Sony Releases Wireless Headphones and Earphones

PT Sony Indonesia launched the WH-1000XM3 wireless headphones with noise cancellation technology and WF-SP900 earphones with truly wireless and waterproof technology. The two latest Sony products are for young Indonesians.

"Based on our research, in addition to the growth of noise cancellation, truly wireless is also growing big, about three times growing. Seeing this growth, we launched these two devices," said President Director of Sony Indonesia, Kazuteru Makiyama, at a media meeting in Jakarta on Wednesday (28 / 11).

The size of Indonesia's young generation who are the target of users of wireless headphones and earphones is also the reason Sony launches the device. "The 15-34 year age group has 32 percent, this group likes high-quality music," said Makiyama.

The WH-1000XM3 headphones with noise cancellation technology were first launched in October 2018. This device is the successor of WH-1000XM2 which was launched last year.

Meanwhile, the WF-SP900 earphones come with truly wireless technology aimed at those who like to exercise, especially swimming, because they are equipped with IP65 / 68 water and dust certification.

Different from its predecessor, the WH-1000XM3 headphones are equipped with a QN1 processor consisting of three components, namely digital noise canceling, 32bit audio signal processing and DAC Amplifier.

"It offers high quality sound, the best signal to sound ratio and low distortion for portable devices," said Sony Indonesia Marketing and Video Head of Department, Ali Ichsan, on the same occasion.

In addition, the WH-1000XM3 headphones are equipped with adaptive sound control features with three automatic mode changes. First, the noise canceling mode will be off, while the ambient sound will be on, so users can still hear the announcement.

The next mode is walking and traveling where the ambient sound is running normally and noise canceling will be off while walking, while noise canceling will be really on when traveling. "This is read from the sensors in the device, because it is connected through an application to connect with headphones," Ali said.

Youtube Kids Presents Local Educational Content for Children

In September, YouTube officially launched Youtube Kids in Indonesia. Youtube Kids is a new application that is built by thinking about children's needs and is specifically designed to be a family friendly application. Until now, Youtube Kids has been launched in more than 38 countries, watched more than 70 billion times throughout the world.

Head of Google Indonesia's Consumer Marketing Fibriyani Elastria stated that the main priority of Youtube is to provide access for Indonesian parents and children to inspirational, educative, entertaining and family-friendly content collections.

"Youtube Kids gives parents control in choosing content that is appropriate for their children to see and learn," he said through an official statement received by Republika.co.id, Tuesday (11/26).

With a combination of special character, horizontal orientation, and ease of navigation, Youtube Kids is expected to be a safe and comfortable place for children, especially those aged 2-10 years. This is to be able to explore their curiosity and imagination.

5G Potentially Accelerates Industry Transformation in Indonesia

5G technology is considered to represent the evolution of major cellular technologies that can open up new possibilities and applications. The 5G network is considered to play a leading role in digital transformation in Indonesia.

Arief Musta'in, Director & Chief Innovation Officer of Indosat Ooredoo sees 5G as having the potential to accelerate digital transformation in various industries in Indonesia. The 5G network can empower consumers with innovative applications.

"5G readiness is embedded in our vision in an effort to build a competitive quality video network," Arief said in Jakarta recently.

Indosat Ooredoo is working with Ericsson to proudly demonstrate a demonstration of a 5G usage case, especially the first 3D Augmented Reality experience in Indonesia. This will enable innovation in various industries, such as education and health care.

This collaboration is also in order to celebrate the 51st anniversary of Indosat Ooredo. The two companies highlight two main demos, the test bed for 5G and 3D-AR (Augmented Reality).

The 5G test bed speed reaches 10 Gb ps per EU (User Equipment) of a total of 20 Gb ps, which means it is much faster than LTE. The 5G test bed also has a beam tracking as one of the superior capabilities of 5G which enables higher capacity and performance.

WhatsApp Provides QR Code Features to Add Contacts

The WhatsApp messaging application will provide a feature to add contacts by simply scanning the QR code on your friend's WA account directly from the application. This method is easier and faster for users.

This feature is probably ready and will be available to Android and iOS users, observers and reviewers of the WhatsApp application, WaBetaInfo. This feature will replace the current options and will be on the same menu. After selecting the Add Contact button, a new session will be displayed.

The interface of this feature is very simple and intuitive. And WhatsApp also adds a smarter manual contact feature.

You can choose the country where the contact will be added to stay, WhatsApp will automatically display the country number code. So you just add the user's phone number. In fact, when you enter a contact's phone number, WhatsApp will display the full number if the number is already registered as a WhatsApp user.

Not only that, for iOS users, WhatsApp adds new features too. Namely sharing contacts easily using the Nametag feature like on Instagram and Snapcode and Snapchat.

Users Can Know How Long To Spend Time On FB

Facebook has launched a feature that will make people know the duration of how long they spend on social media. This feature is named "Your Time On Facebook".

This new feature allows users to see exactly how long they spend time exploring the social media. This release is expected to make it easier for users to stop when they have spent a long time.

In this feature, later it will be able to display all data in the graph. Users can see the time they spend on Facebook throughout the week, as well as the average of how long they have spent in the application, quoted from the Independent, Wednesday (21/11).

