Introducing the HTC One M9

The most anticipated phone after the HTC One M9 is finally here! Lets take a closer look at what HTC offers in the M9s "big brother":

Luxurious Design – The HTC One M9+ leverages HTC’s iconic, all-metal design and combines it with significant enhancements including a 5.2” 2K display with Fingerprint authentication, HTC BoomSound with Dolby Audio surround sound, new-and-improved Duo Camera, and support for up to 2TB of microSD storage.

Sense 7: An Extension of You – Your smartphone should make a statement about who you are, and HTC Sense 7 puts you in control of everything. HTC Themes puts you at the center of your smartphone experience; Sense Home reinvents the home screen to deliver the most useful apps to your homepage based on your location; and a more intelligent HTC BlinkFeed makes it easier to uncover the hidden gems that surround you by using location data to recommend points of interest, news and information.

Immersive Viewing Experience – The HTC One M9+ comes with a new 2K display wrapped in a 5.2” WQHD (1440 x 2560) screen. Even with a larger display, the size of the phone rests comfortably in the palm of your hands. With the new MediaTek Helio X10 processor, you will experience smooth movie playback and sharp photos.

Incredible Imaging – The HTC One M9+ comes with a 20-megapixel rear Duo Camera wrapped in a sapphire glass lens cover that protects it from scratches. For vivid video that looks like the latest blockbuster, the camera also shoots movies in 4K resolutions. For low-light, front-facing selfies, the HTC One M9+ comes with the new and improved HTC UltraPixel front-facing camera.  And to take creative pictures to the next level, the HTC One M9+ comes equipped with the HTC EYE Experience software for easy editing and the new HTC One Gallery to access all of your photos, wherever they’re stored.

Exhilarating Audio – The M9+ comes with a larger-than-life soundtrack courtesy of HTC BoomSound combined with 5.1 channel Dolby Audio surround sound simulation. This gets you even closer to the action, delivering extraordinary, multidimensional cinematic listening.  

Connect Your World – Smartphones are fast becoming the central hub for home entertainment and HTC Connect makes it easy to enjoy your multimedia experience beyond your phone. A three-finger swipe on the screen connects the phone to compatible TVs or external speakers from leading manufacturers including Harman Kardon. For the ultimate connected smartphone-powered TV experience, the HTC One M9+ comes exclusively preloaded with the Peel Smart Remote app.

Security at a Finger’s Length – The HTC One M9+ comes with a new fingerprint sensor. Located at the front of the phone for easy access, just one touch unlocks your phone. With the multi-directional sensors, all you need to do is to place your finger on the sensor in any direction to unlock your phone.

Full device specification:

Size: 150.99 x 71.99 x 9.61mm

Weight: 168g

Display: 5.2 inch, WQHD (1440 x 2560)

Platform: Android™ 5.0 (Lollipop) with HTC Sense™

CPU: MediaTek helio™ X10 octa-core CPU, 8 x 2.2GHz, 64-bit processing

Memory: Total storage: 32GB, available capacity varies

RAM memory: 3GB

Expandable: microSD™ expansion supports additional memory cards up to 2TB 

Network:

2G/2.5G - GSM/GPRS/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900MHz

3G UMTS: 850/900/1900/2100MHz

3G TD-SCDMA: 1900/2000MHz

4G LTE: FDD: Bands 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 28; TDD: Bands 38, 39, 40, 41

Sensors:

• Ambient Light Sensor

• Proximity Sensor

• Accelerometer

• Compass Sensor

• Gyro Sensor

• Magnetic Sensor

• Sensor Hub

• Fingerprint Sensor

Location:

• Internal GPS antenna + GLONASS

Connectivity:

• 3.5 mm stereo audio jack

• Bluetooth® 4.1 with aptX®

• Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4 & 5 GHz)

• HTC Connect™

• DLNA®

• HDMI MHL 2.0

• CIR

• micro-USB 2.0 (5-pin) port

• NFC

Sound:

• HTC BoomSound™ with Dolby Audio™3

Camera:

Main camera

• 20MP Duo Camera with sapphire glass lens

• Auto-focus, BSI sensor

• f/2.2, 27.8mm lens, 4K video recording

Front camera

• HTC UltraPixel™

• BSI sensor

• f/2.0, 26.8mm lens, 1080p video recording

Multimedia:

Audio supported formats:

• Playback: .aac, .amr, .ogg, .m4a, .mid, .mp3, .wav, .wma, .flac

• Recording: .aac

Video supported formats:

• Playback: .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .wmv, .avi, .mkv

• Recording: .mp4

Battery:

• Capacity: 2840mAh

• Talk time: Up to 23 hours for 2G / 13 hours for 3G

• Standby time: Up to 598 hours for 2G / 626 hours for 3G 5

AC adapter:

• Voltage range/frequency: 100 ~ 240V AC, 50/60Hz

• DC output: 5V and 1.5A

Additional features:

• Dual-tone metal unibody

• Themes

• HTC Sense Home

• One Gallery

• Photo Editor

The HTC One M9+ is currently available in China only and will be ranged in other markets, to be confirmed locally at a later date.

