Moto 360 Now Available Through T-Mobile Online, Hits Stores November 19th
T-Mobile has announced that the Moto 360 can now be picked up beginning today online for the usual $249.99 price tag. As with all thing Uncarrier, you can get it for $0 down and pay $10.41 per month with the final payment being $10.56 of the 24th month.
As you can see in the image above, it is only for the black and stainless steel variant of the device. If ordering online through the carrier isn’t your cup of tea, T-Mobile will also be selling the Moto 360 in select stores on November 19th. It will carry the same price tag and also in the black stainless steel combo.
Bounce on over to T-Mobile.com right now if you want to place an order.
Source: T-Mobile
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T-Mobile Announces LG G Watch R for Launch on November 19th
T-Mobile just made the Moto 360 available online for customers to pick up as of today with select stores set to carry the Android Wear powered device on November 19th. On the same day T-Mobile will also be making the LG G Watch R available. The G Watch R is the other round-faced Android Wear device that has is own interesting appeal to it with the Plastic OLED display that is said to give it better clarity in sun light and from acute angles.
T-Mobile will be offering this slightly more expensive, $299.99, Android Wear device with $50 down and the same $10.41 monthly payments and final payment of $10.56 that the Moto 360 carries. They don’t mention it being, or becoming, available for online purchase, just that it will be in select stores November 19th.
Will you be holding out for the 19th and making you choice in-store, or have you already hit the purchase button on the Moto 360 from T-Mobile?
Source: T-Mobile
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LifeCHARGE Glide for Galaxy S5 Review: “Enjoy more CHARGE in your Life”
Do you or a friend own a Galaxy S5? Do you feel like you just can’t get through the day on a single charge? Or are you a light user that doesn’t like to charge your phone everyday and want to go 2 full days on one charge? If you answered “Yes” to any of those 3 questions, then you might want to keep reading. The LifeCHARGE Glide Slim might just be what you’re looking for.
When LifeCHARGE offered me to review this battery case my first thoughts were of my stepfather’s constant complaining about the poor battery life of his newly acquired GS5. Although he’d just moved up from the GS3 and said the battery life was much better, he still wasn’t satisfied. So I had LifeCHARGE send one out to me for review. This is the second time they send my a battery case for review. (The first one was for the iPhone 5/5s which you can find my review on my Profile Page.) And I have to give them major props on both the quality of there products & their service.
I usually understand how to use a product at first glance. Give me 5 minutes and I’ll be using it as if I personally invented it. Assembling this is as easy as it gets. You seriously won’t need instructions. As to how it works, now that’s a little more complicated. To put it simply: just assemble, charge, and forget. The reason I say that is because once you plug in your original battery to this battery pack the phone treats both batteries as one single battery. There are no on/off buttons or battery indicator on the case. Everything is treated as a single battery. So instead of having a single 2600mAh battery, it’s more like having a 5000mAh battery powering your phone.
I have to admit that it did catch my off guard at first. When I didn’t see a power button, I was a bit confused. I had to contact customer service to find out how it worked. Once I assembled it I assumed that it would just start working right away, but you have to charge it once connected so that the 2 batteries can sync up. Once that’s done, just forget about it and keep it moving as if nothing had changed. Now let’s wrap it up with The Good, The Bad, & The Bottom Line.
The Good:
+ Easy Assembly. It couldn’t be much easier.
+ It’s very easy to use.
+ Once you connect it, you can forget about it.
+ Protects your phones from falls. It isn’t going to survive some crazy 2 story drop, but a drop om chest level should be fine.
+ Doesn’t add to much bulk. Surprisingly enough I actually like the added bulk although it isn’t much. This is coming from a guy who hates cases all together.
+ Soft touch finish is an added bonus that makes it feel better then the actual GS5 back.
The Bad:
– The phone is no longer waterproof with this case on. Which isn’t such a big deal anyways considering the average consumer forgets the phone is waterproof anyways.
– The screen itself isn’t so well protected. If it drops directly on the screen it will still shatter like any other. My solution to that is to buy yourself a tempered glass screen protector.
The Bottom Line:
The bottom line is that this case’s positives far outweigh it’s negatives. It’s definitely a good buy for anyone who wants to get the most out of their GS5. Battery life went from about 17hrs with 3.5hrs Screen on time to 2 days with 6.5hrs of screen on time. I’d recommend it, and it also makes a great gift. I hope you guys enjoy more CHARGE in your Life.
