Oct 17

Square: turn your smartphone into a cash register

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 Square App

Square is the new mobile app (available for Apple’s iOS devices and for Android) that lets you make payments with Square Cash or you can also use Square Cash remotely via e-mail. You don’t have to sign up for using Square Cash. For example if you want to send money as a birthday gift, you just Continue reading »

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Oct 13

Lenovo announces new tablet: IdeaPad A10

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Lenovo IdeaPad A10

Lenovo has announced that is going to release its new 10-inch Android tablet, IdeaPad A10 but there is no information when it will be released. It will probably run on 1.66Hz quad-core Rockchip A9 processor and feature Continue reading »

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Oct 05

Baldur’s Gate 2 available for pre-orders

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Baldur's Gate

Beamdog’s Baldur’s Gate 2 will be released on November 15th, but it’s already available for pre-orders. Baldur’s Gate franchise is older than ten years and in the upcoming remake the graphics will be slightly updated, as well as additional quests, characters and storylines added to the game. RPG game will be playable on Mac and PC and in the future even on iOS and Android devices. According to Beamdog, in the future is also possible the development of Baldur’s Gate 3. Baldur’s Gate 2 costs $25. Continue reading »

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Oct 05

Jawbone’s new wireless speaker: Mini Jambox

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Jawbone-Mini-Jambox

Jawbone’s Mini Jambox is using Bluetooth 4.0 for wireless connection and supports multipoint for connection two devices at the same time. Li-ion battery is built-in rechargeable and it can continuous play music up to 10 hours and 75 hours of standby. This wireless speaker is housed in extruded aluminum case with two neodymium drivers inside and passive bass radio for HQ sound. It comes in awesome colors and works with free iOS and Android Jawbone app for customization. It costs $180. Continue reading »

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Oct 01

Agawi’s TouchMarks: Smartphone Touchscreen Latencies

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Agawi

Agawi’s 15 person team has introduced the first quantitative and objective benchmark of app response times: TouchMarks. They will try to bring more rigour to discussions around touchscreen response times, device lag, streaming latency and other topics related to how responsive an application feels on a mobile device. For TouchMarks I the team has measured and revealed the minimum response times of flagship smartphones from top manufacturers. They built simple, optimized apps to flash the full screen white*as quickly as possible in response to a touch. The apps contain minimal logic and use OpenGL/DirectX rendering to make sure the response is as quick as possible. The results were remarkable as you can see it in the chart. At MART (Minimum App Response Time) of 55ms, iPhone 5 is twice as responsive as any Android or WP8 phone tested. Continue reading »

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Sep 28

HTC will release smartphone One Max on October 17th

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HTC One Max

All we know for now is that it features 5.9-inch screen with 1080×1920 resolution and is one of the most eagerly awaited Android models expected to launch before the end of the year. Pictures of the device have revealed that also have a fingerprint scanner. It will probably offer HDR video recording, three levels of blemish correction and a beauty mode. It costs $810. Continue reading »

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