Lollipop-based Android Wear update coming soon ...

With Google’s recent announcement of the new 5.0-based Android Wear update, we’re starting to see developers release custom watch faces with the newly announced API. Apps like Facer and now Paper have already received the update, and Muzei, one of our favorite live wallpapers for Android, is next on the list. Muzei version 2.0 brings visual enhancements for Lollipop, improved panning behavior and an Android Wear watch face.

It’s been awhile since we’ve seen an update to Muzei, and we’re sure the changes that version 2.0 brings are welcome to most users. Here are all of the features the new version brings:

• Saturation slider in advanced settings
• Option to remove effects on the lock screen
• An updated look and feel for Android 5.0
• Improved panning behavior for wide artworks
• A watch face for Android Wear
• Better support for new art notifications on Android Wear
• A full-screen artwork detail view on Android Wear
• A much-needed dose of bug fixes
• Developers: A new API for reading the current wallpaper (see api.muzei.co)

Since the Wear update hasn’t reached anyone yet, you might be wondering what the Muzei watch face looks like. Roman Nurik, the developer of the app, posted a picture of it on Google+ earlier today. Also, if you’re thinking you don’t have enough Muzei in your life quite yet, you can join the new Muzei Google+ community.

We’re loving the update so far, and we can’t wait for the Wear update to try out the new watch face.

Get now on Google Play!

Lenovo Golden Warrior A936 is the first time to use MTK6752 Octa core 1.7ghz chipset

 

Lenovo Golden Warrior A936 is the first time to use MTK6752 Octa core 1.7ghz chipset or processor among other models. This is also the first 64bit processor to support 4G LTE, which means the speed has been enhanced largely. Moreover, it comes with 6.0inch HD IPS screen with 1280*720pixels screen resolution, which can be regarded as the best and finest phablet in view of this screen size. It has RAM 1GB ROM 8GB internal storage, expandable via MicroSD up to 32GB. The Android4.4 kitkat is used in this smartphone to help us have a nice widget, and optimize our apps better. It's worthwhile to mention that it supports dual camera with 13mp back and 5mp front camera to take more clear photos for us. In addition, OTG, bluetooth and other function helps you transfer the data more conveniently. Most importantly, we 1949deal sell it at the cheapest price of $175.99 for black and white. 

AT&T: Buy LG smartphone get G Pad 7.0 for $.99, 50% off G Watch and more

This holiday season LG is teaming up with AT&T to bring would-be customers some pretty sweet freebies. The most impressive of these deals is the ability to get the LG G Pad 7.0 LTE for $.99, which is normally priced at $99.99 on contract. Of course, there’s no such thing as a free lunch and so there’s at least a couple catches involved.

In order to get the tablet, you’ll first need to pick up a brand new LG smartphone from AT&T via an AT&T Next plan. You’ll also need to commit to two years of wireless service for the tablet, which start at $15 a month. In addition to picking up the G Pad, LG is also offering LG AT&T smartphone buyers 50% off on LG Tone bluetooth stereo headsets or 50% off on the LG G Watch. That said, I had trouble figuring out how to get the 50% off to show up on their website, so it’s possible that the 50% offers are only for in-store only.

According to AT&T, all of these deals can be used separately or in conjunction with one another. Before you take advantage of any of these offers, remember that, unlike the G Pad, the latter two offers don’t require you to carry an additional data plan for two years… just saying. What do you think of LG and AT&T’s holiday promo, a good value or not?

Mojang to launch Scrolls for Android on December 11th

Following countless alpha and beta tests, Mojang, the creators of Minecraft, are finally releasing Scrolls for Android on December 11th. The card-based strategy game will continue to be developed internally within Mojang, even after being acquired by Microsoft earlier this year. Among other platforms, the game will launch on the Google Play Store for $4.99.

Mojang first announced Scrolls over three years ago for the PC, and didn’t release it in beta until June of 2013. With that said, the official Android launch is long overdue. When it comes time for the official launch, Mojang promises the game will have cross-platform multiplayer functionality throughout Android, Mac and PC.

As for the game itself, players take turns trying to destroy each other’s idols using creatures, structures, spells and enchantments. When it comes to the price, $5 seems like a bit much for a virtual card game, but it’s more than that. Scrolls integrates visually appealing graphics and addictive gameplay, which should be worth the steep price tag for most fans of turn-based fantasy games.

Are you planning to download Scrolls when it releases for Android?

AMOLED vs LCD: differences explained

Display technology talk may be focused on the move over to QHD displays and a potential future full of 4K smartphones and tablets, but the battle between AMOLED and LCDdesigns is raging as fiercely as ever. LCD brought us into the QHD age through the impressive Oppo Find 7 and LG G3, but AMOLED is a growing threat to LCD’s dominance, as the latest Nexus 6, Moto X, and high-end Samsung devices are all packing the rival technology.

