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Why Your Kid’s Next Laptop — But Not Yours — Should Be a Chromebook

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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;">Why Your Kid’s Next Laptop — But Not
Yours — Should Be a Chromebook</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shopping for a laptop for your
budding young genius? It may be time to ditch Microsoft’s Windows and Apple’s
OS X and start living <i>la vida Google</i> with a Chromebook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you’ve never heard of
Chromebooks, don’t feel bad. These small and (mostly) inexpensive machines
haven’t exactly been setting the world on fire since they were introduced in
June 2011. Lately, though, Chromebooks seem to be taking off.
Acer, HP and Toshiba have all released new models over the last few months, and
tech research firm Gartner predicts that Chromebook sales will more than double
in 2014.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What’s a Chromebook?<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chromebooks look like ordinary
laptops, but they hold a huge difference inside: They run the Chrome operating
system, which is built around the same code used by Google’s Chrome browser.
And instead of storing software and data on the machine’s hard drive,
Chromebooks are set up to put it online, in the cloud. And there’s more: On a
Chromebook, you don’t spend a fortune on productivity software like Microsoft
Office; rather, you configure your Chromebook to use lightweight apps that run
on web pages. Many of the apps are free. And you won’t have to futz around with
system settings while trying to decipher inscrutable error messages, so you’ll
be able to get actual work done .</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This doesn’t mean Chromebooks are
the best choice for everyone. There are good reasons why Windows PCs and Macs
will continue to rule in personal computing for years to come. But Chromebooks
are a mighty attractive option for your kids, for three excellent reasons:</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They’re cheap.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> WiFi Chromebooks typically cost between $200 and $300, so
when your kids knock their laptop off the arm of the couch and break the screen
(which has happened in my house more times than I care to recall), it won’t be
quite so painful. And since most of the apps are free, you won’t be stuck
forking over hundreds of dollars for additional software.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They’re fast. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Press the power button, log into your Google account (if you
don’t have one already, you’ll need to create one), and you’re in. Close the
lid when you’re done, reopen it later, and you’re back exactly where you
started. Your only real limit is the speed of your Internet connection.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They’re easy.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> If you know how to use a browser — and especially if you’re
familiar with Google Chrome — then you know how to use a Chromebook. They’re
less prone to the maddening technical glitches that drive owners of PCs (and,
yes, Macs too) absolutely bonkers. They’re also more secure: Because Chrome OS
has yet to become popular with malware authors, you’re unlikely to catch some
nasty Net-borne virus. And if by chance you do, Google has built in some nifty
safeguards to limit the damage and revert your system to its pristine state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These things make Chromebooks an
especially good fit for classrooms. Teachers don’t have to waste 10 minutes of
class time waiting for everyone’s Windows machines to boot up or spend time
troubleshooting someone’s iWork installation. If the machine isn’t working,
kids can just grab another Chromebook off the hardware cart, log into their
accounts, and get to work.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Working without a net<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So what happens if you’re stuck on a
WiFi-less plane or trapped in some godforsaken wasteland where the nearest
Starbucks hotspot is 50 miles away?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The biggest rap against Chromebooks
has been that once you’re out of range of a WiFi network, they turn into
expensive doorstops. That isn’t completely true anymore, thanks to the offline
capabilities that Google and others have built into their apps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are now hundreds of apps in
the Chrome Web Store that will work offline, including all the major
productivity programs. For example, you can work on any Google Doc or compose
emails without being connected to the Net. Once you’re reconnected, your files
will automatically sync to your Google Drive or outbox. For some reason,
however, this is not set up by default; you’ll have to dig into the Settings
menu and tell your apps you want them to work offline, add new Chrome apps to
enable this capability, or download files to your machine and use the built-in
Quickoffice app to edit and upload them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Another strange exception is Google
Calendar: For reasons that surpass all understanding, you can view two months’
worth of your calendar offline and RSVP to invites, but you can’t add new
appointments to it without a live connection. Hello, Google?</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La vida Google<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I spent a couple of weeks with an <u><a href="http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/NX.MJAAA.002" target="_blank">Acer</a> Chromebook <a href="http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/NX.MJAAA.002" target="_blank">C</a><a href="http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/NX.MJAAA.002" target="_blank">720</a><a href="http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/NX.MJAAA.002" target="_blank">P</a></u> as my traveling companion, and it was not
that much different from using an ordinary laptop. The 3-pound machine is boxy
and unexciting to look at, but it does the job. Acer promised boot-up times of
seven seconds and seven-plus hours of battery life, and it delivered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s got the goods in the tech
department, too. It comes with 32 GB of local storage, which allowed me to
download documents from my Dropbox account and open them up in Google Apps, as
well as 100 GB of free storage on Google Drive (in the cloud). The C720P
features an HDMI port for attaching an external display, two USB ports for plugging
in thumb drives or external mice and keyboards, and an SD card slot for
additional storage. The $299 unit also has an 11.6-inch touchscreen, though it
seems mostly useful for flinging birds at pigs or tapping on tiles in Mahjong
Solitaire. Outside of games, I hardly laid a finger on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I used the Chromebook to write this
post, check email, build spreadsheets, watch movies on Netflix, chat up friends
on Facebook, share photos on Instagram, stream music on Pandora, and do almost
everything else I’d do with a “normal” computer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The key word in that sentence is <i>almost</i>.
