Skype 7.0 is rolling out to Android users via Google Play with a ton of changes for users of the service. First thing you should notice immediately is a redesigned UI for Android tablets, bringing more of the Material Design hotness that Skype unveiled last year on smartphones. This new UI includes a floating action button (FAB), featuring quick access to new video calls, messages, and contacts.
In addition to the design changes, Skype touts an enhanced universal search feature, making it easier and quicker to find contacts, chats, groups, and Skype bots right from the main screen of the app. Multitasking is also getting an upgrade on Skype, with the new design allowing for a multi-pane view when in landscape. To enter this, simply flip your device to landscape and you will see different sections of the Skype app neatly organized.
On top of the new look and features, Skype also declares that call quality is only getting better with the latest update, saying specifically that, “Downloading the latest version means you’ll also benefit from the latest call quality and performance improvements.”
Accompanying the release of Blood and Wine—The Witcher 3's incredible final expansion—is the colossal patch 1.2. CD Projekt Red has tended its game like a loving gardener since it released a year ago, and even though this is the end, that hasn't stopped it fixing longstanding issues and adding free features for good measure.
The witcher 3
The addition of enemy level scaling is a big one. It's optional, intended for the players who have outlevelled the native fauna through exuberant side-questing, and can be toggled at any time.
There's good news for card captors too: a new book, A Miraculous Guide to Gwent, lists the missing cards in your collection and offers hints at where to find them.
Most excitingly—if you're dull like me—the inventory, player, crafting and repair interfaces have been further reworked. Subcategories make inventory sorting easier, while missing reagents can now be bought straight from the crafting screen (assuming you're at a vendor, of course). Even icons have been redone to make oils, cards and decorations recognisable at a glance.
Asus showcased an unusual device for its traditional lineup in the form of a home robot that sports many interesting features.
The chairman of the company, Jonney Shih, explains why Asus chose to develop the home assistant dubbed ZenBo.
"Our ambition is to enable robotic computing for every household," he notes.
The manufacturer targets the senior and youngster demographic, to whom it can offer "assistance, entertainment and companionship."
A welcome feature is that the robot will be able to connect to smart home devices. Via a connected camera, you can check out who rang the doorbell and unlock the door using the robot's touchscreen (read: face).
A myriad of devices ranging from smart light bulbs to air conditioners, thermostats and TVs can be activated via ZenBo, provided that it uses the right language.
The robot can move around the house on its own and even respond to directions given via voice command.
The touchpad interface allows it to do what you expect: engage in video calls, go on binge shopping online, stream video content, and more.
Asus also wants to gift the gadget with the capability to use voice reminders. This could come particularly in handy for the elderly, who sometimes forget to take their medication or find it hard to keep track of their doctor's appointments.
ZenBo will have the ability to notify family members if someone falls down, and the integrated camera in the robot will allow you to check the situation in real time.
The manufacturer touts that children will be able to see the robot dance, or have a bedtime story read to them in a warm, robotic voice.
Asus says that it acknowledges the importance of opening up its program to developers worldwide and, for that to happen, it prepares an SDK that will allow coders to create apps for ZenBo.
Gadget enthusiasts will see a bit of similarity between Asus's robot and the home assisting robot Pepper, built by Softbank. Check out our coverage to see what Pepper is able to do.
ZenBo is as tall as an average adult's knee, and its peculiar voice could contribute to the success of the gadget.
The company proposes a $599 price for the ZenBo, but only time will tell if the price is right.
The Asus ZenFone 3 along with the Deluxe and Ultra editions are making rounds online, and they are sporting hardware components that range from respectable to beast-like powerful. Now that the introductions are settled, here are the specs of the three:
Display: 5.5-inch FHD IPS Display with 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass
Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 625
RAM: 3 GB to4 GB
OS: Android 6.0 Marshmallow with Asus ZenUI 3.0
Storage: 32 GB to 64 GB with microSD card support of up to 128 GB
Camera: 16 MP Rear, 8 MP Front
Battery: 3,000 mAh
Ports: USB Type-C 2.0
Notable Features: Fingerprint scanner
Starting Price: $249
Colors: Sapphire Black, Moonlight White and Shimmer Gold
With a low price point, the standard ZenFone 3 is putting up a pretty cost-effective solution, but as expected, it doesn't have all the bells and whistles that the other two have. At any rate, what it has to bring to table will likely put a smile on smartphone customers on a budget.
Colors: Glacier Silver, Titanium Gray and Shimmer Gold
Touted as the "world's first full-metal smartphone with invisible antenna design," the ZenFone 3 Deluxe is without a doubt the sleekest-looking handset out of the bunch. Sporting a Snapdragon 820 and USB Type-C 3.0, it clearly has a couple of advantages over the other two, not to mention that it's on par with other flagships in the competition.
Colors: Glacier Silver, Titanium Gray and Metallic Pink
The 3 new Zenfone3 of ASUS
With such an enormous screen, the ZenFone 3 Ultra is definitely one eye-catching phablet. Even though it only has a slight boost performance-wise from the standard variant, it still packs in the largest battery pack out of the three, sharing a couple of features with the Deluxe model.
In light of the trio, it looks like Asus is more than determined to dominate the smartphone game, targeting multiple demographics in one impressive go. In other words, customers everywhere will likely find a handset that suits them among the three.
