Gear Fit bracelet connected Samsung

Everyone thought that the news of Samsung would be limited to new smartphone Galaxy S5 and watches Gear 2 and Neo 2 (Light in France). There is nothing! Like what, you can still be surprised at the press conference and it is not worse. The Korean manufacturer has introduced its strap connected, Gear Fit . And the least we can say is that the surprise was total. If the principle is riding the current fashion of connected objects, the approach is a little further from a technological point of view. Indeed, the first singularity of the bracelet is a curved AMOLED touchscreen and color!Let's face it: this is clearly the most beautiful view on the subject, far ahead of any competition which is essentially limited to a few pixels. 1.84 inch screen offers a resolution of 432 x 128 pixels. That is enough to check the information provided, the number of steps to calories burned, through the heartbeat . For just as the phone Galaxy S5 , a special sensor is placed on the back of the bracelet in order to read the information in real time from the wrist or from a phone connected via Bluetooth 4.0 LE .

Moreover, during the conference, it was announced that twenty products of the Galaxy range is compatible with the bracelet. Is this a backdoor to announce that the bracelet reserves phones brand means?Hopefully not, because such a policy is certainly detrimental to watch Galaxy Gear first name. Another strong point is the Gear Fit is resistant to water and dust, certified IP 67 . The shower should not be an obstacle, its weight is particularly flattering: 27 grams only. Unfortunately, the battery is not sensational, Samsung evokes 3-4 days of autonomy under normal conditions or 5 days standby. On this point, the competition does not have to blush. Expect to be able to move the wrist, but so far no date or price have been announced.

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Samsung Galaxy S 5 with optimized camera and fingerprint sensor

Samsung has announced the fifth generation of the Galaxy S series. The Samsung Galaxy S5 is equipped with a fingerprint sensor and an optimized 16-megapixel camera and comes in April.

The smartphone is equipped with a 5.1-inch Super AMOLED equipped Full HD monitor. The new Samsung flagship is water and dust resistant (IP67).

Faster camera

The 16-megapixel camera in the Samsung Galaxy S5 is designed to provide the fastest auto-focus speed of 0.3 seconds. A new selective autofocus to enable certain image sections highlight.

Biometric theft protection

A new fingerprint sensor to safely protect the device biometrically and can also be used for mobile payments. This fingerprint sensor hiding behind an elongated button, which simultaneously serves as a home button. In addition, one can power-saving mode set in which the display changes to black and white display and all the unnecessary features are switched off, the battery life increase.

Video: Samsung Galaxy S5

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Wristwatch Arcade, an arcade wrist

A watch can be smart, futuristic or just original. Illustrates this model is intended as a nod to the terminals 80 arcades. Retro timepiece that displays the time like an arcade game.

The accessory allows the owner to carry a small arcade wrist. It is an analog watch with a design inspired by asteroids. On the dial is a small ship and two meteorites of different sizes instead of needles. Their respective positions and allows you to translate the hours and minutes easily.Equipped with a joystick as an ornament, it is provided with a fire button to activate a red backlight.It also triggers a specific sound effects. Only downside, watch arcade does not however make a real game play

Recently available on ThinkGeek , it is offered to the public for the modest sum of $ 60 .

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Windows 8.1 update 1: new preview mop Web

Since the beginning of the month, several Prerelease Windows 8.1 update 1 is out and about on the web. If they are distributed without the consent of Microsoft, they still allow you to make a serious idea next steps of the OS. For a few hours, a new pre-release is still at large. It is always WZor , who had already announced the release of the previous versions, which again prevents users via his Twitter account the diffusion of this . This is called MICROSOFT.WINDOWS.8.1.2014.UPDATE.X86-64.ONLY.MSU.9600.17025.WINBLUE_GDR.140214-1706-WZT . It is therefore an update applicable systems 32 and 64 bits . She dated 16.02.2014 and as in the previous edition, we must "tweak" a bit before installing this new prerelease. If little new compared to previous pre-release have yet been identified, it seems that OS is faster in the light of the first comments of users who have installed this edition. It is also likely that Microsoft is well advanced and that the bulk of the work was done, though Redmond has not officially communicated on this issue. It will anyway wait until April before Microsoft unveils its schedule during the Build.

