WWE NETWORK launching in February, will have Android experience
WWE Network, the first-ever 24/7 streaming network, will launch live in the U.S. on Monday, February 24, featuring all 12 WWE live pay-per-view events – including WrestleMania – valued at more than $600 per year for $9.99 per month with a 6-month commitment. WWE Network will also include groundbreaking original programming, reality shows, documentaries, classic matches and more than 1,500 hours of video on demand at launch.
WWE Network will also be available through the WWE App on: Android devices such as Samsung GalaxySony PlayStation 3 and Sony PlayStation 4; and Xbox 360. Availability on additional devices, including Xbox One and select Smart TVs, will follow this summer.
So all of you WWE fans will be able to enjoy wrestling to your hearts content very soon! Get a sneak peak of WWE Network here!
Source: WWE
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Samsung leak points to cut-down Galaxy Note 3 ‘Neo’ with six-core CPU
If you like the idea of a big old pen-equipped Samsung handset but don’t want to spend a bundle on a Galaxy Note 3, you might soon be in luck. GSM Arena has unearthed a sales document that spells out the specs for an alleged Galaxy Note 3 Neo, which seems to recycle many aspects of last year’s Note 2: a 5.55-inch 720p screen, 8-megapixel camera, 2GB of RAM and 3,100mAh battery. However, the new device would also pack an unannounced 1.7GHz dual + 1.3GHz quad “hexa” chip, which could be a new Exynos processor variant. It’ll also sport the same design touches as its big brother Note 3, like the slimmer profile, faux leather back and Magazine UX seen on the new Galaxy Note Pro 12.2. That’s assuming the document’s for real, of course — we’ll believe it when we see the skeumorphic stitching for ourselves.
Filed under: Cellphones, Samsung
Source: GSM Arena
Hot Watch about to ship to Kickstarter backers, here’s the (almost) final version
The last time we saw the Hot Watch, the wristband was held together with a temporary strip of Velcro. To be sure, it was in good enough shape for us to test its voice-calling feature, but it was desperately in need of some TLC in the design department. A lot’s changed in the past five months, however, and now the startup is ready to ship the watch to early Kickstarter backers. We got a chance to check out a (nearly) final version here at CES where, indeed, there were a few Kickstarter buyers milling around Hot Watch’s suite, hoping to get a sneak peek. Read on for a rundown of what’s new. And hey, all you backers out there? Don’t shoot the messenger if it’s not all good news: you backed it, you bought it.
As ever, the watch band has a bulbous module on the end — that’s where the mic and bi-directional speaker live, allowing you to make voice calls. This time, however, the band has a proper strap (hooray!) and is made of silicone. Actually, the model we handled was made of a different material, though company reps assured us the final version will indeed use silicone, and that it will have a softer finish. Also new: a built-in flashlight on the right side, though it’s only included on the highest-end model.
The front of the watch, meanwhile, is more or less as we remember it, with a rectangular face and a choice of different materials: a matte black finish ($179), stainless steel ($199) or titanium ($249). At a glance, the stainless steel and titanium are hard to distinguish — meaning, the titanium doesn’t actually look like it should be $50 more expensive than the steel. It is a bit flashier, though: the titanium model has curved, not straight edges, giving it a bolder look.
More importantly, perhaps, the watch’s UI has also received a facelift. Whereas before you traced diagonal lines across the screen to toggle through apps, you now swipe in from the right (yep, just like in Windows 8). Also, those four shortcuts above the screen? They now actually function as shortcuts. Just tap right below each shortcut icon to view the clock, date, calendar and some fourth, programmable app (it was tic-tac toe on the watches we handled, but you can change that). The problem is, the screen is awfully tiny, and the four touch zones four each of the shortcuts are even tinier. So it can be tricky to find the right spot on your first try, especially if you’re a new user. In particular, we struggled with shortcut number one, located in the upper-left corner of the display.
