The New SmartThings Experience and You | SmartThings. Today is an exciting day for SmartThings customers and anyone who’s ever wanted to create a smart home. We’ve just unveiled an enhanced app experience that offers you one place to find, discover, and connect everything you need to customize a home that automatically reacts to your preferences. Those of you who have followed us from our early Kickstarter days know that it’s always been our goal to create an open platform for the Internet of Things, and this announcement is a very important step toward realizing that long-term vision. Here’s a look at what’s new: The SmartThings App: Where Products, Developers, Services, and Customers Meet Our enhanced app experience makes it easier than ever to monitor, control, and automate your home with an expanded list of uses and products.
Check out the below video for a full rundown of the new iOS app, which is now available for free download. 1. 2. 3. Integrating New Products: The SmartThings Device-Certification Program Related. Google Nexus 4: When Good Isn't Good Enough [REVIEW] Earlier this month, Google rolled out its latest line of Nexus devices, including the Nexus 10 tablet and its latest smartphone, the Nexus 4. In the Android ecosystem, the Nexus line has carved out an important, special niche for itself: It's the pure Google experience.
Gone are UI skins such as HTC's Sense or Samsung's TouchWiz. Gone too are wireless carrier add-ons and software bloat. More than just offering the pure Google experience, past phones in the Nexus line (which include the Nexus One, Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus) have also served as harbingers for the future devices on the platform. So how does the Nexus 4 stack up? Speedy Specs Looking at the specs, the Nexus 4 is a compelling device. This is the same chip that's inside LG's Optimus G — that makes sense too, because LG is also the company that manufactures the Nexus 4. In fact, comparing the Nexus 4 against the Optimus G on both Sprint and AT&T, the specs are nearly indistinguishable.
Mammoth Screen, Long-Lasting Battery Bottom Line. The Nexus 4: Google's flagship phone lands November 13th for $299. Google has officially announced the Nexus 4, the latest phone in its Nexus line of flagship Android devices. Built by LG, the phone features a 4.7-inch 1280 x 768 IPS display, a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor — which Google claims is the fastest on the market — an 8 megapixel camera and a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera, and up to 16GB of storage. Oh, and the back is made of glass — etched, layered glass that sparkles with a strange, almost holographic depth. The executive vibe is balanced nicely by the playfulness of the back Not much of that should be surprising, as the phone had been thoroughly leaked around the web in the past few weeks. What is surprising is how much better it all looks in person.
Compared to the LG Optimus G, which shares many of the same components, it's no contest — the Nexus 4 is a far nicer piece of hardware. The device will sell for $299 with 8GB of storage, or $349 with 16GB. There's no LTE here Nexus 4 hands-on photos Previous. DotMN — Heading to the Fair? Shake that app. The Minnesota State Fair can be a gut-wrenching experience, with more creative food options available than the average human could possibly consume. True to it’s Minnesota nature, food at ‘the Fair is anything but average.
But the sheer variety of deep-fried delicacies can make for difficult decisions that can overwhelm even the most gluttonous Minnesotan. There’s only so much time in a day, and only so much space in your stomach. So, where do you feast at the Great Get-Together? If you’re the adventurous type, maybe you’d like to let your phone decide. Fair Shake, an aptly titled new iOS app developed by local digital agency iExposure, adds a fun and unpredictable twist to your eating experience. When a food vendor is displayed, you’ll receive a quirky description and – thanks to GPS integration – you’ll also get a map with walking directions to the stand. The company’s latest release is actually the second iteration of Fair Shake, which debuted last year. Exclusive: Matias Duarte on the philosophy of Android, and an in-depth look at Ice Cream Sandwich | This is my next...
I'm sitting in an anonymous, fluorescently-lit office on the Google campus where the Android team is situated, a surprisingly bare setting that seems to clash with the rest of the company's, multi-colored, neo-hippie aesthetic. I'm waiting for Matias Duarte — Android's head of user experience — so that we can discuss the latest version of Google's mobile operating system (dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich), and hopefully get a look at the smartphone the new OS will ship with. I've just had a long, bad, and very early flight to San Francisco, and I'm a little weary, though one of Google's PR reps has kindly given me a strong mug of coffee from a single-cup machine I'm told costs $10,000.
The coffee isn't bad. When Matias gets to the meeting, he walks through the door like he's in mid-sentence, as if he was handing off some direction to someone just outside the room. The philosophy of Android Matias is somewhat of an anomaly in our industry. He sits down at the head of the table. He has slides.