Google Nexus 7 Characteristics

At the dawn of Google I / O, and one week after the last event of Microsoft, this is the future of Google tablet, the Nexus, which arouses curiosity technophiles. A sheet of specifications would have surfaced in Australia, including our colleagues at Gizmodo reveal the contents.
What would be the future of Google tablet? If one believes the characteristics leakées today, the Nexus 7, since this should be called, will be indeed the result of work by Asus. With an IPS screen 7-inch multitouch (ten points) and HD (definition of 1280 x 800 pixels) whose viewing angles reach the 178 °, the Google Nexus 7 should have under the hood. Expected because, under its chassis, a quad-core processor Nvidia Tegra 3 1.3 GHz, but also a GeForce graphics chip 12-core, 1GB of RAM and the presence of an NFC chip.

Google Nexus 7

If one believes this data sheet Australian, the Nexus 7, available in 8 or 16 GB of storage, will just run a front camera of 1.2 megapixels. The interesting history, it is also the version of the Android operating system built into the slate: the document mentions Jelly Bean or the grind of Android set to take over the Ice Cram Sandwich, but which one does not know the number, Android 4.1 or Android 5.0. The price should be the highlight of the tablet, forecasts agreeing on a rate of $ 199 for the Nexus 7 8GB, and $ 249 for 16 GB Answer tomorrow at the annual Google I / O.

Disneyland Paris iOS and Android's new at Mickey

One, two, three, Mickey, Donald, my application and I sing Disneyland Paris instead of Douchka. Launched in late 2010, the dedicated application to the amusement park, currently running iOS and Android, has exceeded one million downloads. The opportunity to Disneyland to discuss his plans for improving its implementation.
For now only downloadable from the App Store iOS (launched in November 2010) and the Google Android Play (2011), Disneyland Paris has surpassed 1.2 million downloads. The application allows visitors to view real-time wait times for each attraction, or contact the booking service restaurants. On average, 10,000 people use these two variations each day, a quarter directly from Marne-la-Vallee, whether French or English version of the application. On an average 15 million visitors per year, or about 40,000 per day, the ratio fully meets the Disney team, which recorded 90,000 downloads in March last and does not stop there.

Disneyland Paris

Enrich the mobile experience
Improved mobile experience, certainly, but not for all. If the Microsoft case is under consideration, Disneyland Paris has not planned for now, to adapt its application to Windows Phone Marketplace dedicated to 7.5, or the upcoming Windows Phone 8. For WiFi in queues or restaurants, it is the same: hard to set up given the crowd in the park, it is not yet quite close to arriving in the park Ile. The NFC either, which is still preferred the more traditional QR Codes.

Disneyland Paris

On the agenda, other new still in testing but that will join the list of application features Disneyland Paris in 2013. Among them include the sending of promotional offers visitors valuable in restaurants or shops, or even fastpass. A project that will easily follow the paths of the privileged visitors, but also encourage them to move to other areas of the park. Also in the application, Disneyland is considering the sale of digital products, such as tape-original performances attended by its visitors. The integration of check-in and likes on Facebook is also planned, while the team does not rule out a partnership with another major geolocation, Foursquare. Become Mayor of Space Mountain, we say yes! Also in the park, it should be possible to consult in real time the presence of Disney characters in the aisles of different worlds, to find them easily - a service qu'apprécieront children as their parents.

Continue on the draft Marne-la-Vallee, this time useful inside and outside of the site with embedded video at 360 ° to discover the attractions of the park. Upstream visits, it should also be possible to reserve tickets to the parks or trips directly from the two variants of the mobile application.

Many projects to Disneyland Paris for the coming months, although it should be borne in mind that some, if they do not meet the expected success in tests, will be abandoned later. Meanwhile, you can find the current version of the application for Disneyland Paris iOS and Android, both free.

To end on a note of reverie, know that Disneyland Paris will open a new shop in the Disney Village on July 12. Called World of Disney, it will spread over 1400 m2 and is revealed in video:

Lunch at SFR!

