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Clarion Next GATE: iPhone apps are controlled from the car

Clarion Next GATE – Clarion has a long experience in the field of radio and of in-car entertainment. In recent years the company has watched with particular interest in the field of integration of smartphones in the car, not forgetting of course by the popular iPhone. If until now the integration between the iPhone and the radio board has primarily focused on managing the music library, Clarion Next GATE is a product that goes even beyond the symbiosis between the handset and the radio. Thanks to Clarion Next GATE, in fact, you can also manage applications via the iPhone touch screen monitor 7″ integrated in the innovative interface of the Japanese manufacturer.

Let’s start from the prose description of the hardware device and then move on to examine the operation of Clarion Next GATE.

The main features of the Clarion Next GATE that is installed in the dashboard of the car include:

Treemaker, the game Android time-consuming

Best Android Game: Treemaker – I propose a little game time consuming for fans of puzzle games. In the tradition of Where is my water? and Cut the Rope, Mikrotie proposes a puzzle game called Treemaker. The character that you play must jump from platform to platform to reach an end point. Your interaction is very simple, press once launched a vine to the clicked location and a second click takes down the vine. So we have to be determined between the act of going to hang on and take away a lot of momentum or to cling close to risk but never reach the next platform. Scenario does not exist yet surprisingly addictive.

Attention, more and more you advance there will be traps for you bar the way! Explosive balls or columns of cubes it will take down with your vines. You will pardon me, the Treemaker trailer was made for the iPhone.

new iPhone with 4-inch

new iPhone – Increasingly, the rumors concerning the possibility that Apple could take a bigger screen size than the usual 3.5 inches used since the first generation of the iPhone and many also wonder what will be the approach taken by designers to change the current size . A rumor of the last hours suggests the possibility of enlarging the size of the display, bringing to 4 inches, increasing only the height of the display and changing, therefore, the aspect ratio of the latter.

All models of the iPhone and iPod Touch up to date products, in fact, have always been equipped with a 3.5 inch screen with a 3:2 ratio, allowing developers to build their own applications to a single screen size. With the arrival of the Retina display in 2010 (iPhone 4), the display resolution has increased significantly, but the size of the display in his appearance remained intact, while forcing developers to adapt their applications to the new high resolution.

Blackberry 10: Launch it step closer

Research In Motion is a test developers smartphone with Blackberry 10 so they give applications for future phones of the company can design.

According to Bloomberg, it is a signal that the launch of new smartphones is one step closer.

During the Blackberry Jam Conference in May 2000 developers get the Blackberry 10 Dev Alpha hands. In a telephone interview said Alec Saunders, vice president of Developer Relations, it is a big step forward towards the introduction of Blackberry 10. “It is tangible evidence of the company that progress in the making of the device.”

According to Saunders different design of the test model of the smartphones in the stores will eventually lie. Especially the screen and the navigation would be quite different.

iTranslate: interesting multilingual dictionary for Android

iTranslate – If for some reason it does not please you the official application of Google Translate, there are several alternatives in the Play Store, free and very complete. iTranslate is chronologically the last to be reached on Android and is a port of the popular app available for iPhone (the name does not mind).

Over 50 languages ​​are supported to always have the right translation at your fingertips.

Metro 8: the interface of Windows 8 arrives on iPhone jailbroken

Metro 8 – iPhone users are undoubtedly very attached to the interface of a smartphone, definitely functional and very intuitive. The issues for insallare via Cydia on jailbroken iPhone, there are certainly not all are in perfect style Apple. Sometimes, however, particular issues are released so as to arouse the curiosity of most “traditionalists”. This is the case of the theme Metro 8, an ‘extreme customization DreamBoard bearing on iPhone user interface of Windows 8.

The work done by the developer of the theme is nothing short of remarkable. The user interface of Windows 8, with the known organization of the home in “tiles”, has been replicated in a very faithful. There is a bar located at the bottom of the screen that allows you to access applications and mode of rotation of the display, not missing a widget that shows the date and lockscreen time and renewed in style UI meters. Metro 8

Bamboo ADzero: the first smartphone entirely of bamboo!

Bamboo ADzero – And if the bamboo was becoming as common as plastic shells for smartphones? The design of smartphones Bamboo ADzero has always been a selling point among manufacturers: high fashion unibody HTC, plastic lightweight and durable Samsung, Apple Glass … in parallel, there is a phenomenon of “growing end” and “always lighter.”

A new stage has been reached by an English student, Kieron-Scott Woodhouse. Exit gray, black or white, to make way for the first smartphone entirely of bamboo! ADzero appointed, he has a striking design as you can see from the photos. In addition, it is not a concept, but rather a phone for everyday use.

iPhone 5 Concept no start button and four inch

iPhone 5 – An interesting concept to the network reached today addresses two of the rumors that have been constant over the next generation of iPhone. On one side is heard that the iPhone 5 could make more screen, one that could lose the home button. How would these two changes in the smartphone on the block? The designer Kris Groen has raised a proposal that we see in the video below.

As you can see the artist imagines an iPhone more square than the current model to accommodate a 4-inch screen. It has long been mentioned as a possibility, which has its detractors based on that image that showed the difficulty in reaching with one hand to all parts of a screen that size. ¿3’5, 3’7 or 4 inches? What surprised us the Cupertino?

More original is the solution proposed for Groen start button. We had mentioned that Apple would switch to a capacitive button is not it? What if the company chose to remove it completely? The designer imagines two touch buttons on the sides, one on each side, to replace the start button and increase the possibilities of interaction with the iPhone 5.

Bloomberg: the iPad 3 would have four cores processor and support for LTE networks

The rumors around the iPad 3 are and will continue to intensify as the release date still unknown, approaches. A few hours ago I talked about some leaks next argue that the tablet will be thinner and Retina screen. More reports come now from Bloomberg, a well respected digital media is usually very reliable in their assessments. According to this publication iPad 3 integrate a quad-core processor will support LTE networks.

The information comes apparently from three different sources, with each providing interesting details. For example, regarding the Retina display mention that this will have a higher concentration of pixels that some HDTVs; its density is such that its display will look like a printed page rather than an electronic medium. Most graphics processing capability would also allow the video will start immediately without waiting to play as happens now.

The Sony Ericsson Nozomi: more photos and details

We write regularly lately about what’s new flagship device from Sony Ericsson seems to be, the Sony Ericsson Nozomi. There have recently become pictures and pictures of the device appeared again today and that’s the case. There are now on the photos to see more details, allowing the camera to be described.

More details of Sony Ericsson Nozomi

In the latest pictures of the Sony Ericsson Nozomi are a bit more detail; so, for example the ports on the unit and sit where they are located. On the right is an example, HDMI output, so for example you can play videos on your TV. Also on the right are the volume controls and a camera button. The micro-USB port sits on the left. The input for the headphones will be at the top or bottom down. The standby button will undoubtedly be on top. Below the screen there is a clear cut scene, which will probably serve as an LED indicator. Then there are also three navigation icons, but it is not certain that you can print. Above the icons are small dots, which may serve as the actual navigation buttons. The Sony Ericsson Nozomi screen measures 4.3 inches and has a resolution of 720 × 1280 pixels.