Android Wear First Look: Samsung and LG Put Alerts on Your Wrist

Android Wear is here. When Google first unveiled its wearable platform in May, the products looked impressive, but they hadn't been seen in the wild. At Google I/O 2014, the first Android Wear devices, the LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live, are out and proud. The G Watch and Gear Live are very similar. Before they're officially on sale, the samples here at the show will only run in "retail" mode, meaning they only show sample notifications from Android Wear. At least they're interactive — you can swipe and tap on them, but I couldn't...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Wednesday, 25 June 2014

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Samsung Galaxy S5 and New Gear Devices Now Available Globally

Samsung's new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, today goes on sale in 125 countries, including the U.S. It also becomes available in Europe, Middle East, Latin America and most markets in Asia. The company's trio of fitness devices — Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo and Gear Fit — also become available today. Launched during this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Samsung Galaxy S5 is a powerful device, with a 5.1-inch screen, a quad-core, 2.5GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, 16/32GB of storage and a 16-megapixel camera....

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Saturday, 12 April 2014

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You're Not Going to Deform Your Spine by Texting Too Much

Constant texting can be dangerous — whether it's behind the wheel or crossing the street. But it turns out that perennial claims that texting is having an adverse, and potentially lethal, impact on people's posture may be overstated. For years, stories have appeared online warning about the bodily harm associated with compulsively bending one's neck downward to look at their phone. Many of these articles cite warnings from the United Chiropractic Association, which says that frequent texting can result in hyperkyphosis...

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Tesla Drivers' In-Dash Web Browsing Habits Revealed

The race is on to snag the attention of drivers via new Internet-enabled dashboard touchscreens, but metrics on exactly how popular this new browsing experience might be have largely been a mystery, until now. Quantcast has released numbers from a study conducted over a 30-day period designed to give us some insight into the in-dash usage habits of Tesla owners. The study, which gleaned stats from 100 million digital destinations over a 30-day period between Feb. 24 and March 23, offers a rough sketch of what the...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Thursday, 3 April 2014

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Could the Next-Gen iPhone Look Like This?

A designer has taken a sketch of the alleged iPhone 6 design specs that leaked last week, and turned it into a full-blown concept photo to highlight what the next generation Apple smartphone might look like. Alleged schematics of a 4.7-inch and 5.7-inch iPhone 6 were first published in the Japanese Mac magazine, MacFan. Those images were then republished in the Japanese Mac blog Mac Otakara and on MacRumors. The schematics show off a thinner, slimmer iPhone that matches some of the design languages...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Monday, 31 March 2014

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The Top 10 Android Apps of 2013

1. Duolingo Duolingo works to add interactivity and customized lesson planning to the language learning experience by rewarding users when they achieve goals, giving incentive to return for more lessons -- something your high school's Intermediate Spanish course never did. Duolingo gives users the opportunity to learn English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese. You don't have to worry about being charged for the service any time soon, either. Co-creator Luis von Ahn told USA Today, "We're fundamentalists...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Tuesday, 24 December 2013

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Court Rules Against iPhone Ban in South Korea

A judge in South Korea on Thursday rejected a lawsuit filed by Samsung claiming Apple infringed on its smartphone patents. Samsung, which sought $95,000 in damages and an iPhone ban in its home country of South Korea, accused Apple of violating three patents related to mobile messaging technology featured in the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5. The court dismissed the lawsuit, ruling they can be developed using existing technologies, according to the New York Times. “We are disappointed by the court’s decision,”...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Thursday, 12 December 2013

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Mobile Internet Subscriptions to Triple by 2019

If it seems like everyone around you is constantly glued to their smartphones, you haven't seen anything yet. According to Ericsson's 2013 mobility report, the number of global mobile Internet subscriptions will triple by 2019. In 2013, the number of mobile subscriptions around the world clocks in at 2.2 billion. Six years from now, that number is set to reach 6.4 billion. Statista's chart shows the growth in subscriptions of smartphones, mobile PCs, tablets and mobile routers. ...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Saturday, 23 November 2013

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Inside the Most High-Tech Cab in New York: Car Force One

Sometimes you think you’ve seen everything in tech. Other times, everything in tech gets packed into a car for the ultimate in luxury. If you ever wanted to play on a PlayStation 4, watch cable TV, finish some work on a full-size keyboard, print photos and/or enjoy a beer as strobe lights pulsate around you on your way to work in a clean, comfy cab, take a ride in Car Force One. A ride fit for a president, Car Force One is a luxury car service that chauffeurs you around the New York area in the most teched-out car in the world....

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Wednesday, 13 November 2013

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iPad Air vs. Every Other iPad Ever Made

In the battle for speediest tablet, there can be only one victor. In our side-by-side tests of every single full-sized iPad generation ever made, not surprisingly, the Apple iPad Air makes a strong case for supremacy. Since Apple introduced the iPad in 2010, it's been continually upping the ante on its processor. The very first iPad featured a custom-built A4 mobile CPU, which ran at 1 GHz. The iPad 2 got an upgrade to the more powerful A5 chip. It, too, was clocked at 1 GHz. But, as with all Apple's ARM-based chips,...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Friday, 1 November 2013

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