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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

You Can Preregister for Nintendo’s Miitomo Communications App

Preregistration for Nintendo’s upcoming Miitomo app is now live. In case you want to save your username for the service, now is the time to do so. If you have zero idea what Miitomo is, I don’t blame you. Announced late last year, Miitomo is the first of many mobile apps that Nintendo is creating. While we expect a few games to come from the company, the first app, Miitomo, is a communications app that uses digital Mii characters (like you would see on Wii) to let users interact with one another. 

Nintendo states that the app will be free to download, although, there will be in-app purchases. There is no info on what the IAPs will be used for, but it’s possible they could grant access to additional outfits for your Mii or things of that nature.

To register, make sure you have a Nintendo account, which can be created here. Once complete, follow the preregistration link below to get started. It should only take a couple of minutes to complete.

As soon as Miitomo is available on Google Play, we shall let you know.

Preregister Link

Via: My.Nintendo

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Deal: Star Wars “Vader” Portable 2600mAh Power Bank for $23

Thought you saw Star Wars everything already? Think again. Available for $23 on the DL Deals Store, this Star Wars Portable Power Bank gives your smartphone the Force, as well as juice whenever you may need it throughout a day. 

Featuring 2,600mAh of power, the Darth Vader power bank offers owners the ability to portably charge a smartphone or tablet via microUSB or Lightning adapter. If you are a member of the Light side, an R2-D2 model is also available, you Rebel scum.

Check out all of the features below, then follow the link to pick it up.

Features

  • Micro USB cable & Lightning adapter included
  • 4 LED lights to indicate charge level
  • 2600mAh rechargeable battery
  • Lightweight, portable design
  • Awesome Darth Vader design

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Question of the Day: Are You Excited About Motorola’s 2016?

Within the last couple of weeks, you told us what you thought about LG and HTC at the moment, how they could win you over, and if their next phones are even on your radar. Today, we move onto Motorola and ask that you share with us your thoughts on whether or not 2016 could be an exciting year for the Lenovo-owned smartphone maker. 

In recent months, the future of Motorola hasn’t necessarily been called into question, but I think it’s quite obvious that some major changes are on the horizon after an up and down year. We’ve seen reports about Motorola completely dying as brand, yet they aren’t in reality. We have seen reports suggest that Lenovo will do ridiculous things like kill off the Moto G line, yet they aren’t doing anything close to that. We have seen Lenovo talking about the next in the Moto line, a phone that will be “More innovative, more attractive.” We have seen them cut off phones after just a year and turn into one of the worst at updating their phone line after being one of the best. We have seen them create one of the best smartphones of the past year (here are reasons to buy one), along with the best Android Wear watch.

See? It’s been a year of good, bad, and confusing for Motorola.

For 2016, I have to admit that I’m sort of envisioning much of the same. I wouldn’t be shocked if we got a 3rd gen version of the Moto 360 and a new Moto line, including an X and G. But I’m wondering if any of it can match what Samsung, LG, and HTC are about to throw at us? Not that Motorola has been boring in recent years, it’s just that everyone else seems to be really kicking things up a notch.

Is Motorola, now that Lenovo is in complete control, ready to do the same? Will this be an exciting year for Motorola or one where we drop an, “Ugh, Lenovo?”

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Google Express Now Delivers Fresh Groceries in Very Select Regions

I know, going out and buying your own toilet paper can be a pain at times, or maybe you just are not physically able to, but if that’s the case, Google is working to bring everything you need in the home directly to your doorstep with Google Express. The program has been live in parts of the US, including Chicago and NYC, and now for a few users in even more select areas of San Francisco and Los Angeles, Google is offering the ability to have fresh produce and meats delivered right to your home for a small fee. 

Starting at delivery charges of $2.99 for members and $4.99 for everyone else, Express will pick up whatever groceries you need, including veggies, meats, fish, or anything else that might need to be kept cold en route to your home.

Do you live in a delivery area and are not signed up? If so, the price of membership is currently $10/month, or $95/year. For those who signup before 2017, you will receive the first three months of membership free, and can cancel at anytime.

If you live in one of the pilot coverage areas shown below, you can order your fresh groceries right now via Google Express.

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Via: Google Commerce

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Update to Verizon’s Hum Car Adapter Should Help Teens Love Their Parents Even More

Verizon has this car adapter called Hum, for those not familiar, that is a lot like Automatic, in that it can turn “almost any car into something smarter.” Hum can tell you about the health of your vehicle, give you maintenance reminders, access to a mechanics hotline, help with roadside/emergency assistance, and make it easier to find parked or stolen cars. It costs $15 per month, includes an adapter (obd reader), separate speaker, and an app.

We’re writing about it today because Verizon is pushing a big update to the unit that makes Hum the worst thing to ever happen to a teenager, but one that will surely help parents keep track of the family. 

