Monthly Archives: August 2015

Amazon Underground launches on Android giving away apps worth $10,000

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Today Amazon has launched a new app for Android, which is basically a new version of its Appstore, but with a twist.

It’s called Amazon Underground, and it lets you download and install apps to your Android device, just like the Amazon Appstore. However, Underground comes with something special: over $10,000 worth of paid apps included for free.

Or “actually free” as Amazon calls them – these all come without any in-app purchases. The apps are normally either paid or require in-app purchases to be usable. Some titles are OfficeSuite Professional 8, Goat Simulator, PhotoSuite 4, Frozen Free Fall, Star Wars Rebels: Recon Missions, Angry Birds Slingshot Stella, and Looney Tunes Dash.

Amazon is paying the developers of these apps (and games) a certain amount depending on how much time you use them. You’ll never have to pay anything though.

With the launch of Amazon Underground, the “Free app of the day” promotion has disappeared from the Amazon Appstore. This has probably happened because you’ll find all of those “free apps of the day” inside Underground anyway – and Underground isn’t a limited-time thing either. According to Amazon, it is “a long-term program” which will receive new benefits over time.

The Amazon Underground app is free to download, but you need to go to this website to get it. That’s because the terms and conditions governing Google’s Play Store forbid developers from uploading apps that offer apps or games inside them. Underground apps and games are automatically available on Fire HD and Fire HDX…

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Was ‘Destiny’ Year One Basically A Beta?

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There’s another Destiny livestream today, showing off the new strikes with The Taken King, just after giving us a tour of the complete overhaul the rest of the game is getting last week. It’s funny to give so much coverage to an expansion pack for a game that came out a year ago — that’s what this is, after all — but there’s something about it that just seems to make sense. Through all of its weirdness, there’s something truly dynamic about Destiny, something that makes it interesting to watch and even more interesting to play. It’s a game in process. Year one of Destiny was rife with experimentation and change, and now Bungie is coming back with a more polished, more friendly product based largely, it would seem, on feedback and data. That sure feels like a beta to me.

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Cuidado, esto es lo que ocurre si introduces del revés el S-Pen del Samsung Galaxy Note 5

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Samsung Galaxy Note 5

Samsung lo ha hecho de nuevo; ha puesto el listón muy alto con su más flamante terminal en la actualidad, el Galaxy Note 5. El terminal que no pasa desapercibido en ningún aspecto, tanto físico como con su hardware, luce poseer una renovada gestión de RAM que le ofrece un rendimiento sin igual. Y por si no fuera suficiente, según unas pruebas realizadas por DisplayMate, posee la mejor pantalla del mercado con diferencia, desde luego no es para menos. Sin embargo, no es perfecto ni mucho menos, pues tiene errores y margen de mejora como cualquier otro, pero la polémica que se ha desatado por su fallo relacionado con el S-Pen es alarmante.

Tras el bendgate, llega el Stylusgate

Su nuevo mote no le hace referencia como tal, pero sí es motivo de queja al experimentar muchos usuarios que, si introducen el S-Pen del revés en el terminal Samsung Galaxy Note 5 se queda atascado. Y no solo eso, incluso puede llegar a dañar los componentes internos y romper cierta pestaña que lo sujeta.

Y si te ocurre, ¿crees que puedes tirar de garantía como cualquier otro problema? Te equivocas. Samsung se ha mencionado y si ocurre es bajo tu propia responsabilidad, pues no se hacen cargo en absoluto. Tan seguros están de sus palabras, que en cierta página del manual de instrucciones lo avisa claramente.

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¿Y qué ocurre si lo introduzco del revés y no puedo sacarlo?

No es solo que quedará atascado y difícilmente podrás sacarlo sin daño alguno, si no que además romperás cierta característica en su interior que permite expulsarlo de forma automática. De este modo, incluso el propio dispositivo dejará de reconocer el S-Pen una vez introducido y dejarán de funcionar muchas de las opciones que sólo están disponibles si el mismo phablet lo detecta.

En las instantáneas que adjuntamos a continuación, podemos observar la pìeza que queda inutilizada en el caso de introducir el S-Pen del revés. La pestaña que lo sujeta no es fácil de reparar, todo lo contrario, está soldada en la placa base y es de un tamaño tan reducido que, la reparación vería un coste demasiado elevado como para salir rentable y admitirlo en periodo de garantía.

