This week in tech

Huawei watch Philippine launch

MANILA, Philippines - Huawei seems to be an on a roll. After partnering with Google for this year’s flagship Nexus phone, the Nexus 6P, the Chinese company rolls out its first-ever smartwatch simply called the Huawei Watch.

The watch looks like a classic timepiece, except it isn’t. Running Android Wear, the watch is equipped with a 1.2GHz Qualcomm processor, 4GB of storage, and 512MB of memory. It’s also one of the few smartwatches in the market that can pair with both Android and iOS devices.

The Huawei Watch comes in two variants – Classic, which retails for P19,990 and Active, which retails for P23,990.

Dell precision 3000 and 5000 series

As part of an improved portfolio of workstations, Dell brings its Precision 3000 and 5000 Series enterprise notebooks to the Philippines. Taking cues from Dell’s hugely popular XPS consumer line, the new mobile workstations have been redesigned from the ground up and are now lighter and thinner.

Under the hood, the Dell Precision series has configuration options that include the new sixth generation Intel Core processors, the latest professional graphics from AMD and NVIDIA, and new screen options like the PremierColor 4K InfinityEdge displays.

Samsung self-driving car?

Korean tech company Samsung is already making a wide range of electronics and home appliances so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that they might also be looking into entering your garage.

Samsung is reportedly launching a new division focused on manufacturing automotive components for other companies, beginning with information and entertainment gear. They’re starting small and it might take a while before we see a full blown Samsung car showcased at a major event, but it’s not unlikely as the company continues to try new things to remain one of the most easily recognizable brands globally.

Twitter timeline experiment

Twitter is again trying out something new with its timeline and it seems a lot like the Facebook news feed. Instead of the usual latest tweet on top, Twitter will attempt to put on top the ‘best quality’ tweets.

Users who experienced this experiment were confused asking why their timelines were all messed up. To say they aren’t pleased with the changes is an understatement.

The bigwigs at Twitter say they have to continue to question the way they do things in order to continue to innovate. In the past couple of years, there have been several reports that Twitter isn’t growing as fast as other social networking platforms like Facebook and Instagram and are doing their best to encourage new users. However, with moves like this, they might be alienating their existing users.

FF7 to come in multiple parts

All the excitement generated by the release of the first official trailer of the PlayStation 4 remake of popular role-playing-game Final Fantasy 7 may have been dampened by reports that the game may come in multiple parts.

Japanese site Famitsu.com spoke with with series producer Yoshinori Kitase and director Tetsuya Nomura and the two said releasing the game in multi-parts was necessary because remaking the entire game in PS4 required more than one entry. They added that making the game multi-part will ensure no parts are skipped.

Some fans, however, are a little bit skeptical over the multi-part release saying this could just be a means to milk more money for the franchise. But as this is a much-anticipated title, we’re sure many hardcore fans won’t mind at all.