Skull Island might be a fictional location, but for a little while at least you can check it out on Google Maps. The company is partnering with Legendary and Universal Pictures to show where the dangerous tropical location exists as part of a promotion for the upcoming giant monster movie Kong: Skull Island.
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The Google Maps listing shows Skull Island as an “archaeological site” near the equator and several thousand miles west of the coast of Peru.
Last year marked an important shift for Google’s mobile efforts — gone are the days of developer-focused Nexus hardware. We’re now living in a time where Google makes its own smartphones (with some help from other manufacturers) to compete head-to-head with the other devices dominating the Android space.
With a bigger focus on appealing to all users (not just developers and the most die-hard Android purists), the Google Pixel and Pixel XL offered a fantastic camera, stellar performance, a refined software experience, and, at least at the time, the Pixel-exclusive Google Assistant.
And just like that, Sprint has come forward with details on their 4G LTE network rollout. The carrier has yet to offer any specific dates, however they have said that the coverage would go live for nine additional market sometime in the coming months. Without any further adieu, those lucky markets include the following;
Fort Smith, Arkansas Oakland/Freemont and Hayward, California Key West, Florida Bloomington, Indiana Michigan City and La Porte, Indiana Minneapolis and St.
Starting today, Dragon Quest VI Realms of Revelation joins its fellow Dragon Quest brethren on the Google Play Store and iOS. The game was originally released in 1995 on the SNES by Enix (before they merged with Squaresoft) and re-released on the Nintendo DS in 2007.Dragon Quest VI is the final chapter in the Zenithian trilogy that started in Dragon Quest IV and continued through Dragon Quest V. With this release, the entire trilogy is now available on mobile devices.
The Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit organization responsible for the development of the Unicode standard, has outlined the new emoji set to appear in the Emoji 5.0 update coming in June.
The update will include 47 never-before-seen emojis — including dinosaurs, a genie, a forward-facing giraffe, a dumpling and a curling stone — as well as a number of changes to pre-existing ones. Check some of the others out below.
Improvements to pre-existing emojis include the “cowboy face,” which now has a bigger hat (thank goodness) and the green “nauseated face,” which looks much better without the red cheeks.
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LG recently settled a lawsuit launched by smartphone who were plagued by bootlooping issues. Those affected who joined the lawsuit must file a “Proof of Claim” survey by February 12 to get the full rebate or cash amount. As of this writing, the survey and the settlement page has been taken down. Do you remember the lawsuit that angry LG smartphone owners filed against the South Korean company?
Today seems to be an active day for Moto’s latest darling, the Moto G. Set to hit Boost mobile on January 20th at an aggressive price of $129 on Boost’s no-contract $55-a-month plan, it could be a good option for some. Other goodies include 50GB of Google Drive space, and an Android 4.4 KitKat upgrade set to come ‘soon’.
Will you be picking one up? Can any manufacturer beat this price to quality ratio?
Pebble TimeA symmetrical design houses a new color screen and a microphone for voice input, but what matters most is that the Pebble ecosystem performs as well as ever - with some added charm. The Pebble Time is a worthy upgrade for Pebble loyalists, but its practicality makes it worth everyone's consideration.
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Once the pioneer of the smart wearable, Pebble has managed to find continued and impressive success in the face of ever-growing competition in this market from Google, Apple, Samsung and others.
I’m admittedly new to the “smart home” scene. Up until now, my only smart home devices were a couple of Google Home Minis, an Echo Dot, and a Nest thermostat. Those are neat, but I didn’t really go full throttle into the big “smart home” scene until Xiaomi offered a few products to review. Now I’m a changed man. I want a smarter home.
Xiaomi is obviously best known as a phone maker in select markets in Asia and Europe.
It has been a little while since we last looked at the long running, unresolved issue of audio latency and Android. I wish I could tell you that things were all fixed up with the roll-out of Android Lollipop, but sadly there doesn’t appear to have been enough of an improvement.
Results compiled by Nervous Systems using data collected by the SuperPowered measurement application, which we talked about before, show that the most popular Android handsets are still far too slow at providing a round-trip from jack/mic to speaker for real-time audio processing.