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New Apple Watch can help to avoid Diabetes!

July 13, 2017

3 min read

How many of you cannot get through a day without a little bit of sweetness?

I presume ALL of you needs at least a tiny percentage of sugar flowing through your blood to get through a day of hard work, maybe at your job, maybe with your studies. Irrespective of age and gender, we all love sweets. Sweetness adds some perfection to the day, no doubt. But what is dangerous about it is, we do not know when we will be diagnosed with diabetes with the amount of glucose we consume.

Around four years back, young children and youth did not have the fear of being diagnosed with diabetes. But, as of now, diabetes has the tendency to affect everyone beyond the barriers of age. Yes, it DOES sound frightening.

Are you a victim of Diabetes? Have you ever monitored how much sugar you consume per day? If not,

It’s time NOW!

අලුතින් එන OnePlus 5

June 23, 2017

Pramodya Abeysinghe

Electronics, Gadgets, Hardware, Mobile, OS

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OnePlus

OnePlus කියනනේ දැන් ලෝකයේ කියවෙන අලුත් phone brand එකක්. එම brand එක ලෝකෙට ඇවිල්ල තාම වැඩි කාලයක් ගත වුණේ නෑ. මේ mobile phone company එක පටන් ගත්තෙ 2013 අවුරුද්දේ අන්තිම කාලෙ. මෙහි parent company එක වෙන්නෙ OPPO company එක. නමුත් ඇත්තටම බැලුවම OPPO කියන්නෙත් තව company එකක subsidiary එකක්. මේ සේරගේම parent company එක වෙන්නෙ BBK Electronic Corporation කියන චීන company එක. Made in China phone වලට මිනිස්සු අතරෙ තියෙන දුර් මතය ඉවත් කරන්න පුළුවන් වුණ company එකක් තමයි OnePlus කියන mobile phone brand එක. අද කියන්න යන්නෙ OnePlus 5 කියන අලුත්ම phone එක ගැන.

OnePlus 5

OnePlus 5 phone එක ගැන මුලින්ම කියවුනේ පසුගිය 20 තිබ්බ keynote එකකදි. ඇමරිකාව, කැනඩාව ඇතුළු රටවල් කිපයක වෙළදපොලට නිකුත් වුන එදිනම. චීනය හා ඉන්දියාව තුල මෙය වෙළඳපොළට නිකුත් වෙන්නෙ අද. නමුත් ජුනි 27 ඉදන් තමයි අනිත් රටවල මෙය නිකුත් වෙන්නෙ. ඒ කියන්නෙ ලංකාවේ අපිට 27 වෙනකන් ඉන්න වෙනවා මේ phone එක මිලදී ගන්න. $479ක මුදලකට තමයි මෙය මිල නියම වෙලා තියෙන්නෙ. ඒ කියන්නේ රුපියල් 75,000කට අසන්න මුදලක්. නමුත් බදු එකතු වුනාම එහි වටිනාකම තව වැඩි වෙන්න පුළුවන්.

OnePlus 5 එන්න කලින් release වුනේ OnePlus 3T කියන model එක. 3Tට පස්සෙ 4 අවේ නැත්තේ ඇයි කියල ඔබට ප්‍රශ්නයක් ඇති. එකට හේතුව වෙලා තියෙන්නෙ චීන මිනිස්සු අතරේ ඇදහීමක් තියෙනවා 4 කියන්නෙ අසුබ ඉලක්කමක් කියල. එක නිසා තමා අලුත් model එක OnePlus 5 කියල නම් කරලා තියෙන්නෙ.

Smartphones that charge in 5 minutes could arrive next year

June 21, 2017

Manuka Maduranga

Electronics, Gadgets, Hardware, Mobile, News

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2 min read

If we compare a smartphone that was released five years ago and a smartphone that was released two months ago, you will notice the differences from a glance. High-quality cameras, pixel rich displays, slim design and the list goes on. Among all these advances there is one feature that has hardly improved from five years ago to today, and that is the battery. If you take an average smartphone, it takes almost two hours for it to charge fully. (Except devices that support Dash Charging and Fast Charging Technologies)

