Daniel Kaufman, Pres. & CEO, Reagan Wireless Corp.www.reaganwireless.com
Reagan Wireless Daniel kaufman
Showing posts with label iphone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iphone. Show all posts
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Monday, October 19, 2015
Friday, October 16, 2015
Samsung releases new pink Note 5 to combat iPhone 6S in South Korea.
The premium smartphone battleground hit a new level of intensity last month when Apple began its ongoing worldwide rollout of the iPhone 6S, which on October 23 will finally hit South Korea. Local giant Samsung, however, is looking to make its Californian rival fight for every inch of marketshare.
On Thursday, the South Korean company announced it will be releasing the Galaxy Note 5 in two new colours, titanium silver and pink gold. Particularly noteworthy is the pink gold variant, which seems to be a direct response to Apple's rose gold iPhone 6S.
Though the announcement only pertained to South Korea, a Samsung spokesperson told CNET that "the introduction of new colour variations for the Galaxy Note 5 will gradually be expanded to other Asian countries but release details are still being worked out."
The smartphone, which has been praised for its strong build quality and camera, now comes in five colours: the new two options, as well as the original gold platinum, black sapphire and white pearl.
Samsung certainly has reason to boost its lineup ahead of Apple's new offering. 13 million iPhone 6S units were sold during the device's first weekend of availability globally. Meanwhile, market analysts at TrendForce expect that Samsung's global smartphone shipments in 2015 will see a 1 percent decline from 2014, following seven straight quarters of falling profits for the company, which is still the industry marketshare leader.
This move also isn't the only market-specific release from the company. On Wednesday the company unveiled the Z3, a 5-inch smartphone that runs on Samsung's own Tizen operating system aimed at India's budget phone market, with a selling price of 8,490 rupees ($130, AU$180 or £85).
Daniel Kaufman, Pres. & CEO, Reagan Wireless Corp.
www.reaganwireless.com
Friday, September 25, 2015
We Gave the New iPhone 6S to Pro Photographers and the Results Are Impressive!
Let’s get this clear: there are dozens of cameras–from Canon’s and Nikon’s DSLRs to Sony’s RX line–that offer better performance to professional photographers than Apple’s latest iPhones. But, when compared to most other smartphones as well as point-and-shoot cameras (those that have survived in the last few years anyway), the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus offer the best all-around results.
Here’s what’s new: The iPhone 6s now has a new iSight camera with a 12-megapixel sensor, compared to last year’s iPhone 6 which had eight megapixels. Apple says the devices have been reengineered to prevent “crosstalk between the subpixels.” (More on that in a moment.) The lens composition remains the same, offering an f/2.2 aperture. The larger iPhone 6s Plus model also has optical image stabilization, which is now available while shooting videos at up to 4K resolution. The Cupertino-based company has also updated its front-facing camera; it now packs five-megapixel sensor versus just 1.2 megapixels previously.
Jargon aside, this all amounts to a lot of noticeable improvement. (See the chart below.) The bump in the number of pixels is particularly welcome because it is coupled with “deep trench isolation” technology that compensates for the loss in quality smaller pixels usually bring with them. The result in low-light situation is astounding when compared to the iPhone’s predecessors and almost all of its smartphone competitors. That doesn’t mean your photos will be perfect. Washington, D.C.-based photographer Brooks Kraft tells us, for example, that inside the Capitol, as he followed Pope Francis’ visit, he had difficulties capturing movement, resulting in images where the main subject was blurry. (The iPhone has a tendency to keep ISO low, even in low-light situations, as it favors fast shutter speeds to prevent motion blur.)
Yet, if you’re shooting a portrait in bright daylight, you’ll be hard-pressed to find any faults with your images. Case in point: Kraft’s picture of Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping. That’s precisely why the iPhone is good.
The new phones also have a faster A9 processor, which Apple claims provides 70% faster CPU and 90% GPU performance than its predecessor. In practice, this helps make the camera feel more reactive, ensuring that the software that operates it doesn’t get in the way of you getting the shot.
There are some other innovations aimed at mainstream users. Apple’s new Live Photo mode records a few seconds of video and audio before and after each shot. The result is a still image that comes to life if you press and hold it. It may sound like a gimmick, but it’s fun to play with and can yield beautiful results. The best Live Photos will be portraits or landscapes which capture subtle changes, rather than movement. (These aren’t like Vine or SnapChat videos.)
Check our Glassdoor reviews.
