HTC’s all new One launch event is still… (*checks HTC’s countdown page*) the better part of four days away, and though Galaxy S5 pre-orders have opened (or are just about to) with some of the big US carriers, we’re still three weeks away from seeing those order get fulfilled. If you’re seriously jonesing for some next-level smartphone action, and are sick and tired ...
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With the end of March now in sight, we’re only about three weeks away from when you’ll finally be able to get your hands on Samsung’s brand new Galaxy S5. As carriers prepare for the smartphone’s arrival, we’re starting to get new details on pricing, and learn how the order process will open. Today AT&T fills us in on the details for its own GS5 retail launch, as well as giving some US prices for Samsung’s latest Gear-series wearables. AT&T’s 16GB Galaxy S5 will sell for just about $200 on ...
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This week’s announcement of Google’s Android Wear project has very much shaken up our expectations when it comes to smartwatches, but before those get here and we have a chance to gawk over round displays on models like the Moto 360, we still need to see the retail arrival of some pre-Wear models. Samsung revealed the Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo, and Gear Fit back at MWC last month, but wasn’t sharing pricing information at the time. We heard some rumors that suggested
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Inbox Zero. It’s become something of a myth in the Pocketnow Weekly recording studio ever since we started actively courting listener feedback all those months ago. Skip a listener-mail section here, another one there, and before you know it you’ve got a mountain of mail it’d take a whole episode to get through. So that’s just what we’re doing. Just like we did on episode 076, we’re devoting an entire podcast to your ...
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“What would you say to the people who think that what you do is illegal?” ” … I would tell them that I don’t want to answer this question.” When you’re interviewing the world’s most notorious phone leaker, he’s bound to duck a question or two. But cautious though he is, Evan Blass –formerly of Pocketnow and currently known across the web by his pen name
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Samsung is not exactly a company we’d say is hurting for new wearables, having just introduced three new models at MWC next week; in addition to two new Gear smartwatches, we also saw the company introduce its Gear Fit activity tracker. But could Samsung already have another, similar product to the Fit in the works? That’s exactly what we’re forced to consider this morning, as we check out an FCC listing for an apparent S Circle fitness tracker. The FCC paperwork confirms that this is an activity tracker we’re looking ...
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Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about the launch of the HTC Desire 310, along with the rumors of an AT&T HTC Desire 610, and the recent photo leaks of the HTC M8. Then we talk about the iPhone 5c, and how its inventories have completely disappointed Apple. Then we talk about the recent rumors that Foxconn expects 90 million iPhone 6 orders from Apple. We also go through what to expect from Apple’s A8 chip, which is rumored for the iPhone 6. Samsung follows the news as we have rumors of the price tag for the Gear 2, the Gear 2 Neo and the Gear Fit. We end ...
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Samsung introduced its second-gen Galaxy Gear – this time shortened to simply the “Gear 2” – over a week ago. News of the smartwatch arrived alongside that of the camera-less Gear 2 Neo and the Gear Fit fitness tracker. Samsung shared details about software features, product specs, and even confirmed that sales of these models would begin sometime in April; really, we had everything we could hope to know except for pricing. While we still haven’t seen any official numbers, some figures have managed to ...
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Anton D. Nagy chasing a taxi on foot. Jaime Rivera almost burning down a building with a power strip. A Honduran drinking palinca and a Romanian doing a Mexican accent. The tales from our leather-clad Barcelona duo are intense – but their intensity is matched by the hot mobile news that burst forth from this week’s Mobile World Congress, the most epic in recent memory. To wit, that news includes an MWC 2014 Samsung Unpacked event that gave the world the latest Galaxy; a Sony unveiling of similar proportions that built on the Xperia legacy; a press conference that saw the ...
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Sadly, Mobile World Congress is now over. This year’s mobile show in Barcelona, Spain was one of the busiest, device-driven shows in recent years. We saw a boatload of handsets, a few tablets, some wearables, and a lot of future products that won’t be available for a while. Needless to say, there was plenty for just about everyone to be excited about at least something: a new Galaxy S smartphone, three new wrist-mounted Gear devices, a new Sony flagship, new additions to the HTC Desire lineup, new Huawei ...
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Although the “wearables” category is somewhat new to Pocketnow, devices that are meant to be worn, rather than carried, have been around for quite some time. In the very early days they were called pocket watches. Eventually they evolved into timekeepers that we wore around our wrists. Original versions just kept track of time, but other features were added in: day of the week, day of the month, and even moon phases eventually came to wrist watches. Some got barometers, stopwatches, countdown times, calculators, even simple calendars. When Microsoft released its SPOT ...
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Forty-four videos and untold news stories later, MWC 2014 is finally on the cusp of winding down – but there’s still more to “unpack” from Monday’s Samsung event. After yesterday’s editorials on the ups and
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Announced alongside the Galaxy S 5, Gear 2, and Gear 2 Neo at today’s Samsung Unpacked event was the Samsung Gear Fit, a tiny ampule of colorful technology that, if leveraged properly, has the potential to revolutionize Samsung’s position in the wearable tech space. But that’s an idea exercise for another day. What matters now is how good the little device looks and feels in person – and fortunately, ...
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Samsung may have introduced its Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches a little early this past weekend, but that doesn’t mean the manufacturer played all its wearable cards. At this afternoon’s Unpacked event, not only did Samsung have the new Galaxy S 5 to introduce, but had one more wearable for us to check out, the Gear Fit wristband. While the Gear 2 models are full-fledged smartphones, the Gear Fit stays solidly in fitness tracker territory. Remember those rumors we heard that a Samsung smartwatch would soon get a curved OLED display? Well, the Gear 2 missed out on that, but ...
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