Evohome Remote for Honeywell smart thermostats heats up and enters the Store
Back in December we brought word of Evohome Remote, a third-party creation for controlling Honeywell Evohome smart thermostats through your Windows Phone. Thanks to feedback from the Windows Central community, the developer, David Horn, has fine tuned the app and released it now into the Windows Phone Store for all to download.
Shred It! – downhill fun for your Windows Phone
No argument here. There are a boatload of endless runner games in the Windows Phone Store. Luckily, while these titles seem to be growing like rabbits, most of them are entertaining Windows Phone games to pass the time with.
Extra Miles Studios hopes that their offering, Shred It!, will soon join the ranks of the quality titles in the genre. The game places your gaming character on a snowboard and you will have to maneuver around, over and under a wide range of obstacles.
Shred It! is available for low-memory Windows Phones and in playing the game over the past few days, it comes across as yet another entertaining Windows Phone game to fill our endless runner appetite.
Best Buy reveals the next Moto E gets 4G and a price cut
Motorola’s tactic when launching last year’s Moto E was to let it appear on Brazilian retailer FastShop for a few hours, and then whip it away as soon as people began to notice. Looks like it’s another case of history repeating with the refreshed version of the low-end handset, with a listing popping up on Best Buy only to disappear shortly afterward. If the since-pulled listing can be believed, however, then the device is about to get around $30 cheaper and significantly more powerful than the 2014 vintage.
The 4.5-inch 960 x 540 display remains unchanged, but whereas before there was just a 4GB storage and no 4G, you’ll now find 8GB and an LTE modem. Even better is that the price has fallen from $129 down to just $99, at least if you buy the prepaid version on Sprint. When we played with the original, the ridiculously low price was enough to send us googly-eyed with excitement, so if the above is true, it’s hard to see how this new edition will be anything other than a hit.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Lenovo
Via: PocketNow, Pocket-lint
Source: Best Buy (Pulled), Android Police
Google search results now show medical info in the US
Google has made some changes to its search platform to include some details about health. When searching through various diseases and infections using the company’s search engine, result pages will pull down related details from Knowledge Graph. For example, search for tonsillitis and you’ll see information regarding the infection without having to check multiple websites.
Galaxy J1 to launch in India tomorrow, $115 for entry-level specs
The Samsung Galaxy J1 has been leaked and talked about for many weeks now, but finally official evidence of its existence has surfaced, along with a launch date and price for the entry-level class creation: it will be released on February 11th on Amazon India, for the low price of Rs.7,199 (roughly $115US).
The Galaxy J1 comes with a 4.3 inch (800X480) screen, a 1.2GHz Dual-Core Cortex A7 CPU,Mali-400 graphics, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, 5-megapixel rear camera and 2-megapixel front camera, and a 1,580 mAh battery. The phone supports microSD to augment the limited on-board storage, 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, FM Radio and Dual-SIM support. It is also running Android 4.4.4 and supports up to HSPA+ connectivity (sorry, no LTE here).
While the specs are not going to satiate those waiting for say, the Galaxy S6, they are still relatively decent for an entry-level phone. This is perhaps one of the cheapest products released by Samsung in recent memory, although the fact that competitors have products available at similar prices, but with souped-up specs, means South Korea’s darling is once again banking on its brand-name recognition and definitive TouchWiz software skin to justify the cost. In some regards, the device even competes with another recent release, Samsung’s own Z1 Tizen-based smartphone.
On the whole, it is curious to see the company make use of the J branding for such an underwhelming product given that the original Galaxy J was a product designed with Japanese consumers at heart and was essentially a slightly-modified Galaxy S4 with all the same top-notch specs to boot. That the J1 is the complete opposite and designed with a totally different market in mind is an interesting turn of events to say the least.
For all those interested, keep your eyes peeled for the various special offers Amazon India is going to be bundling with the device come tomorrow.
Sony’s curvier E4 hints at new Xperia family design
Can’t wait for Sony’s incoming smartphone with a QHD screen and eight-core Snapdragon 810 CPU? With a qHD screen and MTK quad-core chip, Sony’s Xperia E4 is not the rumored Z4 you’ve been waiting for, but it is the first fourth-gen Xperia device we’ve seen. The new handset has middling specs with a 5-inch 960×540 screen, single or dual SIMs, Android 4.4.4, a 5-megapixel front camera and “stamina” battery mode that gives two days of usage. More intriguingly, the E4 has a new, rounded corner design instead of the blocky look of nearly every other Xperia handset, possibly marking new Sony mobile design language.
