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Huawei’s new gadgets from MWC 2015
New Rock Band Game Coming to PS4, Xbox One?
Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet Goes Head to Head with the iPad Air 2
No more rumors: these are Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge

Huawei’s new gadgets from MWC 2015

Posted: 02 Mar 2015 09:58 AM PST

The MWC 2015 in Barcelona has already started, and the Chinese company Huawei used the opportunity to show their latest creations. These include their first smartwatch, two smartbands, a phablet, and a mobile WiFi device for cars.

Huawei brought many new gadgets to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which is talking place now, and lasts until Thursday. Their new offerings include the Huawei Watch, their first smartwatch, the TalkBand B2 and TalkBand N1 – two wearables – and the MediaPad X2 phablet along with CarFi, a mobile WiFi device for cars.

Huawei Watch

Huawei’s first smartphone ever works with Android Wear, Google’s special OS for wearables, and works by associating with a smartphone. Sporting a classic, refined design, it has a 1.4 MP AMOLED round screen on top which is capable of 400X400 pixels. From this watch, users will be able to send and receibe emails, text, apps, and phone call notifications, and will work with every Android 4.3 phone and onwards. Also, because it’s a smartwatch in the end, it will track your physical activity. You can get in three variations of gold, silver and black.

TalkBand B2 & TalkBand N1

Huawei’s two new wearables are specialized fitness trackers that drop some of the smartwatch functionalities to focus on more stuff for the athletes and users who go all out on training. These bands focus a lot on the health aspect, but in the case of the B1, also music featuring two microphones and technology for noise reduction so users can enjoy their music but still notice if they are getting a phone call.

The N1, instead, is the industry’s first headset with both Hi-Fi stereo and bluetooth, with capacity for some 1.000 songs. Of course it will track your health and fitness too, but what differentiates these bands from the competition is what they add on top. Huawei’s answer is clear: music.

MediaPad X2

Huawei’s most powerful phablet yet is also the world’s thinnest one at 7.28mm wide with a metallic thin body that looks both elegant and ideal for offices. It combines phones, tablets, navigators, hotspot and digital camera in one giant 1200 x 1920 pixel HD screen, equipped with a battery that lasts 24 hours.It comes in two variations of grey and pink, both dual-sim and capable of 4G connectivity.

Huawei CarFi

Huawei’s new device turns any car into a WiFi hotspot by transforming 4G into a much needed connection especially if you’re not driving. Users can download with speeds up to 150 Mbps, using some 10 gadgets at the same time. Also, it’s so small you can easily bring it from one car to the next. The CarFi is small and portable, and will turn off on its own if it doesn’t detect any WiFi capable devices. Furthermore, with the car on, it can even recharge your gadgets too.

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New Rock Band Game Coming to PS4, Xbox One?

Posted: 02 Mar 2015 07:00 AM PST

Despite the Rock Band series being dormant for several years, a new report suggests that creator Harmonix is looking to revive Rock Band on PS4 and Xbox One.

Just under a decade ago, the music rhythm game genre made up a whopping 10% of games in homes. Plastic guitars and drum kits would be wheeled out at parties with everyone laughing at a missed note or competing to be the best, virtual rock god. But then in 2008, at the height of the genre’s success, the global recession hit and suddenly people had significantly less money to spend on things like plastic peripherals that could only be used with one game franchise. As a result, the genre soon died out with Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock in 2011 and Rock Band 3 in 2010 being the last music rhythm games of their kind.

While those franchises died out, interest in them never really did. This has been demonstrated by the fever pitch surrounding the new Rock Band DLC that’s been released recently, as well as the excitement when it was revealed that Harmonix had released a survey about a new Rock Band game. And now it seems that they’re making good fan interest as a new source suggests that a new Rock Band game will be released on PS4 and Xbox One in time for Christmas.

That info comes from the (usually correct) publication Bloomberg. While their source didn’t do much more than confirm the game’s existence, it’s clear what a new Rock Band game would need in order to be successful: it would have to be cheaper. It cost gamers hundreds of dollars to buy those plastic guitar, drum and microphone controllers for the game before and today, in an age of massive free to play experiences people are less inclined to fork out that same kind of money. Therefore, a new Rock Band would have to be priced appropriately to win fans over once more.

