Alcatel reveals the rugged GO Play smartphone and GO Watch wearable at IFA 2015
It’s still IFA 2015, and today we have Alcatel announcing its new line of waterproof, dustproof, and even shockproof devices forming its ‘GO’ series. The GO Play is a smartphone, while as you might expect, the GO Watch is a smartwatch. We have more details after the break.
Let’s deal with the GO Play smartphone first, an all plastic smartphone that carries an IP67 rating, which means it is dust proof as well being waterproof up to a depth of 1m. Alcatel state that the GO Play is also impervious to drops from a height up to 1.5 metres, which combined with the waterproofing and dust proofing, along with the bright colours, gives the impression that the GO Play is aimed at the young at heart.
Specifications:
- Android 5.0 Lollipop
- 5-Inch 720p display
- Snapdragon 410 Quad-core processor @1.2GHz
- 1GB RAM
- 8GB Internal storage (4GB free space)
- MicroSD card support (upto 32GB)
- 8MP Rear camera with flash
- 5MP Front-facing camera
- 2,500mAh battery
- 8.3 Hours of talk time/20 days of standby time/ 55 hours of music playback
- Available in dark grey, dark red, dark green, orange/blue, pink, lime green, blue, and orange
Next up, we have the GO Watch, which is also brightly coloured and plasticky. Like the GO Play, the GO Watch boasts an IP67 rating, giving protection from water and dust.
Specifications:
- 1.22-Inch display with 240 x 204 resolution
- 180MHz Cortex M4 processor
- Android and iOS compatible
- SNS, SMS, emails, calls and weather notifications
- 225mAh Battery (2-5 Days battery life)
- Customizable wristbands and front casing
- Heart-rate sensor
- MicroUSB charging port
The Go Watch’s main claim to fame is its ability to measure emotional pulses. Yup. You read that correctly. Apparently, if you press the ‘GO’ button on the front of the device, an ‘emotional graphic will be created based on the input from the gyroscope, heart-rate sensor and accelerometer.’ You can then share this emotion pulse measurement on social networks or set it as a wallpaper on the device. As previously stated, the GO series appears to be aimed at the younger people, who probably won’t connect the GO Watch’s similarity in appearance with the Casio G-Shock watches.
At present, Alcatel hasn’t revealed any details in terms of availability and pricing for the GO series. What do you think of the GO Play and GO Watch devices? Let us know in the comments if you will.
Press Release:
BERLIN, Sept. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ —
GO PLAY
- Robust design, shockproof, waterproof and dustproof with IP 67
- 8 cool colors with waterproof headsets to match
- Record cool stuff playing on your mobile screen and add a voice-over
- Shoot photos underwater
- Long battery life – 20 days standby time, 8.3 hours talk time and 55 hours music playback
GO WATCH
- Robust design, shockproof, waterproof and dustproof with IP 67
- Android and iOS compatible
- Hack your emotions and share with friends
- Notifications – SNS, SMS, emails, calls and weather
- Long battery life for 2-5 days usage
- 100% customizable with changeable front casing and wrist bands
ALCATEL ONETOUCH, one of the world’s fastest-growing smartphone brands, introduces its brand new GO family. GO PLAY and its companion GO WATCH are designed for active users and always ready for action. Take pictures underwater. Roll in the mud. Rave responsibly at a music festival. Drop it from a height of 1.5 meters. It’s all good.
GO PLAY, it’s waterproof!
Chillin’ at the beach and along comes a wave. Splash! Your phone drops into the water. No problem! It’s waterproof. The GO PLAY is not only waterproof, it shoots pictures and videos underwater. Use the GO PLAY to capture underwater fun with its 8 Mpxl rear camera and 5 Mpxl front camera.
Drop it, it’s shockproof!
Waterproof. Dustproof. And shockproof. In a crowded subway and someone pushes you while you’re texting? Crowd surfing and your phone slips from your fingertips? These things could happen to anyone. GO PLAY has you covered when you have the dropsies or just have bad luck.