Android හි පියා හඳුන්වාදෙන අලුත්ම Smartphone එක

June 8, 2017

Chamath Rathnayake

Gadgets, Mobile, News

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1 min read

Andy Rubin කියන්නේ Android මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධතියේ පියා කිව්වොත් තමා නිවැරදි. ඉතින් මොහුගේ දැනුමෙන් නිපදවුණු Smartphone එක ගැන තමා අද කියන්න යන්නේ. ඉතින් මේ දුරකථනය කෙතරම් දුරට සාර්ථක වෙයිද කියන එකට හොඳ ඉඟියක් තමයි මේ දුරකථනය නිපදවන්නේ Android හි නිර්මාතෘ වීමත් එහි මුලික සංකල්ප හා අරමුණු වඩාත් හොඳින්ම දන්නා පුද්ගලයා ඔහු වීමත්ය.

මෙම Smartphone එක හඳුන්වන්නේ Essential Phone යන නාමයෙන් .අපි අද මෙහි මුලික කරුණු පිළිබඳව හැඳින්වීමක් කිරීමටයි මෙම ලිපිය ලියන්නේ.

නැමිය හැකි tablet එකක්?

June 5, 2017

Sanjani Gunathilaka

Electronics, Gadgets, Mobile

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එදිනෙදා රාජකාරී වැඩ කටයුතු සදහා දැන් බොහෝ දෙනා smartphone වලට අමතරව tablet වැඩි වශයෙන් භාවිතා කරනු ලබනවා. Email, Internet surfing වැනි කටයුතු වලට ගොඩක් දෙනා යොදා ගන්නේ tablets. ඒ වගේම දුරකථන පණිවිඩ, කෙටි පණිවිඩ වැනි කටයුතු සදහා smartphone යොදාගන්නවා. මෙන්න මේ කියන අවශ්‍යතා දෙකම සලකල බලලා එක් අවස්ථාවක Smartphone එකක් ලෙසත් තවත් වරෙක tablet එකක් ලෙසත් භාවිතයට ගන්න පුළුවන් නවතම නිපැයුමක් Microsoft සමාගම විසින් “phone-to-tab” නමින් වෙළදපොලට හදුන්වා දීල තියෙනවා. සරලවම කිව්වොත් මේක නමන්න පුළුවන් tablet එකක්.

AI-equipped Apple Watch can detect the signs of a stroke

June 1, 2017

Uthpala Pitiwala

AI, Gadgets

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2 min read

Apple has initiated the task of saving human lives through its AI-equipped Apple watch. A group of researchers from the University of San Francisco and Heart Health App Cardiogram have identified that the AI-equipped Apple watch can be used to detect unusual heart rhythms (strokes) such as arrhythmia and atrial fibrillation(AF) with 97 percent accuracy and 98 percent sensitivity.

හිරු එලිය අල්ලන Tesla උළු කැට

May 21, 2017

Chamath Rathnayake

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වර්තමානය යනු බලශක්ති අර්බුදය මිනිසාට තදින්ම දැනී ඇති කාල වකවානුවකි. බලශක්ති ප්‍රභවයන් හීන වීමත් සමඟ විකල්ප සෙවීමට බොහෝ දෙනා පර්යේෂණ අරඹා ඇති අතර එසේ සාර්ථක වී ඇති එක් විකල්ප ක්‍රමයක් ලෙස සුර්ය බලශක්ති භාවිතය පෙන්වා දිය හැක. කෙසේ වුවද මෙම ක්‍රමය යම් යම් කරුණු කාරණා ගණනාවක්‌ නිසාවෙන් සාමාන්‍ය ජනයා අතර ප්‍රචලිත වීමේ වේගයේ යම් අඩුවක් ඇති බව අප සැවොම දන්නා කරුණකි. Read More

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May 8, 2017

Kaveesha Baddage

Gadgets, News

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1 min read

මයික්‍රෝසොෆ්ට් සමාගම මගින් ඔවුන්ගේ නවතම Surface Laptop පරිගණකය පසුගිය සතියේදී එළිදැක්වීමට කටයුතු කරන ලදී. මෙම පරිගණකය ඔවුන්ගේ නවතම Windows 10 S මෙහෙයුම් පද්ධතිය සමග කටයුතු කිරීමට හැකි වන සේ නිර්මාණය කර ඇත.

