The Galaxy S4 will be available in the U.S. from a variety of mobile operators, including the Big Four, but also regional carriers. The Sprint Galaxy S4 version has been already spotted with the FCC and it’s apparently going to offer global roaming features.
The Galaxy S4 models spotted at the FCC are the SPH-L720 and the SCH-R970. The first one is awfully similar to Sprint’s Galaxy S3 model number (SPH-L710,) while the latter could be the Galaxy S4 version heading to U.
ZTE Axon Mini Premium EditionZTE has added quite a bit of extra value with the pressure-sensitive display, the fingerprint reader and the high-end audio. The 3GB of RAM is also good to see, as is 32GB of storage. But, the processor doesn't match the rest of the specs.
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Design The design of the ZTE Axon Mini Premium Edition is certainly striking. Not only do you get the Axon’s triangle moire design at the top and the bottom of the device, but the phone comes in gold or silver, quite different to the run-of-the-mill black or white.
Sergey Brin demonstrates Google Glass
Google Glass, the brainchild of the folks working in Google’s fabled X labs, seems plucked straight out of a sci-fi movie. But the “smart glasses” are very real, and the designers and engineers that make them have some very real problems to solve.
For instance, how do you dial a number using the Google Glass? Or how do you input text in the situations when voice control is not an option?
The new Watch Urbane Luxe has a fancy name and comes in a fancy box. But is it fancy enough to justify a $1200 price tag?
At IFA 2015 in Berlin, we’ve met up with LG, who showed us the latest variant of their well-received Android Wear smartwatch series. The Watch Urbane Luxe takes what it’s pretty much a standard Watch Urbane, adds a coating of 23K gold, and an elegant alligator leather band, at a price tag that’s more than three times the regular version’s.
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What can be considered as a holiday miracle, the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the Droid Razr and the Droid Razr Maxx was pushed out by Verizon on Christmas Eve, only for the carrier to pull it thereafter. Some folks were able to download the whole software package (331.7MB in size) and install Jelly Bean on their phones, while some reported an update failure. If you never saw the update notification, chances are you’ve missed the boat.
First introduced at CES as the Projector Hotspot, the ZTE-made LivePro is a crazy contraption that, Sprint hopes, is more than the sum of its parts. And boy, there are a lot of parts to talk about.
Sprint describes the LivePro as a “easily pocketable multiuse mini projector and mobile hotspot” and hopes to sell it to professionals who need an all-in-one tool for presentations on the go.
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A designer on YouTube going by the name Waqar Khan produced a concept video of a Google Pixel Fold. This is not the “real” foldable phone from Google (which may or may not exist) but just an idea of what it could look like. The designer imagines a hybrid between a Galaxy Z Fold and the confirmed Pixel 6 designs. We’ve heard plenty of rumors surrounding the idea of Google launching a foldable phone this year.
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France has fined Google the equivalent of $590 million for allegedly failing to negotiate deals with news publishers in ‘good faith.’ Google has two months to propose compensation for news content. It’s the latest in a string of government actions against the tech giant. Regulators aren’t done demanding corrective action from Google. Android Central noted that Google has agreed to pay a €500 million fine (about $590 million) after France’s competition regulator (Autorité de la concurrence) determined the search giant hadn’t negotiated news content deals “in good faith” with publishers.
A recently revealed Samsung patent suggests the company may be working on a hybrid device that would hit stores at some point in the not-to-distant future. The patent, filed in December 2011 with the US Patent and Trademark Office, details a mechanism that would allow the company to pair a touchscreen display with a full-sized keyboard that would let the user switch between tablet mode or notebook mode. In other words, we’re looking at a patent that describes a hinge required to bind together the two components as well as to allow a seamless transition between the two modes.