Record absolute everything live!
Record the cool stuff your screen is playing. Add a photo of yourself and record comments to your favorite tracks, or show your friends your game face on any gaming app. Broadcast your craziness through the cool pre-embedded Periscope, Vine and Zello.
Color Your World and Take Your Sweet Time
GO PLAY comes in eight cool colors to match the latest fashion trend. It is available in dark grey, dark red, dark green, orange blue, pink, lime green, blue and orange. There are also waterproof headsets and protective case to match GO PLAY too. And while you’re playing, take your sweet time. GO PLAY offers 20 days of standby time, 8.3 hours of talk time and 55 hours music playback thanks to the powerful 2500 mAh battery.
GO WATCH. Play in tandem
GO WATCH is the perfect companion for GO PLAY’s adventures. It is waterproof, dustproof and shockproof. It is Android and iOS compatible and has top functionalities to match its robust good looks. It also notifies about SNS, SMS, emails, calls and weather. GO WATCH is 100% customizable with a changeable front casing and wristband. Mix and match with your outfit of the day!
Share your emotions, be a social influencer
The GO WATCH brings a unique experience and lets users hack their emotions. How? Press the GO button to trigger an emotion pulse measurement. An emotional graphic will be created based on the input from the gyroscope, heart rate sensor and accelerometer. Select a theme that matches your mood the best to create your personalized emotion pulse. You can instantly share your unique emotion pulse on social networks or even set it as the wallpaper of your GO WATCH.
Long battery life and easy charging
Stay active! GO WATCH enables 2-5 days usage with its 225mAh battery. No special adapters needed. Simply plug it into any micro-USB charger for quick and easy charging.
Stop by our booth Hall 21B, Stand 104 at the IFA.
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Best Android consoles/media players for your TV
The battle for what, or should I say who, controls your TV has been raging for several years now. This battle isn’t about your actual TV, it is about who gets to put content on your TV. In the Android ecosystem there are several important services that allow you to buy, rent or stream media. The most obvious is YouTube, then there is Google Play Movies & TV, plus there is a range of third party services like Netflix or Amazon Prime Video.
All of these services can be used with your smartphone or tablet, however 15 friends trying to watch the latest Marvel movie around a smartphone isn’t going to work. So that is where your TV comes in. There are a variety of solutions that let you watch movies, listen to music, or use a streaming service on your TV. Broadly these solutions can be divided into three categories: Android TV based solutions, Android TV alternatives, and standalone generic solutions (i.e. media players).
Android TV and Chromecast
Android TV is a special version of Android that has been optimized for TVs. The interface has been changed to work better with a remote control or a game controller, and there are also voice controls. There are two ways to get hold of Android TV, either buy a smart TV with it built-in, or buy a set-top box that runs it.
The top two set-top boxes for Android TV are: the Google Nexus Player and the NVIDIA Shield Android TV.
Google Nexus Player
The Nexus Player is kind of the Google’s “official” implementation of Android TV. Nothing extra added, just vanilla Android TV. The “oversized hockey puck” uses a 1.8GHz Intel Atom processor and comes with 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage. The internal storage is for installing games and apps including Netflix, Pandora, and TuneIn Radio. Like so many of Google’s offerings, your content is meant to be streamed to the device and little is stored locally.
If you want to know more you can read the full review: Nexus Player review: a good start for Android TV, and if you want to buy one they are currently available for just $69.99 from Amazon.
NVIDIA Shield Android TV
The NVIDIA Shield is arguably the most powerful set-top box in the market, as it was made with gaming in mind. That is one of the reasons the unit looks and feels a bit like a miniaturized gaming console! The NVIDIA Shield Android TV can easily blend into the rest of your home entertainment system. The device’s aesthetics are not too flashy, but it definitely has a good look and serves its purpose.
The top level performance is due to its NVIDIA X1 processor and 3GB of RAM. You also get 7.1/5.1 surround sound support, 802.11ac 2×2 MIMO 2.4 GHz /5 GHz Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1/BLE, and support for 4K TVs.
