Apple Watch

Most awaited and innovated product of Apple, Apple watch finally arrives on April 24. So is this really a gadget that would compete the giants of smart watch such as Samsung and Sony or is it having same features as those gadgets has.

More about Apple Watch.

COMPATIBILITY

• It is compatible with iPhone5, 5S, 5C, 6, 6Plus. Users who are using 4s it’s very disappointing for them. IOS version should be 8.2 which has been rolled out recently by Apple.
• In IOS 8.2 user can see Apple Watch app is being added and this would help you to customize and pair your watch with the iPhone.
• Battery life of Apple Watch is up to 18 hours so when you sleep do charge up your watch along with the iPhone. To charge simply snap the magnetic circular charger to right.
• In order to scroll, zoom or navigate on the screen use the top left button in the shape of a crown.  

FUNCTION

• Notification is the vital part of Apple watch, no need to see your phone just check on your watch to read an email, message or you want to respond to a call. 
• If you press display screen pre-set responses would be shown and you can send those as per your needs.
• To enter a control center, swipe from the bottom of the screen on apple watch to see glances on the screen. You would see icons of maps, music, weather etc.
• For E-mails its simple, just read on your wrist if it is important flag it, if from advertisement trash it.
• If you are fitness freak just taps two fingers on the Apple watch heart monitor would read your heart beat and you can also share it with your friends.
• Let your friends know where you are, Apple watch would send your location to them.
• For US citizens pay easily with Apple Pay
• Apps such as Instagram, Twitter, Wechat, Shazam, Nike+Running and many more can be launched from Apple watch.
• To use Siri you need to raise your wrist and say “Hey Siri” and it would work same like the iPhone.

TRACKING ACTIVITIES

• It uses GPS and WiFi for iPhone to measure distance. It features with built in heart monitor and accelerometer.
• When you update to IOS8.2 an App in phone of Apple watch would be installed and data would be collected and shown on your iPhone.
• Apple Watch would guide for your goals and also congratulate you when you accomplished them.
• If you are working for long hours smart Apple Watch would buzz you get up and walk around.

COST

• Five colors are available in blue, green, pink, white and black. It would approximately cost you 349$ for the sport variant and 399$ for other variants.
• You can choose leather straps and customize your watch, but you need to pay heavy for the same.
• Currently the costliest Apple watch is about 10,000$ made of 18-karat GOLD.

WHERE TO BUY?

• It would arrive in Canada, Hong Kong, Germany, France, China, U.K., U.S, Japan on 24th April. Well Indian users no date is being announced.
• Buy it from an official Apple store or from Apple.com.
• Let’s hope Apple Watch to give tough fight to Pebble and Samsung Gear. Later but finally Apple also entered into the world of wearable gadgets. Count days and give your wrist the brand Apple on April 24.

Using IOS 8, use it in efficient way... Read this

How to make best use of IOS 8

It’s been 4 months that Apple launched IOS 8 and recently few days back latest update of IOS 8 was IOS 8.1.3 which has some minor fixes and little additional features for the users. You might be using IOS 8 but this below information would help you to make the most excellent use of IOS 8. So, how to make most of IOS 8

BE FAMALIAR WITH YOUR BATTERY

In IOS 8 user can see what percentage of battery is being used by which app. The amount of battery depends on which app you largely use it. Previously it was just showing percentage but now it shows accurate percentage along with the app. 

In my case Facebook and Whatsapp are on top as being addicted to social media. If you find any apps which is shown you can double tap on the home button and close the apps.

Where is it?

Settings è General è Usage è you would see option Button usage.  Tap on it so you would see list of apps under it. 

HANDS-FREE SIRI:

Hold down home button so that Apple’s built-in voice assistant, Siri would be at your service.

Where is it?

Settings è General è Siri è Tap to ON it. Now you can say “Hey Siri” and can ask your questions. So you can do is set your reminder or alarm or search anything on internet. If you are driving you can use this service to make a call.