Mid-week, and after opening a few stores in the provinces, Free Mobile created the event by opening its first Parisian space, a Free Centre which is reminiscent of the Apple Store on Apple brand. SFR has not said its last word, and opened, perhaps more confidence, a boutique concept rather pleasing to the eyes of food lovers that we are baptized and Red Square by The dinners Eloise.

Still in Paris, this time near the Madeleine, in other words in a neighborhood where offices are legion, cohorts of Parisians with their lunch outside, SFR opened in early June, a new type of store that has the merit to change what we know. In partnership with The Dinner of Eloise, the group registered trademark of Antelopes, the operator at the red square has chosen to wear a little further than usual principle of customer service that makes it strong. To better address its competitors, Free Mobile led by leveraging its relational experience, SFR has opened a boutique restaurant with a "bar Tartar" the chef Touroul Nicolas Chevalier, with dishes prepared before the eyes of customers . Lunch while strumming on his smartphone is therefore possible for the operator himself in the back room of the Espace SFR. Subsequently, a champagne bar and smoothies will join the current map ... it will enjoy before 20h, because the restaurant closes at the same time as the retail space. Count fifteen euros for the lunchtime.

Asus sell the Google Nexus 7 16 GB

Yesterday was the day of Google, but also by implication, that of Asus. The Taiwanese has indeed been highlighted during the Google I / O with the opening conference enabled the Mountain View company to present its Nexus 7, to the extent that the manufacturer has provided the design of the tablet.

Loan of pride, Google yesterday presented its first home touch pad (see our presentation of the Google Nexus 7), a compact tablet with technical features attractive, 7-inch HD screen and quad-core processor Nvidia Tegra 3 1.3 GHz head. While rumors refer to two versions of this product at very affordable prices, only the 8GB version was referred to by Google, with a single price to the key: $ 199 for the product, which should certainly go to € 199 in our countries when it was released.

Google Nexus 7

And 16 GB for the tablet? According to indiscretions surrounding the conference, it will be confined only to Asus, who in turn will sell for a whopping $ 249. Asus relying on resellers classic, this version has the advantage of allowing customers to manipulate the object before investing. Let us recall that the Google Nexus 7, working only in WiFi, has no reason to be sold by the operators, and will be ordered directly from the Google Play. For now, it is only found in pre-orders in the U.S., UK, Australia and Canada.

BlackBerry 10: terminals with and without keyboard

While we know that the next version of the BlackBerry OS is a little good in BlackBerry from 7 to 10, the mystery still hangs over the potential use said OS smartphones, starting with the presence or absence of a keyboard physical.
When you think of terminals at Research In Motion, we imagine a mobile almost automatically embedding a physical keyboard, the true signature of the brand. But we learned last week that future smartphones out in its BlackBerry OS version 10 would create a break with what the Canadian had been doing, namely that the physical keyboard disappear to go all-touch. What would not a first in the world of BlackBerry when you consider the BlackBerry Storm, Curve Torch 9860 or another 9380, unsuccessful attempts to stick to what is done today. Now users are turning to BlackBerry ever for their physical keyboard, or is this what caused the loss of the manufacturer?

A question that also arise RIM. If you remember the BlackBerry London we told you about in November and February, while a touch that would revolutionize the terminal of the Canadiens, it seems that he has changed his tune. Still valid, it would then be part of that first wave of BlackBerry devices coming in 10. First wave, which would also perhaps a name because according to a leaked slide on the side of our colleague PhoneArena, he should return to the L-Series range. Who says the first wave, said she will also not the only. RIM did announce that a second wave of devices arrive on the market thereafter. According to the same slide, it would be the N-series range, which would give it back to its roots, and therefore the physical keyboard. News that should reassure fans of the brand. Not without new however, they propose a new ratio for a screen which would then increase to a square shape, and which we conceive for the last touch as Bold.

