We've been tracking rumors that Amazon has been working on a
phone for some time now, but in the past few months they have been
heating up a bit. Today, after an anonymous posting on Hacker News, TechCrunch says
it has sources which corroboratea few surprising details on what's
inside Amazon's Lab126 studios. Reportedly, the company is actually
working on not just one, but two different cheap unlocked phones. The first, currently code-named "Smith," apparently still involves 3D in some way, which the Wall Street Journal reported on last May.
However,
instead of a proper 3D screen, the Smith reportedly has four
front-facing cameras that can track a user's head and then use it to
position 3D effects within the interface. Apparently, the phone would
be able to identify you so that only you would see the 3D perspectives,
not others looking on.The cheap unlocked phones
also reportedly will be able to identify real world objects and match
them to products in Amazon's store so you can purchase them.
"We
never had an objective to sell a low-cost phone," Cook said during the
interview. "Our primary objective is to sell a great phone and provide a
great experience, and we figured out a way to do it at a lower cost.
Therefore, we can pass that on. And we figured out a way to sell 4S at
substantially less than we were selling it for before, and we’re passing
it on."
Many Apple watchers would love to see the company expand
its market share with a brand-new, bargain-basement smartphone. But that
could have consequences for Apple's enviable profit margins, said
Duncan Clark, an analyst at research firm BDA in China.
If your cheap unlocked phones
is acting wonky in general, or you can’t even open the app switcher to
kill a frozen app, try restarting it. Hold down the Sleep button on the
top of your phone until the red “slide to power off” slider appears.
Slide your finger from left to right as instructed, and your phone will
power down. To turn your phone back on, hold the Sleep button for a few
seconds until you see the Apple logo on your screen. It will take a
minute before your phone finishes booting up and is ready to use.
If your phone isn’t responding to your taps or button presses, you may need to force it to restart. Hold down the Sleep button and the
Home button for a few seconds until the Apple logo appears, and your
phone will restart. After a few moments, it will take you to the lock
screen and be up and running as usual.kh2rft3D
If you have a
nagging issue with your phone that won’t go away readily—or if you want a
fresh start—you can try reverting your iPhone to factory default
settings. To do so, go to the Settings app, then go to General > Reset and select Reset All Settings. This option will reset your phone’s settings, but it will preserve any data you have on your cheap unlocked phones.
In
2005, professor Sandy Pentland and Nathan Eagle, then a PhD candidate
at MIT, handed out 100 Nokia 6600 smartphones to a bunch of students and
faculty, and tracked their every move for nine months — collecting call
logs, Bluetooth devices in proximity, the cell towers they were closest
to, application usage and phone status. They collected data on some
45,000 hours of human activity in the process.
Tracking how often
the phones came close enough to other people’s phones turned out to be
an excellent predictor of whether or not a user was friends with another
person. “Workplace colleagues, outside friends, and people within a
user’s circle of friends were identified with over 90 percent accuracy,”
the paper said.
There’s more. In August 2005, Eagle and two other
researchers, with the cooperation of wireless and landline phone
companies, collected data on 99 percent of wireless phones and 99
percent of home and business landline buy cheap phones
in the U.K. (They published their findings in the journal Science in
2010, and you can read that here.) Their aim this time was to determine
if there’s a connection between your economic status, the diversity of
your social network, and how much you communicate by phone.
But
there’s also a potential social benefit to tracking your phone’s
location that has a lot less to do with spying. If you’re sick or have
been exposed to someone who is, your cheap unlocked phones
will have data showing who you’ve been close to. During a public-health
emergency — say, an outbreak of the flu — phone data could be a
treasure trove for epidemiologists and public-health officials.
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