In smart clock Pebble has a new competitor

The company MetaWatch started collecting funds for the analogue of "smart" watches Pebble, working in conjunction iPhone and Android-smartphone. Developers are attracted money to the project through the website Kickstarter. By this time they managed to collect just over 150 thousand dollars (at the original stated goal of one hundred thousand). Prior to completion of financing there are still 20 days.

Hours Strata operate in a similar way as the Pebble. Accessory is connected to a compatible "apple" (iPhone 4S or iPad 3) or Android-device via Bluetooth 4.0, and shows a variety of useful information: incoming calls, SMS-message, news feed Facebook, Twitter, calendar, weather and more. Also in the gadget preinstalled for jogging, to control music playback and opoveschalka, which is triggered if the user is too far away from the device.

The benefits of Strata is broad support for operating system, Apple iOS, including most of the new, sixth version. On the project page states that the Strata, in particular, are compatible with the Galaxy Nexus. Will they be able to work in conjunction with other Android-smartphone, is not specified.

Strata are 96x96 pixels display, three-axis accelerometer, Vibro, light sensor, and six buttons. One battery charge will last for five to seven days.

Watch case is protected from moisture. Make a pre-order for the Strata can be $ 159 (in black, green, orange and blue colors). Deliveries accessory is scheduled to begin in November.

What can a tablet?

Company ASUS, producing a Tablet PC called the Google Nexus 7, to meet the cost of $ 199 economized on everything. In the tablet is not a card reader, not even the back of the camera. But some do manage to connect them to the missing device. One of the owners of this gadget has posted photos of unusual network of "transformer". Go to the tablet via USB-hub connected to a mouse, keyboard, USB flash drive and floppy drive! And all this in order to play the old DOS version of the game Ultima. It remains, perhaps, to connect the tablet to a large LCD TV.

HTC and Nokia: rebirth from the ashes?

It seems that the position of Nokia and HTC began leveling off. First the company announced the purchase of software developer, designed for image processing, and the second began working closely with Facebook. So it remains to be seen as a bad case of HTC and Nokia. Both have problems with sales of its smartphones. But they probably will not greatly affect the financial capacity of these companies.

How much Nokia paid for the company Scalado, is not reported. However, representatives of the manufacturer's smartphones indicate that purchased the developer has created a unique photo processing technology that will create a revolution in photo processing. In particular, the modern mechanisms of known media companies allow multiple frames to make one picture, which will carry a significant amount of information about the owner. Scalado have developed software that makes a picture of one frame.

And distinguished company HTC, which cooperated with Facebook. Now, with the support of the largest social network, it will be very difficult to squeeze in any market. Apple's need to really try to overpower the fresh lobby HTC-Facebook. The manufacturer will create social networks for the corporate smart phone, and she, in turn, will help sell it worldwide. The popularity of smartphones developer so high that HTC phones repair service and warranty is much cheaper than devices from other manufacturers.

However, Apple, and in this case is not poorer. Only in the last quarter it earned $ 8.8 billion. And this is just pure profit. A total quarterly revenues of $ 35 billion. It was sold 26 million iPhone and 17 million iPad. However, the plates lost their appeal. Their sales "collapsed" by 10 percent, compared with the same period of 2011.

Android-devices have other problems. Platform was occupied by the hackers. According to Microsoft, from the Android-smartphone has created the first mobile botnet.

From Diablo III have a slot machine

In the most popular "meat grinder" on the planet now you can play joystick and buttons.

Dave is an enthusiast gaming machine Nevinsky collected Diablo III: standing in front of the booth to the screen, the player controls the game play through the joystick and buttons. To do so, had to write an interim program to VB.Net, which connects the Diablo III interface with so unusual in this case management.

Argued that without a problem you can play for all character classes. For example, moving the joystick moves the mouse around the screen, and if at the same time hold the button on its top, he will move the character, without changing the place where the cursor.

Booth itself is made of plywood and decorated with decals, and printed them with the texture of wood, in order to create a sense of narisovannosti by hand.

Declassified Smartphone Sony Mint

Appeared on the Internet comprehensive information about the new smartphone by Sony. He LT30p, also known as Mint. The model (a prototype, of course) fell into the hands of journalists Mobile-Review, which it carefully considered and tested in action, as well as photographed from all angles.


Sony LT30p received a 4.6-inch screen with a resolution of HD, 2-core Snapdragon S4, 1GB RAM, 16 GB of internal memory, slot for memory cards microSD, output MHL, slot MicroSIM, NFC and chip sealed battery. Star of the evening - a 13-megapixel camera capable of recording videos in the resolution of Full HD. The front camera would cost a resolution of HD.


Mint on dimensions less than Xperia S, so that it is more convenient to use with one hand. But MobileReview impressed with something else: the model has no physical buttons below the screen, and it uses the platform of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich at one hundred percent. Standard buttons, interestingly, have settled down a bit unusual: a power button, volume control and camera shutter - all of them perched on his right side.


With regard to changes in the software, then the model will be supported by Small Apps, which will allow access to certain applications directly from houmskrina. Judging by tests, the model is very close in performance to the HTC One S and Galaxy S III, although it is still not the final version of the smartphone.

Unfortunately, it is not clear how soon the Mint will make an official debut.

Nokia gave up its own mobile operating system

Undergoing a prolonged crisis Finnish Nokia has stopped work on a new mobile platform, through which hoped to challenge the phones based on Android. The company hoped that the Linux-platform on the stage of development known as Meltemi, will replace long time used the Series 40, but eventually closed the project as part of the massive reduction in costs.

Experts believe that the rejection of the Meltemi Finnish manufacturer threatens the loss of a strong position in the mass market segment (with the cost of handsets in the $ 100-200). Here, according to IDC, Nokia, despite the losses, is still controlled in the first quarter, more than 20% of sales.

On the platform Meltemi became known in the middle of last year from a leaked video from the network performance of the head of Nokia Stephen Elop. The company itself has never officially confirmed the existence of the project, and to curtail it became known thanks to insider information.

Recall that, according to a published report for the second quarter, once the lead producer losses increased by more than 3 times, reaching 1.41 billion euros. Sales of smart phones for a few months decreased by 34%, even forcing Nokia to the unprecedented decline of prices in the U.S. market: a new tube Lumia 900 fell from 100 to 50 dollars (for comparison, in Russia the same phone offered to buy for 25,000 rubles).

It is expected that in the third quarter, the company will continue to go into negative against stiff competition from Samsung and Apple. The head of the company has already announced that plans to reduce jobs have increased from ten to twenty thousand employees.

The release of the new iPhone may be delayed

Today the web has regular information on the possible delay of the release date of the new iPhone, the announcement is scheduled for this fall.

According to the Chinese resource First Financial Daily, Apple may postpone the release date for the new iPhone due to lack of 28-nanometer chips to be used in it.

The lack of 28-nm chips caused by problems in production at their main supplier - the company Qualcomm.

According to official figures, which became known during the telephone conference of the heads of Qualcomm, at the moment there is no accurate information about the date correct problems in the production of chips.

I would like to remind you that Qualcomm is the only company specializing in the manufacture of chips with an integrated module to support 4G-networks.