Top 5 Astounding upcoming smartphones of 2017

To strengthen their market position and to outperform their competitors some of the leading companies in the mobile industry are going to rock the technology world with their latest smartphones which are mostly expected to be launch in 2017. 

Here is a list of some of the future upcoming smartphones.

5. NOKIA D1C

Legendary firm Nokia which took the mobile phones to a whole another level is set to hit back again the market with its new android phone.

Specification

§ 5.0 inch HD display & 5.5 inch 2K display

§ Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 chipset

§ 3 GB RAM / 32 GB internal storage

§ 1.5 GHz Octa-core

§ Adreno 505 GPU

§ Runs on Android OS v7, Nougat with Z-Launcher System UI atop

§ IPS resistivity (water proof, dust proof)

§ 13 MP rear camera for 5-inch variant & 16 MP rear camera for 5.5 inch variant

§ 4G support

Expected price: Rs. 12,000

Expected release date in India: Mar2017

4. LeEco Le Max 2 Pro 

LeEco is rumored to be working on a newer version of Le Max 2, purported as Le Max 2 Pro is slated to have a jaw dropping specifications. If we believe on rumors, the company is working on a device

that is slated to be called Le Max 2 Pro and will feature 8 GB of RAM, Snapdragon 821 processor, and a 25-megapixel rear camera. 

Specifications

§ 6.0-inch QHD display

§ Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 processor

§ 8 GB RAM / 128 GB internal storage

§ 25 MP rear camera (PDAP, HDR & OIS)

§ 16 MP front camera

§ Fingerprint Scanner

§ Fast Charge technology

Expected release date- Q1 of 2017

3. Microsoft Surface Smartphone

Microsoft is nowhere seen these days in the smartphone market. Microsoft is currently taking a shot at a 4GB RAM based model, Microsoft Surface Smartphone. Recently few information of the Microsoft Surface Mobile is leaked online.

  

Key features:

§ Intel atom x3(Sofia) 64-bit processor

§ Windows 10

§ USB Type-C connector & Wireless charging

§ Quad HD 5.7 inch AMOLED display

§ 2560 x 1440 pixels resolution

§ Gorilla Glass 4 protection

§ Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 chipset

§ 8 GB RAM (DDR4) / 512 GB internal storage

§ 21 MP rear camera & 8 MP front camera with Carl Zeiss wide angled lens

§ Surface pen and keyboard integrated into the flip cover

§ In-built kick stand

§ 4000 mAh battery

§ Costs at a starting price of 47,999 in India

Expected release date- Q2 of 2017

2. ONEPLUS 4

Another much-awaited handset in 2017 is the OnePlus 4 which is rumored to sport a 5.5-inch OLED screen which may be a flexible one.  

Key Features

• 5.5 inch 2k AMOLED display

• All glass body

• Quad-Core 64-bit Snapdragon 835 processor

• 6GB/8GB LPDDR4 RAM

• 64GB/128GB internal memory

• Android 7.0 Nougat based on Oxygen OS

• 21MP rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, OIS, Laser AF and 4K video recording support

• 16-megapixel front Camera

• Waterproof and dust proof technology

• Dual SIM

• Fingerprint sensor

• 4G LTE with VoLTE, Bluetooth 4.2, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/a dual-band (MIMO), NFC, GPS, USB Type-C

• 4000 mAh battery

• Quick charge technology 4.0 (100% in less than 30 minutes)

Expected release date- Apr/May 2017

1.   Apple iPhone 8

Apple has released iphone7 and iPhone 7 Plus recently, and both devices are a huge hit. But people are already looking for the next upcoming flagship smartphone from Apple as the next device will get some significant changes in terms of Design, UI, and Software.

iPhone 8 will be sporting a flexible OLED screen. This helps in reduction of the thickness, better battery life & more true-to-life colors.Recently there was a news that the Apple iPhone 8 can come with the groundbreaking 3D camera which can change the way photography is done on smartphones.

Key features

·  5.8-inch 2K AMOLED curved edge display

·  No home button and no bezels

·  iOS 11 OS

·  Apple A10/A11 Chipset (super fast)

·  4GB RAM

   Fingerprint Sensor

·  Dual Camera

·  16MP & 12MP rear camera and 8MP front-facing camera

·  Li-Po 3000 mAh Non-removable battery

·  Wireless charging

Expected Launch Date: Q4 of 2017

World’s first exascale supercomputer prototype built by China

Scientists in China are developing the world’s first computer capable of performing 1 quintillion calculations per second, according to state media.

A prototype of the exascale computer, described as a “super supercomputer,” is expected to be ready before 2020, and will be 200-times more powerful than the country’s first petaflop computer Tianhe-1, recognized as the World’s fastest in 2010,” said Zhang Ting, an application engineer with the Tainjin-based National Supercomputer Center, Xinhua news agency reported.


The Asian giant built the world's fastest supercomputer, the Sunway TaihuLight machine, in June last year, which was twice as fast as the previous number one & It used only locally made microchips, making it the first time a country has taken the top spot without using US technology.
Right now, the fastest supercomputers in the world can make quadrillions — or thousands of trillions — calculations each second.

