Alternative Android OS developer Cyanogen has released the Marshmallow-based CyanogenMod 13 nightly builds for a number of new devices. The list includes the OnePlus 2,Yu Yureka, Moto X Pure, Oppo R5 and R5s, and the Xperia Tablet Z.
The nightlies bring Android version 6.0 to these devices. Keep in mind that the builds may contain bugs as they usually aren't stable. Plus, installing them may not only result in a bricked device, but also void your handset's warranty.
Twitter leak aficionado @evleaks has tweeted what appear to be official images of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab S3. The upcoming slate passed TENAA certification last month and should be released soon.
The Galaxy Tab S3 will launch with the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow. It will have 3GB of RAM, 32GB storage, 8MP/1080p main camera and 2MP/1080p selfie. 150Mbps LTE will be an option. The chipset is a Snapdragon 652, which has four Cortex-A72 and four A53 CPU cores.
Both the 8" and 9.7" variants share a resolution of 2048 x 1536 pixels. The battery of the 8-incher is 4,000mAh and that of the larger one is unknown at this point.
A new Asus tablet - dubbed Zenpad Z8 - has leaked courtesy of the usually reliable leakster @evleaks who posted an image of the device along with some of its key specifications on Twitter.
The leak says the tablet is powered by a Snapdragon 650 chipset, and sports an 8-inch (1536x2048 pixel resolution) display. It has 2GB of RAM and 16GB of expandable internal memory. The camera department is handled by an 8MP rear unit and a 1.8MP front shooter.
According to @evleaks, the tablet is headed to Verizon. There was, however, no word on when it would be launched and what price tag it would carry.
After the Nexus Player got axed, it’s now the turn of the ill-fated Nexus 9 tablet. HTC has confirmed to CNET that the company is stopping the manufacturing of Google’s latest Nexus tablet.
The Nexus 9 was announced back in October 2014 alongside the Nexus 6. Being the second Nexus device manufactured by HTC, long after the very first Nexus One, there was some excitement around it. However, the tablet got almost universally panned in reviews, particularly for its poor build quality and quality control issues, not to mention the high price that didn’t sit well with consumers who are already not too keen on Android tablets. The Nexus 9 wasn’t quite the success story the Nexus 7 was and as such was mostly just warming Google’s online shelves for the past year, until it was pulled from there last month.
It remains to be seen if Google will follow it up with another Android tablet later this year or perhaps take a break from the Android tablet market.
Samsung has been investing heftily in its local India research and development divisions lately and consequently, more and more interesting offers and innovations, tailor-made for the fast-growing market have started to appear. The latest such device is the newly announced Samsung Galaxy Tab Iris, which as its name suggests, is equipped with specialized iris-recognition technology.
The model is meant to be used with certain biometric-based services within the government, like Aadhaar - a centralized biometric and demographic database, operated by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) agency. The tablet is fully compatible with said system and is also STQC-certified and thus proudly wears the "Made for India" moniker as a tool aimed to simplify adoption and usage of the Aadhaar system among others.
As for the device itself, it is far from a tech powerhouse by today's standards. It is based on the 2014 Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Lite, which it might actually based on, with its 7.0-inch, 600 x 1024 pixels display. It also packs a quad-core processor, clocked at 1.2 Ghz, 1.5GB of LPDDR3 RAM and 8GB of expandable storage.
The 193.4 x 116.4 x 9.7mm, 327 gram tablet has a 5MP camera on the back, alongside the iris-recognition hardware itself. There is also Wi-Fi b/g/n on board, Bluetooth 4.1 USB host functionality, which might come in handy and a 3600 mAh battery pack powers the show. The only notable absence seems to be 4G, which is odd, considering the Korean giant's push towards the technology in its India-tailored offers of late.
The price point for the Galaxy Tab Iris is set at INR 13,499, or around $200, but most units are likely to arrive in bulk orders for professional use, rather than see much exposure on the end user market.
In-line with that time-frame, the original Shield Tablet started receiving the update a couple of weeks ago, and now the update has started hitting the LTE variants of the tablet as well, at-least in the US.
The update brings Android 6.0.1, and includes Android security patch for the month of March, as well as several other features, improvements, and bug fixes. Head to the Source link below for the complete change-log.
