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Google has been busy updating their Google Wallet service. Earlier today, the company announced that customers in the U.S. will be able to obtain a Google Wallet card, complete with a MasterCard logo. Google has added some Holiday deals to its Wallet app today for both iOS and Android, bringing tons of savings and reward…
Google has updated its GDK, or Glass Developer Kit, the tool used by developers to create apps for Google’s wearable tech Google Glass. Google has five new apps up their sleeves, which have been built using the news GDK tools. The new Glass apps are: Spellista – an interactive word-puzzle game GolfSight – golfing app,…
Sprint is the first out of the gate with a push for holiday market share. The carrier dropped it’s holiday deal announcement today, and it’s looking good. The discounts start on Black Friday with offers throughout the holidays. Sprint is starting things off on Black Friday, this Nov. 22. Anyone who ports their number to…
The Console Wars are heating up, and Sony’s already struck a blow with the successful release of its PS4 last week. Microsoft’s new console, the Xbox One, comes out in just a few short days. Dropping on Friday, November 22, the Xbox One will have the customary midnight release. Yesterday, Windows Phone users got the chance to download Xbox One…
Google Glass is paving the way for new forms of wearable technology. While a good chunk of people will likely opt for a smartwatch to pair with their smartphone before something like Glass, this form of wearable tech is coming, and it’s coming fast. That said, while Glass may be one of the more interesting…
There are a few octa-core chipsets out there, such as Samsung’s Exynos 5 and Motorola’s X8. These chipsets, although described as octa-core are not true octa-core devices, as the cores do not always work in unison. The Exynos 5 has two sets of four cores, and the X8 uses only two of its cores for…
MediaTek is about to announce its 8-core processor, MT6592, and TCL wants to have an Alcatel-branded device with this new chip. Yup, it plans to launch a successor to the sexy Idol X that will get the power from no less than eight cores. The original Idol X came with MediaTek’s 1.2Ghz MT6589 quad-core CPU…
Samsung has started rolling out Android 4.3 update for the Galaxy Note II LTE (GT-N7105). According to SamMobile, the new software is very stable, way more than the one Galaxy S III users got, and is also amazingly fast. The most notable change is in the UI department, that makes the Note II looks like…
Amazon has started rolling out an OTA update for the range of its Kindle Fire tablets. The new Fire OS 3.1 comes with a number of new features, tweaks and bug fixes, including: Deeper Goodreads integration that allows users to more easily share favorite quotes with others, view what their friends are reading, leave reviews,…
Some two weeks ago, Samsung has started rolling out Android 4.3 update for its last year’s flagship device, Galaxy S3. Not everything worked out of box, prompting the company to temporarily suspend the rollout until the firmware is well-polished. Users complained about a number of issues, including the wake-up lag, random freezing, battery drains, Bluetooth…