Amazon Link : LifeCHARGE Glide GS5
Price: $69.99
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Amazon surprises everyone, announces the Echo
The people at Amazon must have been bored today. Out of the blue they announced the Amazon Echo. The Echo is a do it all gadget, that combines a voice controlled personal assistant and bluetooth speaker. While this seems like an unlikely combination, the Amazon Echo looks like something that almost anyone could find a use for.
Once setup, you use a “wake word” to get the Echo going. You can follow the wake word with just about any command you want. You can ask questions, set reminders or alarms, play music and even add items to your shopping lists. Amazon says you can even talk to the Echo when you have music playing. It will be interesting to see where Amazon takes the Echo from here. If it is successful, will Amazon let us order stuff over the Echo?
If you are interested in an Echo, you need to request an invitation from Amazon. If you are given an invitation it will come in the next few weeks. The Echo will cost $199 for non-prime customers and $99 for prime members. You can request an invitation here.
Source Amazon
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Motorola Announces more choices for the Moto 360 with new metals, interchangeable bands and More
Not that long ago a set of details made their way out that Motorola had some new Moto 360 offerings on the way. Today the company makes the news official by announcing new metals, new interchangeable bands, and enhanced user experiences.
First up is the new metal band offerings. The new option gives you the choice of the light or dark band that is made from aircraft-grade stainless steel with a tri-link design. The new metal band attached Moto 360 will set you back $299 in either color. Motorola will also be offering a new slim band line that will be available in holidays in Light Metal and Champagne Gold. The Champagne Gold will be slightly more expensive at $329. The slim bands are 18MM where as the new standard meta bands are 23mm.
If you already have a Moto 360, then you won’t need the whole watch. Motorola will soon be offering interchangeable stone, black and cognac leather bands for individual purchase along with the light and dark metal offerings above. They have also partnered with DODOCase who will bring a stitched leather band in 4 colors as well as a set of colorful silicone bands headed out from TYLT.
Beyond physical hardware additions, there will be an update to the Moto Connect app coming shortly as well. The update will bring in the watchface design face-off winner, David Pascual, watchface to your device (pictured above). It will also bring a slew of new watchfaces to pick from and the ability to create your own in the new My Design watch face options. You can customize everything from the background image to the style of tick marks and watch hands.
Also in the Moto Connect update there will be a new Moto Body experience that will track your steps, distance, heart rate and calories. Based on the data collected the app will provide new goals for you to help keep you motivated all day, everyday.
The new metal band offerings are currently available on Motorola.com for purchase today in the light or dark color offerings. the two slim bands in light or champagne are labeled as ‘coming soon’. No specifics on the individual band options if you already have a Moto 360. I assume they will be announced as the become available. With the message being geared toward holiday shoppers, they should start showing up pretty soon.
Via Motorola
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TIMEX IRONMAN ONE GPS+ Headed to AT&T, Pre-Orders Begin November 7th
If you had any doubt in your mind that connected wearables, especially smartwatches, wasn’t going to be a ‘thing’, you might want to rethink that a bit. Android Wear and the eventual release of the Apple Watch will inevitably be the driving forces behind the movement. Now more and more manufacturers are getting into the mix with their own designs and wearables. Many are geared towards a specific target group with a lot of fitness pushes. A new one to the scene comes from a classic watch company, Timex, with the release of the TIMEX IRONMAN ONE GPS+ watch.
The device is a stand-alone wireless watch. Meaning it connects to the AT&T network without the need to carry your phone with you. The display is touchscreen and allows you to access your stored music, send and receive texts and emails, live GPS tracking and a bunch of other stuff.
- Storage: 4GB of memory with a built-in music player, so that you can play music via a Bluetooth headset
- Fitness: Ability to track speed, distance and pace in real-time and instantaneously share performance metrics through popular online fitness platforms
- Durability: Water resistance up to 50 meters, an essential feature for water exposure, training in the rain or swimming****
- Display: Always-on, sunlight-readable, high-resolution Qualcomm® Mirasol™ touchscreen display
- Battery: TIMEX® IRONMAN® ONE GPS+ has a 450 mAh battery that offers users up to 8 hours of power with GPS & WAN, and three days of standby
AT&T will start taking pre-orders for the TIMEX IRONMAN ONE GPS+ watch starting November 7th in stores and November 10th online with a retail price tag of $399.99. You get 1 year of AT&T data service for the watch when you purchase it.