Daniel Kaufman, Pres. & CEO, Reagan Wireless Corp.
www.reaganwireless.com
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Powered single-wheel skateboard will zip you around in futuristic style.
Ever since Marty McFly zipped around the silver screen on a hoverboard in 1989's “Back to the Future II,” people have been fascinated by the idea of riding on a plank that levitates its user a few inches off the ground. Earlier this summer, carmaker Lexus announced that it had invented a hoverboard, and indeed it had. The only catch is that it can be used only in a magnet-filled custom skate park in Barcelona, Spain.
Now, a new “Hoverboard” is being announced, and this one you can ride anywhere. The catch is, even though the device claims the name of a levitating ride, it doesn’t actually float. It does, however, have only one wheel, and it looks like you’d have the sensation of floating while riding it. It seems kind of like a Segway without any handles.
The Hoverboard begins its fundraising campaign on Kickstarter Thursday, with the effort running until October 21 — the day McFly headed into the future and found his now iconic hoverboard.
In the middle of the Hoverboard is a 10-inch-diameter wheel (25 centimeters) turned by an electric motor that can crank out up to 5,000 watts of power. The board will keep riders balanced front to back, but they have to learn to keep their balance side to side. Leaning forward makes the board start rolling and accelerating, while leaning back causes it to slow down and, eventually, go in reverse.
The device’s inventor said he came up with the board less as a skateboard substitute than a nod to another sport. “I dreamt of a personal electric vehicle that would produce the sensation of surfing on land,” Robert Bigler said in a press release.
The gizmo, which will weigh 25 pounds (11 kilograms), has onboard lights and speakers and “ground-detecting sonar to keep the Hoverboard parallel to the changing ground,” according to the release. It can travel 12 miles with the standard battery and over 20 with an extended battery and reach a top speed of 20 mph/32 kph. Charging time is 16 minutes with a “supercharger” or one hour with the standard charger.
Riding the skateboard of the future won’t be cheap. “I didn’t want to approach the first real Hoverboard from the standpoint of making it a price-product,” Bigler said. “I spared no expense to make it fully everything today’s technology could possibly provide.”
That means if you want one, you’ll have to fork over $3,775 (about £2,437, AU$5,243). Do so, and Bigler is saying your board will be delivered by May 2016. Of course, history has shown that the more complicated an item is, the more it will miss its anticipated delivery deadline on Kickstarter, so you might just have to go a bit more into the future till yours is in your hands.
Daniel Kaufman, Pres. & CEO, Reagan Wireless Corp.
Friday, September 11, 2015
Apple's rose gold is the new pink
It’s that time of year again: new iPhones! Apple showed off the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus at its September event for the first time, which come with a number of smaller, but impressive improvements to the phone.
The iPhone 6s will be available in a new rose gold aluminum finish, in addition to the existing gold, space grey and white models.
Rose gold is the newest aluminum color Apple is adding to its repertoire. Following in the footsteps of space gray, silver, and gold, rose gold continues the tradition of adding more color to the Apple lineup.
In addition to offering the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus in rose gold, Apple is also offering the Apple Watch Sport in rose gold. And granted, there are certainly golden aspects of this color, the but rose is very rose.
Let's put it this way, if Apple's traditional gold color can be likened to champagne, the rose gold is rosé if Apple's traditional gold color can be likened to champagne, the rose gold is rosé.
Speaking as the huge fans of pink, I heartily approve. When done well, a lot of people like pink tech products.
Daniel Kaufman, Pres. & CEO, Reagan Wireless Corp.
Friday, August 28, 2015
Apple will host next iPhone launch Sept. 9
Apple will show off its next iPhones on September 9 at an event in San Francisco.
The event will be held exactly a year after the company introduced the iPhone 6 and its larger sibling, the 6 Plus. The two phones have become Apple's best-selling devices ever and have made Apple the most profitable public company in the world.
Invitations to the event were sent out Thursday, with a terse tease: "Hey Siri, give us a hint."
More than two-thirds of Apple's revenue now comes from the iPhone, making it essential for Apple to keep introducing devices consumers desire. While the company continues to sell millions of phones, the overall mobile market has slowed, raising worries that not even Apple is immune to the lackluster demand. At the same time, Apple has to find a way to get buyers interested in tablets again. Its quarterly iPad sales have declined year over year for the past six periods in a row. A bigger iPad, which would appeal to business users, could be a way to do that.
