Future of smartphones in 2016

2015 is the year that many smartphones manufacturers are still living in their comfort zones such as Apple and Samsung and some Chinese ones. Meanwhile, many old famous names such as Sony and BlackBerry is getting out of the zone of the mobile industry. The result is not so hard to assume when the profit is nowhere near them and the loss is quite huge. However, 2016 could be the year for them to change the fate or they have to sell their companies. As the statement of the Sony CEO, if they can not improve the mobile sector named Sony Mobile in 2016, the risk of replacement is quite possible.

4K screen is not a distant standard on smartphones anymore

To be exact, manufacturers will not stop improving smartphones years by years and the 4K screen is the next goal of them. 2015 is the year that Sony released their first smartphone that can display 4K resolution. 2016 promises to be the new race of configurations upgrade of those manufacturers that they use to prove their position on the mobile sector. One of the most important improvement is possibly 4K screen. But this is just a theory which bases on the annual upgrade cycle of manufacturers. Because improving the 4K display quality on screen is not that simple as it may sound, not to mention of the benefit of 4K screen is not really remarkable.

If they put the 4K resolution on smartphone screen just for entertainment purpose, that could be wasteful. Moreover, the cost for smartphones manufacturing will be higher and the battery life will be affected seriously.

Sensor technology unlocked by retinal will develop

It has been a time since the day users learned the concept of the fingerprint sensor, but they will likely to continue learning more about sensor technology unlocked by retinal in 2016. Currently, there are a few ones which support identification technologies with retina scanners but there are just a few. Remarkably, Lumia 950 has an ability of retinal identification with infrared light. Thus, next year could be an explosive year of this new technology.

Facebook found out the error that caused energy drain on iOS smartphones

In a post on his personal page,  technical director of Facebook had clearly stated the problems that make Facebook on iOS smartphones caused energy drain. In recent days, various websites and tech blogs around the world have posted information of Facebook on iPhone and iPad caused energy drain, which is a unintelligible thing, so this social network had to solve the problem. Many sources blamed Facebook for taking advantage of iOS mechanism to not be pushed down to the background of the operating system, so they can continue to update data even when Background App Refresh is turned off. Until today, Facebook has released a new update for the iOS smartphones. While the update notification did not mention of the annoying energy drain error, the technical director of Facebook confirmed that the new version will fix those 2 terrible errors which caused unusual energy drain. The first error was mentioned is CPU spin, which made the Facebook app drain more energy and the update fixed it completely. The second error is management method of sessions with the sound of Facebook app. The director said that if you leave the app during a video, the sound of video on Facebook still continues, which keep the app on the open session instead of being put down to the background in the standard of iOS design. According to the director, the new update will stop the sound from running under background and fix the error. Also in the post, he confirmed the Location History function is not related to unusual energy drain of Facebook. He also apologized for the inconvenience that those errors caused for users, also stated that Facebook always determined to improve the battery life of Facebook on iOS smartphones. However, some experts advise users to turn off Facebook completely after each session by tapping devices, choosing multitasks and swiping the current Facebook session out from the running apps on your phone. Also, always notice if you are scrolling new feeds for too long because of a new frozen error.

Android smartphones that you may never hear of before they are the history

say no, the old king of mobile world released Nokia X. However, it turned down the expectation of users. Instead of towarding the premium segment and taking care for the design or features, Nokia X is basically just one of those cheap Android smartphones which has many limitation to stimulate users to use the services of Microsoft. But the huge shadow of Google as well as the appearance of many opponents in the same sector cause the failure of Nokia.

The creator of Play Station also hoped to make money from Xperia Play when they provided this smartphone a hard keyboard as a game console. In comparison with other normal Android smartphones, this smartphone shows an outstanding potential with the operating mode as a 2-in-1 smartphone / game player.

At first, this smartphone received many compliments and high recommendation from customers because of abundant gaming experience with dedicated gaming keys which support many game modes. However, quite soon after that glorious time, the smartphone was soon forgotten by Sony and the producers have a lack of investment for supporting games.

