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Sony will launch a new heart rate tracking wearable-Sony SmartBand 2

Sony has been working on the updates of its wearable lines. It is reported that it will release Sony SmartBand 2 as a heart rate tracking bit of writs wear.

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The Sony SmartBand 2 offers fitness tracking credentials as well as smartphone-pushed notifications. The watch chain is made by a durable silicone rubber strap with a host of integrated sensors.

To meet the requirement of the new heart rate tracker, Sony SmartBand 2 features an integrated accelerometer to mark your distances covered and calorie burn. This new wearable will be an promising rival for Microsoft Band.

The SmartBand 2 syncs all performance metrics to any Android 4.4 or higher devices, plus iOS 8.2 powered smartphones. The users’s running date will be recorded directly to on-bard storage. Therefore, you don’t have to take your wearable when you go out for exercise.

If you want to have it in hand all the time, it also offers the features of calling and message alerting. It displays colorful LED and produces vibration alerts to remind users of the incoming emails or social notifications.

Sony SmartBand might be come to the public next month. And it will be released up in four colors-black, white, pink and indigo.

The finalized UK price does is yet to confirmed. The fitness tracker will be sold at €119 in European continent.

With A9 chipset, iPhone 6S shoule be up to 30% faster

A recent breakthrough has been made as Apple made test on A9 chipset for iPhone 6S that has put its performance upgrade into perspective. It is said that the Apple’s iPhone 6S will run 30 % faster than its previous edition by using A9 chipset.

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A source on Chinese social network Weibo claims that iPhone 6S with A9 chipset runs 20 to 30% faster than A8 chip in iPhone 6, reports G for Games.

Some details about A9: it was assigned a single-core score of 2090 and a multi-core score of 3569. It is increased respectively from 1611 and 2892 scores of the current-generation component.

It was reported that A9X chipset is designed for iPad Air 3. But it is not so clear where it is true or not. It is assigned a single-core score of 2109 and a multi-core score of 5101.

Comparing the details of chipset, Apple’s in a inferior position to compete with its rivals. The Exynos 7420 inside Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and S6 Edge+ comes with a single-core of 1486 but its multi-core score is at the rate of 5048. And Samsung’s Exynos M1 comes with a single-core score of 2136 and a multi-core score of 7497.

The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus it is reported to be arriving in stores on September 18. While it is official release will be on September 9.

Apple will Update its Magic Mouse and Wireless Keyboard

Apple had already updated its Wireless Keyboard and Magic Mouse for Mac some time ago. And now it seems there will be the new interactions coming soon for these two handset devices.

Report from 9to5Mac indicates that Apple had already filled patent documents for a Magic Mouse 2 and a modified version of the keyboard with FCC.

From the documents they signed, there is no implication whether Apple makes some changes with the physical design of either product or not, however,it listed the details for upgraded internals in the documents.

These two devices are both using the more modern 4.2 standard Bluetooth instead of Bluetooth 2.0 and applying the swapping AA batteries for built-in lithium-ion power packs. The performance for these two devices will be greater.

Apple did not make an announcement to confirm the release date for these two peripherals, but they are expected to be rolled out with the refreshed Mac hardware this year.

It is reported that Cupertino firm,the Apple’s headquarter locates in San Francisco, will release a new product on September 9. It is possibly to introduce its new iPhone hardware to attract more attention from the public.Please pay close attention to Apple’s new release.

The UK customers hope the Galaxy Note being introduced to them

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The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 had released on August 13. Samsung also announced that this smartphone would not be introduced to the UK.

Samsung has been focusing on the US and Asian markets for its smartphones. When it released Galaxy Note 5, it had no plan to introduce the new device to the UK. Well, there are great wishes from the customers in the UK that the Galaxy Note should be brought to them.

There are also wishes stated from the retailers. The online retailer Clove’s petition is looking to convince Samsung considering the plans to provide Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ as Europe’s only 5.7 inches smartphone. It attacks the customers to go across the countries to experienced such device.