The update is specifically being billed as a way for parents to keep track of teen drivers, thanks to boundary alerts, speed alerts, vehicle location tracking, and driving history. As all of those things suggest, you can imagine how fun (that’s sarcasm) it will be for your teens to know that their every single move is constantly being watched by mommy or daddy.

Here are the details of each new feature, according to Verizon:

  • Boundary alerts: allowing subscribers to establish boundaries for their vehicle and receive a notification when the vehicle enters or exits the area. Subscribers can set multiple boundary areas tied to specific days and times.
  • Speed alerts: the ability to select a maximum speed limit and receive alerts when the vehicle exceeds that limit. The account owner can also choose to have alerts sent to multiple family members and be notified via app, text or email.
  • Vehicle location: map-based tracking of the vehicle’s location, speed and travel direction, allowing subscribers to view the past five requested locations.
  • Driving history: key trip-based driving information to track driving efficiency, including duration, start and end times, idle times and max/avg. speeds. The driving history can be accessed by day, week month or year.

If you want to sign-up for Hum, you can find it here.

If you are already a Hum user, you can grab the latest app update here.

Via:  Verizon

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Twitter Intros GIF Search to Your Timeline and Direct Messages

Lovers of the almighty GIF will be grateful of Twitter’s new GIF Search feature, allowing users to search through a vast library of GIFs for usage in tweets and direct messages. From now on, you will never need to have all of your GIFs downloaded and saved somewhere safe for use at just the right time. 

This feature, according to Twitter, will be available to users across all platforms over the coming weeks. To use it, when composing a tweet, a new icon will appears next to the gallery icon. Powered by GIPHY and Riffsy, you can insert any GIF that you can find on their servers. The same goes for Direct Messages, as the same functionality applies for private correspondences, too.

Be on the lookout for this added feature, which should be live soon for everyone.

Via: Twitter

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Samsung Tweet Suggests Galaxy S7 Will be Waterproof

This morning, Samsung Mobile’s official Twitter account tossed out a batch of tweets that all hinted at upcoming features for the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, both of which will be announced on February 21 in Barcelona. The tweets covered topics like capturing “every angle” of a moment, changing your “idea of what a camera can do,” and maybe more importantly, “what your phone can handle.”

Those first two quoted items are in reference to the camera being used in each phone, a camera that we expect to shoot at 12MP and may very well be similar to the sensor used in the Nexus 6P and 5X. That third idea, though, is accompanied by a short video of a girl dropping her phone in a pool. So if we’re talking about what a phone can handle, then this video (at least to me) is suggesting that whatever shows up on February 21, will be able to handle a pool drop, aka being submerged in water. 

The timing of this clip is actually quite funny. Yesterday, a video surfaced on Samsung’s Indonesia YouTube channel that the internet took as some sort of proof that the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge would be waterproof. How did they come to that conclusion, you ask? Because the video, which pretty obviously (to us) showed a Galaxy S6 Edge+, also showed the phone getting rained on during a “dramatization” of a woman about to shoot an arrow at a target. For whatever reason, the internet, as the internet always does, just assumed the phone in the clip was an S7 Edge and that rain on a phone means waterproofing. Silly, I know.

You can watch that video here.

Either way, the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge have long-been-rumored to have IP67 water resistance and this latest tweet from Samsung essentially confirms that.

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Vimeo Updates Android App to Include Chromecast Support

After much wait, Vimeo updated its Android app this week, bringing with it… Chromecast support! The last time we discussed Vimeo and Chromecast together was all the way back in mid 2013, but as Vimeo states, “late is better than never.” You see, Vimeo was one of the first companies to openly embrace the idea of Chromecast, but for some odd reason, it has taken years to actually implement the feature for users. That all changes today. 

In addition to now having the ability to cast your videos from Video directly to an HDTV, Vimeo details that they have fixed a big list of bugs and crashing issues that plagued the app. Thanks to this update, we may see Vimeo’s app rating in Google Play pick up, but that’s not exactly our primary concern.

If you use Vimeo, go forth and grab the update and get to casting those videos.

Play Link

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Gmailify Your Existing Yahoo or Outlook Email Account, Features All the Bells and Whistles

Beginning today, users of a Yahoo or Outlook/Hotmail email account can Gmailify their existing email, without losing their precious email address. The process is extraordinarily simple. Sign into your email from within the Gmail app, then hit the “Gmailify” button. In doing so, you essentially turn your email into a Gmail account, which brings all the benefits that a normal Gmail user would have, such as spam protection, inbox organization, and more. 

Once your old email has been linked to Gmail, the Gmail account will start working to protect you from spam, help you organize your messy inbox, and after you Gmailify, you will even receive Google Now cards based on your email, just as if you were using a standard Gmail address.

