2-in-1”
The device itself is 6.3 mm thin and has 693 gm making it easily portable, also the TAB Pro S comes with a full sized keyboard cover with a built in kickstand and touchpad.
Packs a gorgeous 12 inch 2K Super AMOLED display which will boost the 5,200 mAh battery lasting, one accordingly to Samsung should go up to 10.5H and can be fully charge in just 2.5H
Also it comes with the Intel Core M processor with 4GB of RAM and either 128GB or 256GB of storage, and is the first Windows tablet to come with LTE Cat 6 support.
This is just one of the many announcements we’ll see this week, so stay tuned for more #CES2016 coverage
This year was great for gadgets that boost up our productivity on he go, like the IPad Pro, the stunning Surface Book and last but not least the Surface Pro 4 which was unveiled earlier this year and you can see our full coverage here.
But back then it wasn’t available everywhere to buy but today we received the news that is going to be officially available in India as soon as next week on January 7th
As you can see after all the wait is finally going to happen for our Indian readers the very next week.
There’s no word about full prices and available along the country but as a far as we know the “lower 128GB an Intel Core m3 with 4GB RAM model” could go for Rs. 67,999 and the powerhouse variant with 256GB an Intel Core i7 and 16GB of RAM could go for somewhere around Rs. 1,32,99 which means the other variants are going to be in between these prices.
The Surface Pro line is a well known productivity tool and made ir widely available is great, paired with Windows 10 this thing is a beast.
From consuming media to full work presentations the Surface Pro 4 packs everything you could need in a beautiful portable size.
We’ll bring more info once the day comes, but till then, let us know! Will you pick one for yourself? Sound below in the comments or Tweet us using #techbuzzireland
This has been the year of budget but powerful devices, like the One Plus X or the Moto X 2015
But, what is a truly “bang for buck”? For me is that device that offers the best specs possible within the smaller price tag, and this time that gadget seems to have come from India
Meet the Yu Yutopia
The Yutopia was officially unveiled last week and right now is exclusive to Amazon India, offering and really attractive price and outstanding specs
But don’t take my word, look for yourself
Display Size: 5.2 inch Resolution: QHD (2560×1440 pixels) Dimensions: 146.6 x 72.66 x 7.22mm (Camera bump thickness 9.07mm) Operating System: Cyanogen OS 12.1 on top Android 5.1.1 Lollipop CPU: 64- Bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 Octa-core CPU (2.0GHz x 4 / 1.GHZ x 4) GPU: Adreno 430 RAM: 4GB Storage: 32 GB Sensors: Fingerprint, Gravity Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Light Sensor, Accelerometer, Gyroscope, Barometer. Battery: 3000mAh Li-Polymer battery with Quick Charge Speakers: Rear facing speakers Microphones: Dual-microphone with noise cancellation
Ports for Data & charging: USB 2.0 Audio: 3.5mm Buttons: Power Button, Volume Rockers, On-Screen Buttons SIM: DUAL: Micro & Nano
Camera
Sensor: 21 Megapixel Lenses: 6 lenses OIS: Yes Flash: Dual Front Camera: 8 Megapixel Video: 4K resolution Video
Connectivity
GSM: 850/900/1800/1900MHz WCDMA: B1/B8 FDD-LTE: B3/B5/B7/B20 TDD-LTE: B40 Wi-Fi: 802.11a/b/g/n/ac(2.4G and 5G), 1×1 stream Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.1
As you can see there is an impressive device, specially if you consider the full metal body surrounding all of that, have an eye to the full video is really well made:
Price at ₹24,999 or $376 USD (which is just a tip over the OnePlus 2) is incredible what you can get for under $400
And although it looks like the Nokia Lumia 830 especially from the back, the fingerprint sensor and the brilliant 2K display will immediately change your mind.
Plus the Cyanogen base guarantee you’ll get Android 6.0 with all the goodies only the guys a Cyanogen can deliver.
Something worth noticing is the fact this is the first Indian phone to come with a Snapdragon chipset instead of the MediaTek one they always use to reduce costs moreover we-ll see how they handle the heat problem.
The device can be Pre-order right now here: Amazon.in and is going to star shipping on December 26th
If you want to take another look you can go here: Yutopia
What do you think of this new trend of budget but awesome phones? Will you get the Yutopia if you have the chance?
Last year Samsung gave us a glimpse of what a premium looking phone could be with their Galaxy A line up, the A3, A5 and A7
All with the beautiful and stylish look we wanted to our Galaxy S5, on a smaller form factor, price and specs.
