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Peer pressure is the influence on you to behave in a certain way because your friends or people in your group expect it. Most times, peer pressure is used in the context of being a bad thing. However, auto maker, Chevrolet, have found a way to put it to good use and keep you safe while driving.
The car maker has created an app that would help train and teach distracted drivers to focus more on the road than on their phones. Peer pressure mostly comes from friends and that is what this app, called Call Me Out, does. It uses recorded messages from your friends and family members to remind you to keep your hands off your phone and your eye on the road.
Apart from the fact that it does a serious job of encouraging you not to use your phones, the app also includes a leaderboard and rankings, so that adhering to the instructions gives the user more points. Your points can be seen by all users of this app. This is real good, as it encourages the spirit of competition.
How Call Me Out uses peer pressure to keep you safe
First, you have to download the app. Once downloaded, you need to have your friends or family members record a “Call out” message on the app. This is a voice message reminding you to concentrate on the road. The recorded message can be of any kind. There is no need to be all formal about it.
The app works using the GPS and accelerometer that is built into your phone, so it detects when the phone is handled when travelling more than 8km/h. When you handle the phone, the app plays those recorded messages telling you, the driver, to focus on the road.
Handling the phone while driving automatically activates the recorded messages and it starts playing. If you ignore the phone all through your drive, you get added points in your leaderboard.
Call Me Out App Availability
Chevrolet has this to say about the app: “With Call Me Out, we are extending our commitment beyond the technologies integrated into GM and Chevy vehicles and are making the app available for Android phone users who drive other vehicle makes and models.” That is a very noble move.
Though Chevrolet says it is available for all Android users but checking Google Play, I could not find it. My thought was perhaps it isn’t available to my location yet, and I was right. Using the direct download link, I got: “This item is not available in your country.” Just when a developer says “..all Android Users”. Oh well.
Anyway, thumbs up to Chevrolet for this nifty application of peer pressure in fighting distracted driving . Obviously they don’t just care about the sales of their cars but also about the safety of motorists out there.
Author:MobileChic
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Apple has kept everyone on the rumour mill for months, with all sorts of leaks and proposed names for the 3 new iPhone models of 2018. Get off the treadmill and say hello to iPhone XS , iPhone XR , and iPhone XS Max .
The smallest of the three is the Xs, and it has a 5.8 inches display. In terms of size, the iPhone XR is next with a 6.1 inches screen, while the biggest of the musketeers is the XS Max with a 6.5 inches screen. However, the XS and XS Max have many things in common.
iPhone XS Specs
The iPhone Xs specs sheet lists a 5.8-inch AMOLED screen, 4GB RAM, three internal storage options: 64GB, 256GB and 512GB, as well as colour options of Silver, Space Gray and Gold.
The rest of the iPhone XS specs include:
- Hexa-core Apple A12 Bionic processor
- dual 12MP rear camera
- 7MP selfie camera
- stainless steel build
- embedded eSIM + nanoSIM
- 2,658 mAh battery
- Fast battery charging (50% in 30 minute)
- from $1,000/€1,149/£999/NGN360,000
iPhone XS Max, and XS
iPhone XS Max Specs
Last and certainly not the least is the giant 6.5-inch iPhone XS Max. It offers similar RAM, storage and colour options to the Xs. This is the most expensive model of the three and has an AMOLED display.
The rest of the iPhone XS Max specs include:
- Hexa-core Apple A12 Bionic processor
- dual 12MP rear camera
- 7MP selfie camera
- stainless steel build + IP68 dust/water resistance
- embedded eSIM + nanoSIM
- 3.174 mAh battery
- Fast battery charging (50% in 30 minutes)
- from $1,100/€1,249/£1,099/N400,000
iPhone XR Specs
iPhone XR
With a 6.1-inch screen, the iPhone XR offers 3GB RAM, internal storage options of 64GB, 128GB and 256GB, as well as a more diverse colour that includes Black, Red, Yellow, Blue, Coral. The iPhone XR is the most affordable of the three and has an LCD display.
The rest of the iPhone XR specs include:
- Hexa-core Apple A12 Bionic processor
- 12MP rear camera
- 7MP selfie camera
- aluminium build + + IP67 dust/water resistance
- Dual nanoSIM
- 2,942 mAh battery
- Fast battery charging (50% in 30 minutes)
- from $750/€849/£749/NGN270,000
All three new iPhone models run iOS12 and have FaceID. Dual-SIM support is present on the iPhone XR, which is an export model meant to take on dual-SIM Android competitors in emerging markets. The other two models also have embedded eSIM in addition to the regular nanoSIM slot.
The official names of these three 2018 iPhone models were first unveiled in a leak . In summary, we have two “Xs” models with AMOLED screen and one more affordable, export model with LCD and dual-SIM support.
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