Quick glance: recently launched gadgets

 Quick glance: recently launched gadgets

With the increasing competition gadgets, lets take a quick glance at the recently released gadgets.

 Lava X80 tablet

The new Lava X80 tablet comes with 8inch screen 3G connectivity has voice calling features and comes with android platform.

It runs on an 1.3GHz quad-core Intel Atom Baytrail processor, 1GB RAM, 16GB storage and a 4,200mAh battery.

It has a 5MP as a primary camera and and 3.2 and secondry camera. It also has micro sd slot for memory expansion which can be expanded to 32GB, Wi-Fi, bluetooth 4.0 and with GPS as well.
It comes with the Android platform 4.4.

                 Intex iBuddy IN-7DD01

 Now Intex comes with the budget tablet offering with a 7-inch display (1024 x 600 pixels) to its cunsumer.

It is powered by a 1.3Ghz quad core processor, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage and a 2,800mAh battery.

Even if it is a entry level tablet it comes, it comes with dual slim slot with 3G connectivity, expandable storage, 2MP as primary camera and VGA as secondary camera.

 

iBall Andi Gold 4G

 The latest addition of  smartphone offered by iBall is a 4G phone that comes wih 5 inch display with 1280 x 720 pixels resolution, the main boast of this phone is 3,000mAh battery.

Hardware specifications include quad core processor, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage and microSD slot for expansion (up to 32GB supported).

It has also some other features like dual sim slot, dual camera which comes with 8MP as primary and 5MP as secondary camera, 4G, Wi-FI, Bluetooth, Android 5.1. 

Garmin Vivoactive HR & Forerunner 735XT

Garmin has recently updated its range of wearables with these two new smartwatch offerings.

The Vivoactive HR comes with the rectangular touchscreen color display with a resolution of 205 x 148 pixels while the Forerunner 735XT comes with 1.23-inch full circle colour screen.

Garmin's both the watches are water resistant, has a heart rate monitoring, customisable watch faces and built-in tracking modes for various sports activities including running, bike, swimming, golf, skiing etc.

These watches can connect to the smartphone via bluetooth and will show all the notification over the screen.

WhatsApp now let you track in real time

WhatsApp which is owned by Facebook has been continiously getting new updates and features lately.And this time, it feels popular insta message will come with a feature that will let us track our friends and group members in the real time.

The information comes with the courtesy of a few screenshot tweeted by@WABetaInfo, a Twitter account that tracks new features and changes in WhatsApp's beta builds.

According to the tweeted information as for now the feature is available only for iOS as a part of WhatsApp beta v2.17.3.28 and on Android as part of WhatsApp beta v2.16.399. also mentioned that the feature is disabled by default and has to be manually activated.

After activating the feature manually app will show the locatiion of the user at the real time.It is visible under the 'Show my Friends' option and can be seen in the group settings. The 'Show my Friends' option can be turned on for every group member for different time durations - 1 minute, 2 minutes, 5 minutes or indefinitely.

Apple takes the lead in slumping tablet market

According to the survey released on Thursday, Apple remains the leader in the global tablet market, however that has been in an extended slump fot the past two years. According to the research firm IDC the tablet sale in the forth quater has come down to 20% from a year earlier to 52.9 million units. Another survey by Strategy Analytic stated that sales slumped to 9%  to 63.5 million. IDC anlysist stated that overall sales of 2016 fell down to15.6% to 178.4 million units.

The analyst also mention that many consumer are moving from "slate" tablets to more versatile devices with detachable keybords and with touch screen which can be either categorized as tablets or PCs.

"The sentiment around the tablet market continues to grow stale despite a lot of talk about vendors pivoting their product portfolios toward the detachable segment," IDC's Ryan Reith said.

"Typical tablets without a dedicated keyboard, which IDC refers to as slate tablets, are continuing to lose relevancy across all regions and, as a result, we see the decline happening globally." IDC's Ryan Reith said.

As per the reporte mentioned by Apple this week, number of iPads sold is 13.1million in the forth quater, thats a drop of 19% from a year ago even though good enough to lead the category.

