Huawei resmi rilis Ascend Mate 2, usung baterai 4050 mAh

Merdeka.com - Huawei resmi telah merilis satu phablet premium terbarunya, Huawei Ascend Mate 2.

Seperti dilansir PhoneArena (6/1), phablet ini hadir di pasaran dengan mengusung spesifikasi kelas wahid seperti layar 6,1 inci 720 x 1280 piksel, prosesor yang lebih cepat dibanding generasi pertamanya, dan RAM berukuran 2GB.

Selain itu phablet ini juga akan dilengkapi internal memori 16GB, slot microSD, kamera belakang 13MP, kamera depan 5MP, dan telah mendukung hingga jaringan 4G LTE.

Huawei Ascend Mate 2 ini akan beredar di pasaran dengan bodi yang yang cukup tipis dengan tebal hanya 0,95cm meskipun menyokong baterai berdaya 4050 mAh yang mampu membuat phablet ini tetap menyala selama dua hari jika digunakan dalam keadaan normal.

Sayangnya masih belum diketahui berapa harga dari phablet Huawei Ascend Mate 2 ini nantinya di pasaran. Namun jelas, phablet ini akan menjadi pesaing utama Lenovo P780, handset pengusung baterai berdaya sama, yang sudah terlebih dahulu beredar di pasar gadget Indonesia

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Huawei Ascend P7 siap tantang Samsung Galaxy S5

Merdeka.com - Huawei dikabarkan siap meluncurkan Huawei Ascend P7 sebagai pesaing Galaxy S5 nantinya di pasaran.

Bahkan dilansir Softpedia (10/12), nantinya smartphone Huawei Ascend P7 ini akan diluncurkan di bulan yang sama dengan peluncuran Samsung Galaxy S4 yang diperkirakan terjadi di bulan April 2014 mendatang.

Untuk spesifikasinya sendiri, Huawei Ascend P7 dikabarkan akan dilengkapi layar 5 inci full HD (1080p), prosesor quad-core 1,6GHz, RAM 2GB, internal memori 16GB, slot microSD, kamera utama 13MP, kamera depan 8MP, dan disokong baterai dengan daya 2.460 mAh.

Nantinya smartphone Huawei Ascend P7 ini juga akan mengusung OS Android terbaru yang akan dikombinasikan dengan Emotion UI sebagai tampilan antarmuka bawaannya.

Sayangnya, masih belum diketahui berapa harga dari smartphone pesaing Galaxy S5 ini nantinya di pasaran.

http://www.merdeka.com/teknologi/menerka-harga-smartphone-android-nokia.html

Huawei Honor 3X, smartphone octa-core Rp 3 jutaan

Merdeka.com - Huawei baru saja merilis smartphone high-end terbaru yang bakal beredar di pasaran dengan harga terjangkau.

Dilansir VR-Zone (16/12), smartphone Huawei Honor 3X ini sendiri dikabarkan akan beredar di pasarkan ke pasaran dengan mengusung prosesor quad-core dan dibanderol kurang dari Rp 4 juta.

Untuk spesifikasi lengkapnya, Huawei Honor 3X akan dibekali layar 5,5 inci, prosesor octa-core Cortex A7, RAM 3GB, kamera belakang 13MP, kamera depan 5MP, fitur dual SIM, dan baterai dengan kapasitas daya 3.000 mAh.

Berdasarkan lansiran tersebut, Huawei Honor 3X ini akan beredar di pasaran nantinya dengan harga USD 280 atau setara Rp 3,3 juta.

http://www.merdeka.com/teknologi/huawei-honor-3x-smartphone-octa-core-rp-3-jutaan.html

tampilan layar Nokia 'Android' Normandy

Merdeka.com - Nokia Normandy yang akan menjadi smartphone Android pertama dari perusahaan asal Finlandia ini semakin nyata kehadirannya dengan beberapa foto terbaru dari handset tersebut.

Jika sebelumnya Evleaks telah menguak tampilan antar muka atau user interface pada bagian layar utama Normandy. Kini VR-Zone (13/1) juga mengunggah foto tampilan menu Nokia Normandy pengusung OS Android 4.4 KitKat ini.