Debate still rages about which is the best and whether you should base your smartphone purchasing habits on such a technology. If you’re interested to know what all the fuss is about and how your smartphone’s display technology might be altering your viewing experience, then do read on.

It’s all in the design


The heart of the debate revolves around two quite different approaches to sub-pixel technology, designed to convert digital data into a format that you can see. These two unique implementations lead to slightly different results when it comes to accurate color reproduction, deep blacks, peak brightness levels, and battery efficiency.

LCD


LCD is the older of the two display technologies, but if anything this means that the technology has had plenty of time to mature. You’ll find LCD displays in high-end smartphones and tablets, such as the LG G3, HTC One (M8) and Sony Xperia Z line-ups. The first QHD display, found in the Oppo Find 7, was also based on LCD technology.

LCD stands for Liquid Crystal Display, although this doesn’t really give us too much of a hint about how the technology actually works. Rather, the principle is based on polarized light, which is the tricky part, and a color filter.

The color filter is simply used to determine the color of the pixel, from the standard red, green, or blue base colors. These can then be mixed together in various quantities to recreate all of the colors in between. The polarized light filters are used to control the individual brightness of each colored pixel.


Polarization filters and the cystal adjust how much light reaches the display’s surface, while the color filter controls the spectrum the light that is seen.


Polarization blocks light through the use of a couple of filters, one in the horizontal and one in the vertical plane. Essentially, the original light source has waves oscillating in every direction, the polarization filters cut this down to just a single direction. The original light, with waves in all directions, can pass through either a horizontal or vertical filter, albeit somewhat dimmer, as it contains the components for both axis. However, horizontal polarised light cannot pass through a vertical filter, or vice versa, as it does not contain any light in the correct plane. By combining one vertical and one horizontal filter, or any two filters at 90 degrees to each other, the light can be completely blocked, which is the default state of an LCD pixel.


Two polarized filters angled at 90 degrees from each other completely block light. LCD displays use a twisted crystal to match polarity so that light can pass the second filter when desired. Source.


This is where the liquid crystal part comes in. In between the horizontal and vertical pixels there is a nematic liquid crystal that can be switched “on or off” electronically. When the crystal is on it is twisted and rotates the light around 90 degrees, meaning that the horizontally filtered light can also pass through the second vertical filter. Each pixel’s crystal is controlled by a transistor and can be switched on and off multiple times each second in order to give the appearance of different brightness levels. We can now filter light into different colors and control the individual brightness of each pixel.

The backlight that sits behind all of the pixels produces white light that is filtered for brightness and color in each pixel. The backlight can also be used to adjust the overall brightness of the display.


The Oppo Find 7 was the first smartphone to feature a QHD display, which was built from LCD technology.


As you can imagine, reproducing the right colors through all this technology can be a little tricky and LCD displays therefore can sometimes suffer from less than perfect color reproduction. There are compromises to be had when it comes to blocking a portion of the light through the first polarization filter and with potential leakage from the backlight bypassing the filtering stage.

AMOLED


AMOLED is a newer technology than LCD and its name also gives us a really good hint as to how it works. OLED is the really important part. Rather than a single backlight and lots of pixel filters, AMOLED displays use millions of individually controlled organic-LED light sources.

The AM part of the name stands for active-matrix, which simply refers to the switching transistor technology used to control each LED pixel. An active-matrix continues to drive an individual LED through a transistor even when other LEDs change states, while a passive-matrix is controlled through an X and Y axis array, meaning that you have to refresh either the row, column, or both just to change the state of a single pixel.


OLEDs are semiconductor light sources, which feature anodes and cathodes for electron flow. The brightness is determined by the electron current passing through the component.Source.


AMOLED displays are a little easier to picture than and LCD panel, although not necessarily easier to manufacturer. Rather than a backlight and grids of filters for each color, AMOLED makes use of individual tiny colored LEDs, red, green, and blue, to create a wide range of colors. The brightness of each LED pixel is controlled by the current provided through the backplane transistor, which is adjusted via the transistor’s gate voltage. The OLEDs emits light in the emissive layer between the anode and cathode, where electrons fill “holes” and give up their energy as a photon. The color of the light depends on the type of organic molecule in the emissive layer. A higher current means more electrons passing from the cathode, which results in more holes filled and more photons given off as light.

Due to the lack of filtering applied to the light sources, AMOLED displays can provide high accuracy colors, a wider contrast ratio than LCD, and can save battery through dimming individual pixels rather than leaving a backlight always-on. However, peak current draw for at high brightness levels is often higher than LCD displays. AMOLED also suffers from problems with organic-LED degradation over-time, which can lead to burn-in and/or color loss over parts of the screen.


