Vlad Savov is really pleased with what he’s seen about the new Samsung Gear S2. There’s probably a really important thing in the experience that that smartwatch and the platform it runs, Tizen, offers: I want a watch that can do smart things, not a computer that can do watch things. The rotating bezel, by the …
Author: Javier Pastor
→Javier Pastor is a technology journalist that has been writing about tech since 1999. He started writing for PC Actual in Spain, the leading printed magazine in the country, and in 2006 started to write online. First as the Chief Editor for The Inquirer ES, and after that for MuyComputer until 2013. That year he became senior editor at Xataka, the leading tech news website in Spanish with over 5M uniques/month (Aug'15, comScore). Xataka is part of Weblogs SL, a blog network that gets over 40M uniques/month and that has a wide catalog of publications in Spanish.
The Unshut is his new venture and allows him to express his opinions and thoughts on everything touched by technology, and follows what he has been doing at Incognitosis, his personal blog, since 2005.
Don’t buy a new 4K UHD TV set. Not yet. Wait, at least, to get the new models with HDR. They are really promising. Oh, and if you finally decide to buy one, please keep this in mind: you’ll regret not purchasing that one that was a little larger. Don’t follow your wife’s advice on this. …
Apple pricing strategy was disappointing last year: starting with a 16GB model allows them to 1) get higher profit margins and also 2) tempt/force people to avoid the 16GB and get the more expensive 64GB model. The story is about to repeat itself next week: according to trusted sources, the new iPhones will also start with …
Four slight improvements on the Moto 360 specs: Much better processor: Snapdragon 400 quad-core 1.2 GHz vs. TI OMAP 3 single core 1 GHz More battery: 400mAh vs. 320mAh on the 46mm unit (300mAh on the 42mm model) Slightly better screen resolution: 360x330px (233 ppi) vs 320x290px (205 ppi) The Moto360 Sport comes with GPS and an …
Technology is everywhere, and it touches mostly every part of our lives. For a Spanish tech editor like me, reading tech sites written in English has been part of my day-to-day routine. News reports and featured content comes usually first and foremost in English, although tech coverage in other languages has been also really big …
This weekend The New York Times published an incendiary article about work culture at Amazon. It wasn’t much of a surprise, really: anyone who has read “The Everything Store”, by Brad Stone, already knew what can you find inside Amazon. Those horror aren’t new, but when several former employees showed their hands and some as the NYT …
The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers to get them to achieve its ever-expanding ambitions. Amazon is quite famous for its work culture. In the recent video about work at Amazon someone said: “You either fit here or you don’t. You love it or you don’t. There is …
The small Japanese company UPQ has launched 21 gadgets in 2 months and has showed that anyone can compete with the giants if he/she has talent and works hard. From the article: When asked if she’s trying to become the Xiaomi of Japan, Nakazawa deflects. “Big Japanese tech companies are in trouble,” she says. “I want …
Several Windows 10 users require sending information back to Microsoft to take advantage of those services and improve them. Cortana and Web Search works best because of that tracking, but privacy doubts arise. You can disable most of that tracking in Windows 10 Settings, but not all of it. Peter Bright writes: We’ve argued recently …
Vlad Savov on The Verge writes: Say that you do buy the rock-bottom-priced, Shenzhen-produced Android phone with the lofty specs from a random brand. It has a replaceable battery, but where will you get one when you decide you want a spare? It runs the latest Android today, but who will ensure it does so …