One of the most notable differences with Chromebooks — and a big reason why
they’re not the best choice for everyone — is what’s missing. Like, say, direct
support for peripherals. While you can connect your Chromebook to your HDTV,
you can’t just plug your printer into one and expect it to work. You’ll have to
connect it to the cloud and email your printer the document you want to see on
paper. Want to hook up a scanner or a Wacom tablet? Fuhgeddaboudit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then there are the apps. There are
thousands of them in the Chrome Web Store, but they
may not necessarily be the ones you’re used to. Love GarageBand? Can’t live
without Photoshop? You’ll have to make do with cheap imitations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you’ve been living on Planet
Microsoft or inside the Apple universe for a long time, you’ll likely find it
hard to transition to Googleville. While Chrome’s productivity apps do 90
percent of what most people need them to do, they simply aren’t as powerful as
the ones you’ll get with Microsoft Office.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But your kids don’t have that
problem. They don’t need to run powerful productivity apps. They aren’t set in
their computing ways. Between home, school and the library, they’ll rarely
encounter a situation where there’s no WiFi to be found. They will take to a
Chromebook like guppies to a 50-gallon tank.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While they, too, will miss some apps
— I could find no Chrome OS equivalent to Minecraft, for example — you might
actually see that as a plus. And the next time you hear a sickening crunch as
your child sits on the Chromebook she left on the couch instead of putting it
away like you told her to, you’ll be thanking God, or at least Google, that it
wasn’t a $1,200 MacBook. </span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Posted BY::Muhammad Usman</span></i></b></div>
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Why Your Kid’s Next Laptop — But Not Yours — Should Be a Chromebook

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Up Close With Samsung’s Galaxy S5 and Three New Smartwatches

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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">BARCELONA — Samsung promised the goods at its Mobile World
Congress event here in Barcelona. The company didn’t
disappoint, either, revealing a brand-new flagship
smartphone and three new wearable watch devices,
all of which we got to spend some time with last night after Samsung’s
presentation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The centerpiece of the event was the Galaxy S5, the fifth entry in
the company’s wildly successful premium Android handset line. The device updates 2013’s Galaxy S4 with
some solid tweaks to both the software and the phone itself, including a
redesigned operating system based on Android, an Apple-like fingerprint sensor
to replace your password, a much-improved camera and several features focused
on your health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In doing so, Samsung appears to have made a terrific phone even
better.  </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There are a few changes to the body of the phone — most notably on
the back of the device. Samsung tossed out the word “glam” to describe the new
perforated back. It comes in a half-dozen different covers, including black,
white and gold, and features little divots all around the surface. After
playing around with Sony’s gorgeous Z2 smartphone earlier in the day, it’s hard
to call the Galaxy S5 “glam.” Compared with the Z2, it’s still relatively chunky
and a bit plasticky.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The S5 is, however, a bit more rugged than its predecessor, with
built-in dust and water resistance. 