If you are on the lookout for a nice set-top box with an emphasis on gaming, the NVIDIA Shield is definitely a product you need to look at. This product won’t come without its downsides, but it’s definitely your best bet. Prices start at $199.99 for the basic 16GB model. If you want 500GB of storage then you will need to pay an extra $100.
Chromecast
Casting is a different approach to getting content on your TV. Rather than needing to build a whole user interface that needs a remote control or a game controller, the idea of casting is that the content you are currently looking at on your phone can be “cast” over on to your TV. Although not running Android TV, I have included Google’s Chromecast here mainly because it comes from the same company.
With a Chromecast all the user interface stuff is handled on your phone. You just sign-in to whatever service it is that are using and then tell the Chromecast to start streaming. The video isn’t streamed to your phone and then re-transmitted to the casting device, but rather the Chromecast is told what to stream and from where.
The Chromecast can current stream media from YouTube, Netflix, HBO Go, Pandora, Hulu, Crackle plus a bunch more. You can see the full list at chromecast.com/apps.
You can read the full review of the Chromecast here, and you can see some of the best apps for Chromecast here, too! Plus we also have a Chromecast vs Amazon Fire TV comparison. You can get a Chromecast from Amazon for just $29.99, Google also sells the Chromecast via the Play Store.
Android TV alternatives
If you aren’t enamored by the Android TV offerings then there are alternatives. The most popular alternatives come from Roku and Amazon. Both companies take slightly different approaches, but the goal is the same, to get content on to your TV.
Roku Streaming Stick
The biggest stand out feature of the Roku Streaming Stick is that it provides over 1,000 actual channels to watch (in the USA), not just individual movies and shows. The remote control is glossy black with purple accents, and feels very durable. It features play, pause, forward and back buttons, a directional pad, and even a few dedicated buttons to connect you straight to Netflix and other popular services.
The set up process is quite easy, but requires you to use a computer. Roku’s interface is very simple. A number of different categories can be found on the left, and all of your content on the right. The dashboard is where you go to purchase all of the media content you’d like, and there’s quite a big selection. You have access to free channels like WatchESPN, Netflix, and HBO GO, among others. While its functionality only extends to a few applications, the Roku ahas casting capabilities, similar to the Chromecast.
When using the YouTube app on a phone or tablet, users can “cast” their content straight to the Roku, without pulling up the dedicated YouTube app. Most of the content you watch on the device, though, will be launched through Roku’s interface. Additional settings include theme adjustment, adding additional controllers, and many more. Also, content discovery is extremely easy, thanks to Roku’s huge content-hungry community.
In all, Roku does a great job at mixing paid and free streaming options, which should make it desirable for cord-cutters who prefer an “a la carte” type of system.
You can currently pick up a Roku Streaming Stick for just $39.99 from Amazon.
Amazon Fire TV and Amazon Fire TV Stick
Amazon has two offerings in its “Fire TV” range. The Fire TV, which is a more traditional set-top box, and the Fire TV Stick, a HDMI dongle similar in size to the Chromecast and the Roku Streaming Stick. These two devices have a lot in common, but also have notable differences when it comes to content delivery. Let’s first start with the Fire TV Stick.
Amazon are keen to point out that the Fire TV Stick has superior hardware specifications to the Chromecast, with 4 times of the internal memory (8GB vs 2GB), twice the RAM (1GB vs 512MB) and a dual-core processor. Amazon has also made a fuss about its Dolby Digital Plus surround sound for superior audio and a dual-band dual-antenna WiFi configuration for a more consistent, smoother streaming experience. The TV Stick also comes with its own remote control, giving you control over the system without the need for your smartphone.
As for the Fire TV set-top box, it will blend in well with your existing gadgets and likely go unnoticed. In the box you get the Fire TV device, a game controller, a voice search-enabled remote, and a HDMI cable. The remote is basically the same one that’s included with the Fire TV Stick, but features a voice search button up top.