The petition implies the strong demand for Note 5 and hope it could be used by more customers.

The voice of local customers think that if there are enough people show their wishes to use the Note 5 in the UK, then the Samsung company will take their petition into fully consideration.

They suggested that Samsung company should make market research for Note 5 in Europe, and learn more about what their customers think.

Here are some specific details for Galaxy Note 5. It contains a mass of high-end specs, such as a 5.7-inch mobile screen, 2560×1440 pixel QHD display, a 64-bit octa-core processor and 4GB of RAM.

It is possibly that there are comments for Note 5 petition from Samsung. Then we will know how the reaction from Samsung about bring Note 5 to the UK. Please pay close to Samsung’s news.

Samsung Pay UK release plans confirm that it will hit UK soon

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Samsung is now working on its Samsung Pay UK release plans. It has been confirmed that UK will be the first country to use Samsung Pay in the European countries.

The Samsung Pay is made to be accepted by UK retailers in the following months. It will be launched in Britain shortly after the global debut in the US and South Korea.

Even though there is no specific details for an exactly release date in UK, the Samsung Galaxy S6 maker has implied the Samsung Pay will be released to compete with Apple Pay in the near future.

Samsung’s spokesperson claimed that the company will launch the Samsung Pay first in the US and South Korea before long.

Then they will launch a European version in accordance with its locally service. They said they have no idea when the company will release the Samsung Pay in Europe, but UK will be their first country to apply this service.

It is working principle is a bit like Apple Pay. Samsung’s Mobile lets users create a smartphone-stored digital recreation of their bank card. Then they can tab the phone against payment terminals to exchange digital currency to close the deals.

Samsung Pay avail of Magnetic Secure Transmission teach to be compatible with more store terminals.

The Samsung Pay doesn’t support all the devices. It only supports a select number of existing Samsung smartphones, such as Samsung Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge,Galaxy S6 Edge+ and the Samsung Galaxy Note 5.

Amazon announced to end the third-party PPC service

Amazon announced that it could close down PPC service in the morning of August 12 of Beijing time. This PPC service will be closed down for good from this October. By using the PPC service, the advertisers can lead the visiting traffic back to their websites from Amazon platform.

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This PPC service was allowed the non Amazon’s seller to buy the advertising space on Amazon. Those specific items’ads pop up on Amazon website so that they lead the customers to visit those retails or manufacturers websites from Amazon.

Scot Wingo, the executive chairman of Channel Advisor claims: “Our clients made full use of this PPC service as it provides a great media to promote sales. On one side, they could cooperate with Amazon, on the other side, they could make their dealing data invisible.”

Wingo added this service could enhance the conversion rate. It surprised most of the advertisers when they received emails from Amazon that this PPC service will be ended.

Amazon confirmed this announcement about PPC service adjustment and it stated that this service will be ended for good shortly after October 31.

It wrote in an Amazon email that: ” We will continue to estimate the services that we offer to our partners and help them to reach our customer community with the best ways so that to promote their business scales. So far, Amazon also offers other advertising services to the third-party sellers, including sponsors’ adverts.”

According to the statistics from eMarketer, Amazon benefits $ 1.26 billion from its worldwide advertising business in 2015. It is expected to increase up to $1.83 billion in 2018.

Pixels’ anti-piracy proposal becomes heavy-handed

Columbia Picture hired the anti-piracy company to take down the illegal of Adam Sandler’s new comedy Pixels but the action might become a bit heavy-handed.

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Torrent Freak reported that Entura International has submitted Vimeo a series of copyright takedowns in the matter of the videos used the word “pixels” in their titles.

In fact, a lot of videos and files can be found that containing the film’s title. It is very common case to see the “pixels” title online.

There are several independent file productions have been influenced by this anti-piracy approach. For instance, an award-winning short film, an art-foused NGO and a royalty-free stock footage company are in the list.