The display on the iPad Air is nothing overly new – but it's still amazing. It uses some clever tech to ensure it doesn't drain power too heavily, which is as much to do with mitigating the overall battery pain as it is about making sure we don't see a repeat of the ultra-warm tablets of previous years.
But in reality, things look very nice indeed, with the Retina standard already a mainstay of Apple's larger tablet for years now.
I still think it's a touch too reflective for watching video (and that's something that's been changed in the iPad Air 2). According to DisplayMate it's not that bad, but a couple of the iPad Air's contemporaries were found to be more impressive overall when it comes to web browsing and movie watching.
Ray Soneira of that same laboratory testing facility has found that things are actually pretty good for Apple's tablet on that front, with less than 10% of the light hitting the screen surface actually reflecting back into your peepers.
However, Apple didn't make the best large-screen tablet display of its generation for the iPad Air, according to DisplayMate. While the Air performs fairly well in most scenarios, it's bested by the direct competition – namely the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9. Separate tests on the Samsung Galaxy Tab S range have since revealed that it too is better than the iPad Air in most key areas.
Credit:Republished with permission from DisplayMate Technologies
It's clear that the iPad Air is much better than the Nexus 10, though, which is predictable given that the Nexus is a device that's well past the end of its life.
The PPI numbers for the iPad Air may have you thinking its display isn't as sharp as those of the competition, but in reality it makes no difference given the distance you'll be holding it from your eyes.
There's no doubt the iPad Air isn't as good as the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX, which has dynamic contrast to make pictures look simply stunning on the screen. But the Air is plenty powerful enough, and won't let you down on the display front in any way.
Credit: Republished with permission from DisplayMate Technologies
As you can see above, the iPad Air is much like the competition when it comes to flipping the tablet around in your hands – the brightness and color will quickly shift away from perfection when you begin to tilt the device.
This wasn't a problem in most scenarios, as you'll be the only one using the device in day-to-day use. However, if you've got it set up on a stand in the kitchen while cooking, for instance, it will irk a little. It's nothing major, but I noted that the Kindle Fire HDX was superior here in that example.
As I mentioned, the reflectivity of the iPad Air isn't the best on the market, and might irritate lightly at times. The Nexus 10 still looks like an awful tablet, but given that Google has put it out to pasture since our initial review of the iPad Air, we can't castigate it too much.
You can head over to the DisplayMate report to see the full findings of the tablet test, but the upshot is that while the Amazon tablet was the best in all tests – and the best the laboratory had ever seen at the time, apparently – the iPad has made some significant gains here too, offering a more power-efficient display.
Crucially, it's larger too, meaning you're getting more of a viewing experience – I don't think the 8.9-inch screen of Amazon's offering is the best for an extended movie marathon.
Of course, while this is an instructive slice of comparative data from around the time of the iPad Air's launch, things have moved on since, and you can now get better displays from all parties concerned, including Apple – indeed, the iPad Mini 4 screen is widely held to be one of the best in the business.
camera and video:
The iPad Air's camera was a bit of a disappointment even at the time of its release. Apple kept the same 5MP iSight camera from previous iterations of the tablet, which at least boasts half-decent backside illumination and half-way acceptable low-light performance.
I'm not sure what Apple is doing with the camera interface though – it's like a completely bare version of that seen on the iPhone 6 or iPhone 6S, with fewer options to choose from. Want to take a photo or video? That's fine. You can even take a square snap for those moments when you need a portrait pic too.
However, there's no filter option in sight, nor the ability to change to a Slo-Mo camera as we've seen on other recent Apple hardware. Given that the Air is running the necessary A7 64-bit chip to enable the enhanced video mode, I've no idea why you can't do the same here.
Even the filters would make sense, as the iPhone 5C can use these, and that's hardly as powerful a beast. This is probably the biggest criticism of the iPad Air I could throw at the tablet at launch, as the decision is slightly perplexing.
But in a way, that's wonderful. You might have noticed that I'm hardly a fan of the cameras on tablets at the best of times, and if there was one thing that I'd happily sacrifice for a thinner tablet, it's this functionality. But then, the iPad Air 2 comes with a Slo-Mo function in a much skinnier frame, so the two evidently weren't mutually exclusive.