As always, some are fun to imagine what might look like the next terminal and never fails to share with us the fruits of their labor. This is what John Anastasiadis by proposing a concept emerged at this time our fellow CrackBerry. It closely resembles the existing terminals, with the square screen, which could potentially have a resolution of 720 x 720 pixels - count on the 1280 x 768 for the very tactile. Anyway, we should be set fairly quickly since the first wave of phones could be sold next September, while the second would arrive early as 2013. Therefore expect an official announcement, which should not take too long.

IPass Sosh: 700 000 WiFi hotspots

Sosh customers already know the connection to Orange WiFi hotspots on the various scattered in the Hexagon. Via a partnership with iPass, they will soon have access to 700,000 WiFi hotspots worldwide. The application can be tested for free by a handful of lucky in the summer.

With the approach of summer vacation, Sosh examines the case of globetrotters. Besides access to Orange hotspots already included in its three forms, the virtual operator has access to WiFi extend its international clients, through a partnership with iPass. On the menu, more than 700,000 WiFi hotspots that connect via a dedicated application. For now, the service is not in place, but may be tested by 400 subscribers during the summer, and from 30 June until 31 August ... The first 400 applicants, first served (via this form), they have so far won all available seats. The beta testers, who must be equipped with a smartphone running Android 2.1 iOS 5 or at least be able to connect each month, and free, with 700,000 partners iPass hotspots. The Android application, unlike its counterpart IOS which requires a manual management network, will be able to switch automatically from one access point to another.

Sosh iPass

Incidentally, Sosh announcement about the new international calls ... Almost time for the holidays. The virtual operator provides in effect in late August, the launch of an international option includes one hour of calls to or from abroad, but still no fee set by the MVNO, as indeed for the iPass option.

Connect HTC: the AirPlay Taiwanese

Always favoring the multimedia aspect of its smartphones, HTC continues to innovate in order to make these features more and more efficient, but also on extending the possibilities today with his HTC Connect.

If HTC had a little trouble to win when he ran the Windows Mobile platform very much oriented towards professional use somewhat neglecting the general public, although it has since caught up. By dint of innovation, always in accordance with changes in our expectations with respect to smartphones, the Taiwanese has rapidly found a place of choice in a market where competition is fierce. When the iPhone arrived by placing listening to music in the heart of the phone, HTC has managed to turn the situation to his advantage with its certification Beats Audio. And again, at a time when most devices come with a stereo AirPlay certification, the manufacturer is now trying a gamble with HTC Connect. The latter plans to create a standard audio and video enhanced to facilitate the transfer of multimedia content with consumer appliances, while minimizing losses in quality.

Finally, gamble ... When HTC proudly announces a partnership with Pioneer Electronics, a leading industry audio-video, one imagines that the certification program is already well under way. It must be said that at the time when smartphones have become the main source of multimedia content, the manufacturer offers here again, "a solution expected by much of the market," said Russ Johnston, vice president of Home Electronics Division at Pioneer Electronics. Through its partnerships with other major brands of consumer electronics, HTC Connect could be made either in a salon in a car via audio and video systems onboard. These facilities benefit while a more homogeneous connectivity with compatible HTC devices, from which they can also be controlled.

The Taiwanese also teaches us that its range One should obtain such certification via updates, while the first certified systems should soon arrive HTC Connect with the 2012 range of audio / video receivers and wireless speaker from Pioneer. Bet on August pregnant for SMA that should be marketed at a price of $ 299 for the cheapest model. Note that if these are based on the DLNA, the program should also include Bluetooth and NFC in the future.

Galaxy 2 Rating 5.5 inch screen

The Galaxy S III came out, now is the successor of the first phablette the world, the Galaxy Rating, which warms spirits. Expected in the fall, less than one after its predecessor, the Galaxy Note 2 is the subject of rumors confirmed by internal sources and disclosed by our colleagues at GSMArena.

If we are to believe the rumor confirmed by the current source GSMArena, the Galaxy 2 Note exceed the first installment in the series by a short head, preferring a screen diagonal of 5.5 inches to 5.3 inches its , already quite impressive. It should be here in a Super AMOLED panel included a terminal based on the Galaxy S III (read our review of the Samsung Galaxy S III), smartphone success of the brand. The good news for the overall dimensions of 2 Note: thanks to tapered edges, and despite a larger screen, the device should be slightly smaller than the first note. Too good to be true? Not so sure, given the recent efforts from Samsung in design.

