Daily Archives: February 4, 2016

Apple Pay is now available at 2 million locations in four markets

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Apple Pay was launched in 2014 with the iPhone 6 series and is currently supported by the iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6s, 6s Plus, and the Apple Watch. The iPad Pro, Air 2, mini 3, and mini 4 can also use Apple Pay but within apps only.

Apple had a target of physical 1.5 million locations for the 2015, and it managed to surpass this milestone by a lot. Today Apple Pay is available at more than 2 million locations globally and is continuing its expansion. That’s still far from a wide-spread service, but its future sure looks more promising now.

The next wave of supported merchants is going to include Chick-Fil-A, Crate & Barrel, and Au Bon Pain. Popular food chains like KFC, Dominos, Chili’s, and Cinnabon will be adding Apple Pay later on.

Apple Pay will also expand its reach to China later this year. Currently, it is available in four markets – USA, Hong Kong, Spain, and Singapore.

Finally, Apple Pay got an enormous increase in in-app payments, a feature not widely advertised but often used nevertheless.

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Deal: Newegg offering a $25 gift card with every Honor 5X

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The Honor 5X is already a pretty crazy deal at $199. Many are calling it the best budget smartphone on the market, and just days after it officially launched in the U.S., you can score an even better deal through Newegg.

For a limited time only, every Honor 5X purchase through Newegg will include a $25 gift card, bringing the cost of the Honor 5X down to $174 if you are like me and consider $25 at Newegg basically as good as cash.

The deal is available on all three colors, and at the moment they are all in stock, unlike Amazon, which is backed up about a month on the gold model.

We have no idea how long this offer is going to be available, but if you are interested in the Honor 5X, this is probably the best deal you are going to see anytime soon.

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Crazy LG invites tease G5 unveiling on February 21

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The G5 is coming. Photo: LGSamsung’s next-generation Galaxy S7 won’t be the only new smartphone we get from Mobile World Congress on February 21. These crazy invites from LG confirm it will announce its new G5 smartphone on the very same day. The G5 is expected to be a big upgrade over the G4, with a more premium design that

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Gionee Elife S8 spotted on Geekbench running the Helio P10 SoC

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Last month it became clear that Gionee will follow-up MWC 2015 launch of the Elife S7 with at least one new device lined up for the event this year. By all accounts, that is going to be the Gionee Elife S8, which prior to the February 22 announcement made a quick stop at Geekbench (we are fairly certain GN9011 refers to it).

The listing reveals a MediaTek MT6755 SoC, also known as the eight core Helio P10. This falls in line with the legacy of the Elife line, which typically employs MediaTek chips. The benchmark also reported 4GB of RAM on the handset, as well as an Android 6.0 platform. The cited scores are also not bad at 4511 points on multi-core and 1079 on single, courtesy of the ARM Cortex-A53 cores. Sadly, the leak doesn’t offer any other information, but Gionee was kind enough to share some more insight on the Elife S8, a while back:

At MWC 2016, GIONEE will introduce a new member to its S series – the Elife S8, an innovative mobile device that comes with hassle-free photo-shooting features and a pressure-sensitive display.

While a pressure sensitive display is nothing really new, here’s to hoping Gionee manages to introduce even more exciting uses for the technology and possibly more compatible and optimized software to make it worthwhile.

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Verizon gives its prepaid offerings a data boost

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While the postpaid market certainly gets the lion’s share of the attention for mobile coverage, the prepaid market is a critical arena for the carriers and a compelling option for many customers.

Verizon certainly isn’t known as a budget offering, and while it isn’t the cheapest option in the prepaid world either, it does retain a network advantage in many areas of the country. Today its value proposition just got a lot more interesting with the smartphone prepaid plans that includes 2GB of data for $45 a month or 5GB at $60 a month. That is up from 1GB and 3GB previously. The plans include unlimited talk and text in the U.S. and unlimited texting to Canada and Mexico. Customers are also eligible for another 1GB of data each month if they enroll in Auto Pay.

This compares favorably with T-Mobile’s Simple Choice plans that start at $50 for 2GB of data with unlimited talk and text. The big difference is that with T-Mobile, you will fall back to 2G if you go over your data for the month, whereas with Verizon you will be paying for that extra data.

This doesn’t make Verizon the clear cut winner in the big carrier prepaid race, but it does at least put them on relatively even footing with the others, and in many areas that is enough to tip the scales in favor of Verizon thanks to its coverage.

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Russia’s Big Worry Is Not What The Pentagon Thinks But What Shale Frackers Will Do To Oil Prices

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Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter ruffled feathers this week when, in a February 2nd speech at the Economic Club of Washington D.C., he demoted ISIS and terrorism, to the bottom of a list of key threats to America’s national security. At the top of the list of “five evolving challenges”? Russia.

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The Internet of Medical Things: Digitalization Revolutionizes Respiratory Care Management

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During this time of year, incidences of severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) escalate. Today there are 60 million people with moderate to severe COPD and an additional 235 million who live with asthma worldwide. The total direct costs associated with COPD were approximately $40 billion in 2015 and are estimated to reach $49 billion by 2020. The economic burden of COPD and asthma in the European Union was estimated to be more than 80 billion euros in 2013.

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Adreno 530 (Snapdragon 820 GPU) benchmarked, competition crushed

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Everyone is eager to forget the Snapdragon 810 issues and move on to the 820. Early processor benchmarks didn’t wipe out the competition, but maybe the new Adreno 530 GPU could impress.

Qualcomm promised a 40% performance improvement on top of a 40% power reduction over the Adreno 420 used in the S810.

Early GFXBench tests show the difference can be even bigger than expected. Only the iPhone 6s Plus GPU, the PowerVR GT7600 (6-core), comes close and even that one doesn’t quite catch up. Even the Google Pixel C (a large tablet with a Nvidia Tegra X1 chipset ) barely wins out.

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GFX 3.0 Manhattan (1080p offscreen)
Higher is better

??? (Adreno 530)
48

Google Pixel C (Nvidia Maxwell)
48

iPhone 6s Plus (PowerVR GT7600)
39.5

Huawei Nexus 6P (Adreno 430)
25

Galaxy Note5 (Mali-T760MP8)
21

Huawei Mate 8 (Mali-T880 MP4)
17

GFX 3.1 Manhattan (1080p offscreen)
Higher is better

Google Pixel C (Nvidia Maxwell)
35.5

??? (Adreno 530)
31.5

Huawei Nexus 6P (Adreno 430)
17

Galaxy Note5 (Mali-T760MP8)
15

Huawei Mate 8 (Mali-T880 MP4)
9.9

This is, of course, assuming the benchmark score is legit. And it says nothing of the promised battery savings.

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