Still, the iPad Air's camera does the job just fine. While the performance isn't that good (although shutter speed was impressive, as I'd expected) it's more than adequate for something that shouldn't be replacing a smartphone or dedicated camera anyway.
battery life and apps:
Battery life on the iPad Air is quoted at "Up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music". I would say that's actually not a bad estimate, although the drain was closer to 2% every 10 minutes in general use, which equates to around nine hours' use.
Standby time is much, much better though. I found that I could stick the iPad Air in a bag, taking it out for the commute and messing about with it on the sofa at home, for at least three days before it began to get low on battery.
In fact, the only real task that killed it was connecting to an amplifier via Wi-Fi while simultaneously streaming music to the same device through Bluetooth. It's doing things like this that make you realise that this is the kind of thing that we envisaged at the turn of the century, a tablet that has the brains and connectivity to do all the tasks we could want.
When it comes to playing games – another famously power-sapping task – I found that the iPad Air coped reasonably well. Playing Freeblade – one of the most graphically demanding games on the App Store – for 10 minutes drained 7% of the Air's battery.
In running the techradar battery test recently, which involves running a 90-minute 720p looping video with the screen brightness cranked right up, the battery depleted by a consistent 22%. That's just a single percentage point worse than the iPad Air 2, which was a much newer device and (obviously) a new an improved model.
It's not as good as the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 (16%) or the Nexus 9 (18%), but again, those are newer tablets. It might be worth noting if a primary task for your tablet is watching lots of movies when you don't have access to a charge point.
In terms of connectivity, we've already mentioned the excellent Wi-Fi performance (in terms of distance from router, rather than improved speed) through the Multiple In, Multiple Out (MIMO) technology.
4G bands are now covered throughout the globe, and low-power Bluetooth is also on board as well, making it an incredibly well-connected device.
Apps
Apple has thrown on reams of free software with the iPad Air (and other iOS 7, 8 and 9 devices too), so you now get access to the likes of Pages, Numbers and Keynote from the iWork tribe as well as Photos (which integrates a lot of the old iPhoto functionality), iMovie and Garageband for free.
These are incredibly powerful tools for what is still essentially a cut-down mobile device – I can't say that I'd recommend using them regularly without a keyboard (in the case of iWork, or the newer Office for iPad) but elements such as Photos and Garageband really give you the chance to express yourself fluidly.
Having such accomplished software right out of the box (well, you do have to download much of it actually, and it's a fairly hefty download) is a big plus for a shiny new toy, and it's a major part of the appeal of joining Apple's ecosystem.
On top of that, I still feel the need to laud the Apple App Store for its ability to offer the best apps around. We're talking about things like BBC iPlayer and Sky Go, both of which offer improved user interfaces and allowed downloads first before the Android hop came.
The gap between Apple and Google's app portals is narrowing, but there's no doubt that users will still feel far more secure in the app experience they'll get on an Apple tablet compared to an Android one for now, and that's a big reason to purchase.
Maps should also gain something of a special mention, as while it was a PR disaster for Apple, it's slowly clawing its way back to usable thanks to constant upgrades.
It's still far from the best out there, and we'd recommend you download the excellent Google Maps as soon as possible, but we rarely find that Apple Maps is offering an inaccurate course for us to navigate down to the shops – just don't ask it to find obscure towns whose names appear in multiple places.
The 7,300mAh battery keeps you powered up to watch, read and game at home or on the go.†
Portable entertainment for everyone
The Galaxy Tab E was made to go wherever you go and do whatever you want to do. From watching a movie with the family at home to reading a best seller at the coffee shop, the big, bright screen keeps everyone entertained. Wi-Fi connection required. Signal strength depends on Wi-Fi.
Keep it all with you
Enjoy more of your favorite music, photos, movies and games on the go with a microSD™ card* that expands your tablet’s memory from 16GB** to up to an additional 128GB.
Capture more every day
Make shareable moments better with the Galaxy Tab E’s advanced camera features. Catch more in each photo with Panorama and Continuous Shot modes. Video chat from anywhere. And quickly toggle between camera and video modes. With the Galaxy Tab E, you won’t miss a thing.
Specifications
OS
Android™ 5.1, Lollipop
CAMERA RESOLUTION (FRONT)
2MP
INTERNAL MEMORY (User memory is less than the total memory due to storage of the operating system and software used to operate the features. Actual user memory will vary depending on the operator and may change after software upgrades are performed.)
