Dhaka, Sep 16 (UNB)- Bangladeshi mobile handset maker Walton has launched an affordable 4G smartphone in the country’s tech market. 

The attractively designed ‘Primo F9’, priced at only TK 5,199, is available in three different colors of Cyan, Oxford Blue and Red.

Asifur Rahman Khan, Chief of Walton Cellular Phone sales department, said the new smartphone feathers a 5.45-inch full-view display, 1.3 GHz Quad Core processor, 1 GB DDR3 RAM, PowerVR Rogue GE8100 GPU, 2500 mAh battery, 16 GB internal storage with extra slot for up to 64 GB micro SD card. 

The new device with Android 9 Pie (Go Edition) operating system has BSI 5 megapixel camera with LED flashes on both sides along with various attractive features. 

It has full HD video playback, FM radio with recorder, notification light, adaptive battery, light/dark theme, one-had mode, speed booster, gesture navigation etc. functions.  

Customers will enjoy instant replacement warranty for 30 days for the phone along with one-year regular service warranty. 

Cupertino, Sept 11 (AP/UNB) — Apple is dangling deals for its new phones and TV streaming service as it seeks to offset slumping device sales with new services.

Here's a look at what Apple unveiled Tuesday at its product event in Cupertino, California.

iPhone 11: An update to last year's iPhone XR, but $50 cheaper at $700. It now gets a second camera lens, with a wider angle to squeeze more of the landscape or a group of people into the picture. Stays at 6.1 inches, as measured diagonally. Comes out Sept. 20.

iPhone 11 pro and pro max: Updates to the XS and XS Max, with prices staying the same at $1,000 and up. Last year's phones had a telephoto lens for better zoom compared with the regular lens. A third lens now offers wider angles. The display stays at 5.8 inches for regular model, 6.5 inches for Max. Comes out Sept. 20.

Apple watch: The Series 5 watch catches up with rivals in offering an always-on display. There's also a new Compass app for gauging location. New titanium and ceramic models available. Comes out Sept. 20, starting at $399. Cellular models are $100 more.

ipad: Slightly larger screen than before, at 10.2 inches. Comes out Sept. 30, starting at $329.

Apple tv plus: Challenger to Netflix and other streaming services. The service will launch with nine original shows and movies, with more expected each month. Comes out Nov. 1 at $5 a month. Free year for buyers of any new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod Touch.

Apple arcade: Video game service with more than 100 games, curated by Apple and exclusive to the service. Games can be downloaded and played offline — on the Apple-made iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. Comes out Sept. 19 at $5 a month. Games available through a new dedicated tab in the app store.

Software updates: Free iOS 13 update for existing iPhones on Sept. 19, iPadOS for existing iPads on Sept. 30.

Unspoken: Apple didn't provide any updates on its Mac computers, including a launch date for Catalina, the next version of macOS. And Apple didn't announce any iPhone with support for the faster cellular network known as 5G; while Samsung and other Android makers already have 5G versions for a few hundred dollars more, 5G iPhones aren't expected until next year.

London, Sept 5 (AP/UNB) — Samsung's highly anticipated folding phone will go on sale Friday, after the original launch date was delayed by months because of embarrassing problems with the screen.

The South Korean tech giant had put the Galaxy Fold's launch on hold after reviewers encountered problems with the device's innovative folding screen, which the company said on Thursday have now been resolved.

"During the past several months, Samsung has been refining the Galaxy Fold to ensure it delivers the best possible experience," with improvements to the phone's "design and construction," the company said in an announcement at the start of a consumer electronics fair in Germany where it was showcasing the device.

The nearly $2,000 phone will launch on Sept. 6 in South Korea, and Sept. 18 in France, Germany and Britain, with versions for next generation 5G networks available in the latter two countries.

Other markets including the U.S. and Singapore will follow, but the company did not specify dates.

The Galaxy Fold's original April launch was pushed back after reports that some reviewers' phones were breaking.

Journalists who had received the phones to preview said the folding screen started flickering and turning black before fizzling out. Two reviewers mistakenly removed the screen's protective outer plastic layer.

