This week in our video blog we would like to introduce you to 20 secret features of iPhone7 possibly you would have not noticed or not known.We are gonna show you 20 of the faboulous secret features which would make you say “awesome !”.
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This week we are going to introduce you to the popular technology of the year, “iBeacon”, which is the talk among technical giants. As many of you know it was the technology introduced by the techno giant Apple, Ever wondered to know more about iBeacon well, we take the liberty to make you know more about it through our blog of this week.
Even it is a talk of the year many of them have no idea on exactly what it is.Is it one like the NFC, Introduced by Nokia or something like share and copy of the Bluetooth technology. Well here we are to make you understand more about this “iBeacon”
“Using Bluetooth Low Energy(BLE), iBeacon opens up a new whole dimension by creating a beacon around regions so your app can be alerted when users enter them. Beacons are a small wireless sensors placed inside any physical space that transmit data to your iPhone using Bluetooth Low Energy (also known as Bluetooth 4.0 and Bluetooth Smart).”
We know that your are just beginning to understand and let us make it more easy to you, iBeacon comes into play in a scenario, let us take you to a shopping mall, you are approaching some shop say, Denim it means you and your iPhonen5s (which come with iOs7 and iBeacon)are entering the beacon set by Denim.
iBeacon can transmit customized coupons or even walking directions to the aisle where a particular item is located. It can prompt a customer with special promotions or a personalized messages and recommendations based on their current location or past history with the company. Smartphones that are in an iBeacon zone will benefit personalized micro location based notification and actions.
In this age of information, where we flow for bits and bytes of data, iBeacon can provide you with the information at the right place at the right time. And the brighter part iBeacon even allows you to pay bill using your smart phone and even more brighter part iBeacon can run for up to two years on a single coin battery and it comes with accelerometer, flash memory, a powerful ARM processor and Bluetooth connectivity. Also, you can add more sensors to iBeacon to provide better context.
Well, we all know that one technology which exists similar to iBeacon was NFC.By the launch of iBeacon in june one thing which made us more clear is that iBeacon has been more spectacular than NFC because of its range, NFC tags are pretty cheap compared to NFC chips, but NFC tags are required on each product because NFC works only in very close proximity. NFC range is upto 20 cm(7.87 inches) and on optimal range it has 4cm(1.57inches), also your mobile device should have NFC chip to support NFC communication ! Thats why we meant iBeacon is going to be a killer for NFC, with its range of 50meters and support for mobile devices with bluetooth. And yeah you said it right iBeacon is going to be a stage breaker !
This question arise when we go through a new technology and we plan to establish one for ourself or our office. Then suddenly this question arises, is it affordable? Lets have a small calculation to know whether iBeacon can be affordable .If you are so dull to calculate with mind, well take you calculator and make those business calculation !
Lets say the average area occupied by your store is 1,75,000 square feet, which is 16,258 square meters. iBeacon’s range is 50 meters (typical Bluetooth range), or 2,500 square meters. So a typical store would need 7 iBeacons. “Estimate”, a company which just launched to sell beacons, is taking pre-orders at the price of $99 for 3 beacons. The range of Estimate’s beacons is 50 meters, but the recommended range is 10 meters. If you go with the recommendation, you need 1 Estimate beacon for every 100 square meters, which would cost you about $5,000. If your store wanted to add NFC tags (each at 10 cents) to all its products to send information to phones, it would cost $1,000 for 10,000 products, $10,000 for 100,000 products and $100,000 for 1 million products. NFC may not be needed on all products, but this will give a rough idea on how much it could cost.
Yeah, be you a gadget lover or a business person or a technical reviewer one thing you ask first is it the technology of future. Considering iBeacon we can notice leading legends trying to make their leap step towards iBeacon,
Google has been heavily focused on NFC from the beginning and it didn’t add platform support for BLE until the release of version 4.3. Lot of the apps that rely on BLE couldn’t release the apps for Android phones. Some Android OEM vendors recognized the need and rolled out their own implementations. Google finally listened to the demand and made it part of Android 4.3. But Google has continued to push on NFC and rolled out the NFC-based Android Beam in Android 4.0.
Apple has avoided NFC and all the rumors about NFC getting added to iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 are turned out to be false. Instead of NFC, Apple worked on alternatives using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. During the introduction of iOS 7′s AirDrop at WWDC in June, Apple’s mobile development chief Craig Federighi said, “There’s no need to wander around the room, bumping your phone,” referring how NFC phones need to be very close to transfer the data. As stated on Apple’s website:
AirDrop lets you quickly and easily share photos, videos, contacts — and anything else from any app with a Share button. Just tap Share, then select the person you want to share with. AirDrop does the rest using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. No setup required. And transfers are encrypted, so what you share is highly secure.
