Chinese phone and OS maker Xiaomi is back with another Mi phone. The newly announced Hongmi (Red Rice) is a super affordable smartphone with dual-SIM/dual-standby capabilities. At 799 Chinese Yuan (US$131), you will get 28nm MediaTek MT6589 Turbo quad-core 1.5GHz processor with PowerVR SGX544 graphics, a 4.7-inch 1280x720p HD IPS touchscreen with Gorilla Glass 2, 8 Megapixel camera with F2.2 28mm lens and 1080p video recording, and support for China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA 3G mobile network.
The Red Rice is equipped with 1GB of RAM and 4GB of onboard storage and supports microSD up to 32GB. There is a 720p front-facing camera and you can expect Bluetooth 4.0, GPS/AGPS, and WiFi connectivity. It also sports the Dirac audio technology to deliver high-quality sound.
The affordable quad-core handset runs Xiaomi’s MIUI V5 Android-based system. It comes in black, white and red and Xiaomi will release interchangeable shell in other colors as well. Pre-order is available now.
Sony is launching a new mirrorless camera, the Alpha A3000 that comes in the shape of a DSLR camera, instead of compact design of the company’s mirrorless NEX line. The camera has a classic DSLR design and features P/A/S/M mode dial and a grip for comfortable grasp. It is equipped with a 20.1 Megapixel APS-C image sensor and supports E-mount lenses.
The A3000 comes with a bright electronic Tru-Finder with 100% field coverage that can show you plenty of information to help you capture great shots. Of course, you can also take advantage of the Live View shooting mode to frame and compose images. Its Multi Interface Shoe terminal allows users to add external accessories such as flash, video lights and microphones for enhanced shooting experience. The DSLR-style mirrorless includes 15 Pictures Effect settings such as Retro Photo, Miniature Camera, Partial Color, and there is Auto Object Framing function that can neatly trims portraits, close-ups and even moving subjects for tighter, more professional results.
The Alpha A3000 supports Full HD video recording. It will be released in September for $399.99 with a 18-55mm zoom kit lens.
Pour tout savoir sur le Galaxy S9 : son prix, sa date de sortie, ses caractéristiques, sa fiche technique mais aussi les concepts des designers. Date de sortie du Galaxy S9 Aucune date de sortie n'a été communiquée. Suivant le calendrier de sortie des smartphones de Samsung, le Galaxy S9 devrait voir le jour en mars ou avril 2018. Prix du Galaxy S9 Le prix du Galaxy S9 n'a pas été annoncé. Pour donner un ordre de grandeur, le Galaxy S8 est arrivé dans les bacs au prix de 809€. News sur le Galaxy S9 - Le Galaxy S9 serait déjà en préparation. Samsung a entamé le travail de développement du smartphone dès le mois de mars 2017. Un premier prototype d'écran devrait être proposé dès le milieu du mois d'avril. - Samsung a annoncé collaborer avec l'entreprise Corephotonics pour la conception d'un nouveau double capteur photo révolutionnaire. Concepts du Galaxy S9 Un des premiers
Quelles sont les différences entre les Samsung Galaxy S8 et S8+ ?
Samsung a annoncé deux variantes de son flagship de l’année 2017. Exit les « edge », puisque les nouveaux modèles le sont tous, place au « plus ». La question peut sembler triviale aux technophiles qui n’ont rien manqué de l’actualité tech, mais d’autres peuvent se la poser : qu’est-ce qui distingue au juste le Galaxy S8 du Galaxy S8+ ?
La taille
La principale différence entre le Samsung Galaxy S8 et le S8 Plus c’est bien sûr la taille, de l’écran et donc de l’objet entier. L’écran du S8 tout court fait 5,8 pouces de diagonale (146,5 mm), celui du S8+ fait 6,2 pouces (158,1 mm).
La coque du S8 mesure ainsi 148,9 x 68,1 x 8 mm, celle du S8+ 159,5 x 73,4 x 8,1 mm. La surface utile de l’écran est néanmoins quasi stable, puisqu’elle est de respectivement 83,6 et 84,0% de la face avant.
La définition de l’écran en revanche est identique sur les deux modèles, de 2960 x 1440 pixels, si bien que la résolution baisse de 570 pixels-par-pouce sur le S8 à 539 pixels-par-pouce sur le S8+.
La batterie
Outre un écran plus grand, les smartphones plus grands abritent généralement une batterie plus grande. C’est le cas ici, puisque le S8 embarque une batterie d’une capacité de 3000 mAh, alors que celle du S8+ fait 3500 mAh.
Un écran plus grand consomme plus d’énergie, mais le gain de capacité de la batterie compense, et confère même une autonomie supérieure dans la plupart des cas. Samsung ne communique pas de chiffres d’autonomie pour ses S8, mais on peut rappeler que le S7 edge était plus autonome que le S7.
Le poids
Des dimensions et une batterie plus importantes entrainent naturellement une augmentation du poids : alors que le S8 pèse 155 g, le S8+ pèse ainsi 173 g, 18 g de plus.