1.5GB RAM, 16GB ROM
MAIN DISPLAY RESOLUTION
1280 x 800
MAIN DISPLAY SIZE
9.6"
Full Specifications
Category
TYPE
Galaxy Tab E
Carrier
TYPE
Wi-Fi
Color
COLOR
Black
OS
OS
Android™ 5.1, Lollipop
Size
WEIGHT
1.21 lbs.
PRODUCT DIMENSIONS (INCHES)
9.52" x 5.89" x 0.38"
Camera
CAMERA RESOLUTION (FRONT)
2MP
CAMERA RESOLUTION (REAR)
5MP AF
DIGITAL OPTICAL ZOOM
4X Digital
FEATURES
F2.2(Rear) / F2.4(Front) Video Streaming, Video Player
VIDEO RECORDING RESOLUTION
HD (1280 x 720) | @30fps
Battery
BATTERY TYPE AND SIZE
Li-Ion 7,300mAh
MUSIC PLAY TIME
Up to 198 hours
VIDEO PLAY TIME
Up to 12 hours
INTERNET USE TIME
Up to 12 hours
ENERGY STAR®
Yes
Memory
INTERNAL MEMORY (User memory is less than the total memory due to storage of the operating system and software used to operate the features. Actual user memory will vary depending on the operator and may change after software upgrades are performed.)
The S Pen helps you work, play and share more on your tablet. Handwrite emails and jot down notes. Cut and paste or drag and drop quickly. With a natural feel and mouse-like functionality, the S Pen lets you do more than ever before.
Keep All Your Samsung Devices In Sync
Connecting your Samsung devices is easier than ever. With Samsung SideSync 3.0† and Quick Connect™††††, you can share content and work effortlessly between your Samsung tablet, smartphone and personal computer.
Do Two Things at Once
Make the most out of your tablet time with advanced multitasking tools. Easily open two apps side by side so you can flip through your photos while browsing online. Check social media and your social calendar at the same time. With Multi Window*** on the Galaxy Tab A, you can do more, faster.
Safe. Fun. Kid-Friendly.
Kids Mode gives parents peace of mind while providing a colorful, engaging place for kids to play. Easily manage what your kids access and how long they spend using it, all while keeping your own documents private. Available for free from Samsung Galaxy Essentials™, Kids Mode keeps your content—and more importantly, your kids— safe and secure.
Specifications
OS
Android™ 5.0, Lollipop
CAMERA RESOLUTION (FRONT)
2.0MP
INTERNAL MEMORY (User memory is less than the total memory due to storage of the operating system and software used to operate the features. Actual user memory will vary depending on the operator and may change after software upgrades are performed.)
2GB RAM, 16GB ROM
MAIN DISPLAY RESOLUTION
1024 x 768
MAIN DISPLAY SIZE
9.7"
Full Specifications
Category
TYPE
Galaxy Tab A
Carrier
TYPE
Wi-Fi
Color
COLOR
Smoky Titanium
OS
OS
Android™ 5.0, Lollipop
Size
WEIGHT
1.07 lb.
PRODUCT DIMENSIONS (INCHES)
9.55" x 6.57" x 0.29"
Camera
CAMERA RESOLUTION (FRONT)
2.0MP
CAMERA RESOLUTION (REAR)
5.0MP
DIGITAL OPTICAL ZOOM
4x Digital
FEATURES
Geo-Tagging, Auto Focus, Online Image Uploading, Photo Editing
VIDEO RECORDING RESOLUTION
720p HD Recording
Battery
BATTERY TYPE AND SIZE
6000mAh Li-Ion
MUSIC PLAY TIME
Up to 178 Hours
VIDEO PLAY TIME
Up to 14 Hours
INTERNET USE TIME
Up to 15 Hours
ENERGY STAR®
Yes
Memory
INTERNAL MEMORY (User memory is less than the total memory due to storage of
2GB RAM, 16GB ROM the operating system and software used to operate the features. Actual user memory will vary depending on the operator and may change after software upgrades are performed.)
EXTERNAL MEMORY/MICROSD™ CAPACITY
Up to 128GB
Network
FREQUENCIES AND DATA TYPE
802.11 a/b/g/n; 2.4GHz+5GHz, HT40
Connectivity
FEATURES
SideSync, Microsoft® Office®, Downloadable Content, Milk Music, S Note™
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