The benefit of the new feature is not only to show usage time. There is an option to "manage your time" which is intended to make it easier to reduce the time spent on using Facebook.

When activating time settings, users will get daily reminders when they have exceeded the amount of time they want to spend while exploring Facebook. The reminder can last for how long and can be easily deleted when it appears on the screen.

Instagram Prepare False Followers and Likes Detection Tools

Instagram's photo sharing platform has announced a new initiative that will target fake likes and comments. The company said it had developed a tool that could identify accounts that use third party services and applications to increase the popularity of an account pseudo.

Every account that violates will be warned and notified to change the password.

Since its launch in 2010, Instagram has become a tool for online influencers to gather large numbers of followers. They are then paid for a certain product or endorsement.

Payments for this form of advertising are often measured by the number of followers and online involvement of influencers. But online investigations by marketing agents, Mediakiz last year showed how easy it was to be a fake influencer.

Some popular applications that are used by users to increase their followers have recently been closed. However, other applications that pay monthly subscription fees are still available, according to the Techcrunch website report, quoted from the BBC.

This service often requires users to submit their personal login information. One of the things Instagram warned against violating its community guidelines and endangering individual security.

The company said people who continued to use third party applications for fake activities could have an impact. Because the third party saw their Instagram experience.

Firefox Monitor Now Available in Indonesian

Firefox Monitor, email and other account security monitoring features that Mozilla added to the browser are now available in Indonesian.

"We are happy to bring Firefox Monitor to users in their native language and make it easier for people to learn about data breaches and take action to protect themselves," said Firefox browser developer Mozilla, quoted on Saturday (17/11).

When personal information is at risk of being affected by data violations, reading news and information in the user's native language will help users more easily control. Now Firefox Monitor is available in Albanian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English (Canadian), French, Frisian, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Slovak, Slovenian , Spain (Argentina, Mexico, and Spain), Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine and Welsh.

The availability of Firefox Monitor in many languages ​​was realized thanks to the help of Mozilla volunteers. Now Firefox Monitor is available for more than 2.5 billion non-English users.

Mozilla also revealed that it has recently added a notification feature to the Quantum Firefox browser that will notify desktop users when they visit sites that have committed data violations. With this feature, users will be reminded when visiting sites that have reportedly committed data violations. Users can click on the warning to visit Firefox Monitor and scan the email to make sure the user has a cyber attack or not.

Intel Announces 5G Modem

Intel announced the XMM 8160 5G modem. This modem is a multimode optimized to provide 5G connectivity to mobile phones, PCs and broadband access gateways.

Intel accelerated the launch of the modem half a year earlier. The modem will support top speeds of up to 6 gigabits per second, which are claimed to be three to six times faster than the latest LTE modems currently available.

This modem will be available in the second half of 2019 and will provide features and experience to accelerate widespread 5G adoption. "The new Intel XMM 8160 5G modem provides the ideal solution to support large volumes for scaling in several device categories to coincide with a wide spread of 5G," said Cormac Conroy, Intel corporate vice president and general manager of the Communication and Devices Group. received in Jakarta, Tuesday (11/13).

Intel saw a huge demand for the advanced feature series of XMM 8160. "So we made a strategic decision to pull this modem launch half a year to provide a leading 5G solution," he continued.

Intel XMM 8160 is a multimode modem, which means it will support new standards for 5G New Radio (NR), including standalone (SA) and non-standalone (NSA), as well as old 4G, 3G and 2G radios on a single chipset. With a single chip multimode baseband capability, the Intel XMM 8160 5G modem will allow device manufacturers to design smaller and more power-efficient devices.

4 New Developing Features WhatsApp

After nine years of release, WhatsApp has become one of the most popular chat applications. During that time, this application has also undergone several developments.

Even recently, the platform has introduced a sticker feature and developed several other features. The following is a review of the features that are being developed, such as Okirone, from the Times Now News page on Thursday (11/08/2018).

Private Replay

Private Replay or personal reply was recently introduced for Android beta users with vesi 2.18.355. This allows you to personally send messages to Members in certain WhatsApp groups, without notifying other members in the same group. To use this WhatsApp feature, you must download the latest version of the Android beta application.

Silent Mode for Android users

Silent This mode is basically a feature that hides notification points for silenced chats. So, users cannot see how many new messages they received in the chat from the application icon on the cellphone. This feature has been activated by default while there is no option to turn it off from the Settings menu.

How to Make Stickers for WhatsApp

Recently, the most popular users of messaging apps WhatsApp were treated to a fun new "game". Namely making personal stickers, can use their own photos or friends or with other images as they please.

The "hidden" feature in the latest version of WhatsApp allows users to use third-party applications to create WhatsApp stickers and share them with friends in groups or in private conversations. Although there are already many users who already practice and use it, but there are still many who may not know how to make this personal sticker.

Interested in trying it? Here's how to make a personal sticker and make it a collection on your sticker list on WhatsApp, which you can share with your chat friends.

First, you have to download the WhatsApp 2.18.340 beta application available on the internet but not on the Google Play Store. Use Google search to download WhasApp 2.18,340 beta in the form of APK.

