One team, sixteen countries, four months later

OnePlus One is a new Shenzhen-based technology start-up, committed to bringing the best possible technology to users around the world by offering a Top-Android phone with amazing specs.  The OnePlus One starts at $299 for a white 16GB version, and will also offer a 64GB variant in black for $349 when it goes on sale in mid-May, by invitation only!

General availability will be in mid-May in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and the United States.

What sets the OnePlus One apart from most flagships is its magnesium-based case with easily interchangeable covers. The company will offer variants ranging from wood, bamboo, kevlar and even denim.

The camera uses a 13-megapixel, six-element, f/2.0 Sony Exmor IMX214 sensor. Image stabilization and slow-motion recording at 720p will be standard, and a fast 0.3s shutter speed is promised. The camera also shoots video in 4K (Ultra HD). OnePlus has partnered up with JBL to ensure they sound great.

One team, sixteen countries, four months later... I must say that's incredibly well done!

soon your personal satellite

3 Android smartphones destined to become small satellites at low prices was sent on Sunday aboard the flight of Orbital Sciences Corporation's Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Va.

The devices for this mission is built around the Nexus One smartphone made by HTC.

NASA's PhoneSat project will demonstrate the ability to launch the lowest-cost and easiest to build satellites ever flown in space – capabilities enabled by using off-the-shelf consumer smartphones to build spacecraft.

​A cool thing is that all amateur radio and shortwave listeners around the world can participate in this mission by monitoring transmissions and retrieving images and data from the three satellites.

​Well, next time a stewardess ask me to turn off my phone in the airplane, I know what to say :)​

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