Of course, if you are not happy with the Gmailify experience, you can always go back to the way things were and unlink your account, all with the click of a button. Google states they are working to bring additional email providers into the fold, but for now, it is limited to Yahoo and Outlook/Hotmail.

This feature is available starting right now through the Gmail app.

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Via: Gmail

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Samsung Highlights Software Changes in Marshmallow, Has Yet to Update Any US Devices

Samsung Galaxy device owners in the US, you must be getting awfully tired of not running the latest version of the Android OS. On the bright side, we might getting very close to a North American release, as Samsung is not only beginning to highlight what changes you will see once your device has received the update to Marshmallow, but also started shipping the update out to unlocked international models earlier this week. While none of it appears to be groundbreaking, Samsung continues to add “value” as it sees fit in the form of in-house software.

Here is what you can expect to see on your device after you have installed Marshmallow. 

Included with the update to Marshmallow is Internet 4.0 and Cross App. Internet 4.0 will bolster the mobile web browsing experience for those who use Samsung’s own web browser. New features for the Internet app include a Secret Mode (exactly like Chrome’s Incognito mode), allowing users to browse the web anonymously, without leaving behind a trail of information. Secret Mode is governed by fingerprint authentication, meaning only the true device owner can view sensitive material, even when in protected mode. Any new bookmarks or saved pages can be stored while in Secret Mode, but will be saved in a separate area from the unprotected pages, all secured by your fingerprint.

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Cross App will boost productivity while you are inside one of Samsung’s proprietary apps, such as Messaging. For example, if you are in a chat window and need to send a photo, you will now have the ability to quickly access your gallery of photos from straight within the Messaging application. If you need to shoot a new photo, you can do that as well, all without leaving your original app.

Essentially, Cross App should bring users a more fluid experience, allowing the usability of different apps from within just one app. As another example, if you need to browse a URL a friend sent through Messaging, you can use a built-in browser, or even view multimedia that they have sent. This all means that you will no longer need to open a specific app to complete a certain task.

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As noted earlier, no Samsung device on a US carrier has received an update to Marshmallow. However, with Samsung doing these highlights and shipping it out to unlocked models, we must be close. At least, I hope we are.

Via: Samsung

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Samsung Galaxy S Fingerprin7 Shown in Brief Video, SD Card Slot Too

At this point, I think I’ve seen about enough blurry cam photos of the black Samsung Galaxy S7. Unfortunately for me, I can’t imagine we’ll stop seeing them any time soon knowing that the phone will be official in four days. I would assume that more and more people have it in their hands at this point, many of which probably don’t care about the life-ending NDA Samsung required them to sign in order to acquire it. And that brings us to today’s leak, which is only important because it’s of the phone on video for the first time. Oh, we also get what appears to be confirmation of a SIM slot that is capable of housing a microSD card as well.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you a sh*tload of fingerprints on a phone you have seen in a similar, unofficial and unflattering setting more times than you needed to. Ready? 

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And here is that video.

So the phone that is featured here has some sort of screen protector on each side, which is the reason for all of the fingerprints. At least, we are hoping that’s the case and that the real finish on the body of the phone won’t attract grease on this level of grossness. As for the SIM tray, yep, that is indeed a microSD slot in there as well, so that’s good news.

The rest of this leak is a bit wishy-washy in terms of specs. It claims that the battery is just 2800mAh instead of 3000mAh. We’re still betting on 3000mAh, though. The leak also isn’t sure if we’ll get IP68 or IP67 water resistance, but they are on board with every other leak that suggests a 12MP camera, Android 6.0 out of the box, and no USB Type-C.

Hey, so, I can’t wait for the next terrible picture of a phone that will more than likely be quite beautiful in person. (/s)

Via:  Android Authority

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Qualcomm Basically Confirms Snapdragon 820 for LG G5

With MWC days away, not only have leaks turned into fully gushing cracks in the foundation, but we’re also starting to get official confirmations and really, really, not-so-subtle hints as to what we can expect from the next round of flagship phones. In today’s bit of news, Qualcomm hasn’t essentially confirmed that the LG G5 will run their new Snapdragon 820 processor. Why do we say that? Take a look at the Tweet below. 

Qualcomm mentions that there will be a “whole new way to play” with LG and the Snapdragon 820 on February 21. That’s all important, because we know that on February 21, LG plans to announce something around the concept of playing. We also know that the LG G5 is coming on that day. Yes, that is official.

Oh, and the robot that Qualcomm used, is featured in LG G5 promos. So yeah, I’d say the Snapdragon 820 is confirmed for the G5.

This information certainly isn’t shocking to anyone who has been following the story of the G5, but hey, we like it when things become really, real.

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