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ترفع شركات سامسونج وآيفون وموتورولا وغيرها الستارة عن عدد من الهواتف الجديدة في العام 2020 لتسعى بذلك إلى إرضاء مستخدميها والتماشي مع متطلبات العصر الجديد من حيث السرعة والدقة والمواصفات، وطبعاً تقنيات التقاط الصور النقية والجميلة.

Galaxy Z Flip

نبدأ مع شركة سامسونج التي تستعد لكشف النقاب عن سلسلة Galaxy S20، في 11 شباط المقبل إلى جانب هاتفها القابل للطي Galaxy Z Flip، ولا يحتوي الجانب الخلفي لهاتف Galaxy Z Flip على أي ميزات أو مكونات معينة، ويشبه من الداخل الكثير من الهواتف الذكية الأخرى التي تم إصدارها في العقد الماضي.

وتريد سامسونج أن يشبه هاتفها القابل للطي الهواتف الذكية التقليدية في هذا المجال، وتعمل الشركة على تشغيل الإشعارات أو Notification على شاشة العرض الثانوية AMOLED، إلى جانب عرضها للوقت والتاريخ وعمر البطارية الحالي.

أما من ناحية المواصفات، فيجب أن يكون جهاز Galaxy Z Flip ضمن الفئة المتطورة، وتوضح التسريبات أنه يعمل بواسطة معالج +Snapdragon 855 مع 8 جيجابايت من ذاكرة الوصول العشوائي، إضافة إلى 256 جيجابايت من السعة التخزينية.

وإلى جانب هاتف جالاكسي القابل للطي تعتزم سامسونج إطلاق مجموعة من هواتف جالاكسي إس منها جالاكسي إس20، جالاكسي إس20 ألترا وجالاكسي إس20 بلس.

Blackview BV9800pro

ننتقل إلى Blackview BV9800 Pro الذي يتميز بمقاومة الضربات والسقوط وجميع أنواع الظروف القاسية، كما يتمتع بكاميرا حرارية بجوار الكاميرا الرئيسية 49 ميجا بكسل.

يتميز هاتف Blackview BV9800 وBV9800 Pro بشاشات مقاس 6.3 بوصة، بدقة 1080 × 2340 بكسل، بالإضافة إلى بطارية كبيرة تبلغ 6580 مللي أمبير في الساعة، ما يجعلها مثالية لساعات طويلة.

iPhone 12

وإلى شركة أبل التي يبدو أنها تسعى للسيطرة على مبيعات سوق الهواتف الذكية، حيث تنوى طرح 4 هواتف دفعة واحدة وهم iPhone 12 وiPhone 12 Pro و iPhone 12 Pro Max، مع تصميم جديد كلياً بالإضافة لتصغير حجم النوتش Notch (أو ما يسمى بالنتوء وهو عبارة عن قطع في أعلى الشاشة يضم الكاميرا الأساسية والسماعة والمستشعر)، من أجل توفير أكبر مساحة ممكنة من الشاشة.

وقد تأتي هذه السلسلة ببعض التغييرات الجذرية مثل شاشة بمعدّل تحديث 120 هرتز ودعم 5G بالإضافة إلى الماسح الضوئي لبصمات الأصابع الذي طال انتظاره للقياسات الحيوية، وأكثر من ذلك بحسب ما كشف موقع ريفيو بلس المتخصص في عرض اسعار ومواصفات الموبايلات.

ومن المتوقع أن يتميز جهاز iPhone 12 بتصميم مشابه للتصميم الخاص بـ iPhone 4 أو iPhone 5 كما من المتوقع أن تتمتع الهواتف بتصميم أكثر جمالاً ووضوحاً بدلاً من ملامح أكثر نعومة التي اعتدنا على وجودها في أجهزة iPhone العصرية.

وبالنسبة للسعر فقد أجمعت التحليلات والتوقعات بأنه لن يتعدى سعر iPhone11 بأكثر من 50$ على أن يتم تبرير أي تكاليف إضافية بشبكات الـ5G.

