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According to a report from Pocket-Lint, the Android Wear powered LG G Watch will be landing in the U.K. in July, carrying a price tag of £180. The LG G Watch will be the first smartwatch to be released with Google’s Android Wear platform in tow. LG showed off the final prototype of the device…
Who doesn’t like a little smashy? Apparently the device that takes the beating does. Whenever a new smartphone or mobile device is released, hordes of creepy masochists take to YouTube to display terrifying scenes of destruction. The shiny, new (and not to mention expensive) flagship smartphones are obliterated in front of our eyes, in a…
OnePlus has been taking an interesting approach to getting the word out about the company’s upcoming smartphone, the OnePlus One. Instead of bombarding consumers with a huge marketing campaign, the company has been slowly trickling out the news about the OnePlus One. Thanks to one of those little tidbits – namely a blog post from…
The ill-fated Samsung Galaxy Gear has received a substantial price cut, shedding a few hundred bucks and coming in at $159 from Woot!. Not to be confused with the sort-of Tizen powered Gear 2 and Gear Fit, the Galaxy Gear smartwatch runs on a customized version of Android and pairs with any device running Android…
Disruptor Beam is hard at work on a new Star Trek game that will span the entire Star Trek universe, from the 1960’s Star Trek all the way up to Enterprise, and everything in between. The new title, called Star Trek Timelines will be a multi-platform affair, populating iOS, Android and web interfaces with our favorite…
Just when we’ve told you about the Galaxy ACE Style, Samsung officially announced it. As previously mentioned, this is a rather mediocre device with low-end specs that include a 4-inch WVGA screen, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 512MB of RAM, 5-megapixel rear and VGA front cameras, and 4GB of expandable storage (via microSD cards). Despite this rather…
US Cellular is joining the “no-contract revolution” spearheaded by T-Mobile. The carrier’s newly unveiled “Simple Connect” plans are similar to other such offerings though they are slightly more affordable. Users get to choose between three different options, ranging from $40 to $60. The cheapest option is made for “basic phones” and includes no high-speed data.…
Some two weeks ago we’ve told you that Samsung is working on a version of its Gear 2 smart watch with cellular connectivity. At that time, we said that such model will debut in South Korea and only later be introduced in other parts of the world (if at all). That story kept “hunting us”…
One would think there shouldn’t be any fuss about memory cards, but one would be wrong. Samsung announced three different memory card series – Standard, EVO and PRO, which will obviously cater toward different user groups. The Standard are the cheapest of the three, belonging to Class 6 to offer speeds up to 24 MB/s.…
We still wait to see the first Windows Phone 8.1 devices but that won’t (and shouldn’t) stop the leaks about the next version of the platform. The information we gathered comes from a Redditor who claims to be a 15-year veteran at Microsoft; here’s what he had to say about features expected in the next…