In terms of the interface, these two devices are exactly the same. You’ll see a big list of categories on the left side, your content in the middle, and you’ll find a list of applications on the right. When it comes to gaming, you can play them on both, but the Fire TV is far superior in this category thanks to its powerful specifications. When it comes down to it, this may be the best way to stream media, just as long as you’re a Prime subscriber. If not, there may be a better product out there for you.
You can get the Fire TV Stick for $39 and you get buy the Amazon Fire TV for $99.
Media players
All of the devices listed above are specialist devices, in that their primary function is to stream and play media from services like YouTube, Google Play Movies & TV, Netflix, or Amazon Prime Video. However there is another category of device which can handle media in more a generic way.
Since operating systems like Android and Linux are adept at handling media, it means that a generic Android or Linux set-top box or dongle can be used as a media player and streaming device. There are lots of different devices out there and the list presented here is only a selection of what is available. The entry qualification for the list is simple: we need to have actually reviewed the device!
CuBox TV
The CuBox TV is a flexible media player which runs Android or Linux. It offers a lot of flexibility, but it really shines when running the Kodi media player. At just 2 inches x 2 inches x 2 inches the CuBoxTV is a marvel of engineering. On one side of the cube is a set of ports including the power socket, HDMI, Ethernet and two USB ports. While the rest of the cube is fairly bland except for various labels, logos and LEDs. It comes in three variants with different amounts of RAM: 1GB, 2GB and 4GB. All three models pack a quad-core processor and you have the option of adding a Wi-Fi module and buying a IR remote control. My test unit is the CuBoxTV 4GB with Wi-Fi and the remote control.
As the “TV” part of its name suggests, one of the primary uses of the CuBox is as a media player. There are several different ways to achieve this, using either Linux or Android. For example, you could use Android with an app like Netflix, or you can use Linux with a media player like Kodi (previously called XBMC).
SolidRun provides a couple of Linux distros that boot straight into Kodi. One is GeexBox XBMC, the other is OpenELEC (Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center). OpenELEC is a small Linux distribution that turns the CuBoxTV into a Kodi media center.
Raspberry Pi (and friends)
You might consider this an unconventional approach, but there are a plethora of Single Board Computers available like the Raspberry Pi 2, which can very easily handle video streaming and video playback. The key here is flexibility but at the cost of needing to build the systems yourself. Boards like the Raspberry Pi 2 or the ODROID C1 are available for less than $40 and have massive online communities, plus a large number of pre-baked system images, like OpenElec, which are tailored for multimedia consumption.
Tronsmart
Tronsmart has a range of media players which bring vanilla Android to your TV. In my family we use the Tronsmart Draco AW80 to turn our “dumb” TV into something smarter.
At the heart of the Tronsmart Draco AW80 is the Allwinner A80 SoC. The A80 includes an octa-core big.LITTLE Cortex-A15/A7 CPU and a 64-core PowerVR G6230 GPU. The hardware video decoder supports MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.263, H.264, and H.265.
The device comes pre-installed with Android 4.4.2 along with services like Google Play. It also comes with a special remote control that is designed to work with Android. There are buttons for Home, Back, Menu, volume up, volume down, as well as direction buttons. However you will get the best results from the box by attaching a mouse, and optionally a keyboard.
You can read my full review of the Tronsmart Draco AW80 here, and you might also want to checkout my review of the Tronsmart Orion R28.
Warp-up
Please do keep coming back to this page from time to time as we will update it when necessary with any new information or any new devices that come along. Did we miss your favorite device? If so, please use the comments below to let us know.
Xperia Z5 pre-orders available at the Carphone Warehouse
Sony may have only announced its new Xperia Z5 range the other day, but pre-orders have already landed in the UK at high-street retailer Carphone Warehouse. The Sony Xperia Z5 and Xperia Z5 Compact are both available to pre-order right now, while you can reserve interest in the 4K display equipped Xperia Z5 Premium.
