Tuesday, August 26, 2014

LG G3 Stylus

OK, such a resolution like 960X544 makes this upcoming smartphone kind of acceptable but the original G3 has gone way beyond the purpose of the high-end smartphone specs such as the Quad HD, with 2.5Ghz Quad-Core CPU and 2/3GB of RAM. The specs for G3 Stylus feature the slower Quad-Core CPU with 1GB of RAM onboard and what makes this inferior is that there's no 4G support for G3 Stylus compared to original G3. Having such a super-high spec for G3 may make it really expensive to buy but why do you want Quad HD on the smartphone anyway? Where's the Retina Display-like feature for the TVs nowadays? Why do they have to make new TVs even larger physically with the Quad HD support. Not to mention that there may be tablets with Quad HD and other specs that make them highly expensive to buy.
Perhaps, the LG G3 Stylus will be less expensive by then and it will be revealed as part of the upcoming IFA event.

64-Bit 8-Core Snapdragon chipset for Android

Seems that Iphone is the first to get the 64-Bit CPU or something and in the future, the Android devices will be next for next generation mobile performance. There may be 64-Bit Windows tablets but that doesn't count as they are the same kinds of tablets ever since the past ones like they are not 100% as mobile as the Ipads and Android tablets are.
Having 64-Bit CPU in a mobile device may give you the experience in making use of more hardware resources such as the full RAM usage for example. The first Android device will be the HTC Desire 820 which is like superseding other Android devices as HTC is like on life support nowadays due to Samsung taking over the Android market by storm.
Further announcement will be happening in September 4th or later as part of the upcoming IFA event.

IFA Trade Show in Berlin - Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact

There it comes, another big IT event next month! OK, it seems that the Neowin website theme has changed into something simple and clean looking that is optimzed for every device using the modern technology. Check out the way you roll your mouse over the recently popular articles, they zoom in a little bit and get highlighted. Anyway, change aside. It seems that Sony is like going in the right direction this time around by ditching the Playstation for Android service like they're sticking back to releasing more Android devices in a normal way as the third-party manufacturer like the Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact. Also, the Playstation 4 sales have gotten quite high, outselling their rivals like for the first time in this generation but of course, it looks like the Wii U is gaining more momentum due to some killer first-party games that are worth the reasons to buy.
However, from the recent Neowin article about this, we're not sure about the price of this upcoming tablet. Having it expensive may lead to less people buying it and it's a similar situation with the Playstation Vita console where it and its accessories were seriously expensive. It looks like Sony's better do this one right this year. Also, they're releasing their Xperia Z3 smartphone months after the Z2 release.

Monday, August 25, 2014

Windows for Internet of Things

This one may look like it's a different edition of Windows Embedded similar to what Windows Thin PC is. It is going to be based on Windows 8.1 with Windows Thin PC lagging behind but we don't know what is it going to be exactly based on. Will that be based on Windows Embedded maybe? For Windows IOT, it is likely to be available on various electronic appliances we use at home. We might have seen printers and cameras with their own OSes, the cars with on-board car control systems and other different OSes we don't know of technically. Nobody knows them but it's a safer bet that we use them that way lest someone tampers with the Windows or Android related OS in the fucking car remotely that the accident occurs all because of that. What if some bad guy tampers with the Windows or Android IOT related appliances and things all follow his commands then? Security questions aside, the Internet of Things are the embedded devices of the future for home use, personal use, and even business use everywhere. The Android IOT is already at the beginning with Android smartwatches, cameras, Set-Top Boxes, and even the unnecessary game consoles powered by Android which are not that great when we can already play most of the gesture-friendly Android games. We may expect the Wii U or PS Vita kind of combination when it comes to Android-powered game consoles but most of the Android games don't make use of such combination.
For Android Wears as part of IOT, there will be more of these coming out in the near future. The last thing is that Windows IOT is already powering up the Intel Galileo devices but it's under beta phase so it works on first-gen devices. No idea what the OS on action on these devices looks like but we have already seen the those devices.

