If you actually stopped and took time to consider the power that you hold within your hand when using your smartphone you'd probably be shocked at how far devices and manufacturers have come in such a short space of time. The announcement and release of the Apple iPhone back in 2007 lit a fire under the smartphone market which for the first time saw mainstream users start to part with as much cash as business users and executives alike. Now, thanks to a brilliantly put together video by CNET, we can take a look at the evolution of smartphone design over the last eight years.
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If you happen to be the adventurous do-it-yourself (DIY) orientated type of individual who likes to sink their teeth into an exciting technology based challenge then this one could be for you. Marc Jensen, James Squires, and Shawn Roske from Make: have produced a walkthrough video that shows how you can "automatically" open doors at home or work by simply tapping on the display of an Apple Watch.
The Apple Watch may be Apple's "most personal product yet". It may be the first new product type that the Cupertino company has launched for a number of years. It may also be company's first new category product post-Steve Jobs. It may even only be the beginning of the road map as it sits with its first-generation release status. However, it seems that while all of those things are indeed true, it's also true that the precise timepiece is performing extremely well when it comes to customer satisfaction, according to recent surveys.
After going through the process of fine tuning and improving thanks to twelve months of preview builds, Microsoft has officially launched the latest version of its Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) about a week before Windows 10 is released to public. After taking onboard comments from users over the last year, a time period that also included a release candidate, Microsoft feels it has sufficiently improved the Visual Studio IDE enough to release to the public alongside an update to its .NET framework.
It seems that Samsung is all about the design at the moment. After delighting the Asian market with the introduction of the extremely thin Galaxy A8 last week, the South Korean company has now offered the same level of attention to a new set of tablet devices. The unveiling of the Galaxy Tab S2, which replaces last year's Tab S, represents Samsung's thinnest tablet devices in the history of the company and even offer a sleeker profile than that of Apple's thinnest iPad, the iPad Air 2.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush has proved that there is indeed time for a little fun and games in this world, even when you're very much in the spotlight as one of the individuals vying to become the most powerful man in the world. In a new whimsical 46-second campaign video entitled "Jeb's Silicon Valley Favorites List" Bush, or "Jeb" as he generally prefers to be called, reveals his not so secret love of Apple gadgets along with his preferred Twitter hashtag and even more bizarrely, how he likes to dress.
New photos have emerged on the Internet today that claim to show the rear casing of Apple's next-generation iPhone. The leaked component is purported to be an official rear casing directly from Apple's iPhone 6s production line.
It's genuinely considered that it is only a matter of time until larger smartphone manufacturers like Apple and Samsung release a wave of new devices that come with wireless charging as an absolute standard, and it seems to be the next logical step as well. With that said, considering the speed at which technology is focused on renewable energy and how work on solar cells is expanding, it's probably not too far in the distant future when the same companies will be looking at integrating wireless solar charging. Maybe, just maybe, the existence of the Solar Paper Kickstarter campaign will go some distance to convincing those smartphone behemoths that the time is now for this type of innovation.
iPhone and iPad users have become accustomed to receiving an app for free every week, courtesy of the App Store team. Recently, Google has follow suit by introducing a similar promotion onto its Play Store for owners of Android devices. This week, both Apple and Google are offering up exciting games as part of their respective promotions.
Xiaomi may be one of the largest smartphone vendors in the world, but recent spotlight on the Chinese company has seen it drawn into the copycat saga that has dogged Apple and Samsung for quite some time. The Beijing headquartered company is well known for producing relatively high-end smartphones, amongst other items of consumer technology, for seemingly budget prices, but the company has been accused of copying Apple's software and design elements in a number of its Mi device. Hugo Barra, an executive at Xiaomi, doesn't see what all of the "copycat melodrama" is about.
















