Nokia is back with a new mid-range device: Nokia 6

Nokia is officially back to the smartphone market. HMD Global, Nokia’s new hardware partner, launched the brand new Nokia 6 on January 9^th. It’s the first smartphone to carry the Nokia brand since Microsoft acquired the Lumia business 4 years ago. It’s a midrange phone that carries a lot of attractive features and costs only $245.

“We have set ourselves a mission to deliver the best possible smartphone experience, with a beautiful premium design touch, to everyone, at every price point,” said HMD chief product officer Juho Sarvakis.

“By building on true Nokia phone hallmarks of leading design and materials, an obsessive focus on the latest technology and solving real-life issues, we believes we have a unique proposition for consumers. The Nokia 6 marks the first step on our journey, with more to come in 2017.”

The Nokia 6 comes with a 5.5-inch 1080P Full HD display that’s covered by 2.5D curved glass, a Snapdragon 430 processor, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of internal storage with SD card slot. Other than the regular specs, It also packs Dolby Atmos technology with dual amplifiers.

The Nokia 6 will be running Android 7.0 Nougat out of the box when it goes on sale and this device would be exclusive to China.

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Apple Celebrates 10th Anniversary That Introduced the Original iPhone

Ten years ago today, Steve Jobs introduced the very first iPhone. He described it as three devices in one: “A widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone, and a breakthrough internet communications device.”

It introduced the classic grid-of-icons layout, the single home button, and dropped a physical keyboard in favor of a multi-touch display. It was ready for the internet and consuming media, but it still lacked a number of key features — including 3G connectivity and the App Store.

But since its first unveiling, the iPhone has become much more than that. It’s a symbol of the tech industry, of the modern era as a whole, and has made Apple the largest company in the world in terms of market capitalization, with some even speculating it’s the most profitable product ever. A decade on, and it’s still making headlines. Let’s take a look at how the iPhone has changed over the years.

his year, Apple is expected to create a 10th anniversary iPhone— which has come to be known colloquially as the “iPhone 8″— with a complete redesign that could change the game once again. It’s believed that the device will have an edge-to-edge OLED display that could hide components, like Touch ID, the home button, earpiece and FaceTime camera —within or behind the display, presenting users with a true edge-to-edge screen.

Other rumored features of the so-called “iPhone 8” include a glass back, curved screen, wireless charging, and a new 10-nanometer “A11” processor.

New iPhones will have to wait, however, as Apple typically refreshes its flagship handset around September. Until then, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus remain the flag-bearers for the world’s most popular smartphone model.

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Why do We Need Blu-rays and DVDs in the Age of Streaming

About a decade ago, gift giving of DVDs between friends who love movies was very commonplace. But in recent years, as Internet grew in popularity, the sales of DVDs and later Blu-rays started to drop and video streaming services started to replace the physical media. Buying Blu-ray or DVD discs has become more of an uncommon thing because online video streaming services like Netflix or Amazon Prime or others provide us with libraries with thousands of movies and TV shows for a monthly price less than the cost of a single movie on Blu-ray disc. If a choice had to be made, most people would probably go for online movie streaming rather than a Blu-ray disc.

Although streaming is the mainstream right now but some of you might not know that physical media still remains superior to streaming in almost every way regarding technical aspect.

Even the best streaming can’t surpass physical media in picture and sound quality

The most basic elements of the home viewing experiences are the picture and sound quality. And the current gold standard in home video is 4K. The standard resolution of 4K is 3840*2160, which is way higher than the old HD standard of 1080P and in theory, it should be able to provide denser and sharper image. But according to the A/V enthusiasts at WhatHiFi.com who compared the 4K content offered by Netflix and Amazon to the traditional 1080P Blu-ray disc, the viewing experience of the streaming 4K was basically the same as 1080P Blu-ray. More surprisingly, the contrast and color of the Blu-rays are significantly better than the 4K streaming. Ultra HD discs, in the meanwhile, shows obvious advantage over the two.