Note 2 Galaxy

Inside the Galaxy Note 2, the presentation could be argued from October to September 2012, rumors are also well underway, this time without confirmation from relatives of Samsung. Logically, post Galaxy S III, Note 2 could be fitted with a dual-core processor 5250 Exynos associated with 1.5GB of RAM, but also an 8 megapixel camera sensor with improved performance. All these points remain to be confirmed of course, and promises a summer of waiting before Samsung unveils its highly anticipated Galaxy Note 2.

Apple 250 million iPhone sold in 5 years

Apple fans can still remember the month of January 2007, such as the first official announcement of the iPhone. 5 years after the release of it (June 29, 2007), the number of iPhones sold, all models, recently unveiled 250 million copies sold worldwide.

Tomorrow, Friday, June 29, will mark the fifth anniversary of the release of the first Apple smartphone. An event that the firm will be able to apple celebrate with the research firm Strategy Analytics, which announced that 250 million copies were sold iPhone in 5 years. An impressive figure which represents $ 150 billion in cumulative revenues for the Cupertino!

To recall, Apple introduced a new model every year of its smartphone: iPhone, iPhone 3G, iphone 3G, the iPhone and the iPhone 4S 4. According to its classical calendar, the iPhone 5, the latest range, expected to be available in fall 2012.

While Neil Matwson Strategy Analytics welcomes the impressive results from Apple, it has reservations for the coming years. Indeed, he says "some mobile operators are concerned about the high level of subsidies they spend on the iPhone, while Samsung is expanding its range of smartphones and Galaxy provides a more credible competition to Apple." Time will tell if Apple succeeds in maintaining its leading position in the smartphone market.

Google Nexus 7 price, features

Dreaming of a touch pad, Google just may be to create the touch pad you need. The Google Nexus 7 has, as its name suggests, a 7-inch screen. Despite a technical rather impressive for a screen this size, the tablet will be priced at quite exceptional at $ 199.

Announced at Google I / O last night (our summary), the tablet Google Nexus 7 offers a 7-inch IPS display capable of displaying a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels with a density of 216 ppi. The latter provides a strong surface of Corning Glass. Inside, the Internet giant and smartphones offers a Qual-core processor Tegra 3 1.3 GHz allowing adequate performance in most tasks as assigned. This processor will be supported by Nvidia a RAM of 1 GB which should, too, be sufficient to cope with multitasking-savvy users. Side internal memory, the tablet will be available 8 GB and 16 GB

The Google Nexus 7 measuring 198.5 x 120 x 10.45 mm and weighs only 340 grams. Its small size allows a good grip and that's what that could decide a lot of buyers who can sometimes judge a shelf 10 inches too cumbersome. Since the top of Google was also held for advertising the new version of Google Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, it was under this version that the tablet will be entering the market in mid-July.

For the remaining features, we note that Google has equipped its new creation of a digital camera cranes up only the resolution of 1.2 megapixels. We also find the WLAN 802.11 b / g / n, Bluetooth, NFC technology in vogue right now, an accelerometer and an integrated GPS chip.

Video Presentation of the Nexus 7

Back on the data sheet

7-inch screen
IPS technology
Resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels
Density of 216 ppi
Resistant surface: Corning Glass
Camera Crane 1.2-MP
4325 mAh battery
Tegra processor 3
198.5 x 120 x 10.45 mm to 340 grams
1 GB of RAM
8 or 16 GB of internal memory
N WiFi and Bluetooth
MicroUSB port
NFC
Integrated GPS chip
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

Google I / O 2012 Nexus 7, Android Jelly Bean, Nexus Q

As every year, the Google I / O, which is held in San Francisco, is the high mass of the world of Android. Here she opens tonight, or rather "this morning" at the time California, with an opening conference could not be more expected. Jelly Bean, tablet: Here are all the new features announced by Google!
"We still have some surprises to present", this was the beginning of the conference for developers Google, which attracted 6,000 people to the opening conference of the Google I / O. After a brief figures (100 million activations announced Android devices in 2011, Google passes millionscette 400 000 years, one million every day against 400,000, more than 200 to 300% in countries such as France) , new places for the most anticipated of the day: Android Jelly Bean and Google Nexus 7.

