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• Here Comes a Prototype Picture of the Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatch
• Liquid S2, the first Smartphone Capable of Recording 4K Video Announced by Acer
• Google, Facebook and Twitter are “Snooping” Through Your Private Emails Test Finds

Here Comes a Prototype Picture of the Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatch Posted: 02 Sep 2013 04:35 PM PDT Samsung is preparing to reveal its Galaxy Gear smartwatch these days, on Wednedsay, September 4, to be more precise, at the pre-IFA media event that takes place in Berlin. Ever since the word got out about such a device coming from Samsung, everybody's been speculating about how is it going to look and about its list of specifications. Well, when it comes to design, the curtain has been partially pulled, as a developer allowed VentureBeat to take a peek at a Samsung Galaxy Gear prototype (keep in mind that the “real” Galaxy Gear may look a little bit different) but at least it helps us get an idea about it. The source showed them a video of the watch which was developed by a team that's working with Samsung, and they took a few stills from it. The pictures reveal a pretty bulky device that has a diagonal of approximately 3 inches and rounded corners. The Galaxy Gear's OLED display supposedly measures 2.5 inches, having a resolution of 320 x 320 pixels, and isn't the flexible screen that everybody would wish for, unfortunately, but a regular square one that supports a lot of gestures, such as swipe, for example. On the inside, the Galaxy Gear smartwatch is home for a 1.5 GHz dual-core Samsung Exynos 4214 processor, Mali-400 GPU and supposedly comes loaded with Android v4.3 Jelly Bean. The gadget is not actually a smartphone itself, but instead, it can be connected to your phone through Bluetooth LE. It also has support for NFC, social media integration for Facebook and Twitter, the Samsung S Voice assistant and so on. When it comes to battery life, it's said that it will support more than 10 hours of medium usage and almost 24 when rarely used. Also, a 4 MP camera, some speakers and a microphone are incorporated in the strap. All this information about the smartwatch may be very close to reality, but we have to wait a few more days to find out what the Galaxy Gear actually looks like and if the rumors about its specs are true.Samsung really knows how to keep a secret. The post Here Comes a Prototype Picture of the Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatch appeared first on Android Apps.

Liquid S2, the first Smartphone Capable of Recording 4K Video Announced by Acer Posted: 02 Sep 2013 04:23 PM PDT The Acer Liquid S2 was announced officially today by the Taiwanese company and it will be presented at IFA 2013. This Android running smartphone stands out from the crowd with its 4k video recording capability, being the first device of this kind. The 4K means that the Liquid S2 is capable of recording video clips in a massive 3,840 pixels x 2,160  pixels resolution, almost twice the resolution of 1080p HD. Along with this huge resolution, the Acer Liquid S2 sports a massive 6 inches wide  full HD IPS touch screen and runs on the state of the art Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 system on chip. The monstrous 6” screen has a native resolution of 1920×1080 pixels,the camera is a 13 Megapixels shooter with a LED flash, ans the processor is a quad core unit clocked at 2.2 GHz; the phone comes  with 2 GB of RAM and only 16 GB of internal memory (this is a little disappointing, you must keep in mind that those 4k video clips are huge in size, almost 25 times bigger than  the current HD ones). The battery has a capacity of  3300 mAh  and the smart phone is 4G LTE compatible. All these are the trademarks of a high end device. But what makes  the Liquid S2 different from the others is the 4K capability of its video camera, which is claimed to be the first ever on a smart phone. Besides 4k, the phone is capable of recording full HD clips at 60 frames per second and also to capture 27 megapixel panoramas. In terms of software, Asus comes loaded with Android 4.2.2 out of the box and it’s augmented with its in house made user interface. Among its enhancements and apps, I must mention Acer Float UI,Acer Print and Acer Data Manager. The Acer Liquid S2 will be available in two colors, black and red, at the end of October. The price is not known yet. The post Liquid S2, the first Smartphone Capable of Recording 4K Video Announced by Acer appeared first on Android Apps.

Google, Facebook and Twitter are “Snooping” Through Your Private Emails Test Finds Posted: 02 Sep 2013 01:30 PM PDT According to a confidentiality test result performed by High Tech Bridge, big corporations like Google, Facebook or Twitter failed to understand that Internet users are not very happy with their private emails being intercepted and scanned. High Tech Bridge is a cyber security company based in Switzerland and decided to test the confidentiality for 50 of the biggest names in the IT world. From those 50, 6 failed the test, among these, guess who? This experiment was caused by the recent revelations, courtesy of the world famous whistle blower, Edward Snowden, who proved that the US government just doesn’t have/doesn’t care about the notion of privacy and keeps snooping on our internet traffic and phone calls. Hence, High Tech Bridge’s team of cyber-geeks decided to verify how 50 of the biggest IT companies are treating their users privacy. The test consisted in sending an unique web address in an email or a private message, using their systems. The whole operation lasted for ten days and in this time frame, the experts monitored which one of those 50 companies clicked on their “secret” website link, contained in the emails or private messages. Surprise surprise, six of them failed the test miserably and among these were Facebook, Google, Twitter and a forum, Formspring. According to the Geneva based company’s chief executive Ilia Kolochenko, let me quote : 'We found they were clicking on links that should  be known only to the sender and recipient. ‘If the links are being opened, we cannot be sure that the contents of messages are not also being read. ‘All the social network sites would like to know as much as possible about our hobbies and shopping habits because the information has a commercial value. 'The fact that only a few companies were trapped does not mean others are not monitoring their customers. They may simply be using different techniques which are more difficult to detect.' This is not the first time when big IT corporations are caught red-handed when it comes to privacy. Last year, Microsoft was accused of spying on its customers via its online chat service Skype, this time by a German security company. Facebook and Twitter refused to comment on the “snooping” issue but they admitted to have complex automated systems which are used to protect us, (of course, spying is  for our own good, always) from hacking and phishing attacks, thank God for that! A person from Google said plain and simple that the problem doesn’t exist inside the company, it’s not even an issue, it’s business as usual. One must keep in mind that all these companies are providing you with free of charge services(most of the time anyway) but when you’re using them, they will collect all your private, personal information which is later sold to governments or for commercial interest. This is happening for years now, so be aware. The post Google, Facebook and Twitter are “Snooping” Through Your Private Emails Test Finds appeared first on Android Apps.

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