Gearbest.com, great prices on high-tech gadgets
Over the past month we have featured deals from gearbest.com. Some of the deals seem too good to be true, but they’re not. I had the chance to interview gearbest.com’s head of marketing, Melanie Yu, and here are the answers to the questions I had for her. Even though we do get many review units for free, the deals at gearbest.com were so good I found myself ordering goods with my own money. Learn about them for yourself:
What city is gearbest.com headquartered?
Shenzhen, China – Also known as China’s Silicon Valley due to the concentration of high-tech companies
When did gearbest.com open?
February of 2014
How many products do you carry?
We focus on all things tech from RC vehicles to unlocked smartphones with seven day battery life, gearbest.com has your needs covered. We have hundreds of products and continue to expand our portfolio.
What area is your main focus? (cell phones, accessories, ???)
We focus on all things tech, cellphones, smartwatches, tablets and more. We specialize in bringing high quality products with low prices. Brick and mortar stores such as Best Buy and Target have high overhead costs like store sales people and managers. At gearbest.com we keep overhead costs to a minimum by eliminating the middle man and can pass on the discounts to the customers.
How do you keep prices low?
By shipping direct to customers and eliminating the middle sales person, we can dramatically cut expenses. At gearbest.com we pride ourselves in offering high-quality products at Black Friday prices year around by streamlining costs and minimizing overhead. Customer satisfaction is our number one priority.
What are typical shipping times to the US?
About 2-3 days(from us warehouse to us)
Where is the warehouse in the US?
New York, New York
Will you have a store or just a warehouse stateside?
GearBest.com is an online electronics seller, and we’re trying to develop more and more overseas warehouses to spread our discounts worldwide.
Tell me one or two things you want your customers to know about gearbest.com.
1. GearBest.com provides FREE SHIPPING WORLDWIDE on every single order.
2. We offer extremely competitive pricing with excellent customer service.
I have found gearbest.com to be highly competitive and even found myself ordering a few products like the DOOGEE F5 smartphone for $139.99 which comes loaded with Android 5.1 and other great specs. Look for deals that will be featured on Androidguys.com in the coming weeks and let us know if gearbest.com works out for you. We anticipate offering reviews on some of their budget and mid-range devices which we expect to compete with the likes of the Moto G, Moto E, and similar devices.
If you’re interested in gearbest.com check them out today. If you would like to contact them with further questions, click here.
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Apples denies Google’s request to add Chromecast Audio compatibility with Apple Music
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Despite the fact that Google and Apple are bitter rivals, Google has somewhat opened its doors to its timeless enemy of late, introducing Android Wear compatibility on iOS. That’s as close as we’re going to get a peace greeting from either side, but when Google asked Apple whether they could add Chromecast Audio compatibility with Apple Music, they were denied. We’re sure there are many reasons why Apple would want to do this, but considering iOS supports Chromecast, we’re confused why they wouldn’t consider it for the sake of convenience – the convenience of their users might I add.
In case you missed the memo – because we sure did – the Chromecast Audio is pretty much a Chromecast for speaker systems, adding the capability to stream audio from any supported (or non-supported) app to the Chromecast Audio over Wi-Fi. It’s brilliantly convenient, as the original Chromecast was, and is pretty much perfect for all the music streaming services out there, Apple Music included. No doubt there are some power plays happening behind this all and we’re not expecting a straight answer out of Apple on this issue, but it’s kind of a bummer that Apple isn’t ready to play ball yet – the terrible Move to iOS app doesn’t count.
What do you think about Chromecast Audio compatibility with Apple Music? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: Trusted Reviews via Phandroid
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Google announces many apps that now support Android TV
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The American Fall is a good time to be a couch potato – and Google is helping to continue this tradition. It’s just announced a whole host of apps that now support Android TV, including HBO Now, SHOWTIME, CBS All Access for all those TV itches that you’ve been wanting to scratch. It goes beyond just TV shows, however, with support for Disney Movies Anywhere – Disney’s streaming offering – as well as WWE and UFC app support too. If that doesn’t keep you busy till the end of time, as well as everything that already has support, then you probably have waaaay to much free time on your hands.
Google also used this opportunity to announce that it has some new Android TV hardware partners in Hisense, TCL and “several other smart TV manufacturers”, joining Sony, Sharp, Razer and Nvidia in the Android TV corner. We’re assuming as more manufacturers join the Android TV ranks, the TV heavyweights like LG and Samsung are going to start paying attention.
What do you think about these apps that now support Android TV? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Source: Android Blog
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Nexus Protect website is now live
We covered what the Nexus Protect plan is all about during the Nexus launch event, but now the official program has been launched. Technically, you can’t actually use it yet since it launched before the new Nexus’ did, but you can still read what it’s all about.
Basically, it’s a warranty program. You pay a certain amount and you get two years of coverage for hardware failure and accidental damage. The cost will be $69 to cover the Nexus 5X and $89 to cover the Nexus 6P.
What happens if you break your phone and have Nexus Protect? You will get two replacement devices for broken phones over the two years, but each one has a $79 deductible. If you have a defective phone it will be replaced and you will receive next day shipping on everything.
