Good news for the fitness freaks who enjoy their music while working out. Today adidas Smart Run got updated to firmware version 4.0.1 which brings in a host of features and more importantly the support for your personal radio station Mixradio.
What’s New with this update?
With this drain the biggest addition is MixRadio’s music service to SMART RUN. MixRadio is truly the personal radio station which brings you free music mixes based on the music you love. MixRadio service is now integrated into the SMART RUN allowing you to download ready-made MixRadio playlists including adidas exclusive compilations too.
The mixes are available to download for offline play to help power you through your workouts with the latest music hits. The mixes will then update automatically with new content so you always have a fresh soundtrack for your workouts. The best part is, as a SMART RUN user you will receive the premium MixRadio experience free of charge for the first 6 months.
Other Enhancements:
– Optimized Bluetooth connectivity for more reliable connection with Bluetooth devices.
– Improved network related connections.
– Improved USB mounting with PCs.
– Minor error and bug fixes.
A few days ago we told you that Jolla wants to make their own tablet, but thanks to the “People Powered” ad and the Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign the company raise much more than the initial idea!!! They raised more than $1.000.000.
They raised $1,267,374
Jolla said that its tablet would be available only to customers in the US, Europe and Asia. However, Thanks to the big support they decided to add two more countries: Canada and Australia.
Canada and Australia say Hi!
To celebrate the huge number and the awesome customer support! They’re selling he Jolla tablet (in pre-order) for only $ 209!!
The spec are pretty good as well: 384 grams,7.5mm-thin, 7.9-inch IPS display at 1536 x 2048 pixels (330 ppi) 5 mp rear camera, 2 mp front camera, 2 gb of RAM, 32 gb of internal memory, microSD card support, a 4300 mAh battery and a quad-core, 1.8 GHz 64-bit Intel processor.
So, If you’re eagerly waiting for have the “People Tablet” in your hands you can contribute and pre-order one HERE.
What do you think of this new Tablet? Are you getting one? or already order? Tell us below if you already order yours! and Stay tuned for more Tech info.
Some of you now are aware of the new company Vsenn who want to build a new device and not only that they want you to help them which in tuen helps you,this is a good move and its how current manufacturers should probably now approach things in the future by LISTENING TO CUSTOMERS…Some are now and some are taking some not but maybe if they tried harder they could deliver the ultimate mobile later on down the road,things certainly are changing in the mobile industry and for the better.
We have been following this company from day one and here is the latest press release that was sent in..
Press Release.
Available screen sizes – your choice
Oulu, Finland, November 24, 2014 – Vsenn aims to bring the perfect phone to the world, and that is why we announce today a groundbreaking poll open to everyone in order to decide the available screen sizes and their resolution.
With the online poll in our official social network channels (Twitter and Facebook), we aim to bring the power to the customers and be the first brand in the world that is both made for and created by its followers.
Screen Size
Is always a very personal choice, since everyone looks for something different, that is why we have outlined a variety of screen sizes for choosing. After having announced the 4.7 inch FHD choice for the consumers wanting a small and compact screen, it’s time to give the word to those who want bigger screen sizes.
Poll choices
The available choices are: 5 inch, 5.2 inch, 5.3 inch and 5.5 inch diagonals.
Everyone is welcome to be a part of the poll and to choose their preferred resolution for the screen size. The resolution options are: QHD (2560×1440) or FHD(1920×1080).
Our priorities
For the all the screens in Vsenn devices we outlined the following objectives: Industry leading outdoors visibility, maximum brightness and contrast with realistic color reproduction. All our screens will be calibrated to the D65 imaging standard, using a 10 point white balance app available to our customers.
PPI wars
At Vsenn we have our objectives very clearly defined, and we won’t sacrifice performance and battery life in exchange for pixel densities that bring nothing valuable to the user experience. Vsenn will not go into the pointless and nonsense PPI wars, and instead, we chose to focus on bringing the best possible screen for a smartphone to the market.
About Vsenn
We believe that technology exists for the sole purpose of making our life easier and better. Being good listeners, we will always keep improving to deliver exactly what the market expects from us. Your opinion, ideas and wishes are our compass, because there is no Vsenn without you.
If you want to have a say now you know what to do….
There is a message doing the rounds on Viber claiming to be changing the service which is free to cost you money down the road which amounts to little but nonetheless its just worth pointing out that you should ignore the message regardless.The message will then ask you to forward it onto other people in your directory. IF YOU GET THIS SHARE THIS AND WARN OTHERS.
We have contacted Viber today on Twitter to clarify the matter and since this other users have also experienced the same issue,if i remember this happened last year too at some stage and died off and now it seems its become a problem again,the time of year it is you all should be vigilent to any form of strange messages,infact i had my own email compromised last night too so take all forms security possible to reduce the risk of been caught out.
Just be sure as mentioned above we contacted Viber and they replied quickly which was good of them.
Here is the message we received today,just delete the message and ignore it..Viber is not changing its service or charging as outlined in their tweet above,there is no links in this particular message but should you get it or a message like it containing a link remove it straight away.
This would be considered an on/off issue on Viber but some may have not heard about it and some perhaps did,however its worth pointing this out so you are aware of it and can deal with it and stop it from spreading.