We don’t know if the rumored 5.4-inch Xperia Z4 will have a similar look (perhaps not), but it’ll almost surely pack high-end Qualcomm hardware judging by recent comments from Sony mucky-mucks. And the rumor mill now has it overdue, so we’re hoping to see its 64-bit Lollipop goodness at Mobile World Congress 2015 starting March 1st. As for today’s phone of record, the Xperia E4, we’ve yet to hear how much it’ll cost and when it’ll arrive.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Sony
Cyanogen dream of non-Google Android at heart of fund raising efforts
When news broke recently that Microsoft had recently invested $70 million in Cyanogen, many wondered what the companies may be up to. Many were worried, especially after Cyanogen was recently involved in a skirmish with Android darling OnePlus. Some more details seem to point to Cyanogen wanting to produce a version of Android that does not include a stack of Google services, hence the need for a “war chest.”
Sources indicate Cyanogen is in the process of trying to get the company valued at hundreds of millions of dollars so that it can raise even more funds on top of the recent Microsoft cash infusion. With funds in hand, it appears Cyanogen hopes to eliminate Google’s services from the software stack included in its Android build.
The desire to abandon the Google stack is rooted in a belief on the part of Cyanogen that this would make their version of Android more free than what is provided by Google. Instead of Google apps like YouTube, Gmail, or Chrome, Cyanogen would partner with other providers of similar solutions.
One of the big questions any investor may have though is how Cyanogen will raise any significant revenue to provide a return on investment. The company did succeed in establishing a deal with Micromax to supply its operating system on Micromax phones sold in India. That came at a cost as OnePlus fans saw the Cyanogen move as a betrayal. Other potential investors have pulled back out of concern that Google may be displeased with any support for a potential competitor to their version of Android.
source: Re/code
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LG gives away free Google Cardboards to make virtual reality mainstream
In a bid to integrate virtual reality (VR) to day to day life, LG is giving away Google Cardboards for free with the G3. Google Cardboard can be paired with LG G3 to play various VR games and VR-compatible apps that can be downloaded from Google Play.
“While still in its infancy, this is just the beginning of the virtual reality movement which until recently was expensive and inaccessible to everyday consumers… By leveraging Google Cardboard, not only are regular consumers able to participate in the VR experience, we’ll be able to introduce this technology to future developers who may one day show us how VR can be used to improve our lives,” LG Vice President Chris Yie said.
LG G3 is an ideal phone for experiencing virtual reality as it doesn’t depend on the usual head mounted VR device. The compact smartphone, on the other hand, fully uses its great display and audio capabilities to facilitate virtual reality.
VR for G3 takes full advantage of volume buttons present on its back and its 1W speaker with Boost AMP to provide sharp and more realistic sound effects. If you want a wireless VR experience, you can combine VR for G3 with LG Tone Infinim Bluetooth headsets.
As for how VR for G3 works, its design is based on Google Cardboard blueprint and its neodymium ring magnet works in coordination with the magnetic gyroscope sensor in the G3.
“With Google Cardboard, we wanted to create more immersive and delightful experiences for anyone on their mobile devices,” said Andrew Nartker, Product Manager for Google Cardboard. “We are excited about VR for G3, and the rich ecosystem of developers and manufacturers who are innovating with Google Cardboard and making VR more easily accessible.”
Buyers in select markets be able to avail VR for G3 in addition to some a free VR game, Robobliteration that can be downloaded using in-box QR code.
Source: LG Newsroom
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Comic: Apple’s truly smashing fashion statement
Ed: Welcome to this week’s edition of The Pixel Project: a weekly comic from Diesel Sweeties‘ Rich Stevens on Apple, technology, and everything in-between. Today: A Truly Smashing Fashion Statement.
Motorola Moto E (2015) for Sprint listed on Best Buy’s site
Pretty soon, we expect Motorola to announce the next version of its affordable Moto E handset. A product page went live earlier today on Best Buy’s site showing that the device would cost $99. This specific listing is for the Sprint variant as a prepaid option. Also, specifications and images of the device were included. The Moto E (2015) does not seem to have changed all that much compared to its predecessor.
Hit the break for specifications and images of the device.
Specifications listed by Best Buy:
- 4.5-inch display (960×540)
- Quad-core processor clocked at 1.2GHz with 1GB of RAM (from Qualcomm)
- 5MP rear camera / VGA front camera
- 8GB internal storage with microSD card slot for an additional 32GB
- Android 5.0 Lollipop
Source: Best Buy
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