Contract wise, the Xperia Z5 Compact is the least expensive option, with tariffs beginning at £33 per month with a £0 up front cost on a 24 month contract with O2. The regular Xperia Z5 can be bought for £42 per month and nothing up front with a 24 month contract from EE. Alternatively, the two smartphones are available SIM-free for a cost of £499.99 and £549.99 respectively.
We don’t have any contract prices for the Xperia Z5 Premium yet, but the unlocked price is listed as £629.00 on the UK Sony Store. Speaking of which, you can also pre-order the phones unlocked directly from the Sony Store, where you can save yourself up to £70 off the Carphone Warehouse retail price.
If you are interested, all of the models are available in black, gold and white color options, while the Z5 has an extra green options and the Compact comes in a pink variant. The Carephone Warehouse will apparently have exclusive access to the white model for two weeks following the launch, but you can still pick from the full range of colors over at the Sony website too. Other European customers can also find the Xperia Z5 range available to pre-order through their local variant of the Sony store.
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Xperia Z5 pre-orders available at the Carphone Warehouse
Sony may have only announced its new Xperia Z5 range the other day, but pre-orders have already landed in the UK at high-street retailer Carphone Warehouse. The Sony Xperia Z5 and Xperia Z5 Compact are both available to pre-order right now, while you can reserve interest in the 4K display equipped Xperia Z5 Premium.
Contract wise, the Xperia Z5 Compact is the least expensive option, with tariffs beginning at £33 per month with a £0 up front cost on a 24 month contract with O2. The regular Xperia Z5 can be bought for £42 per month and nothing up front with a 24 month contract from EE. Alternatively, the two smartphones are available SIM-free for a cost of £499.99 and £549.99 respectively.
We don’t have any contract prices for the Xperia Z5 Premium yet, but the unlocked price is listed as £629.00 on the UK Sony Store. Speaking of which, you can also pre-order the phones unlocked directly from the Sony Store, where you can save yourself up to £70 off the Carphone Warehouse retail price.
If you are interested, all of the models are available in black, gold and white color options, while the Z5 has an extra green options and the Compact comes in a pink variant. The Carephone Warehouse will apparently have exclusive access to the white model for two weeks following the launch, but you can still pick from the full range of colors over at the Sony website too. Other European customers can also find the Xperia Z5 range available to pre-order through their local variant of the Sony store.
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Another Yu smartphone scheduled for September 8th launch
If you haven’t had your fill of new product announcements this week, Micromax’s Yu sub-brand has begun sending out press invites for a new smartphone launch that will take place on September 8th.
Sadly the teaser doesn’t reveal much about the smartphone, other than a brief glance at the side of the handset. The “when future meets past” tagline is also rather cryptic and uninformative, although the official Yu Twitter account has been tweeting some random lines involving historical figures. We don’t have any hardware rumors or leaked specs to go on right now, so we will just have to sit tight for the launch event.
In a separate announcement, Yu CEO Rahul Sharma declared that the new smartphone will be sold through online retailer Snapdeal. Snapdeal CEO Kunal Bahl also Tweeted that “Yu have been making headlines. It’s about time that we did something together?” So it’s pretty certain that Snapdeal will be the website to watch for sales once the launch date rolls around.
See also: Micromax is planning its own Android based OS for future products
Yu has released a number of new smartphones already this year, as it attempts to grab a bigger portion of the booming Indian smartphone market. Recent models include the 5.5-inch 1080p Yureka Plus that was unveiled in July and the ultra-low cost Yuphoria smartphone back in May.
