Category: Tech News

Roc’Kit :The Fastest, Cable-less Micro Power Bank. #Charging # Rockit #Indiegogo

Battery anxiety will not be going away any time soon but there is always solutions there in the interim to help us along,Sure we are now seeing devices beefing up the battery and all that but typically these are on the bigger devices sporting 5 inches or more which in the long run does not completely solve the problem,In the real world we spend more time on our devices now more than ever for browsing,social media and also eCommerce is now seeing a boom on our mobiles,all of this coincides with statistics pointed out by many in the media.

There is a multitude of products now available on the market today but convenience wins,we do not want bulk,pricey or odd looking accessories if we do carry around such items,We have featured several of the aforementioned before and also spoke on RTE with the consumer show last year on ways to tackle the above but until battery limits are more reasonable we are stuck with what is on offer today which is not a bad thing regardless.

John Fang from HSR Ltd has got in touch with us to tell us about a new alternative to the dreaded battery anxiety and the product is called Rockit

The Roc’Kit™ is designed to charge your smartphone with the shortest distance in mind. No wiring and extensions between the Roc’Kit™ and your phone means more power for your smartphone.

The Roc’Kit™ is built with a proprietary 2.5Amp I/O chip onboard. It is designed to charge smartphones up to 5x faster than other power banks on the market. Now, not only your smartphone can be charged quickly and safely, but the Roc’Kit™ can be charged quickly as well!

Specs

Battery：Lithium-Ion
Capacity：1200mAh
Dimension：0.83×0.83×3.54 inches
Weight：45g
Input：5V  2.5A
Output：5V  2.5A
Self-Charging：30min
Recharge Cycles：Full Charge > 500 Times (battery capacity at 85% after 500 charge cycles)
1 Year Warranty: The Roc’Kit comes with a one-year manufacturer’s limited warranty. To ensure best quality delivered to the backers, all Roc’Kits will be tested and QCed before shipping.
Think its a good idea? Head over to Indiegogo and support the team and leave feedback below if you wish… We will be reporting some more when we receive the product ourselves…Stay tuned for more….

 

 

 

 

Oculus Rift goes on Pre-Order,Its cost is #Ridoculus #VR

Facebook bought  Oculus  back in 2014 and for those who have been waiting for the ultimate in VR experience got good news yesterday and bad news today,the bad news is on the price it commands which $599 or if you are in Ireland or the UK this cost mounts to €699 and will be available to order from Ireland and the UK which is good news I guess since us Irish dont the the cream first on most things technology..

Not only that you will need a computer that can run rift and the requirements are as follows

 

  • graphics card: NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD R9 290 equivalent or greater
  • processor: Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater
  • memory: 8GB+ RAM
  • output: Compatible HDMI 1.3 video output
  • input: 3x USB 3.0 ports plus 1x USB 2.0 port
  • operating system: Windows 7 SP1 64 bit or newer
  • Compatibility tool  

For more see their BLOG POST.. Will you be picking this up??? Samsung are doing some great deals on their VR Headsets costing around €110 all in with shipping..For me any many alike this need some real high end machines to run which for starters at launch is not good,Samsung VR FOR ME…..

And if you are wondering our main Laptop does not cut it.. LOL…

https://twitter.com/jimboireland/status/684839243886280704

Or as our friend Pat says

 

Samsung unveils the Galaxy Tab Pro S at #CES2016 By @VicenteA_George #Samsung #Windows

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

 

Blast from the past with #Nokia – The Nokia 1680 classic from 2008. #Unboxing

Our last lookback and some old Nokia devices was the 1800 from 2010 this goes back two more years to 2008,again featuring a coloured screen the 1680 classic was dubbed a feature phone and had little going for it compared to what you can get now for the same money,the colour screen though was the in thing back then and no matter how small the screen,we all wanted coloured screens…

The 1680 had similar options to the 1800 even with the 1800 two year older..A 1.85 inch screen,radio even a camera this time round albeit a VGA 0.3 MP,the 1680 even had internet via WAP and a staggering 11MB of internal memory with NO sd card option,so we had to be careful of storage…

Check out the unboxing and image gallery below…

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Blast from the past with #Nokia – The Nokia 1800 from 2010. #Unboxing

A few Nokia devices landed at our office and these are untouched and have never been used so we decided to do a little feature,beginning with the Nokia 1800 which was announced late November 2009 and launched in 2010 and for a cheap small phone it had several features that sufficed many people back then,in fact the same suits many today,,

The 1800 was a feature phone with a colour display,stated as large on the packaging today you would laugh at that term considered how far we have come since then and how fast technology has changed and a small screen like this simply would not cut it for a main daily driver today..

