iOS 9 runs on 77% of Apple's smart devices

Apple referred to the adoption of 77 percent of all active devices around the world on the latest version of the operating system iOS 9, and according to the stats page technical support own shop App Store App Store on February 22.

The company, which is based in Cupertino has launched in September of last year, the latest version of the iOS operating system 9 to its users as well as mobile launch iPhone OS 6 and 6 S-Pulse.

Page explained that the number of active devices operating system iOS 8 at 17 percent, while working a total of only 6 percent of the total active system iOS 7 devices and earlier.

The Apple has stated on 11 January, the adoption of 75 percent of the active devices on the new system, resulting in slower growth and dependence according to analysts point of view.

Although slowed iOS system 9 adoption by users rate, but it is still higher compared with 8 iOS system, which reached the proportion of 77.8 percent in mid-March last year.

The company said earlier in the adoption of 12 percent of active devices around the world on the iOS system 9 through 24 hours of its official launch.

While the system iOS 8 adoption on 16 percent of the devices within 24 hours of its release, and the adoption of iOS 7 to 20 percent of the devices within 24 hours of its release.

It should be noted by Apple on 12 January, the launch of the first beta version for developers of the system iOS 9.3, which is available for download directly from the developers of the Apple Developer Center Apple Center, followed by the public version of the non-developers.

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Google, Facebook and Twitter, Microsoft and Amazon supports the position of Apple

Several US technology companies plans to sign a memorandum of judicial solidarity to support the position of Apple in the current battle with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation with regard to helping to decrypt iPhone phone of the shooter in the incident, San Bernardino.

The informed sources told Reuters that each of the parent company of Olfabit Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter support Apple's position with the court by submitting to the Court stating their point of view in winning a legal dispute summary.

The Brad Smith, legal director of Microsoft's support of Apple's position in the listening session in Congress, as Amazon has stated its support for Apple, a spokesman for Amazon, said that the company is still working to provide legal summary of the court.

Apple and submitted a memorandum to the court which refers to the objection to the request of the US government, and added that its encryption unzip your phone iPhone, one of the shooters in the San Bernardino regarded as a violation of the rights of freedom of expression and to overcome the will of Congress.

The problem started after obtaining the FBI on the order of the court asked Apple to write a new program and take other measures to protect the disabled passcode and allow access to the iPhone phone information.

Pushing strongly the old debate for a long time about the possibility of control of law enforcement officials and intelligence digital communications and the possibility of decoding hardware encryption.

Apple submitted to the Court a request to cancel the order issued previously and who asked to assist the FBI in the decoding device encryption on the pretext that the phone encryption is a form of freedom of expression protected under the law, the violation of the court order with the laws of the Ministry of Justice and the US Constitution.

Apple claimed that the court had exceeded its jurisdiction, and noted that Congress has rejected legislation that would force companies to do what the Government required of them in situations similar to the currently requested by the Government of Apple.

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Tim Cook says that Apple's syndrome raises annual profit

Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said on Friday the company is committed to raising its annual profit, in a move designed to appease investors, but also a sign that he is no longer a front-month technology company in the world the ability to continue to grow.

With growing fears that the growth in the mobile iPhone sales has peaked, the main growth of mutual funds in the United States among the largest sellers of Apple shares over the past six months, sparking speculation that the explosive growth of the company has time AFL.

The Apple company had forecast last January first decline in revenue in 13 years, he reported the slowest increase at all in her phone shipments iPhone with the appearance of signs of weakness in the critical Chinese market.

The company's shares were steady in trading Friday afternoon, but saw a decrease of 25% from the highest level in 10 months.

The Apple Company has offered a regular cash dividend in 2012 after many years in which anything not paid since 1995. In the last year paid about $ 1.98 per share cash dividend, or $ 11.4 billion in a comprehensive manner.

He also said Cook, speaking at the annual meeting of the company in Cupertino, California, Apple has been the strongest advocates of the privacy of its customers and their personal safety, and in light of a public battle with the US government to access your iPhone telephone port of San Bernardino attacks bloody.

It was Apple's first on Thursday has provided legal memorandum has asked a federal court in California revoked an order of the last week ordering the abolition of encrypted phone iPhone own port attacks, arguing that it would such a move would violate the rights to freedom of hers expression, beyond the will of Congress and endanger the security devices Apple and other risk.

Cook said: "These are the things true that must be done." He added: "The fact it difficult not afraid."

Separately, a US appeals court on Friday overturned a court ruling requiring Samsung to pay $ 120 million, to give the maker of smart phones, South Korea finally a big win in the old dispute with its rival to come Apple patents.

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LG has no plans to launch a new phone from the Nexus series this year

Relocation of "CNET" Cnet on technical affairs spokesman for LG as saying that the company has no plans to launch a smartphone of "Nexus" Nexus series produced in collaboration with Google Inc., which, this year.

A spokesman for the South Korean company, which has so far produced three phones from Nexus series, during the Mobile World Congress MWC 2016 in Barcelona, ​​Spain that "LG needs to focus on its brand hers."