Friday, August 22, 2014

Another IT Show checked in a week ago

OK, for whatever reason, there really wasn't anything new there other than the same manufacturers and products being displayed there. The smart TVs from Samsung surely are a little bit new or maybe the existing ones with new features of enjoyment. The truth during the exploration was that I had the future plans to buy a new IOS or Android device as my mobile devices are getting old and it may be a reason that I couldn't try out the Miracast thingy so I was out of luck but then, I'm still able to play the recent Android games on my Android device. And the Blu-Ray movies seemed to be really impressive like they are running at 60FPS or something from what I saw but even the FMV sequences for games using Blu-Ray should be in 60FPS in the first place as well.

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Xbox One to get the new YouTube app

No, I had already removed the YouTube app from my various mobile devices except for Android in which the YouTube app can't be removed since it is part of Google. The reason for that still regarded the content ID disaster I already ranted at although my YouTube account isn't affected by that mess. Hell, I even posted a bunch of gameplay videos of various licensed games I have played but you should check the recent gameplay videos of licensed games of mine since I had owned that game on my Android from Play Store and it is free. It is pretty much legal based on the conditions:
  1. The gameplay video of the licensed game based on whatever content.
  2. The copyrighted content in the licensed game mustn't be too clean or the company may think that you may have posted the video with the content taken from somewhere else.
For number 2, the content in the game may be exactly the same or not. What makes it exactly the same though is like, okay, the content is the intro of the licensed game that is exactly 100% the same intro of whatever animated movie for instance. This may include the music, the intro animation with the same-god damn title of the animated movie, not the game title, and other stuffs that are the same with no modification whatsoever.
And while Sony may seem to be doing right even before and after Gamescom, it appears that there may be more entertainment apps and services coming to Xbox One which may continue to break the purpose of the modern game console. The game console when promoted should contain a bunch of games in action as part of the events, not any other bullshit which has nothing to do with gaming whatsoever. Playstation for Android was already ditched but the inaccurate thing from Sony was that they forgot to show off more Playstation Vita games in the event in addition to showing off a bunch of PS3 and PS4 games. It might be a shame that the Playstation Vita isn't that popular in the west and even the Eastern games released in the west don't seem to be appreciated of. I know that those games released there are not gonna be accepted by the western gamers in which they think that Sony is lazy, messing around or something unless those gamers happen to be the fans of whatever contents they like.
So, the new YouTube app will bring you the new experience with the TV-like interface for Smart TVs, Set-Top Boxes but game consoles, what the hell? If video capture without the need of the video capture card and YouTube are the combined reasons for today's game consoles, so be it. There's already Twitch.tv feature for both PS4 and Xbox One and they feature their own video capture feature so that there's no reason for you to get the video capture device.

Windup by Microsoft for Windows Phone

Unfortunately, this app may seem to be the research experiment made by Microsoft Research and it doesn't scream privacy anyway and therefore, it is nothing competitive. Even if you have used this app on Windows Phone, there is still room needed for improvement and at the same time, it has the number of features that perform similarly to the ones from Snapchat. Sure, there was some FTC ruling done against Snapchat and Facebook over privacy violations the last time but it may seem that Facebook is an even worse offender that you may want to bash on. I actually had something in my head about plans to bash on Facebook but then, there isn't anything appropriate so things are scrapped.
This app is for testing purposes and not said to be the core product from Microsoft and in the future, some rival of Snapchat may come up with their own app similar to that that has BETTER PRIVACY PROTECTION.! Certain Snapchat users were already not happy about the privacy violation the last time that they might have decided to ditch it completely in favor of other services but like Microsoft said, Windup for Windows Phone is part of the Microsoft Research experiment that those users can use Windup instead. Unlike Snapchat, the contents posted to Windup may be erased after some time.