Source: AT&T
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HooToo TripMate Elite Review: One device to rule them all?
When I get ready to leave my house for the day, I have a mental checklist that I rundown every morning. More and more lately, it seems that I have to remember more accessories designed to keep my various gadgets running. I’m sure a lot of you know how I feel: there’s an external battery, a personal hotspot, an external hard drive and so on. I might not use all of those things everyday, but I don’t want to be without if I need them. Before you know it, you’re carrying a lot of stuff around. Well, the wonderful people at HooToo took most of these things and combined them into a small, easy to carry package called the HooToo TripMate Elite.
Before I tell you how The HooToo TripMate Elite worked during the review period, you need to know what it is. The TripMate Elite takes a bunch of devices you probably already carry and reduces them into a single device. The TripMate Elite gives you an external battery, dual USB wall charger, personal cloud, travel router and personal hotspot. All in a package that is just a bit bigger than an Apple power adapter that comes with most Mac books. When you open the box you see the glossy black TripMate, a felt bag to protect it, a USB to micro USB cord and the directions.
Besides writing for the Android Guys websites I’m also a student. This gave me the perfect environment to thoroughly test the TripMate Elite, in particular one classroom that gets a terrible WiFi signal. I’m always on the lookout for accessories that can make my life easier and the TripMate Elite seemed to be right up my alley. I have to admit that I wondered if the TripMate was trying to do too much, would it work as advertised?
First, you need to setup the TripMate: download the app, connect it to your WiFi network, setup a password, etc. The process was simple and took just a few minutes. Once done with the setup, the first thing that I played with was the personal cloud. I attached my external hard drive and was able to quickly transfer files, pictures and videos to and from my connected devices. When I was researching the TripMate the personal cloud sounded like a nice feature, but I didn’t know how much I would use it. I already use Google for most of my cloud needs, so I didn’t know how much I would use a personal cloud. I couldn’t have been more wrong, this has quickly become my favorite feature. I have started to leave my external hard drive attached while at home so I can access movies from any device at any time. Whenever I need something from my external hard drive, it’s just a couple clicks away.
The feature that initially attracted me to the TripMate is the travel router or personal hotspot. This allows you to connect the TripMate to an existing or weak WiFi network, then you connect your devices to the TripMate network. I thought this would be helpful in a class I have, that has a terrible WiFi signal. Before I had the TripMate, the network was unusable, even if I could connect to it. When I used the TripMate, things improved greatly, now I’m able to use the network, although the speeds could be inconsistent. I’m inclined to believe that any issues I had at school were because of the weak signal in the classroom, not because of any issue with the TripMate. When it was connected to my home network, I saw much better performance. If you travel a lot, this feature alone could make the TripMate well worth the price.
I keep an external battery in my bag mostly for emergencies. I didn’t use the TripMate in this function much, but when I did it worked well. I was able to fully charge my LG G3 after using the network features earlier in the day. Having an external battery is one of those things that you forget about until you need it. When I needed it, the TripMate stepped up and worked perfectly despite heavy use hours earlier.
I almost feel like I am going out of my way to find something negative to talk about, but I do have one complaint. The mobile app and web interface aren’t very good. The mobile app is better than the web interface, but not by much. The mobile app gets bonus points because it assisted me with the setup, which was a breeze. Both apps feel dated and aren’t very intuitive. You get the hang of them pretty quickly, but I feel like the TripMate Elite deserves better.
It’s not often that you find an accessory that does so much well. I couldn’t have been happier when using the TripMate Elite. After a little more than a week in my care my TripMate has a few scratches, but works perfectly. For $47 this one accessory can do the work of many. It’s a great deal, especially when you consider how much it would cost to buy an individual accessory for each function. Yes, it can pick up a few fingerprints and the apps might not be the prettiest, but those are minor issues. The TripMate Elite would be a worthy addition to almost any briefcase or backpack, check it out.
Source HooToo
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HTC Desire Eye and RE Camera Landing at AT&T November 7th for $149.99
Back on October 8th HTC held an event to announce the HTC Desire Eye and the RE Camera. They made a few other announcements such as the Desire Eye camera functions coming to HTC One M8’s and the Zoe app coming out of beta and available for other devices that weren’t HTC. The Desire Eye and the Re Camera were the big-ticket announcements though. When they announced the phone it was made public that AT&T would be the launch partner for the new device, but pricing and launch times weren’t available at the time. Today AT&T has made the announcement official and you will be able to check out the HTC Desire Eye on November 7th alongside the RE Camera.
