Monthly Main Meeting Highlights
February 2020 Main Meeeting
It seems everyone is into the wide screen flip phone phenomena. Alex introduced us to the new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip phone.
It a rather unusual design. Most of the fold-out screens have been designed to look like tablets when they open. The new Galaxy Z Flip is square and folds up.
Tonight, Alex continued our look at the new wide screen flip phones.
Last month he went to the Sydney launch of the Motorola Razr and he showed us some of the video of the presentation. Unfortunately, it looks like we won’t see the Razr until the end of March due to the effect of the Corona virus which has shut down so many factories in China and South Korea -including the Samsung factory.
It seems everyone is into the wide screen flip phone phenomena. Alex introduced us to the new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip phone.
It a rather unusual design. Most of the fold-out screens have been designed to look like tablets when they open. The new Galaxy Z Flip is square and folds up.
It’s a folding phone but it has a Glass screen!
The fold has a tiny brush to clean the screen
The Fold allows you to control an app on the bottom screen and view it on the top
Or do two things at once.
Here is a link to the Samsung video.
and all the details from the Samsung Galaxy Z flip site.
Samsung Galaxy S20 Range
We then had a look at the S20 range.
There will be an S20, an S20+ and an S20 Ultra.
The first thing to note is the cameras. The Ultra has a 108mp resolution a 10X optical zoom and a 100X resolution zoom.
Videos can now be filmed in 8K resolution and you can capture 33MP screen shots straight from the video.
There are a range of batteries with the models from 4000Ah, 4500Ah, and 5000Ah for the Ultra.
To top that each model will have a 5G version.
We then looked at D-Links new smart DIY security bundle.
D-Link now has a new Smart DIY home surveillance kit at $299.
This is a Do it yourself (DIY) kit which includes door sensors, a motion detector and camera with smart hub.
We watched a video on the details of the system.
Door and window sensors
Motion sensors
Recieve alerts on your phone
Person detection so a stray dog won’t set the alarm off.
With boundary protections you can allow entry to some areas, say the post box on the gate but not the front door.
Multi zone detection means no sneaking in through the back yard.
The My-Dlink has exit zones to protect baby going astray.
The camera has a 30fps capture rate giving a clear image of intruders.
News from Huawei
Before the break Alex noted that Huawei had just launched their new Mate X folding phone and tablet. Huawei told us about these when they come to visit in April.
With the problems Huawei is having with America and its restrictions, Huawei has lost access to the Google app store. To overcome that problem Huawei launched its own App store. Alex noted the older Huawei phones, those before May 2019 can still access the Google App Store.
Here’s the link to the Huawei’s introduction video.
After the break we continued with some games fun.
First, we had the rumour is that Apple may be launching a 4.7 inch retina display iPhone which is smaller than the latest iPhone 10. There will be some new IPad pro and a larger IPod touch.
Who remembers the Microsoft Fight Simulator? I remember the 2004 version with the centenary simulation of the Wright Bros first flight.
The new 2020 version is going to have close to every airport in the world.
We had a look at the gamers from IGN and their review of the 2020 version.
The graphics appear stunning. In the video we saw a screen shot of the original DOS Flight Simulator.
Here are a few examples of the new airports.
We also had a look at some of the online links to classic games.
This was prompted when Alex tried to find an old apple came called Lode Runner.
Which we had a brief look at.
Alex also found two other online sources of old games. The first was Classic Reload.
The other we looked at was Crazy Games
To finish off Alex informed us that it appears a driver can be fined if your passenger uses their mobile phone and you are looking at the screen. Here’s the article.
The Raffle
Tonight, we had a Google Nexus 6P smartphone on which Alex had loaded a heap of interesting apps
and a solar power bank and two smaller power banks.
Our Winners
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