The 1800 has features like a 1.8 inch screen with 114 ppi,and a radio,it had no camera,no sd card support and basically it was the colour screen that the 1800 had going for it…Ohhh and not forgetting it had a flash light which then was cool…

Check out the unboxing and image gallery below and watch out for more soon…

LG introduces the K Range to its line up. #LG #K7 #K10

LG have announced to mid tier devices and perhaps not what some where hoping for but looking for follow ups to the likes of the G4 and so on…However LG have turned a corner in the last two years and delivered some fantastic devices which shadows their former years,one thing though is availability and with Irish networks ignoring such devices we just have to rely on third party sellers and so on…

LG K Series smartphones will be the first to offer LG’s glossy pebble design language, a contemporary, stylish look with a curved, modern finish aimed at a younger audience. The glossy pebble design is complemented by LG’s new 2.5D Arc Glass for a smooth and seamless style that could only be made possible due to the sides of K Series smartphones being free of button clutter. With design cues borrowed from nature, the K10 and K7 look far more expensive and exclusive than they really are.

The LG K10

  • Display: 5.3-inch HD In-cell Touch
  • Chipset:
    LTE: 1.2GHz or 1.3GHz Quad-Core / 1.14GHz Octa-Core
    3G: 1.3GHz Quad-Core
  • Camera:
    LTE: Rear 13MP / Front 8MP or 5MP
    3G: Rear 8MP / Front 8MP or 5MP
  • Memory:
    RAM: 2GB / 1.5GB / 1GB
    ROM: 16GB / 8GB
  • Battery: 2,300mAh
  • Operating System: Android 5.1 Lollipop
  • Size: 146 x 74.8 x 8.8mm
  • Network: LTE / 3G
  • Colors: White / Indigo / Gold
  • Others: 2.5D Arc Glass / Gesture Shot / Tap and Shot / Gesture Interval Shot*

LG K7

K7 Key Specifications:*

  • Display: 5.0-inch FWVGA In-cell Touch (LTE) / On-cell Touch (3G)
  • Chipset:
    LTE: 1.1GHz Quad-Core
    3G: 1.3GHz Quad-Core
  • Camera: Rear 8MP or 5MP / Front 5MP
  • Memory:
    RAM: 1.5GB / 1GB
    ROM: 16GB / 8GB
  • Battery: 2,125mAh
  • Operating System: Android 5.1 Lollipop
  • Size:
    LTE: 143.6 x 72.5 x 8.9mm
    3G: 143.6 x 72.5 x 9.05mm
  • Network: LTE / 3G
  • Colors:
    LTE: Titan
    3G: White / Black / Gold
  • Others: 2.5D Arc Glass / Gesture Shot / Gesture Interval Shot / Tap and Shot

Full Press Release

Diet Scanners soon to be fitted to smartphones. #Food #Diet #Health #SCiO

Diet Scanners could soon be a standard on our smartphones and there is such a scanner now in development,this would be a welcome move and help us maintain an even healthier lifestyle with the ability to actually scan food items there and then..Sure there is plenty of apps around today to guide us on food but this would be a new step yielding real-time results. Currently it’s a standalone product..It works via a spectrometer and sends info to its cloud and then back to your device,the buck does not stop here with just health though the possibilities are endless and any object can be scanned..

Sky reports

The current model is able to pinpoint properties such as the sugar content in an individual piece of fruit, the percentage of fat in a particular cheese, or identify whether a drug is counterfeit or an illegal substance.

After a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in 2014 and numerous demonstrations at technology conferences around the world, the SCiO scanner has become one of the most talked about new technologies of 2015.

Read more over at source link below..

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Meet Yu Yutopia the new king of budget By @VicenteA_George #Android #Cyanogen

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?

 

 

 

Nokia Lumia 830 Gold edition unboxing and comparison. #Lumia

The Nokai Lumia 830 special edition has landed and there is nothing new about this device apart from that its hard to get and that the external colour is all thats changed,everything else has remained the same internally including its optics and,the packaging also has nothing extra either.So here is just a quick unboxing and comparison of the original 830 vs its Gold brother which looks rather well….

Below is a video and the we have some side by side images of both devices.Any questions just fire away…