The networks wireless mesh or meshed increasingly sound more like solution to problems of wireless coverage in homes where we do not want any dark area or cuts when we move from one room to another.
In the consumer market there are already many solutions that we can buy at prices that, although still high, increasingly convince more users who want to end their problems with WiFi connectivity in a simple, fast and above all efficient way.
This year Huawei has not presented its latest high-end smartphones at the Mobile World Congress. But this does not mean at all that the Chinese brand has not taken advantage of the Barcelona event to publicize any of its new proposals. In fact, he has put before our eyes his new MediaPad M5 tablet, equipped with a 10.8-inch screen. And we have already had the opportunity to try it.
As you will see throughout this article, which gathers our first impressions about this proposal, this tablet has an ambitious configuration designed, without a doubt, to allow it to rub shoulders with the high-end tablets of other companies, but its price is very reasonable. This is precisely its greatest virtue: its attractive price / performance ratio. Scratch a little beyond the surface to see what this new MediaPad M5 offers us.
Sonos is a relatively young electronics manufacturer – founded in 2002, located in Santa Barbara (California) and known for its painstaking after-sales service, for offering perpetual support and updates for years. It is also popular for its ‘Play’ speaker series.
We have been able to thoroughly test the recent Sonos One model, the company’s first product to offer a comprehensive service with voice assistants Google Assistant and Alexa. And yes, this is a true monochrome beast with WiFi and Ethernet connection and compatibility with more than 60 audio services. For weeks he has been accompanying us to all the Christmas festivities, going from room to room and updating each other.
But, unfortunately, the speakers are left without their smart functions, a responsibility that falls on Google and Amazon but which blurs one of the two nuclear formulas of this speaker: wireless communication and the greatest power-control relationship possible. Let’s see how far each of these facets is fulfilled.
It was one of the expected, and Google has not disappointed: Google Home Mini is the reduced version of Google Home in size, but not so much in features: the new connected speaker of this manufacturer provides much of the virtues of the original model.
He also does it at a very interesting price: $49 in the countries where it will be offered for sale, the same ones in which his older brother is available. The product is powered by Google Assistant and includes the new voice recognition feature, Voice Match, which differentiates each user from the device.
We know different ways, tricks and curiosities to improve the coverage of our WiFi network and that the signal reaches all corners of the home. Among others, we emphasized the following options: reuse an old router, use a repeater-amplifier or a wireless access point.
Which is better, which system is best for me, is it more powerful, faster, easier to install, cheaper and more reliable? Well, then we will try to answer these and other questions.
Perhaps we are having another war on the technological battlefield, although paradoxically less noisy. With the outbreak of virtual assistants it seems that there is another speaker, and after the latest proposal from Apple it seems that one of its direct rivals is brewing something and come information that Samsung is preparing a loudspeaker with integrated Bixby.
The assistant met him after months of rumors and was released with the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8 +, although he has experienced some delays in terms of his functions since his departure. Now, while it is coming in other languages, it seems that the Korean company also prepares a hardware product focused on the use of the own assistant, thus facing those of Amazon, Google and Apple among others.
The presentation yesterday of Essential Phone, the new project of Andy Rubin, made clear many of the ambitions of a company in which there is a promising message that, yes, will have to be endorsed by its products and its services.
The Essential Phone is based on the search for a less closed experience, which wants to prevent you from changing your mobile phone and totally lacking bloatware, but there is a more budding product with another very different bet. It is Essential Home , a competitor of Amazon Echo or Google Home that has as differential factor the search and rescue of our almost disappeared privacy.
For years, music has influenced our bodies through dance, but Sony wants to end it, that is, our bodies in motion are those that influence music. Sounds interesting? Well, that’s what the Japanese company will present at the SXSW festival where they usually carry out their experimental projects.
This year has been no exception and are presented the Motion Sonic Project, which consists of a wearable bracelet equipped with technology that makes our body’s movements are transformed into music.
Philippe Starck is currently one of the most important industrial designers of our time, his works have transcended due to its peculiar aspect that mixes aesthetics with functionality. Its work is present in a large number of architectural projects and various types of objects. Perhaps for many of us it will be easier to identify him if we say that he was responsible for the design of the Mi Mix of Xiaomi.
Now Starck has joined Jerome Olivet, another famous French designer, to create a concept that shows us what the smartphone of the future should be like, a radical change that completely eliminates the touch screen interface, to take a step towards the use Of holograms.
A year ago there was a murder in Bentonville, Arkansas. The peculiarity of this event is that at the home in which there was had installed a number of smart devices, and including an Amazon Echo who police could help solve the case.
The security forces have requested access to Amazon to give them access to recordings that were made since that Amazon Echo at the time of the facts, but the company led by Jeff Bezos has refused, something that raises new doubts in this hyper was. Can authorities access such private data if necessary?