يقال إن شركة أبل تسعى للتخلص تدريجياً من شاشات LCD والبداية ستكون بسلسلة iPhone 12 وتشير أحدث التقارير أن شركة أبل سوف تستعين بمصادر خارجية لإمدادها ب شاشاتOLED وستستعين تحديداً بشركة Samsung.

موتورلا Razr

أما الهاتف الأخير الذي سنكشف النقاب عن تفاصيله فهو الموتورلا Razr – الهاتف الأيقونة – الذي يعود بنسخة جديدة هذا العام وبمواصفات مميزة أهمها ما يتعلق بشاشته القابلة للطي قياس 6.2 بوصة، وبالنسبة للكاميرا، فيقدم موتورولا Razr كاميرا رئيسية فردية بدقة 16 ميجابيكسل مع فلاش LED مزدوج على ظهر الهاتف، وعلى الشاشة الداخلية يتم تقديم كاميرا سيلفي بدقة 5 ميجابيكسل داخل تصميم تقليدي يتماشى مع تصميمات الهواتف الحالية.

شركة موتورلا كانت مصممة على إطلاق هاتفها الجديد الشهر الحالي في حين أن سعره لن يتخطى 1500 دولار داخل الولايات المتحدة الأميركية، و1700 يورو في الدول الأوروبية.

Since the mid-2000s and now that both iOS (Apple, 2007) and Android OS (Google, 2008) are well past their 10-year anniversaries, it can be difficult to imagine a third power player in the smartphone operating system market and Harmony OS.

According to Global Stats, Android is controlling over 76% of smartphones from a multitude of manufacturer handsets, and Apple is at almost 23% on its own devices, while the rest of today’s smartphones (less than 1%) run Android and iOS alternatives such as:  Windows OS, KaiOS and others. It’s difficult to imagine how anyone could break into this market.

Harmony OS  in Recent News

Recently though, several factors have pushed Huawei, China’s leading technology manufacturer, to begin developing its own OS – Harmony OS . The recent controversy between the US and China that took place in mid-May 2019, has also forced Google to pull Huawei’s license to use Android, the open-source OS, a version of which most manufacturers except Apple use on their devices.

To broadly summarize, the US and China, the world’s two largest national economies, have had an ongoing trade war. In 2018, US President Donald Trump raised import taxes on technology (laptops, smartphones, smart TVs, etc.) coming to the United States from China. This decreases US goods being built in China as he believes this to be an “unfair trade practice,” where some of the biggest American corporations rely on China building their products instead of having them built back home. This also means that Trump wants to keep manufacturing jobs in the US instead of China.

In mid-May 2019, following an executive order from Trump, the US Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security Entity List added Huawei on its blacklist. This means that Huawei is not allowed to use any form of American components, technology, software, or chips into any of its technologies. If you think about it, it’s quite natural that Trump would take this decision following the trade war. But another reason Trump took this decision was because he had a reason to believe that Huawei was a security threat on the US due the telecom giant’s closeness with the Chinese government.

Huawei’s vice-president of communications, Joe Kelly spoke to Reuters at the heat of this news and said, “We are very open and transparent. In the US-China trade war we have become a bargaining chip.”

And now Huawei has unveiled its new OS, Harmony OS.

Huawei’s Meteoric Rise

Only two or three years ago, most consumers were still having trouble pronouncing the name Huawei. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), at the end of 2017, Huawei was a solid third in terms of smartphone market share, with an impressive 10.7% (Apple being first with 19.6% and Samsung second at 18.9%).

In less than two years though, Huawei has jumped to second place, with a massive 8% spike to claim 18.9% of the market, trailing Samsung which rose to 23% up more than 3%, and followed by Apple, which fell almost 8% to 11.8% of the smartphone market in the first quarter of 2019.

In other words, making sense of these numbers, Huawei can easily become the second-most used OS if only its devices run Harmony OS . Huawei doesn’t plan to take the Apple route though, and keep its software for its own devices exclusively. It plans to have an open source platform, similar to Androids, where any manufacturer of smart tech can utilize the microkernel-based, distributed OS developed by Huawei.

