Samsung to unveil curved screen smartphone and gold phone

As smartphone market becomes increasingly saturated, Samsung is set to unveil a smartphone with a curved screen – a technological innovation.

Curved displays are at a nascent stage in display technology which is shifting towards flexible panels that are bendable or can even be rolled or folded.

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Everyone is making fun of Samsung this morning for blatantly copying Apple's winning strategy — releasing a gold Galaxy S IV right after Apple released and then quickly sold out of its gold iPhone 5S — when really it was Apple that copied Samsung. Samsung released a gold smartphone way back in August, weeks before the heavily rumored gold iPhone 5S release. The Galaxy Golden, a hybrid flip phone-smartphone concoction, even has "gold" in the name to remind you of its sheen, which is a bit hard to see in the Samsung picture at right.

We don’t know which is first but as consumers, no matter which wins we could enjoy the new smartphone at home. I like watching movies and I will use my new smartphone to watch blu-ray movies which have high definitions and are very amazing. I use a blu-ray player to enjoy it. Now this is your time to enjoy yourself.

iPhone 5S/5C sales, reaching 9 million over the opening weekend

Last Friday, iPhone 5S and 5C came to the market. Just over the opening weekend, the sales of this new iPhone reached to 9 million.

On the contrary, last year iPhone 5 was sold 5 million over the first weekend. But it was just in 9 markets while iPhone 5S and 5c were in 11 markets, incluing China, one of the most main markets.

Apple would reach a high sale if it has enough products in stock because iPhone 5S were all sold in the first weekend.

Moreover, Apple released it s new iOS 7 and it is updated by 200 million iOS devices. 

In Quarter 2, BlackBerry lost almost $1 billion and it will cut 4500 jobs, which is 40% of the whole workers. In this quarter, BlackBerry smartphone sales is 3.7 million and it is lower than 6.8 million of the first quarter, 2013. So BlackBerry met a huge loss.

Since BlackBerry is not what most people want? Which smarrtphone is the best choice? I prefer iPhone and I will use is to watch my favorite videos. Moreover, I use a bluray player which plays well in my phone and I recommend it many of my friends. 

Apple announces eighth edition of OS X 10.9 Mavericks developer preview

Today, Apple announced eighth edition of OS X 10.9 Mavericks developer preview and it is two weeks since last version.

Some people said OS X 10.9 Mavericks would be announced on Sep. 10 with iPhone 5C/5S. But Apple didn’t do that. It first announced its OS X 10.9 Mavericks developer preview.

According to recent analytics, OS X 10.9 Mavericks will release in Oct. with new iPad and iPad Mini.

Splendid Page Design Templates: Template Mix

I. Brief introduction of Template Mix

 It is professional templates for page design and there are 56 original template lines. We can choose a template to design and make our page more splendid. Brochures, letters, business cards etc. are included. You can easily recolor, reshape and remove your object as you want.

II. Pictures of the Template Mix

Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPhone 5C is clueless, says Fred Wilson

Yesterday, Apple Inc. announced its newest model, the so-called cheap iPhone. Venture capitalist is disappointed that iPhone 5C wouldn’t be as cheap as people expected and he called the company clueless.

He writes, “The C in 5C does not mean ‘cheap’ as I had hoped. It means clueless, as in clueless about how the vast majority of new smartphone users are paying for their phones”. Actually, iPhone 5C is not cheap. With a contract, it costs only $99 in the U.S., 450$ higher than without one. However, outside the U.S., contracts are much less common. It they want to own an iPhone 5C, they have to pay &700, almost 7 times of a contract phone.

So Fred Wilson says c stands for clueless and it is with same functions but higher price.

Apple iPhone 5s, colorful 5c

Today is a special day because Apple announces its new products this morning.

iPhone 5s

On the surface, it looks like iPhone 5. With same shape and size, meanwhile there are a few visual changes which are a ring around the Home button and new metallic colors of gold, silver and space gray.

Just as people predict before, this new iPhone use a 63-bit A7 processor. It means the phone’s CPU and GPU are 40x and 50x faster than the original iPhone.

Moreover, this iPhone 5s will come in three metallic shades, which feels like gold, silver and lead.

iPhone 5c

This iPhone has five colors: white, pink, green, blue and yellow. “iPhone 5C is beautifully, unapologetically plastic,” Jony Ive said in a video shown at the event. You can pre-order the iPhone 5C starting September 13; it will be available in stores on September 20.

