Gear S3, Zenwatch, Predator 21X and more: IFA 2016 Day 1 Highlights

The IFA in Berlin just kicked off to a great start with companies pulling the wraps off hordes of new devices. Here’s a quick recap of the key highlights of the IFA 2016. Samsung’s S3 Gear becomes the highlight of Day 1. The Gear S3 Classic and Gear S3 Frontier smartwatches with in-built GPS and 4G LTE support (only Frontier). Find out more about the devices here .  The Day 1 saw another cool smartwatch - the Zenwatch 3 from Asus. A 1.39-inch AMOLED display device with Gorilla Glass, Qualcomm Snapdragon 2100 and quick charge ability. Learn more . One of the biggest surprises was the Acer Predator 21X gaming laptop that boasts of a 21-inch curved display. It also packs in two Nvidia GTX 1080 graphics cards and an Intel Kaby Lake CPU.  The 21-inch screen with a resolution of 2560×1440 (2K) also supports Nvidia’s G-Sync technology. In addition, Acer is throwing in a Tobii eye-tracking module.  As expected a slew of announcements came in from Lenovo. The highlight of these announcements is the Moto Z Play - a 5.5-inch HD Super AMOLED display smartphone and a Hasselblad True Zoom Moto Mod to enhance your smartphone photography experience. The 2.0GHz octa-core processor paired up with 3GB of RAM and a 16MP laser autofocus camera along with a front-facing camera with LED flash. Besides, there’s the Lenovo Yoga Book - a 2-in-1 tablet designed for enhanced user productivity with 10.1-inch IPS full-HD screen, Dolby Atmos sound, 64GB of memory and two panels that open up like an ultra-thin notebook. The tablet is also equipped with Halo keyboard that is designed to “learn and adapt to” typing habits of its user, with built-in prediction and artificial learning software.  Acer has put on display its ridiculously thin notebook dubbed Swift 7. The 13.3-inch laptop runs on Windows 10 and has a thickness of just 9.98mm or 0.39 inches. It features the latest 7th-generation Intel Core i5 processor, 256GB of SSD storage, and 8GB of RAM. There is also an advanced 2×2 Wi-Fi 802.11ac and two USB-C ports. The 13.3-inch IPS panel comes with full HD (1920×1080) resolution, sadly no touch version will be available. Read more here . Bang and Olufsen, known for its aesthetics, has new gadgets on display at the IFA 2016. The key highlight of the Beosound 1 and Beosound 2 is the ability to project sound 360 degrees. They come with a conical design, offering a lamp-like look. You can read more about the Beosound 1 and Beosound 2.