Samsung's Design Patent D720,747 Shows Off A Tablet Cover With An Odd Configuration

The United States Patent and Trademark office publishes publicly-available copies of all accepted patents, a great boon to nerds, lawyers, and technology reporters everywhere. The latest batch of design patents includes hundreds of obtuse examples, from everything to glasses frames to mops, and among them is this little gem awarded to Samsung, US Design Patent D720,747. It's an interesting look at a style of tablet and cover from Samsung before in exactly this configuration.

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Hands On MediaTek’s Android Wear Prototype Smartwatch With a Camera tucked in the Strap

Today, the floor at CES has finally opened up. Officially. So Nick is running around the LVCC getting hands on of all the cool new products that were announced yesterday as well as others we may have missed. So you’ll see a bunch of hands-on posts coming out today. Over at MediaTek’s booth, they have a new smartwatch prototype they are showing off. It is running Android Wear, which is what caught our eye. It’s got a 1.6-inch 240×240 resolution display, as well as an array of sensors including motion, accelerometer, gyro, heart rate detection, proximity, and pressure. On top of all of that, there’s also a camera in the strap. Kinda of reminds you of the original Galaxy Gear right? We weren’t able to test out the camera or anything, but I doubt that’s a good camera. It’s probably a VGA, or 2-3MP camera in there. Check out the gallery down below to see how this smartwatch looks, it’s not bad for a prototype, in my opinion.

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OnePlus to make Two models for all Future Products: North American and European

At CES, Nick just wrapped up his 30 minute long interview with Carl Pei of OnePlus. Which we have the full interview here if you want to read it. Carl mentioned in the interview that they will be making two models of the OnePlus Two and all other products in the future. Why? Well with the OnePlus One, it wasn’t too popular in Europe and that was due to the bands it supported. While it supported all the bands here in the US, thanks to the Snapdragon 801 processor inside, it didn’t support all of the UK and the rest of Europe’s bands. Check out the excerpt from the interview down below:

Nick: In terms of bands that are supported, in the UK only one band is supported. Were you planning to come out with another version to support them?

Carl: For future products there will be an American and an European version.

So similar to Google with the Nexus (prior to the Nexus 6) there will be two variants. An European variant and an American variant. Which I think is a good idea. As there are a ton of people in Europe that would probably love to pick up a OnePlus One but can’t because it doesn’t fully support the network they are on. It’s likely that there will be no differences between these two other than the bands it supports, so there shouldn’t be any issues with software updates on future products.

However, when it comes to CDMA carriers like Sprint and Verizon, their customers are still out of luck. But OnePlus did say that they might be looking to work with carriers in 2016. But as for now, they are more interested in emerging markets. Which is a brilliant idea. After seeing the success of Android One, emerging markets – like India for example – is where it’s at right now.

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Can’t afford a new car for Android Auto? Pioneer’s bringing 3 in-dash stereos to add it to your old one

As good as Android Auto is poised to be for the little bit it’s designed to help you do (control audio playback and help you get to where you need to go), there’s one sad fact: it required you to think about buying a new car. Thankfully there are more Android Auto products being announced that don’t require you to spend thousands of dollars on a brand new car.

Pioneer is bringing the goods in modular fashion with three new in-dash stereo units from their NEX line that can be dropped into a compatible bay. The only problem on your end is making sure your car allows installation of these things. The other? Well, coming up with cash in the range of $700 to $1,400 to buy one of these. Even with that, though, it’s a hell of a lot cheaper than having to buy a brand new car.

Here’s the full suite of features you can look forward to:

• HDMI® Connectivity


• Wideband Speech & A2DP AAC Bluetooth® Connectivity


• Android Auto Compatibility


• Apple CarPlay™ Compatibility


• MirrorLink® Connectivity


• HD Radio™ Technology


• iDataLink® Maestro® Technology


• Dual Zone Audio/Video Playback

The Pioneer AVIC-8100NEX ($1,400), AVIC-7100NEX ($1,200), and AVH-4100NEX ($700) will be available starting in March 2015. Let us know if you’ll be looking to scrape enough cash together to slap one of these inside the ol’ automobile.

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Microsoft Office for Android on tablets exits invite-only stage

Since early November, an invite was required to use Office for Android on tablets. The invite-only stage is over and now Microsoft is casting a larger net for preview users. The only requirements are that the Android tablet runs KitKat or Lollipop and the display size sits between 7 and 10.1 inches. Does your tablet meet those requirements? Then head over to the Play Store and download Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. Microsoft would like to know the good and bad of its productivity suite on Android tablets, so be sure to let them know on Google+.

Source: Office Blogs

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