Source: My Nexus Protect
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Amazon to stop selling Google’s Chromecast, Apple TV and others come October 29
From Google’s second-generation Chromecast to the recently-announced Apple TV, media streamers have been really improving as of late. Unfortunately you won’t be able to purchase these devices from a certain major online retailer come October 29th, as Amazon has just revealed that it will stop selling Google’s Chromecast and other devices that don’t play nicely with Amazon’s Prime Video service. In an email sent to its marketplace sellers earlier today, Amazon said that starting today, no new listings for these products will be posted and that all existing inventory will be removed on Thursday, October 29th.
Here is Amazon’s official statement on the matter:
Over the last three years, Prime Video has become an important part of Prime. It’s important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion. Roku, XBOX, PlayStation and Fire TV are excellent choices.
Amazon just recently announced its new Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, which of course play nicely with Prime Video. It’s not out of the ordinary for an online retailer to stop selling competitors’ products, but it’s still a shame that a retailer as large as Amazon is choosing to go this route. As of right now, only sales of the Google Chromecast, Apple TV and Nexus Player are affected, though we’re not sure if this change will go into effect for other Android TV devices.
Amazon pulling Apple TV and Chromecast over Prime Video support
Say goodbye to Prime shipping of the Apple TV and Chromecast. In an email obtained by Bloomberg, Amazon informed marketplace sellers that it would no longer allow the sale of the two devices after October 29. The reason is that they don’t offer easy access Amazon Prime Video. An Amazon spokesperson told Engadget, “over the last three years, Prime Video has become an important part of Prime. It’s important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion. Roku, XBOX, PlayStation and Fire TV are excellent choices.” Apple TV has yet to add the service and to watch the Prime videos on the Chromecast is less than ideal. The company is keen on making sure its customers are completely intertwined in its services. Apparently the Apple TV and Chromecast didn’t offer the interoperability needed to stay in the store.
Source: Bloomberg
Stagefright bug now spreads through malicious audio files
Cripes, how many times is Google going to have to patch before the Stagefright exploit bug stays fixed? The company has already patched its code three times but on Thursday, security research firm Ziperium (the guys that initially discovered the flaw) announced that it had discovered yet another way hackers could bypass an Android handset’s security. This time, the malicious code can be delivered by an audio message.
Hackers can encode a piece of malware into an MP3 or Mp4 file and then disseminate it (worryingly, this sort of digital delivery vehicle works really well over public Wi-Fi connections). Any Android user who clicks on the downloaded file will prompt the OS to automatically preview the song, infecting the device. And since virtually every build of Android OS currently available shares this same auto-preview feature, the exploit works nearly universally. Google is reportedly already working to patch the vulnerability in Android’s core code, which should be ready by the October Monthly Security Update on the 5th.
Source: Motherboard
Google and Microsoft agree to end patent feud over smartphones and gaming systems
After a multi-year conflict in the courtroom, Google and Microsoft have finally agreed to end their big patent feud. No financial terms were disclosed, though the two companies have agreed to drop roughly 20 lawsuits in the United States and Germany.
The two companies have been in dispute since 2010, when Google’s former Motorola Mobility unit began demanding royalties on Microsoft’s Xbox gaming system. At the same time, Microsoft had sought to prevent Motorola’s mobile phones from using certain features that have been patented by Microsoft.
As GeekWire reports, here is the joint statement released by Google and Microsoft earlier this morning:
Microsoft and Google are pleased to announce an agreement on patent issues. As part of the agreement, the companies will dismiss all pending patent infringement litigation between them, including cases related to Motorola Mobility. Separately, Google and Microsoft have agreed to collaborate on certain patent matters and anticipate working together in other areas in the future to benefit our customers.
Now the two companies have agreed to drop all patent litigations in question, and work together in areas that would more greatly benefit their customers. One way the companies are doing so is by focusing on the newly-formed Alliance for Open Media, of which both Google and Microsoft are members. The alliance, which is setting out to develop a royalty-free video compression technology for the web, includes key players in the tech world like Amazon, Cisco, Intel, Netflix, Google, Microsoft and more.
Amazon reportedly banning sales of competitors’ streaming devices, including Chromecast
A new report coming by way of Bloomberg indicates that Amazon will banning the sale of its competitors streaming devices on its e-commerce website. If the report ends up being true, consumers will no longer be able to find video streaming devices from Google or Apple.
Bloomberg says:
No new listings for the products will be allowed and posting of existing inventory will be removed Oct. 29, Amazon said [in an email to marketplace sellers]. Amazon’s streaming video service, called Prime Video, doesn’t run easily on rival’s devices.”Over the last three years, Prime Video has become an important part of Prime,” Amazon said in the e-mail. “It’s important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion.”
It makes a lot of sense for Amazon to ban the sale of its competitors’ video streaming devices, however, there’s not telling if it’ll actually boost sales. Streaming on Prime has always been frustrating, largely due to technical difficulties or not having the content consumers want.
Either way, if you want to pick up Google’s HDMI Chromecast dongle, you’ll have to do so from the Google Store or via some other retailer from now on.
source: Bloomberg
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YouTube Kids streams content on Chromecast, Apple TV and more
YouTube’s kid-friendly app arrived earlier this year, delivering a library of age-appropriate content for younger viewers. Now, the streaming software is moving beyond mobile devices. YouTube Kids is now available on your television, streaming to Chromecast, Apple TV, game consoles and smart TVs. There’s also new curated playlists from the likes of National Geographic Kids and tools for parents that help you learn the app and tweak the password. Perhaps most importantly, you won’t have to give up your phone or tablet when junior wants to catch up on the latest episodes.
Source: YouTube Blog
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