After successfully downloading and installing the intended WhatsApp beta application, you need at least two third-party applications to be able to make personal stickers. The two applications that you can use are the Picsart image processing application and Personal Stickers for WhatsApp.

High Resolution Audio Triggers Enhancement of Wireless Speakers

Current technological developments are increasingly rapid, including devices for listening to music or speakers. Some of these devices have cable, bluetooth or wireless features.

According to one of the CEOs of electronic goods distribution companies in Indonesia V2 Indonesia, Rudi Hidayat said if wireless speakers are currently increasing. This is in line with the development of high-resolution (Hi-Res) audio quality. Hi-Res Audio is the latest audio technology with high quality.

"Wireless speakers are now greatly improved. Where on Spotify now also supports Hi-Res. So now we need a wireless speaker," when met in the SCBD area, Jakarta, Tuesday (6/11/2018).

According to him, wireless speakers currently support high audio resolutions. So as to be able to display the best performance. He also believes that there will be many brands that will support wireless speakers and leave bluetooth speakers.

For information, V2 Indonesia and KEF have just introduced the latest premium speakers that have Uni-Q technology, KEF LSX. This is the latest version of the LS50 wireless which was launched in June 2018.

The best cellphones with large capacity batteries in 2018

Having a mobile with superior specifications is certainly a dream of every user. With qualified specifications, the cellphone will be very reliable.

One important component in a mobile device is a battery. By having a large battery capacity, the cellphone will not quickly experience low battery.

The following are some of the phones with large capacity battery versions of Techadvisor.

Motorola Moto E5 Plus

The Motorola Moto E5 Plus mobile phone has a 5,000 mAh battery capacity. The handset with a large capacity battery is also supported with a large screen, 6 inches.

This phone is reinforced with a Snapdragon 425 processor, 3GB RAM and also the Android 8.0 operating system.

Sony Xperia XA2 Ultra

The Sony Xperia XA2 Ultra is a big cellphone, but that doesn't mean this phone has a large battery. Has a capacity of 3580 mAh, this phone is considered capable of offering the best battery life for mobile phones at this time.

Spotify disamakan akan Tersedia di Apple Watch

Raksasa streaming musik, Spotify dikabarkan akan segera tersedia dan dinikmati pengguna Apple (Apple Watch). Namun, layanan ini belum secara resmi diluncurkan.

Kabar yang distribut, Spotify sedang menguji beta watchOS melalui TestFlight. Jika benar, ini ditandatangani Spotify untuk pertama kalinya tersedia di Apple Watch.

Spotify memiliki banyak cara pengguna agar tersedia pada jam Apple. Dilansir di Tecno Buffalo, menurut pengguna di Reddit, hanya tersedia melalui program pengujian. Untuk mendaftar ke program beta, pengguna harus mengisi kuesioner yang sangat besar dengan akun Spotify mereka.

Mereka yang telah menerima akses lebih awal ke aplikasi watchOS Spotify mengunggah gambar yang menampilkan antarmuka. Gambar itu sangat mirip dengan sebagian besar pemutar musik untuk Apple Watch.

Fitur utama seperti unduhan offline belum didukung dan antarmuka agar agar sesuai dengan Apple Watch Series 4 ukuran baru 40 mm dan 44 mm. Setelah Techno Buffalo menghubungi Spotify, belum ada jawaban pasti apakah benar-benar akan tersedia di Apple Watch.

Firefox Rocket Change the Name to Firefox Lite

Mozilla, a technology company famous for browsers or browsers, launched a new name for the application that was originally called Rocket Firefox into Firefox Lite. "This new name is clearer and the message is stronger. Firefox Lite is a mini version of the Firefox browser," said Head of Mozilla Asia Products, Joe Cheng, during a press conference in Jakarta on Thursday (1/11).

Rocket Firefox has been in Indonesia since last year. Renaming to Firefox Lite does not change the essence of this application which prioritizes the weight of lightweight applications, only 3.3MB, fast and saving internet data.

Applications that end in 'lite' are generally designed for phones that have low power so they have a much smaller size than the regular version. This small size causes Firefox to be opened faster because it does not require large power, making it suitable for consumers who have limited internet access.

The new name of Firefox Lite is also expected to be better known to the public so they are interested in downloading and using it. Not only rename, Mozilla also updates the appearance of Firefox Lite to make it more modern and brighter colors.

The 'Like' button on Twitter will be deleted, why

Twitter is reported to be eliminating the buttons like heart shaped cuitan. It aims to improve the "quality of debate" on the microblog platform.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey stated this at an event, revealing himself "not a keynote enthusiast" and would delete it.

Reported by Antara from Phone Arena, quoting the Telegraph, a heart-shaped button has been used since 2015, replacing the favorite star-shaped features that function the same, to like the tweet on Twitter.

The plan to delete this like button seems to have received a response that is not positive because liking activities are one of the functions on any social media.

Twitter has its own consideration of plans to remove the "like" button, which they consider to be the main cause of social media dependence on its users.

The "like" button is considered a symbol of recognition from others, social media users who are already dependent will delete uploads if they don't get a lot of "likes".