Apple and the iPad held 24.7% of the market,according to the IDC, while putting the market share at 20.6%. While Samsung holding the second place as a vendor and selling more than eight million tablet. Strategy Analytics figures show Amazon selling 4.2 million units holding share of 6.7% share. However Amazon doesnot discuss the sale figure of the device.

Starategy analytics said in their repeorts that Amazon's low cost product, as low as $49 helps for maximum sale "reaching a broad range of consumers looking for an entertainment tablet with key content tie-ins to the growing Amazon ecosystem."

China based manufacturers like lenovo and Huawei managed to make their place in top five according to the survey.

WAYMO: Self driving Google cars recently rebranded

Google self driving car recently remranded to WAYMO

Several factors plays a major role, when the technoology will be ready, depending on the regulation and on the companies confidence as in the vehicles are safe to launch.

Self-driving car prototypes are proving to be getting better without any help as in any human interfearence on California streets, according to the data made Wednesday by California Transportation regulation.

The data collected on safety related issues repored by 11 companies and they have been testing more than 100 vehicles on publics roads. These vehicles are tested in the Silicon Valley neighborhoods where the technology has grown up. Reports were for the California Department of Vehicles , Which  posted them online.

Waymo basically says "fully self-driving technology will handle all the driving so you can go from door to door without taking the wheel. This will deliver the biggest impact on improving road safety and mobility for everyone."

Facebook: Video is its next big focus

Facebook has its next bog focous on videos in 2017 and has over 1.86 billion monthly active user.

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The Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has confirmed that its next big focus in 2017 will be to put 'video first' across the app. He mentioned in his post that over 150 Million people use Instagram. Now Facebook has launced camera in Messanger, and Zuckerberg has also confirmed that the same have been rolling it out to the main Facebook app as well.

Facebook have cliamed that they have nearly 1.9 billion montly active Facebook users across the globe(1.86 billion to be accurate). Which is a huge number, if you see the network has been around for a over of 12 years. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted the detail on his page , claimed they have over 1.2 billion active users everyday on on social network, and nearly 65 million users to connect with there customers using it for the Business purpose.
In his earnings call, CEO of facebook gave more detail of how facebook views video. He said, “I see video as a mega trend on the same order as mobile. That’s why we’re going to keep putting video first across our family of apps and making it easier for people to capture and share video in new ways.”
Mark Zuckerberg also confirmed that the main Facebook app will get a tab at the bottom of the app with top videos and recommendations. This has already been rolled out in US, and expected soon to launch in other part of the globe as well.

Digital Village: Free wifi: With a new pilot project to bring free WIFI to over 1000 villages in India

At present  Google is proving free Wi-Fi at over 100 railway station

Govt of India is preparing to grant free Wi-FI and internet access to its rural citizen. Formerly Google and Facebook have taken the task of bringing internet connectivity to India.  According to the CNN Money recent report, the Indian Govt has planned to bring free Wi-Fi and internet access to over 1000 villages across its vast expansion naming the pilot project as ' Digital Village'.

Budget 2017: Is likely to affect hike in mobile phone price in India.

Hike in the cost of mobile phones is likely to take place in India, after the announcement of Budget 2017-2018.

The cost of the mobile phones is likely to go up next fiscal Budget 2017-2018 because of the Special Additional Duty (SAD). This additional duty will bring cahnge of additional two percent hike in PCBs or Printed Circuit Board used in the manufacture of mobile phones. Initially there was no such SAD charges levied but now two percent duy will be imposed on all imported PCBs.
Since 40-50 percent of the phone value is determined by the PCBs, therefore an increase in the duty of these components will result of increse price of mobile phones. “We are expecting a one per cent value impact on the price of the mobile, but obviously this is not going to happen overnight. While one per cent might not seem much, if you take into consideration the number of mobile phones being manufactured and sold in India, this duty will translate into a bigger cost for the company,” said Bipin Sapra, Partner – Indirect Tax at EY.