It would appear that the Desire Eye will launch with AT&T in one color option, the Coral Reef (White/Red) option. You will be able to pick it up for $149.99 on a new two-year contract, $22.92 per month on AT&T Next 18 or $27.50 per month on AT&T Next 12. If you are looking for total out-of-pocket pricing you will drop $549.99.
“Optimized for taking selfies, HTC Desire EYE is AT&T’s first smartphone with a 13MP front-facing camera and a dual LED flash,” said Jeff Bradley, senior vice president – Device Marketing and Developer Services, AT&T. “Both HTC Desire EYE and RE have many great features that allow you to capture your moments – all on the nation’s most reliable 4G LTE network,6 covering more than 300 million Americans.”
As a recap, the Desire Eye carries a 5.2-inch 1920 x 1080 display, Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor cloced at 2.3GHz, 2GB of RAM, 16GB internal storage and SD card slot. It also packs in the much-loved dual-front facing Boomsound from the One M8 and One M7, a 2400 mAh battery and the front and rear cameras are both 13MP with dual-LED flash. The Desire Eye is very much so all about photo and video. I can’t forget to mention that it is also IPX7 waterproof rated too.
On the Re Camera side of things, it will also be available on November 7th. AT&T doesn’t specifically mention the Re Camera price tag, but they do state that if you get the HTC Desire Eye on a two-year contract or a Next program that you can take $50 off the cost of the point and shoot camera. I would suspect that it will be the same $199.99 that HTC is selling it for currently. The Re brings a 16MP 146 degree wide-angle point and shoot/record camera to your hands that is also IPX7 rated. It has an “always on” system that makes the camera ready to roll at a moments notice. Although the battery is only 840 mAh and battery life is listed at 1 hour and 40 minutes of continuous 1080p video. You don’t need a phone or anything to use the RE camera. It is its own standalone unit, however, there is a companion app that gives you some added functionality.
Anyone out there looking forward to taking a look at the new HTC Desire Eye or the Re Camera?
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One for the football fans: Moto X 2014 with football leather cover coming in late November
When Motorola introduced the original Moto X, it launched with it arguably one of its more interesting services, the Moto Maker. While we don’t have stats on how effective it is in driving sales or engaging customers, the idea of being able to customize and tailor your new Moto X in whatever way pleases you seems pretty neat. Motorola is continuing its good work with its latest device and is apparently set to release a Moto X 2014 with football leather cover in the third week of November.
This option would compliment Motorola’s already burgeoning assortment of customizations which include plastic, leather and wood. The football leather is obviously designed to feel like a real football (or as the rest of the world might know it, a gridiron ball), and would probably make it slightly easier to hold on to your new Moto X with the added grip. The leaked image above shows a Verizon variant of the Moto X rocking the football leather, though we don’t know if the cover will be carrier exclusive or not. Furthermore, we’re not entirely sure of the pricing either, but if we go off the $25 cost of the standard leather cover, it shouldn’t be much more than that if at all.
What do you think about the Moto X 2014 with football leather cover? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: Phandroid
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LG G Watch R confirmed for AT&T retail locations
LG recently announced the global availability of the LG G watch R. That would be the other round Android wear watch. The device is slated to start hitting digital and physical shelves all over the globe in November. We know it will launch in the Play Store for sure, but now we also know that AT&T will carry the device in-store as well.
They don’t offer up any more detail than that though. Pricing and availability will announced at a later date.
A quick recap: The LG G Watch R carries the Snapdragon 400 processor, 512 RAM, 4GB internal storage, 410 mAh battery, a 1.3-inch full circle P-OLED screen and various sensors. It is also IP67 dust and waterproof rated. It measures in at 46.4 x 53.6 x 9.7 mm and weighs 62 g.
As far as round Android Wear devices, this is looking like a good option. I am hearing some distaste for the ll black housing though without any other immediate option. Where does your Android Wear heart lay? Did you already pick up one that you love, or are you waiting for the G Watch R, or perhaps the ASUS ZenWatch or Sony SmartWatch 3.
Source: AT&T
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