iPhone 5S would be presented on June 29

 

A source close to Apple has indicated that the future will present Apple iPhone 5S in an event that will take place on June 29 , but the good news does not stop there. As indicated, in this event is also presented another device. Can you guess which one it is? For it is nothing more and nothing less than the fifth-generation iPad or iPad in May , as they prefer to call it. The launch event will be known as "Original Passion, New Ideas".

Remember what happened on June 29, 2007? It was the day that the original iPhone was released in the United States, and somehow this time will be a sort of anniversary of that launch, which will mark six years. Recall that the iPhone was the smartphone that revolutionized the industry of mobile phones , and something similar happened in the music industry with the launch of the iPod and the years before the tablets thanks to the iPad in 2010.

This event will take place June 29 at the headquarters / campus Apple in Cupertino , which draws much attention because apple usually makes presentations at the Center for the Arts Yerba Buena in San Francisco.

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AMD says its APUs are better than Intel processors

 

 In January, during CES 2013, AMD announced a new line of GPUs and also introduced its newplatform Temash at MWC 2013. You'd think this is enough for one year, but AMD is not. Now the company returns to the fray in one of his favorite areas: processors. The new line of APUsby AMD , which carries the code name " Richland "not only incorporates some improvements, but still retains a low price and offers an alternative to the Intel processor. In fact, AMD says its A10-5750M quad-core has a yield higher than 50% of an Intel Core i7 .

A good level of performance is not all that AMD has for us. The new APUs will come loaded with special software and Gesture Control, Face Login and Screen Mirror. The first uses the webcam to identify some gestures of our hands and use it in conjunction with the web browser. The second is similar to the facial recognition authentication. The third and last is used to share multimedia content wirelessly.

The new AMD APUs seem to be very promising no doubt, but still some months to reach the market.

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IdeaPad Y500, Lenovo Newest

 

 Lenovo is a company that has earned public recognition in the market for portable , of this there is no doubt. The firm not only launched models with very good designs, but we offer very good performance at the processor and GPU, great image quality and are teams that really are at the fingertips compared with similar ones from different companies . A notebook of this type is the new Lenovo IdeaPad Y500 , whose specifications discussed below.

The only down side of this laptop is its battery, which obviously is not very long, but for the rest, we can not complain, although an optical drive would not hurt. Consider incorporating:

-Processor: Intel Core i7 is a quad-core-3630QM has 6MB of cache and runs at 2.4GHz. 
-RAM: 16GB DDR3. 
-Storage: 1TB hard drive (5400rpm) + 16GB SSD. 
-Screen: measures 15.6 inches and has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels (Full HD). 
-Graphics Card: Nvidia has two GeForce GT 650M. 
, Connectivity: there Bluetooht 4.0 and WiFi. 
-Battery: lasts approximately 3 hours. 
-Ports: Ethernet, HDMI, VGA, USB 3.0 and USB 2.0. It also has microphone input and headphones. 
-Other: has a multicard reader, runs with Windows 8 and has no optical drive.

The price of the  Lenovo IdeaPad Y500 is $ 1200, and given what it offers, I think that would be considered a notebook face. What do you think?

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Nokia could introduce solar charging for mobile phones

 

Did you finally Nokia has decided to put the batteries and return to their times of innovation as happened many years ago? The solar charging for mobile phones is not new, Nokia has been playing with it for a while, but it seems that this time things will get a little more serious. Last month rumors resurfaced on introducing this technology , and this month, as you would expect, occur again. While we did not see any of this in the MWC 2013 in Barcelona, ​​the company may not be ready to show it at the time or simply have decided to save it for another time.

Recently, on the Facebook page of Nokia was hung above the image you see next to the "Sun, sun, sun, here we go".

It goes without saying that this was more than enough to spark rumors they were asleep. Nokia Probably the message has little to do with the yellow color of the image smartphone, and people are reviewing the company eventually will release the highly anticipated mobile recharge technology using solar energy .

For now we are only speculating, but we are a little insurance patients in the coming weeks Nokia and give us more clues about this.

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Hyundai X700, a well-equipped tablet and cheaply

If you are looking for a new 7-inch tablet but do not want to opt for the most popular models on the market, then we will show you something that surely will come in handy: the new Hyundai X700, a tablet Android 7 inch priced at $ 150 .

For that amount we will be doing with a device that has a processor Rockchip RK3066 1.6GHz dual-core architecture and Cortex A9. Your GPU is a Mali 400 and also has 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal memory that can be expanded using a microSD card up to 32GB. The X700's screen is 7 inches, is a multitouch and gives us a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels, a little less than an HD.

Other specifications include a Hyundai X700 2-megapixel front camera, support for 3G, WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity, HDMI port, a 3700mAh battery and the OS is Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

You see the X700 is a tablet that keeps up with the competition both hardware (except for the screen) as far as the price is concerned.

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Microsoft provides Windows developers money

Are you a developer of applications for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8? Then we have good news for you. Microsoft, the software giant will offer up to $ 100 to those who believe a new app for each of the above platforms. It will be possible to send up to 10 apps for each and can collect up to $ 2,000 to do so. There is no doubt that Microsoft is doing a lot of promotion to Windows with its extensive marketing campaign. Consider that this special promotion will end on June 30, which will be active ie just over 3 months.

To get hold of a bit of money from Microsoft we must consider only three things:

She will pay for the first 10,000 apps worthwhile.
-Applications must be of quality and function should be really useful.
-Not copy other apps must be completely new.

This kind of campaign was actually launched in early March, but Microsoft was not too mention until recently. Remember also that MS is not alone in using this strategy, as BlackBerry also been used.

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The Sony SmartWatch is updated

The smartwatchs are devices that are already on the market some time. Did you think that Apple or Samsung would be the first companies to launch? Well it is not. Sony, for example, has its own SmartWatch for sale for many months, and is called, obviously, SmartWatch. Now we ask: what is a good decent hardware without software to make use of it? Both sides complement each other, and to continue doing so is necessary to update the software frequently, and speaking of updates, a new which is now available for the Sony smart clock.

This new update brings some interesting features. We can see a preview of notifications, new features for the clock faces and improved search function. If by chance you are the owner of a Sony SmartWatch, then you can start using the new features of the watch.

Since both Samsung and Apple are becoming interested much in smartwatchs, Sony will have to be more careful to maintain its position in this emerging market.

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LG announces Jelly Bean for more mobile

LG has once again use his official blog to give good news to some of the users of its smartphones. Obviously this does not involve all the smartphones of the company, but rather a few. As was announced, some of the phones will be getting Android 4.1.2 LG Jelly Bean soon, and these terminals "exclusive" LG Optimus 4X will be the high end and also the not so powerful LG Optimus L7. Recall that both teams were launched last year.

In some cases, if we acquire one of these terminals via a special plan our phone company, may have to wait a little longer before the update is available. Jelly Bean has several enhancements and improvements compared to Ice Cream Sandwich and earlier versions of Android.

For now the only update has been announced for these two phones, but we hope that some models share the news in the coming days or perhaps weeks. We will have to be patient and attentive enough to see what decides to LG.

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