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Google for Education hits the road

Posted by Kate Howell, Product Marketing Manager, Google for Education

(Cross-posted on the Google for Education Blog.)

Remember back in 2008 when the Google for Education team road-tripped across the US, visiting universities using Google Apps for Education? We hardly do, either, which is why we were itching to get back out on the road. This time in the UK. And we brought along a pop-up classroom instead of a bio-fuel bus.

In four weeks, we visited seven schools in England, Wales and Scotland that are doing inspiring and creative things with education technology. We wanted to hear more about how Google for Education tools are helping them to transform their approach to teaching and learning, and we wanted to provide an opportunity for other educators nearby to hear and learn from them, too.

Our pop-up classroom at Wigan UTC

And we werent disappointed. We heard from Cramlington Learning Village in Newcastle, where Physical Education students have become more engaged by doing their own real-time personalized fitness tracking with Google Sheets on their Chromebooks. That’s what we call healthy competition!

Students of GSCE Physics were getting a last-minute helping hand with their study thanks to revision videos created by the science department hosted on Youtube at The Streetly Academy in Birmingham. “What’s great about them is that we’re used to their style of teaching and their voices – and our teachers know how we learn best,” says Jack Webb, a student of The Streetly Academy.

City Heights E-Act Academy in London also gave media teachers some great ideas, by showing us how their students utilized Google Drive when creating their BBC School Report and giving us a demonstration of their HTML writing abilities.

Students at City Heights E-Act Academy showed off their HTML writing capabilities

We also loved how inquisitive students at the Horsforth Campus of Leeds City College used Google Draw to document and track changes to nearby wetland areas over time, based on their hypothesis about how a nearby motorway is affecting the surrounding ecosystem.

Students at Preston Lodge High School working collaboratively in our pop-up classroom

We toured the world’s first controlled-environment agricultural facility using a Vertical High Density Growing system in an educational institution at Wigan UTC. There, budding food technicians can get hands-on with technology that can help to combat current and future food production issues, working together to track production levels collaboratively with Google Sheets.

In East Lothian, the pipe band at Preston Lodge High School treated us to a roof-lifting performance to start the morning!

The Preston Lodge High School Pipe Band warming up

We heard lots of teacher tips along the way, but our favourite was from Assistant Headteacher David Beesley, who uses boomerang for Gmail to set his emails to send at times he knows his staff are at their desks.

Asst. Headteacher David Beesley sharing his favourite Gmail tips

Students at St. Julians showed us their favourite apps on Google Play

One day Google for Education might pop up—or roll into—a town near you, but in the meantime you can check out a video of our pop-up classroom being built, captured by the impressive media students at St. Julian’s in Newport, Wales.

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Introducing Google Brain Search for mobile

Ever had a word on the tip of your tongue but just couldnt remember it? Or perhaps blanked on a persons name in a socially awkward situation? Or even suffered memory deterioration due to ordinary aging or questionable life choices? If so, Brain Search for mobile may be for you. Using our new CADIE technology, we can now index the content of your brain to make it searchable, thus bringing you aided retrieval of memories. Check out this video to see how it works:



Your phone already has an antenna, which can pick up wireless signals. CADIE technology modifies the input wavelengths so it can read brain waves. Go to the Brain Search App (here on a computer or here on a phone.) If you bring your phone to your forehead, your phone can index your brain, making it searchable. 

Since your phone is now modified to read brainwaves, you dont even have to type your search. Put your phone to your forehead and think your query, then click on "Search me". This is helpful in situations where you dont want onlookers to know what youre searching for, so you can feel comfortable asking personal things such as "What did I eat thats making me so gassy?" or "Did I ever go out with that girl? She looks vaguely familiar." And, since CADIEs artificial neural networks run faster than those of a human being, it is faster for her to search through your thoughts and memories than for you to do it yourself.

Brain Search is available for the US, UK, France, Germany, and Italy, and on a number of different devices.

• On Android and iPhone devices, Brain Search runs in the browser, taking advantage of HTML5 and Gears technologies.
  
• On Windows Mobile devices, make sure you download and install the latest version of Google Mobile App. Click the Panda icon (CADIEs choice, dont ask us) to get to Brain Search.  
• On Blackberry devices (US and UK only), make sure you download and install the latest version of Google Mobile App. Type "Brain Search" in the search box. Youll get a link to Brain Search in the search suggestions below. 
  

To get started on any of these, go to google.com on your mobile device, and click the Brain Search link.

Dont forget. Brain Search.


Posted by Effie Seiberg, CADIE team

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