The 5G and IoT Upper Hand

Currently, Huawei is the only major manufacturer with 5G capabilities. An exponentially faster way to connect to the Internet, many experts see 5G as essential for the much-anticipated “Internet of Things” (IoT) where smart devices are all connected and communicating in real-time, allowing for things like self-driving cars that can quickly and reliably communicate with traffic lights, other cars, pedestrian devices, etc. to ensure a “smart city” is both efficient, and safe.

Huawei seems poised to reap the rewards of being the first to develop and deploy this technology, and this bet is clear with how Harmony OS is being developed.

A microkernel-based, distributed OS means that the same software can run on different devices, from smart watches, smart speakers, home appliances and of course smartphones. It also makes the OS “future-proof” and can easily be updated and deployed across a multitude of devices.

What’s Next

Huawei claims that Harmony OS is faster and more secure than Android, and even boasts it’ll be quicker than iOS. However, according to the latest research from Counterpoint’s Market Monitor service, Huawei’s rapidly growing in market share, with some projections showing it might soon surpass Samsung, as well as their near-monopoly on 5G technology so far, makes them in an ideal position to create an OS that will surpass the two current heavyweights that dominate the world’s smartphones: Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android.

Keep an eye out for Harmony OS, or as it’s known in China, HongMeng OS.

The human race has only ever known planet Earth as its home, and the possibility of life outside its boundaries has always been a subject that piqued interest.  Although talks about life on planets, such as Mars, have been going on for a few years, human existence doesn’t seem to extend beyond Earth. But CEO of SpaceX , Elon Musk, will stop at nothing to pave the way for life on the Red Planet using Starship.

What is SpaceX?

A pioneer in its field, and with an ultimate goal of enabling human life on other planets, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. or SpaceX for short, is a private American aerospace manufacturer and space transportation services company founded in 2002 by Elon Musk.

It has conducted over 100 launches with different rocket models such as Falcon 1, the very first privately funded liquid-propellant rocket to reach orbit.

Starship: The New SpaceX Vehicle

A month ago, at Boca Chica, Texas — one of SpaceX’s launching facilities, Musk presented a giant prototype of the next generation rocket that is meant to fly hundreds of passengers to destinations like the Moon and Mars.

Starship — the newest addition to the SpaceX family, is said to land on the moon and stage cargo there by the year 2022, thus providing resources for the hundreds of people that are ultimately going to follow by the year 2024.

According to The Verge, the prototype known as Mark 1 has three of SpaceX’s next generation raptor engines attached to its base and towers overs 165 feet (50 meters). The raptor engines are set to fly the prototype rocket at a high altitude, whereby once the high-altitude testing is completed, orbital testing will follow and soon after that, manned test flights will take place. Musk also shared that the prototype will be using a technique called propulsive landing, one that is used by SpaceX’s current operational rockets. 

The first flight of the Mark1 Starship is set to take off in one to two months, launching from Texas to reach a maximum altitude of 12 miles in a suborbital trajectory. Although several testings are scheduled, Musk explained that Starship could fly as soon as six months from the Mark1 launch granted all operations work according to schedule.

As mentioned on SpaceX’s website, the final Starship vehicle will be “a fully reusable transportation system designed to carry both crew and cargo to Earth orbit, the Moon, Mars and beyond”.

Starship vs. NASA

According to Musk, Starship is set to be the most powerful vehicle ever developed due to its unique ability to carry in excess of 100 metric tons to Earth orbit.

While the Mark1 prototype will do its first suborbital flights with just three raptor engines, the final Starship vehicle will sit atop a Super Heavy rocket booster consisting of thirty-seven raptor engines, enabling Starship to be one of the most powerful rocket engines to be made. Not only that, but this will produce twice the thrust of NASA’s Saturn V rocket, the rocket that carried Apollo astronauts to the moon, which is perceived as both the largest and most powerful rocket.

Wired even says that this advancement permits Starship to dethrone the NASA Saturn V. Furthermore, Digital Trends believes that the company may even beat NASA to the moon for its planned 2024 Artemis mission.

Despite Starship still being in the testing phases, Musk already sold seats on the spacecraft for a trip around the moon, Now, we don’t know about you, but we are starting to see that life outside of planet Earth may be possible after all, especially when Elon Musk is the one working on it to happen.

Starship Launch Animation | South Texas

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