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Monday, November 30, 2015

Google Sent Out Lego Phone Stand Kits to Project Fi Subscribers as a “Thank You”

Just before we took off for the long holiday weekend, readers of ours who subscribe to Project Fi notified us that they were receiving little unexpected gift packages from Google as a “Thank you!” for being a part of their wireless service. The gift packages included these cool little Lego sets that were branded with Project Fi logos.

In the box, the Lego kits included instructions that helped assemble the Legos into phone stands for charging. Some even came with a USB Type-C cable, probably depending on the phone they own. 

If you cruise over to the official Project Fi community on Google+ (may need invite), you can see how people went about building with the blocks. Most followed the instructions provided, but some went crazy and cooked up their own creations.

Pretty cool gesture.

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Cheers Addison!

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Adobe Releases Premiere Clip for Android, a Free Video Editor

This morning, Adobe released Premiere Clip for Android, a free video editor for all to use, but one that can also be used as a “gateway into the full feature set” of Premiere Pro.

With Premiere Clip, Adobe is allowing all of us to quickly edit and share videos we have taken on our phones. You can choose soundtracks, drag and drop clips or photos, trim everything to only the footage you want seen, and even add lighting adjustments, transitions, and other effects, like slow motion. You can even “edit to the beat of your music like a pro.” 

The new Adobe app is available now.

Play Link

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HTC Announces Preview Program, Experience and Provide Feedback on HTC Tech Before Release

In an attempt to rally the troops, HTC is calling on all tech fanatics via reddit to join the company’s new Preview Program, allowing a few lucky individuals to test out products before they see widespread release across the globe. The program will be used to collect feedback and usage data from actual consumers, hopefully leading to devices from HTC that people might want to spend their hard earned money on. 

To sign yourself up for a chance at trying out devices, HTC has set up a simple submission form through its website. You will provide basic contact information, give a bit of insight into how you use your current phone, explain which phones you have used in the past, and if you own a RE Camera. All pretty general. On reddit, HTC states that if you are selected to test devices, you must keep any and all information regarding said device to yourself, and you will be made to sign a digital NDA. HTC also states that they will evaluate all legal options if the NDA is broken, so please, be careful with what you share publicly.

The Preview program will apparently cover future hardware and even software, so if selected, you should be prepared to provide feedback on different user experiences across a wide array of smartphone subjects.

Signing up for the program does not guarantee you a slot, but hey, you can at least try.

Preview Program Signup

Via: reddit | HTC

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T-Mobile Galaxy Note 4 Gets Advanced Messaging and Video Calling in Update

T-Mobile is issuing updates to two of its older Samsung phones this morning, those being the Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note Edge. The update adds T-Mobile’s Advanced Messaging and Mobile Video Calling, two features first announced by the wireless carrier back in July.

With Advanced Messaging, you get a more robust, chat-like experience, where you can send bigger photos (up to 10MB), see when a person is responding to you, participate in better group chats, and more. It’s basically the new version of text messaging that most of the carriers will adopt. 

Video Calling is well, video calling. You get the idea there, right?

The updates are rolling out today as N910TUVU2DOK2 (677MB) or N910T3UVU1DOK2 (223MB) for the Note 4 and N915TUVU2COK2 (150MB) for the Note Edge.

To check for each, head into Settings>About device>Software update.

Via:  T-Mobile [2]

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Straight Talk Deals on Extended Plans Save You Up to $55 Per Year

For a limited time, maybe even just today, Straight Talk, probably leader of all the MVNO prepaid services, is slashing prices on its extended plans by up to $55 depending on the option you choose.

Extended plans are just Straight Talk’s way of branding their plans that have you pre-pay for longer than a month. So the idea here is that you pre-pay for an extended period of time and see a discount. 

On a typical day, Straight Talk’s extended plans are as follows – 3-month unlimited for $130, 6-month unlimited for $255, and 1-year unlimited for $495. If you go the extended route today, you are looking at – 3-month unlimited for $120 ($10 off), 6-month unlimited for $230 ($25 off), and 1-year unlimited for $440 ($55 off).

Plus, if you go the extended route, you are already saving quite a bit of money over a monthly payment. For example, Straight Talk’s monthly unlimited plan runs $45. If you were to pay that monthly and not choose an extended, in a year you would be paying $540. With today’s deal, you are then saving $100 per year.

Straight Talk Deal

Cheers John!

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Cyber Monday Deals 2015

It’s Cyber Monday, which you likely already knew because the internet won’t shut up about it. We even posted up a Cyber Monday deal already, because it’s actually a really good deal on a Galaxy S6. With that said, we’re dealed out at this point. Sooooo, if you want to wade through a sea of fresh deals, we won’t exactly have that today unless we see some excellent ones, like that S6 deal – then we’ll go ahead and share.

With that said, our entire massive Black Friday deals list still basically holds through today. Rather than figure out one set of deals for Black Friday and then another for Cyber Monday, most companies now just discount things on Thanksgiving or before and then carry those all the way through today.

If you want to browse through a massive list of deals because you disappeared from the internet over the weekend, you can find it here.

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DEAL: Unlocked Galaxy S6 Drops to $399 Today at Amazon

Hey, it’s Cyber Monday now, after a full weekend of deals. I’d imagine you spent all the cash you set aside for holiday shopping, but yes, there are still deals to be had today. Over at Amazon, you can buy a brand new, unlocked Samsung Galaxy S6 for just $399. That’s Moto X Pure-like pricing there, for a phone that really helped partially revive Samsung after a couple of years of really dull smartphones.

The model you are buying is the SM-G920T, which is the T-Mobile version. This phone will work on both AT&T and T-Mobile, though, in case you were interested.

And in case you need a refresher on why this phone is amazing, hit up our Galaxy S6 review.

Amazon Link

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