This year though they decided to join the “budget club” delivering some really good phone with a good price, with that in mind they recently launched an updated and upgraded version on the “A” series with the Galaxy A3, A5 and A7 of 2016
Unlike they predecessors, these variants follow the design language of the Galaxy S6 with a metal and glass construction.
These devices were set to launch in China this month but now we know they’re coming to our shores as soon as January 8th
But let’s take a look under the hood of the new Galaxy A line
Galaxy A3 (2016)
Network: LTE Cat.4 * May differ by markets and mobile operators
Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth® v 4.1, ANT+, USB 2.0, NFC (UICC)
Sensor: Accelerometer, Proximity, Geomagnetic, RGB Light, Hall Fingerprint scanner
Memory: 3GB RAM + 16GB Storage with Micro SD slot (up to 128GB)
Dimension: 151.5 x 74.1 x 7.3mm, 172g
Battery: 3,300mAh, Fast Charging
As you can see the A5 and A7 are the Big brothers packing even a Fingerprint reader while the A3 is what’s now consider “the compact version” allowing you to have almost everything you could ask in conservative color options like Black, White and Rose Gold.
These 2016 A series has as you could see a significant downside, they come with Android 5.1 instead of coming directly with 6.0 but this probably change really soon.
Now what really matters is the performance and that is something that we’ll see when they get here. The new Galaxy A line up is schedule to release on January, although we only have the price of two of these devices:
The Galaxy A3 will costs €329, while the Galaxy A5 will be €429 we have no info about the A7 but seeing the difference between the other two, this one will probably come at €529 (or maybe less)
This is at least what the only European retailer (in Nederland) is asking for them.
What do you think about these new boys? Will you take one home with you if they hit your local retailer? Let us know in the comment section bellow or Tweet us using #TechBuzzIreland
It has been a while since we have seen any branded Nokia handsets from Microsoft and today there is a new candybar styled device announced by Microsoft and it comes in a Dual sim too,its the Nokia 230 and 230 Dual Sim.,priced at $55 it is due to ship in December 2016 and other regions in 2016,these are not the typical plasctic covered devices but sport aluminium casing on the back in silver or dark silver
With a 2.8-inch screen you can play your favorite videos again and again using the video player, listen to radio stations on the FM radio, or use the MP3 player for your personal music library. With memory card support up to 32 GB, that’s potentially a lot of entertainment.
The Nokia 230 and Nokia 230 Dual SIM are also good for gaming. The Opera Store has plenty of games (and apps, incidentally) to choose from, but if you’re looking for inspiration, you can download one free Gameloft game every month for a year. Titles include “Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood” and “Midnight Pool 3.
This is not the first time we told you about this, back in February we first hear the rumors of a TAG Heuer Smartwatch
But this week that has become reality with the new TAG Heuer Connected
Imagining all the expertise and vision of one of the best watch manufacturer in the form of an smartwatch is not a dream anymore thanks to this beauty, As reported by James Hampton-Smith of SpotTheWatch, “many prestigious watch brands today are honing into the needs of the modern-day luxury watch collector.”
As we were expecting, it resembles the traditional Carrera timepieces, the Connected being made out of Titanium Grade 2 is to the ignorant eye a normal and beautiful watch.
Take a look
Sporting a 1.5-inch Scratch Resistant Sapphire Crystal circular touchscreen display with 360 x 360 pixels (240 ppi). Powered by a dual-core 1.6 GHz Intel processor, 1 GB of RAM, 4 GB of internal memory, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, the device is totally cover by today standards.
All this backed up by a 410 mAh battery which (according to TAG Heuer), should provide “minimum 25 hours of battery life, based on typical usage.”
The TAG Heuer Connected is also IP67 certified, is you’re familiar with the Xperia Line from Sony you know this means dust and water proof.
The watch can be paired to handsets running Android 4.3 or later and iOS 8.2 or later thanks to a proprietary app
This is practically everything we’ve been waiting on a Smartwatch, but comes with a cost, and what a cost! The smartwatch is not a dream anymore thanks to this beauty.
The TAG Heuer Connected can be yours for just $1,500, easy right?
If you really wanna have the “Vertu” of the Smartwatch world you can order one HERE
What do you think of think? Is it really worthy to spend an small fortune to get something not so different in specs of what we already have? OR having 150 years of experience backing the watch makes you have a second thought?
Let us know in the comments or Tweet us using #techbuzzireland