Le prix
Dernière différence : le prix. En France, le tarif du Galaxy S8 est de 809 euros, celui du Galaxy S8+ de 909 euros. Ils seront en revanche lancés simultanément, le 28 avril.
Tout le reste de leur fiche technique, que nous vous invitons à (re)découvrir ici, est strictement identique.
With Chrome, Google has built an extendable, efficient browser that deserves its place at the top of the browser rankings. According to w3schools' browser trend analysis its user base is only rising, even as Microsoft Edge's install numbers are presumably growing. Why? Well, it's cross-platform, incredibly stable, brilliantly presented to take up the minimum of screen space, and just about the nicest browser there is to use.
Its wide range of easily obtained and installed extensions mean you can really make it your own, and there's support for parental controls and a huge range of tweaks and settings to ensure maximum efficiency.
But there are downsides, and potentially big ones. It's among the heaviest browsers in terms of resource use, so it's not brilliant on machines with limited RAM, and its performance doesn't quite match up to others in benchmarking terms. And with Google's tentacles running through it, you might be uncomfortable with the ways in which your browsing data may be used.
It reduces the amount of data transferred too, handy if you're using a mobile connection, and this re-routing also dodges any content restrictions your ISP might place on your browsing, which can be mighty handy. Opera automatically ducks out of the way if you're using secure sites like banks so your traffic is free and clear of any potential privacy violation.There's also an integrated ad-blocker - which can be switched off if you're morally inclined in that direction - and a battery-saving mode which promises to keep your laptop going for longer.
The default 'browsing experience' on Windows 10, Edge is an odd one. Quite why Microsoft needs to be running a pair of browser products in tandem is beyond us. The company's reason, it seems, is that Edge represents the more user-friendly end of Redmond's offering while Internet Explorer scales a little better for enterprise.Edge - Microsoft's new, user-friendly browser - offers full integration with Windows 10
Integration with Windows 10's core gimmicks seems to be Edge's main strong point. It happily runs as a modern-skinned app on Windows 10's tablet mode, and works with Cortana. It's also highly streamlined for the current web age, doing away with insecure protocols like ActiveX and forcing you into Internet Explorer if you want to use them. We're more used to browsers failing to render newer pages than we are to being told off for visiting older corners of the web.
Curmudgeonly grumbles aside, actually using Edge is a perfectly pleasant experience. It's super-quick, hammers through benchmarks, its integrated reading mode makes complex sites more palatable, and by sandboxing it away from the rest of the operating system Microsoft has ensured that Edge won't suffer the security breaches of its older brother.
Once the leader in overall popularity in the browser war, Firefox is now now a slightly sad third place. It's not clear why; while it lags behind its main competitors in terms of design, keeping the search and URL boxes separate and leaving buttons on display where others have removed them, it's regularly updated on a six-week schedule and has a raft of extensions available.A divisive choice these days - Firefox is very flexible, but can feel sluggish with lots of plugins installed
Firefox tends to hit the middle-to-bottom end of benchmark tests, however, and we did find it a little sluggish to a barely noticeable extent. Recent additions like built-in support for Pocket and Hello aren't going to be to everyone's taste, but some will love them. And that about sums up the Firefox of today; incredibly divisive, despite being a solid browser with a quality rendering engine.
If you're looking for an alternative take on the same structure, Waterfox may fit the bill. It's built on Firefox code, removes many of the restrictions and integrations of the main release, and purports to be one of the fastest browsers around.
Here's something a bit different. We all spend probably far too much time sitting in front of our web browsers, and up-and-comer Vivaldi wants to make that as pleasant and personal an experience as possible. Itself build out of web technologies like Javascript and node.js, Vivaldi can adapt its colour scheme to the sites you're using, and indeed the structure of its interface is entirely up to you.
It's not the fastest and it's not the most fully featured, lacking any official support for extensions, but Vivaldi is relatively new and we don't doubt it'll receive further expansion as time goes on. It's a refreshing and creative take on web browsing, and one to watch in the next couple of years.There's a built-in note-taking system, you can dock websites as side panels while using the main window to do your main browsing, and we love its innovative tab stacking tech, which allows you to group up tabs and move them around to avoid the crowding that so often plagues other browsers.
Not just a browser – Tor offers a whole package of browsing tools with security at its heart
Tor Browser is, perhaps unjustly, most regularly associated with the seedy underworld of the dark web. While it's true that you can use this web browser to access otherwise unlisted sites, Tor's privacy aspects - where your traffic is routed through random nodes the world over, making it very hard to track - are its real asset.
You'll need to alter your browsing habits to ensure that you don't perform actions online that reveal your identity - Tor Browser is just a tool, after all - but for a secondary browser useful for those private moments it's a great choice. Run it from a USB stick and nobody need even know you have it at all.Tor Browser is really a package of tools; Tor itself, a heavily modified version of the Firefox extended support release, and a number of other privacy packages that combine to make it the most secure browsing experience you're likely to find. Nothing is tracked, nothing is stored, and you can forget about bookmarks and cookies.
The Anniversary Update is an impressive piece of work that ensures Windows 10 is on track to replace Windows 7. It's reliable, easy to use and keeps getting better – although there's still room for more significant improvements.
