At Berlin's IFA, the world's largest consumer electronics and home appliance trade fair, Sony has unveiled three new premium smartphones under the Xperia Z5 label. The flagship of the family is the Xperia Z5 Premium, the world's first 4K smartphone, which boasts four times the resolution of full HD (most high-end phones have either a Full HD or Quad HD screen) and a two-day battery life.
Two sizes, three designs and tons of personalization. This is the second generation of Motorola's Moto 360 smart watch. If you didn't have a design choice with the original model, the successor "corrects" that. There are classic versions such as men's (screen diameter 42 and 46 mm) and women's (42 mm) watches, as well as the Moto 360 sport, which is created for sports activities and is accordingly secured with materials that can cope with such conditions (e.g. a strap made of silicone). All of them are waterproof and equipped with a heart rate monitor.
The Acer Jade Primo smartphone is the world's first "PC phone" that can become a PC thanks to the Continuum feature of the Windows 10 operating system. Therefore, in addition to standard accessories such as a charger and headphones, you will also get peripherals such as a keyboard and a wireless mouse and a docking station. Continuum lets you turn your phone into an almost purebred PC when you connect it to an external display, keyboard and mouse.
Robin is the first smartphone in the world that uses cloud technology. Behind the phone, which quickly exceeded the set financial goal on Kickstarter, although it was set at half a million US dollars, there are ex-Googlers and ex-HTC employees. And yes, to say the least, the Robin doesn't stand out in terms of specs. There is a 5.2-inch screen with a resolution of 1080p, a Snapdragon processor and 32 GB of internal memory. With an emphasis on 'internal'. This Android is able to offer an additional 100 GB of cloud space! And that's the reason it stands out so much from the competition.
Just when we thought computer assembly was saying goodbye, it is experiencing its second spring. It was revived by projects such as the modular phone Phonebloks and Google's Project Ara, and now Acer is joining the modular brush, which introduced a computer that you can assemble like Lego bricks. It's called the Revo Build, and its intelligent design allows you to add bricks (read functionality/extra capabilities) to it like speakers, a projector, a wireless charging station, a hard drive, etc., as easily as stacking Legos on top of Legos.
Gone are the days when we took photos with a Polaroid, a camera that instantly printed our photo. Although its days seem to have passed, Polaroid is making a comeback. At the consumer electronics and household appliances fair IFA in Berlin, it was recently presented as a digital camera with a built-in photo printer that prints a photo instantly, but does not use ink! It sounds like the name Polaroid Snap.
A group of researchers at the German University of Tubingen has developed an algorithm that can produce any photograph in the style of great painters such as Picasso and Van Gogh. Technically, this process is called deep learning, which is a collection of algorithms capable of independent learning without the help of a human. It is about the creation of artificial neural networks, where computer programs work according to the model of the human brain. This type of technology is already used by Google in photo recognition.
If you thought the best 'S' smartphone was the Samsung Galaxy S6 (Edge or Edge Plus) or the iPhone 6S (Plus), then we have to disappoint you. At least as good, if not better, is the newest member of Huawei's Mate family, the Huawei Mate S, the new flagship of this Chinese smartphone manufacturer, which is increasingly becoming the new Samsung and has thrown down the gauntlet to both the Koreans and Apple with its latest model. In Slovenia, the Mate S will be available in the fall of 2015, and across the pond it will be sold for a little over 700 US dollars.
Even the most beautiful personal computers act as a piece of technology that gives them coolness. Wood Kubb is the complete opposite of computers as we know them. It is a wooden cube that you will gladly plant in a visible place, which is hard to say for personal computers. Most of them therefore hide under the table. Despite its small size, it can do everything the big ones can do. The 12.5 x 12.5 centimeter wooden shell hides an Intel Core i3 or i5 processor. You can pre-order the Wood Kubb on Kickstarter for (calculated) 400 euros.
Former Apple CEO John Sculley, among others to blame for Jobs' temporary dismissal, launched a new smartphone brand called Obi Worldphone. In doing so, he teamed up with Robert Brunner, a former protégé of the company from Cupertino. The idea for the new brand was to create phones that do not make compromises and are made in Silicon Valley with the best components, but their price does not exceed 200 US dollars. And so the flagship Android Obi Worldphone SF1 and the more affordable Obi Worldphone SJ1.5 were born.
Six simple colorful letters on a blank page. This is Google. One, if not the most powerful brand in the world and a name that has become an independent verb in the dictionary. They recently changed the look of their recognizable logo, but while tectonic shifts are taking place in the background with the restructuring of the company, where the parent company was renamed Alphabet, Google remains faithful to its previous appearance. The web giant left the colors of the letters as they are, but used a new typography where the letters are softer. On the other hand, the icon experienced a more visible change.
The mobile phone market is as busy as ever. New models are coming like on a conveyor belt and even the biggest connoisseurs have a hard time keeping up with the pace of change. While the trends are still dictated by the big guys, their products from the Far East are increasingly making their way to the fore. Nevertheless, the phones that left the competition behind come from well-known "logs". To make it easier for you to decide among the multitude of offers, we have selected for you the ten best that reign in the second half of 2015.