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THOSE WHO USE Spotify’s free product will be familiar with the ads that play in-between listening to songs.
While they’re not the most intrusive examples of advertising out there, it does well considering there are roughly 30 million users who are using the service for free. Now the company is taking this one step further by introducing video ads.
There are two types of video ads available. The first are ‘Video Takeover’ ads which allows companies to own ad breaks on the desktop, and will work similarly to how audio ads are presented. The ads will only play if the desktop app is in view.
The second type is ‘Sponsored Sessions’, which is aimed at mobile users. This invites users to opt-in to view short videos which they can view on their smartphone.
Partners for the service include Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Ford, Nike and Universal Pictures among others.
The pay-off is that by choosing to watch them, you receive an extra 30 minutes of uninterrupted music, adding to the 146 minutes a day users spend listening to music on average.
More than 10 million people pay for the service, but introducing video ads will not only increase the amount of revenue it will earn, but it might also convince users to opt for the paid version to help escape ads.
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They should concentrate on improving battery life. Sod everything else for a year.
Real life minority report…
The biggest battery drain on a phone is the preinstalled apps that you can’t uninstall. I have to disable them and then hide the icon. The biggest revolution for me would be the ability to install only the apps I actually want. Apps to close when you close them and not rely on third party apps to force close them. And for the cache to reset. If mobile data switched off when the screen was off that would save a lot battery too.
The other thing they need to consider us true wireless recharging. That is, walk into a room that has the charger plugged in… and the phone starts charging. The technology already exists.
The whole thing needs to be geared towards protecting battery life and allowing the user to uninstall crappy apps they never use.
Also you shouldn’t need a google plus account to rate an app. That’s a massive gimmick to get android users to sign up for google plus.
oh eugene stop whining be happy:) beggers cant be choosers
Very constructive.
Is this it for the future of smart phones, small increases in screen resolutions and other gimmicks?
Rumours of the s5 premium version having a curved screen. Not really a gimmick as all the big names are starting to release curved TV’s at the minute. They are just one step ahead..
Curved screen tv’s are ridiculous gimmicks.
CRTs used to be curved. Then flat screen CRT came out, oh they were great. Then LCD / plasma and so on all flat. They need something new so back to curved. Slightly different but still. Just waiting on the new green and black screen s6 Myself
Are phones the new cars? Has the car radically improved in the last hundred years?
My samsung S4 keeps freezing and turning itself off.
larry i’ll get a curved screen just to stay ahead of the curve ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111
Curved TV screens provide much better viewing angles for the forthcoming wave of glasses free 3D
TV screens are getting that big they need to curve them so you can see it in your periphery vision, will eventually go all the way round and be called THE TUBE….waiting on THE SPHERICAL it will be absolutely hysterical….!!!!
You should try a soft reset – this is basically holding down the power button – turning off the device.
Remove the back, remove the battery and leave it out of the device for about 30 seconds.
Insert battery, add the cover back on.
Then turn your phone back on.
They should concentrate on letting people download the new kitkat operating system.3 people I know with samsung s3/s4 can’t download it.if it was apple it would be all over the news
Yeah, it fell short because it was too similar, indeed. Not because of Sammy’s disgraceful disregard for their current user base. As a Note 2 user, I got tired waiting for some form of support from Samsung. Jumped ship to CyanogenMod and haven’t looked back. No more Sammy phones for me, thank you.
It’s not released yet so they would be doing well to download it. It’s only out for Google nexus devices and by using custom ROMs.
Kit Kat or not, it will still run touchwiz which makes android slow and laggy regardless of what version it’s on.
Take a Break
Buy an I phone
@jamie he is looking for a phone not a fashion accesory
No he’s not he’s taking a break
“It felt that the S4 may have fell short of consumer expectations because its design was too similar to the S3.”
Translation: People were upset that it wasn’t immediately apparent they had the newest phone on the market.
Never hurt Apple
Eye scanning, implemented properly would be better than a fingerprint reader like what’s on the iPhone 5S.
Fingerprint reading is an inherently bad idea from a security point of view, as you can’t change the “secret” (your fingerprint) and you leave copies of it on every item you touch. Various academic papers and hackers have demonstrated how easily defeated fingerprint readers are by creating a copy of the print by candle wax or latex Neither it nor eye scanning are genuinely secure features, as they are both vulnerable to so-called “rubber hose” attacks where the owner is coerced into unlocking the phone. They should be treated as convenient gimmicks, not robust access control methods.
Yawwwnnn
John – you find genuine security issues boring?
Back to your Candy Crush. Leave important issues to those intelligent enough to understand them.
No need to be nasty, candy crush is a great game.
Eye believe it when I see it,
Piece of crap!!
Says the Apple lover… meh…
freaky after reading that as I heard Morgan Freeman’s voice…
Can’t for the life of me understand fanatical brand loyalty. I love my MacBook Pro, and will likely be buying a MacBook Air when it needs replacing, but I can appreciate other brand’s products – I even ditched an iPhone for a Note 2 because iOS didn’t suit my needs any more…
You would be able spot a galaxy S5 owner from a mile away. They would be the r€tard, holding the phone in they’re face trying to unlock it. It would be so easy for thieves to spot them.
“The feature would be Samsung’s response to Apple’s”
To Apple’s what?
In response to Apple’s Touch Id fingerprint scanner, I presume.
I think that more people would use a fingerprint scanner than a retina scanner on their phone.
But show knows…
Im pretty far back now with my s2, need to change it soon.
Cant beat the nokia c2
They all do the same thing.Big money making scam bring out a new model every 8 months or so, with a better camera, better screen res. Another few new perks that you never use.Then we all go like thicks and buy it.
my patent
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