Yeah having this giants Google and Apple with their hands on iBeacon ! who would deny it’s success being the future of data transmission.
Use Safari To See Tweets With Links / URLs
Want to quickly see all the tweets in your timeline with URLs / links in them? Simply launch Safari, press the bookmarks button – the one that looks like an open book, obviously – then press the @ button on top. Boom! All the tweets with links in one place. You should be signed in to your Twitter account in Settings > Twitter in order for this feature to work.
Turn Parallax On / Off
Don’t just like the new iOS seven optical phenomenon impact on wallpapers – or 3D wallpapers as we’d prefer to decision them? worry that it would be exhausting your battery? merely flip it off. visit Settings> General >Accessibility; scale back Motion and switch it on or off consistent with your
feeling.
Enable Motion Sensing Controls
iOS 7 lets you launch Siri or press the Home button by simply tilting your head, or pull down Notification Center by tilting your head to the left. Sounds epic? Indeed it does. Head over to Settings > General > Accessibility > Switch Control to turn it on. Now go to Switches and set up switches to perform different actions.
Enable / Disable Bold Text or Change Font Size System-wide
Don’t like iOS 7’s new skinny font size? daring it up! Head over to Settings >General > Accessibility and alter daring Text. ever-changing the system wide font size is as simple as pie, too. Head over to Settings >General > Text Size and regulate the font size to your feeling.
Block Callers and Unwanted Messages
This feature is a gem to use. Open the contact which might be bugging you, scroll all the way down in contact details and tap Block this Caller.That’s it. The contact will never be able to bug you again. If you want to manage blocked messages,then head over to Settings > Messages > Blocked. This also applies to FaceTime and iMessages.
Use Siri To Enable / Disable System Toggles
Siri shed its beta tag along with the release of iOS 7, and can do a lot more than just telling you the weather, calling a certain contact, settings reminders etc. Press and hold the Home button to launch Siri and say – for example – ‘Turn Wi-Fi on’ and Siri will turn on Wi-Fi for you. Same works for Bluetooth and other system toggles.
Use Swipe Gesture To Go Back One Screen
In iOS 7, you can simply use swipe gestures to go back a screen, rather than pressing that pesky back button on the display. In Messages for instance, if you’re in a thread, simply swipe from the left corner towards the right and you’ll be taken to the main Messages window. This works pretty much throughout iOS 7, like Mail, Settings, Contacts etc.
Take Square Photos Using Camera App
Regular photos aren’t cutting the mustard for you? The native Camera app in iOS 7 now lets you take square photos. Launch the Camera app, and swipe to the right to take photos in square proportions. You can use the same swiping gesture to go through Panorama and Video modes.
Did you know that you can make your Droid Phone do things simply by talking to it? We’re not talking about the normal way you talk ON your phone but a special way you can talk TO your phone and it will obey your Commands!
Android Voice Commands – An Introduction
This article is intended to get you started using these Commands or Actions. Here is a quick list of what some of the Android Voice Commands let you do …
For all of the following, you start out by pressing the Microphone icon on the Google Search Widget. Then speak the following into your phone:
CALL [say a phone number or a name on your phone], i.e. “Call John Smith, mobile” – it will start dialing the number or present you with some choices if it is not sure.
MAP [say a place], i.e. “Map Parks” or “Map Stations” – you should get a visual map of where these types of places are near you.
NAVIGATE TO [say a place or an address], i.e. “Navigate to Airport” – The GPS-driven Navigation feature kicks in and gives you verbal turn by turn directions from where you are to where you said to go!
SEND TEXT TO [say a name or a phone number, then the message], i.e. “Send Text to Sample, Did you walk Question Mark” – The screen will show you the texting screen waiting for your approval of what it thinks you said. If all is good, press Send.
EMAIL [say a contact name, then the message], i.e. “Email Mark Smith, Hey Mark can your phone do this Question Mark” – there is more you can do with this Android Voice Command but we’ll have to leave that for the full article on Emails using Voice Actions.
PLAY [say the name of a group or a particular piece/song], i.e. “Play Revelation Song” – If you have the music and a music App on your phone that can deal with Voice Commands, it will start playing the music for you. This one can be tricky!
NOTE TO SELF [say what you want to remind yourself of], i.e. “Note to self, Remember to get dog food on the way home today” – The result of this one is you get a written email sent to you (“yourself”) with the text you dictated. It is not sending you an audio file, but the written text in an email.
GO TO [say a website name], i.e. “Go to Use My Droid dot com” – you should end up here! At www.UseMyDroid.com
DEFINE [say a word], i.e. “Define internet” – you may get a list of guesses as to the word you say if it is strange enough, but that is OK because you are trying to get the definition right? Choose the proper word choice from the list and it then takes you to the web with a definition for that word. Cool!
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