The decision comes as LG plans to focus its resources to promote her newest smartphone "LG 5" G5, which announced last Sunday, and hoped to be able to compete with the market leader in mobile, such as "Galaxy S 7".

It is believed that LG's decision also illustrates the pros and cons of building Nexus phone, while the partnership with Google offers the privilege of building a smart phone with the latest version of the Android operating system, a subsidiary of Google, which received its full weight on it.

A spokesman for the company that LG "perfectly happy" to relations and work on the Nexus phones, but the project requires a lot of resources that are better placed in smart phones carrying its brand.

Also the spokesman said that LG, which has Google workers other relationship, the adoption of the operating system "Android Wear" in smart clocks, plans to re-second generation of her watch, "LG Watch Urbain TLC" LG Watch Urbane LTE during the second half of this year .

The company had pulled from the market after a time less than a week put up for sale last November because of problems in the screen.

He also revealed a spokesman for LG that the company had no plans during the year 2015 the launch of a new phone from the "G-Flex" Series G Flex-screen curved, so as to focus on her "G 5" G5 another phone of the series "in the" V later this year .

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Samsung announces the start of production of internal storage memory of the phone with a capacity of 256 Jijaaata

Samsung announced Thursday it has begun production of internal storage memory of smart devices with a capacity of 256 Jijaaata, he said it was the first in the industry, which relies on the standard "global flashlight Storage 2.0" Universal Flash Storage 2.0.

South Korean company said in a statement on its website that the new cache provides outstanding performance of smart devices outperform static storage SSD drives based on the SATA interface in personal computers, and then it provides double the speed offered by the latter.

Samsung explained that the memories of new storage-based UFS standard addresses the need for very high speeds, and the ability to transfer large data with small size, high spec smartphones.

The company added that the new memories, which adopts the most advanced hers memory V-NAND chips, capable of handling up to 45,000 and 40,000 entry process and output per second for reading and writing at random, respectively, ie they offer twice the previous generation of memories UFS speed .

Can Memories Samsung internal capacity of 256 new Jijaaata move up to 850 Mijaaata per second, twice the speed of SSD storage drives in personal computers.

In this capacity, the company said that memories can support video playback high definition 4K and multi-tasking on the big screens of smart devices, such as watching a video 4K Ultra HD screen on a piecemeal, during the search for pictures or download video clips file.

Samsung indicated that it had announced the availability of memories UFS capacity of 128 Jijaaata in February 2015, and in less than a year was able to double the capacity and speed for this category of memories, which the company considers that it should stimulate further growth in the smart device market.

Since Samsung has begun production of these memories, it is expected to combine her tablet expected for the current year, "Galaxy Note 6" to submit an internal storage space of 256 Jijaaata.

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Apple working on iPhone phone so it is impossible to penetrate

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Apple's engineers are working on new security measures that will make the iPhone mobile penetration impossible even on the company itself.

These developments come in the midst of the existing war of words between Apple and the "FBI" FBI on whether to allow the latter to penetrate the phone port of San Bernardino bloody attacks that took place in December / December last year and resulted in 14 dead and 22 wounded.

Earlier this month, a federal grant the FBI the right to a judge to force Apple to disable the automatic scanning function that take place when it is a lot of wrong passcodes to enter to lock the screen on the phone.

He hopes the FBI to reveal the contents of the phone more about San Bernardino attacks that preceded the attack port activities. But the stresses of Apple and its chief executive Tim Cook, who helped in the investigation, a request that the government might go too far, and that will be the basis for the establishment of back doors to gain access to millions of iPhone phones.

It is likely that more rapid action to put the tensions that are raging between Washington and Silicon Valley on encryption technologies, which prevent any unauthorized person to access the personal data of users of new security measures.

It is noteworthy that technology companies have become increasingly diligent in terms of encryption products and services in the wake of the leaked documents revealed by the former contractor with the US National Security Agency Edward Snowden, for covert surveillance of US government programs.

It uses encryption to protect everything from e-commerce transactions to the activities of political opponents. But law enforcement officials complain that encryption also covers contacts "terrorists and criminals".

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Lenovo is preparing to launch the first phone in the world supports "enhanced reality" in July

CEO of Lenovo, said on Tuesday that the company is preparing to break into mature markets this summer with the launch of the first smart phone in the world that supports the benefits of "augmented reality" Augmented Reality developed in collaboration with Google Inc., as part of its project, known as "Tango Project" Tango Project.

CEO Yang Awanking said in an interview in the "Mobile World Congress" MWC 2016 in Barcelona, ​​Spain, that the device, which was unveiled last January during the "Consumer Electronics Show" CES 2016 in Las Vegas, the city of the US, to be launched in a month July next.

Awanking did not disclose further details of the upcoming phone, but said that will include technology "Tango Project" Tango Project own company Google, and other advantages.

And combines "Tango Project" three-dimensional tracking technology with depth sensors to give portable device the ability to know his place, and how it moves through the region, in addition to creating the ability to use "enhanced reality" on the phone features.