Samsung is another example in this post though they are a big rival of Apple in the sector of Android smartphones.

According to Samsung, their smartphone was launched to replace the laptop or bulky computer, allowing users to work, the maximum entertainment on the handset. Galaxy Beam is one such product that they expect to achieve new success. This smartphone is capable of operating outside like a normal smartphone also integrates a projector on the top edge to cater to office workers or to the presentation. This original idea is that eventually, the Galaxy Beam has faced failure because of restrictions related to presentation software and projection performance is not high. Also it should be mentioned the needs of users for this type of device is not that much.

5 action Android games you should try right now

This article will review the 5 hottest Android games that lots of gamers are playing and they all have a high recommendation of users. A popular game news website summed up a list of 5 action games which are the most popular on Android platform. If you are gamers who like action games with quick scenes and beautiful actions, try these 5.

Shadow Fight 2

This is an arcade game which continues the success of the previous famous version. A countervailing action game is inspired from the Samurai warriors of Japan, powerful and strong. It also allows the gamer to create their own combo moves to defeat the opponent and become the most powerful fighter all over the world. The power resource of the characters is quite limited, so users need some time to recover or buy more energy from the store in game. In addition, users can customize their character with lots of weapons and armors which bring a fresh style and not feel boring at all. Game developers especially improve the interface for the game and maximum support for touch operation.

Gangstar Vegas

Basically, this is a sandbox style game – a combination of GTA and SR. Sandbox game has quite a lot tasks and fun competition for gamers to explore.

The main character is a gangster boy who is joining an adventure on Las Vegas street. There are more than 80 tasks which are ahead him and an interesting storyline, users will experience a surprise to another. Users can also use many different weapons provided in the game, improve them to have more power and especially the excellent sound in the game makes it more successful though it was considered as one ‘street thief’ of Android games.

Injustice

It is one in many series action games that used to made deeply impressed for gamers who played console. Until now, it has officially become one of Android games on mobile and more exciting. The newest version is named God among us, evokes the context like we are being lost in the world of superheroes. The game allows you to choose different superheroes that you may already well know such as Batman, Superman or The Flash.

2 Android smartphones failed because of trying too hard to be different

To attract more customers, Android smartphones manufacturers always try to make their products as better and more unique as they can.

With a reasonable strategy to attract manufacturers, Google made Android become the number 1 mobile platform of the world in just a short time. Among tons of Android smartphones, to choose suitable devices is not an easy task for users. To attract more customers, manufacturers always try to make their products as better and more unique as they can. However, sometimes it’s because of the difference that they failed and be forgotten quickly.

1.      Amazon’s phone

Amazon has one dream start when entering the mobile market with their cheap tablet Kindle. Because of this reason, many people expect in a same successful result of their first smartphone which named Fire Phone. This first smartphone of Amazon has quite a lot new function to make the difference in comparison with thousands of other Android smartphones. These include the user interface with effects based on the perspective of the user is recorded by 4 infrared cameras on the front of the smartphone, Besides is the unique gesture interface as well as a specialized application such as Firefly for shopping on Amazon. However, the bright spots are not really important to cover the weaknesses of this phone which are lacking Google services, high price and small screen. So, from a great expected product, this smartphone is quick to be forgotten by users even when Amazon lowered the price. In last August, Amazon announced to stop manufacturing Fire Phone, the rest is now history, the only thing we know is that smartphone cost Amazon more than 130 million dollars.

2.      HTC’s phone

We had heard of Facebook making smartphones before, although it has just not happened yet but at east Facebook cooperated with HTC to produce HTC first, which is believed to the first Facebook smartphone.

The remarkable thing of this smartphone is it’s equipped a brand new Facebook Home interface developed by Facebook which supports users many new features. However, using Facebook as a shield for tricking users doesn’t score them at all. Different from other Android smartphones, it deeply integrated Facebook application on the user interface. Everything from the status, the image is updated directly on the device's home screen. You can like or comment effortless right on it. However, if you are not one of those people who indulged in using Facebook, you will see this interface has more inconvenient for basic tasks.