Lat year the One Plus One launched and had a rather odd business model even i ranted about it openly but in the end,sending invites to buy a phone to me was a rather silly idea but it turned out to be a good idea for them and its one of the best handsets out there today in terms of money thats for sure,its a great device all over and you cant argue its price.
Today we received a mail in our inbox which states the following.
Dear Friends,We’ve been shipping the OnePlus One for half a year, and nowadays we’re bumping into lots of people using it when we’re out and about. It’s incredibly exciting for us, but we always strive to do better. Although we have an active and supportive fanbase, a lot of people have interest in the One but have told us that it’s just too difficult to buy. We believe that great things should be shared. Thus, it’s been our goal from the beginning to put our products into the hands of as many people as possible.
Over the past few months, we’ve been exploring new ways of making the OnePlus One easier to purchase. The overall amount of available invites has increased significantly, but we’ve also held pre-order and open sales events, allowing for purchases without the need for an invite. During these events, we have been collecting data and fine-tuning our production schedules.
Today, we’re glad to announce that we’re making it even easier to buy the One.
Every Tuesday, we will open up sales for 24 hours, starting at 8 am London time (midnight in Los Angeles; 4 pm in Hong Kong). The OnePlus One will be available without an invite in both 16GB Silk White and 64GB Sandstone Black.
This doesn’t mean that our beloved invite system is going away, and it will continue to be the standard method for purchasing the One during the remaining 6 days of the week. And, you will still receive invites to share with friends whenever you buy a One, even onTuesdays.
As a young tech startup, we’re constantly experimenting, iterating and improving. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and coming with us on this journey. We wouldn’t be where we are without you, and you are all as much a part of OnePlus as we are.
If you own a Smart TV from Samsung you might want to be careful as to what you are saying because its listening to you if you sport a voice activated TV at home or anywhere for that matter.But its not like Samsung have not warned you already as Stated in its privacy policy which can be read in full here
Voice Recognition
You can control your SmartTV, and use many of its features, with voice commands.
If you enable Voice Recognition, you can interact with your Smart TV using your voice. To provide you the Voice Recognition feature, some voice commands may be transmitted (along with information about your device, including device identifiers) to a third-party service that converts speech to text or to the extent necessary to provide the Voice Recognition features to you. In addition, Samsung may collect and your device may capture voice commands and associated texts so that we can provide you with Voice Recognition features and evaluate and improve the features. Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition.
If you do not enable Voice Recognition, you will not be able to use interactive voice recognition features, although you may be able to control your TV using certain predefined voice commands. While Samsung will not collect your spoken word, Samsung may still collect associated texts and other usage data so that we can evaluate the performance of the feature and improve it.
You may disable Voice Recognition data collection at any time by visiting the “settings” menu. However, this may prevent you from using all of the Voice Recognition features.
In a report today from the BBC Samsung warns its customers not to have conversations in front of the TV but Samsung have responded with the following.
It said the privacy policy was an attempt to be transparent with owners in order to help them make informed choices about whether to use some features on its Smart TV sets, adding that it took consumer privacy “very seriously”.
Samsung said: “If a consumer consents and uses the voice recognition feature, voice data is provided to a third party during a requested voice command search. At that time, the voice data is sent to a server, which searches for the requested content then returns the desired content to the TV.”
It added that it did not retain voice data or sell the audio being captured. Smart-TV owners would always know if voice activation was turned on because a microphone icon would be visible on the screen, it said.
Well folks its almost Valentines day and you better have some cash saved,Thats is you fancy spending 14k on a new phone from Vertu. We are all quite aware now of Vertu who make exquisite handsets that do not come cheap,and they have just announced a new one called the Clous De Paris just in time for Valentines day..
CLOUS DE PARIS
The Signature Touch Clous de Paris features an engraved Grade-5 titanium back plate and sides, creating an eye-catching guilloche pattern that reflects the light for a near-precious quality. It’s finished in unmistakable alligator skin, crafted by specialist French and Italian tanneries, for a supple, matt feel and striking appearance.
Dual-band WLAN 802.11 a,b,g,n,ac incl. WAPI for PRC
MicroAB USB system connector with USB On-The-Go support
3.5mm audio socket
Bluetooth® v4.0 + LE
CSR aptX® high quality encoded audio support
NFC including support for embedded and SIM based secure elements
WiFi hotspot (tethering & portable hotspot)
As usual with Vertu you get all the extras such as Concierge,Life and Certainty and if you want to really sweeten the deal on the special day cases start at only €450 and can go up to just €1,995,thats all,so off you go lads…..
There is plenty of photo games and apps now available for our devices today which include many ways of having fun with them by editing or so on today we have came across a new app which was made in Ireland by Damien Kierans and Gerald Gallagher the app is called Picguesso
We took some time out to talk to Damien today to talk about himself and the app and what’s ahead..