Era inimaginable que un descuido tan tonto como introducir en otra posición el S-Pen desate una serie de acontecimientos tan graves como para perder la funcionalidad del mismo y quedarse el propio terminal como un smartphone habitual. Ahora ya lo sabes, si te haces con un Samsung Galaxy Note 5 intenta por todos los medios no realizar esta mala acción, pues lo lamentarás.

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¿Qué opinas respecto a que Samsung no se haga responsable del problema?

¿Y tú que piensas? Pásate por Cuidado, esto es lo que ocurre si introduces del revés el S-Pen del Samsung Galaxy Note 5 para dejar tu huella.

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Sí, este es el coche de Google destrozado entre tomates… de la Tomatina

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Hoy no ha sido un día cualquiera. Hoy es el último míercoles del mes de agosto y por tanto el día… de la Tomatina. Para los que no la conozcan -difícil teniendo en cuenta la cantidad de gente de todo el mundo que acude a ella-, esta fiesta se celeb…

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Deal: Amazon Fire phone hits a new low at $130, basically free

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I feel like we’ve pretty well established at this point that the Amazon Fire phone probably doesn’t belong as your daily driver, but at this new low price of $130, you are basically walking out the door with the phone for free if you are a Prime subscriber anyway.

As a reminder, the device comes with a year of Prime ($99 value), a pair of magnetic earbuds that are actually quite good ($19 value) and a microUSB cable and power adapter that are worth $5-10. Total that all up and you are looking at about $130 worth of stuff, and then there’s the phone itself.

For “free” it is an excellent little device to have around the house for playing games, watching videos, reading, playing music or as a potential device for a child. Again, I’m not going to give you the hard sell on the Fire phone being anyone’s dream phone, but it is perfectly reasonable hardware for general usage and well worth the now near non-existent cost.

If you are particularly adventurous, you can even give the version of CyanogenMod 11 that is floating around for it a shot.

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YouTube Gaming is going live, Android app available now

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Yesterday, a report surfaced that pointed to August 26 as the launch date for the long-awaited (by some) YouTube Gaming, Google’s direct answer to the massively popular Twitch streaming service.

And sure enough, YouTube Gaming is now going live. To christen the arrival of the newest streaming service on the ‘net, the Android app is also available for those users that want to get their streaming content on their mobile devices. As Google already announced earlier in the year, YouTube Gaming offers dedicated pages for games, as well as streamers, and even game publishers. There are even categories for Let’s Plays, Machinima, eSports and plenty of others to browse through.

The Android app says that there are more than 25,000 games to watch videos for on the app, and YouTube Gaming users can chat with other viewers as they watch their favorite streams. As you watch more videos, YouTube Gaming will recommend others for you to check out.

YouTube Gaming will be live streaming some major gaming events, too, including PAX, Gamescom, E3 and more, and the app says that the YouTube Gaming community is already over “100 million strong.”

You’ll need to be running Android 4.1 and up to take full advantage of the app. A link to it is down below.

Do you plan on checking out YouTube Gaming, or are you sticking with Twitch?

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Samsung Galaxy Mega On and Grand On have their specs leaked

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Last week we got word that Samsung would soon add a new letter to its alphabet soup of branding: O. This would be a new series for the Korean company, and it’s been rumored to make its debut with two devices – the Galaxy O5 and Galaxy O7.

Now it seems those names have been dropped, with Samsung opting for the even more confusing Galaxy Grand On and Galaxy Mega On instead.

A new rumor comes to fill us in regarding these two handsets’ specs. First off, the Galaxy Mega On will have the model number SM-G600 and it will reportedly sport a 5.5-inch 720p touchscreen, a 13 MP rear camera, a 5 MP selfie snapper, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 SoC with a 1.2 GHz quad-core CPU at the helm, 1.5GB of RAM, 8GB of expandable storage, and a 3,000 mAh battery.

Its dimensions are set to be 151.8 x 77.5 x 8.2 mm, and it will weigh 145g. It will run Android 5.1 Lollipop from day one. It’s already been certified by the Bluetooth SIG, by the way.

On the other hand, the Galaxy Grand On will feature a 5-inch 720p touchscreen, an 8 MP rear cam, a 5 MP front-facing unit, the Exynos 3475 chipset with a 1.3 GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of expandable storage, and a 2,600 mAh battery. It too will run Android 5.1 Lollipop. Its dimensions are 142 x 71.9 x 8.5 mm, and it weighs 140g.

Right now it’s unclear when Samsung plans to launch these devices, how much they will cost, or what possible need there could be for them to exist at all, given how similar their specs are to many other smartphones from the same manufacturer. Perhaps it’s all going to be in the design. Or maybe they will have some special VR features.

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