DTS Play-Fi: Wireless audio streaming from Android tablets

In the field of tablets and smartphones, there are already several ways to wirelessly stream audio to speakers or your home theater system. As we all know DLNA or Apple users know and of course the AirPlay technology. DTS, a company that specializes in audio, today announced a new streaming technology presented in the form of Play-Fi.

DTS Play-Fi
The DTS-Play-Fi technology (or standard), according to the company's most comprehensive and advanced ability to stream audio currently on the market today. In terms of function does Play-Fi much like Apple's AirPlay but the technique has some advantages over the technique of Apple. Although the technique is suitable for iOS and Windows devices, the company concentrates purely on Android currently.

App and accessories
The Play-Fi system consists of two parts: an application for your Android tablet or smartphone and an accessory, such as a speaker. With the Android application, the volume can be adjusted, the speaker can be selected and you can of course choose your music. The accessories are produced by a subsidiary of DTS called Phorus. Initially there is a stand-alone speaker launched for $ 199 and $ 149 costing a receiver to music through your existing home theater system to play.

File
The system makes it possible to MP3 and FLAC files to multiple speakers to send via WiFi 802.11b/g/n. In addition you can use your Android device music on a DLNA PC or server stored playback using the Play DTS-Fi speakers or receiver. In the near future will also support AAC, Ogg Vorbis and online streaming music services like Spotify and Last.fm was added.

Multiroom and Multisource
Using 16 speakers within networking sites which are up to eight can be used simultaneously. Of these eight speakers, four copies simultaneously from a music source. In total you can within a network four Android sources. according to the company, the delay is minimal and the quality of high-level data by using a Play-Fi connection is preferred within a WiFi network.

From 1 October
On 1 October, the above two accessories in the U.S. market. DTS hopes that current licenses with manufacturers including receivers and home theater systems technology quickly implemented and will be accepted.

HTC One X gets Android 4.1 in October

Since HTC in July announced that the HTC One X, One S and One XL went with an Android Jelly Bean update the HTC users impatiently waiting. It seems that this wait will soon come to an end for the HTC One X users now HTC has announced that this device will get the update in October.

HTC also plans to Jellybean before Christmas available to all their newer smartphones, with the One X first followed by probably the HTC One S. One or the HTC V also gets an update to Jelly Bean remains a mystery. All that is in our view be under 'newer smartphones. For now only the update for the HTC One X and HTC One S confirmed by HTC.

The upcoming X + One and One XL from the store will be delivered with Android 4.1 Jellybean. The HTC One X is currently the flagship of HTC but will soon be two bigger brothers in the form of the One X + and One XL.

Google Maps for Android goes forward again

Now yesterday iOS 6 is released, Google Maps lapsed permanently in the mobile operating system right now, Google has released an update to the Google Maps application for Android. New in the application so you can sync to multiple devices have recently performed searches.

This new feature can be very useful. Suppose you have searched for a restaurant on your computer while you were logged in with your Google account and once on the road location yet just want to watch on your phone. In that case zodraj you start typing it will just searched restaurant directly as suggestion along with other locations where you have looked recently to your computer, appear on your phone. Because typing on a phone simply not very fast (except for some people) is the goal of Google to the need to type as much as possible.

Directions made on a computer can also be found in the application.

Apple
Google did not respond further to the new card application from Apple that Google Maps is replaced. It is also not clear whether Google is currently working on the development of an application for iOS or Apple for example blocks. In addition, Google Maps course also be opened in the mobile browser.

However, it would be a logical step could be to make an application, YouTube with iOS 6 also lapse and instead, Google has a separate application made since last week is available in the Apple App Store. Google does indicate that the goal is to Google Maps finally available to anyone who wants to use the product, regardless of device, browser or operating system.

Cube U9GT5: Android Tablet with Retina display

Tablets and other products coming to Asia and China never cease to amaze us. They are produced there quad tablets and sold at the price at which you bought from us or a total ordinary tablet. One is a quad-core tablet Cube U9GT5.

