Been searching for that new tablet on Google lately? If so, Google may recommend, via Google Now, when you are near a store that carries it. They will even conveniently tell you the price. In one sense, this is the oldest rule of retail: the impulse purchase. High margin impulse purchase items with high turnover are kept near the front of the store, tempting you to snag that candy bar or soft drink you’ve been thinking about since you saw it on the way in.
Several popular cloud storage sites were recently found to be leaking private data by way of shared links. Dropbox acknowledged this vulnerability, as well as their solution. Please keep reading for the Dropbox response:
An estimated 40 million users of one of the most popular mobile messaging apps, Snapchat, now have new ways to communicate within the app. Both the Android and iOS versions of the app have been updated to include private text messaging and face-to-face video calls in real time.
The Huffington Post is reporting that Samsung has admitted a small number of its recently shipped Galaxy S5 smartphones may have defective cameras. Samsung has already fixed the situation for any future shipments, although no word was given as to why the cameras were duds.
If you’ve ever gone looking for a new music player for your Android smartphone or tablet, you’ll know that the Google Play Store is cluttered with hundreds upon hundreds of apps in that category. Less than half of them are worth your taps, and less than half of those are worth the price they ask for. Orpheus Music Player, however, is worth every single cent of the 99 cents you’ll pay for it, and then some!
Developer Alex Cronin’s Shamrock Studios has just recently put out a beautiful new icon pack.
The folks over at OnePlus have finally unveiled the smartphone they have controversially marketed for the past few months (the One). There are two models available, a 16GB model for $299 and a 64GB model for $349. Did that get your attention? Even though some of this companies marketing choices have soured some users, this phone just may be worth a look, video after the break.
Venture Beat reports that Android has made the jump ahead of iOS for the first time in mobile ad traffic. In a report from Opera, it shows that Android has passed iOS and is making strides in ad traffic.
I’ll be honest. I am not a huge fan of cases. When I buy a phone I don’t want anything to add to the bulk of that phone. Every now and then I will flirt with cases. I will buy them, use them, stop using them, etc. For the most part I just end up not using them. Sometimes my feelings on a case depend on the case and the device. Some devices are so ugly that they demand a case (I’m looking at you G2.) Some devices are so pedestrian that cases add excitement but I still fall back into that hatred of extra bulk. Then there are devices that are so beautiful that it almost seems criminal to put a case on them. Last year’s HTC One fell into that last camp and this year’s HTC One (M8) falls into that camp even more.
To me, choosing a smartphone is much like selecting the next car you want to buy. It has to look good to you and feel right in every way if you’re going to spend your hard earned money. Even if you have a decent amount of knowledge, you want the sales person to help you make a decision partly based on information he or she might have that you do not as yet. If that person does not possess the knowledge needed to convey all the pertinent information to you it’s possible you might drive off the lot with something you might regret later. The same can be true of shopping for a smartphone.
With the lack of Google Wallet availability in Canada, people in the Great White North have been waiting for another option that would allow tap to pay transactions from NFC enabled mobile devices. Rogers has been testing Suretap with CIBC bank for several months and have now released the app for several compatible smartphones.
Graphic designer and Android developer Samer Zayer has created a unique new look for those of you who love to skin your Android device.
These days it seems like we all love to tweet – enough to fill a large four-book set every second. But do we all really love our tweets? Permanent Retweet is giving you the opportunity to put your money where your Twitter is (?) and have any tweet etched onto either wood, or metal.
It’s been one full week since I bought the htc One M8, and I would have to tell you it’s not nearly as good as … Read more…
I recently got my hands on the newest game from Itzy Interactive – Vex Puzzles. Vex Puzzles is a match 4/block elimination puzzle game with a few twists. Most notably, the way you actually have to twist your phone during some puzzles to move your blocks. Not all of Vex’s 480 puzzles require your phone’s accelerometer, but enough do that I would be sure to have two hands available during gameplay.
It’s your first day back on shift, and as you stumble through the front door, so tired that you can barely see straight, you make it my personal mission to crash in bed for the night.
The Sony PlayStation Vita (PS Vita) is a little over 2 years old now, but don’t think for one second that this current generation handheld gaming platform has lost any of its forward momentum.
In 2013, HTC was coming off of a rough year. They had gone a year with the One X as their flagship device, and though reviews placed the device on equal footing with the Samsung Galaxy S III, sales were faltering. At that time HTC was using a similar camera to the S III and was also using a polycarbonate shell.
Generally I wouldn’t review a power strip just because, well, it’s a power strip. However, I found the Accel Powramid a curious product, so I took the opportunity to check it out when the company offered to send one to me for review.
Smartphones have become something of a sport over the past few years. People identify with the device they have in their pockets and people defend their chosen devices to the teeth (much like sport fans). Currently Android and HTC fans are watching the announcement of the new HTC One M8. And soon after the announcement is made the blogs will be feeding the information back to the people. Like fans of any phone, iPhone fans are no strangers to build up and anticipation.
We’re almost ready to showcase our baby to the world. On April 23, the OnePlus One will be fully unveiled.
Forget gimmicks and bloat. It’s time to return to the product itself. Its design, its build quality. The feeling you get when using it. It’s time to return to user value, and make all the necessary choices to ensure that in the end, it’s the user that benefits.
Thanks for everyone’s patience and support over the last few months. We promise it will be worth it.
The competition in the iPhone battery case arena is so hot I’m finding it hard to say anything really new about them. I’ve reviewed several battery cases for the iPhone 5/5s in just a few short months. Each one did what it was supposed to do and each one had their share of quirks and really nice features. So, what could a company possibly do to stand out from all the other battery cases? Go wireless.
HTC has begun the countdown to their next big announcement, the HTC One (M8). The official countdown and live streaming site is now up and … Read more…
This week, Samsung Mobile began a limited distribution of some flagship accessories. Top tier retailers and selected employees are now actively carrying and utilizing the … Read more…
We have seen our fair share of battery cases come through the Techaeris doors, and the iBattz Mojo is likely not the last we will see. This combination external battery and protective case from iBattz is looking to be the last external battery case you’ll ever need.
It will come as no surprise to anyone who follows me on Techaeris when I say that I love the Google Chromecast. Earlier this year, I wrote an article as to whether the $35 dongle mattered and why; in short, I believe it matters because the proliferation of the device and an open SDK is helping Google create an industry standard for casting content to screens in a market where others have had either marginal success or failed.
Social media is more popular than ever. Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare and Pinterest each have millions upon millions of users. One of the key similarities of these services is the ability to share your location with family, friends and even people you don’t even know. So what do you do when you’re out and about and you run into one of those people? Do you stay and chat even though you really don’t want to? Do you wish you could have seen them coming so you could avoid them?
We’ve covered a couple of different small form factor charging solutions here on Techaeris and today we have yet another to choose from. This one looks to be promising as their Kickstarter campaign has already been fully funded. The Travel Card is a credit card sized external battery for your iPhone or Android device.
