Nokia has denied rumors about the release of smartphones with water-repellent nano

Nokia has commented about the imminent appearance of new models Pureview Lumia and with water-repellent nano. On the eve of the vice-president of the Finnish company in Western Europe, Conor Pierce said that the developed technology is "ready to apply it," but in the ensuing statement was reported that the words of Peirce interpreted incorrectly.

"Yes, of course, the purpose of any laboratory studies is that the effort is not wasted and development have been implemented in practice. However, Nokia has no plans to provide the market with a range of water-repellent coating Lumia, "- commented on the information in the publication of The Verge of Finnish companies.

Recall Nokia Technology was presented in March. Then company officials have stated that "superhydrophobic" coating Nokia contact angle of 180 degrees (120 degrees against a Teflon coating) that causes water to "bounce" from the surface.

iPhone can help control the growth of indoor plants

The Japanese do not get tired to surprise fans of the most unusual gadgets and devices at this time presented a wireless sensor Koubachi Wi-Fi Plant Sensor.


The new device is a special device, equipped with sensors to measure temperature, soil moisture and light levels. The device should be placed in a pot with a favorite cactus or any other plant.

The obtained results of measurements of the device sends over the Internet "to be." For this gadget equipped with a module Wi-Fi. This made Koubachi Wi-Fi Plant Sensor - a high-tech device for tracking plants.

On the basis of the testimony taken, the corresponding cloud service makes the necessary findings and provides users with tips on caring for houseplants. There is a Web application and its version for the iPhone. Purchase a device Koubachi Wi-Fi Plant Sensor can be around $ 100.

Women are twice as active men in social networks

The British telecommunications company BT Group conducted a survey of two thousand people for their enthusiasm for social networks. It was found that the most active users of services such as Facebook and Twitter, are women.

The survey showed that more than half of the fairer sex regularly communicate in social networks, among men the figure is 34%, reports The Telegraph. 18% of women surveyed said that if the Internet did not exist, the greatest disappointment they have caused this lack of social networks. Among male respondents referred to services of fans counted 7%.

The study also showed that 9% of women surveyed prefer online games (against 8% for men); services Flickr, YouTube and Vimeo, on the contrary, popular among the male population (13% vs 6%).

These data suggest that women are increasingly using the internet to find all sorts of information (addresses of stores, discounts and availability of data on the holding of shares), while men prefer to use a global network for learning and expanding horizons.

Latvian will pay $ 79 thousand for the fake Android-application

Antivirus companies are more and more loudly sounding the alarm about the constant coming of malicious programs that pose a threat to mobile users. But this does not mean that all criminals get away with it: one of them was caught, and he will have to pay a large fine.

This developer originally from Latvia, but no more information about him not: he knows neither the name nor the country in which he brought to justice. For a long time to sell paid versions of popular applications, including Angry Birds and Cut The Rope. Once downloaded, it became clear that the application does not work, and users instead of the game receiving the flow of premium messages. For each such message to their account removed about 8 dollars.


After some time the application Dummy removed from the online store Google Play (Android Market), a developer somehow calculated. Now he faces a fine of almost 79 thousand dollars. He was also ordered to pay 44,000 dollars affected users.

Google said that it does not check for the application at the time of unloading at Google Play, but in the case reports of oddities in the behavior of applications or cases of possible fraud, the company always tries to respond promptly.

LG announces extra-screen smartphone

The South Korean company LG Group announced the LCD screen smartphone, which is capable of displaying images with a resolution of 1920x1080.

Diagonal screen is the latest of five inches, and each accommodate four hundred and forty-inch pixels. According to experts, the new product uses a matrix that is made by proprietary AH-IPS, which allows to achieve excellent viewing angles and better color reproduction.

It is worth noting that the corporation is going to start to deliver the latest display in the second half of this year. In addition to displays, the screens will be designed for the "reader." Recall that in the spring of this year, LG has developed production screens in electronic ink.

Change orientation: Apple patents a stylus for touch screen

The new patent applications for Apple, the iPhone Stylus end of the era, the company's interest can be traced to the pen input.
Apple is developing several stylus compatible with the iPhone and the iPad, including the stylus to the handle, which has built-in feedback, according to AppleInsider citing patent applications.

Interestingly, the interest in the pen input, Apple came several years after the company launched a iPhone, the first device with a touch screen, essentially costing a stylus.

In the first of the applications described by the pen with a tiny built-in camera that allows you to increase the accuracy of product management. But a much higher interest is another application called Haptic Input Device ("Input Device with Feedback").

Stating that at the touch of the usual touch-screen user feels a hard surface, engineers have proposed to equip the vibration function is not very mobile device, and a pen. As planned, the pen must receive signals from a device with a touch screen and vibrating properly, so that the user gets the feeling that it deals with various objects and textures on the screen.

"This input device can help you deal with the content shown in the screen and create a more vivid and realistic impression" - said in a patent application filed in the Office of the U.S. Patent and Trademark (USPTO) in November 2010 The second application was also filed in 2010

As notes The Register, the date of filing means that the development was carried out stylus during the life of the former head of Apple's Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs), who was opposed to such controls. Actually, no iPhone, no iPad does not have a stylus and operated solely by hand.

We add that the placement of applications in the USPTO does not mean that Apple intends to sell patented technology into commercial products.

Apple to make friends their own solutions to the Chinese search engine Baidu

Both companies are interested in the transaction. Baidu will allow it to get to the popular mobile platform, and Apple will be interested more local consumers who are accustomed to the services of Baidu. And it is important for the American corporation, which is only in the first quarter of the year in China, earned 7.9 billion dollars. This is despite the fact that the country is a market leader in Android with a share of 68%.

Apple, we note, also decided to optimize for China, and computers: the new OS, Mountain Lion, which will appear next month, integrated services Baidu, QQ, Sina Weibo, Youku and Tudou.