沒錯,還是 Samsung 和 Apple 間專利巡迴賽的相關消息(還真的是沒完沒了),這次我們來到日本站,Samsung 指控 Apple 侵犯其在資料傳輸方面的專利。只是這一站的裁判(日本法院)看來並不同意,更指出 Samsung 並沒有相關專利的使用權,不能向 Apple 提出指控。Samsung 方面也沒再反擊,也就是 Apple 的產品可以繼續賣,Samsung 敗戰收場。場邊的 The Times Of India 補充說,同一場比賽雙方在美國和南韓站是一勝一負,算上日本站的話就是 Apple 兩勝一負了。當然,在漫長的戰爭中,勝敗也只是兵家常事而已啊(遠目)。
帶上 Google 眼鏡,更聰明還是更傻?: 毫無疑問,帶上 Google 眼鏡,人類會變成看起來聰明的傻瓜。有眼鏡的傢伙在遇到難題時,越來越不會相信本能的的知識和判斷。就如同童話故事中的那個王后,沒有魔鏡,就不知道自己和白雪公主到底誰更漂亮? 本文不是在寫一個反科學的論點,不過2011 年《紐約時報》的一篇文章,可能讀來會有點啟發。矽谷大佬公司(比如穀歌、...
Meet Buddy, Another Ambitious, Crowdfunded Smart Watch:
Haven’t we all suffered enough abuse at the hands of Big Smart Watch? No? Well now there’s Buddy, a Bluetooth smartwatch that aims to solve the problems associated with all those other watches. Buddy is focused on social networking and notifications so it will ping you when your Facebook or Twitter feed is updated as well as send the standard call/text/calendar notifications you expect from a smart watch.
The ambitious watch is the product of Vea Digital, a smartwatch company best known for their Sportive work-out watch. The company’s new project, however, is wildly ambitious. It has a capacitive color touchscreen, works with iOS and Android, and contains 8GB of memory in a package 8mm thick. It’s a huge watch, to be sure, and the renders/prototype models show a unique and colorful icon-based UI that might work better than the cramped black and white design of other devices.
What can it do?
Show notifications displayed on your smartphone.
Allow you to control your smartphone (initiate calls, control music…)
Receive and display data from your smartphone (turn by turn navigation…)
Display smartphone content (pictures…)Your smartphone and the VEA BUDDY connect with Bluetooth…
The makers claim a battery life of “10 days or 2 weeks standby” which sounds like crazy talk. They’re asking for $320,000 to build the first run and have raised $42,000 so far. A black watch can be had for a pledge of $150 and they will be delivered in August 2013.
I’ll believe it when I see it, but if you’re looking to get in on the ground floor of an acceptably cool-looking smart watch, Buddy might be the way to go.
Big screens are the talk of the town at MWC. Got nothing else to announce that makes your handset stand out from the crowd? Throw a huge screen on the sucker. Or just put phone features in a tablet and call it a day. Apple seems to be the only smartphone OEM out there without a giant-screened smartphone, but designer Peter Zigich has created a concept of what a Cupertino phablet could look like, should Apple ever feel the need to big it up.
In a new blog post, Zigich envisions a number of different concepts for a next-generation iPhone, including a design that gains screen real estate simply by shifting the home button to the side of the device, clearing the entire front for display. That adds an extra row of apps, above and beyond the five plus dock available on the iPhone 5. A recessed, side-mounted home button actually makes a lot of sense, especially with one on each side for convenience/ambidextrous use, as Zigich has placed them in his mockup. Would Apple actually add a button to its design in the real world though? Never, say I.
Zigich's basic iPhone 6 redesign borrows cues from the iPad mini to reduce the size of the bezel around the display, which is feasible if Apple integrates its accidental screen edge touch filters to the smartphone. The designer also employs the same tricks in developing an iPhone mini concept, and what he calls an "iPhone 6 XL," or an iOS powered equivalent of a Galaxy Note-style handset with a big ol' screen.
With his nearly edge-to-edge screen, Zigich says that his concept is still perfectly usable with one hand, which has been a sticking point for Apple in the past, at least in terms of the public line it has taken regarding bigger displays on smartphones. And the squat iPhone mini uses the same size screen as is found in an iPhone 4/4S, but in a much smaller package thanks to the new placement of the home button(s) and the shrunken bezel elements.
These concepts are excellent in that they don't venture too far from Apple's current design, making them look and feel like something we could actually see out of Cupertino, but despite their merits I doubt we'll see Apple unveil very similar designs at any upcoming event. Still, with rumors of different screen sizes and new iPhone SKUs flying, it's interesting to see a material take on how exactly Apple might go about that kind of product differentiation.
Google opens up Project Glass to non-developers: Google has announced that they are starting a contest for non-developers to purchase Glass ahead of the retail release. Explorers are required to submit in 50 words or less to Twitter or Goggle+ what they would do with the interactive, web-enabled glasses. The deadline for applications is February 27th, 2013. It is not cheap however! If selected, the glasses are $1,500, and you must attend a pick event in New York, San Francisco, or LA.
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除了各類產品之外 LG 在 MWC 2013 上也為我們帶來了一些新的技術,其中一項比較值得注意的就是手機與 Ultra HD 電視間的 4K 影片無線串流功能。除了透露這項技術將利用 Wi-Fi 網路外 LG 到目前為止還沒有給出更多的細節,不過按照他們的說法這項技術能減少 CPU 和其它硬體所使用的能源,其功耗和同類技術相比減少了大約一半。希望接下來我們能有機會親手玩一下這項技術,有興趣的朋友請留意我們的報導吧。
什麼?LG 已經從 HP 手裡買下了 webOS?原來之前傳出來的流言真的不是空穴來風啊... 據稱前者已經購入了 webOS 的原始碼和「相關的資料、網站及工程人才」,未來會將其應用到智慧型電視平台之上(沒錯,不是智慧型手機或平板)。此外 LG 還將能使用 HP 的 webOS 專利技術,其中自然也包括 HP 之前從 Palm 那裡收購的部分。目前交易的細節還沒有被公佈,有更多消息的話我們再通知大家囉。