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Cyanogen, Qualcomm and Alcatel OneTouch Hero 2+

Android, Tech News, ,

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Cyanogen are making new strides in the corporate wide having agreed a new partnership with Qualcomm

Now Cyanogen have announced a device along with Alcatel OneTouch. The Hero 2+ specifications are –

– Display 6-inch Full HD (1080 x 1920) TFT 16M color display + built in stylus
– Processor MT6592 2.0 GHz octa-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor
– Camera 13MP main camera + 5MP front camera for the perfect selfie
– Video Capture Full HD 1080p 30 frame per second video capture so you never miss any of life’s moments
– Memory/Storage 2GB RAM / 16GB of storage (Expandable to 32GB via MicroSD)
– Operating System Cyanogen OS 11 on Android KitKat 4.4.4
– Dimensions 160.5mm x 81.6mm x 7.9mm

Source – androidcentral.com

Is Microsoft Ballmer bonkers?

Jan 2013, Tech News, Windows,

Last week at CES, Qualcomm took centre stage with the official opening keynote speech.

It was a totally bonkers opening, but made even more bonkers by Mr Ballmer of Microsoft who made a surprise visit. Here’s what Ballmer said. We have seen the number of apps in our Windows Marketplace, available on Windows tablets, increase five-fold since October. If you have ever experienced the ‘Windows Marketplace,’ particularly if you have experience with Apple’s App Store, you know what I mean. It’s full of garbage. It’s akin to Netflix loading its library with cheesy knock-offs of Disney films, Quantity means nothing. Quality and user experience. These types of things matter. So Ballmer then added. Soon, we will have the Twitter app and the Dropbox app and even the CNN app.

Talk about contradiction. Either you have the quality apps or you don’t. Then there is the sensitive subject of Google not supporting the platform properly.

One thing is for sure, Steve Ballmer is larger than life, and whatever he is drinking I would mind some of that.