Parental control depends on a subscription

It is Sunday, February 2, and that means one thing: that the Mobile World Congress begins. The doors have not yet been opened, but the brands have begun to make presentations. One of them is Global HMD. The brand, which until relatively little manufactured nokia mobilesnow signs the smartphones with their own name, HMD, and it has been seen in the city to launch a new batch of products. One of them is a mobile for young people. And yes, it comes tied to a subscription. HMD Fusion X1. That is the name that HMD has given its new terminal, a device that has been developed in collaboration with Xplora. This brand may be familiar, since it is known for its Smart Watches with GPS for children. The company has not revealed its specifications or mentioned anything about the price, but it has commented that its key point (parental control) depends on a monthly payment. HMD Fusion X1 | Image: Xplora Parental control (payment). Leaving aside the technical characteristics, the Quid of this terminal resides in the Xplara subscription, whose price starts from 4.99 euros per month. According to HMD, this subscription “offers parents a total control over the experience of use of the smartphone of their teenage children (…) while offering a device for which young people can be excited.” What does it include? In HMD’s words, for 4.99 euros a month, parents can customize access to the internet applications. According to the company, this “allows parents to choose to restrict social networks and internet navigation or limit them.” Likewise, continuous monitoring of the location in intervals of 20 seconds with safe areas, emergency calls, low battery alerts and remote access to the device for parents is included. HMD Fusion X1 | Image: Xplora A “school mode” has also been added that “guarantees that distractions are reduced to a minimum during school hours blocking specific applications and functions when necessary.” All that, of course, can be controlled remotely from the parents’ phone. And more security. HMD has also announced a collaboration with Safetoneta system that offers “offers protection on the device based on artificial intelligence, automatically detecting and blocking the harmful content before it reaches the user, without depending on external applications that can be eluded.” This will be released in summer, thus being the first brand to do so. Images | HMD, Xplora In Xataka | My first mobile: 11 cheap smartphones for children and adolescents

Spotify prepares a new subscription option, according to Bloomberg. Music Pro will come true the ancient Hifi audio promise

It seems that this time is serious. Spotify could be closer to comply His former promise to offer higher quality audio to its users. Bloomberg points out that the Swedish firm is preparing a subscription option called Music Pro that will include this and other improvements for those who seek an experience a step beyond Premium. The sources consulted by the aforementioned medium say that Spotify is still working on the price and in the schedule, but they hope to launch the new level at the end of this year for additional $ 5.99 in the United States. At this time it is not clear if the supposed novelties will expand to other markets, including the European Union. Good news for audiophiles In the best case, paying a subscription and listening through the application, Spotify offers sound in AAC format with a quality equivalent to 320 kbps. Taking into account that the loss -less audio bits rate begins around 1,411 kbps, this shows how compressed are Spotify files. And while the service created by Daniel EK has the largest number of planet users, several less popular alternatives offer higher quality audio. There are Apple Music, Amazon Music HD or Tidal, who have been betting on this ideal possibility for audiophiles for a long time. Spotify will seek to make a difference with its new proposal. In addition to offering better quality audio, streaming service will allow subscribers to mix songs by different artists. For this characteristic it will use artificial intelligence, but it will not be the only thing. The additional payment of $ 5.99 The door will open to buy tickets for pre -sale concerts or access better seats. In any case, there is no official confirmation, so we will have to wait to know if this will end up materializing. Even having an official confirmation the ideal would be to wait. In its 2021 Stream On event, Spotify announced with bombs and dishes that would offer “Music with CDs without losses” at the end of that year. Four years have passed since that announcement, and not only the promise is still not fulfilled, but the video in which Billie Eilish participated, which was originally on YouTube, It has disappeared (Now it is private). In addition, la page with more details also It has been eliminated. Over time we will know what will really happen. Images | @felipepelaquim | Sound Tools In Xataka | Huawei Freebuds Pro 4, Analysis: The best way to summarize these headphones is with a word and that is “Chapó”

Movistar is giving all its customers an annual subscription

Are you a customer of Movistar in Spain? So your contract just got better. The operator has just signed an agreement with Perplexityone of the most powerful and useful artificial intelligence tools on the current scene. In fact, the popularity that it has been amassing in recent months seems to have been the cause of the interest on the part of the Spanish conglomerate. The best of all? You don’t have to do anything, accept any type of agreement or call to have it activated. Starting today, and for all clients residing in SpainMovistar is giving away one year of Perplexity Pro. To access the service it is as simple as going to the miMovistar app or website, accessing your personal area and looking for the section where the new agreement appears. Furthermore, as a culmination, the operator allows you access the link up to 5 times for the first 12 months, so you can share access with friends or family without fear. The time starts counting from the first time you log in, and as we have already mentioned, it is not necessary to take any extra steps or claim anything from Movistar: Access to Perplexity Pro is available to all customers regardless of their contract. In fact, it is not even necessary to have contracted fiber, a mobile line is enough. And, in case you’re wondering, the subscription is not only quite attractive for what it offers, but also for the savings it represents. Perplexity Pro costs 20 euros per monthso the value of the agreement represents a gift of 240 euros per year for users who want to take advantage of it. Thanks Movistar, but what is Perplexity Pro? Perplexity is not a new project, but it has gained quite a bit of popularity in recent months. It is a AI search engine which uses natural language and various business models to develop quite advanced responses and results. It is not a chatbot to use as can be ChatGPT either Gemini Livebut a tool to search. This service is capable of contextualizing your questions, understanding them perfectly and offering you answers in natural language. Additionally, it uses recent sources and is not limited to information on a single page. Unlike other AI search engines, this one does not launch lists of links to different websites, but analyzes the content and shows it to you in a simple and very natural way. To curl the curl, Perplexity uses a mix of language models among which stands out GPT-4, Claude 3Grok or Mistral Large. And that is where its main advantage lies: it is capable of mixing results from very disparate AIs to take the best of each or respond in the most efficient way to specific questions. If you ask a mathematical question, he is able to use the language model with greater speed and accuracy. And if, on the other hand, you intend to write a letter, you can opt for more advanced text generative AI models. To finish the play, allow upload files and images to analyze and use its content. All in real time and with a naturalness when speaking that few chatbots can match. Many of these features are only available on the paid versionbut it is not something you should worry about if you are Movistar customers. As we have already told you: you can access free with an annual subscription of Perplexity Pro from your personal area of ​​miMovistar.

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