I am a designer engineer and I thought of the idea roughly a year ago and started jotting down some designs. When I was happy with the designs I had drafted and the functionality of the app I approached a colleague of mine who has experience with programming and together we started building Picguesso. We were working on the development of Picguesso in our spare time but due to our busy work schedule we decided to get some extra help on the back end of the app to try and get Picguesso launched sooner rather than later. We’re currently drafting up idea’s for a single player offline version called iguesso which is synced to your Picguesso accounted enabling players to climb the leaderboard. We are hoping to have iguesso ready in the coming months
What is Picguesso
Picguesso is a social gaming app that allows users to send and receive blurred images along with a hint and answer. The answer and image is revealed when the image is guessed correctly all while trying to beat the clock and your friend’s top score.
You will first need to sign in after its downloaded,at present the app is available free on Android and iOS we will put links at end of post.
Once logged in you can either pick from the gallery of images already preloaded,take a photo or choose from your gallery.
Once you have chosen the image you wish to share you can then pick from your friends list or you can opt to use your Facebook followers you can also pick a random player or challenge selected players,You can also give hints too.then the game begins from there..
When the game begins you will have an image similar to this on the phones screen..
Not only can you play this game in Ireland you can play this game basically anywhere in the world with already people using it in the USA, Canada, SE Asia, Australia and the U.K. Also Damien has told us that they hope to look at a Windows Phone version later in the year which is promising especially for Windows Phone users.
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We would like to thank Damien for talking to us today and filling us in on this exciting new app which i can see doing well and we wish the team at Picguesso all the best of luck with their future prospects which looks exciting and stay tuned for more updates later on…
Sadly news has surfaced that our friend Buster AKA Thomas Kalhauge passed away, Here is a post he sent into us back in 2014. R.I.P Thomas We raise a glass of Malt for you..
About Thomas
Playing a lot of chess, my other interest are internet, mobile phones and their platforms,specially Windows. But first of all comes my daughter and wife and a few drinks:) Single Malts are my favourites,and thanks god there are a lot of different ones,so it is quite easy to find a excuse to have one.
Something a little different today rather than the regular stuff.But yes of course its all about Nokia.
A dane living in Nice and a Malt lover …
You may or may not know this guy from twitter,very witty funny and a good friend of ours thats @buster47 .aka Thomas Kalhauge
Like myself he says things as he sees them and not afraid to either but Thomas is a big Nokia fan having owned many Nokia devices in the past and sports a Lumia 1020 today.
Thomas has sent in this letter to us about past devices of his and its very interesting as to how he words this so enjoy the read..
To my ex’s “a love letter”
When I first meet you, you was something completely new to me, tiny with round edges, a little thing sticking up from your top, a lovely little thing.
When we walked together hand in and the jealous looks we got from the passing crowd, I didn’t care, actually I was very proud of you and loved those jealous looks.
We has a lot of conversations, lots private, some more official, you always agreed with me, you never let me down a real sweetheart.
You joined me in my bedroom from the first night we meet, always ready to wake me up if something important happened, the first night I couldn’t keep my eyes away from you, couldn’t understand I could have lived without you before. If i couldn’t sleep we used to play a game together, something completely new to me, play games in a bed, but WOW, I loved it.
We was always together, you and me, you came to know all my small secrets, infarct you knew me better than I did myself.
We have been travelling the world together, we have been to funerals and weddings and you was there when my son was born, we have been on the piss together, though you didn’t like that so much as I sometimes forgot you, only for a minute or two, and you saw me come running back with my hart beating like hell, as I was so afraid someone else picked you up. NOKIA 1610
You got more more wise by the age, you changed your look and lost the little thing sticking up your top.
You was now capable to replace my calculator, you was even better in bed as you learned a few more games. You was and still are, a wonderful tiny little thing, but people was getting used to you, so not many turned their heads when we proudly walked down the street hand in hand.
Last Wed we lost one of our own, Thomas Kalhauge. Let us hold our Nokia Lumia's up today to honour him. We love you. pic.twitter.com/id6r8G2bYi
Like before we never left each other, not even for a second, we went to more funerals and weddings, and you were there when my Daughter was born. NOKIA 3310
Years pasted, life was getting a bit to much of a routine for us, people are right about seven years crises, so you decided to make some hell of a change.
I again became very proud of you though you got fatter, the jealous looks started all over again and you rarely left my hand.
You became a bigger part of my life, you were my memory, my discotheque, you read and send my mails, you helped me in the office, you was my lexicon, you remembered all the memorable moments of my daughter growing up. We often surfed the web together, I now even could control you, like learning you new games, and finding new exiting applications for us to play with.
I became your Master, you became my subject, I could delay or add files, I could control you, but only because you let me.
What was supposed to happen, happened, my wife started getting jealous of you.
She claimed that you had taken over my life, spending my time tweeting,scooping and flipping about your merits. As a “real” man I knew something drastically had to be done, it took a while, but found out if I got my wife, at least to like you, love you, would be hart, it might get me out of the troubles ( saying this tried the same with my Malt addiction, and it didn’t work, but that’s a complete other story, my twitter friends would know 😉 )
I gave her a double of you, her first reaction was: what in the hell do you think I am going to do with a “toy” like you, but she was fair enough to give you a chance, and after a while she became to like you, love, no,but like is enough for you and her.
We now all 4 of us have a Bunga, Bunga in bed when its hard to fall a sleep. NOKIA N95
