Mobile Weekly: Google Glass will make you a real man

The founder of Google Sergei Brin has been at a standstill of his speech at the TED conference. During the speech, Brin said that smartphones make us less courageous (to be precise, he used the verb “Emasculate”, which can be translated and how to “castrate”). Brin is now oversees the development of the notorious “Augmented Reality” Google Glass, in which he appeared on the TED stage. “Is our future really people with twisted backs who always look down and constantly paw these meaningless pieces of glass? Somehow it is not courageous, ”said Brin. The Internet instantly exploded with comments. Firstly, it is strange to hear such statements from the head of the company, whose mobile operating system nourishes 70% of smartphones in the world. Secondly, half of users of mobile devices are women. Thirdly, the choice of a word does not seem very successful in itself. Boing Boing suggested that Google should be released as soon as possible to release a more courageous version of Android (as an option-Mandroid), since the various os iterations were named desserts, which is not very brutal. “It would be great if there was such an Internet search engine where Brin could see the meanings of the word“ Emasculating ”,” Twitter mocked . However, if you think a little, in the words of Brin there really is a certain sense. “Even when you plunged into the depths of Twitter on your iPhone, your body sends non -verbal signals surrounding. And what does it tell? Throughout the history of mankind, the typical pose of the owner of the smartphone is a bent shoulders, a stooped back, an omitted head, a chin pressed to his chest is a pose of a person who is not confident and tries to avoid conflict, ”said the journalist Quartz . Theoretically Google Glass can really make a person look again. They will begin to look like alpha male, somehow does not appear from this.

App Heroes has already written about the problems of the Internet radio Pandora. Advertising revenues on mobile devices do not keep up with the increase in the number of users of the service. As a result, a company forced to pay gigantic amounts to copyright holders cannot really start working in a plus. As it became known this week, Pandora decided to establish a restriction on listening to music through its mobile applications - no more than 40 free hours per month. If the limit is exhausted, users will have to pay $ 0.99 so that the service resumes the work. Another option is to subscribe to the paid version of Pandora, where there is no advertising.

OUYA micoconsoli deliveries will begin at the end of March. The first game console on Android will be received by the supporting Ouya during the Kickstarter campaign in the summer of last year. Everyone else will have to either wait for June, or look for her on ebay.

If you thought that Google will teach Motorolla to make super-scartphones over the year, there is bad news for you. Google's financial director Patrick Pectet said that the next generation of mobile devices from Motorolla is not particularly amazing. According to him, grocery lines are planned for a year and a half ahead. Therefore, Google has no other choice now, except to continue to release gadgets invented even under the past management. However, Pectet added that in the laboratories of the company there is already the development of "truly innovative" devices.

Waiting for the first mobile devices with a flexible glass before 2016 is definitely not worth it. This was reported by Bloomberg with reference to Corning, which makes high -tech glasses for iPhone and other smartphones. Corning President Jame Clappin said his company has a working glass prototype that can be turned into a tube like a newspaper. However, time will pass before Apple, Google, Samsung and the rest will find this amazing property.

In Barcelona, ​​Mobile World Congress, the most important mobile technology exhibition on the planet, came to an end. No truly sensational announcements have been made, but something interesting happened. In particular, Mozilla revealed the details of her upcoming Firefox OS mobile operating system. In addition, manufacturers of devices showed the public several new products. You can read about the most interesting of them on Slon.