The Amazon smartphone remains on track

New rumors say that Amazon  is working on a smartphone that will get to be on par line tablet Kindel Fire. It seems that the company has chosen not to use a 4.3-inch screen and has chosen one of 4.7 inches instead. Apart from this, it is rumored that this phone will be released between April and June.

Amazon is working on improving several features and specifications of mobile, although not many details, but at least we know that the screen has been modified and will not be what was originally intended. This is due to a growing demand for large-screen smartphones was detected in the market. While the launch is expected to take place during the second quarter, manufacturing problems at the level of Foxconn could delay plans Amazon.

As noted earlier, this smartphone used a modified version of the operating system Android and would use the mapping service Nokia instead of using using much of the competition, that of Google .

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An implant allows our smarthpone monitor our blood

The mobile phones are great. We can do anything with them, as there is a app for almost anything we want to do. Now even our smarthpone may monitor our blood . Well, the smartphone itself will not monitor our condition, but will be able to tell us if it detects any potential problems.

How is this possible? Thanks to a 14mm long implant that has been created by a group of doctors and scientists from Switzerland. This small implant is able to measure levels of protein, glucose and lactic acid, among other things, both when we sleep and when we are awake.

The small implant uses a Bluetooth connection to transmit the data to your smartphone, where you can keep an eye on your current health status.

This type of monitoring is very useful because it allows even detect a heart attack before it happens, which in many cases can save the life of the person if the attack is detected early.

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MiiPC: a $ 100 PC that parents can block at any time

Today, the boys quite often use the Internet. They use it to connect with their friends, to play and sometimes even homework. Many parents think their child has access to the Internet (and all that it may offer) is simply frightening. Children can get to tinker when they should do homework, talk to strangers and more malicious. Well here is when  MiiPC into action.

MiiPC is a mini PC that runs on Android. Using this platform, gives us access to thousands of applications from the store Play Google also allows us to stream HD videos and comes with software installed.

Parents are also an app for your smartphone. What role does this app? To block websites, from playing video games when there is time to do it, we can change the age restrictions for our children, and that of 10 years will not have to comply with the restrictions of 7, for example. In other words, parents have control.

If you wonder why the specifications, has a dual-core processor at 1.2GHz, 1GB of RAM and 4GB of memory. The MiiPC price is only $ 100 dollars.

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Free calls via Facebook Messenger available for UK

 

Very good news for sure. Facebook is becoming increasingly generous apparently. The great feature of Facebook calls using WiFi, which until now was only available for the U.S. and Canada, it is also for the UK. If you live in any country of the unitary state, then you can use the great feature of free calls to  Facebook Messenger. What is the only problem with all this?Well that is available only for iOS, is not yet known when it will launch for Android.

Facebook Messenger allows us to make free calls to our Facebook friends. We should pay absolutely no charge for the call, only need a wireless internet connection and you can start talking. Furthermore, similar to Facebook chat allows our friends leave messages when they are not, the app allows us to leave voice messages for them to be heard later.

Hopefully this great feature of Facebook Messenger will soon be available for the rest of the world so we can all benefit from it.

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Details and photos of the Galaxy S Mini IV

 

As we know, a couple of weeks ago was presented in New York in Samsung Galaxy S IV .Surely you remember last year not only launched the Galaxy S III, but also a similar but smaller model: the Galaxy S III Mini. It seems that this time history will repeat again. What you see in the picture above is the new  GT-I9190 (S IV Mini) with his older brother so we can see a clear comparison of size. The designs are very similar, but obviously the S IV Mini has a smaller screen, which is great news for those who do not like the 5-inch screens.

At the hardware level is not as well equipped as the S IV, but still holds its own. The Super AMOLED screen is a 4.3-inch, 960 × 540, the processor is a dual-core 1.6GHz and run with Android 4.2.2, using the interface TouchWiz UX 2.0 Nature. It also says that there will be a dual-SIM version.

This is all we know for now, but if the leaks continue at this rate we will soon know more.

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The Nexus 5 could be smaller than the Nexus 4

Many smartphones High technology to be launched this year. As time has passed, smartphones have increased in size. Now it is normal to encounter gigantic screens of 5 inches, which is not to everyone's liking. But we have good news, as it is said, moving next Google, the Nexus 5, will have a smaller screen than its sibling, the Nexus 4, which carries a 4.7-inch.

Apparently the Nexus 5 will carry a 4.5-inch screen and keep the HD resolution , which would give it a pixel density of 326 per inch, which is not bad.

Like many modern high-end smartphones are expected to use this new Nexus processor quad-core Snapdragon 600 at 1.5GHz and incorporate also a 9-megapixel CCD sensor.Regarding the battery, be of 2800mAh is estimated. And another thing: the Nexus 4 does not have a microSD slot, so probably neither will Nexus 5.

That's all for now. Google hope to officially announce the smartphone to filter or to find out more details.

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More rumors of Motorola X

No one has a lot of security on the specifications that incorporate the  Motorola X . If the rumors are accurate, within a few months this smartphone will be hitting the market, but the fact is that there are many ideas that incorporate hardware.

We talk about many things such as a processor Nvidia Tegra 4 and a high quality camera, also made mention of a Snapdragon processor and a standard camera, among other things. While we wait for any possible confirmation that incorporating the mobile web has emerged in a new list of specifications.

As stated, the Motorola X take a modern processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 , your screen would measure 4.7 inches and have HD resolution, but also would have a large battery of 4000mAh . There is also the possibility that it is watertight and incorporates a protection Gorilla Glass. They notice the absence of a microSD reader.

All these are just rumors, so we can not rely much. We will have to wait until you hear coming from official sources.

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UBot-5, a robot therapist

We love robots. These little helpers metal are extremely useful and are able to do all sorts of tasks. For here we have seen the wonders of industry robotics in several occasions, so I know there are robots to perform almost any task you can think of. In this case, we have to  UBot-5, a kind of robot therapist .

UBot-5 is a humanoid robot the size of a child has some kind of arms with clips on the ends and also has a screen where the head would go, as you can see in the picture. Recent studies have shown that robots can sometimes turn into very good therapists, and have one of these for certain therapies are good for patients.

A man aged 72 with certain disabilities and physical difficulties was an extensive therapy several weeks with said robot. During this time he held various arm movements exercises and word games. Finally, thanks to UBot-5, was improved slightly moving his own arms and also scored better verbal expression.

This makes it clear that robots are undoubtedly extremely useful and can be used in virtually any area.

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