Ubuntu Phone Adds New ‘Swipe to Close’ App Gesture

One of Many, Many Changes Inbound

Ahead of the first developer-orientated handsets launching in the autumn, Ubuntu developers have been chipping away at the platform to add more polish and features to the user experience.

Other changes that have either recently arrived or are on the way include the transition of apps from hidden bottom edge toolbars to Firefox OS-style header bars; improving the push notifications server framework used to keep apps ‘alive’ in the background; and bringing increased functionality to core apps like the web browser and camera.

One ‘missing feature’ unlikely to find its way back is allowing users to set a custom background image. Canonical says this is a design team decision. OEMs and scope makers will, however, ‘have some potential to [customize]‘ the appearance and branding of the dash, so do expect some visual leeway to be found further down the line.

Source : http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/07/new-app-closing-gesture-ubuntu-devices

HANDS ON WITH THE HUAWEI HONOR 6 ANDROID KITKAT

Fresh from the launch in Beijing last week, we managed to get our hands on Huawei’s latest midrange smartphone, the Honor 6. The Huawei Honor 6 is the latest in the line of low-cost, high-performance devices to come out of the middle kingdom and with a name as large as Huawei behind it as well as the crazy specs it is packing, the Honor 6 looks like a great alternative in the industry today.

The Huawei Honor 6 represents a change as opposed to the usual Honor range, bumping it up to the blurred line between flagship and mid range. The build quality while not strictly premium, is pretty decent for the price. The Honor 6 is the first device to use the Kirin 920 chipset. Huawei is confident that it is as good, if not better than the Snapdragon 805 – currently the most powerful mobile processor in Qualcomm’s stable. Keep in mind, the Honor is NOT a high end device! In fact there have been reports that the Honor 6 is cannibalising sales of the Ascend P7, Huawei’s main flagship, in the phone’s native homeland.

The Honor 6 has a very decent build with a glossy glass rear as well as a silver matte brushed metal like rim. The one strange thing is that it doesn’t wrap completely around the phone on the bottom instead opting for the same finish as the body.The rear of the Honor 6 is not removable and hence the battery is fixed as well. Access to the SIM and MicroSD card slot is from a flap on the side below the power button and the volume rocker.

Compared to the Xiaomi Mi 3, the Honor 6 does have a smaller, more curved footprint and in all honesty doesn’t share the build quality of the Mi 3, despite being on a similarly affordable range. The curves on the Mi 3 are more purposeful and integrated compared to the Honor 6. This is subjective however as some people will most definitely prefer the shape of the Honor 6 and how it fits in the hand.

Compared to the Xiaomi Mi 3, the Honor 6 does have a smaller, more curved footprint and in all honesty doesn’t share the build quality of the Mi 3, despite being on a similarly affordable range. The curves on the Mi 3 are more purposeful and integrated compared to the Honor 6. This is subjective however as some people will most definitely prefer the shape of the Honor 6 and how it fits in the hand.

Emotion UI

Huawei’s skin of Android is called Emotion UI and has some rather interesting features. One of the cool ones is that it allows you to adjust the white balance of your device to match your preferences! You can adjust how cool or how warm your colour is and in all honesty this is the first time I’ve seen it in a phone.

The settings menu is rife with interesting features with uses like hiding the software home, back and multitask window to be brought back up with a swipe, ROG Technology which seems to be a not-too-well-worded power savings mode, Gloves Mode which enables touch through layers of clothes and Performance Mode which is pretty self explanatory.

At the end of the day, Huawei have done a good job blurring the line between flagship and mid range with the Honor 6. The specs of the device are top notch and while the build quality is decent, it’s nothing to shout home about. It may be a little more expensive than the Mi 3 but at just over RM1,000 and with the specs that are said to be better than the snapdragon 805, this is definitely a device to look forward to.

Source : http://www.lowyat.net/2014/07/first-look-hands-on-with-the-huawei-honor-6/

Perangkat Xiaomi Diam-diam Mengirim Data Pribadi Pengguna ke Server Tiongkok

Handset-handset yang dibuat oleh manufaktur Xiaomi selalu menarik perhatian karena mereka menyediakan perangkat yang terjangkau namun dengan spesifikasi dan performa yang memadai. Kini terkuak sebuah fakta, dimana handset RedMi Note ketahuan mengirim data-data pribadi pengguna ke server negeri asalnya, Tiongkok.

