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Sunday, April 5, 2015
Sony launches My Xperia phone tracking service
Sony has initiated its own smartphone tracking service called My Xperia, enabling you to monitor the whereabouts of you handset when its lost or stolen.
The service was launched in beta earlier in the year, but only for Nordic countries. Now Sony has announced on its official blog that My Xperia is rolling out worldwide over the next few weeks.
My Xperia is described as a "remote security app" that can protect your personal data as well as tracking your phone.
Users of Sony Xperia devices from 2012 or 2013 can access the service by signing into myxperia.sonymobile.com with your Google ID.
From the central interface that you encounter here, you can do a number of things. For one, you can remotely sound an alert on your phone, ignoring silent mode and waking the screen from sleep.
You can also locate your phone on a map, lock it to keep your personal data safe an ping the phone a message with contact details, should it simply be lost.
The most drastic thing you can do with this new My Xperia tool, though, is to remotely wipe the data stored on your phone and SD card.
My Xperia is essentially a belated answer to Apples own Find My iPhone service, which launched three years ago.
Google has yet to provide its own equivalent service for the Android platform, though there are a number of third party apps on the Google Play Store that do the same thing, such as Lookout Security & Antivirus and Avasts similar Mobile Security & Antivirus.
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The service was launched in beta earlier in the year, but only for Nordic countries. Now Sony has announced on its official blog that My Xperia is rolling out worldwide over the next few weeks.
My Xperia is described as a "remote security app" that can protect your personal data as well as tracking your phone.
Users of Sony Xperia devices from 2012 or 2013 can access the service by signing into myxperia.sonymobile.com with your Google ID.
From the central interface that you encounter here, you can do a number of things. For one, you can remotely sound an alert on your phone, ignoring silent mode and waking the screen from sleep.
You can also locate your phone on a map, lock it to keep your personal data safe an ping the phone a message with contact details, should it simply be lost.
The most drastic thing you can do with this new My Xperia tool, though, is to remotely wipe the data stored on your phone and SD card.
My Xperia is essentially a belated answer to Apples own Find My iPhone service, which launched three years ago.
Google has yet to provide its own equivalent service for the Android platform, though there are a number of third party apps on the Google Play Store that do the same thing, such as Lookout Security & Antivirus and Avasts similar Mobile Security & Antivirus.
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Samsung Galaxy S5 features to include advanced head tracking gesture controls
New rumours suggest the Samsung Galaxy S5 features will include head tracking gesture controls.
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According to a European Patent Office filing, Samsung’s first 2014 flagship may include gestures that can be controlled with movements of your head.
Samsung Galaxy smartphone already include some gesture-based features like Smart Stay and Smart Scroll, but it seems the Galaxy S5 will introduce advanced versions of those featured in phones like the Samsung Galaxy S4.
The patent describes the ability to wink or nod your head to control specific functions of the S5. You should also be able to move your head to the left to go back a browser page, or go to the next one with a head movement to the right.
Head tracking detection will be accomplished by splitting the image received by the front-facing camera into specific sections. The camera would track the change in a particular section as a head movement gesture, and then get the smartphone to carry out the required function.
Although the patent filing lists a publication date in January 2014, it was actually filed in July 2013 making it very likely these head tracking gesture controls will make it into the Galaxy S5.
We don’t doubt that the gesture controls will be just as frustrating as last year’s iterations, but we’ll be interested to see if they build upon those in the Galaxy S4.
Earlier this week, Samsung Mobile Executive VP Lee Young Hee let slip that the Galaxy S5 release date will be in March or April and will come with the second-generation Samsung Galaxy Gear.
“We’ve been announcing our first flagship model in the first half of each year, around March and April, and we are still targeting for release around that time” said Lee. “When we release our S5 device, you can also expect a Gear successor with more advanced functions, and the bulky design will also be improved.”
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