Highlights of yesterday's Asus event show Padfone Infinity and Fonepad announcements, skimp on the magic
The Asus MWC event yesterday brought the Padfone Infinity and the Fonepad. It wasn’t very well organized for the press, but luckily, you can watch the highlights in the comfort of your own home.
Asus tried to spice the event up with a mini magic show, but that was mostly cut out of the video. What does that say about how engaging the performance was?
The video highlights start off with the AO cloud services, the Padfone Infinity announcement starts at 2:00 and the Fonepad introduction is at 6:30.
You can find our hands-on impressions of the Asus Padfone Infinity and Fonepad here.
Nokia's Terminal Mode connects your car's multimedia system with your smartphone
Nokia’s engineers managed to fully connect your mobile phone to your car’s dash head unit. Thanks to the Terminal Mode you can control the most important phone features directly from the car controls (touchscreen, wheel shortcuts, BT audio).
On the video below Nokia demonstrates some scenarios when a N97 is connected to a specially equipped VW Passat CC.
The concept is simple: the moment you connect the phone to the car, you are able to fully control it from the car’s display and keys. That way you can use it as a music player, voice guided navigation, Bluetooth calls, etc. – everything without bothering to hold your phone and put yourself in a potentially dangerous situation.
Of course all apps that can distract you will be forbidden in that mode.
Nokia is working hard on Terminal Mode, but VW says this technology is far from the mass-production stage. Terminal mode is developed to be compatible with all touch and non-touch controlled smartphones, which it won’t be limited to Nokia phones only.
I’ve met various similar ideas over the past years, but this is the first time when a big manufacturer strives to make it happen. This time I hope Nokia will get the things to the end and change the way we use smartphones in cars.
The Gorilla Glass 3 on the Samsung Galaxy S4 gets knifed, coined, and keyed - here's the gruesome video
Do you feel a sadistic pleasure every time you watch a scratch test video of a high-end smartphone? You’ll enjoy this, then.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 is the first device on the market to sport Corning Gorilla Glass 3 screen protection, which is supposed to be really tough. Well, someone’s decided to finally give it a proper test and has been kind enough to share the resulting video with the rest of us.
Check it out and remember to keep the kids away for this one!
Impressive indeed and at one point it even got me thinking that the guys behind it used some kind of clever trick like a super-thin and industrial-strength screen protector or other means of keeping the display safe. Then again, even though the quality of the video isn’t exactly great, it would have been very hard to mask, so I’m willing to give the Galaxy S4 and its Gorilla Glass 3 screen the benefit of the doubt here.