In June last year, China overtook the United States for the first time as the country with the most supercomputers on a list ranking the 500 most powerful computers in the world. Of the top 10 fastest computers, two are in China and five in the US as of November, the ranking said. Others are in Japan and Switzerland.

Advance features

1.      The latest machine will lead the world in data transmission efficiency, its creators claimed, as well as have significant applications within the fields of Big Data and cloud computing.

2.      Using the standard system of metric measurement, a quadrillion is referred to using the prefix “peta.” So, the speed of these computers is calculated in petaflops, and computers operating at this level are referred to as petascale machines.

3.      Following this system of prefixes, the next step up from “peta” is “exa” — meaning a quintillion or a billion billion. A computer that can compute this number of calculations each second is measured in exaflops and is said to be an exascale machine.

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How to Be the Star of a Party

There are two types of glitches people can have with events. The first is that a lot of people find parties tedious, stressful, and exhausting.

The second issue is when someone wants to go to an event and meet people at it, but they're not sure how to do that.

But most people enjoy parties. Because they are supposed to be exciting, not terrifying.

Even sometimes extroverts face a challenge in parties if they don’t know anyone. So how we need to put ourselves in a better position in a party.

1.  Calm your nervousness

Someone invite you to the party. It means as per the knowledge of your host you can be a value addition to the party. So allow yourself to feel privileged.

Sometimes Social anxiety can slowly turn into a negative opinion loop. So envisage yourself moving about with self-confidence even if you have a little anxious inside.

Also, think about some positive outcomes for you if you attend this party: You might get valuable new business networks. You might run into some old associates or schoolmates.

       2.  Offer to Help the Host

Always make sure you know why the event is happening and who the host is. At events, it’s a rescuer. Once you reach, find the host, Praise him/her for the great party, and the number of people there. In fact, if you don't know most of them, the host will perhaps introduce you around.

Offer your help to the host. It’s a courteous gesture, and it gives you something to do. Even if the host doesn’t want any help from your side, he or she will probably also introduce you to a few people so you can get the discussion going. Act as if you’re a host, not an invitee. 

Reach out to folks standing by themselves, be cooperative, kind, and honest. Don’t be anxious to approach people. Guests are merely friends you haven’t met yet. If you concentrate on the other person’s relaxation, you can lose your own self-consciousness.

3.  Smile and the whole world smiles with you

Even if you don't know anyone, walk into the room with a gentle smile like you know half of them. There are high Chances that you will get smiles in return. Sometimes it will make you feel even better if People reply to you with a smile of their own.

If you are smiling People will likely want to talk to you. A gentle smile will suddenly make the strangers talk with you.

         You’re more likely to look self-assured if you smile.

          Smiling can also help you to improve your temperament, and reduce strain.

        When you look confident, you’ll start to feel confident.

4.     Be a good auditor

·         Look around. If you see people in groups talking, walk towards them. When you are sure they have finished, put your opinions politely, not belligerently. When a topic of discussion over ask the people in the crowd about themselves. They will probably ask you the same.

·         Most of the time try to make eye contact with the person talking to you but not all time.

Let people speak everything they want to say without disturbing, and then ask a follow-up query that shows you have in fact heard them, and are concerned in hearing more.

·        Use nonverbal signs, such as eye contact, nodding, and leaning towards the person, to let the other people know that you're actively paying attention to what they want to say.

·        Ask plenty of open-ended questions about topics the other guest has brought up in order to keep the conversation going.

·        Generally, party discussions tend to be fun and light. So always give respect to the emotion of the person who is speaking.

5.  Pay a compliment  & Do use humor

 People always love to hear good things said about themselves. So first introduce yourself and before starting any conversation with someone say something nice about something the person. At most parties, other invitees will have taken care with their look and will appreciate the attention.

Try to share any funny things that happened to you. This will make you seem friendlier. People raise the value of humor.

But be careful not to share a story that may offend others. After all, humor is sometimes different across different sets of people.

6. End the conversation elegantly

Conversations at all parties start and end very quickly, and if you’re talking with someone you’ve just met, it’s a good choice not to keep the discussion going on too long.

Making small talk in which you can share general information with another person as a means to learn what you might have in mutual. For example, asking about favorite movies, dishes, hobbies are often a good way to find mutual interests.

Making small talk might lead to deeper discussion. You need to engage yourself in non-controversial topics to keep your discussion on a light note.

Since parties are all about moving and associating, try to spend no more than 15 or at most 20 minutes conversing with a single person or group of people. 

There comes a point in discussion — usually between the five- and 10-minutes marks — when it is cool to make a change. Like sometimes one of you will finish speaking, and there will be a bit of quietness. At that time you need to say, with sincerity, "It has been so good to see you. I really enjoyed your company.”

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Sony's bracelet to help users recall names of people

A recent patent application by Sony reveals a bracelet that recognizes voices to help users remember names of people they meet. Now this bracelet can save you from awkwardness of skipping names of people you meet less often. The patent mentions recording a voice which it recognizes later and help you remember his/her name.