The tablet comes with the Android version of Jelly Bean and now hold, display, which Apple calls Retina. Apparently, the Cube in China large and well-known manufacturer of electronics. Novelty is equipped with a display with a resolution of 2048 x 1356 pixels with a density of 264 pixels per inch. Hidden inside a Rockchip RK 3066 Cortex A9 processor with two cores. Mali graphics drives 400th GPU is not one of the best, but popular game moving. On the body of the tablet is a rear camera with flash, which unfortunately do not know the resolution.

Tablet Cube U9GT5 not yet announced an official release date. Information on price, however, we have and the movement should be somewhere around $ 200, which is about two times less than the new iPad 3rd Check out the video and let us know what you think about tablet Cube.

Motorola RAZR i is official with Intel Medfield and Android

Just a couple of weeks Motorola surprised us with its new Droid family in the United States, including the Droid RAZR HD and Droid RAZR M. However, these terminals are limited to that country from the hands of operator Verizon. But today the "Big M" surprises us with the international version of the Droid RAZR M, which is nothing less than the first Motorola smartphone with Intel Medfield.

This is the new "Motorola RAZR I" have made official today in the UK in a press event, and it does not have any Intel Medfield platform, but with a powerful Intel Atom Z2480 model with no clock less than 2.0 GHz, which is the first handset to have similar frequency.

The other features of this mobile are also enviable, highlighting a screen 4.3-inch Super AMOLED protected by Gorilla Glass, and a 2000 mAh battery to give you long life and autonomy, as promised by Moto, and the company is has made it a priority to include large batteries and technology to improve performance and energy consumption in their latest phones to address complaints from the public about all these terminals to be recharged up to twice a day.

Its primary camera is 8 MP and LED Flash, and features a 1.9 MP front. To find your chip NFC connectivity, WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0. The material that covers and protects it from Kevlar, the same he made some bulletproof vests.

However, there is a curious fact about this phone, and it will come standard with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, which seems a joke considering that Motorola Mobility is Google, and the latest version of Android is Jelly Bean. They promise "soon" will be updated and optimized for the Intel (guilty of not having Jelly Bean from birth).

It will be available in the UK, Germany, France, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico for the month of October.

Casio Android tablet recognizes and scans hand written notes

Casio has a 10 inch tablet designed to recognize handwritten documents, scan and convert to text. When you've made notes during a meeting, the tablet with two cameras a photo and within a few seconds the written text Convert to text on your tablet.

The tablet will be supplied with a case where in the other side of the valve space is for a notebook. When the user has made annotations to him only need to make this into an angle of 90 degrees to take with respect to the tablet. The two cameras will photograph the notes thereto and the OCR software will do its job.

In addition to recognizing the handwritten notes, the Paper Writer Casio also scan documents. All you need to do is to browse through the documents back to the camera, the Casio tablet. To do this you turn on the tablet with the aid of the case at an angle of 90 degrees.

You can download the software from the Casio Paper Writer instruct so that he can recognize written words as a category. So when you get to a note 'Android' writes under the name of Android will be archived.

Specifications
The Casio Paper Writer will be powered by a dual-core processor with a clock speed of 1.5 GHz. Photographing and scanning will be done by May 2 megapixel cameras on the front.

The tablet can take a beating so he can be out of the office. The battery lasts 12 hours with it and he is replaced by another battery. In addition, the tablet with NFC and the top model will also LTE (4G) works. On what this tablet running Android version has not been announced yet. Like the Samsung Galaxy Note tablet can use a digital pen.

Availability
At the end of this month, the Casio Paper Writer in stores. In which countries this tablet will be released and for what price is not yet known. Casio will with this tablet mainly focus on the business market.

New tool Android app is easy to iOS

Google has announced J2ObjC tool, allowing software easier between Android and iOS can be ported.

J2ObjC converts Java code for Android in Objective C / C + + code. Which can be compiled to run on Apple's iOS. Google has announced that the tool "converts Java classes in Objective-C classes that directly use the iOS Foundation Framework."

The tool processes the back end of the app. It is not possible to J2ObjC an app in its entirety to translate. There must still new UI code written in Objective-C, which uses the iOS SDK.
Only client side

J2ObjC now supports only development on the client side. The code that is generated using the iOS Foundation Framework. They can be integrated with Xcode. The code can then be tested and analyzed with Xcode Instruments, like other iOS apps.
J2ObjC finds according to Google is still in the stage "between an alpha and a beta project."