8 point 1 Krypton: Tcl gets Palm brand will launch new product

Palm, which once built a classic series of smartphones such as Treo, Pre, Pixi, is back. Palm and BlackBerry are the icon of smartphones before Android and the iphone dominate the planet. After the webOS was sold to LG last year, the Palm brand now has to sell to TCL and Alcatel's joint ventures.

Hewlett-Packard stopped selling Palm's original product line and WebOS equipment in just two years after it bought Palm for $1.2 billion. And now, visit the hpwebos.com website will be jump to the new website mynewpalm.com, the website homepage Palm logo below also presents with Alcatel new strategy match the slogan-"Smart move".

According to public information, the Palm brand has been transferred from HP to a company called Wide Progress Global 2¥q. The signatory of the company's actual deal is also the regional president of Alcatel-one touch. Before Palm was bought by HP, it was rumored that Huawei and ZTE were interested in the owners of WebOS. Now it is finally spending the Chinese manufacturers.

Samsung has surpassed Apple for the first time in the U.S. market

Apple's emphasis on iphone and ipad satisfaction is the first in the U.S. market in almost every major event, as it has been in the past few years. But according to BGR's data, Apple's customer satisfaction was 79% this year, falling below 80% for the first time, while Samsung's user satisfaction soared to 81%.

Interestingly, Samsung's share of the US market has fallen this year, and Apple has been rising. Apple now has twice times the market share of Samsung. Maybe it's all real powder left.

This year, the overall gap in user satisfaction is not big, the main smartphone manufacturers user satisfaction is not less than 70%. Nokia and Motorola are both 77% and the worst LG has 73%. The difference between the future smartphone user experience is less and less, and the competition is likely to be more intense.

The Phantom of the December shipments of more than 1 million units

The Phantom of the Family CEO Zang yesterday on micro-blog said: "December, the spirit of the ship has passed 1 million units, although not yet reached my mind the results, but also created a new record of the charm clan." Zang last year, the Phantom of the month's sales reached more than 400,000 units. So this year's growth is still more obvious. But he did not disclose the proportion of each of the models.

Of course, this score compared to millet and Huawei shipments are not in a order of magnitude. News that the Phantom of the next year's delivery target unit is tens of thousands of units. And millet and Huawei will ship the target set in 100 million units.

This year is the charm of a comprehensive transformation of the year, the second half of their continuous release of three new products: 1799 Yuan mx4,2499 MX4 Pro and 999 yuan of the charm Blue Note. The attitude towards millet is very obvious.

Tesla is developing a "snake" charging device that automatically connects cars

Elon Musk has just said on Twitter that Tesla is developing a charging device that will automatically connect the wall's charging pile and Model S electric car. In his description, the charging cable would crawl like a metal snake.

Although the automatic connection will certainly meet the needs of many people, but this automatic crawling cable sounds very strange, may give a lot of customer sensory impact.

And given the characteristics that Musk has always said before, it will take some time for this function to be realistic.

Snapchat has been investing 485 million dollars in 23 investment institutions since April

According to documents submitted by Snapchat in Wednesday to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company raised a new round of financing for 485 million dollars. The document also shows that a total of 23 investors participated in the current round of investment. In August 2014, Snapchat had just completed 20 million dollars in funding, and in December they got 50 million dollars in investment.

Snapchat users share 700 million snapshots a day. More than Facebook. In 2013, Snapchat rejected Facebook's offer of a 3 billion dollar bid.

At the same time, Snapchat and the FTC agreed to set a penalty for Snapchat possible user information leaks over the next 20 years. Snapchat last year was found to be able to use third-party tools to restore information that was considered private by users.

Samsung announces 2015 Smart TV will adopt Tizen system

Samsung announces that all smart TVs released in 2015 will adopt a new Tizen as an operating system rather than Android, according to Reuters. Samsung will develop its own video streaming media and web browsing capabilities.

This could mean that the Android camp's biggest hardware maker is starting to drift away from Google. Samsung has unveiled smartphones and smart watches for Tizen systems. But Samsung's flagship device has always been using the Android system.

Samsung's South Korean partner LG uses its own acquired webOS system on smart TV. It seems that the closeness of the Android TV system, which enforces the use of Google's service framework and UI for the three major Android systems, is leading to suspicions from partners.