That little computer you carry around in your pocket is already your camera, navigation device, instant messaging machine, ride-hailing tool and phone. But it’s very possible that, in the not-so-distant future, what we now refer to as “smartphones” will actually seem pretty dumb and paper-weighty.
As technology evolves, that mini-computer you are already way too obsessed with is bound to get even more useful. Here are three features that could be in the cell phones of tomorrow.
What it is: A spectrometer is a tool typically used in physical, chemical and biological research that measures properties of light to analyze an object’s chemical makeup. Until recently, spectrometers were too large to carry around, but that has changed. A company called Consumer Physics introduced a handheld spectrometer named Scio last year, and more recently, MIT announced that scientists at the university have developed a spectrometer small enough to fit inside a smartphone camera.
What it could mean for your smartphone: In a smartphone, a spectrometer could give users an easy and accurate way to detect skin conditions, track a person’s vital signs or identify environmental pollutants. It could also give users a way to find out what’s in their food or medication.
What it is: Geolocation technology is already widely used in smartphones. That’s how and why you can follow driving directions with Google maps, get picked up by an Uber, or ask your smartphone to locate the closest Starbucks. But geolocation software developed by engineers at the University of Texas at Austin makes it possible to identify a position accurately to within a centimeter using the inexpensive antenna sensors that are in smartphones. Centimeter-accuracy GPS systems already in existence depend on large and expensive hardware.
What it could mean for your smartphone: Synced with the camera in your smartphone, this down-to-the-centimeter GPS would make it possible to instantly map your surroundings in 3-D, increasing the subtle sophistication of virtual reality technology. Also, centimeter-specific geolocation would allow cars to sense and avoid each other in more nuanced situations.
What it is: New inexpensive wireless sensors developed by chemists at MIT detect gaseous ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, cyclohexanone and other dangerous gases, and can be read by a smartphone. The sensors are also noteworthy because they don’t need to be plugged in. The technology necessary to read these tags already exists in most smartphones.
What it could mean for your smartphone: The gas-sensor-tag and smartphone reading combo would make it super easy to measure explosive chemicals or hazardous environmental pollutants. The chemical readings from smartphones could be combined with geolocation data to track and map hazardous regions.
Also, a sensor could be fixed to food so that anyone with a smartphone could assess the freshness of food. The sensors could measure chemicals released by rotten or spoiled food.
What we expect
What we What We Expect
Rumored Features
Release Date
WASHINGTON: Microsoft has launched a sixth model to its range of Surface Pro 3 tablets.
According to the Verge, the new device has the same 1.7GHz Core i7 processor and 8GB of memory as the versions before it, but unlike older i7 models which featured either 256GB or 512GB of storage, the new variant comes with only 128GB of space.
The Surface Pro 3 was launched in 2014. The 128GB i7 Surface Pro 3 comes at the same price as the Core i5 256GB edition. It costs $1,299.
Source :-http://blogs.blackberry.com/
Question: What’s better than 10.3.1? 10.3.2!
Another Question: What’s better than one update? TWO updates!
Over the coming weeks, BlackBerry 10.3.2 and BlackBerry Blend 1.2 will roll out for the entire line of BlackBerry 10 devices. With these updates, your device will be more secure and more private, keeping you even more productive.
When you update to BlackBerry 10.3.2, you’ll gain access to great new enhancements across your whole device.
Let’s take a closer look.
BlackBerry Blend 1.2
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BlackBerry Blend 1.2 provides a fresh, new user interface based on our customers’ feedback. This new design makes navigating and interacting with your messages and content both faster and easier.
Your productivity across devices is improved with the addition of spell check, the ability to reply directly from within Blend notification pop-ups and visual enhancements to file transfers.
Looking for more information on BlackBerry Blend? Visit BlackBerry.com/Blend or Inside BlackBerry.
Anti-theft protection in BlackBerry Protect
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As you
know, privacy and security is at the heart of BlackBerry’s DNA. BlackBerry Protect allows you to disable the device if it’s lost or stolen ensuring no one can wipe and reactivate your BlackBerry. Read about this couple that tracked down their missing BlackBerry phone back intact thanks to BlackBerry Protect.
Camera
Productivity and efficiency comes in many different forms. Many of us can’t afford to spend 5 minutes fiddling around with shot after shot trying to get a clear image every time we want to take a picture.
The camera enhancements with 10.3.2 include: low light performance in auto-mode, improved face-detection, and reduced blur caused by motion. All of these make taking pictures in any situation as easy as point-and-shoot.
