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Verizon and Motorola assert that the new DROID Turbo 2's screen is shatterproof. According to a video from CNN, there might be something to that claim. In the clip, the phone suffers numerous falls from varying heights against different surfaces, gets run over by a bicycle, and meets the underside of a horse's hoof. And sure enough, it doesn't shatter.
Do you care how much battery life your phone has? No, do you really care? You have a spreadsheet set up in Google Slides documenting your experience over the past few weeks. You can recall at a whim the amount of screen on time you've experienced on every Android device you've owned since Gingerbread. You don't get mad at your hardware when it dies at 4PM—you blame those wakelocking S.O.B apps.
Previous rumors asserted that a beefed up version of the Moto X Style called the Moto X Force would come to the US as a Verizon exclusive known as the DROID Turbo 2. Rumors also said Verizon would boast about a so-called unbreakable display and introduce Moto Maker to a DROID device for the first time. Still with me? Good, because as previously leaked promotional materials showed, all of these claims were true, and now we're getting the official word straight from the horse's mouth. Verizon revealed the DROID Turbo 2 at its previously announced press event today (alongside the mid-range DROID Maxx 2) and proceeded to drop the device from around six feet onto concrete. Twice.
Samsung appears to have a tablet in the works that is large enough to serve as a dinner plate and a coaster at the same time. At 18.4-inches, the Galaxy View is so big that leaked photos show an attachable handle for you to hold like a suitcase.
Stylus-Equipped LG G Vista 2 Coming To AT&T On November 6th For $450 Or $50 With A Two-Year Contract
The G Vista is a mid-range version of LG's flagship phone, a larger variant with similar looks and weaker specs for folks looking to save a little bit of money. Now AT&T has announced that it will offer the G Vista 2 as an exclusive in a matter of weeks. And this time LG is throwing in a stylus.
Starting on October 28th, YouTube Red will let folks in the US start watching all the movie trailers, phone reviews, music videos, epic fails, adorable babies, cat clips, and rants they've been consuming for years, sans ads. In exchange, viewers hand over $9.99 a month instead, or $15 if they have a Play Music family plan.
The Galaxy S5 was sort of an awkward flagship. It wasn't all that different from the S4, which itself wasn't all that different from the S3. Samsung had a bit of an iterative run there before it shook up everything with this year's S6.
The Xperia Z5 and its variants are great looking devices, but for those of us in the US, they're just that—great looking. Sony hasn't started shipping them our way, no matter how far open we stretch our wallets.But that doesn't mean there aren't ways to get the hook up in the States. A seller on eBay is offering the Xperia Z5 for 0 and the Xperia Z5 Compact for 0. The former is slightly cheaper than what you can order on Amazon, though the price for the latter remains about the same. On eBay though, you're stuck with black.Alternatively, you can now get the phones from Expansys USA. The retailer offers the Sony Xperia Z5 and Z5 Compact for around the same price as Amazon and eBay. Like the former, you have your choice of colors. Whichever seller you go with, the prices look better than what we've seen in Europe. And as for the Xperia Z5 Premium, it's available as a pre-order.These GSM phones are compatible with both AT&T and T-Mobile. That said, they don't come with a warranty in the US. You're paying a lot of money and going out on a limb. If Sony really doesn't want to sell you the phone, you're probably better off not giving them (or a third-party seller) your money, but the option is there.Source: eBay - Xperia Z5, eBay - Xperia Z5 Compact, Expansys USA
Browsers are a core part of the mobile phone experience, but I don't find them particularly exciting. I do with my browser largely what I did ten years ago: open it up, go to a URL, and scroll through the page that appears. I don't really use bookmarks or search predictions, though combining the search and location bars together was pretty nice. Custom search engines are fun too.
GIFs are nothing new, but these days, they're mainstream and everywhere. That has driven big tech companies to come up with their own approaches for awkwardly animating pictures. Google automatically strings together several similar images and lets you export them as GIFs. Apple doesn't call them GIFs―they're Live Photos. Now Instagram is introducing Boomerangs, which you create using its new app called Boomerang.
Twitter opinions are a dime a dozen. Actually, no, they're much cheaper than that. People give them out for free. Let something happen, online or off, and someone will take to Twitter to offer their two cents.
I don't miss remote controls. Okay, I haven't gotten completely free of them. But aside from my television, I've largely moved away from things that require their own button-laden controller. Blu-Ray players. Sound systems. Cable boxes. Why should relaxing on the couch be so complicated?
You snooze you lose. Anyone still on the fence about buying the new Nexus 6P is going to have to wait. And no, I don't mean the weeks of waiting folks who ordered one early are still undergoing. The Nexus 6P is now showing up as out of stock in the US Google Store.
Fossil has officially given the Android Wear-powered device that it's making in conjunction with Intel a name—the Q Founder.
Bugs happen. As a result, bugfix updates also happen. Kodi 15.2 is the second such release since version 15.0 of the app formerly known as XBMC went stable, and it tackles quite a list of issues. Head's up—all of them are very specific.
Since launch, users have been able to download the Samsung Pay app from Samsung's own dedicated app store. But since enough people aren't aware that place exists, the app inevitably must make it to Google Play as well. And here it is.
Alright developers, it's time to start tinkering with the bits and bytes that make the Moto Maxx tick. Motorola has uploaded the kernel source files for the device. The goods are available on GitHub under the codename Quark, along with other devices Motorola has published files for in the past.
I'll be blunt—it's been a long time since I've cared about the availability of CyanogenMod nightlies. It's not that I have anything against flashing custom ROMs. It's just in the past several years, stock Android has been pretty good. Even the skinned versions like HTC Sense have reached a point where I feel fine leaving them alone.
Finnish customers who send money to DNA each month will soon have the option to add Play Store purchases to their bill. The mobile provider has announced that it's launching support for Google Play carrier billing today.
Fuhu's Nabi tablets are meant for kids, offering up a simple interface with big icons and bright colors. Instead of pricing its hardware low enough that you don't care if a toddler breaks it, Fuhu puts in the extra effort to make sure the device holds up under a kid's fingerprints. Now it has announced a successor to the aging Nabi 2, the Elev-8.