Most of the people easily remember a face, but it’s hard to remember a person’s name due to our hearing memory is less than our visual memory. After all we all are human not robot. We came across so many people, especially in workplace. So to remember all name is a daunting task. Sometime we find it tough to recall the name of a person but can identify the face easily. Which results into an embarrassing moment for all of us most of the time.  All these silly mistakes can’t be avoided in professional work. Sometime it cost you a lot.

So now you don’t need to worry about remembering the names of people. You can easily recall it with the help of this bracelet made by Sony.

How it works

1.       The bracelet starts recording when it detects a handshake- like movement.

2.        It can detect when a person says his name while in a conversation & stores the sound profile with the associated name on the user’s smartphone. It saves the profile by writing his name as profile’s title.

3.       Next time when you again meet the same person and skips his name, the bracelet comes to your rescue.

4.       As that person speaks, On hearing a previously stored voice, the name of the person is displayed on the smartphone screen. And just in case, you are wearing a Bluetooth headset, you would hear his name.

Other than the bracelet, the patent mentions that same technology could be employed in Sony’s smart watches or in its earpieces.

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Coca-Cola’s new ‘selfie bottle’

Coca-Cola has unveiled the ‘selfie bottle’ – which automatically takes photos when it detects a 70-degree tilt, and you can transfer photos through its USB port.

If the selfie stick wasn’t enough to satisfy your social media addiction, you can now take self-portraits using a “selfie bottle” from Coke.

Even better, you can share the photos of yourself enjoying a Coke on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.

The product was developed by Coca-Cola itself after its Israeli branch spotted a gap in the market for novelty drinks.

The extravagant selfie camera was devised as part of the Coca-Cola Summer Love campaign – Israel’s largest outdoor brand event.

Gefen Team, who tested it this summer, told Gizmodo: ‘It really did the trick and made the party goers more present and active during the event knowing they could share their special moments just by drinking.

‘This way, the participants could capture and share their moment without pausing the fun, so drinking Coca-Cola really does make every moment special.’

There’s no mention of a release date yet, so for the moment you’ll have to wait before you can share you drinking with the world.

This isn’t the first time Coca-Cola has ventured into building tech accessories. Earlier this year, the beverage titan showed off an experiment that aimed to recycle old Coke bottles into legitimate virtual reality headsets.

With the ‘selfie bottle’, Coca-Cola has come up with yet another way to make you feel good about yourself as you’re sipping your health away. But hey: At least you can leisurely catch it on cam now.

It’s unclear as of yet where the bottle will be sold and how much it will cost. But perhaps Coke is headed in the right direction with this gimmick: Soda sales in general have been on the decline, falling by 1.5% in 2015 and by 1% in 2014, according to the Beverage Marketing Corporation. Americans are instead turning to bottled water, whose sales are expected to outpace those of soda next year.

Humanity might not need a selfie bottle, but it at least take photos from good angle.

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chinese scientists edit human genes for the first time

Chinese scientist have become the first in the world to inject a person with cells that have been genetically edited using the revolutionary CRISPR–Cas9 technique.

The trial involved modifying a patient's own immune system cells to make them more effective at combating cancer cells and then injecting them back into the patient.

Chinese oncologists at Sichuan University insert CRISPR-modified cells into a patient suffering from an aggressive form of lung cancer, according to nature. Gene-editing could improve the ability of immune cells to attack cancer.

What is CRISPR-cas9 Technique?

CRISPR/Cas9 basically works like a pair of molecular scissors. Researchers just need to program it, and it can cut out certain genes - or add new ones - far more cheaply and quickly than any previous genetic tools.

The CRISPR-Cas9 "tool" is a DNA construct that can be injected into any organism—in this case, human immune system T cells—to modify the genome of that organism.

The introduction of CRISPR, which is simpler and more efficient than other techniques, will probably accelerate the race to get gene-edited cells into the clinic across the world, says Carl June, , who specializes in immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and led one of the earlier studies.

HOW IT WORKS?

Step1-An RNA sequence guides the CRISPR construct to the correct part of the organism's DNA.

Step2-The Cas9 enzyme "cuts out" that segment of DNA.

Step3- A new DNA sequence can be inserted to replace the deleted segment of the genome.

The gene that was turned off codes for a protein called PD-1, which usually slows down a cell's immune response, allowing cancer to grow out of control.
These PD-1-free immune cells were then cultured in the lab and injected back into the patient. The aim is that they'll now proliferate in the patient's body and attack and destroy cancerous cells.

IS THIS PROCESS SAFE?

The journal reports that this first round of treatment in a safety trial went well enough to warrant a second injection of the Cas9-edited cells, and that nine more people will undergo the treatments in the future. From there, the patients will be monitored for at least six months, if not longer, to "determine whether the injections are causing serious adverse effects."

The team will also watch them beyond that time to see if they seem to be benefiting from the treatment.

"I think this is going to trigger 'Sputnik 2.0,' a Biomedical duel on progress between China and the United States. United States medical scientists also plan to use CRISPR as an experimental treatment for cancer patients in early 2017.

CRISPR is emerging as a precise and cost-effective way to battle some of the most deadly forms of cancer.

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