The "Star Trek: The Next Generation" star married Sunny Ozell, his blu-ray movie

The "Star Trek: The Next Generation" star, 70, married his longtime girlfriend, 35-year-old Brooklyn jazz singer Sunny Ozell. The couple has been dating since 2009.

The movie is amazing and I watch the blu-ray movie. But I’m confused what the difference is between bluray disc and dvd disc.

What are the similarities anddifferences of multiple high definition formats?  HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc, two mutually incompatible, high definition optical disc formats that, beginning in 2006, attempted to improve upon and eventually replace the DVD standard. They remained in a format war until February 19, 2008 when Toshiba, HD DVD's creator, announced plans to cease development, manufacturing and marketing of HD DVD players and recorders. There are some other high-definition optical disc formats were attempted, including the multi-layered red-laser Versatile Multilayer Disc and a Chinese made format called EVD. Both appear to have been abandoned by their respective developers.

Technical Details

·          Capacity/codecs

·         Interactivity

·         Disc construction

·         Hybrid discs

·         Copy protection

iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 will release in Quarter 4, iPad 2 continues producing

According to KGI Securities analyst Mingchi Kuo, iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 will probably release in the fourth quarter of this year, which is different from the news that these products will release on Sep. 10.

"Since iPad mini 2 will feature better resolution with retina display, we think its [processor] will have the same grade as iPad 5 – the A7X," Ming-Chi Kuo wrote in a research note, MacRumors reports. "But we now believe that iPad mini 2 may be pulled in for launching in late 2013."

Several days later, we will see new iPhone and this is the most exciting news. 

Sony announces Xperia Z1, with 5 inch 1080p screen and 20.7 megapixels

Recently, many corporations announce their new products. Apple, Samsung and Sony unveil their smartphones one after another.

Sony announces its new smartphone and camera lenses.

Like the Xperia Z, the Z1 is completely waterproof. You can submerge it in water to a depth of 1.5 metres for up to 30 minutes. If you've destroyed a phone by dropping it in the toilet -- or by making calls in the rain -- the Z1 might be the phone for you. It keeps water out by sealing its ports with smaller flaps. While the Xperia Z placed a flap over the headphone jack, the Z1 has simply made the jack itself waterproof, meaning you don't need to undo it every time you want to plug your headphones in.

Probably the most exciting update to the Z1 is the camera, which now boasts a whopping 20.7 megapixels. That's a significant jump from the 13 megapixels of its predecessor, but Sony says that there's more than just a megapixel bump going on.

The sensor size, at 1/2.3-inch, is bigger than what you'd find on your normal smartphone and is similar to the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom's (1/2.33-inch). In comparison, the iPhone 5 uses a small 1/3.2-inch sensor, and the HTC One's UltraPixel sensor is slightly larger at 1/3-inch. The Nokia Lumia 1020 has the biggest sensor at 1/1.5-inch for smartphones running a modern OS.

Samsung unveiled latest products in Berlin on 4 Sep

Yesterday afternoon, Samsung officially unveiled its new products. They are highly anticipated Galaxy Gear, Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition.

Samsung says the Gear can act as an extension to a smartphone by discreetly alerting users to incoming messages and calls on its display screen, which measures 1.63 inches diagonally.

Now I will introduce them one by one. First, it’s the new Galaxy Gear.

Galaxy Gear

People are all focus on the smartphone of Samsung because it is the first time that Samsung develop a smartphone. Several days ago, some pictures of this mysterious smartphone leaked and there are few differences between leaked photos and new devices.

The Galaxy Gear, which has a 1.6-inch screen and weighs 2.6 ounces, looks relatively similar to other smartwatches on the market. But it does have some unique features, such as a 1.9 megapixel camera embedded in the strap and a built-in speaker that allows users to conduct hands-free calls.

Users can even make calls, secret agent-style without getting out their phone. The Gear also sports a basic camera and works with popular social media and fitness apps such as Twitter and RunKeeper. The Android-powered device starts shipping in most countries Sept. 25 starting at $299.

Moreover, Samsung announced 5.7-inch Galaxy Note 3 smartphone too.

Galaxy Note 3

The screen sizes have been creeping up slightly from Note to Note. The first version from 2011 measured in at 5.3 inches, followed by the Note II at just over 5.5 inches, followed by the Note 3 at just shy of 5.7 inches.
There’s a 2.3GHz quad-core processor, three gigabytes of RAM, a big 3,200mAh battery and a 13-megapixel camera.
The Galaxy Note 3 will be available starting in October. Prices haven’t yet been set by U.S. carriers.

Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition

Samsung also revealed its latest revision of the Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet. Dubbed the "2014 Edition," Samsung's latest tablet measures just 7.9 millimeters thick and is billed as the "ultimate productivity" device. It's also seen an uptick in resolution compared to the previous model, now featuring a high-res 2560 x 1600 display. In fact, it's basically identical to the panel we've previously seen on Google's Nexus 10, which of course is manufactured by Samsung. That's about where the hardware similarities end, though.

As you'd expect, Samsung is bringing the same new software features and apps found on the Note III to the larger tablet. Air Command and improved takes on S Pen and Multi-Window are all included. Like the Note III and Galaxy Gear smartwatch, it will be released worldwide in 149 countries on September 25th. 

From this we can see Samsung is seeking for best product so we should believe in it and continue using Android products. As to me, it makes me easy to use a phone to do what they want. By my phone and tablets, I will watch my favorite movies; no matter they are English, French or Chinese. Though sometimes I feel a little confused, I’d like to know how people live in other countries. I use a blu-ray player and it can alter languages, of course in your PC. If you use a mobile phone, it can also play audios and videos. The only thing you need to do connect your tablets and make it useful and you could just enjoy your movies here. This player is amazing and I like it.http://www.blurayplayermac.com/

Nokia future: Microsoft acquires Nokia’s mobile phone business, for $7.2 billion

Microsoft has agreed a deal to buy Nokia's mobile phone business for $7.2 billion.

The purchase is set to be completed in early 2014, when about 32,000 Nokia employees will transfer to Microsoft. Nokia has fallen behind rivals Samsung and Apple, while critics say Microsoft has been slow into the mobile market.

Latest photos of Samsung's Galaxy Gear Smartwatch

Samsung will reveal its Galaxy Gear smartwatch a few days later, in Berlin. People are looking forward to seeing the pictures of the smartwatch. Here are some but they may not be the real smartwatch.

Samsung uses high-quality OLED display, with its square screen. For more information, let’s wait and look at the real smartwatch.

Share some video/audio formats

How many video and audio formats do you know? Here I will give a brief introduction of these formats. AVI Audio Video Interleaved (also Audio Video Interleave), known by its initials AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology.

AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. Like the DVD video format, AVI files support multiple streaming audio and video, although these features are seldom used. Most AVI files also use the file format extensions developed by the Matrox OpenDML group in February 1996. These files are supported by Microsoft, and are unofficially called "AVI 2.0".

AMV is a proprietary video file format, produced for MP4 players, as well as S1 MP3 players with video playback. There are now two different MTV formats: the older one for the Actions chip, and a newer one for ALi’s M5661 chip. This format for ALi one was ALIAVI.

WebM extension. Webm Internet media type video / webm audio / the webm developed by Google initial version 2010-05-19 format video file specifically the case VP8 (video) extending Vorbis (audio) since Matroska free open source.

WebM is an audio-video format designed to provide royalty-free, open video compression for use with HTML5 video. The project's development is sponsored by Google Inc.

A WebM file consists of VP8 video and Vorbis audio streams, in a container based on a profile of Matroska. The project releases WebM related software under a BSD license and all users are granted a worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free patent license.

The 'Matroska Multimedia Container' is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows.

Matroska File Extention .mkv .mka .mks Internet Media Type video/x-matroska audio/x-matroska Developer Matroska.org Type of format Container format Container for Multimedia Open format? Yes Matroska The name "Matroska" is derived from the Russian word Matryoshka (Russian: матрёшка [mɐˈtrʲoʂkə]), which means nesting doll (the common Russian cylindrical-shaped doll within a doll, also known as a babushka doll). This is a play on the container (media within a form of media/doll within a doll) aspect of the matryoshka as it is a container for visual and audio data. The loose transliteration may be confusing to Russian speakers, as the Russian word matroska (Russian: матроска) actually refers to a sailor suit. File types Matroska media defines three types of files: ·         MKV （Matroska Video File): Video file can contain audio and subtitles; ·         MKA （Matroska Audio File): A single audio file, how many types of tracks; ·         MKS （Matroska Subtitles): Subtitle file.

The following list is a list of MKV and AVI:

File extension	Variable frame rate	Subtitles	Multi-track	Streaming Support	Menu Support	None Microsoft OS
MKV	Yes	Yes	Yes	Coming Soon	Coming Soon	Yes
AVI	No	No	No	No	No	No