මෙම පරිගණකය හදුන්වා දීමේ අවස්ථාවට එම සමාගමේ ප්‍රධානියෙක් වූ Panos Panay මහතා සම්බන්ධ විය. ඔහු එහිදී ප්‍රකාශ කලේ මෙම පරිගණකය නිපදවීමේදී එය උසස් අධ්‍යාපනය අවසන් වූ සිසුන් ඉලක්ක කරගෙන ඔවුන්ගේ අවශ්‍යතාවයන් සපුරාලන පරිදි නිර්මාණය කල බවයි.

Xiomi/Huami AmazFit Pace – The best budget smartwatch with 5+ days battery

April 30, 2017

Praneeth Peiris

Electronics, Gadgets, Hardware

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4 min read

It is Xiaomi Amazfit Smartwatch!

It’s only $103*

Yes, you read it right!

There are smart watches which lasts only a few hours and even up to a year. Well, it is obvious that we can’t expect many features from a smart watch when it claims to have better battery life.

But then, here comes this badass smart watch!

Xiaomi Amazfit Smartwatch

Samsung SmartThings – For Your Connected Smart Home

April 22, 2017

Kaveesha Baddage

Electronics, Gadgets, Hardware

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4 min read

Need to teach your home about how it can assist you and automate your home to react to your unique lifestyle? Now that is not hard as you think. Samsung SmartThings is on your side to help you. It can teach your home new tricks and make your life easier. Any home can be a smart home with Samsung SmartThings.

What is Samsung SmartThings?

In 2012, a technology company named SmartThings Inc. was founded in Mountain View, California. They built an open platform for smart homes and the consumer Internet of Things. This Company began to sell its products commercially on its own Website in August 2013. And they started to sell their products on Amazon.com in September 2013. In August 2014, SmartThings Inc announced that they had reached an agreement to be acquired by Samsung Group which is a South Korean multinational company. But SmartThings Inc would operate as an independent company within Samsung’s Open Innovation Center. The acquisition was the foundation to move into the internet of things space by Samsung. Now Samsung SmartThings is becoming one of the biggest and most recognizable names in the IoT space.

One of the biggest problem when building a smart home is that, usually the user has to deal with the disparate collection of devices. Samsung SmartThings concerns about that and designed their SmartThings technology with reducing those difficulties. They provide a single hub and app those can be used to control your home and convert it into a smart home. With this free SmartThings app, the you can receive important notifications about what’s happening at your home and you can control smart devices in your smart home with a simple tap.

Categories of devices in Samsung SmartThings

There are several categories of devices in Samsung SmartThings technology. They are

Hubs
Integrations
Voice Assistants
Lighting and Switches
Outlets

Living in your smart home

In Samsung SmartThings technology, Hubs are used to connect with IoT devices through the Internet. The user can monitor, control, and automate IoT devices using integrations. Google Home, Amazon Echo, Amazon Echo Dot and Amazon Tap are the devices which belong to voice assistant category products of Samsung SmartThings.

Using voice assistants, the user can get help from Google voice Assistant service to play music, provide information, news, sports scores, weather reports, and much more. Also, user can stream music from Google Play Music and YouTube. The user can control a wide range of connected outlets, lights, switches, and dimmers with user’s voice commands. This technology helps to use SmartThings Routines to control multiple devices with single voice command. The user just needs to say “Alexa, turn on Good Morning” or “Alexa, turn on Party Time.” Then all the connected devices will operate according to the setting defined under that routine. Amazon Tap is Amazon Alexa enabled portable Bluetooth speaker which is also built with above capabilities.

Samsung SmartThings technology supports devices in several brands. So you don’t need to get lights, switches, and outlets in Samsung brand. If you are using a Samsung SmartThings compatible bulb you can automate it with SmartThings and set them to turn on, off, or change color when doors are opened, when there’s activity in your home, and much more. You can control outlet with your voice commands using SmartThings and the Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa.

The Samsung SmartThings second-generation hub supports wider varieties of devices and third-party integrations, such as for Amazon Alexa. It has dramatically improved SmartThings. When it first launched, SmartThings was an interesting look at the future. But now it’s become an essential part of any smart home. You can control hundreds of connected devices from other brands through the SmartThings Hub and app.