BlackBerry Calendar
calendarMeetings. Meetings. And more meetings. Many of us have full schedules, and with the 10.3.2 update, the BlackBerry Calendar comes to the rescue.
As always, when you enable Meeting Mode on your BlackBerry Calendar, your phone automatically sets your phone to quiet for the duration of your meeting. With 10.3.2, you can now customize this feature to work however you need it to by specifying the events controlled by Meeting Mode, such as adding calendars to the ignore list.
And back by popular demand, your BlackBerry Calendar month view will show shrinking & growing date numbers depending on how busy your schedule is that day to show you just how busy the workday is at a glance.
For our friends in the U.S.
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In addition to BlackBerry World, this latest version also introduces customers to the Amazon Appstore, offering access to hundreds of thousands of additional apps.
Before you update
As always, we highly recommend you back up your BlackBerry 10 device before any update. Check out Ty’s How-To blog post for details and tips & tricks.
How do I know when the update is available?
Subject to carrier approvals, the global roll-out of 10.3.2 will begin in the coming weeks and will be available for the entire line of BlackBerry 10 device.
Once available on your carrier’s network, you will receive a notification in the BlackBerry Hub that 10.3.2 is ready for download. If you have enabled automatic software downloads, you will be notified in the BlackBerry Hub that the software is downloading.
For more information about BlackBerry 10 and how to update, check out http://www.BlackBerry.com/BlackBerry10OS.
With Windows 10 coming on July 29, you’ll want to make sure your PC, applications and various devices will all play nice before you reserve and upgrade. Fortunately, Microsoft has made it easy to do within the Get Windows 10 tool that appears on all copies of Windows 7 and 8.
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Upgrading your copy of Windows to 10 should be seamless, but you want to make sure set up is actually ready beforehand. That new Windows icon down in your system tray will let you do more than reserve your copy of Windows 10 for free. As Fatima Wahab at AddictiveTips points out, it can also check your whole system to make sure everything is all set for the upgrade. It’s pretty simple to do:
* Click the Get Windows 10 icon in your system tray in the lower-right section of your desktop.
* Click the hamburger menu in the upper-left corner.
* Under “Getting the upgrade,” select Check your PC.
If you’re all set and ready for the upgrade when it comes, you’ll be given a good to go message. Otherwise, you’ll see a list of devices and apps that aren’t supported.
Device issues could mean a monitor won’t display properly at the highest resolution, or some speakers won’t be able to play audio with the upgrade. Apps that are listed as unsupported will need to be uninstalled before you start the upgrade process. Of course, a driver update or patch install may fix those issues as well, so check again if you can find updates.
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Upgrading your copy of Windows to 10 should be seamless, but you want to make sure set up is actually ready beforehand. That new Windows icon down in your system tray will let you do more than reserve your copy of Windows 10 for free. As Fatima Wahab at AddictiveTips points out, it can also check your whole system to make sure everything is all set for the upgrade. It’s pretty simple to do:
* Click the Get Windows 10 icon in your system tray in the lower-right section of your desktop.
* Click the hamburger menu in the upper-left corner.
* Under “Getting the upgrade,” select Check your PC.
If you’re all set and ready for the upgrade when it comes, you’ll be given a good to go message. Otherwise, you’ll see a list of devices and apps that aren’t supported.
Device issues could mean a monitor won’t display properly at the highest resolution, or some speakers won’t be able to play audio with the upgrade. Apps that are listed as unsupported will need to be uninstalled before you start the upgrade process. Of course, a driver update or patch install may fix those issues as well, so check again if you can find updates.
Last week OnePlus officially started its teaser campaign for its next flagship smartphone, which is due to be unveiled soon. Until that happens, though, the Chinese company has promised to reveal things about it bit by bit.
The first such revelation had to do with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chipset used. And today we find out that the OnePlus 2 will apparently be the first high-end smartphone to use a USB Type-C port.
OnePlus says it wants “to lead the way in power connectivity”, hence why it made this choice. You may know USB Type-C as the only port on the new 12″ MacBook. It’s also been used by Google on this year’s Chromebook Pixel, and other computer makers are adopting it too.
Its main claim to fame is the fact that it’s reversible, so it doesn’t matter which side of the cable is up. That should remove a major pain point from previous USB connectors. USB Type-C is also small enough that it can be used on phones, so we expect it to be featured in many more handsets in the future.
Source :- By Derek Walter greenbot.com
Even though they’re rather blurry, a couple of leaked photos give us some great clues as to the possible look of the OnePlus 2.
