Daily Archives: January 25, 2016

Samsung’s gold Gear S2 is $9,500 cheaper than Apple Watch Edition

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Gear S2 now comes in rose gold and platinum. Photo: SamsungSamsung finally has an answer to the Apple Watch Edition. The South Korean company today added 18-karat rose gold and platinum Gear S2 Classic options to its smartwatch lineup, and they’ll cost you about $9,500 less than a gold Apple Watch. Despite being identical to the original Gear S2 Classic internally, Samsung’s “Gear S2 Classic New

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LG G5 dual camera design confirmed by another case leak

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The LG G5 is taking the spotlight from the Galaxy S7 for a change and stars in another story today, this time courtesy of a case maker. Accessory manufacturers are given the phones’ drawings well in advance and have become a reliable source of intel on upcoming product designs.

So in this particular instance, we’re talking about a range of rugged G5 cases, which are just as good at providing protection, as they are at revealing certain design choices on LG’s part. For one, the dual camera on the back gets yet another confirmation, after today’s boxed prototype and an older diagram.

LG G5 case renders

The circular fingerprint reader on the back is all but a certainty by now, but the volume buttons will be a thing of the past, for the G-series at least. Even though a couple of the case renders still feature remnants of those buttons, the volume rocker on the left side clearly states otherwise. The question must be asked then, where’s the power button, and by the looks of it the fingerprint sensor may actually be inside one, like on the V10.

The rest of the details are very much in line with the previous leak – a Type-C USB connector and speaker on the bottom, and the 3.5mm headphone jack on top. There’s a mic on either end of the smartphone, and we’d venture a guess that the second cutout on the top is for an IR blaster. The one thing that we can’t seem to get a confirmation on is the slide-out…

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Deal: 2nd gen Moto Hint marked down to $60 through Best Buy

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The second generation Moto Hint, the tiny Bluetooth headset from Motorola, launched in the Fall last year to no fanfare from Motorola, presumably a nod to the original Moto Hint not setting the world on fire with its sales figures.

The price of the new Moto Hint at launch was also slashed to $129.99 from the $149.99 of its predecessor. That seemed a much more reasonable asking price, but still likely too tall an ask for most buyers. The street price on the Hint has been sitting at $79.99 most places for some time now, but Best Buy has now dropped it to $59.99 through its eBay store and online for in-store pick-up.

At that price I think it is worth a second look for a couple sets of people. Full disclosure, I love the second generation Moto Hint, it solved the huge problem from the first generation which was that it was simply too quiet to be usable in anything other than a pretty quiet environment. It also nearly doubled the battery life in the case giving you a total of 17 hours when the Hint and case are fully charged.

The first category of people that should consider the Hint are those that simply want a low-profile Bluetooth headset. Both for making calls and using voice commands with my smartphone the Hint works fantastically while only making me look vaguely crazy with a slight protrusion from my ear rather than like a Borg.

That is a distant second to my primary use for the Hint though, which is listening to podcasts and audio books. Admittedly I consume a somewhat disturbing amount of both, but this use case has made it easily the second most used gadget for me behind only whatever my current smartphone might be.

Now there are a number of truly wireless stereo earbuds coming this year, but most of those are going to run you $200+, so if you are just looking for a low-profile Bluetooth headset or like me spend most of your time listening to spoken word content the Moto Hint at $59.99 is a great deal.

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Los vídeos llegarán a Spotify esta semana

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Hace un ya un tiempo, surgieron rumores acerca de un misterioso servicio de vídeos online desarrollado por Spotify que estaba en proceso de prueba. En un primer momento no se le prestó mucha atención, sin embargo parece que no se trataba de un bulo, ya que según Wall Street Journal, este nuevo contenido multimedia de la mano de Spotify llegará a tu Android esta misma semana.

La firma de origen sueco planea introducir contenido audiovisual en la aplicación de Android empezando esta semana, mientras que en la app de iOS comenzará al final de la semana que viene. Los primeros países en recibir los vídeos serán Reino Unido, Alemania, Estados Unidos y Suecia. No obstante, en un primer momento, Spotify anunció que empezaría a distribuir vídeos y podcasts allá por mayo.

Vídeos de Spotify y su contenido

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Asimismo, el Wall Street Journal afirma que el nuevo servicio ha concluido la etapa de pruebas que se ha efectuado en diversos países. Por el momento no se conoce con exactitud el tipo de contenido que ofrecerán los vídeos de Spotify, aunque según el Wall Street Journal, los vídeos de prueba contenían pequeños extractos del “Show de Jimmy Kimmel”. A pesar de todo, compañías como Tastemade están produciendo contenido de estilo musical para la plataforma de streaming.

Algunos de los proveedores de contenido se han quejado de manera privada debido al retraso del proceso de puesta en marcha, aunque el vicepresidente de gestión de productos de Spotify, Shiva Rajaraman, sostiene que esta fecha de lanzamiento era parte del plan. Según Rajaraman, acaban de concluir el proceso de pruebas, y el retraso se debe a la intensa búsqueda perpetrada con el fin de alcanzar un amplio abanico de contenidos.

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Por otro lado, durante la etapa de pruebas, Spotify ha aprendido que ofrecían demasiadas maneras a los usuarios para encontrar vídeos. Según Rajaraman, por este motivo, la compañía se ha centrado en compartimentar todo el contenido y subdividirlo en paquetes de programación, como por ejemplo “Noticias Semanales” o “Risas durante el almuerzo”.

Al menos durante las primeras semanas de vida del nuevo servicio, la plataforma no mostrará ningún tipo de publicidad en los vídeos, ya que Spotify interpreta los vídeos como una nueva manera de expandir su audiencia. Además, de esta manera consigue que los usuarios ya existentes pasen más tiempo usando su aplicación. Así, el contenido audiovisual estará disponible para todos los usuarios, con o sin suscripción.

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Oracle Mounts Challenge to AWS in Massive IT Industry Shakeup

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In an exclusive interview, Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle Corp, details Oracle’s cloud strategy and how it’s mounting an aggressive challenge to public cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Salesforce and Workday, while its legacy enterprise competitors such as EMC and SAP scramble for survival in a cloud-centric world.

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This one weird website will cause your smartphone to crash

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Is Samsung back? Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of AndroidWatch out for people sending you links to the website CrashSafari dot com, which is causing smartphones and PCs around the world to crash by overloading their browsers with a self-generating address bar text string that causes devices to stop responding. Although the name refers to Apple’s default browser for Mac and iOS devices, the

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