Daily Archives: July 25, 2015

Frustration And Anger As Apple’s Reputation Tumbles

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It has been hard to enjoy Apple’s recent releases over the last few months. Updates for iOS appear to be arriving monthly to introduce more bugs than are fixed, OSX is focusing more on eye candy and cloud integration rather than a stable working environment, and Apple’s online services are more focused on making money than providing better user experiences. The shine is coming off Apple.

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OnePlus 2 pre-launch buildup continues with app release and reservation list opening

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With the OnePlus 2 set to be revealed in just a couple of days, news about the device is coming out at a pretty heavy rate.

First up, OnePlus has released the OnePlus 2 Launch app, which will let you experience the launch of OnePlus’s new flagship Android phone from your own device. If you’ve got a VR headset, like OnePlus’s own Cardboard or another Cardboard-compatible unit, you can experience the virtual reality event that OnePlus has been hyping in recent weeks. If you don’t have a Cardboard headset, though, you can still watch the event unfold using the app. OnePlus says that the experience “won’t be as immersive,” but promises that it’ll still be “interactive and amazing.

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OnePlus has also opened up its OnePlus 2 reservation list. Entering your email address onto the list will put you in line to eventually get a OnePlus to invitation without hunting for one throughout the internet. OnePlus says that there are “many” people on the list already, so if you’d like to get an invitation of your own, you’d be wise to sign up as soon as possible.

Finally, a video that claims to show the OnePlus 2 being subjected to an AnTuTu test has surfaced. The video shows what is allegedly a OnePlus 2 — complete with a fingerprint reader like the one shown in a recent image leak — running Android 5.1.1 with 16GB of storage and a 1920×1080 display resolution.

The OnePlus 2 finishes the AnTuTu test with a score of 49221. That may be a bit lower than some would like to see from a Snapdragon 810-equipped phone, but you should probably hold off on making any performance-based buying decisions until the OnePlus 2 is actually released to the public.

Sources: Google Play, OnePlus, YouTube

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Moto G (3rd gen) will cost $179.99 according to carrier leak

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Over the past few weeks, the next iteration of the Moto G has been leaking a lot. Basically we already know very many details about it, even as we're still a few days away from its unveiling on July 28.

One thing that hasn't been rumored a lot is how much the device is going to cost. We've only had one data point for this so far, through a retailer leak from Switzerland, and that led us to believe that the handset could be more expensive than its predecessors.

Yet now a new purported leak comes to contradict that theory. What you see above is said to be a screengrab of an inventory listing at US Cellular. As can be discerned from this image, the carrier is getting ready to sell the Moto G (3rd gen), and its price is said to be $179.99.

That's exactly as much as past Moto Gs have launched for, so it could all be good news. Then again, we still don't know if Motorola will launch two versions – 3G-only and 4G-capable – as before or will finally choose to only release one SKU, with LTE support built-in. If the latter turns out to be true, then the pricing is even more noteworthy, since in in the past only the 3G Moto Gs went for this…

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