Overwatch is out now, but it had to abandon its competitive mode to make it to its May 23 launch. However, the game's director has advised gamers to expect ranked matches to roll out at some point in June.
With Gearbox's Battleborn failing to take command of the revitalized market for arena shooters, many gamers held out hope for Blizzard's own colorful team-based shooter. But leading up to Overwatch's launch, Blizzard announced that the game's competitive mode would be tardy.
The absence of ranked rounds might have significantly hurt the game if it trailed launch by months, but Overwatch game director Jeff Kaplan has indicated that competitive mode is, by his best estimate, less than a month away from release.
"Competitive mode is the current focus of the Overwatch team and it's the most important thing for us to add to the game right now," Kaplan said in a launch day interview that was posted on Facebook.
Blizzard was just testing competitive mode internally this past weekend, and the team has started to get a feel for the latest version of it, according to Kaplan. But the latest changes to competitive mode won't benefit from new fan feedback.
The studio offered a version of competitive mode during Overwatch's closed beta, but
Blizzard was forced to rethink its formula after the feedback started rolling in.
"The feedback that we were seeing was a little bit critical of some of the decisions we made and we really took that to heart," said Kaplan. "We said, we're making this for the players, and if it's not exactly what the players want, we need to rethink what we're doing."
While players won't get a chance to chime in this time around, Blizzard is acting on what the community told it the first time around. One of those chances is an increase in the length of seasons.
When competitive mode returns, seasons will be expanded from one month to roughly three. They'll likely play out for about a month or so, take a few weeks off to build the drama and then conclude over the ensuing weeks.
Blizzard is also revisiting formats such as Sudden Death. The studio wants Sudden Death to happen less frequently. The team hopes that when it kicks in, matches can be resolved through the rules laid out in whatever game mode Sudden Death occurs in instead of having to add even more wrinkles to bring contests to conclusions.
Overwatch's competitive mode will arrive by late June and Blizzard will share more news as it nears release. It'll be the game's "first big content update."
Asus didn't mention this during their laptop- and phone- and robot-packed Computex Taipei press conference, but in the demo area there's a virtual reality headset on display behind glass; other than the name "Asus VR" emblazoned above it, there's zero explanation of what it actually is. But! It does have stitched leather straps, which look a little too ZenWatch-like for my taste but are arguably more fashion forward than the likes of the HTC Vive.
The new ASUS VR Gadget 2016
Chances are this is little more than another example of what's increasingly starting to feel like an obligatory accessory for phone manufacturers. It's a particular curio in Asus' case, however, since the company has publicly stated that it finds augmented reality more interesting than VR and plans to release an AR headset in 2016. If that's still the plan, it sure isn't at Computex.
Motorola on last tuesday 24/5/2016 unveiled three new smartphones: the fourth-generation Moto G, the Moto G Plus and the Moto G Play.
The Moto G and Moto G Plus can be customized using Moto Maker, while the Moto G Play can not. All three run Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow.
The Moto G and Moto G Plus became available tuesday in Brazil and India. They will be rolled out across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia over time. The lower-end Moto G Play will be available globally this summer, Motorola said.
The New Moto G Collection Smartphones
-Both the Moto G and Moto G Plus models have a 5.5-inch 1080p full HD display.
-They have a 16-MP rear camera and a 5-MP front camera.
-They run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 617 octacore processor that goes up to 1.5 GHz, and have a 550-MHz Adreno 405 GPU.
-The Moto G and Moto G Plus are available in dual-SIM versions in select regions and offer 16 GB or 32 GB of internal storage.
-They both take 15 minutes to charge the battery for six hours of use.
-The Moto G Plus is available with 2 GB or 4 GB of ROMstorage.
-The Moto G comes with only 2 GB of ROM storage.
-The Moto G Plus has a fingerprint reader.
-The Moto G, Moto G Plus and Moto G Play all have water-repellent coatings and all-day batteries, and they support a microSD card of up to 128-GB capacity.
-The Moto G Play has a 5-inch 720p HD screen; an 8-MP rear camera and a 5-MP front camera. It runs on a quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor.
*It lists the following pros for photos taken with the camera:
It offers very good detail preservation in bright light;.
Autofocus is fast and accurate in all lighting conditions;
It provides good noise reduction in bright light;
Colors are vivid and pleasant in most outdoor scenes; and
The white balance is good in low-light and indoor conditions.
Cons include some loss of details in the dark parts of the image in several outdoor shots, and some visible irregularities in HDR activation and white balance, according to DxOMark.
The Galaxy S7 is an evolution of the prior year’s model, restoring design traits from the Galaxy S5 such as IP certification for water and dust resistance, as well as expandable storage. Samsung Galaxy S7 will have the most advanced specification and features. Let’s take a brief look on what are the specifications of Galaxy S7. Now both Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge Smartphone are launched. Let’s check out complete specs of Samsung’s latest flagship.
Samsung’s latest flagship looks really high end with giving more feature and power to the users. Also from past couple of months we are hearing a great issue regarding micro SD card slot. So, now all clear that Micro SD card support is back with even better capability. Both Smartphone’s will be able to support micro SD card up to 200 GB. You can also use DUAL SIM functionality incase you don’t want to use micro SD card.
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