Honor Band 4 arrives with colored display for 2000

After unveiling the Honor 8X and Honor 8X Max, the Huawei subsidiary also introduced a new edition of its fitness band called Honor Band 4. The new gadget comes with a Home button and a colored AMOLED panel. It is aiming to dethrone the Mi Band 3 from the affordable fitness band top position with its price tag of $30.

The Honor Band 4 has a 0.95” AMOLED screen with 2.5D curved glass on top of it. It has pedometer, sleep tracker, heart rate sensor and is water- and dust-resistant up to 5 ATM. It has Huawei TruSleep 2.0 feature that monitors the complete sleep cycle, including REM, and then offers personalized recommendations.

Another neat feature is TruSeen 2.0 that follows the heart rate all the time during activities like running, walking, cycling. The battery of the device is 100 mAh and Honor promises 14 days of usage time.

The company also introduced Running Edition of the Honor Band 4. It comes with POLED display, but unlike the regular version, this one is monochrome. It has slightly smaller battery - 77 mAh, but offers improved data like running detection like cadence, step length, ground contact and foot strike pattern.

The Honor Band 4 arrives in Black, Blue, and Pink and costs CNY199, which is no more than $29/€25. The Running Edition has Black, Blue, Red, Yellow, Green, and Pink color option and is just CNY99 or less than $15/€13. Both devices will be on sale in China on September 20, and hopefully will appear on the global scene as well.

Source (in Chinese)

Comments

Xiaomi Mi A1 Oreo Beta update now seeding

Xiaomi Mi A1 Oreo Beta update now seeding Last week Xiaomi was looking for beta testers of the Mi A1 Android Oreo upgrade. Today the update has finally started seding and we even got a bunch of screenshots from it. The Oreo Beta of the Xiaomi Mi A1 is 1104 MB in size, and according to an early adopter makes the fingerprint reader on the back is a bit faster. Apparently, the dual-SIM feature is not entirely flawless in this early edition, though. The tests should end soon as Xiaomi promised that the Mi A1 Oreo stable update will arrive before the end of 2017.

Samsung Galaxy Note10 to come with a 6.66" display

Industry insiders claim that the Samsung Galaxy Note10 will come with a 6.66” display next year. This is reportedly part of the specifications that Samsung Mobile handed to Samsung Display so that the panel maker can start work on the larger Super AMOLED panel. The Galaxy Note9 has a 6.4” screen size and (assuming the aspect ratio stays the same), the next Note flagship will offer about 8% more surface area. Note that while the iPhone XS Max has a 6.5” screen, due to the aspect ratio and the notch, the usable surface area is actually smaller than Note9’s. One of the three Galaxy S10 models, the S10+, will fill the gap with a 6.44” display. The other two S10 versions are expected to stay at 5.8”, the same size as the current S9 (and the S9+ is at 6.2”). The Galaxy Note9 display is currently Samsung's largest Infinity Display Anyway, the Galaxy Note10 is code named “Da Vinci”. The “Note10” moniker is a placeholder for now as Samsung might change the naming scheme with th...

Apple releases new iOS 12 beta, putting a stop to infuriating update notification

A new iOS update is now available (for real) “A new iOS update is now available. Please update from the iOS 12 beta.” If you’ve been running the latest version of Apple’s beta software for OS 12, you’ve likely been pestered by this notification a whole lot over the last 24 hours. Dozens of times? Potentially hundreds? Yesterday, it started showing up every time an iOS device was unlocked — or even if you just pulled down the notification tray a little bit. Thankfully, just as we enter Labor Day weekend, Apple has shipped another iOS 12 update to restore sanity. If you open up your iPhone’s settings, iOS 12 public beta 10 (developer beta 12) is now available to download. Once you do, the obnoxious, constant alert — about an update that didn’t even exist — will go away. GuilhermeRamo managed to pinpoint what went wrong with the last iOS 12 beta. The build thought it was about to expire, thus setting off the string of notifications and mass frustration: This annoying hiccup...

Vc Tech

Search This Blog