What can you do more with SIRI?

CATCH THE PLAYED SONG

It has integrated with music-reorganization popular service such as Shazam. It can listen to the playing music and identify which song is being played. To find out the name of the current song played as Siri “What’s Playing”? Siri would listen to music for a while and it would give the name of the song in result along with artist and also a link from iTunes.

ARE YOU SHOPPOHOLIC?

Then Safari has reduced one step while shopping. If you are shopping from safari browser, while you are on payment screen and when it comes to entering credit card info you have option of scan credit card in the safari browser. Don’t worry as camera would not click the picture it would just scan credit card info along with expiration date. Only thing you need to enter is the security code.

DIFFERENT KEYBORAD

With the help of IOS 8 users can get a personalized and customized keyboard.  The in-built future of keyboard is ok as we all have many issues with the auto correct feature.  One of popular app(Which is not free) Swype allows user to type while dragging your finger across the keyboard.

Another app is Swiftkey this is app which helps you in changing look of keyboard form black and white to something trendy as per your personality.

STYLISH CAMERA

In IOS 8 there are advance features of camera also along with one vide feature of time-lapse. In camera feature it has now a self time of 3seconds and 10seconds so for the selfie lover you can make the best out of it. User can now also control the exposure of picture, tap on screen to focus there would be a yellow box along with a line, just move line up to increase the exposure down to decrease it.

Time-lapse video to get this swipe to last in camera app and on right side this is the end option. Keep your hand steady and record the video, when you play you would see the feature of this option.

My tip to get better time-lapse video is to keep your phone on a stable ground and use headphones to start and stop the recording of video.

You must be using IOS 8 since time it has launched but after going through this, I am sure you would make most of it.

Shout this to other Iphone user who use IOS 8 but unaware to make most of it. 

Also see: Whats app on browser. HOW?

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Iphone 6 and Iphone 6 Plus

Finally, most awaited moment for all the Apple fans ends today. Apple released it’s much awaited version of iPhone before the rumored announced dates. Apple gifted not only iPhone 6 but along with it iPhone 6 plus also to its fans. It seems like Apple is not behind in the race of Phablet phones.

What does iPhone 6 and Iphone plus is loaded with?

 Retina HD display is common shared feature between these 2 new launched products. iPhone 6 has 4.7 Inch screen where as iPhone 6 plus has 5.5 inches

As per rumours the body is having slight curves on the front part and flat edges
 

 As per Apple these are the thinnest phone they have ever launched 6.9mm and 7.1mm

A8 processor is loaded in both models and it is committed by apple that this processor is 25%faster than A7 processor.

A serious concern was for battery which Apple has seriously taken into consideration and improved on it..See here

802.11ac Wi-Fi support  with a speed of 1gbs in being loaded in both of these models

 After slow motion in 5s these models can shoot 240fps ultra slow motion videos

No more blur images as iPhone 6 plus have optical image stabilization that would improve the quality of image while your hand shakes.

And yes the long awaited and most rumoured words “NFC built-in for mobile payments”. Yes these handsets have this feature of NFC in it.

The above are the common points on which Apple has improved and gifted to fans. We know when it comes to technology Apple is far ahead then its rivals. Launching this models before the committed time proves Apple really think for its customers and delivers quality.

Booking of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus starts from Sept 12th Sept.

Review of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus coming soon..

Stay updated, stay Techy 

@ Techocorner. 

 

  

Edge to Edge display in Iphone 6

This September we can hope to welcome Apple’s next iPhone. Past posts based on leaks and rumors over the iPhone 6 agreed on one thing .i.e. Apple’s IPhone 6 would have 4.7 inch display. We have covered the news on leaked images of iPhone 6 and also issues concerned with its battery size. Production of iPhone 6 was also in rumored and covered by techocorner.

previous post on Screen Size: Iphone 6 screen size updates

Apple’s next

iPhone 6

is termed to be stunning visual wrapper.

