Sony Smart Watch 2

Sony Mobile has a surprise re-release of Android-based smart watches, Sony SmartWatch 2 Compared with the previous series, this second edition of the successor SmartWatch have a waterproof benefits.

Director of Marketing Mobile Communications Sony Xperia Callum MacDougall said, the user typically holds the phone several times a day to read the news, check at the time, saw, and social networking updates, use your favorite apps, take pictures, listen to music playing video games.

"With this device, users can delete the mobile phone without the need of a pocket or purse control," Callum said during a press conference at the Jumeirah Hotel, Shanghai, China (25/06/2013).

Callum added to this device, the user can combine form and function in a single, multifunction watches, reminders, Android interface and remote control. Social media applications such as Twitter and Facebook are also available in this smart clock.

Latest features from the previous successor connectivity is Near Field Communications (NFC) for couples touch, especially with Sony's latest phones are not. With this function, the phone can be connected to a wireless headset, connect the portable speaker, up Sony's TV output.

Waterproof watches are similar to normal watches on the market. The difference is, this clock has a number of features that distinguish ordinary watches.

On the right side, this watch has a power button (still wearing OmniBalance design, similar to the design of the Sony Xperia Xperia ZZ and ultra used). On the left side there is a phone that is also a USB connector into the socket.

This elegant watches can take up to four days. If not used anything else, only serves as a clock, SmartWatch can take up to 2 weeks.

Home screen watch chain made of aluminum and aluminum cases, analog interface. There is no any button on the front of the screen, because it has the appearance like Android phones, home button, back button, and demand shifts up and down.

On the touch screen, this clock also has a number of functions that can be selected by moving the screen like on other Android phones. Just because the screen is only 1.6 inches, the screen resolution is only 220 x 176 pixels.

Sony SmartWatch 2 main features:

• Have connectivity near field communication (NFC) first in the world
• The screen is readable even in sunlight (screen brightness)
• Waterproof (IP57)
• The interior is simple
• Material aluminum and stainless steel chain
• Compatible with most Android phones in particular are widely
• Wrist watches can be exchanged as desired. Available in white blue, black and pink

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Acer Iconia B1-A71 - Prices are affordable with Latest OS

Acer apparently interested to play cheap tablet segment with the launch of Iconia B1, With a minimum price you can have a 1.2 GHz dual core tablet.

Iconia B1 designed using plastic material, body B1 easy to leave fingerprints, the same thing also happened on the screen that can easily be soiled by the touch of your finger.

This tablet dimension 197.5 x 128.5 x 11.3 mm with a weight of 320gr. In the vertical position, will find standard port 3.5 mm audio jack on the top, memory card slot and microUSB port at the bottom side. While the power button and volume control located on the right side.

Iconia B1-A71 using TFT Capacitive Multi-touchscreen, as most important part of a tablet, Acer preparing 7-inch LCD screen with a WSVGA resolution (1024 x 600) which has a pixel density of about 170 ppi. With a capacitive touch screen technology which could receive up to a five-point touch input simultaneously. Unfortunately the tablet is not equipped with an ambient light sensor, which serves as an automatic brightness control. In general, the ability of the screen used B1 Iconia is nothing special especially when used outdoors with direct sunlight.

Acer Iconia B1-A71 using the MTK processor dual core 1.2 GHz which is equipped with 512MB of RAM. As for storing images or multimedia collection, acer providing total internal storage space of 8 GB with 5 GB of free use by the user.

For power requirements, Iconia B1 only provided by acer with Li-Ion battery capacity of 2720mAh. However, the tablet is not equipped with a connection to the mobile network, so if used in reasonable condition, B1 standby time will seem longer than tablets with cellular connections.

To enjoy the song, you can use Google play music that is equipped with equalizer settings, bass booster and 3D effects. With speaker holes are located on the back, B1 can produce sound with quality standards

While to watch the video, you should be quite satisfied with default video player android, you will not be able to adjust the brightness or choose the view mode of the video you watch.

Iconia B1-A71 using Jelly Bean Android 4.1.2 as its operating system which generally carries the standard Android interface. Acer just do a little customization in the notification bar by adding a shortcut setiing like WiFi, Auto-rotate, and so on. When you first turn on the tablet and connect to the internet using WiFi Iconia B1 then it will ask you to register online in order to activate Acer's product warranty.

Iconia B1 homescreen consists of five pages that you can customize by adding a shortcut or widget. Entering the page menu, you will see the standard Android menu which consists of two categories respectively apps and widgets.

B1 also offers Jelly Bean unique features such as Google Now, which is now presenting weather information, driving directions, traffic info, scores favorite games, agenda, currency exchange rates, etc., were taken based on the location information, email and user behavior. Whereas for other applications include Google Current acer only allowing you to subscribe to news from leading global media.