Samsung SmartThings also get some competition with Google and Apple. Both of them have their own smart home solutions. But Google’s and Apple’s solutions are relatively far behind Samsung in terms of quality and number of products that they support.

Who is Amazon Alexa ?

April 13, 2017

Pramodi De Silva

AI, Gadgets, Tips & Tricks

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Amazon Alexa is a virtual personal assistant designed by Amazon.It is a voice-activated application like Siri in Apple, Google Assistant in Google and Microsoft’s Cortana. Alexa was initially designed by Amazon’s Secretive Lab126, but later integrated with many of Amazon services and also available in products such as Amazon Echo and Amazon Fire TV. Alexa became popular with Amazon Echo, a device that can act as a speaker as well as a smart hub, and also capable of working with many other devices.

You can ask questions from Alexa such as “what is weather today in Colombo?” or “Dollar rate for Rupees” or even about general questions like “who is Richard Branson ? “. Simply, it listens to your voice commands, responds and help to get your work done.

Besides, you can assign it to perform different tasks like create to-do lists, play music tracks and control volume, order items from Amazon, play games and various other cool stuff.

Nokia is back with Nokia 6

February 1, 2017

Anjalee Abeysekera

Electronics, Gadgets, Hardware, Mobile

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For most of us, the first mobile experience was a Nokia, as Nokia was dominating the mobile world for such a long period of time. Inability to adapt to the new technical changes in the market made their sales decrease while the sales of competitors sky-rocketed by a huge percentage. When Nokia was struggling in the market, Microsoft offered to help by entering into a partnership with Nokia. This joint venture lead to the change of the brand name of mobile phones from Nokia to Microsoft and the two companies together could made some profits but not as much as they expected. The rumors of the return of the Nokia were spread out but it was said that the company’s agreement with Microsoft prohibits it from selling Nokia-branded phones until 2016.

What made us talk about Nokia in the very beginning of 2017 is the Nokia 6, a Nokia-branded smartphone which was released a few weeks ago. The Nokia 6 is an Android phone making it the second Android phone under the brand name Nokia. What’s so special is that the Nokia 6 sold out all its initial stock in just a minute after being released. Now let’s look at this new phone.
First I must say that, though the brand name is Nokia it is not from the old Nokia manufacturer we used to know. This phone has been manufactured by a Finnish company called HMD Global which has got license to sell Nokia phones. Currently this phone has announced sales only in the Chinese market.

When looking at the phone itself, Nokia 6 has an aluminum 6000 series metal body. The design is nothing new but more similar to an ordinary smartphone in the market. Nokia 6 was released only in black color. Most of the Nokia fans were expecting this in white as well but they have confirmed that it will not.

The phone comes with a 5.5 inch full HD IPS display wrapped in 2.5D Gorilla Glass. This has a relatively high resolution of 1080×1920 pixels at a 403ppi. What we find so exciting in Nokia 6 is that it comes with a finger print scanner right inside the home button making it the first Nokia phone to have biometrics installed.

When talking about the cameras, the phone comes with a 16 MP rear camera and a front camera of 8 MP.

As I mentioned before, Nokia 6 is an Android phone. It runs the latest version of Android, which is Android Nougat. Also the company has announced that they will provide quick updates to their phones which is a plus point for the company.

When talking about the performance, Nokia 6 comes with a Snapdragon 430 CPU. Snapdragon 430 is considered to be an entry level CPU and also can be found in smartphones which are one third of the price of Nokia 6. Due to the CPU limitations, Nokia 6 cannot record 4K videos. The maximum video quality is limited to full HD. This can make Nokia fans disappointed a bit about the product but still other features of the phone are pretty much exciting.

Storage is another important factor to be considered about of a smartphone. Nokia 6 comes with an internal storage of 64 GB which is expandable. 3000 mAh battery will help you to stay awake more hours.

Nokia 6 is a mid-range smartphone exclusively targeted the Chinese market. The initial price is set to 1,699 Yuan which is approximately 37, 000 LKR.
This new phone has already got both positive and negative ideas in the market. Although it seems like Nokia fans have expected something better than this, they are indeed happy with the fact that Nokia again came up with their brand name. Hopefully, we can expect some innovative products from the long lost king of mobile phones in the near future.

For the full phone specification of Nokia 6, please visit GSM Arena.