on 29 January 2017, 09:09
This week began with the official statement of Samsung about the reasons of explosions of planshetofona Galaxy Note 7. As it turned out, the perpetrators of the incidents were batteries manufactured by Samsung SDI and Amperex Technology. Moreover, if in the first case we are talking about a short circuit due to deformation of the corners of the batteries and their thin inner dividers, the main problem of battery Amperex was the absence (or mismatch) of adhesive tape and, again, the thin inner spacers.
meanwhile, Apple is developing new technologies of biometric identification of users, including facial recognition system and an optical fingerprint scanner that would replace the Touch ID. While analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (Ming-Chi Kuo) said that the updated technology of Touch ID may make its debut in 2017, and the facial recognition system will act as its replacement in the future.
And the company is working on a HMD Global more budget-friendly alternative for smartphone Nokia 6, which has a code mark Nokia Heart. The device has already appeared in the benchmark GFXBench, and, according to him, is equipped with a Snapdragon chipset 430, a 5.2″ display with a resolution of 1280×720 pixels, 13 MP and 8 MP cameras, 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of flash memory.
Lenovo has plans to release a new hybrid laptop Yoga Book, which will get larger than the previous model, a 12.2″ display with a 1280×800 resolution and a weaker performance. The new Yoga Book 12.2, all equipped with Atom processor x5-Z8550 Cherry Trail, USB 3.0 Type-C and USB 2.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 n, Bluetooth 4.1 and a Wacom tablet in place of the keyboard.
Noted this week, and Japan’s Toshiba, released a new line of 3.5″ internal hard drives N300 for network drives (NAS). Hard drives N300 SATA 6 GB/s are performance, reliability and scalability required to store large amounts of data 24/7. They are available in versions with a capacity of 4 TB and 6 TB with a large 128-MB data buffer and have an average MTBF of 1,000,000 hours.
the Russian “Rostelecom” has launched a new app “alle available roaming”, which can be used for audio and video calls. When you enroll in the program, the user has a Russian phone number with city code, and he can call from abroad in your city for tariffs of the Russian local fixed-line telephony. And before the end of the first semester in the application will be able to exchange text messages.
this week, the head of HTC’s smartphones and connected devices Chialin Chang (Chang Chialin) disappointed many fans of the brand, stating that in the near future the company plans to release a smart watch on the platform Android Wear. As for the clock HTC Halfbeak photos that appeared in recent leaks, according to him, this is just a prototype that never come to market.
towards the end of the week, the network appeared the large-scale leak about the new flagship smartphone Samsung Galaxy S8. In addition to publishing “live” photos of this device, the informants told that it will be released in versions with 5.8″, 6.2″ QHD screen, occupying 83% of the area of the front panel of the smartphones. The device will get 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of flash memory, 12 MP and 8 MP camera with aperture f1.7, iris scanner and a price tag of 799 and 899 euros.
Not sitting idle and Japanese Sony, which, according to rumors, going to bring to MWC 2017 five new smartphones. And one of them will be Sony’s flagship Yoshino on the chipset Snapdragon 835. This device is equipped with a 4 GB or 6 GB of RAM LPDDR4, a powerful Sony sensor IMX400 and 5.5″ display with a 4K resolution of 3840×2160 pixels.
And to complete the review of the main events of the outgoing week is information about the announcement of the new monitor BenQ EW2770QZ. It uses a number of technologies that care about the eyes of the user. And the monitor is equipped with a 27″ IPS panel with a resolution of 2560×1440 pixels. It displays 100% of sRGB color spaces and uses HDMI and DisplayPort.
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