Cyanogen starts search for female volunteers to supply voice samples

Want to be part of developing one of the latest smartphones coming out? Cyanogen Inc. wants help from female volunteers to refine the custom wake-up command of the OnePlus One. The company needs females within the 18-75 age range to supply various voice samples that would help them fine tune the wake-up feature.  Cyanogen has put up more details on their Google+ page for those interested in helping out.

Google updates Camera app to let you take photos while shooting videos

After releasing the standalone app for the stock Google Camera, Google released a small update for the app that would help endear it more to avid smartphone video takers. The new version 2.1.042 finally lets users take photos while filming clips. It’s not a big update but the feature has been available on other camera apps for a while that it’s good that Google has brought it to its stock Camera app. The update is rolling out at the moment but if you can’t wait, here’s a link to the APK file.

Source: Android Spin

Detailed look at the design process of the HTC One M8

Are you curious about the design process and philosophy behind the HTC One M8? Stuff got an exclusive interview with HTC’s Creative Director Daniel Hundt to talk about the One M8 and the future designs of HTC products. Hundt said they started with a chunk of metal and thought about what they wanted to do with that. He said he is a fan of a design approach “that’s not forced, that make you think that’s just what a phone or a chair is supposed to look like. It’s a natural result of the material, without technology being forced in just for technology’s sake.”

Hundt also said that they hope to make a phone that’s as close to 100% metal as possible. The M8 is currently 70% metal. Imagine what a full-metal phone would look like. We’re not sure about the possibility of this happening but we’d like to see HTC try.

Review: Sony SRS-X9 ultra premium personal speaker

Despite creating a beautiful, feature-rich and well thought-out wireless speaker, Sony’s SRS-X9 fails to deliver enough low-end sound for a high-end audio product.

By Simon Cohen

The wireless audio phenomenon in consumer tech is huge and isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. It’s into this already crowded category that Sony is throwing three new contenders for your wireless speaker dollars. The biggest and baddest of the three is the SRS-X9, a sophisticated-looking all-in-one affair that straddles the line between bookshelf speaker and home theatre sound-bar.

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