For camera Iconia B1 only has a front camera 0.3 pixels resolution that can be used to detect faces in the face unlock feature which is a standard safety feature that began to be used on android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Although capturing the image using a tablet is not a common thing to do, but the rear camera on a tablet is usually used to scan the document. For video chats or video calls using the front camera, the resulting image quality is very poor. But strangely though only has a front camera with  minimum resolution B1 comes with video editing features, Movie Studio.

Equipped with standard android browser, to explore the virtual world B1-A71 is equipped with chrome for android that offers Internet browsing experience is directly synchronized with chrome browser for desktop PC that can open up to 16 tabs at once.

For connection to a PC, has been included in the sales package data cable that also serves as a charger cable. While to transfer data wirelessly, you can use Bluetooth.

Relying on price as the main attraction, Acer seems to target the lower class segment who want a cheap tablet with the latest OS and decent performance. Unfortunately cheap price must be redeemed in the absence of a 3G connection. For those of you who are more likely to use a tablet for playing games or watching video, this tablet seems to be very suitable for you.

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Acer Liquid Gallant Duo E350

Although continuing lineage Liquid series, Gallat Duo does not seem to use a design that has become a trade mark Liquid series, which is the arcing contours on both the top and bottom

This phone actually appear with a design that resembles a slightly firmer Nexus 4. Metal accents that surround this smartphone provides elegant image. Acer unusual changes in the design of this smartphone, which is by placing the power button on a commonly done position that is not. Button which also serves to lock the screen paired with the camera lens and flash back side phones. You will need time to familiarize yourself using the power button this smartphone.

Smartphone is wrapped with a casing made ​​of plastic material using a dimension of 129 x 65.9 x 9.9 mm and weighs 145 grams. Volume control buttons are on the right, can be found on top the microUSB port and a 3.5mm standard audio jack port

Acer Liquid Gallant Duo E350, has a screen with a size of 4.3 inches, TFT capacitive, which supports up to 16 million colors with a resolution of 540 x 960 and has multi touch support

Different classes with the previous Acer products, Cloud Mobile S500, this smarthphone equipped with a screen similarly sized but have different specifications. Display panel used for example, this smartphone uses only standard TFT panel, which when compared to the S500 Mobile Cloud uses IPS LCD panel technology that is also used by iPhone.

Gallant Duo uses Android v4.0.3 ICS combined with Acer UI. 4 lockscreen display that displays shortcut which were enhanced with interesting animation that resembles an insulated sliding doors when wipe the screen to activate it. This smartphone difference by default install the panels on the homescreen which can not be increased or reduced. Leapview mode that displays the entire homescreen panels in one screen is not available.

Gallant Duo E350 has a 1 GHz processor ARM Cortex-A9, MTK 6575, PowerVR SGX531 GPU. This specification is sufficient to accommodate Android ICS with a relatively good performance.

Gallant Duo camera accompanied by a number of powerful features. Such as the choice color effects, 14 scene modes, HDR and default settings such as sharpness, hue, saturation, brightness, contrast and ISO. This smartphone also has interesting features such as multi angel mode, where users can capture objects that the results can be viewed from several sides, this mode is very similar to the panorama mode which is also owned by the smartphone. Users simply press a virtual button, then move the camera around the object to right. Angles multi mode results are saved in. Mpo and when displayed on a computer you can not enjoy the effects of this multi-angle.

For this smartphone internet connections supports quad band 2G and dual-band 3G. While for local connectivity with users are given choice WiFi hotspot capability when connections to the cellular network is not possible. Switches to browser, this phone equipped with typical ICS default browser that no longer need to doubt its reliability. this browser comes with a number of powerful features such as multi-tab browsing, flash-based content.

Acer Liquid Gallant Duo E350 can be considered as an upgrade of android dual SIM Acer products before, Liquid Z 110, but the smartphone is using a newer version of android, greater RAM capacity, a wider screen, camera with better quality and better design elegant and classy

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ASUS SDRW-08D1S-U

Since ASUS offering notebooks or desktop PCs that are not equipped with an optical drive unit itself, such as the Eee PC series, it is no surprise when Asus present an external optical drive.

Product with code name SDRW-08D1S-U is an external optical drive that is designed with a slim shape and fairly light. Because the product is intended specifically for mobile computers or notebook, therefore mobile impression is very pronounced in this product, which makes it easy if you will carry everywhere.

More detail to design of the product, it appears ASUS here is not messing around, which prioritizes enclosere overall excellent quality and sturdy design. If you are bored with the usual position is placed on the standard position, ASUS is also preparing options that can be assembled stand, making it easy if you want to use for vertical position, that will save space when placed on a table.

On features nothing too flashy. Due to its function as a standard DVD writer with no additional support other than full of CD or DVD media.