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
Jelly Bean, which is not numbered but stamped 5.0 4.1, meets the "Project Butter", which wanted to make the Android OS a more fluid, more intuitive, faster. It has been solved many problems whose response touch screens, but also brought a little more speed in the 3D effects, with a display at 30 fps. Past these general considerations, which are recent additions to Android Jelly Bean? Before turning to the features include the release date of this OS version: available now for developers, it will be downloadable in the middle of July on three terminals, namely Google Nexus S, Galaxy Nexus and Motorola Xoom - the acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Google is obviously been there.

Android Jelly Bean

The home screen: welcomes resizable widgets, icons around which are organized automatically, or if the screen space is insufficient, such widgets to move themselves to a smaller format . Icons can be removed more quickly than Ice Cream Sandwich, by dragging them up - a movement in the spotlight with Android Jelly Bean.

The keyboard: Google has improved the predictive text dictionary, which will make several proposals for the terms you use most often. At the voice input, including demonstrations, in English, however, have proved particularly successful on the San Francisco scene, an off-line operation makes its appearance; remember that far, Wi-Fi or 3G needed. Google announces support the passage of 18 new languages.

The photo application: Here, as on the side of manufacturers of smartphones, Google has chosen to focus its efforts towards improving the speed of capture. We can discover a new animation between the photo, which can drag to the right once you took them. When the gallery opened, a pinch (pinch) will toggle a photo full screen a film scroll sideways. It is then possible to delete photos of a gesture by dragging them up.

Android Beam: More than one million Android NFC devices are delivered every week, remember Google. With Jelly Beam, it will be possible to send photos or videos clashing (tap) two well-equipped smartphones, and similarly for pairing Bluetooth devices. This new feature will be a little shade to Samsung, with its S Beam, was so far the only market to offer a little more than a sharing URL between terminals, but only between Galaxy S III.

Notifications: The notification bar will include a greater amount of information, and this in a slightly more accurate than in current versions of Android. Notifications are with Jelly Bean, customizable, and include a photo of contacts to call or send you messages. We appreciate the opportunity to recall a contact directly from a missed call notification, but also to send quick responses to emails (in the manner of these predefined SMS that can send when you can not take voice communication). In the social sphere, it is possible to add a photo to a Google +, but also Liker or comment on a check-in Foursquare, always directly from the notification bar. Presentation side, we notice that the first notification, ie one that is displayed at the top of the screen, and larger than the others, for readability. Nevertheless, it is possible to develop other notifications by dragging them down, which, for example an informative notification of application, permit the display of headlines and photo thumbnails. The first notifications are larger.

Searching the Internet: A feature that Google wanted to completely rethink. We thus find a new interface with a "Knowledge Graph" showing the results a little differently than traditional Google pages. Voice Search, a cousin of Siri, can conduct research with a voice phone that you answer in sentence form, while personalizing the page of search results. If you ask a smartphone Jelly Bean who was Prime Minister of Japan, he will answer with a sentence, but also by showing you a picture and short biography of the character. To switch to the usual Google search results, simply do clisser the map on the side.
Now Google is in turn intended to find the right information at the right time. The search system uses your Internet search history, your history or location of your calendar. In terms of traffic - and notice the resemblance flagrant recent additions announced in Nokia Drive for Windows 8 - the smartphone can estimate the most suitable route to get from one point to another depending on you route and usually of road traffic conditions. Public Transit can find schedules of public transport, Flight, to obtain the exchange rate and currency of the country where it becomes. Really useful, Next Appointment (next appointment) will send a notification to alert you that it is time to leave and he will tell you the path to get to your appointment, you will provide hours of public transport and a map of places. All these features included in Google Now are accessible from the search bar, but also by sliding the finger up from the bottom of the screen.

