Samsung has announced a new version of its Galaxy S5 smartphone, the Galaxy S5 4G+. As the name suggests, the handset is designed to offer faster 4G/LTE data speeds than the standard model.
Hardware wise, the Galaxy S5 4G+ shares the same display, RAM, memory, and aesthetics as the regular flagship. The only difference is that the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 has been swapped out for the Snapdragon 805. The main reason for this is that the Snapdragon 805 allows for faster peak data speeds of 225Mbps, compared with 150Mbps for the standard S5.
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Amazon’s retail team informed Google’s Nest team that new Nest products would not be sold on Amazon.com In retaliation, Nest is pulling all its products from Amazon as soon as current stock is depleted. This is another chess move in the ongoing war between the two smart home giants. Late last year, a conference call between Nest, the Google-owned smart home company, and the retail team at Amazon resulted in some sobering news: Amazon would not be carrying any new entries in the Nest catalog.
With the growing number of social networks, messaging apps, and video chatting applications in the Google Play Store, sometimes keeping track of all of them can be daunting. Usually, to message someone on Facebook, you’ll need to open the Facebook application, click on the Messages tab, type in your friend’s name, then start typing your message. drupe, a new app in the Play Store, aims to streamline this process.
Google‘s trade-in program for the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL sounded great on paper, but it hit a snag in recent times over incorrect trade-in value assessments. It appears that Google has fixed some of those issues, though, if a recent post by Google community manager Orrin Hancock is anything to go by.
According to Hancock, the search giant gives folks an estimated trade-in value for their devices. Once Google receives their devices, the company then checks their conditions against the information that people provided.
Google is reportedly planning to move production of its Pixel smartphones from China to Vietnam, amid a backdrop of increased labor costs and the U.S. trade war with China.
According to the Nikkei Asian Review, citing two sources familiar with the plans, Google has started work on converting an old Nokia factory in Vietnam to produce Pixel phones. More specifically, it’s believed that the Mountain View company plans to shift production of some Pixel 3a phones to Vietnam before the end of 2019.
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MediaTek has announced the Helio P70 chipset. The new chip is mostly identical to the Helio P60, save for higher clock speeds. The company also confirmed that it’s launching a more powerful chip before the end of the year. MediaTek’s Helio P60 might be the surprise chipset of 2018, bringing a capable octa-core CPU arrangement and AI silicon to mid-range smartphones. Now, the Taiwanese firm has followed up with the Helio P70.
The smartphone industry has come along way in the last few years, and during that time mobile device form factors have evolved quite a bit. While Blackberry still continues to cling on to the physical keyboard approach, finding an Android device with a physical QWERTY keyboard is becoming harder and harder to do.
As touchscreens improve, there just isn’t as much need for physical keys as there used to be. But what if you enjoy that tactile feedback provided from pushing against an actual button?
By offering an open API that everyone can use to connect their products to Nest thermostats and smoke detectors, Nest is trying to establish its product as the go-to hub that all connected objects, from cars to smart light bulbs, can tie into, enabling new features that would not be otherwise possible.
Under the “Works with Nest experience” program, companies like IFTTT, Jawbone, LIFX, Logitech, Mercedes-Benz, Whirlpool, Chamberlain, and Google are already tapping into the data opened up by Nest, with more partners to come in the future.
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Coding is your ticket to a dream job. Developers can often work from anywhere and, usually, make a very good living doing it. According to Daxx.com, the average Python Developer’s salary in the U.S. is $103,492.There are a variety of routes into coding. You don’t have to be a genius either, you just need a fairly logical mind and a willingness to learn. If you’re thinking about giving it a go, Python is arguably one of the best places to start.