This year has seen major new players arrive in the smartwatch space, both as Google introduced Android Wear and Apple showed-off its Apple Watch series. But throughout all this, the old stalwart Pebble has remained a more than viable contender. Even Pebble needs to evolve sometimes to keep up with the Joneses, and today we get word of not just some price ...
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Over the past couple weeks, we’ve heard Google reveal a few changes that were set to come to the Play Store. First there was word that it was prompting developers to provide physical mailing addresses, with the intent of displaying them publicly in app listings, right alongside existing contact info like email addresses. Then a few days later we heard about a shift in the way Google would display info about apps offering users the opportunity to make in-app purchases, displaying the full range of IAP ...
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How do you preserve the scratch-free finish of the glass covering your smartphone’s display? Well – besides just being really careful, that is. A bulky case? A plastic stick-on screen protector? The latter may be a very popular option, but doesn’t that feel like a bit of a downgrade, moving from precision-engineered glass to plastic? Today the team at dbrand is launching a new line of mobile accessories that seek to offer unparalleled screen protection while also maintaining that ...
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A couple weeks back, Microsoft started sending out invitations for a press event rumored to introduce a new Windows Technical Preview and give us a bunch insight into the company’s plans for Windows 9. Sure enough, today Microsoft shared its vision for the future of Windows, but there’s not going to be any Windows 9; instead, we’re skipping that entry entirely and moving full speed ahead to Windows 10, powering everything from phones to TV-sized presentation screens, and set to start arriving ...
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With the iOS 8.0.1 misfire behind it, Apple’s looking forward to what’s next for its mobile platform. Yesterday we saw some evidence suggesting it wasn’t just prepping iOS 8.1, but also early at work on iOS 8.2 and 8.3. Just what features would all these releases deliver? We’re already getting answers, as Apple makes the first beta of iOS 8.1 available to its developer community.On the surface, there aren’t ...
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Yesterday morning we brought you news of an issue some new owners of the Galaxy Note 4 were taking with the construction of their phablets, pointing out the presence of a gap between the handset’s front glass panel and the phone’s frame. While more an aesthetic issue than anything, it was still troubling news for anyone not particularly looking forward to picking dust and grit out of those gaps. Now Samsung has spoken up about these concerns, and it doesn’t seem to think there’s anything ...
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No matter which cut-off date you go by, at this point summer 2014 is indisputably over. That also means that Pocketnow’s Summer of Giveaways has drawn to a close, but not before hooking a number of lucky readers up with some brand new smartphones, including a couple with one-of-a-kind custom skins. We’d love to bring some more offers like that back in the future, but for the moment, those week-in, week-out ...
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Well, okay, maybe it’s not better at everything, and maybe it’s not better for everybody but this one-year-old phone is still better at a few key things that I’ve been spoiled by. Yes, I’ve tried the new Galaxy Note 4 flagship Samsung device, and I’ve tried the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, the HTC One M8, the HTC One M8 for Windows, etc., etc. After I saw those, I decided to buy a Nokia Lumia 1020; a phone that was originally released back in July of 2013 well over a year ago. I’ve never bought a new phone that was originally released such a long time ago, ...
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The last week has been chock full of leaks attempting to reveal the Motorola phablet under development as codename Shamu, believed by many to be the device that will become Google’s next Nexus phone. But even with this hardware showing up in the flesh, a host of questions about the device and how it might launch continued to puzzle us. Last night, some new details about purported plans for the phone emerged in a new ...
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HTC has been making smartphones for a very long time. The company was often used by big-name OEMs as the manufacturing company that built their hardware. Compaq and HP (back when they were in the personal digital assistant business) both used HTC to build their devices, which were arguably some of the best pieces of consumer electronics of the day. But what about an HTC tablet?HTC TabletsHTC has made some very high-end smartphones recently. The
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Apple’s launch of the iPhone 6 has definitely made a ton of headlines. From the acclaimed “bendgate” issues of the iPhone 6 Plus, to this being Apple’s best selling iPhone lineup in history, a lot is to be expected from Apple’s latest and ...
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the HTC One M8 Eye, and what this means for the future of the lineup. Then we go through some more detail on the Motorola Shamu, even though the possible Nexus 6 brand seems distant. OnePlus follows as we learn details on when we should expect the OnePlus Two. Google takes the stage next with the possible name for Android L. We end today’s show talking about the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and how users are already complaining on its build quality.All this and more after the break.Stories:-
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Sometimes it feels like we rarely have kind words to say about a carrier. If we’re not complaining about them being in bed with everyone from hardware manufacturers to the companies behind mobile platforms, we’re raising the alarm about throttling or indefensibly high data pricing. But they’re not all abject monsters, and it’s nice to pay attention to one of them when they’re doing ...
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Depending on whom you ask, Google’s Project Ara may be primed to change the way we look as smartphone hardware forever. The modular system seeks to give users unprecedented levels of control over the kind of hardware they want making up their phones, but tons of questions remain as to how practical Ara might really be. We’re still a few months away from a retail launch, but for the first time in a while some fresh Ara news has hit our desks, as Phonebloks posts some hardware and software details.For one, we get confirmation ...
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October is just days away, which puts us close to the one-year anniversary of HTC’s launch of its One Max phablet. The 5.9-inch handset brought a fingerprint scanner to the company’s smartphone lineup, and despite the model keeping the One’s design language and offering a solid user experience, it failed to really sell in droves. Will this year bring us a follow-up model? We’ve heard a little about a possible One ...
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