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- Snapchat introduces Chat 2.0, becomes a full featured messaging app
- Samsung’s Good Lock gives your Galaxy S7 an entirely new lock screen, notifications, and recents UI
- Official HTC 10 teaser touts “fastest and smoothest” performance yet in an Android device, confirms capacitive keys
- The VRS Design Shine Guard adds geometric style to your Galaxy S7 [VIDEO]
- Google Photos no longer creates a copy of edited photos, lets you go back and tweak edits or revert to original
- Google Fiber Phone is an internet-enhanced home phone service for just $10 per month
- T-Mobile CEO John Legere joins The Pope as the only people to get a Twitter hashtag emoji
- Instagram one-ups Twitter with full 1-minute video uploads
- Pokemon Go will only have the original 151 Pokemon; in-app purchases also tipped [VIDEO]
- Reminder: Pre-order T-Mobile’s LG G5 today and get a free LG 360 Cam and spare battery
- Miitomo launches in the US March 31st
- Acer’s 14-inch Chromebook is an all-metal notebook for $300
- One Romanian shop already has the HTC 10 up for pre-sale, starts at $830
- Was the Apple vs FBI debacle a ruse to take away civil liberties?
- Oracle seeks $9.3 billion from Google for its use of Java in Android
Snapchat introduces Chat 2.0, becomes a full featured messaging app Posted: 29 Mar 2016 06:30 PM PDT Today, Snapchat is introducing a new update -- dubbed Chat 2.0 -- that finally brings the app up to speed with other popular messaging applications. Once again, Hangouts has officially been left behind in the dust. |
Samsung’s Good Lock gives your Galaxy S7 an entirely new lock screen, notifications, and recents UI Posted: 29 Mar 2016 04:54 PM PDT If you're looking to play around with an entirely new UI on your Galaxy S7, Samsung's "Good Lock" will dramatically change the look of your lock screen, notifications, and recents. It's a little bit jarring, but everyone needs to at least play around with it. |
Posted: 29 Mar 2016 01:16 PM PDT Despite that big HTC 10 leak from this morning (a Romanian retailer already has the phone up for pre-order), it's still business as usual for HTC. They're continuing the hype train with a new teaser for the device that confirms capacitive buttons on the phone, but not much else. |
The VRS Design Shine Guard adds geometric style to your Galaxy S7 [VIDEO] Posted: 29 Mar 2016 12:33 PM PDT There are hundreds of different cases available for the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge. We're going to take a look at some specific cases in the next couple of weeks. First up is the Shine Guard from VRS Design. |
Posted: 29 Mar 2016 12:09 PM PDT After it was introduced first in the iOS version of Google Photos, we're finally seeing non-destructive photo editing rolling out to its Android counterpart. |
Google Fiber Phone is an internet-enhanced home phone service for just $10 per month Posted: 29 Mar 2016 12:04 PM PDT Google's coming full circle with Fiber. The internet may be the future, smartphones may be extremely affordable and TV may be exciting, but good ol' home phone service is still valued and used by many people. That's why Google revealed Google Fiber Phone. |
T-Mobile CEO John Legere joins The Pope as the only people to get a Twitter hashtag emoji Posted: 29 Mar 2016 11:19 AM PDT Sometimes, Twitter is willing to give people hashtag emojis for no reason other than the fact that they're cool or important, and they give them to those people for free. The Pope was the first to receive one. John Legere is the 2nd. |
Instagram one-ups Twitter with full 1-minute video uploads Posted: 29 Mar 2016 11:11 AM PDT Back when Vine was just starting out and taking the tech world by storm by introducing a social network built around tiny, constantly looping video clips, Instagram met the challenge with a video solution of their own. Now they're coming after Twitter... |
Pokemon Go will only have the original 151 Pokemon; in-app purchases also tipped [VIDEO] Posted: 29 Mar 2016 10:03 AM PDT Nintendo hasn't yet released many official Pokemon Go details, but data mining -- the act of looking at an app's code to determine what's being developed -- has revealed some new details. |
Reminder: Pre-order T-Mobile’s LG G5 today and get a free LG 360 Cam and spare battery Posted: 29 Mar 2016 09:13 AM PDT Here's a quick reminder that T-Mobile's LG G5 is up for pre-sale today. The device goes for $629.99 outright, and you can get it for $0 down so long as you pay $26 per month for 24 months. You can look forward to it launching this Friday. |
Miitomo launches in the US March 31st Posted: 29 Mar 2016 08:09 AM PDT Nintendo Miitomo -- the company's first smartphone app -- now has a launch date in the US. The company will start letting folks in March 31st. This comes just shortly after a brief period of exclusivity in Nintendo's hometown of Japan. |
Acer’s 14-inch Chromebook is an all-metal notebook for $300 Posted: 29 Mar 2016 07:35 AM PDT When reading about sleek, slim and metallic notebooks, you don't think about a $300 price tag. Acer wants to change the way you think. Their new 14-inch Chromebook comes in at just $299 for the most expensive model. It's a 100% aluminum chassis that could contend with a Macbook air in the looks department. |
One Romanian shop already has the HTC 10 up for pre-sale, starts at $830 Posted: 29 Mar 2016 06:25 AM PDT We're 2 weeks away from HTC's official reveal of the HTC 10, but Romanian shop QuickMobile can't wait. The company has listed the HTC 10 for pre-sale, with the asking price of $830 accompanying the listing for a 32GB LTE variant in gray. |
Was the Apple vs FBI debacle a ruse to take away civil liberties? Posted: 29 Mar 2016 05:37 AM PDT The FBI's supposed method to break into an encrypted iPhone 5c seems to have worked like a charm, with the Department of Justice announcing that they have successfully gained access to the data on the phone without Apple's help. But was it ever an actual issue or just a play to take away civil liberties? |
Oracle seeks $9.3 billion from Google for its use of Java in Android Posted: 29 Mar 2016 04:45 AM PDT A jury couldn't decide on what the damages should be for Google's use of Java in Android. Oracle -- which has been locked into an infringement battle with Google for over half a decade now -- seems to have a pretty good suggestion (pretty good in their eyes, anyway). The company is asking for $9.3 billion. |
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