Samsung Galaxy Beam successor spotted with metal exterior in China

At Mobile World Congress in 2012, Samsung voiced a pico projector smartphone good known as a Galaxy Beam. Although it was a cold concept, a phone’s rain was a intermediate specs, aging OS as good as vast chassis. Two years later, it appears that Samsung’s operative upon a inheritor to a Beam called a SM-G3858, according to China’s supervision database. The Tenaa entrance even comes with a couple of pictures, many of that suggest an denote of a projector: there’s obviously a strike upon a tip behind that opens up to a far-reaching lens upon a top, as good as you additionally saw an additional symbol that models after a strange Beam — in fact, a idol upon top of a symbol looks eerily similar to a a single seen here. Curiously, Samsung has strew a sporty little demeanour in preference of a neat steel build, that positively seems a improved fit for professionals.

The database additionally gives us a glance during a specs, a little of that have been an alleviation over a strange Beam; a China Mobile-branded phone reportedly packs a 4.66-inch WVGA (800×480) display, Android 4.2.2, a quad-core 1.2GHz chipset with 1GB of RAM, microSD container with up to 32GB outmost storage, as good as TD-SCDMA as good as GSM connectivity (no LTE upon this model, nonetheless there’s a possibility this is simply a 3G-only various of a tellurian model). It’s additionally 11.6mm thick, that is many thicker than many Samsung smartphones though still is scarcely a full millimeter thinner than a original. It’s still as well early to establish either this is starting to be disdainful to China Mobile or accessible to a tellurian market, though during slightest you know a phone exists for now; Samsung, we’re hopeful, will yield us with a rest of a story during a little indicate down a road.

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Chromecast Android app prepped for upcoming international rollout

Google’s Chromecast has been really good perceived so distant — as well as interjection to the SDK, apropos some-more utilitarian with improved await from music, video as well as print apps — though but general availability, it’s wily to get the reason of if we do not live in the US. Previous indications forked to the UK launch this month, as well as things have been backing up to have which happen. First, Google’s Sundar Pichai referred to the HDMI dongle would come to “many some-more countries” in entrance weeks during his SXSW Interactive appearance. Next, the Chromecast carry out app upon Android perceived an refurbish creation it accessible in 50 brand new languages. Android Police dug in to the updated record itself, anticipating references for “TV offers” as well as probable 5GHz WiFi support. Finally, Liliputing points out the twitter by an worker of UK tradesman Curry’s, with the pic claiming to uncover the smoke-stack of Chromecasts which have only arrived, despite but an expect recover date or compared sell info.

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Xiaomi's next-gen budget phone shows up with octa-core chip, larger screen

Xiaomi’s sub-$ 130 bill line, the Redmi (previously good known as Hongmi aka “Red Rice”), has been credited for accelerating the company’s enlargement in to Taiwan, Hong Kong as good as Singapore, with circuitously countries similar to Malaysia, Indonesia, as good as Thailand shortly to be combined to the list. While this is the brand brand new development, the company’s already prepping the follow-up model, according to 4 brand brand new listings upon China’s TENAA acceptance database. As you can see, this arriving device is noted with red Android buttons upon the front, which gives divided the Redmi identity. It’ll underline the 5.5-inch, 720p IPS arrangement (a strike from the stream 4.7-inch version), as good as Android 4.2.2, 1GB of RAM as good as an octa-core processor (our theory is MediaTek, again) entrance in dual versions: 1.4GHz as good as 1.7GHz.

As distant as 3G radios have been concerned, China Mobile users can collect the TD-SCDMA model, since folks elsewhere have the WCDMA choice — you think the CDMA2000 chronicle for China Telecom will arrive later. Other something good to eat embody the some-more absolute 13-megapixel categorical camera, the beefed-up 5-megapixel front imager (though the TENAA inventory additionally threw in an 8-megapixel mention) as good as the same aged microSD enlargement (up to 32GB).

Alas, there’s no LTE to be found here, which might give event to internal competitors similar to Huawei, Coolpad as good as Hisense, who have been possibly awaiting or already charity LTE phones in the sub-$ 130 shred in China. On the alternative hand, the stream conjecture is which Xiaomi will betray this brand brand new Redmi during the “MiFan Festival” — the jubilee for the company’s anniversary — in early April, so there’s still the tiny possibility of saying an LTE chronicle cocktail up in between right away as good as then.

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​Rdio plans to stop using Echo Nest, because Spotify bought it

Rdio’s CEO, Anthony Bay, doesn’t wish Spotify meaningful what it knows, as well as to which end, a song make make use of of is seeking to mangle divided from Echo Nest. However, a song comprehension company, not long ago paid for by Spotify, is only a single of multiform partners which Rdio taps for a song data, together with Rovi. Spotify has formerly pronounced which it’ll run Echo Nest as a “wholly-owned subsidiary” which should keep a interpretation make make use of of comparatively giveaway from any meddling. In an talk with CNBC, Bay said: “We, substantially similar to many people, have mixed sources of interpretation which you use. So you will stop regulating which source of interpretation [Echo Nest] as well as make make use of of alternative sources.”

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First-gen Kindle Paperwhite gets second-gen features, at last

First-gen Kindle Paperwhite owners have been woefully blank a garland of features, together with Goodreads integration, accessible upon a device’s successor. Thankfully, this ultimate program modernise brings their e-readers up to standard — and, yes, that equates to early Paperwhite adopters can right away place The Winds of Winter upon their to-read register from inside of a device. Just similar to upon a second-gen Paperwhite, Goodreads’ informed “g” idol should crop up upon a menu club after installing a software. Clicking it will launch a app where users can sequester books in to lists, share digital bookshelves, demeanour for week end reads or post excerpts.

Those who do not sold caring for a Amazon-owned use competence suffer a alternative brand brand new facilities more, though. For parents, there’s a FreeTime function, that allows them to have profiles for their kids as well as guard their celebration of a mass habits. The refurbish additionally gives users a energy to customize e-book list categories (Cloud Collections), slick books but losing a page they’re upon (Page Flip) as well as simply classify bookmarks, highlights as well as notes. When people demeanour up words, they’ll right away see dictionary, Wikipedia as well as X-Ray information, as well as those difference get automatically combined to Vocabulary Builder. Finally, they can right away review footnotes in-line but carrying to go to an additional page.

An over-the-air refurbish with all a brand brand new facilities is rolling out to first-gen Paperwhites over a subsequent couple of weeks. People who’ve had sufficient of waiting, however, can manually download a program modernise right right away from Amazon’s website.

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Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc, a new optical disc standard for long-term storage

Aiming to suggest the long-term storage choice in front form, Sony as well as Panasonic have voiced the brand new Archival Disc format that will store in in between 300GB as well as 1TB per disc. The companies have been bigging up the non-HDD form cause for the hardiness to heat as well as humidity. They’re additionally earnest “inter-generational compatibility” in in between opposite formats as the customary matures — though we’ll hold it when you see it. While the primary team-up was sealed behind in Jul final year, the stream roadmap suggests we’ll see the initial 300GB discs from Summer 2015. Storage upgrades will follow, in line with vigilance estimate improvements, with tall linear firmness estimate (which all sounds good) presumably set to suggest up to the enchanting a single terabyte of space per disc. We’ll only go forward as well as chuck divided all these Blu-rays.

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Electronic Arts is exploring virtual reality

When you’re a CEO of a second largest video diversion publishing house in a world, people have a bent to take what you contend seriously. Case in point, Electronic Arts’ Andrew Wilson not long ago suggested his company’s skeleton for practical reality. At a South by Southwest panel, Wilson pronounced which his association is reduction focused upon a record of VR, as well as some-more meddlesome in only how people devour it. As he sees it, you correlate with games in 3 opposite ways: disposition back, disposition in as well as seeking over — relating to console, Personal Computer as well as mobile gaming, respectively. With VR, he thinks there will be a fourth: removing in. He says which this could occur possibly around a headset or even a hologram popping up from your vital room floor, as well as he’s pulling his group to try it.

Think of this along a lines of Amazon (hypothetically) announcing which it’d accept Bitcoin for remuneration as well as you’re upon a right track; which there’s an additional vital player in a VR space helps countenance a medium. While this could all be taken as pie-in-the-sky speculation, a actuality which EA is obviously invested in a practical being isn’t anything to write off — only demeanour during what a company’s finished with mobile gaming.

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