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How to Get Started?

Start by buying a smart hub. The hub is the brain of your smart home, connecting you and your devices via apps on your phone, tablet or computer. Once you select a hub, you can start buying smart devices. I started with an Amazon Echo. Then I bought a smart hub and two motion controllers for $180. Discount coupons and sales are common.

How to Power Profile A Mobile App Using Hardware?

May 31, 2015 4 Comments This article is the second in a series for mobile software developers. The first article can be found here. It is intended to help developers create apps with better battery life. This article will focus on Best Practices for hardware power measurement. This is something every developer should care about because reducing power consumption results in longer battery life and happier users.

How to Measure Power Consumption Using Free Software?

May 28, 2015 4 Comments This article is the first in a series for mobile software developers. It is intended to help developers create apps with better battery life. Most developers don’t know if their app has a problem with excessive power consumption, because they don’t have an effective way to measure the amount of power their app consumes. If you can measure it, you can act on it.

Can You Really See A Difference?

Whether you can see a difference between your current smartphone and a smartphone with a true retina display depends on what you are viewing. Low-quality videos like the ones we watch on YouTube, will continue to look bad. In fact, they will even look worse, because you’ll see the compression artifacts more clearly. Small text is one area where you are likely to notice a difference. Text will be razor sharp.

So When Can I Buy One?

True retina displays that are better than any Apple product are available now. The LG G3 has a 2560 x 1440 pixel smartphone display with a pixel density of 534 ppi. The Samsung Galaxy S5 LTE-A has a 5.1-inch display with an incredible 576 pixels per inch. That’s higher than the number required for a true retina smartphone display. Sadly it’s only available in Korea at this time.