There are a great number of videos have been taken down by Vimeo because of Entura’s order. The creators of those videos closed down their accounts and removed their work online to avoid any punishment from the anti-piracy approach.

The company staff Mark suggested the creators should fill a counter notice about this approach. He continued that the trust and safety team is under control of this problem but they could not help people with this issue.

Pixels will be released on August 12 in the UK. Let’s keep an eye on this matter.

How many chemical elements contain in a mobile phone

It is not a big deal to take apart a mobile phone. Many of you may have the experience taking apart the mobile phone. Let’s talk more about the chemical elements contain in a mobile phone today.

The smart phone is consisted of four major parts, including battery, mobile screen, interior circuit and phone case. A smart phone normally contains 41 chemical elements. Do you have any ideas of how many chemical elements in each part? Let’s learn more its chemical elements’s distribution and division of work in a cellphone.

Mobile Screen

ITO is the compound of indium oxide and tin oxide. It is used to make the ITO film for the mobile pone.

Most of the smartphones use aluminosilicate glass that is mixed by aluminium oxide and silica. The potassium ion could enhance the quality of screen. While rare earth elements are used to function the color display of mobile screen. There are some other elements to prevent the ultraviolet ray from accessing the mobile phone.

Most of the mobile phone use the lithium battery for the phone. Some batteries contain the other gold elements such as using manganese instead of Co. And the case of battery is made of aluminum.

Phone case

Some parts of the phone cases are made of titanium alloy, while the other parts are plastics. The plastic case contains Br and Ni to reduce possibility of electromagnetic interference.

Interior circuit

It is mainly made of copper. The main current contains other elements like copper, gold and silver. Tantalum is the important part of capacitance. Ni is used for the phone speaker. There are also Pr., Gd, neodymium alloy contained in the speaker. Neodymium, Terbium and dysprosium used for phone vibration. Silicon is used for making chips. Tin and lead are mainly using for interior circuit.

The OnePlus 2 sold out after a while when it was released in China

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Many of broad customers have to wait till August 11 to buy the OnePlus 2, however, the customers in China was able to buy the OnePlus 2 on August 4 for its first batch of stock.

China is the only place to get the privilege to buy the OnePlus 2 without going through the invitation process. The customers in abroad have to go through the invitation process to buy one. The stock of OnePlus 2 had been sold out within 64 seconds when it was released August 4.

OnePlus stated in a Weibo post that the computer planned to deliver 30,000 units of OnePlus 2 during the on-sale period.

The customers in China will be able to buy the OnePlus 2 at 10am local time on August 11 for the second round of its sales. It is the same day that its global sales will be released.

It will limit the global stock and there are about two million customers applied for the invite waiting list.

The OnePlus 2 comes with the latest specs, including a Qualcomm 64-bit Snapdragon 810 processor. It has 4GB of RAM and an integrated fingerprint sensor. It costs at £289 for the flagship model. While its smaller capacity 16GB edition, coming with 3GB of Ram costs at £239.

Samsung offers compensations to those employees contacted cancer in South Korea plants

 

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Employees are an one of the important parts of developing an enterprise. Employees’ health is also an important access to the enterprise. Samsung has confirmed it did not do a good job to protect its staff from being ill and dead at its semiconductor plants in South Korea.

Samsung has planned to use 100 billion won (amount to $50 million) to compensate its employees who got cancer and other incurable deceases because of the insecure working environment.

The activist group Sharps have revealed 200 instances of Samsung employees involving in health problems and 70 percent of those employees died due to these health problems at last.

According to Reuters, there were deaths caused by gas leaks at Samsung’s chip plants and they have been reported to the public before.

Samsung CEO Kwon Oh-hyun apologized that they should have solved the working conditions issue to prevent such tragedy. They felt sorry for this tragedy and shamed for the failure of saving them.

The Samsung company will use the funding to compensate the victims an d their families in this issue. What is more, it will also improve the health and safety of working conditions at Samsung’s plants with a portion of the funding.