Furthermore, with hundreds of games released as DLC for previous Rock Band games, it would be incredibly helpful to cash-strapped gamers if a new Rock Band game let us use all of that DLC. It’s not as though developer Harmonix would lose out as they could continue to sell those DLC track packs and make a profit. That would make buying the new Rock Band affordable, at least.

If the rumours are true, we’ll likely see the new Rock Band game at E3 in June. We’ll keep you posted.

Source: Bloomberg

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Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet Goes Head to Head with the iPad Air 2

Posted: 02 Mar 2015 04:30 AM PST

At this year’s MWC exhibition in Barcelona, Sony has unveiled its new flagship tablet, the Xperia Z4, along with the midrange Xperia M4 Aqua smartphone, a slim, plastic copy of the Z3 flagship.

The Xperia Z4 Tablet seems to hit all the right notes, as it is an improvement over the Z2 Tablet in almost every aspect. There’s a better panel used in the display, the resolution has been increased, the internal hardware is faster, and even the software has been updated to mark the birth of a new star. At its size, the Z4 Tablet is equally great for office work and entertainment, and it won’t fail to impress in either scenario.

While Sony has maintained the 10.1″ display size from the predecessor, it increased the resolution from 1200p to 1600p. The panel has also been changed from TFT to IPS, for better contrast and color reproduction. The 8.1 MP rear camera was kept, but the resolution of the front one is now 5.1 MP. One thing that remained unchanged is the 6,000 mAh battery capacity, but given the increased power efficiency of the internal hardware, users should notice an improved battery life.

The Snapdragon 810 that powers the Xperia Z4 Tablet is paired with an Adreno 430 GPU and 3GB of RAM. There should be plenty of room for installing apps and games in the 32GB of internal storage, but just in case that’s not enough, users can expand this with an up to 128 GB microSD card.

To sweeten the deal even more, Sony has bundled Microsoft’s Office for Android apps on its new flagship tablet. The Redmond giant’s decision to offer its office suite for free for iOS and Android is definitely a strategy to attract more users (in the same way the Microsoft Band is compatible with devices running the two rival operating systems). Sure, smartphone and tablet owners could easily head to the Play Store and install Microsoft Office Mobile on their devices, but pre-installing the suite could prevent users from turning to Google’s office apps. Ultimately, that is Microsoft’s goal, so we can expect more such partnerships in the future.

At 389g and 6.1mm in thickness, the Xperia Z4 Tablet will be a reputable rival for the iPad Air 2, especially since the technical specs of Sony’s new flagship are also very competitive. It remains to be seen how much this tablet will cost, as Sony has yet to disclose this information.

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No more rumors: these are Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge

Posted: 01 Mar 2015 07:10 PM PST

Just like we knew would happen, Samsung has introduced the new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge phones at the MWC in Barcelona. Read on to see what is new.

Samsung’s latest flagship is coming in several colors including but not limited to green, white, gold and black. Other designs might include colors based in jewels (expect sapphire or emerald). The phone sports a 5.1 inch QHD Super Amoled screen, 3gb of ram, 4G capabilities, a 16 mpx camera in the rear and a 5 mpx front one.The galaxy S6 also sports an alluminium frame, and comes in three variations of 32, 64 and 128 GB storage. Also, the main draw of the phone is that it features a curved screen (on both sides in the case of the Edge, making it ideal for left handed people).

Samsung explained that the new S6 models are not based on the S5, but were designed from the ground up with beauty as the main design pillar. Besides, with its thinness and aluminum frame they also made light of Apple by claiming that “the S6 does not bend”. Another thing that works just like with Apple gadgets is their new print reader as seen in the iPhone 6.

The new Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge will feature a new, redesigned software meant to simplify the process of looking for things by eliminating some icons and creating a faster, easier way to navigate with simple yet bright colors. What Samsung did take from the S5 is the camera software, which was one of the few very praised features on the previous flagship.

Samsung also claimed the Galaxy S6 will charge up literally twice as fast as the iPhone 6 and touted wireless charging for the future, as to forfeit cables for ever, and wouldn’t that be something.

Despite all these new features it is a shame that Samsung decided to drop the Micro SD slot and the possibility of submerging it (we don’t know about you, but we drop our phones a lot) in the name of design – at least we’re left with the new services like Samsung Pay to use the phone as a credit card, and Milk VR, for watching media in virtual reality.

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