Play Google
No surprise when Google discusses cloud, because the current store of Android already runs on this system, with 600 000 applications and games, to 20 billion apps installed in total. As for paid applications, the Mountain View giant announces new partnerships with international operators. But what interests us most, what's new in the applications themselves, including the ability for developers to encrypt applications with Jelly Bean.

The Smart App Updates in turn will simplify the lives of developers, users as well as operators, which a little less data will be consumed: it will indeed need to download that part of the application that was update, and that alone. Good news, it will also work on Gingerbread.

Smart App Updates

Also in content, Google Play improves, since it is now possible to move up a gear in movies. It will be possible to buy movies instead of just rent them, just as you will be offered to buy episodes or seasons of series (launching today on Google Play). Magazines from Google also play either for numbers set to unity, or for subscriptions. Remains to be seen if this will be confined to the Americas, where if France will quickly right

Tablet: Google Nexus 7
Unsurprisingly particular, all information concerning having been delivered in advance of the conference, Google introduced its Nexus 7, its first tablet house. Designed as planned in partnership with Asus, the Nexus 7 has a 7 inch screen with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, or a HD panel, but also a quad-core processor Nvidia Tegra 3 coupled to a 12-core GPU. Next photo, you will find a sensor on the front but not at the back, and whose resolution is unclear. All the connectivity of the moment will be on hand, with WiFi, Bluetooth and even the NFC. Google claims a battery life of 9 hours of HD video playback, and a weight of 340 grams. However, lips are sealed on the issue of internal memory, including rumors previously evoked two versions, one in 8 GB and 16 GB in the other state at, as the presence or absence of a microSD slot.

Google Nexus 7

Oriented multimedia, needless to say, the Google Nexus 7 should be sufficiently armed forces quad-core processor, to run all games of the moment. Google made to play, it will find its library on the home screen, maximize the experience of reading eBooks, playing with a full-screen, but also the virtual tour in Google Maps, which also will support the use of maps offline. Musically, What's This Song will, like Shazam to identify a song. Currents and Google allow the translation of news feeds in various languages.

Nexus to this last point 7: the tablet, as expected, will be the first device to ship Google Chrome as default browser.

Google Nexus 7

As for its price, here it is. The Google Nexus 7 will be priced at $ 199, with some bonus to the key, namely the film Transformers 3 offered $ 25 credit on Google Play and three magazines. The impatient regret that if pre-orders are open from this day for delivery from mid-July, it only affects the United States, Canada, UK and Australia. The rest of the market will follow, without further clarification at this time.

Google Nexus Q
Patty or not from Google, its Nexus Q has surfaced just before the opening keynote of Google I / O, but who cares, the developers being kind of guests, they feigned surprise brilliantly. For those who missed the information, the Nexus Q, in our view beautiful design object of spherical shape, and adorned with a black strip of light depending on the contents sent to it, is an accessory dedicated to streaming audio and video . As an amplifier (2 x 25W), it may be connected to speakers or a television screen. Its connectors are there to ensure compatibility with just about everything:

- WiFi
- Ethernet
- Bluetooth
- Micro HDMI
- NFC
- Micro USB
- Optical output

Google Nexus Q

Running Android Ice Cream Sandwich, 923 grams of mini computer with a diameter of 116 mm has a hardware interesting because, like a Galaxy Nexus, it loads a processor OMAP 4460 dual-core supported by a GB RAM and 16 GB of flash memory. Intended for home use, it can read the content in this cloud, that is from Google or Google Movies Movies, and only present in the cloud. It can be controlled by several smartphones and tablets, to distribute the sound or image through a house. It is even possible to share her music in the NFC in colliding with a mobile terminal.

Google Nexus Q

As the tablet of Google, the Nexus Q will be delivered from mid-July in the USA. Count still to this object as a technological design as $ 299.