It’s not totally waterproof — you can’t go deep-sea diving with it — but still,
it’s nice to see that feature becoming more common on flagship devices. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Photography is a big focus on the Galaxy S5. On the back of the
device, you’ll find a 16-megapixel camera, a sizable sensor that should make
for improved photography and a super-fast focus feature that lets you snap
photos quickly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Samsung has also baked fitness features like a heart-rate monitor
and pedometer directly into the phone. The heart-rate monitor sits under the
back camera; stick your finger on it, and the phone takes your pulse. You can
also log your meals, step count and daily activity on Samsung’s updated
S-Health app.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Fitness, in fact, is a theme that carries across all of Monday’s
announcements from Samsung. The latest version of the company’s Gear smartwatch
sports those sensors as well. The real improvements here are to the build of
the device. Samsung has added a physical home button and moved the camera
directly into the bezel of the Galaxy Gear 2, from the wristband in the
previous version.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That means the watch isn’t nearly as bulky as its predecessor. It
also means you can swap wristband colors. The new Gear is smaller and lighter
than the first generation, but it’s still a bit bulky for my taste.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Thankfully, there’s the extremely cool Gear Fit. The device takes
the wearable fitness tracker theme exemplified by the likes of Fitbit and, erm,
runs with it. The device features a bright, full-color display that curves to
fit your wrist.</span></div>
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<img alt="image" height="332" id="yui_3_12_0_1_1393855473724_3389" src="https://s2.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w500/c580e2cde8dce9f7c315e13ed21a7543768fed77" width="500" /><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Using that, you can receive notifications and other messages from
your mobile device, making this thing half-smartwatch, half-fitness band. It’s
certainly a fair bit bulkier than the competition, but it may be worth it for
that added functionality.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #00b050; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Posted BY::Muhammad Usman</span></i></b></div>
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Up Close with Sony's Gorgeous New Smartphone and Tablet

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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Up Close
with Sony's Gorgeous New Smartphone and Tablet</span></b></div>
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<img alt="image" height="332" id="yui_3_12_0_1_1393855466771_891" src="https://s.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w500/9c91740e11029401c2f180999959bc6086ff2644" width="500" /><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">BARCELONA — We’re just beginning Mobile World Congress, one of the
largest tech exhibitions of the year, but Sony’s newly announced <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Z2 smartphone and tablet</span></span>
have taken an early lead in my pick for top gadgets of the show.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Sony makes gorgeous devices, and these are no different. The 
smartphone especially is one of the most beautifully built gadgets I’ve seen in
some time. The centerpiece is a bright, beautiful five-inch display. The sides
are metal and the back is a glossy glass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The device is also surprisingly thin and light. The five-inch
display is quite large, so far as smartphones are concerned, but you hardly
notice the size of the phone when holding it. Same goes for the 10.1-inch
tablet – Sony’s really got thinness down to a science with these devices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">What’s even more impressive is what these devices can do. The
company sprinkled feature demos around the booth, including, most notably, a
shielded centerpiece in which both Z2 devices were being doused by water
fountains, but kept on ticking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It’s great to see truly premium devices get the waterproof treatment.
If you’re going to spend a good chunk of change on a gadget, it ought to be
able to withstand what life throws at it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Z2 smartphone can also capture video in 4K, an ultra
high-definition standard that is emerging on some expensive new televisions.
While the Z2’s own display can’t handle ultra high-def, plugging the phone into
a 4K TV does the trick – and thankfully, Sony had a few of those lying around.</span></div>
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<img alt="image" height="332" id="yui_3_12_0_1_1393855466771_915" src="https://s2.yimg.com/cd/resizer/FIT_TO_WIDTH-w500/d87ea4a95fb8d998683b89810231e9842c8a52c8" width="500" /><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">For most consumers, 4K is a luxury at best. Few
actually have a 4K TV at home, so there’s really not a lot of point in a device
that can shoot in the format. Sony’s among the companies making a huge push
toward the technology, however, and in the next few years, the price is likely
to come down as adoption increases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And when that time comes, the Z2 will be ready, shooting some truly
gorgeous video.</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif";">Posted By : Muhammad usman</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Source:yahoo news</span></i></b></div>
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