Cat S60: Smartphone with in-built thermal imaging camera to debut at MWC 2016

Cat will be heading to this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, to present a new smartphone that's not only waterproof and shockproof but also comes with an onboard thermal imaging camera.

Thermal cameras form images by measuring different levels of infrared radiation emitted by sources from several meters away.

The intensity of radiation is determined by the temperature of the source. This technology can be used to detect heat leaks around doors and windows, to spot patches of damp and even to see in the dark.

Until now, thermal imaging with a smartphone was only possible via an external add-on camera module. Here, Cat integrates the technology directly into a handset with an onboard camera system made by thermal imaging specialist FLIR Systems. The camera runs with a comprehensive application offering various functions (still image, panorama, video mode, etc.).

The Cat S60 is a robust handset too, offering shock-resistance and drop-resistance (from heights of up to 1.8m onto concrete) thanks to its reinforced frame and Gorilla Glass 4 screen. It's also waterproof to five meters.

Otherwise, the Cat S60 is a 4G Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) smartphone with a 4.7-inch HD display. It uses the Snapdragon 617 octa-core processor with a 32GB internal memory and 3GB of RAM.

It features a 13-Megapixel main camera with dual flash and a 5-Megapixel front-facing camera.
The Cat S60 should be due for upcoming release priced at €649 or $599.

Virtual reality set to transform filmmaking

Chris Milk stepped onto a TED Conference stage and took the audience on an awe-inducing trip into the future of movies. While much of the early attention on virtual reality has focused on use of the immersive technology in video games, Milk and his US startup Vrse are using it to transform storytelling and filmgoing. "We have just started to scratch the surface of the true power of virtual reality," Milk said. "It's not a video game peripheral. It connects humans to other humans in a profound way... I think virtual reality has the potential to actually change the world." He had everyone in the Vancouver audience at TED , which ended Friday, hold Google Cardboard viewers to their eyes for what was billed as the world's collective virtual reality experience. Google Cardboard gear is literally that -- cardboard

Explained: Camera Improvements in the New HTC 10

With the HTC 10, the Taiwanese company is promising to undo the past wrongs in the cameras of its previous flagship phones. The camera has long a weak point in HTC devices. At first, HTC sacrificed image resolution in the M8 and made the size of individual pixels larger to capture more light (what HTC called Ultrapixel). But the resulting 4 megapixel images were often fuzzy, especially when cropped or enlarged. To fix the issue, in its next flagship - the M9 - HTC went with smaller individual pixels in a 20-megapixel camera last year, but it still underperformed in extreme situations, such as indoors and close-ups. In the HTC 10, the company attempts to strike a balance with larger individual pixels (1.55µm), but not as large as before and a 12 megapixel sensor in its camera coupled with a ƒ/1.8 lens. HTC accepts that in the imaging performance in the M9 was not up to the kind of spec of what they really like to see in a flagship. HTC is giving a slight boost to the selfi...

Freedom 251: 30,000 Units Sold, Components for Up to 2.5 Million Will Be Imported

Ringing Bells, the makers of the Rs. 251 smartphone - the Freedom 251 - confirmed to Gadgets 360 on Tuesday that it has still only accepted payments for 30,000 units of the phone. It also added that the components for these phones will be imported, and only assembled in India, not made here. Ringing Bells stopped accepting orders on February 19, and claims to have received over 70 million registrations. The company President and Director both repeatedly stated that the price of the phone would be made possible through economies of scale, and making the phone in India to cut out import costs. Economies of scale? However, in a discussion with Gadgets 360 the company revealed that it had only sold 30,000 units of the phone on day one. The company has now confirmed that it has not sent out the payment emails to anyone else who registered - "we were working out details of cash on delivery, which we are announcing now, so we will be sending emails to the first 2.5...

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