A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
Samsung has unveiled its thinnest smartphone to date. The Galaxy A8 is 5.9mm (0.23in) thick, making it less than 85% the thickness of Samsung's flagship Galaxy S6 Edge.
Despite this design constraint, engineers have still managed to fit in a relatively high capacity 3,050mAh battery and a 16-megapixel camera - albeit one that protrudes beyond the rest of the case. One expert questioned the advantages of going so narrow. For now, Samsung has announced only that the phone will go on sale in China and Singapore.
"The Galaxy A8 will not be coming to the UK," a spokeswoman told. Although it will be the thinnest such device from one of the major manufacturers, other Chinese companies are already selling even more compact Android-powered rivals.They include:
- the Vivo X5 Max (4.75mm)
- the Oppo R5 (4.85mm)
- the Gionee Elife S5.1 (5.1mm)
China's overall smartphone market shrank for the first time in six years in the January-to-March quarter, coming in 4% smaller than for the same period the previous year, according to research company IDC. But it said Samsung had experienced a much bigger fall than most - a 53% drop.One of the challenges of making a handset as thin as the Galaxy A8 is the need to minimise its risk of bending in the user's pocket.
Samsung has opted for a metal case to aid its rigidity, building on the engineering work it did for last year's original Galaxy Alpha.
The new machine also features:
- a fingerprint sensor
- a 4G chip
- a 5.7in 1080p high-definition screen
One of the challenges of making a handset as thin as the Galaxy A8 is the need to minimise its risk of bending in the user's pocket. Samsung has opted for a metal case to aid its rigidity, building on the engineering work it did for last year's original Galaxy Alpha.
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