In the wake of Monday’s big Apple Watch event, The Verge reports that Google will update its Android Wear operating system with support for Wi-Fi and gestures, as well as quicker, easier access to built-in apps and contacts. Google neither confirmed nor denied the report, though it did tell TechCrunch that its...
With Monday's big Apple event over and done with, we now have more information about the Apple Watch than ever before—or, at least, a few more bits than we previously knew. Call it a teaser: The public will have its chance to check out the watch up close in stores starting...
Google’s upcoming wireless service—which will run on spectrum leased from the Sprint and T-Mobile networks—will be exclusive to Nexus 6 handset users to start, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. It's not entirely clear why that might be, although we’ve got a few ideas.Nexus 6’s Motorola PedigreeMotorola’s most recent smartphone offerings have been...
This year’s Mobile World Congress should have been renamed Mobile Wearable Congress, with many of the world’s tech companies showing off their latest strappy gadgets. One of the big winners in this category is HTC and the gigantic piece of face gear it introduced this week.Though expected to whip out...
Last year, privacy-focused Blackphone got a dubious distinction: It became known as the locked-down phone that supposedly got hacked in just 5 minutes.Things have changed. Now, it’s a whole mobile product line geared for companies (and perhaps paranoid individuals), a brand-new acquisition for encryption services firm Silent Circle, and a multi-million dollar...
Fleksy for Gear S The guys over at Fleksy have been working hard for a while on getting the Fleksy keyboard available and running on the Samsung Gear S and have now silently released it whilst we have been distracted by Mobile World Congress. The Fleksy Gear S keyboard...
Tizen at Mobile World Congress This years Mobile World Congress saw a new Tizen Booth, located at Booth #8.1 H65 if your in the vicinity, showing off our beloved Tizen Operating System (OS). We have tables full of Tizen devices and also what appears to be a mini house assembled...
The smartwatch era is still in its infancy, but some companies are already pushing the limits of innovation into downright weirdness. Exhibit A could be the just-announced Neptune Duo—a smartwatch that thinks it's a phone, paired with a smartphone that seems to think it's a brick.The Duo's main attraction is...
HTC One M9It's been a busy day for HTC announcements as Mobile World Congress kicks off in Barcelona. The company has revealed its new flagship phone for 2015, a fitness-focused wearable, and a virtual reality headset developed in partnership with Valve.First, the long-rumored HTC One M9. The handset brings with...
Unity Tizen Beta The Unity for Tizen Beta program has been updated to work with the recently released Tizen 2.3 SDK and Unity 5.0 and is open to developers to join. Developers can test their Unity games and report bugs in the bug reporter, join the google forum group...
Tizen at Mobile World Congress 2015 We are now in the final stages of preparation for Mobile World Congress next week, taking place at Fira Gran Via Barcelona, Spain 2-5 March 2015. We expect many things from the show, Including the first showing of the Samsung Z1 Smartphone outside...
The Urbane LTE includes a SIM slot and NFC.Just days after unveiling the stylish-looking Urbane smartwatch, LG has announced a second model. The Urbane LTE runs software based on WebOS, rather than Android Wear, and doesn't require a phone connection at all—it takes its own SIM and can make and...
Motorola just launched a new version of its Moto E mid-tier smartphone on Wednesday, and its predecessor would be proud.The latest model is almost a dead ringer for the original, except that the previous swappable backplates have transformed into color bands lining the outside of the phone. It also boasts...
Move over, Rolex. According to reports by the French media late last week, Apple may be taking a page from your playbook by building dedicated stores for its upcoming Apple Watch. The company has not breathed a word of this, of course, but there's reason to believe it may be...
Valve may be living in its own virtual reality worldGaming and entertainment platform Steam has confirmed it has a "SteamVR hardware" device in development, which it will show off at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week. The Valve-owned company hasn't dropped many clues about what this hardware...
Don’t call Pebble’s new smartwatch platform a reboot. That implies scrapping the old and ushering in the new. Consider the new software and its new companion product, dubbed Pebble Time, a progression of the Pebbles that came before.The old models aren't going anywhere. They're just going to be joined by...
Clever Android developer Mohammad Abu-Garbeyyeh managed to get his Android Wear smartwatch working with an iPhone, no jailbreak required. To make it happen, Abu-Garbeyyeh used Apple's own application programming interfaces (APIs)—the same ones that Pebble relies on to support iOS devices. See also: How Pebble Became The Cheapest Android Smartwatch AroundIt's the first time we've seen...
Rumors of Apple’s project to build an electric car to rival Tesla Motors—allegedly codenamed “Titan”—have been swirling for weeks. On Friday, 9to5Mac compiled a list of employees who are supposedly on the Apple Car team. Meanwhile, Bloomberg reports that Apple has plans to produce its cars by the year 2020. See also:...
Since its earliest days, the payment system Softcard seemed doomed to failure: Take a consortium of wireless carriers and have them create a user-friendly way to pay with your phone. On Monday, Softcard's key partners, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, admitted defeat, selling some technology scraps to Google and agreeing to...
Pebblers with Android smartphones can now receive and respond to Android Wear notifications, a big step forward that might actually make the Pebble the least expensive Android Wear smartwatch currently available.A new firmware update basically bring to Pebble the same active notifications that Android Wear users enjoy on their fancier—and more...
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