The new Nexus 6 and Galaxy Note 4 showcase what QHD AMOLED displays can do.


For the record, Super AMOLED is just Samsung’s term for an AMOLED display which has the touch digitizer built into the display rather than in a separate layer on top of the pixels. This has the added benefit of reflecting less light and allowing for a slightly higher peak brightness, but does not change the underlying display technology.

Which one is the best?


It is impossible to judge a display based solely on the type of display technology used, as both can produce excellent results. Instead, we also have to consider the accuracy and calibration of the pixels in each display, both types can range from high to poor levels of color, white, and black reproduction.

The arrangement of pixels is a major factor that is mostly independent of the display technology type. PenTile RGBG, prevalent among AMOLED displays, “unevenly” distributes light through extra green pixels, which has had mixed reviews in the past. However, some LCD displays have adopted PenTile RGBW, with an extra white pixel, in order to allow for a higher peak brightness as the cost of some color fidelity. With investment, development, and fine-tuning over the years, some of these unorthodox pixel arrangements are showing excellent results.


AMOLED and LCD technologies are just part of the story. RGB sub-pixel layouts and sizes also determine how well a display reproduces colors.


Both display types have their own pros and cons. Resolution wise, LCD has the lead earlier this year due to its use in the first QHD smartphones. However, Samsung’s Galaxy Note 4 has closed the resolution gap. Numerous test conducted over the past few years has found that Samsung’s high-end Super AMOLED tends to reproduce colors more accurately than the best mobile LCD displays. The Galaxy Note 4 has the most accurate mobile display currently available, according to DisplayMate, although it is doubtful that the differences are hugely noticeable compared with the best LCD displays.

AMOLED is becoming an increasingly popular smartphone and tablet display technology, with good reason, but LCD won’t be going anywhere in the foreseeable future.

Samsung’s Gear VR goes on sale for $200

Virtual reality is arguably one of the most exciting and innovative technologies making its way to consumers: it offers an immersive, interesting and fun gaming experience, and will eventually become a central hub for all types of media. Other than Google’s Cardboard experiment at I/O this year and a few other similar projects, the most consumer-ready VR product is Samsung’s Gear VR headset, which is now available for purchase for $199.99.

Samsung partnered with Oculus to create their very own wireless headset, which uses the same tracking sensors we’ve seen in the Oculus Rift. As it stands today, the Gear VR is only compatible with the Galaxy Note 4 and aside from a few wires and speakers, the headset is basically only a mount for the phone. Samsung is calling the device an “Innovator Edition,” which is essentially a big beta program for their new headset.

So, is this worth your time and money? We went hands-on with the headset back at IFA this year, and we loved it. Though it’s essentially only a Note 4 inside a face-mounted enclosure, what Samsung and Oculus have put together brings new experiences and tons of fun to the tech world. As for the price, we haven’t really had much time with the device to see if it’s worth the money. But if you have to have the latest and greatest in your life, $200 doesn’t really seem that bad. Check out the video below for our demo of the Gear VR.



If you’re up for being one of the first to own a VR headset, you can buy it directly from Samsung or AT&T’s websites in the links below. Are you planning on adopting this new technology? Do you think $200 is the right price for this type of product? Let us know what you think in the comments!

Popular console title Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath heads to the Amazon Appstore

Fans of the Oddworld series are getting some good news today, as Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath is now available exclusively on the Amazon Appstore. The unique world, graphics, characters and gameplay have all helped the game grow widely popular throughout the years. It has previously made its way to PC and iOS, and after quite a long time, it’s finally on Android.

For those unfamiliar with Stranger’s Wrath, you play as a bounty hunter called Stranger, hunting down outlaws in a Western-themed wasteland called Mudos. You can explore towns, forests, and even industrial facilities, all while playing as a first-person shooter or a third-person platformer. All of the characters talk trash and have a good sense of humor, making them possibly the most interesting part of the game.

The big differences between the console and mobile versions are obviously going to be with the controls, since Android doesn’t have any physical joysticks. If you’re unhappy with using a touch-enabled joystick, the developers have made Stranger’s Wrath compatible with twin-stick HID gamepads, allowing you to have more of a console-like experience with a physical controller.

We’re unsure as to when it will be released on the Google Play Store, but we’re sure hoping it will be soon. In the meantime, the game isn’t marked as “exclusive” to Kindle but we’re having trouble finding any other Android devices that work with it, though your mileage may vary.