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Apple shows interest in Tesla Motors

The U.S. technology company Apple shows a report in the daily newspaper San Francisco Chronicle on a purchase of the California electric car maker Tesla Motors is interested.According to the newspaper report, it was in the spring of 2013, a meeting between the CEO Elon Musk and the Apple manager Adrian Perica. With Apple's Perica is responsible for the area of ​​mergers and acquisitions.

About six months later Adnaan Ahmad, an analyst at Berenberg Bank in Hamburg had the former Apple CEO Tim Cook and the Board CEO Arthur Levinson recommended the purchase of the electric car manufacturer. The growth profile of Apple would, according to Ahmad change by buying and increase electric cars in the acceptance and made a comparison with the Apple iPhone.

Prior to the launch of the Apple iPhone's market share of smartphones in less than one percent have amounted to and 2016/17 to increase to around 100 percent. In addition to electric cars Apple should also show on Medical his interest and develop an acoustic sensor with the sound engineer Tomlinson Holman which based on the flow noise of the blood is to warn of a heart attack. Tomlinson Holman already developed the THX seal of quality and has been working at Apple for three years.

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Google explains how not to fear with Google Glass

With the growing number of controversies surrounding the Google Glass , their manufacturer has decided to react. Google has published a number of tips, for users of its connected glasses, so that they are better seen in society .

So ten tips that are published , with such diverse examples as "ask permission to the people around you," or "do not be rude to the people around you." Common sense, then, but that does not necessarily come naturally to mind for all users. It is interesting to note that these tips are especially users themselves, with whom Google has collected opinions and impressions .

In the United States, the phenomenon of Google Glass has attracted much attention, and some complain of a particular category of users haughty and rude as they are their device on the nose.The term "Glasshole" even made ​​its appearance in the jargon surrounding the glasses, and became a real problem that Google is trying to address through this. Here are the different advice given by Google, 

• Explore the world around you
• Use voice commands Glass
• Ask for permission
• Use the screen lock
• Be an active user community
• Do not attach the screen too long
• Do not use the glasses for an extreme sport
• Expect to get questions
• Do not be scary or unpleasant

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Facebook bought the WhatsApp app for $ 19 billion

Facebook has been offering mobile messaging application WhatsApp for approximately € 14 billion. Launched in 2009, the service has 450 million monthly users and wins a million every day. 

Facebook on Wednesday announced the largest acquisition in its history. He put on the table the enormous sum of $ 19 billion for the application of mobile messaging WhatsApp . This merger "will allow us, with new eye-catching mobile services even connect more people in the world" and "help strengthen both services," said CEO and founder of the world's largest social network, Mark Zuckerberg , presenting Operation analysts. 

Facebook will pay $ 4 billion in cash and $ 12 billion in shares to buy this popular application and growth. The remaining 3 billion will be paid premiums Facebook shares to the founders and employees of WhatsApp over the four years following the closure of the transaction, expected this year. The boss-founder January Kum also come to the board of the network. If the operation fails, WhatsApp will receive $ 2 billion in compensation. 

"The size of the transaction is really impressive, and it will be talked about a bubble," responds Greg Sterling, an analyst at Opus Research, noting that Facebook was taking a risk because "in social media, there is the thing to mode, and the following year, it may be another application. " At the NYSE, the Facebook share was also 2.57% to 66.31 dollars to 0030 GMT in electronic trading after closing. 

One million new users per day

"WhatsApp is going to connect a billion people. Services that reach this level all have an incredible value," replies Mark Zuckerberg, which boasts "an extremely high quality product" and "a very important communication network" very popular especially in Europe and Latin America. "Over time, people will pay for it," he predicts. CFO, David Ebersman , recalled that WhatsApp began to introduce paid subscriptions in some countries, even if "maximize revenue is not the short-term priority" for the application that is above all expand its network. 

For almost five years, WhatsApp is already claiming more than 450 million monthly users worldwide, and wins a million more each day as Facebook, which says it sends a message number "close to the entire volume of SMS global telecom operators. " 

The most expensive acquisition of Facebook, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, was previously the sharing app Instagram photos, paid $ 715 million in 2012. The social network expects to have the same approach with WhatsApp with Instagram: the application will retain its brand and continue to operate independently and in parallel to the implementation of existing messaging Facebook. 

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