Lenovo Unveils Flexible New Phone That Can Be Worn Like a Watch

Late last week, tech enthusiasts were wired into the events taking place at the Lenovo Tech World in San Francisco.
It was at this event, now in its second year, that a wave of new products were unveiled to the world. Two in particular seemed to steal the show. The first was Lenovo’s CPlus, a phone that can bend to fit around one’s wrist much like a watch. The multinational firm was not forthcoming with information behind its concept device, which features a 4.2-inch screen and runs on Android. In fact, the company didn’t even explain its name. “Don’t ask me why it’s called that,” Lenovo’s CTO, Peter Hortensius, said at a press briefing. It’s since been revealed that the segmented portion behind the screen gives the phone the ability to curve around a wrist.

Lenovo also revealed a flexible tablet at the event. The 8-inch tablet can be folded in half into a 4-inch phone, making the device multipurpose as well as small enough to fit into a pocket or purse. As with the CPlus phone, the company gave little information regarding the tablet’s development, but says it expects both products to be consumer-ready in the next five to 10 years.

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Bluetooth 5 will be announced next week with four times the speed and double the range

The next version of the Bluetooth standard is called Bluetooth 5, and will be formally announced next week, Bluetooth Special Interest Group executive director Mark Powell has revealed. Bluetooth 5 is expected to be a significant upgrade over the current version of the wireless standard, offering double the speed and four times the range of current low-energy Bluetooth transmissions, but the Bluetooth SIG says it will also offer much more support for connectionless services — things like beacons that can help people navigate inside buildings or out in the open.

The roadmap for the next version of Bluetooth was sketched out last year, but the SIG — which has tech giants like Apple, Intel, and Microsoft as backers — will officially lift the lid on Bluetooth 5 on June 16th in London. The group explains that it chose the name to simplify its marketing and make the wireless standard easier to understand for users. That change should be beneficial as our homes get smarter and more connected, with many Internet of Things devices relying on Bluetooth to connect to your control devices, and each other.

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Kampuni ya Pepsi kuanza kuuza smartphones zao

Watu wengi wanafahamu kuwa kampuni ya pepsi imejikita katika utengenezaji wa bidhaa za vinywaji na vyakula, lakini sasa tutegemee bidhaa nyingine kutoka kampuni hiyo.

Ukurasa wenye maelezo yakuaminika kuwa kampuni ya Pepsi itaanza kutengeneza smartphones zao umevuja hivi karibuni huko china.
Kulingana na ukurasa huo simu hizo zitajulikana kwa jina la Pepsi P1 na zitakuwa na sifa zifuatazo:-

- 7.7 mm thick5.5-inch,
- 1,920 x 1,080 pixel (full high definition (FHD), aka 1080p) display
- MediaTek, Inc. (TPE:2454) MT6592 system-on-a-chip (SoC) with ARM Holdings plc (LON:ARM) tech:
-8x 1.7 GHz Cortex-A7 CPU cores
- 700 MHz Mali-450 GPU2 GB
- DRAM16 GB
- NAND flash storage
- 13 megapxiel rear-facing camera (RFC)
- 3,000 mAh battery
- TD-LTE/LTE
- Price: ~$205 USD ( 545000 Tshs )

Kampuni ya pepsi imesema kuwa ni kweli simu hizo zinakuja hivi karibuni baada ya ku comment kwenye tovuti ya Reuters kuhusu kifaa hicho.

Je, utakuwa tayari kumiliki simu hii  kutoka kampuni ya pepsi pindi zitakapoanza kupatikana Tanzania ???

picha ya ukuras huo:

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