The product of the IFA 2017, undoubtedly the LG V30, had a pending account: face the Samsung Galaxy S8 +, the reference high-end smartphone model today. And what better scenario than Berlin to put them face to face.
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Nokia 8: Much Muscle and Double Zeiss Camera For a Highly Anticipated High-End
At the beginning of the year the long-awaited return of Nokia was confirmed at the hands of Nokia 6. At the MWC we met its little brothers, the Nokia 5 and Nokia 3, but although we already had a catalog of three models it seemed that Nokia’s return did not It had been completed. The missing piece is here, its name is Nokia 8 and it comes to compete face to face with the high-end Android.
The Nokia 8 has been a tireless protagonist of rumors and leaks in recent months, so many of its features do not come as a surprise. Following the tradition of the extinct Lumia family, Nokia again emphasizes the photographic section with a Zeiss lens that also comes in duplicate this time. These are all the features of the Nokia 8.
HTC U11, eye-catching, powerful and with one of the cameras of the moment
Without offering anything different, brands that are not at the top of high-end sales have it complicated. The HTC U11 is the answer of an eternal candidate for phone of the year that finally in this 2017 has obtained a smartphone of outstanding.
An HTC high-end “unrecognizable”
We do not stop repeating that in the current market of high-end smartphones must be noted. It can be done with the double camera, with the removal of frames or as is the case of the HTC U11, with a design at least very striking. But above all breaker for the company, from the most sober up to this model.
Moto E4 and Moto E4 Plus: Metal body and up to 5000 mAh battery for the input range
In recent weeks we have not stopped receiving rumors about the new smartphones Motorola (or Lenovo, as we want to see) for this 2017. Up to nine smartphones from five different families are part of the plan of the brand, and we already know a few of the economic Moto C, the stylish and powerful Moto Z2 Play and the Moto G5 and Moto G5 Plus of interesting value for money.
What were the smartphone operating systems of 2007?
9th of January of 2007, after months of rumors Apple officially presented a new concept of mobile phone that called iPhone. The device surprised with its form and especially its operating system, which at the end of that year met with the presentation of Android as a response from Google.
At that time, the market was widely dominated by Symbian, and we also had a Windows Mobile that already in those days was trying to offer more with a phone, but with a totally different interface to iOS or Android. Today we are going to put the magnifying glass right there, in the operating systems that dominated the smartphones of ten years ago.
The Oukitel K10000 Pro features a monstrous and great 10000 mAh battery
Give it with ultra-slim design mobiles. Seriously, some users want thicker and more battery-powered mobiles not to suffer so much with that autonomy that usually gives more of a problem. There are not many who bet on this section, but here we have Oukitel to prove that there are options for all tastes.
It is what they achieve with their Oukitel K10000 Pro, the successor of a model appeared two years ago. As it happened then, the most striking feature of this smartphone is the inclusion of a monstrous battery of 10000 mAh that now joins features that will put this device in tune with the current times.
Why are you doing this to us, HTC?
The launch of the HTC U Ultra has allowed us to meet the first high-end terminal of this 2017, but HTC’s efforts have been heavily criticized in various media, including ours. Someone at HTC is obsessed with bringing this company to absolute disaster.
Many are the arguments that can defend against a terminal that seems to be late and bad, with decisions very questionable in their hardware configuration and also confusing in their bet software. Not like that, HTC. Not so.
Damn jack: Is HTC one more lamb?
The first and most alarming signal of HTC’s lack of personality is that decision to eradicate the earphone port of its new HTC U Ultra. Why did he do it? Why deny users the ability to use hundreds, thousands of headphones of all kinds that they already used and enjoyed on their computers? Why do they force me to change the way I listen to music?
This is especially painful for a company that took special care of this section in its previous devices. We may no longer have that iconic design with the speakers on the front, but the HTC 10 was great in this area and provided a 3.5 mm connector that simply worked. No more. According to HTC …
We removed the headphone jack because we believe that the sound experience on the phone can go beyond mere transmission of sound. The sonic capabilities of the USonic headset would not be feasible with a 3.5mm headphone jack. We have microphones built into both headphones that “listen” to the sound pulses, which can adjust your audio to fit the unique architecture of your ears. We believe the market is poised to drive audio into new innovations that benefit the consumer listening experience.
First and foremost, obsessive secrecy was to work for the original iPhone
How was work on the original iPhone? That is precisely what one of the engineers of Apple who took part in the so-called ‘Project Purple’, an ultra-secret project in which it was only possible to work if one accepted not only endless days, but also an environment in which the Secrecy was absolute.
So much so that as detailed this engineer, named Terry Lambert, had to sign a confidentiality agreement (NDA) not to ensure that he was not going to tell anything about that project: he signed it to know the name of the key project. That was only the first measures of security obsessional who managed to protect that secret until the end.
Samsung Galaxy S8: Bixby and the voice assistant as the ultimate end?
How long have you been talking to your cell phone? Not with the person, you call, no. With your cell phone. Voice assistants are for that, for you to communicate with a device that increasingly wants to serve as the secretary or virtual secretary to be able to rely at all times, but the ability of these platforms is yet to be demonstrated.
There are several proposals offered by the mobility market. Microsoft, Google, Apple and Amazon have been tempting us to talk more about Cortana, Google Now, Siri or Alexa. Now Samsung will also do so with Bixby, a wizard that comes after the purchase of Viv and that will, they say, absolute protagonist of experience in the Galaxy S8. Should all Samsung focus on this wizard?
Look at me but do not get wet: Apple faces a misleading advertising claim
The OCU has complained to Apple before the Department of Consumer Affairs of the Community of Madrid by the announcement of the iPhone in July accusing the company of using misleading advertising to promote your smartphone.
They refer specifically to the mention of resistance to water: in the announcement “the user is made to understand that the mobile is waterproof,” OCU explains in the statement, “what it does not say is that in the legal guarantee expressly excludes any damage caused by liquids”.