This year's iPhone launch is the "S" cycle, which means the devices likely won't feature new hardware designs but instead could include other tweaks -- for example, Siri, Apple's voice assistant, debuted with the iPhone 4S. The company is expected to add its ForceTouch technology to the new devices, allowing the iPhones to differentiate between hard and light taps on the display. Other tweaks could include a faster processor and camera, as well as more color options.
Apple also is expected to reveal a new Apple TV box that it potentially will launch alongside an Internet-delivered television service. The company was believed to be readying those products for its annual developers conference in June, but instead they were pushed back. Apple couldn't broker deals with TV programmers to stock the new service with channels in time, according to reports.
Apple's streaming-video box has gone three years without a refresh to a new generation -- meanwhile, Internet-delivered TV has grown bigger and more accessible than ever. In that span of time, Apple has thrown plenty of splashy events, and each one has come and gone without Apple TV getting serious time in the spotlight.
The event at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco will start at 10 a.m. PT.
Read more: http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-will-host-next-iphone-launch-sept-9/
Daniel Kaufman, Pres. & CEO, Reagan Wireless Corp.
Monday, August 24, 2015
Microsoft is turning the iPhone's camera into a 3D scanner
Microsoft wants the camera on the back of your phone to do more than take 2D photos. A new project from Microsoft's research lab is turning the average smartphone's rear camera into a 3D scanner — one that can automatically create 3D models that are supposed to be good enough for printing. In a demo video, researchers use an iPhone 5S to scan objects just by moving the phone around them. The phone tracks the object that's being captured and then builds up a model as the camera captures it from different angles.
Most smartphones should be able to do this
Some of the models created in the demo video look rough, but they're pretty impressive when you consider that the iPhone wasn't designed to make them. Microsoft says that no additional hardware is needed to turn the iPhone — or other modern smartphones — into a 3D scanner; computation is all done on the phone, too. That's a bit different from what Google is doing with projects like Tango, which use additional hardware, including a motion-tracking camera and a depth sensor, when mapping the world. Those additional sensors are likely to give Tango better results, but Microsoft says that just a single camera should be enough to make models for printing or use in augmented reality gaming.
Microsoft's project is called MobileFusion, and researchers are currently trying to get it running on iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. There are no release plans yet, but the intention is to make it available to the general public eventually.
Daniel Kaufman, Pres. & CEO, Reagan Wireless Corp.
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Know how to save a wet phone? It's not with a dryer and it's not with rice.
It's not with a dryer and it's not with rice.
Daniel Kaufman, Pres. & CEO, Reagan Wireless Corp.
Monday, February 17, 2014
The Latest Apple iPhone 6 Rumors, by Daniel Kaufman Reagan Wireless
The Latest Apple iPhone 6 Rumors
by Daniel Kaufman
Reagan Wireless
by Daniel Kaufman
Reagan Wireless
Rumor #1 – New Size
According to various sources in September Apple will be releasing their iPhone 6 in two new sizes, 4.7 and 5.5 inches with a pixel density of 441 per inch. That’s a big step from previous iPhone displays, which have 326 pixels per inch.Rumor #2 – No Curved Screen
Rumors about the next having the new curved display seem to false according to the latest chatter. Looks like Apple has decided to keep the flat display but what will be new is that the displays will be completely manufactured from scratch-resistant sapphire crystal glass. The material is almost unbreakable and second only to diamond in hardness but it could shoot up the cost of production. Reports have emerged that the use of sapphire crystal glass in the device could increase its cost of production, affecting its price.Rumor #3 – Finger Print Scanner Moved
Another rumor is that Apple is going to move the touch ID finger print scanner onto the actual display itself.Friday, December 6, 2013
iPhone 6 Predictions
Daniel Kaufman’s iPhone 6 Predictions:
Curved Glass, Larger Screen & New Sensors
New Sensors
Curved Glass
President & CEO of Reagan Wireless, Mr. Daniel Kaufman, is making his early predictions about the Apple iPhone 6:
“I am predicting that Apple’s flagship device might just beat Samsung to the punch by shipping the iPhone’s first curved lcd’s . Possibly with a much larger 5″ screen. Rumors are also circulating the iPhone 6 to be shipped with new sensor’s. Maybe, just maybe, Apple can regain thier lost title of ‘The World’s Most Innovative Company’”
– Daniel Kaufman, President & CEO, Reagan Wireless Corp.
Daniel Kaufman Google+ Profile
Tumblr
Overblog
Medium Blog
Quora Blog
Blogger
Flickr
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)