Otherwise, the screen was responsive, particularly when I drew shortcuts to open the clock options, app menu and system settings. And I use the word “drew” deliberately: you trace an “A” for apps, a “C” for clock and so on. By the time this ships, you’ll also be able to write “F” for flashlight, assuming you get the high-end titanium edition.
Speaking of ship dates, company reps say they expect the first Kickstarter backers to receive their Hot Watches before the Chinese New Year (hint: that’s January 31st), with later adopters getting theirs in February. Meanwhile, people who placed pre-orders after the Kickstarter campaign ended should be getting the watch starting in March.
Filed under: Wearables
WowWee’s MiP revisited: the dance of the robot fairies
You might remember the MiP from such posts as Meet WowWee’s MiP: A gesture and app-controlled robot with moves like Jagger and Live from the Engadget CES Stage: WowWee CTO Davin Sufer. Well, if you happened to catch the latter of those two, you might also remember that the demo gremlins made a bit of an appearance while Davin Sufer was on stage. So, we followed the company’s CTO back to the WowWee booth where he promised a special treat, and boy did he deliver. Turns out you can control more than one MiP from a single phone. So he connected to six of his little bots, picked out a song from his library and started the charismatic little buggers on an epic synchronized dance. We don’t want to bore you by repeating the details we already offered in our previous hands-on, just enjoy the video below.
Edgar Alvarez contributed to this report.
Filed under: Robots
T-Mobile celebrates best quarter in nearly a decade
T-Mobile has announced at CES that Q4 2013 has been the best quarter in 8 years with the addition of 1.65 million customers. In the previous year T-Mobile saw 32,000 customers leave them, a big improvement in over a year. Overall, T-Mobile added more than 4.4 million customers in all of 2013.
T-Mobile owes its huge improvement in customers to its Uncarrier initiative it has undertaken in the recent year. From eliminating contracts, providing cheaper international roaming rates, free 200MB of data on tablets, but the greatest of them all would have to be CEO Legere’s constant barrage against all the other carriers.
Hopefully we will see cheaper rates from competing carriers trying to battle T-Mobile and its Uncarrier initiative.
Source: TheVerge
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Samsung promises a ‘back to basics’ rethink for the Galaxy S5
Samsung has admitted that the public didn’t see much difference between the Galaxy S III and S4 smartphones and said the S5 would likely pack a substantially different design. Exec Lee Young Hee told Bloomberg that the new flagship will go “back to basics,” adding that “mostly, it’s about the display and the feel of the cover.” It’ll also arrive with a brand new version of the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, which itself will have “more advanced functions” and an improvement to what she called “the bulky design.” Other revelations include a possible eye-scanner in the handset for greater security, though that’s still being studied.
Farther down the road, Samsung said that it’s looking at significant changes for the Galaxy Note 3‘s successor in order to target it at professionals who are “willing to pay more for handsets.” As such, it may pack a three-sided display, like the so-called Youm prototype we saw last year at CES 2013, allowing users to read messages from oblique angles. Finally, Lee revealed that the Galaxy S5 will arrive in March or April after Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Considering we saw the Galaxy S III and S4 around the same period in previous years, however, that’s not a big shocker.
Filed under: Cellphones, Wearables, Samsung
Source: Bloomberg
Amazon offers another chance to pick up a white PlayStation Vita
Fancy a limited edition Crystal White PS Vita bundled with Assassin’s Creed III Liberation for just $180? Well, sorry old bean, but you’re too late. That particular deal ended ages ago and the Liberation bundle is now selling for ludicrously high prices (oh, the cruelty of it). But here’s something we didn’t expect: the rare white version of the handheld has just reappeared at Amazon as a not-so-limited standalone product priced at $200, i.e., the same money as the common black option. Aside from the color scheme, this is a traditional unit with an OLED display, rather than the Japanese LCD version that has better battery life. However, it’ll look great during these icy winter months and, by summer, it’ll bask in the warmth of Sony’s exciting new game streaming service, PlayStation Now.
Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds, Sony
Via: Joystiq
Source: Amazon.com
Tactus Technology Shows Us Their New Keyboard Tech [CES 2014]
One particular piece of technology caught my attention at least year’s CES which was a creation from Tactus Technology. Tactus has managed to address a gripe that many of us had when switching from feature phones to smartphones; the loss of tactile feedback while typing on a touchscreen keyboard. Through the magic of science, Tactus places a film on top of the existing touchscreen and then when a keyboard function is detected, a physical keyboard will rise up from the screen to provide tactile feedback for typing purposes; that much was show at CES 2013. At CES 2014 though, it looks like Tactus has taken their creation to the next level.
Tactility of the home, menu and back keys are generally not an issue for phones which have soft keys that are separate to the screen. However, many manufacturers, such as LG, have begun to adopt onscreen soft keys which can make pressing those keys a little less tactile than desired and have the added danger of bumping and activating the soft keys. What Tactus has implemented, which is shown in the above photo, are not only tactile keys for the soft function key, but the ability to program a ‘long press’ threshold that defines how long (or short) the button needs to be pressed before a press is registered.
Their next experiment provides a rather unorthodox method of providing tactile feedback; instead of working out different ways of creating raised keys, the concept pictured above is of Tactus new concept keyboard which raises the space between the keys to create grooved and trenched keys. While this is unintuitive at first glance, trying to use the keyboard in this format was actually remarkably easy, both using the standard two thumb typing as well as Swype-ing. These trenched keys act not dissimilarly to the frets of a guitar, guiding your finger to the correct location and Tactus has observed that accuracy and typing speed is actually slightly increased using this concept rather than their original concept.
Tactus had one last concept to show us which was very much in the prototype stage which involved a hardware add-on that allowed the user to control when the raised keys would appear. The kit would simply include the additional layer to be placed on the screen and the add on which would be added to the side of the device in question. The sale of this implementation of the Tactus technology will be handled by a third-party and is expected to be released sometime after mid 2014. That’s pretty exciting news to hear that this futuristic technology is going to be available so soon, and while Tactus was reluctant to name any specific devices that would be supported by this add-on, it would be a safe bet to think that there will be at least one Android device in there somewhere.
For more information about Tactus Technology, visit their website at www.tactustechnology.com
Note: stay tuned to see our video of the Tactus keyboards in action. To be added soon…
UK travellers set to get 3G and LTE services inside the Channel Tunnel
For more than a year, the Channel Tunnel (a 32-mile mile underwater tunnel connecting England and France) was regarded as French territory, as far as the mobile industry was concerned. Three major French carriers had signed deals with EuroTunnel to offer access on its networks, leaving British travellers without access. That’s set to change, however, after UK providers EE and Vodafone announced they will supply 2G and 3G access to customers journeying to France from March. Both companies say 4G services are coming, but will arrive a little later down the line. While neither company has detailed the data speeds you can expect to receive as you pass under the world’s busiest seaway, EE suggests you’ll still be able to prepare for meetings, check your emails and watch streamed movies when its LTE service goes live in the summer.
[Image Credit: cunaldo, Flickr]
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile
Confide is like Snapchat for business, but without pictures
The written word has a nasty habit of sticking around, surfacing in hacked email accounts, accidental forwards and the on untrustworthy lips of your peers. That’s why former AOL executive Jon Brod created Confide, an iOS texting app that erases sensitive messages as soon as their read. It’s designed to make private texts as fleeting as whispered secret, retained only in the memory of the person you confided in; hence the name. To protect itself against the iPhone’s screenshot function, the app only reveals a few words at a time, blocking the rest out with an orange sensor bar until the user’s finger glides across the screen. Unlike Snapchat, however, the app doesn’t seem to support picture sharing. The app is live on the App Store now, you know, in case you needed a fresh way to share office gossip.
Filed under: Cellphones
Via: Forbes
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