An early look at Nextbit’s ‘cloud first’ Robin smartphone
Nextbit wanted to celebrate the launch of its debut smartphone today at a party in San Francisco, but it turned out to be a celebration of success as well. In just under 12 hours, the startup reached its $500,000 Kickstarter goal to fund the Robin, an Android phone that isn’t only “cloud first,” but also surprisingly design forward as well. We had a chance to get an early look at what the final product might actually look like (though bear in mind these are all still prototypes) and asked Scott Croyle, Nextbit’s Chief Product and Design Officer — who’s also a former design lead for HTC — a few questions about the phone as well.Slideshow-317276
First, let’s recap: The big idea behind the Robin is that when you get it, not only do you get 32GB of internal storage, but you also get 100GB of cloud storage — completely free. When you’ve maxed out the capacity of your phone, Robin is intelligent enough to slowly offload lesser used apps and/or media to the cloud. “It’s a unique hybrid approach,” said Croyle.
While he wasn’t able to show the software running on the prototypes to me, he did show a beta version of it running on a Nexus 5. He showed how a lesser used app was greyed out. Tap it, and you’ll see a progress bar as the app is loaded back onto the phone from the cloud. After a few minutes, the app will no longer be greyed out and you can use it just as you could before. And if you never ever want an app to be offloaded to the cloud, you can just pin it so that it’ll always be on your phone.
As for photos, he says that if you choose to back them up in the cloud, the phone will only load up the original high-res images while keeping down sampled versions in local storage so you can see what you have stored away. You don’t always have to use the cloud either; it’s completely up to you if you want to enable cloud storage for just media, both media and apps, or not use it altogether.
What’s perhaps even more impressive however, is that hardware. It’s a nicely designed device, with straight sides, a slim profile and cool colors — it comes in both “mint” green and “midnight” blue. On the right side is a power button that also doubles as a fingerprint sensor. Just tap and hold it to unlock your phone. In addition to the regular microphone on the bottom, there’s also a noise-canceling microphone at the top. As for the rest of the hardware, there’s also a 13-megapixel camera, LED flash, a 5.2-inch 1080p screen and a USB-C port.
It’s hard to really give hands-on impressions at this point due to the early prototype nature of the device — the one we’re showing here is an EVT, or an “engineering verification test” — but we’re at least able to show a mockup of what it could look like. The overall feel is very light and smooth to the touch. Even though it’s squared on the sides, it still felt pretty comfortable to hold thanks to a bit of a “soft touch” finish on the back, which we’re told is close to what they want in the final hardware. Powering it all is a pretty-close-to-stock Android Lollipop, albeit with a few Nextbit touches.
There’s still 27 more days to the Kickstarter at this point, so you still have time to get one for $349 (the $299 early bird specials are all gone). But if you do, bear in mind there’ll be a wait: Croyle tells me they won’t start shipping until January 2016 at the earliest.
Tags: kickstarter, nextbit, nextbitrobin, robin, scottcroyle
Parrot’s Zik 3 headphones have ‘wireless everything’
Parrot’s high-tech headphone series just got another notable upgrade. The Zik 3 brings the same noise cancellation and touch panel controls of the last model, but adds wireless charging to the already-wireless headphones. There’s also a completely different look, that Parrot’s calling “a touch of couture” (the company is French so we’re giving them a pass), which includes four options in croc texture, “overstitch” detailed cans in black and ivory, and a black leather grain option. The redesigned cans are more slender than the Zik 2, and while there’s even more tech inside the sequel, the Zik 3s weigh exactly the same. Slideshow-317278
“Zik is the revolution.
Zik 3 is the evolution.
Evolution is a permanent revolution.”
-Philippe Starck
Alright, Philippe. Yes, the latest headphones from Parrot have benefitted from Starcks’ design firm again, but the new looks are possibly the least important new thing here. Aside from wireless charging, the headphones are now compatible with USB audio, improving the quality of audio playback to Hi-Fi audio when possible (and also charging them).
Noise cancellation can cover up to 30 decibels, with a street mode that will let in a channel of outside noise to avoid, well, possibly a traffic accident if you don’t hear a car coming. Parrot has also crafted companion smartwatch apps for both Apple Watch and Android Wear, because these are the times we live in. The wearable app’s “Producer mode” seems to be the highlight with a five-band, full-parametric equalizer, coupled with a spatializer. If you’re aching for some headphones to match that gold-banded wearable, the Kik 3s will launch globally around the end of this year.
