iOS 6 had a huge growth thanks to China and not to Google Maps

When the app maps Google iOS 6 was released several days ago ago, soon positioned at the top of the download list and only 48 hours had been downloaded 10 million times. 4 days ago I commented that many people had upgraded to iOS in June following the departure of that application, but the truth is that not due to this, but to something else: the launch of the iPhone 5 in China.
Last week not only was the launch of Google Maps, but also the launch of the new iPhone in mainland China, where in just three days were sold over 2 million units of the device.
This was verified by an analysis that was done a couple of days ago. Looking back slightly, up 29% updates seems much so that only one application can pull it off, do not you think?

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ZTE Grand S will be presented at CES 2013

The CES 2013 is just around the corner and there we see a lot of gizmos, gadgets and devices of all types and sizes. One of these will be a smartphone , the ZTE Grand S. It is a new mobile with 5-inch screen and photo, we see above, has started flying Internet recently. It seems that a new smartphone with full HD joins the club next to the HTC Droid DNA, Oppo Find 5 and some more.
We do not know much about it, but we do know that he would become the full HD smartphone with the world's thinnest and that its thickness is only 7.6 mm, although this would not be true if we take into account the Find 5, whose thickness is even lower.
We do not have the slightest idea of what their hardware , but we hope to have a quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM and a camera of at least 8 megapixels.
What do you expect from the ZTE Grand S?

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Archos 97 Titanium HD, a powerful Android tablet

 

Most Android tablets are not up to the iPad from Apple , but expects its new Archos Archos 97 Titanium HD can cope with the king. It is a tablet like the iPad 4 having a 9.7 inch screen with resolution of 2048 × 1536 pixels. Under his shell hides a dual-core processor at 1.6GHz, a GPU Mali 400, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of memory.
Other noteworthy specifications of the Archos 97 Titanium HD include a 5-megapixel rear camera, a 2 megapixel front and a microSD card slot. Besides this the tablet has WiFi and runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
The truth is that it's not bad, but unfortunately still not aware of its price or availability date. According to estimates, will cost about $ 350.
What do you think about it?

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Instagram updated their app with new filters and languages ​​available

Instagram, the popular service designed to upload pictures and apply filter effects to other people see them has received an update yesterday. If you like a lot of the filters or if you know English, this update will come in handy.
Both app for Android and iOS version has been updated and now supports 25 other languages ​​such as Spanish, French and Chinese. This is also available for the web version of Instagram.
In addition, a new filter is available called "Mayfair", which is a kind of filter that darkens slightly touched the edges of the picture and gives more light to the center. Besides the photos you take with the front of our camera smartphone no longer in mirror and you use an iOS device can select photos that are not on the roll of film. Of course that also includes fixes for bugs classics.
Here is the Android version, and here we have a version of iOS.

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Google and Motorola are working on a smartphone to rival the iPhone

Over the years, the iPhone from Apple and Samsung's Galaxy smartphones have become the best known devices of the phone market mobile terminal and currently no other has been able to compete with them. This could change as Google along with Motorola are working on a mobile to rival the rest of the market, including with top level competitors iOS, Android and Windows Phone. Recall that Google already has experience in the development of mobile phones and mobile devices, so for them there is a new market.
For now, the new device is known as the X Phone. It is said that it will be a very powerful phone with a camera and software for photos, but also have a flexible screen and outer ceramic. It speaks well of course X Tablet to be released sometime next year, although the data are about zero.
What Google and Motorola will bring up to? Let's wait a bit to see.

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RIM: end of fall or will stand?

In about five weeks, the world will see if one of the giants of the market for mobile phones in the last two decades does stand or fall finish after having encountered a couple of years ago. The phones of RIM have not been what many expected and its technology has been somewhat "short", and while the company still has some loyal followers, the BlackBerry market share has plummeted since the arrival of iOS and Android. Many complained when RIM announced that BB10 would be launched only in 2013, but what if the wait really worth it? If the company takes the time to make your new platform to work properly, then it could be the rope that will pull the pit in which they find themselves.
It's easy to say that iOS and Android BlackBerry crushed, but certainly we all like good returns and RIM may have chosen a perfect time to return. It will be the only company to introduce a new platform in the first quarter of 2013 and it seems that many are willing to give the manufacturer a new opportunity.
Another point is also key to the victory possible RIM: international sales. The market U.S., UK, China and Japan is large, but we must not forget the rest of the world's countries and continents like Africa where RIM devices still continue to sell quite well. Perhaps RIM fails to conquer the few large markets, but you can still try to conquer the hundreds of small markets.
As noted above, in only five weeks we'll know.

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Pants with special pocket for future smartphone included

The smartphones are becoming classic obsolete mobile phones in the same way that a current mobile phone makes it incredibly bulky classic cable, is inevitable. What remains to be seen is how much new technology affects other non-technological elements that surround us. For example, you might add a smartphone labor costs to the list of items you carry in his pockets with wallet, keys, etc.. That is why they are starting to appear clothing designs than a decade ago seem absurd but today these pants make sense as:

Basically it is pretty classic jeans but incorporate a pocket on the side with the idea that you can save some gadget, either a small or a modern mobile phone screen smartphone with 4 or 5 inches. The pocket opens forward as you can see in the photo, so you just have to do finger crimp and pull forward to get the mobile or resave. The only downside I see is that it seems to have a secure closure which can facilitate the loss or theft of the smartphone.

The official name of these pants is 'Social Replay Denim jeans' pocket and have called in a fun way as 'I/O Pocket' (input output pocket). Is offered for sale for a price of around 100 euros but not worldwide, however the important thing here is the concept itself and the fact that sooner or later begin to see in clothing stores all kinds of garments like this one designed to carry smartphones and perhaps even tablets.

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This is a real weapon 50Kw laser destroys airborne drone and steel sheets

The cinema has accustomed us to the future is filled with systems based on laser weapons, from guns to swords through guns. By now the twenty-first century can expect that these weapons become real, in this case the hand of this model Rheinnmetall German brand with a power of 50kW and an aspect (unromantic from the point of view of science fiction) like this:

The gun has been tested on a number of test objectives and, apparently, the result has been satisfactory.

In one of them was the laser cannon can rip holes through 15mm steel plate at a distance of 1km. Then, the computer system was able to detect the presence 3Km drone flying away at a speed of 50 meters per second. When approached 2Km drones laser cannon took action and shot down like mosquitoes.

 

The last test was based on a mortar casting metal balls moving in the air at 50 meters per second. In this case the system was able to detect the ball before it hit the ground and then calculate the mortar position from which it was launched to destroy.

It's not science fiction despite appearances, actually the same company already had similar patterns of less power (10kW) and is easy to foresee that other higher end manufacturing more destructive capacity and a longer range of action. In fact this technology may make obsolete much of the current weapons including tanks, guns on ships, aircraft armament and perhaps Death Stars.

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