Another advantage that physical media has over streaming is in surround sound technology. Blu-rays are able to contain the Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio standards capable of producing supreme seven-speaker sound. With the right setup, these audio formats are able to make the big movie scenes more dynamic and immersive.

What’s dragging streaming down is compression: the picture and sound quality has to be compromised to be sent efficiently over the internet. Although effects have been put into retaining the quality from compression, quality loss is still inevitable. Darker scenes tend to suffer the most from quality loss. Some specific scenes, like sunsets or rooms lit by firelight, would become chunky and pixelated.

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Apple Gives away Beats Solo3 Headphones for Chinese New Year

In order to welcome the upcoming Chinese New Year, Apple announced customers in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore will receive a pair of Beats Solo3 wireless headphones with the purchase of select Mac and iPhone products as part of a one-day sale. Apple’s 2017 Chinese New Year sale involves a special edition version of headphones from its subsidiary Beats, in this case the Product (RED) variation. The color red symbolizes good luck and prosperity in many Asian cultures, and is a common sight around the new year.

According to Apple’s Chinese website, any iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro (excluding late-2016 models with Touch Bar), MacBook Air, Mac Pro, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus will receive an instant credit for a pair of Beats Solo3 hardware. The offer is valid at Apple brick-and-mortar stores or online from 8 a.m. on Jan. 6.

Apple has in the past initiated similar sales to woo Asian market customers. In 2014 the company announced a one-day “Red Friday” sales event that garnered shoppers moderate discounts on select merchandise. Identical promotions ran in 2013 and 2012.

In addition to the Beats Solo3 giveaway, Apple is showcasing a litany of red themed accessories on its digital storefront, including iPhone cases, audio products, toys and more. The company is also pushing digital wares like Chinese Greetings and Chinese New Year iMessage sticker packs for the seasonal event.

Leawo Software Announces New Year Event Featuring Free Video Converter Along with Up to 70% Discounts

Christmas and New Year are usually the busiest time for companies to kick off various kinds of promotions. Leawo Software is no exception. In celebration of Christmas and New Year, the company launched its Christmas and New Year Promotion Activity with free giveaway and big discounts on December 13, 2016. This once-a-year Christmas and New Year sale activity is divided into 3 periods. The third period is a New Year promotion, which started on January 3, 2017 and will end on January 12, 2017.

During the 10-day New Year promotion, Leawo Software gives out Leawo Video Converter as free New Year gift for all participants. The New Year sale also includes price drops ranging from 40 percent to 70 percent off on all Leawo’s Blu-ray/DVD/video/Apple products. Leawo Software also provides over 10 pieces of partners’ software for free to customers as long as they purchase any Leawo’s product during the period.

“The holiday sales could be an even more important event than holidays themselves. And we’re excited to offer yet the promotion to snag everything you need for New Year,” Leawo’s CEO Steven says. “From January 2, 2017, through January 12, 2017, you could get Leawo Video Converter for free. We also offer all kinds of Leawo’s products with amazing discounts.”

Leawo Video Converter helps users convert video and audio between all popular formats like AVI, MP4, MOV, MP3, AAC, FLAC, etc. Superior to other free video converter programs, the software enables users to convert 2D to 3D and create 3D movies for vivid video enjoyment. This all-in-one video converter software offers powerful editing features to add special effects, watermarks, etc. Setting parameters of output profile is feasible as well within this video converter software. It could convert video and audio files for multiple portable devices, phones, tablets, PCs, websites and more.

To get the video converter software for free, customers will need to visit the official promotion page and register with name and personal email address. Both Windows and Mac versions are available. The company would then send a code of Leawo Video Converter to the registered email address for free.

The New Year promotion also includes price drops ranging from 40 percent to 70 percent off on all Leawo’s Blu-ray/DVD/video/Apple products. Blu-ray/DVD products are 40% off. Utility series are offered with 50% off. Video tools are now 60% off. And package series are even offered with 70% off. After purchasing any Leawo’s product with discounts, people can get all 10+ extra products from Leawo’s partners for free. For more details, people could visit: http://www.leawo.org/promotion/special-offer/.

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