Amazon Alexa again expand the ecological chain and third party open platform

Recently, the intelligent audio maker Sonos launches in New York, launches in the Sonos announced strategic partnership with Amazon, users can control Sonos through Intelligent Assistant Alexa Amazon personal equipment.

Previously, Amazon Alexa derivatives: intelligent speaker Echo, ultimate Echo's performance far exceeded expectations in the market, Sonos in the Echo before feeling the pressure. Is expected when both engaged in a bloody battle, Sonos and enemies suddenly announced Echo functions through each other.

Sonos Alexa voice services SDK for software integration upgrades its integrated Alexa users can use to manipulate their Sonos sound system. Alexa give voice commands allows the user to complete the play, pause, skip songs, and operations such as volume control, no additional learning new voice commands. Sonos and Alexa ecological use of other hardware products, including Echo, Echo Dot, such as Tap and Fire TV. Sonos will start at the end of the year for this beta product integration projects, early 2017 open to all Sonos users.

Sonos CEO McFarland writes:

Alexa/Echo is the first showing a strong voice in the smart home control products, and its popularity will accelerate innovation across the sector, today's new technology will become tomorrow's standards.

As we all know, Alexa-derived core product is the Echo. Data shows that Amazon has sold 3 million to Echo intelligent audio and features and sales continued to increase. Echo will become a platform for connecting software and hardware ecosystem of the multidimensional now Echo support for listening to music, shopping, taxi, controlling home functions, Sonos and Echo through the company, so as to expand their chain, and Sonos you can access through Echo, for the user to create a variety of experiences, to promote sales.

Intelligent software and hardware in order to seize the entrance, Google voice Google Home smart home products released this year, and just today, Google officially announced a $ 3.2 billion acquisition of the Nest Labs intelligent home sector restructuring, full integration with Google Internet Nest sector. Nest following the restructuring, will go to Google Home products development, compete directly with the Echo in the future. In addition, Apple has this year stepped up its layout HomeKit third party devices work, the sources said, the brand is already discussing with Apple access HomeKit matters. According to the FCC last week (the United States Federal Communications Commission) provides product display, Samsung seems to be independently developed their own voice Assistant, when you launch a smart audio "Samsung Scoop." Starbucks iPhone 5 Case

From the above information, the Giants were in smart home products for entry, busy layout of third-party software and hardware open platform, can be expected next year, they probably will compete head-on in intelligent home field.

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Heat do not worry about nest dismantling OPPO R5 ice cooling

With the rapid development of mobile processor technology, more and more quad-core or eight-core processor has been entered the user's field of vision, and also because many of these SoC core and high frequency causes the temperature to rise sharply. As the world's thinnest phone OPPO R5, how to solve this problem? We take a look at:

 

Mobile phones work in high temperature environment for a long time, either caused by crashes, restart phone, stability, and can speed up aging of mobile phone components. In addition, for high-frequency for the CPU and GPU now, high temperatures cause block problem, will make the phone performance drastically. Marcelo Burlon iPhone 6+

 

General phone solution is where thermal conductivity is required where a layer of graphite, improving the thermal efficiency of parts surface, K>100 of graphite thermal conductivity, excellent thermal conductivity, but due to the air insulation, heat from the chip to the graphite on the efficiency of higher calorific value than low heat makes the phone is more concentrated, not quickly dissipated.

 

Can see the cell phone on the comparison of the heat concentrated in the SoC.

 

OPPO R5 has the world's thinnest 4.85mm body, and carrying 8 core 64-bit SoC, it is how to solve the problems inside the heat sink it?

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Since introduction of the OPPO's official view, ice core is cooling the nest using a type of liquid metal thermal interface material (thermal conductivity K=3.3), fill the chip between the graphite and air (thermal conductivity K=0.023) so that the heat is passed quickly to the phone's skeleton and graphite disperse heat evenly on the skeleton.

 

Comparison between three kinds of heat.

R5 IC focuses on one side of the Board.

In addition, due to the heat transfer medium is a liquid metal material, if direct contact and SoC IC, will short circuit problem, R5 of single sheets are also used to solve this problem, placing SoC chip on the motherboard, and the other side is labeled liquid metal thermal conductivity of the material. When the phone after the temperature, type of liquid metal into liquid, fill the motherboard and the spaces directly in the box, so as to enhance the cooling speed.

R5 motherboard disassembly diagram, we can see that the whole motherboard design is relatively compact.

R5 dismantling, motherboard, battery, and the thickness of the Super AMOLED screen is very low.

R5 wasn't as concentrated as the General phone, maximum temperature is well controlled.

Such liquid metals-related properties:

Working temperature: 27 ° c 45 ° c complete the phase transition from solid to a liquid

Lifespan: 3 years

Mobility tests: under 70 ° c, test for 96 hours, flow or overflow does not occur, and so on.

Surface Pro cord overheating recall

Microsoft is planning to start on a global scale Surface Pro adapter charging cable recall, involved in the recall include former three-generation Surface Pro series, which sold prior to July 2015 Surface Pro/Pro 2/Pro 3 match recalled the AC charging cable will replace. Paul Frank iPhone plus case

Recently, foreign media from a Microsoft spokesman confirmed: "if cable wound too tightly for a long time, distorted or stretched very likely lead to severely damaged AC power cord, very few Surface Feedback Pro users have reported this problem. Later on we will publish the specific update details, consumers will be able to free replacement of the charging cable in the near future. "

Microsoft spokesman said Microsoft's official recall page will be launched in recent days, but did not disclose the exact time. According to foreign media reports, there is evident in some users when the cable twisted or folded repeatedly may be overheating, while Microsoft plans recall will be implemented on January 22. Paul Frank case

Microsoft Surface on the Phone and finally to Xiao long 820

There have been rumors, Microsoft publishes its Lumia 950 series plans to launch a more high-end mobile phone and this phone in the design task to the teams in charge of Surface, and this also comes naturally to be named Surface Phone. Recently, the film debut of Microsoft's new machine running GFXBench, go below and see what surprise.

According to the Web site data, this machine is simply called "Qualcomm MTP8996", carrying Gao Tongxiao 820 processor and Adreno 530 GPU,2000 megapixel main camera and front-facing camera 12 million pixels, with a 6.0-inch screen resolution of 2560*1440.

Chinese sources claimed said before, Microsoft's Surface of the Phone will be powered by Intel processor Core m and will be officially released in September 2016. This is one of the main reasons, Intel m processor Core's exemplary performance in performance and power consumption, already on tablets and other mobile platform fabric. Paul Frank iPad Air 2 Case

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