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PhoneArena has a picture that shows each side of the device, which will get a virtual reality launch on July 27. The front design feels like a mashup of a OnePlus One and Nexus 6. The back shows some kind of wood paneling, with a vertical bar for the camera lens and what looks to be a fingerprint sensor.
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The back of the OnePlus 2 may have an LG-style vertical button design with a fingerprint scanner.
The interface is close to stock Android, which keeps with the underlying aesthetic behind the company’s Oxygen OS. On the hardware front OnePlus pledges that its fingerprint sensor will perform unlocking and other tasks faster than the iPhone’s Touch ID. That’s a lofty promise that will be worth testing should we get our hands on a device.
The story behind the story: The OnePlus 2 definitely shows some promise. If OnePlus learned from some of the many issues that plagued its first phone, we could have a real contender on our hands. Even though we have about a month before the virtual reality launch, we should hear more from OnePlus—the company plans to reveal one feature at a time leading up to launch.
SOURCE:-Developer.apple.com
Introduction
iOS SDK 8.4 provides support for developing iOS apps. The SDK is packaged with a complete set of tools, compilers, and frameworks for creating apps for iOS and OS X. The tools include the Xcode IDE and the Instruments analysis tool, among many others.
With this software, you can develop apps for iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch running iOS 8. It now includes WatchKit, a framework for developing Apple Watch apps. You can test your apps using the included iOS Simulator.
iOS SDK 8.4 requires a Mac computer running OS X v10.10 (Yosemite) or later.
This version of iOS is intended for installation only on devices registered with the Apple Developer Program. Attempting to install this version of iOS in an unauthorized manner could put your device in an unusable state.
For more information and additional support resources, visit http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/.
Bug Reporting
For issues not mentioned in the Notes and Known Issues section, please file bugs through the Apple Developer website (https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/ios/). Additionally, you may discuss these issues and iOS SDK 8.4 in the Apple Developer Forums: http://devforums.apple.com. To get more information about iCloud for Developers, go to http://developer.apple.com/icloud.
Notes and Known Issues
The following issues relate to using iOS SDK 8.4 to develop code.
App Extensions
Notes
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App extensions need an arm64 slice to run on 64-bit devices. If you try to run the armv7 slice on a 64-bit device it won’t work.
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Apps need to have an arm64 slice if the bundle contains a framework that both the app and the app extension link against.
Music
Fixed in Beta 4
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Using Siri to control iTunes Radio does not work in this beta.
Known Issues
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Home Sharing and Genius Mixes are not currently available.
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AirPlay streaming may not work.
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It’s not possible to start a station from a song or artist.
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Station sharing for iTunes Radio is not available.
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The iTunes Radio tab may unexpectedly appear within Search, even if iTunes Radio is not available in your country.
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The Music app may forget its place when you go to the Home screen and come back.
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Ads in iTunes Radio may display on top of Up Next.
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The downloaded icon is not displayed in Songs view on the iPad when you select “Make Available Offline.”
Siri
Known Issue
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“Play Siri” requests from a watch are failing for a few days when the iPhone has a new install of iOS 8.4.Workaround: Request playback of Artists or Albums instead of a specific song.
UIKit
Note
When linking against iOS 8.3 or later, any code that relies on layout information (such as the frame) of a
UIButton
subview when the button is not in the window hierarchy will need to sendlayoutIfNeeded
to the button before retrieving layout information (such as button.titleLabel.frame
) to ensure that the layout values are up to date.For example, if you had something like this:
UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeSystem]; |
// code that sets up the button, but doesn’t yet add it to a window |
CGRect titleFrame = button.titleLabel.frame; |
// code that relies on the correct value for titleFrame |
You now need:
UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeSystem]; |
// code that sets up the button, but doesn’t yet add it to a window |
[button layoutIfNeeded]; // This is also safe pre-iOS 8.3 |
CGRect titleFrame = button.titleLabel.frame; |
// code that relies on the correct value for titleFrame |
Videos
Known Issues
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Content stored in iCloud may not appear in your library after signing in.
WatchKit
Note
A bug where continuous background location updates fail to update has been resolved. If your Watch app relies on continuous background location updates to function, it is recommended that you update your WatchKit extension deployment target to iOS 8.3 and submit your app with Xcode 6.3.
Known Issues
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Creating an animated image using the
UIImage
methodanimatedImageWithImages:duration:
and then playing the animation usingstartAnimating
ignores the duration and plays back as fast as possible.Workaround: UsestartAnimatingWithImagesInRange:duration:repeatCount:
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The appearance of default notifications on a Watch differs slightly from the appearance of default notifications in the Simulator.
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