Archive for September, 2015

It is rumored that Samsung will close its camera business that draws a great attention from the public. With the rumors go, Samsung has to make announcement to refute them. It claims that the company will stick to its camera business and it will make more investments on the development of its own camera Non-Reflex system. It will focus on developing the high-end market.

Samsung is competent with producing the separate camera lenses. It has CMOS sensor technology. Its products come as mobiles, portable digital cameras and Non-Reflex system. Samsung has great passion to launch Non-Reflex system.

The feedback from its camera users do not sound good for a long time. It doesn’t attract great attention and likes from the fans even if avail of its reputation.

Even though the company denied it will close the camera business, the statement from its senior management group becomes ambiguous. It has possiblity to close down some sessions with bad performances.

Its cellphone business performance doesn’t make manifestly breakthrough in the recent years. It gradually lost some cellphone market share. Its prices of stocks have been dropping down in the past five months in a row. Its capitale value has been shorten$ 40 billion since this April.

Its cellphone business has faced much pressure from Apple iPhones and homemade smartphones It doesn’t make great advantage at prices. It is possibly that Samsung will turn to low-end cellphone business. It is reported that it will launch a new mobile device MS-G6000. We look forward to more new breakthroughs made by Samsung.

Since Apple launched iPhone 5S, rose gold has become the most popular mobile design. Therefore, Apply continues to offer rose gold color for iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus. It has no doubt that this color desing mobile attracts more intention. According to the report made by Guo Mingchi, the analyst from KGI, it indicates the sales of rose gold iPhone 6S and 6S Plus account to the total volume between 30%-40%.

Guo Mingchi claims that the popularity of rose gold iPhone 6S and 6S Plus benefits a lot to Foxconn, the partnered suppiler of Apple firm. Until now, Foxconn is the only OEM producer for Apple’s rose gold shell of iPhone 6S and iPhone6S Plus.

Another report from domestic Statistics Institutions shows that 73% of consumers of iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus are males. From its purchase intention report, the rates of buy rose and rose gold iPhone 6S series are close, respectively 34% and 39%. Even though the female consumers do not account for a large rate among the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus users, about 73% of female users choose the rose gold ones.

Apple predicted the first week’s sales volume of iPhone 6S and 6S Plus would exceed the one that iPhone 6 and 6 Plus did in last year. It means Apple firm need to sell more than 10 million sets in three days. Is it possible? Today is their launch day. The fans of iPhone 6S and 6S Plus can experience the new devices at local Apple Stores.

Starbucks has launched a new Android app for its customers to order and pay their coffee from their mobile phone. The coffee fans don’t have to wait much long time for their coffee then.

It becomes more convenient for those coffee fans. Its own Android app is only available in Starbucks stores in the United States. Starbucks plans to introduce this Android app to Canadian and Birtain stores next month.

It had been trialing this Android app at Starbucks stores in Portland since last December before Starbucks introduced it to iOS users over the summer.

Adam Brotman, Starbucks’ chief digital officer said the Android app allows its customers to order and pay by mobile phone that meets the needs of convenience and customisation for them at any time they like.

At the same time, the Android app also presents the coffee company’s fastest technology application they achieved and highlights the strength of its digital ecosystem. The application of Android app shows the fact that how well the acceptance by its customers and store partners. It would make a great impact on the future of retail.

The coffee fans can download the Startbucks Android app from Google Play for free. To experience such technology application, why not downloading one on your mobile phone if it is available at your city?

The landmark lawsuit between Apple and Samsung is still yet to be fully resolved. It came to a judge that Samsung to pay Apple $120 million in damages for patent infringement last year.

The US court admitted Samsung violate Apple’s patents for slide-to-unlock, autocorrect, and cnverting text into hyperlinks, however, the judge denied Apple’s bid for Samsung to stop selling those phones.

Recently, Apple has won an appeal against the latter ruling. Now the case is on its way back to the lower district court.

iPhone maker insists its principle and it won’t let those infringment act remain unpunished. Therefore, the Samsung Galaxy S3 will be called back from its stores even though they are four years old and rarely seen in the market.

Samsung made some tech adjustments for its recent devices in order to avoid being accused of infringment again, but it was acknowledged to challenge the latest ruling.

Apple firm made it clear that they will continue to stick up for their rights to have the full Court of Appeal review its decision.

The two companies signed an agreement that saw both sides stop the hatchet on all patents disputs outside of the US. But the hostilities between two companies are still existence on Apple’s home turf.

As the world’s biggest social network, Facebook wants to do something good for the public by utilizing its massive user base. It has worked with the Missing People charity to post the lost child alerts on Facebook in the UK. Facebook attracts a lot of fans, this action might make the rescue quicker and easier.

It adds the “Child Rescue Alerts” content that will introduce the important clues about the missing people. The clues information only be visible by those in the area where they were last seen.

The Facebook users can share the notifications with others in the network to increase the possibility of finding the missing people.

It reports that Facebook will only post a Rescue Alert if the child’s life is in danger or is at the risk of harm. Therefore, any Rescue Alerts on Facebook could be urgent and threatening.

Missing People’s CEO Jo Youle stated, they hope they won’t have to use the ” Child Rescue Alerts” system. Facebook has a great amount of fans, the cooperation with it will make a great difference in extending the number of eyes and ears when the bad situation occurs.

It concerns about this content may bring negativity to Facebook for the introduction of a Dislike button, this social network firm adds a new feature that only be visible as positive.

In the past few days, you may be proccupied by Apple news as it just released its iPhone 6S. Now Google launched a new mobile-based contactless payment service, Android Pay to compete with Apple Pay.

Android Pay is a update of its past mobile payment platform Google Wallet. Its working theory is much similar to the iPone-locked counterpart, availing of NFC tech to pay without using traditional coins and cards.

Android Pay isconsidered as the best Apple Pay alternatives. But don’t rush yourself using this service as it is only available in US at present. Its trails have been going well in more than 1 miliion stateside locations.

Android Pay currently is only available to a few sites. It is said that the payment platform will be accessed by all US-based Android handsets running Android 4.4 onwards in the following weeks.

Google did not make any comfirmation about when it will release Android Pay in UK.

As it is a modification from Google Wallet app, Android Pay only works with select US banks. When you apply Google Android Pay, it will let you make in-app payments using nothing more than your stored card details and a security check by a swipe of your passcode-holding thumb.

The contactless payments may be the most popular mainstream payment in the future. And the advanced tech and modifications for them will allow them work better.