Latest Articles
The Gear VR takes your smartphone's screen and holds it much closer to your eyes than you would ever do yourself. Then with the proper use of sensors, it makes you feel like you're someplace else.
The Moto 360, old or new, is a nice watch for people who like nice watches. But Motorola's little Android Wear device isn't made for the more active or outdoorsy among us. It's large, and rubbing one against a rock while climbing might just ruin your day. Don't trip while running, because those tears won't be over your scraped knee.
Facebook announced profile videos a couple months back, showing off the ability to play a moving picture when people first begin the page stalking process. This one minute video gives you an idea what to expect, minus the graininess that comes from using your phone's less than stellar front-facing camera.
Mentioning the words "unlimited" and "AT&T" in the same sentence around the wrong person is bound to draw out a long diatribe of grievances and outrage. I was promised unlimited, not 5GB and a middle finger. AT&T has been throttling existing customers ever since it discontinued unlimited plans in 2010. One thing it hasn't done, however, is raise the price.
The Huawei Watch is a premium device. On a normal day, it goes for a starting price of $350. For Black Friday, Huawei knocked $100 off the price off on some of the pricier models, making it possible to get the Android Wear device for $300. For Cyber Monday, Target is doing Huawei one better.Target is knocking 15% off the price of tech products with the code CYBER15. If you apply this to the models of the Huawei Watch that it carries, which range from $299.99 to $399.99, you can get the accessory down to $255.99. Tax will bump that price back up to around $280, but at least shipping is free.The watch is available on Amazon for the same reduced price, but it's currently out of stock. That said, you can place an order now and have the retailer ship one out when it's ready.Source: Target
Say what you will about Apple, its music streaming service isn't half bad. But no matter how nice a music app is, the experience gets improved by taking the sound out of subpar phone speakers and funneling it through something with some oomph. Sonos users will soon have that option.
If there's one phone you won't have any trouble finding on sale this holiday season, it's the Galaxy S6. The carriers each had their own way of using Samsung's flagship to get you in the door. Amazon recently offered the phone for $399.99, but the retailer has sold out. Fortunately you have other ways to get the 32GB US model at the same price or less this Cyber Monday, as long as you want the phone in black.
Adobe Premiere has been around for Macs for about as long as I've been alive, and countless video editors swear by it. A bite-sized version came to iPhones and iPads a year ago. Adobe aimed this product at your everyman, not just folks who know how to maneuver panels around a timeline. Now an Android version of Premiere Clip has made its way into the Play Store.
The Galaxy Note 4 and Note Edge both came out a year ago, a time when manufacturers still shipped their devices running Android KitKat. Owners eventually got to experience Lollipop in a later update, and as we've seen from Sprint and AT&T, carriers have started pushing devices up from Android 5.0.1 to 5.1.1. You can now add T-Mobile to that list.
RPG Battle Game 'Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes' Is Out With Over 60 Collectible Characters
Can you feel the force?
Do you feel it? That's the force. The force of millions of Star Wars fans craving anything that tastes of Jedi, Wookiee, and stormtroopers as we count down the days to Episode VII. Google has done its part to embrace the force, and now EA is stepping up with a new Star Wars game, Galaxy of Heroes.
For the holidays, T-Mobile wants you to switch from whichever other carrier you're relying on these days. Over the next few weeks it will roll out a different deal aimed at enticing people over, and it's starting with Sprint.
Nearly a year and a half after its launch, the NVIDIA SHIELD tablet remains one of the best ways to enjoy Android at over seven inches. Yet all this time it has existed without official support from the Team Win Recovery Project.
Black Friday is coming this Thursday, and Verizon has a number of deals aimed at enticing people in the market for a new phone. One is a $100 discount on phones priced at $400 or higher, which we've seen advertised alongside the LG V10.
The Asus ZenFone 2 is one of the better phones to arrive this year for under $300, delivering 4GB of RAM before the competition. But it had an Intel processor. Folks looking for a more standard Qualcomm processor can look to the ZenFone 2 Lazer. Newegg is currently offering the 3GB model packing a Snapdragon 615 for $199.99. That's a discount of $50.
Part of the joy of picking up an Android Wear device is that you don't just get to be excited about over-the-air updates for your phone and tablet, you also get to receive them on your watch as well. Huawei is pushing out one now. It's going out in waves, but that means some wearers should receive the update right away. You may have to check for it manually.
Viber is a free way to communicate with anyone else who has installed the app, which makes it easy to get sucked into a conversation and reveal information that you probably don't want floating around out there. Maybe you even go so far as to accidentally send the wrong message to the wrong person. No matter. The latest version of the Android app will let you remove a message from the devices of everyone in the conversation.
We've covered Black Friday deals from Sprint and Verizon already, and they've been pretty predictable. T-Mobile, though, is taking a different approach. For the next three months, the carrier is giving all of its postpaid Simple Choice customers unlimited LTE, active right now.
The UE MEGABOOM speaker doesn't just go boom. It goes megaboom. That explosion you hear is the sound of a cylindrical Bluetooth speaker pumping music in all directions. It's not on your desk yet, but you can hear it already, and right now you can make it happen for $50 less than usual.The UE MEGABOOM is currently reduced down to $249.99 on Amazon, BestBuy, Crutchfield, and Newegg. Each of the sellers except Newegg has the device in black, blue, purple, and red. Crutchfield says its sale will end on the 28th.
Read update
- A reader has pointed out that Futurama: Game of Drones is already in the Play Store, but it appears to be going through geo-limited testing for now, as it's showing up as incompatible with all of my devices. Unfortunately, we can see from the Play Store page that the game is free with in-app purchases ranging from $5.69 to $114.05, and the screenshots show matching puzzles. That shattering you hear is the sound of broken dreams.
Futurama: Game of Drones is an upcoming mobile game in which the Starks of Winterfell invade from the north atop hovering metal horses while slinging laser-tipped arrows.
Square's square readers go into a phone or tablet's headphone jack and let the device accept payments from a credit card. Its original model, anyway. The company has a new one that's rolling out to over 100 small business owners across the US starting today.