After producing a long line of e-book readers and tablets (not to mention a set-top box), Amazon has its sights set on the smartphone market. But finding success here won’t be easy, even for an established tech giant like Amazon. With the Fire phone, the online retailer is coming in as an unproven underdog, hoping to bring iPhone and Android users into its fold. CEO Jeff Bezos says the only way to do that is to differentiate; to wow potential buyers with new features they didn’t even realize they needed. These unique offerings include 3D head-tracking, product scanning and fast help from customer service agents.
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After producing a long line of e-book readers and tablets (not to mention a set-top box), Amazon has its sights set on the smartphone market. But finding success here won’t be easy, even for an established tech giant like Amazon. With the Fire phone, the online retailer is coming in as an unproven underdog, hoping to bring iPhone and Android users into its fold. CEO Jeff Bezos says the only way to do that is to differentiate; to wow potential buyers with new features they didn’t even realize they needed. These unique offerings include 3D head-tracking, product scanning and fast help from customer service agents.
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Tonight at Code Conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella brought his Skype team onto the stage to prove that his company’s got the next big thing. Taglined “the pre-beta of magic,” the service, called Skype Translator, turns your real-time conversation into a Star Trek-like universal communicator. You can speak to someone who speaks a different language; the service adds the other person’s translations for you in subtitle format at the bottom of the screen. It’s not an immediate translation: You’ll need to wait until the other person is done speaking before the service starts whirring away. We’ve seen similar demonstrations in the past, but the key point here is that the beta service is due out by the end of the year, and will be on all devices that run Skype. The company isn’t committing to specific language support yet, but it likely will be a matter of which ones Skype is able to do the best at launch.
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Tonight at Code Conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella brought his Skype team onto the stage to prove that his company’s got the next big thing. Taglined “the pre-beta of magic,” the service, called Skype Translator, turns your real-time conversation into a Star Trek-like universal communicator. You can speak to someone who speaks a different language; the service adds the other person’s translations for you in subtitle format at the bottom of the screen. It’s not an immediate translation: You’ll need to wait until the other person is done speaking before the service starts whirring away. We’ve seen similar demonstrations in the past, but the key point here is that the beta service is due out by the end of the year, and will be on all devices that run Skype. The company isn’t committing to specific language support yet, but it likely will be a matter of which ones Skype is able to do the best at launch.
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We’ve seen the Galaxy Note series get larger and larger as time passes, but this is the first time we’ve seen the Note actually get smaller. The Galaxy Note 3 Neo has now been officially unveiled by Samsung Poland and will come in two flavors — 3G and “LTE+,” and the latter offers connectivity on higher-speed Category 4 networks (up to 150 Mbps down/50 Mbps up). The two share a lot of similarities, but there are a couple key differences as well: As you might expect, the LTE+ model is the more specced-out of the pair and offers a hexa-core processor consisting of two 1.7GHz Cortex-A15 cores and four 1.3GHz Cortex-A7 cores. The 3G (HSPA+ 21 Mbps) version, on the other hand, will enjoy a quad-core 1.6GHz processor of unknown make.
So what’s important about the new Neos? Both versions of the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean device feature a 5.5-inch 720p Super AMOLED panel with full S Pen capability, which means you’ll be able to take advantage of Air Command, S Note, Multi-Window and other pen-related functions; in other words, it’ll be a less-expensive version of the Note 3 for those who want the functionality without the absolute top-of-the-line features. It even comes with the same leatherlike back cover as its flagship counterpart (shown below).
The 162.5g Neo is 8.6mm thick, is compatible with Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch and comes with a pretty decent array of specs: You’re looking at a 3,100mAh battery, 8MP rear camera/2MP front-facing camera, 2GB of RAM, IR, NFC, WiFi 802.11a/ac/b/g/n, 16GB internal storage and microSDXC capacity up to 64GB. Not too shabby for a “Note 3 mini” of sorts, although we’re not sure what the price is at present time. Samsung says we should expect a global rollout next month (except the US and the UK, if the company hasn’t changed its mind) in our choice of black, white or green.