After the acquisition of Whatsapp by facebook all customers were worry about the destiny of the app (us included).
But this week Whatsapp for Android received an update with an awesome new feature! “End-to-End encryption”.
“End-to-end” means that “the people behind the curtain” won’t be able to know what the persons in the conversation are talking about. The company will serve as connection between users, but only the two users will have access to the conversation itself.
WhatsApp partnered with Open Whisper Systems for the launch, using open source code to build in the new features.
Earlier this year, a big scandal saw light regarding the US NSA and others (like facebook, Apple and if I’m not wrong Google) from let the government have access to personal data of their clients.
Back then a new hope emerge from the ashes to help us all, the new app Telegram became available in almost all app stores. Now this app is available for all platforms.
Telegram
With this new feature Whatsapp turns itself in the biggest messaging app to offer this kind of security. (the app have almost 600 millions actives users)
It’s still unknown when or if this feature will be avaible for WP and IOS but having it in Android is awesome!
You can download the new version of whatsapp here, in case you haven’t already (Android only)
And if you want to try something new but equally great, you can download Telegram here.
Tell us in the comments what do you think about this new feature? And stay tuned for more Tech Info!
Jolla have been around some time now and have already a mobile device in the market which is apparently in 31 countries around the world,Ireland not been one of them bar the handful of users,numbers are not know to be percise on how many Jolla users are here but it aint a huge sum.
Jolla uses the OS called Sailfish OS which is another forked Android,personally forked Android devices are a waste of time,same applies to the FirePhone which also tells the same story,its not good enough the firephone has essentially flopped and with a drastic price cut its still remains to be seen how many units actually have been sold.
Ok who is this device for and who will buy it ? Hackers,Meego and Maemo geeks will,of course new customers will be interested too but not me,already its said its better than the Nokia N1 that was announced yesterday which is pure speculative talk at this point in time and of course if you do go ahead with buying you will once again have to wait a few months to recieve your new device,this alone puts me off the idea,same as the Nexus 6 pre-order issue right now,if i order i have to wait,if im paying out good money i want my product there and then,not an estimated date down the road,but them again im not a hacker but i dont need to hack the Nexus 6 either so…
No discret to Jolla the products have a nice build quality and the UI looks nice,it was just quick to launch on the first phone and the feelings was pretty much the same from everyone around the globe bar a few,again this is to be expected just like any other product,the Nokia N1 got a fair bashing yesterday and equally much welcomed too.
I do hope to see a refined OS and UI when it does eventually hit the public next year and since announcement this morning they have exceeded the funds they required to kick this off the ground so this is good news for them and congratulations to them on this achievement and i wish them well in the future.
Below we have a chart to compare with what its rivals are and where it has pros and cons,keep in mind the price here too..
If you want to know more about Jolla and want to see all the info and support the guys that are people powered head over to http://jolla.com/tablet
Yesterday the world witnessed comeback of the Finish mobile giant which was once synonymy for mobile phones, yes we are talking of Nokia and the rebirth of Nokia in the consumer goods segment. We all know what happened in the recent past but the determined Nokia has comeback with a bang with a winner device the Nokia N1, the company’s first product after the device and services were taken over by Microsoft, and mind you this is a winner.
The N1 tablet runs on Android 5.0 Lollipop with the home grown launcher from Nokia which takes the whole Android experience to a new level, the Z Launcher. With fluid and clean UI running over the latest Android 5.0 Lollipop users get to experience an entirely new UI and guess what Nokia made the Z Launcher (Beta) available for free on the Play Store for USA & EU and provided the direct link for other regions to get a hands on experience of the Z Launcher to android users.
How Z Launcher Works?
Z Launcher is a unique launcher and we have never experienced anything like this before on any platforms yet, it is simple, clean, sleek and understands you and your requirements. Using Z Launcher is very easy just scribble a letter and there u get the list of all the apps, webpages, contacts containing that letter, can even search the web directly from your start screen. It understand what we are trying to communicate making it easy for us find everything right there from the main screen instead of panning through pages, everything available just with simple scribbling. Swiping from right to left works as backspace.
User Interface
The top row of the home screen has 3 horizontal scrollable pages showing the time, calendar & weather, which gets increased by one when using music player providing with option to pause or play music.
Below this there is a list of the recently used apps which change the order with usage.
Below this list we get four customizable apps which can be changed with simple press and hold and drag and drop, they don’t change with usage. In the center of this row there is a button which allows you to access the whole list of apps just but single bit on it.
Again you have an option of either scroll and scribble to find the app you been looking for.
This page has shortcuts for Play Store & Z Launcher Settings on the right corner just above the app list.
You can hide any item from appearing from the home screen by pressing and holding the app and instead of the app icon it changes to hide, hit hide and it’s gone from the list.
Z Launcher got its first update today, the details in the picture above.
So enjoy the redefined user interface on your old Android to give your device a new life. Download for free from Play Store if you are in USA or EU or download from here if you are elsewhere.
Let us know what you have to say about this innovative UI from Nokia in the comments below.
Disclaimer: Please note, this post is based on experience of Z Launcher on Google Nexus 7 tablet so not all the features are covered here, please check here for full details.