Due to its Amazon exclusivity, it looks like the game requires you to own a recent Amazon device (Kindle Fire HD or later) to play it. We haven’t tested out compatibility with too many other devices, so head to the Appstore to see if your device is compatible. If you happen to have one of these devices, you can grab Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath for $5.99. Initially, the price seems a bit steep, but this is a console game we’re talking about. The graphics are insanely good, and this game will give you over 20 hours of gameplay.

Grab the Amazon Appstore link below to download Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath.

HipVan adds Wavemaker as investor, records $3.2M annualized revenue

After raising US$1.12 million from LionRock Capital, Skype co-founder Toivo Annus, Silicon Straits, serial entrepreneur Darius Cheung, and Singapore local celebrity Jade Seah, HipVan tells Tech in Asia that it has added Singapore-based venture capital firm Wavemaker to the list. That brings its seed funding to a total of S$1.65 million (US$1.32 million).

“We’re very excited to announce the participation of Wavemaker in an extension of our seed round financing,” says Danny Tan, co-founder at HipVan.

“Both Paul Santos and Eric Manlunas are extremely sharp investors, and we are particularly impressed by their track record in e-commerce investments such as Luxola,” he added.

The design-focused ecommerce startup has gained quite some momentum it seems. Back in July, HipVan reported that it recorded an annualized revenue of more than US$1 million. Today, Tan tells us that it has tripled that figure in the past five months to S$4 million (US$3.2 million).

“We’re seeing our expansion of categories like furniture and home & living pay off incredibly well and can’t wait to do more,” says Tan.

In addition to today’s announcement, HipVan is giving away a total of S$1 million (US$800,000) in store credits to existing users. New users can receive a S$5 (US$4) gift voucher if they sign up from now till midnight December 10, 2014.

While HipVan seems to be doing well, its international counterpart Fab.com has lost its shine. Recent TechCrunch and Wall Street Journal reports suggest that Fab.com, once valued at US$1 billion, might be selling at anywhere around $15 million or $25 million. On this matter, Tan says:

Fab is a little more complicated to comment since we don’t know the internal happenings. As I personally understand, most of Fab’s employees moved to Hem and the CEO moved long ago. So what exactly are they selling? I’m not sure. But Fab is just one of dozens of home and living online stores and it feels strange to say this but they seem like the only one not doing well.
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Microsoft Wakes Up. Will Apple?

Survey places Apple Watch as high-end fashion accessory

Survey places Apple Watch as high-end fashion accessory

It is no news that the Apple Watch is trying to compete with more than just its tech competitors. The Cupertino giant aims to place it next to high-end, fashionable watches at shelves world-wide. Can a techie device like the Apple Watch really fit in such an exclusive market?

A new survey from First Insight seems to corroborate Apple’s affirmations, becoming the first data to validate their efforts. What’s more interesting is that the Apple Watch seems to be a hit among the ladies, who haven’t been able to get much action in the wearable market.

“We were very surprised to find that women not only loved the Apple Watch — they were actually willing to pay nearly $50 more than market price for the Apple watch when buying it for themselves. It appears Apple has an opportunity to create a smartwatch specifically designed to appeal to women, and charge even more for it.”

Opinion: This just proves that Apple is still king at advertising and really knows how to target its customers. No other smart watch manufacturer has caused such an impression.

RCA Brand Tablets Sold Over Two Million On Black Friday

PadNews has the gory details (use Chrome, as somehow Google Translate no longer works).

Basically, these promotions did it for Walmart:

The seven-inch tablet is a 1024 × 600 TN screen, a MediaTek 8127 quad-core CPU with 1GB RAM, 8GBs internal storage, a 3MP camera, and Android 4.4. The battery life was stated as four hours.

The 10.1-inch tablet is a 1024 × 600 TN screen, a MediaTek 8127 quad-core CPU with 1GB RAM, 16GBs internal storage, a 3MP camera, and Android 4.4. The 6 battery life was stated as six hours.

TN screens! Absolute garbage!

Yet the people who bought them probably thought they were getting a steal.

Instead the suckers lined up to get robbed!

PadNews is shocked at the US$29 price, which they believe was below cost. They think many people actually wound up buying it online at its full US$49 price. So Walmart made money, even if it was a modest amount per tablet. (Some Shenzhen tablet makers have reported they’re making nearly nothing these days so they can stay in the game!)

Months ago PadNews had an item about Walmart placing a huge order with Shenzhen for craptabs (I thought I did a post but can’t find it). Now we know what that order was: These tablets.

I’d be surprised if most of them are still working after six months.

Let’s hope their owners don’t die in a fire!

This tablet was regularly used by a 12 year old on facebook and some basic games like temple run and Farmville. One day it went dead and she put it on charge and that’s when the battery turned into a airbag.

And what do you get from the tablet? This:

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Xiaomi Releases Metal Mousepad

Weibo:

So that ends the mystery of these two prior posts: