Sevenhugs Smart Remote aims to free your smartphone from connected-home duty

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Whether your house is rocking a smart thermostat, lighting control, or any number of other connected-home technologies, you’re likely using your smartphone to interact with all this gear. And while that’s a pretty ideal fit, you don’t always want to tie your phone up with that kind of remote-control duty. For users looking to enhance their collection of connected-home tech with an easy, central control solution, or maybe get started for the first time with a ready-to-use-out-of-the-box kit, the Sevenhugs Smart Remote might be right up their alley. This week we checked in ...

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Lenovo gets ready to deliver the first commercial Project Tango smartphone

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

Google’s reality-scanning Project Tango experiment was huge technological achievement right from the get-go, showing us what was possible when we combined the latest mobile hardware with 3D-mapping cameras. The Tango developer tablet’s sensors would assemble a 3D map of the room around you as quick and easily as regular phone can snap a 2D pic – and while it was all incredibly cool, it was still very much a work in progress, not quite ready for its commercial debut. Back in 2014, we learned ...

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Decibullz Contour Custom Molded Earphones Hands-On (Video)

Posted on by Jules Wang

A bit of tangential nostalgia for you: on the last episode of first iteration of the television show Call For Help from the old ZDTV-turned-TechTV network, there was a segment called Cat’s Clicks where co-host Cat Schwartz gave an interesting “click-to.” There was a last minute addition to the segment: a pair of custom-molded earphones from Ultimate Ears that cost about $500. Today, Ultimate Ears’s product ...

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We want all tablets, and phones, to look like this HiSense VIDAA Mirror slate

Posted on by Anton D. Nagy

How important are bezels for you? We’re constantly seeking the bezel-less tablet (and phone), looking at screen-to-body ratios, so it must be an important thing to own (and show off) a sexy device. In a world where everyone copies everyone, we hope someone copies this HiSense VIDAA Mirror tablet.The product itself is nothing new. It was spotted for the first time in China at the end of August, and then it was nowhere to be found, until it came to the CES 2016 show floor. This is one tablet where the internals (1.8 GHz ...

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UK gets LG V10 — who’s next?

Posted on by Jules Wang

While CES 2016 is focused on the new, fresh and up-to-the-minute excitement in electronics, there’s always a “new to you” component to it. LG gave us a couple of new mid-range phones for us to talk about here in the US. But LG is also shipping up a relatively old friend to new ...

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BLU Vivo 5 and Vivo XL liven up CES 2016

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BLU wants to kick off 2016 right after a great showing last year. It had a head start last month — yep, 2015 — with the BLU Life One X (2016) edition. With an octa-core MediaTek MT6753 SoC and a full HD screen, you’d be scratching your head at how this phone only costs $150 on Amazon (it was introduced for a quick period at $99). It comes up way better than its predecessor.And the Miami-based ...

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Razer Nabu Watch goes official with dual screens, dual batteries, watch-first focus

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

If you were to split the increasingly diverse wearable landscape into categories, you’d have full-fledged smartwatches in a corner, basic fitness trackers in the opposite space, and starting today, “watches that are smart.”Not smartwatches, mind you, with the Razer Nabu Watch seemingly advertised as a digital chronograph which just so happens to integrate various intelligent functions, as well as activity tracking, and an important social characteristic that however couldn’t save the Nabu smartband ...

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CES 2016 Day 3 wrap-up: AOT, HP, Intel, Samsung, and more

Posted on by Anton D. Nagy

CES 2016 has officially started, and, as it is usually the case with trade shows, it is pretty much over. Companies are generally unveiling products and services, making announcements, and gathering media at their press events prior to the official start of the show. However, that doesn’t mean that Day 3 (which is the official day one of CES) was a boring one. Check out the most important things that saw the light of day, rounded up for you below, in case you missed any of the action.Alcatel OneTouchAlcatel OneTouch

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Huge collection of Martian smartwatches and smart jewelry debuts at CES 2016

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show has probably been one of the most diverse tech expos in recent memory, with participant companies equally interested in now traditional smartphones and tablets, as well as ingenious new wearables,

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Remix OS is about to bring multi-window Android to your spare PC

Posted on by Stephen Schenck

If you could change one thing about Android, what would it be? Ask a dozen users and you’ll get a dozen different opinions, but odds are good that at least one of them will be thinking about the future of the platform on productivity-oriented tablets, and the promise of what multi-window support (which just might land in Android N) could bring. As it turns out, you don’t have to wait for ...

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Nextbit Robin to ship February 16 to first Kickstarter backers

Posted on by Anton D. Nagy

Pre-orders for the Nextbit Robin — the cloud-first smartphone — have opened on October 22, 2015. Those who wanted to get their hands on the smartphone had to cough up $399, and be very patient until February of this year (next month), when their orders will be shipped.The situation isn’t much better when it comes to those who have initially backed the project on Kickstarter. At CES 2016, the company’s chief ...

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Acer Liquid Jade Primo hands-on (Video)

Posted on by Anton D. Nagy

There are two ways to run Windows 10 Mobile on your smartphone. You either install it on a hardware released previously (if you can, and if there’s an update out there), or you experience it out of the box on the latest and greatest smartphones powered by Redmond’s mobile operating system. So far, about the only two phones (and flagships) that came with Windows 10 Mobile out of the box were the Lumia 950 and Lumia ...

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Intel introduces three new Compute Stick versions that run Windows 10

Posted on by Anton D. Nagy

If you’re not familiar with Intel’s Compute Stick, introduced in April of 2015, you should know that these USB thumb drive-sized sticks (almost) connect to your TV or screen via HDMI, and offer a full fledged computer experience. At the 2016 CES, Intel introduced its next generation of Compute Stick products, that are smaller, and powerful upgrades over the first generation.Three Intel Compute Stick variants are available: the entry level runs on a quad-core Intel Atom x5-Z8300 processor, has 2GB of RAM, 32GB of ...

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Netflix is now available worldwide

Posted on by Anton D. Nagy

CES 2016 isn’t only about products. Services managed to make their way to Las Vegas as well, and, one of the most recent announcements comes from Netflix. During a recent keynote at CES, the company announced — and flipped the switch — on worldwide availability, adding more than 130 new countries around the world to its portfolio of markets where it is available.While English still remains the main language for Netflix, the company also added Arabic, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese to the 17 ...

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