Google Camera picks up a great Android Wear feature

If smartwatches really want to catch the public’s eye, they need to prove to us that they’re genuinely useful pieces of hardware worth adding to our lives: giving us something we didn’t have before. For some smartphone users, the convenience of wrist-borne notifications may very well be enough, while others of us are waiting to see what additional capabilities arrive. With Android Wear smartwatches now live, developers are already delivering updates for apps that bring new Wear components. ...

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Second generation Samsung Galaxy Camera surfaces

While 2012 brought us Samsung’s Android-running Galaxy Camera, so far 2013′s fallen short of delivering a proper follow-up. Sure, we got the Galaxy NX, but with its hefty price tag and positioning for more prosumer users, it didn’t quite fit the bill. Last month, however, an image turned up that seemed to be snapped by Samsung’s EK-GC200 – and the first Galaxy Camera was the EK-GC100. Now this apparent successor is showing its face again, as we catch it in an ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 056: two hours of your tech questions, answered

Sometimes, you push obligations back for too long and they just pile up, week after week after week, until they never get done. Well, when we started the Pocketnow Weekly technology podcast just over one year ago, we decided that listener mail -your mail- was going to be a big part of it, and it’s consistently added flavor to the show. But the last few weeks have been so packed

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Samsung goes official with Galaxy NX, interchangeable-lens Android camera

We went into Samsung’s event today having already heard about the company’s new GS4-series Androids, but we knew much less about the Galaxy NX. We only first saw the camera one week ago, and heard rumored specs like a 20-megapixel image sensor. Today, Samsung made its second full-on Android-based camera official, announcing the Galaxy NX. So, why isn’t this the Galaxy Camera 2? Well, it really ...

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Galaxy Camera NX could be Samsung’s next high-end Android-based camera (new pics!)

With last year’s Galaxy Camera, Samsung managed to marry the guts from one of its Galaxy-series Androids with the hardware from a stand-alone digital camera. The result, while interesting, ended up falling in an odd middle ground, where it wasn’t extremely useful as a smartphone, nor as capable as more traditional digital cameras. This year, Samsung’s hoping to do things a little better, and we’ve already learned of the Galaxy S 4 Zoom, ...

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How will Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 Zoom arrive? New leak raises questions

Right from the start, Samsung’s Galaxy S 4 Zoom has been one big mystery. From the very first time we heard that name, we’ve been wondering if this is a new Galaxy Camera model, or if it’s more like a traditional smartphone, albeit one with a killer imaging system. As time went on, the name popped up again and again, and this guy started to seem much more like a phone than a camera – ...

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Pocketnow Weekly 042: HTC One-and-a-Half, Galaxy S 4 Octa, & Super-Cheap Windows Phones (Podcast)

Not all of us have read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so not all of us were exactly qualified to make the lame joke that kicks off this week’s podcast. But we made it, and we stand behind it. Because as hundreds of fifth-rate “manufacturers” well know, sometimes you just have to fake it. But we’re not talking about secondhand knockoff products in this episode of the Weekly. Rather, we get serious about octa-core comparisons, the till-recently-mythical HTC M4, the insanely cheap new Lumia out of Finland, and just how tired we are or aren’t of the ...

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