The Galaxy Fold is slightly longer and narrower than a standard smartphone when folded, but opens up to the size of a small tablet, with the internal screen display bisected by a crease. It also has another screen on the outside so it can be used when closed.

Samsung has said the composite polymer screen can be opened and closed 200,000 times, or 100 times a day for five years.

"We've had to make some really high-tech adjustments in how we're going to make this device," said Mark Notton, Samsung's European portfolio director.

They include adding protective caps to the top and bottom of the hinge, extending the screen protector to better ensure sure it stays in place, and slimming down the hinge and narrowing the gap between the hinge and the body when the phone is closed, Notton said.

The delay was a setback for Samsung and for the broader smartphone market, which had been looking to folding screens as one way to catalyze innovation in the industry.

China's Huawei also announced its own folding screen phone, the Mate X, at around the same time, but it hasn't yet set a launch date.

Samsung's 2016 launch of its Galaxy Note 7 was also troubled, with the company forced to eventually recall the phone because its batteries were catching on fire.

San Francisco, Aug 29 (AP/UNB)  — Apple is apologizing for allowing outsiders to listen to snippets of people's recorded conversations with its digital assistant Siri, a practice that undermined its attempts to position itself as a trusted steward of privacy.

As part of the apology posted Wednesday, Apple reiterated an earlier pledge to stop keeping audio recorded through Siri unless consumers give their permission.

When permission is granted, Apple said only its own employees will be allowed to review audio to help improve the service. Previously, the company hired contractors to listen to some recordings.

"We realize we haven't been fully living up to our high ideals, and for that we apologize," Apple said.

Apple would not say how it will seek permission. In the past, the Cupertino, California, company has typically requested permissions through prompts during software update installations.

In recent months, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple have all acknowledged that people have been reviewing users' interactions with artificial intelligence assistants in order to improve the services. But users aren't typically aware that humans and not just computers are reviewing audio.

The use of humans to listen to audio recordings is particularly troubling to privacy experts because it increases the chances that a rogue employee or contractor could leak details of what is being said, including parts of sensitive conversations.

The backlash to the industry practice prompted Facebook and Google to stop relying on people to transcribe recorded conversations. Amazon is continuing the practice unless users of its digital assistant Alexa explicitly demand that humans be blocked from listening. Microsoft also is still doing it, too, contending it has adequate privacy safeguards in place for the Cortana digital assistant.

Apple intends to continue to rely upon computer-generated transcripts of what's being said to Siri as part of effort to improve services, even if a user hasn't explicitly granted permission, or opted in.

Unlike Facebook, Google and Amazon, which track what people are doing and where they are going to sell ads and merchandise, Apple has conspicuously emphasized that that it has no interest in peering into its customers' lives.

CEO Tim Cook repeatedly has declared the company's belief that "privacy is a fundamental human right," a phrase that cropped up again in Apple's apology.

Dhaka, Aug 25 (UNB)- Popular electronics brand ‘Vision’ has introduced android voice control google TV as an user can go desired channel just using his/her voice through giving direction in the remote and also able to browse websites through the assistance of google.    

R N Paul, Managing Director of RFL Group, inaugurated the Vision voice control google TV through a program held at Baada’s Premier Plaza in the capital on Sunday. 

Popular operating system android driven TV technology has been used in the Vision voice control TV. 

As a result, user can easily visit popular video streaming sites including Youtube and iflix through internet connection in television. The TV has 4k display which ensures perfect picture quality.    

Vision brings 55, 65 and 75 inch voice control TV which have 2.5 GB RAM and 16 GB storage capacity. The prices of the TVs are Tk 97,000, Tk 168,000 and 325,000 respectively. 

R N Paul said, “Our local brand vision has got acceptability among the customers for its quality. We are trying to introduce standard electronics product considering the demands of the customers. Considering this, we have introduced voice control TV.” 

Mahbubur Rahman, Head of Operation of Vision Electronics, Mahabubul Wahid, General Manager (Marketing) and Senior Brand Manager Rakib Ahmed, among others, were present at the function.