Week 23 in review Galaxy S5 LTE A and Amazon Fire Phone

Tags: Android , Samsung , Amazon , Apple , iOS , BlackBerry , Firmware Update , Google , Rumors

The Week In Review is our series meant to recap all the major announcements of the week, which you might have missed. Week 23 was rather busy with new products so you are in for a long read. Enjoy!

This week was marked by the announcement of the first ever Amazon smartphone - the Fire Phone. It is an innovative gadget, more than the 4.7" 720p IPS display, Snapdragon 800 chipset and 13 MP camera would suggest. Whats interesting about it is the phones Dynamic Perspective 3D UI which follows your eyes and the Firefly feature, which would recognize pretty much any object you snap with the camera.

Amazon Fire Phone

This week also saw the debut of the long-rumored Samsung Galaxy S5 LTE-A with a 5.1" QHD display and Snapdragon 805 chipset. Samsung later confirmed this version of the Galaxy S5 is intended only for South Korea and wont be released anywhere else in the world.

Samsung Galaxy S5 LTE-A

We learned that two new affordable Galaxies are coming later this year - the Galaxy Pocket 2 and Galaxy Core 2 Duos. Both phones leaked with specs, pictures and prices, so we guess they should be going official any moment now.

Samsung Galaxy Pocket 2 • Samsung Galaxy Core 2 Dual SIM

And while we are still talking about Samsung, the Black Edition of the Galaxy S4 mini is now being updated to the Android 4.4.2 KitKat firmware worldwide.

Google managed to surprise us with another update bringing the standard-issue Android KitKat up to v. 4.4.4. It contains just a security patch for an OpenSSL bug, which would have allowed a man-in-the-middle attack. There are no new features. The update is now rolling on the compatible Nexus devices and should expand to the latest Moto gadgets soon.

Apple has also rolled out the iOS 8 beta 2 update. It brings lots of critical bug fixes, new settings and the QuickType keyboard on the iPads. It also improves the Handoff feature working between iOS 8 and Mac OS X Yosemite.

The 4.7" and the 5.5" iPhone 6 models leaked yet again. TechSmartt did an extensive hands-on video of the dummies on YouTube. The 4.7" iPhone 6 was even sized up next to an HTC One (M8).

4", 4.7" and 5.5" iPhones • 5.5" iPhone 6 and LG G3 • 5.5" iPhone 6 and Galaxy Note 3

Finally, this week we saw three new BlackBerry smartphones show their faces - BlackBerry codenamed Kopi and the officially presented BlackBerry Passport and BlackBerry Classic with hardware QWERTY keyboards. Passport and Classic are coming this fall.

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HTC One SC Review and Specs

HTC One SC Review and Specs - HTC One SC is equipped with hybrid technology (GSM-CDMA), is able to accommodate two SIM cards via physical card slot (SIM and RUIM). How abilities?

Design

HTC One SC has dimensions of 128 x 66.9 x 8.9 mm and weighs 116 grams. This product is designed with the spirit of the previous HTC, ie surface wide enough and thin thickness. The difference in the SC, the material used is soft plastic so impressed frail. Only a small part around the camera which coated metal material, typical HTC One.

HTC One SC Review and Specs

With the formation of this sleek, HTC One SC looks attractive in the hand. Feels more comfortable use. Its just that the mechanism of opening and closing the cover to make tolerable excited. The reason we had to pry the top of the back cover that apparently there is no boundary between the cover with the front of the phone.

Display

The smartphone comes with a Super LCD2 capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors; 480 x 800 pixels, 4.3 inches (~ 217 ppi pixel density), OS: Android OS, v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Like most Android phones, the HTC One SC also carry a fairly wide touch screen, which is 4.3 inches. Not the widest in its class, but it was enough to sustain comfort text input and interact with mobile features. Theres nothing to complain about. Because of its responsiveness was considered already qualified.

Hardware

CPU: Dual-core 1 GHz, Li-Ion 1800 mAh battery, Internal: 4 GB, 1 GB RAM, External: microSD, up to 32 GB.