Dari tampilan tersebut, terlihat jika Nokia Normandy akan mengusung ikon menu warna-warni yang dikemas dalam tampilan yang sederhana. Tampilan Nokia Normandy ini juga sangat berbeda dengan tampilan antar muka smartphone Android buatan produsen smartphone lain (gambar atas).

Selain itu, dikutip dari tweet akun Evleaks (13/1), nantinya smartphone Android Nokia ini dikabarkan juga akan tetap mengusung tampilan khas Metro UI pada perangkat Windows Phone di smartphone Normandy ini (gambar bawah).

Untuk spesifikasinya, Nokia Normandy akan mengusung prosesor Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 SoC, layar berukuran 4 inci FWVGA, kamera 5MP dan operating system Android 4.4.1 KitKat.

Bahkan rumornya, smartphone ini akan diperkenalkan ke publik bersamaan dengan dihelatnya Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2014 di Barcelona bulan depan.

http://www.merdeka.com/teknologi/mengintip-tampilan-layar-nokia-android-normandy.html

Simple Screen Recorder Makes Screencasting on Linux Easy

Whether you’re wanting to make a video tutorial, capture an interface quirk for a bug report, or looking to show off your gaming prowess, there are a bunch of screen-recording tools available for Ubuntu.

While apps like GTK Record My Desktop and Kazam are popular they are not necessarily the best. Results can vary.

The Qt-based SimpleScreenRecorder isn’t as well known as those above, and while it doesn’t reinvent the wheel, or redefine usability, what it does do it does well. Very well, in fact.

It can be used to record the whole of your desktop to a set size, or just a specific section using a fixed-size rectangle or ‘follow mouse’. Even better, it can be used to capture directly from OpenGL applications – a feature that game-casters will be excited to toy with.

Other notable features of the app include:

• Record whole screen or OpenGL apps directly 
• Keeps audio and video in sync
• Automatically reduces frame rate on slow computers
• Multi-threaded app
• Pause/Resume recording
• Optional audio recording 
• Video scaling

The main app window lets you can keep an eye on burgeoning file-size, frame rate, time, etc. during recording.

SimpleScreenRecorder‘s developer claims that his app is faster and easier to use than other solutions, like VLC and libav/ffmpeg (of which it uses the latter for encoding). Whether you agree with him will depend on your own personal preference.

As screencasting apps for Ubuntu go this app certainly ranks as one of the best.

Install Simple Screen Recorder in Ubuntu 12.04 & Up

Want it? The app is free and can be installed on Ubuntu 12.04 and up by adding its dedicated PPA to your Software Sources.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-baert/simplescreenrecorder

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorde

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/12/simple-screen-recorder-linux

Did the NSA Ask Linus Torvalds To Include Backdoors In Linux? His Father Says Yes

The United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) are alleged to have to asked the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, to create ‘backdoors’ into GNU/Linux through which they could access.  

Far from being a rumour, word of the approach comes via Linus’ father, Nils Torvalds.

As a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Nils was present at recent committee inquiry held on the “Mass Surveillance of EU Citizens”. Here, representatives from a number of companies named in documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden were questioned about their own (alleged) involvement.

Following a question put to a Microsoft spokeswoman by Pirate Party MEP Christian Engström on whether the company willingly include “backdoors” for the NSA in their system, Nils Torvalds MEP said:

When my oldest son [Linus Torvalds] was asked the same question: “Has he been approached by the NSA about backdoors?” he said “No”, but at the same time he nodded. Then he was sort of in the legal free. He had given the right answer …everybody understood that the NSA had approached him.

Shocked? Angry? Unsurprised?

Following on from allegations that Google, Yahoo! Facebook and, indeed, Microsoft are among the many companies wilfully cooperating with the agency to provide “backdoor” access to their systems, this revelation is far from earth-shattering. In fact, is makes sense in the grand scheme of things. After all, why wouldn’t the NSA ask Linus to do this?

While Nils doesn’t explain how Linus responded – I’d like to think it involved two fingers – we can be sure that it, at the very least, involved an explanation of how open source prevents something like that being possible.

If any holes were left around for the NSA’s overly-long tentacles to creep into, you can bet your bottom dollar that they’d have been found, exposed and rooted out long before now.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/11/nsa-ask-linus-torvalds-include-backdoors-linux-father-says-yes