Then the "enhanced reality" program to show text, graphics image on the truth, so it differs from the technology "virtual reality", which makes the user lives in a virtual world where completely not see the real world.

It is believed that the phone could boost the presence of Lenovo in mature markets such as North America, where the smartphone market shrunk slightly from last year, by 0.4%, according to data from the research, "Canales" Canalys company.

The Lenovo had acquired the company, "Motorola Mobility" from Google for over a year compared to 2.9 billion US dollars, to make it the fourth most factory for smart phones in the world, after South Korea's Samsung, the US Apple, Huawei of China, according to research firm Gartner.

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Alcatel announces Pop phones 4 and Pop Pop Plus 4 4S Low Performance

The Alcatel yesterday by announcing three new mobile phones from low performance category and a Pop 4 Pop 4 Plus and Pop 4S, as part of its participation exhibition "Mobile World Congress" MWC 2016 primarily in the Spanish city of Barcelona.

The three phones specifications are very similar with the main difference is the size of the screen, and supports all three mobile communication fourth generation 4G, and are powered by the Android operating system Marschmilo 6, and found a fingerprint reader feature within the main menu button.

The POP Phone 4 plastic design and screen-type IPS measuring 5 inches and accurately 720 × 1280 pixels, with 210 quad-core Snapdragon processor frequency 1.1 Jijaheters of Qualcomm Inc., and the dimensions of 140.7 × 71.4 × 7.99 mm.

The phone has a 1 GB of RAM, along with 8 GB of internal storage space expandable to 32 GB via the MicroSD port.

Other features include support Cat.4 LTE and battery with a capacity of 2,500 mAh, with Rear Camera 8MP camera Front accurately 5-megapixel lens with wide-angle 48.4 degree.

While the phone 4 POP Plus comes specifications slightly higher than the screen area of ​​5.5 inches and accurately 720 × 1280 pixels, with 1.5 GB of RAM and 16 GB access of internal storage space memory, and comes processor and camera specifications and the battery is similar to a phone POP4.

The POP Phone 4S screen measuring 5.5-inch 1080 × 1920-pixel precision, with MT6755M eight nuclei of the company Mediatek processor, and 2 GB of RAM.

And contains 16 GB of internal storage space expandable via MicroSD, with Rear Camera accurately 13-megapixel front camera accurately 5-megapixel, with a battery 2.960 mAh capacity.

The Alcatel announced yesterday that the new Hatveeha Idol 4 and 4S Idol along with its announcement of Hasabha mobile hybrid Alcatel Plus 10 category of two-in-one factor system Windows 10 and Windows with a keyboard detachable.

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Acer launches phone Liquid Jade 2 Liquid Zest

Acer today launched its new flagship phone Liquid Jade 2 smartphone along with a Taiwanese firm to disclose two models of phone Liquid Zest, in the framework of its participation exhibition "Mobile World Congress" MWC 2016 primarily in the Spanish city of Barcelona.

The company did not announce the price or availability of phone Liquid Jade 2 in the market, but it has announced its availability of phone Liquid Zest in Europe and the Middle East in April and a starting price of 109 euros, while will go a copy 4G phone for sale in parts of Europe and the Middle East starting from the month of May at a price of 149 euros.

Liquid Jade 2

Phone Liquid Jade 2 features a screen-type AMOLED measuring 5.5 inches in 1080 precisely × 1920 pixels with 176 degree wide viewing angles with a protective layer of Gorilla Glass glass with Zero Air Gap technology which the company claims that it helps to improve readability under sunlight.

The phone works by Snapdragon processor hexagonal cores of Qualcomm 808 with Adreno 418 graphics chip and 3 GB of RAM.

It features a 32 GB of internal storage space, and runs the Android operating system, and supports up to 1 terabyte of storage memory hybrids, which combine local storage with cloud storage.

The phone has a background camera with 21 megapixel with lens aperture f / 2.2 and dual LED flash capable of shooting 4K video accurately along with front camera 8MP.

The front camera supports a wide 84 degree angle, with the status of sports photography "Pause N Shoot" to portray images Sylvie, which detects the face and automatically begins the countdown for three seconds and then you shoot and take a snapshot.

Smartphone also supports communication technology 4G LTE Cat.6 along with 3G connections and GPRS / EDGE and GPS and A-GPS technology Bluetooth and wireless Wi-Fi Wi-Fi 802.11 a / b / g / n / ac.

Liquid enthusiasm

Liquid Zest phone features a screen-type IPS measuring 5-inch 720 × 1280-pixel accuracy, and works by MT6580 quad-core processor at a frequency of 1.3 GHz Mediatek company with Adreno 418 graphics chip and 3 GB of RAM.

The Android operating system works Marschmilo 6, and has a camera with 8 megapixel with lens aperture f / 2.0 and feature auto-focus and LED flash background along with Front Camera 5 megapixel accurately.

There are some differences between Liquid Zest 4G version iPhone 3G, so Liquid Zest phone 4G by quad-core processor frequency of 1 GHz.

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