Concept of new iPhone 6 is having edge-to-edge display and having minimal side left. This is considered as one of the main reason the next IPhone is not visible in huge size then the current iPhone 5S. The edge-to-edge display allows space for the bigger screen and physical body to be slightly larger. The images also shows that the new IPhone has curved edges and brighter and sharper display. From the picture we can make out that IPhone 6 is almost 20% thinner then the previous IPhone 5S.  No two tone design exits in the back of the IPhone and plastic cap on the top and bottom is no more into existence. The below are the images of IPhone 6, would you go for it?

updates on Iphone 6 Screen Size: Battery issues

 

 

Latest leaks on Iphone 6: Screen size may be 4.7 inch

As per the past latest tweak and news about the screen size and the production of iPhone 6. We are updating with the latest updates which are being gazed from inside.

Evidence of the latest image of iPhone 6 says that the screen size is 4.7 inch. Other resources such as French tech site also overlaid iPhone 4s sideways to the molding plate of iPhone 6.

Which size of IPhone 6 would my hand hold?

If we trust the above mold to be use by Apple Inc. to manufacture iPhone 6, then our hand would surely hold a device with the following stats:

• Measurement of 138mm X 64 mm millimeters.
• Screen size of 4.7 inch.

If we get into depth, the bottom portion the mold measures 123 mm X 58 mm. This is the current dimension of iPhone 5S. With this info we can say that this mold is being used in the production of iPhone 6, if we go deeper the plate has also sloped edges, with this info we can make out that upcoming IPhone 6 would surely have curved edges similar to iPad 4.

As of now the leaks are continuously being spread in the market. As of it’s too much early to be confident about the above words, hence we should wait for about more a month to get the final techs.

Also see: Previous IPhone 6 updates

Keep in touch with techocorner for the further

updates of IPhone 6

Lightroom from Adobe for iPad now available for download

On Tuesday, Adobe announced that photo editing software Lightroom 5 would be available for iPad. Under the creative cloud photography program Lightroom mobile app is available, that includes Photoshop CC and Lightroom 5 for Rs 499 per month. 

So would I be able to get all features?

Yes, you would as it automatically syncs user photos between two apps and creative cloud subscribers can make edits and have updated versions of photos with them.

Features included are:

  

·   Latest smart preview technology

·   Syncing edits

·   No heavy processing of files

·   Metadata for future purpose

·   Collection changes available with the desktop version

·   Click images are imported automatically

·  User can work on images also when iPad is on offline mode

·  Adjust ex-poser, temperature, highlights

·  Crop tools and Adobe’s built in tone presets 

 

Adobe confidently made this statement:” Whichever web browser user uses, it would be able to view photos “

Editing capabilities are powerful because of the use of Adobe smart previews.

What does Adobe smart previews does?

They help to compress the giant RAW files to tiny one. It makes files compact enough to perform complex edits and enhance the quality. On the iPad mini the edits takes place immediately and are reflected in the images. When you are using smart preview edits don’t stay, but if there is a RAW file and you working on desktop changes would be updated when you are done with iPad.

So can I share the pics directly?

Yes, of course you can share those on social sites because Lightroom mobile photos would be sync and they would be stored on web too. Thus you can share them.

Free OR Paid OR Subscription?

The app Lightroom is free to download, but for using it you need to be creative cloud member. Minimum subscription is of $9.99 per month.  If you have purchased Lightroom but you are not subscriber you won’t be able to use it.

Available for?

Lightroom mobile is available for iPad 2 with IOS 7++.

Also see: IOS Updates

Verdict:

The app is paid and also subscription needed for the editing part of the photos. For the photographers this is what best they can expect from Adobe, but for the beginners this might affect the pocket as purchase and monthly subscription.

As per Adobe, iPhone app of Lightroom would be launched soon.

Stay updated with techocorner.