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Via: PhoneArena, SammyToday
Source: Samsung Poland (translated)
We’ve seen the Galaxy Note series get larger and larger as time passes, but this is the first time we’ve seen the Note actually get smaller. The Galaxy Note 3 Neo has now been officially unveiled by Samsung Poland and will come in two flavors — 3G and “LTE+,” and the latter offers connectivity on higher-speed Category 4 networks (up to 150 Mbps down/50 Mbps up). The two share a lot of similarities, but there are a couple key differences as well: As you might expect, the LTE+ model is the more specced-out of the pair and offers a hexa-core processor consisting of two 1.7GHz Cortex-A15 cores and four 1.3GHz Cortex-A7 cores. The 3G (HSPA+ 21 Mbps) version, on the other hand, will enjoy a quad-core 1.6GHz processor of unknown make.
So what’s important about the new Neos? Both versions of the Android 4.3 Jelly Bean device feature a 5.5-inch 720p Super AMOLED panel with full S Pen capability, which means you’ll be able to take advantage of Air Command, S Note, Multi-Window and other pen-related functions; in other words, it’ll be a less-expensive version of the Note 3 for those who want the functionality without the absolute top-of-the-line features. It even comes with the same leatherlike back cover as its flagship counterpart (shown below).
The 162.5g Neo is 8.6mm thick, is compatible with Samsung’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch and comes with a pretty decent array of specs: You’re looking at a 3,100mAh battery, 8MP rear camera/2MP front-facing camera, 2GB of RAM, IR, NFC, WiFi 802.11a/ac/b/g/n, 16GB internal storage and microSDXC capacity up to 64GB. Not too shabby for a “Note 3 mini” of sorts, although we’re not sure what the price is at present time. Samsung says we should expect a global rollout next month (except the US and the UK, if the company hasn’t changed its mind) in our choice of black, white or green.
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Via: PhoneArena, SammyToday
Source: Samsung Poland (translated)
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This week, the Engadget Mobile Podcast will have not one but two special guests: Engadget Chinese EIC Richard Lai, who flew to Abu Dhabi to cover the Nokia event, and another mystery guest. You want a hint? Well, let’s just say you’ll want to keep an eye on your Pebble watch so you don’t miss out on …
This week, the Engadget Mobile Podcast will have not one but two special guests: Engadget Chinese EIC Richard Lai, who flew to Abu Dhabi to cover the Nokia event, and another mystery guest. You want a hint? Well, let’s just say you’ll want to keep an eye on your Pebble watch so you don’t miss out on …
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LG has admitted that “bendable and unbreakable” smartphone displays are already in production, and we’ve heard plenty of rumors about a device known as the G Flex which features the new tech. Engadget has come across a trio of renders of the upcoming device, and we have learned from our sources that …
LG has admitted that “bendable and unbreakable” smartphone displays are already in production, and we’ve heard plenty of rumors about a device known as the G Flex which features the new tech. Engadget has come across a trio of renders of the upcoming device, and we have learned from our sources that …
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A couple weeks ago we covered a new Indiegogo campaign from QSAlpha, a company aiming to produce a super-encrypted smartphone (along with a software-based platform for standard Android users as well). Despite the fact that the funding phase didn’t go so well, the manufacturer recently announced that …
A couple weeks ago we covered a new Indiegogo campaign from QSAlpha, a company aiming to produce a super-encrypted smartphone (along with a software-based platform for standard Android users as well). Despite the fact that the funding phase didn’t go so well, the manufacturer recently announced that …
Mom always said nothing good happens after midnight, but obviously she didn’t know about mobile podcasts. Yes, it’s another late night here at Engadget Mobile virtual HQ, but we have a few things to say about a couple rather high-profile reviews we published Tuesday evening. Join us tonight (or this morning, depending on where you are and how you look at it) as we dig into more of our thoughts about the new pair of iPhones, as well as any other topics that just happen to come up!