Foto-foto pengguna dan juga pesan teks pengguna ditransfer ke server pribadi yang berada di Tiongkok. Handset akan terhubung ke suatu alamat IP secara otomatis ketika masuk ke jaringan WiFi dan langsung mengirim data. Bahkan handset juga akan mengirim data melalui jaringan 3G namun dengan ukuran lebih kecil.

Sistem pengiriman data diam-diam ini tidak dapat dihentikan, bahkan setelah melalui proses root dan melakukan flashing ulang dengan firmware baru tidak juga dapat menghentikan, data akan tetap dikirimkan. Mari kita tunggu saja penjelasan pihak Xiaomi atas aktivitas tanpa ijin ini.

#Source : http://www.teknoup.com/

LibreOffice 4.3 Goes Live, Includes Fix for 11 Year Old Bug

A new month, and a new release of LibreOffice, the open-source office suite installed by default in Ubuntu. 

LibreOffice 4.3 is the eighth major release of the software since its split from OpenOffice back in 2010 and the third minor release in the 4.x release series.

What’s New?

Every major release of the office suite sees a huge set of changes, fixes and updates included.  If you have a spare couple of hours you can pour over the entire changelog for this latest update on the Document Foundation wiki at wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.3.

To save you some time we’ve put together a brief summary of the more user-facing and headline features new to this update.

Document interoperability

As one of many office suites LibreOffice comes with improvements in handling, opening and saving to and from other office file formats.

In 4.3, this results in a raft of OOXML improvements, including DrawingML features, theme fonts, and file embeds. Theme colours on fonts, paragraphs and table cells are now preserved, as is styling, fill and other effects on images and shapes.

Microsoft Office users will find support for 30 additional Excel formulas. Mac users chancing upon old ClarisWorks, MacWorks and SuperPaint files will be pleased to know these can now be opened in LibreOffice.

Nested comments in documents benefit from a formatting tidy-up and may now be both imported and exported as .doc, .rtf and .docx files (among others).

Other Notable Changes

• Support for animated 3D models in Impress
• Support for Collada and .kmz files
• Initial HiDPI support on Windows & Linux
• Start center now previews all files, not just .odf
• Progress bar for .docx imports
• PDF Import tweaks, including rotated text support

Finally, an 11 year old bug that prevents ‘monster’ paragraphs of more than 65,000 characters being entered has finally been solved. TDF say this is down to “the modernization of the OOo source code, which is an exclusive function of LibreOffice.”

Download LibreOffice 4.3

LibreOffice 4.3 is available to download from the official project website at libreoffice.org/download, or direct through the following links:

• Linux x64 (.deb)  // Torrent
• Linux x86 (.deb) // Torrent

If you don’t fancy upgrading you can expect to find the release included in Ubuntu 14.10, due for release later this year.

Source: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/

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Huawei Honor H60 Muncul di China, Punya RAM 4GB

 

Huawei tercatat tengah mempersiapkan smartphone dengan kapasitas RAM sebesar 4GB. Informasi tersebut diketahui melalui daftar perangkat yang sudah mendapat sertifikasi di TENAA China. Pusat sertifikasi perangkat telekomunikasi di China baru-baru ini sudah mengeluarkan sertifikasi untuk Huawei Honor H60 dengan RAM 4GB.

 

Kapasitas RAM 4GB memang terbilang sangat besar untuk sebuah smartphone saat ini. Seperti yang diketahui, belum ada smartphone yang menyematkan RAM sebesar itu. Beberapa smartphone flagship seperti Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Sony Xperia Z2, Oppo Find 7, dan sebagainya 'hanya' menyematkan RAM 3GB. Jika TENAA tidak salah mencatat, Huawei Honor H60 adalah smartphone pertama yang mengusung RAM 4GB.
Spesifikasi lain yang diungkap adalah layarnya beresolusi 1920 x 1080 piksel, kamera belakang 13MP, kamera depan 8MP, prosesor Kirin 920 octa-core 1,7GHz, memori internal 16GB, mendukung microSD dan 4G LTE, serta menjalankan OS Android 4.4 KitKat.




Source: http://www.teknoup.com