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Home Entertainment, Wearables, HD
Tags: hdpostcross, parrot, parrotzik3, PhillipeStarck, zik3
The next generation of Freeview arrives next month
More than ever before, Brits are using catch-up services to watch their favourite TV shows from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. YouView is already fusing those services with the traditional Freeview experience, and now, realising its potential, the brains behind Freeview are preparing a similar platform themselves. It’s called Freeview Play and we’ve been told that it’ll be launching in October on Panasonic’s 2015 line-up of Viera TVs. The idea is that you’ll be able to scroll back through the guide and watch an old TV show immediately — one unified experience for browsing and discovery, rather than launching and navigating separate apps. Not all catch-up services will be integrated at launch, however. Freeview says Demand 5 will be available straight away as a standalone app, but won’t support its TV guide experience until later. We suspect more TV manufacturers will launch and update their sets with Freeview Play throughout the year — if you want to be an early adopter, just look for the “Freeview Play inside” branding on Panasonic’s site.
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Home Entertainment
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Freeview
Tags: all4, bbc, channel4, channel5, freeview, freeviewplay, iplayer, itv, TV
Great deal: Nexus 6 on sale for $349 (32GB) and $399 (64GB) on Amazon!
We still have a month to wait until the next-gen Nexus devices arrive, but if you just can’t wait to go Nexus, today we have an excellent deal for you.
Amazon is discounting the Motorola-made Nexus 6 down to an amazing $349.99 for the 32GB version and $399 for the 64GB version. The price goes for both the Midnight Blue and the Cloud White version, and for the money you get an unlocked device with full US warranty. The device is sold by Amazon, with free shipping.
This sales slashes $150 off the price of the Nexus 6, making it as affordable as the popular Nexus 5 before it, and probably the cheapest we’ve ever seen it. That’s a very good proposition and we expect this deal to go out of stock very soon.
- Get the Nexus 6 32GB (blue) for $349.99
- Get the Nexus 6 64GB (blue) for $399.99
- Get the Nexus 6 32GB (white) for $349.99
- Get the Nexus 6 32GB (white) for $399.99
The Nexus 6 is a phablet lover’s dream, with its 6-inch display of Quad HD resolution, powerful processor, 3,220 mAh battery, and 13MP main camera. But of course, the true value of a Nexus device comes from its pristine Android implementation, lack of bloatware, and fast updates guarantee. That is why the Nexus 6 scored a 9/10 in our review, and why it’s a no brainer at this price.
Happy shopping and let us know if you bought anything!
Rumor: LG releasing a phone with a secondary ‘ticker’ display
LG is launching a phone called the V10 with a small auxiliary “ticker” display above the main screen, according to Evan Blass (@evleaks) and photos from Chinese regulator Tenaa. That might sound bizarre, but it was actually used before on Samsung’s Continuum, a 2010 Galaxy S Verizon variant. Still, it’s a unusual idea for a modern phone that otherwise looks rather decent. According to Blass, it’ll have a 5.7-inch 2,560 x 1,440 screen, Snapdragon 808 CPU, 3GB memory, 16-megapixel rear/5-megapixel front cameras, expandable memory and a back fingerprint scanner.
We’re not sure what LG will put on the ticker — perhaps some kind of launcher like Samsung uses on the curved sides of the Galaxy Note Edge. While the phone has a removable-looking plastic back, the frame itself appears to be metal, according to the Tenaa photos (which have since been pulled). Provided all this info is correct, we should see the handset imminently, given that it’s cleared the regulatory hurdle. With the dual-sim setup shown in the Tenaa listing, there’s no guarantee it’ll come to North America or Europe, however.
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Cellphones, Mobile, LG
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Tags: GalaxyContinuum, leak, lg, LG-H968, mobilepostcross, rumor, V10
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