For connections, it is recommended that the user to attach that two ends usb connector installed on the host computer, it is intended for maintain stable operation, especially when going to make the process of writing.

On the performance side, from a series of tests on a variety of CD and DVD media. ASUS SDRW-08D1S-U can maintain the level of reading and writing well enough.

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ASUS EEE PC 1021N

Seashell series for mini notebook products from ASUS that penetrated the high-performance side. Best describes in this case is the use of NVIDIA ION graphics platform which incidentally has a very good capability for rendering graphics. In addition for processor  ASUS EEE PC 1021N use atom N330 series which have dual cores. With this, the main processing level be better compared to notebook that still use a standard single core atom.

Design  EEE PC 1021N  comes first in terms of elegant design, because this notebook is included in Seashell series that emphasizes the design. If seen from the shape EEE PC 1021N is not much different from the 1008HA seashell series.

The advantages of this notebook apart from the performance is that even though tech support is part of a mini notebook products that have many limitations, but it now has support for rendering HD content directly. To further maximize the HD content, also provided an HDMI port if default monitor is not maximal. It is also thanks to the use of NVIDIA ION platform. Indeed, in the majority, the most significant contribution of the performance comes from using nVIDIA ION.

Little change compared with other seashell series is the use of soft keyboards and convenient to use, something that is very good if the notebook is used in a long time.

ASUS EEEPC 1021N comes with a 6 cell battery that is more than enough for use up to 5 hours. Even at full load testing all the time, this notebook can last up to 3.5 hours. For high mobility  ASUS EEEPC 1021N very precise

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MSI WIND U115 HYBRID

One of the most glaring of in notebook is the naming of "Hybrid", which here is more related to the hard disk, where in MSI WIND U115 has 2 pieces of HDD and SSD hard drives.

With like this configuration storage, SSD drives as the preferred container for the operating system and applications while the HDD is used to store data. In other words, due to a better ability of SSDs compared to HDDs, both in terms of operational and performance. Although for performance, not absolute SSD will be superior.

Another advantage associated with the use of two different drive is side of the battery life. Where conjunction with ECO feature, when enabled will temporarily disable the HDD drive when there is no access to the HDD.

HDD selected for the disabled because SSD will lower power requirements. Moreover, coupled with the use of a 6 cell battery, battery life became one of the main advantages.

Aside from the storage drive, the main internal components also changes with the use of a new generation of Intel platform, the Intel Atom Z530 processor with a speed of 1.6 GHz and US15W chipset. The speed of the processor is still fairly common, but the Z series have characteristics of lower power requirements.

Performance side, it is not too much difference because the average level of the hardware used in the latest series of wind is in the same class. Its advantage of side of the energy savings come from the main attraction.

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Android Popular worldwide, Mobile Internet Users Increased

Trend use smartphones and tablets to encourage the growth mobile internet users worldwide, mobile carriers become the front door who helps the growth of mobile internet. Among others, by holding on to improve the quality of service will be fast and stable internet through infrastructure and quality services.

Network company Cisco predicts smartphone and tablet will contribute a significant percentage of the mobile data traffic in 2016. Traffic will grow 404 percent from 2011 to 2016, with an average growth of 232 percent.

Development of smartphones and tablets Phenomena, who are available in market more varied from type and price range from year to year, who released by major vendors such as Apple, Samsung, Sony, blackberry, LG.

According to International Data Corporation (IDC) operating system war will happen on smartphones and tablets market who will involve five biggest OS.

IDC data reveals that Google's Android operating system dominate 56 percent of the market, followed by Blackberry with 37 percent. Other players such as Symbian, Windows and iOS only the range of 2 percent to 3 percent market share.

Android on the market will be growing with the increasing number of top vendors who use it. The composition of the global market increasingly bigger as manufacturers of Android-based device providers are constantly racing launches new series, along with the development android itself.

Handheld is sufficient in amount to support the business and the growth of mobile internet. Smartphones have become a part of the lifestyle of many people and his presence will encourage increased usage and foster continuity.

Today many devices that support people to do the work via mobile devices. One of the devices is an increasingly popular Android. Smartphones like Android  generally have internet access facilities. Android smartphone can be used for browsing, downloading and if combined with a good operator, data service charges incurred could be lower. Associated with mobile internet data service provider must be made productive with an open ecosystem, comfort levels have increased with the increasing number of frequency of use.

Existence must become provider of technology a solution. One that should be encouraged is the ability to make the Internet as a bridge economic a solution. Data service provider contributes greatly to the surge in usage intermet. Many new Internet users get they first experience on the internet by using smartphone devices. The ratio between mobile and web browsing current desktop 4: 1, it should become serious consideration for operators to increase data services sector and build a good ecosystem

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