September 19, 2013 12:00:00 AM EDT
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Mom always said nothing good happens after midnight, but obviously she didn’t know about mobile podcasts. Yes, it’s another late night here at Engadget Mobile virtual HQ, but we have a few things to say about a couple rather high-profile reviews we published Tuesday evening. Join us tonight (or this morning, depending on where you are and how you look at it) as we dig into more of our thoughts about the new pair of iPhones, as well as any other topics that just happen to come up!
September 19, 2013 12:00:00 AM EDT
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Granted, the picture we see above us would’ve been much more intriguing a couple days ago, prior to Samsung Unpacked, but it shows the Samsung SM-V700 (aka Galaxy Gear) getting the official stamp of approval by the FCC, which means it’s one step closer to store shelves. The docs don’t give us any juicy tidbits that we didn’t already know — essentially, the device has Bluetooth and not much else in the way of wireless connectivity — but this doesn’t come as a surprise for an already-announced gadget. Still, the Galaxy Gear’s appearance in the FCC is at least a clear indication that things are going in the right direction, and folks in the US may see it closer to the September 25th launch date than they initially feared.
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Source: FCC
Granted, the picture we see above us would’ve been much more intriguing a couple days ago, prior to Samsung Unpacked, but it shows the Samsung SM-V700 (aka Galaxy Gear) getting the official stamp of approval by the FCC, which means it’s one step closer to store shelves. The docs don’t give us any juicy tidbits that we didn’t already know — essentially, the device has Bluetooth and not much else in the way of wireless connectivity — but this doesn’t come as a surprise for an already-announced gadget. Still, the Galaxy Gear’s appearance in the FCC is at least a clear indication that things are going in the right direction, and folks in the US may see it closer to the September 25th launch date than they initially feared.
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Source: FCC
Hot on the heels of an update to the Windows Phone desktop app for Win 7 and 8, the Modern UI version is now getting a solid refresh of its own. Enhancements include the benefit of browsing documents and adding them directly to the phone from the app, and the opportunity to open files stored on your phone with other programs. It’s not the meatiest update, but it’s available now in the Windows Store, and adding the document sync feature to the app — which was already capable of handling most other types of files — is still some pleasant news.
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Via: Neowin
Source: Windows Store
Hot on the heels of an update to the Windows Phone desktop app for Win 7 and 8, the Modern UI version is now getting a solid refresh of its own. Enhancements include the benefit of browsing documents and adding them directly to the phone from the app, and the opportunity to open files stored on your phone with other programs. It’s not the meatiest update, but it’s available now in the Windows Store, and adding the document sync feature to the app — which was already capable of handling most other types of files — is still some pleasant news.
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Via: Neowin
Source: Windows Store
Microsoft is definitely having a field day week, sandwiched right in between WWDC and Google I/O. Tomorrow morning the giant’s offered us a sneak peek at Windows Phone, and that’s leaving us plenty of food for thought to chew on. Will it be this Apollo we’ve heard all about? We’re going to be at tomorrow morning’s keynote, bringing you all of the updates as the news flows out of Joe Belfiore & Co. Join us then — the fun begins at noon!
June 20, 2012 12:00 PM EDT
Microsoft offers a sneak peek at Windows Phone, we’ll be liveblogging at 12pm ET! originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Microsoft is definitely having a field day week, sandwiched right in between WWDC and Google I/O. Tomorrow morning the giant’s offered us a sneak peek at Windows Phone, and that’s leaving us plenty of food for thought to chew on. Will it be this Apollo we’ve heard all about? We’re going to be at tomorrow morning’s keynote, bringing you all of the updates as the news flows out of Joe Belfiore & Co. Join us then — the fun begins at noon!
June 20, 2012 12:00 PM EDT
Microsoft offers a sneak peek at Windows Phone, we’ll be liveblogging at 12pm ET! originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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