Camera

Main camera: 5 MP, 2592х1944 pixels, autofocus, LED flash; Geo-tagging, touch focus, face detection; 720p video recorder. HTC One SC features a 5 megapixel camera capable of capturing images with both the condition of the room with abundant light or outdoors. Interestingly you can directly apply effects while shooting an image, not as photographed. This is a positive point because it adds to the effectiveness when photographing.

HTC One SC Review and Specs

Besides, the camera phone is also capable of recording 720p video, todays standard mobile phone camera. Although the results are not special but this camera can be relied upon to capture the historic moment.

Connectivity

EV-DO Rev. A up to 3.1 Mbps, 1X, EDGE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, MicroUSB. HTC One SC is a phone aimed at those who use CDMA. If you prefer this type of data and telephony services both use the CDMA operators, perhaps because of better network activity on your location, the phone is a Android phone alternatives that can be tried.

HTC One SC Review and Specs

As usual, we can find the number of connectors for data and power via micro USB and 3.5-inch audio with beats audio certification. While other backers connections, such as Bluetooth and so on.

Conclusion

For users of CDMA service provider, mobile phone options often be a problem. Even had formed that opinion is a cheap mobile phone CDMA. Whereas in the line of middle-class Android, HTC had a champion, the HTC One SC. This product has everything you need as a CDMA Android device. Coupled with the ability to store a number of GSM as well, then you will not lose important contacts stored in two different numbers.

HTC One SC Review and Specs

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An Open Source App Rietveld Code Review Tool

Posted by Guido van Rossum, Software Engineer

My first project as a Google engineer was an internal web app for code review. According to Wikipedia, code review is "systematic examination (often as peer review) of computer source code intended to find and fix mistakes overlooked in the initial development phase, improving both the overall quality of software and the developers skills." Not an exciting topic, perhaps, but the internal web app, which I code-named Mondrian after one of my favorite Dutch painters, was an overnight success among Google engineers (who evidently value software quality and skills development :-). I even gave a public presentation about it: you can watch the video on YouTube.

Ive always hoped that we could release Mondrian as open source, but so far it hasnt happened: due to its popularity inside Google, it became more and more tied to proprietary Google infrastructure like Bigtable, and it remained limited to Perforce, the commercial revision control system most used at Google.

Fortunately, now that I work on the Google App Engine team, Ive been able to write a new web app that incorporates many ideas (and even some code!) from Mondrian, and release it as open source. The Python open source community has been trying out Rietveld for the past few days, and has already been using it to do code reviews for Python (as well as providing valuable feedback in the form of bug reports and feature requests). Of course, the tool is not language-specific: you can use it for code reviews for any language!

To learn more about Rietveld, try it out, or take a look at the code, check out the article on Google Code!

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JPA JDO Java Persistence Tips The Year In Review

If you’re developing a Java application on App Engine you probably already know that you can use JPA and JDO, both standard Java persistence APIs, to interact with the datastore. What you may not know, and what I’m here to point out, is that for the past few months I’ve been accumulating a collection of practical, real-world examples that can help you take full advantage of these powerful APIs.



In episode one I put together a working example of an owned, bidirectional, one-to-many relationship and demonstrated how you can persist child objects just by associating them with parent objects. In episode two I demonstrated how to perform a batch get by issuing a query that only filters on the primary key property of your model object. In episode three I explored the exciting world of “transparent persistence,” explaining how you can modify the persistent state of objects without making any explicit calls to repersist them. In episode four I issued a keys-only query and got the results back crazy-fast because the datastore skipped the extra scan that turns keys into full-fledged entities. And in episode five I demonstrated how serialized fields can help you store arbitrary objects in the datastore.



After episode five I got a little bit tired, but there was still so much more to say, so I pressed on.



In episode six I powered through a discussion of long-running transactions and unearthed the ancient secret of how you can use optimistic locking to prevent users from updating stale data. In episode seven I explained how using unindexed properties can speed up your writes and save you valuable CPU time. In episode eight I attempted (cautiously) to blow your mind with a solution for case-insensitive queries. And finally, in episode nine, mere hours after releasing support for != and IN query operators in the SDK, I dove under the hood of these operators to help you understand their performance characteristics.



Many of these topics were inspired by questions from you, our users, so if there are topics you’d like to see covered in the coming year please let me know via the forum. As long as you keep reading and asking questions, I’ll keep writing.



Max Ross, App Engine Engineer

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