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- AT&T GoPhone changes bring 4G LTE devices to prepaid
- Man of Steel brings his superhero power to the Play Store
- Samsung confirms Jay-Z music partnership with NBA Finals reveal
- HTC One Mini UAProf confirms Android 4.2.2 and 720p display
- Facebook invite teases arrival of a “new product” next week
- Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini hits Bluetooth SIG on way to Verizon
- CPU-Z comes to Android after years on the PC
| AT&T GoPhone changes bring 4G LTE devices to prepaid Posted: 14 Jun 2013 03:47 PM PDT Today the folks from AT&T have announced a slew of changes and improvements to their GoPhone prepaid plans and lineup of smartphones. We’ve been hearing rumors lately about what could be changing, but today they made it official. Things are about to get cheaper, and they’ll also be offering 4G LTE access to prepaid customers.
AT&T has announced that they’ll be restructuring their entire prepaid plans for the better, and this shows a huge change over what we’ve seen from the company in the previous years. Not only will they be among the first major carriers to offer 4G LTE to prepaid, but they’ll do so at a decent price. Starting next week AT&T will be offering a few different prepaid options for GoPhone customers, and it will follow a new tiered system with three different options. Here’s what to expect from the folks at AT&T:
While the $25 prepaid plan isn’t the best and only offers 250 minutes and unlimited texts and an option to add data, their highest $60 choice is pretty good. Previously $65 got you just 1GB of data on GoPhone, but now you’ll get double that for a few dollars less. At the same time AT&T confirmed the budget-friendly Samsung Galaxy Express with 4G LTE will be available to prepaid customers. That will get you an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean powered 4.5-inch smartphone. It is powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor and doesn’t have a 720p HD screen, but should make most users pretty happy. SOURCE: AT&T |
| Man of Steel brings his superhero power to the Play Store Posted: 14 Jun 2013 03:14 PM PDT Last week we learned that along with the new Superman movie, Warner Brothers would also be releasing a game to go alongside the new release for Android. If you aren’t a movie aficionado, Superman: Man of Steel hit theaters today in the USA, or late last night for those hitting the midnight showing. And for you fans, the game did too.
Just as expected. Man of Steel the game has flown onto the Google Play Store as of late last night, and will bring all those superhero powers to our Android devices. We saw the teaser trailer earlier this month, but the game is now available for all those interested, but it will cost you. As you can see from the video below, as well as the pictures from the Play Store, this looks like another swipe and slash style Infinity Blade title. This means you’ll be swiping on screen, tapping for throwing punches and more in a simple turn-by-turn combat style. The graphics look fairly decent, as does the gameplay, and it could be worth enjoying over the weekend. The title will loosely follow the movie, so you might not want to play until after you’ve seen the film. Unless you enjoy spoilers. You’ll be able to fight bosses, earn power-ups, and collect 6 different Superman suits along the way. For more details or to give this new movie-inspired mediocre looking game a try hit the link below. It will run you $4.99 so let us know below if it is any good. VIA: Play Store |
| Samsung confirms Jay-Z music partnership with NBA Finals reveal Posted: 14 Jun 2013 02:46 PM PDT As you all know, the folks from Samsung have been going big lately with their ad campaigns, commercials, and superstar partnerships. Today we can confirm that one more biggie has just signed on, although we don’t know the details. Samsung and hip-hop artist and entrepreneur Jay-Z have just teamed up for something big, and we’ll find out all the details Sunday.
Last week we reported on a rumor that Samsung and Jay-Z are teaming up in some fashion and signed a deal upwards of $20 million. Today, we can indeed confirm that at least the partnership is real, and it looks like we’ll be getting some music related service out of the deal. Jay-Z isn’t just a hip-hop artist, he’s one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the music industry as of late. His record label Roc Nation will probably have something to do with this latest Samsung partnership, as the image above clearly shows their logo on that bling bling gold chain. This is all we have at the moment, but won’t need to wait long before we learn all of the details. Samsung’s had huge adverts during the entire NBA Finals, and it looks like we’ll learn all of the details Sunday during Game 5 of the NBA Finals where Lebron James and company will once again bring the Heat on the Spurs. The game kicks off at 8:00 EST (5 PT) and Samsung is teasing we’ll learn what’s new from Jay-Z and the Galaxy S4 at 9:15 EST. We’re going to go ahead and guess something music related, obviously. Possibly something along the lines of a free music streaming service for Samsung devices to compete with iTunes Radio and Google Music All Access. A service which would go nicely with Samsung’s Music Hub. Stay tuned folks! We’ll know more soon. |
| HTC One Mini UAProf confirms Android 4.2.2 and 720p display Posted: 14 Jun 2013 01:44 PM PDT At this point in time no one doubts the rumors that HTC is working on a One mini to follow up their wildly impressive and successful HTC One. It has been leaked more times than we can count, and even yesterday live pictures of the device in the wild were found. Now today, a User Agent Profile is confirming more details yet again.
At this point there really isn’t any argument as to whether or not this device is coming. The question now is what exactly will the specs be, and what carriers will offer the miniature One. It’s all but confirmed to have a 4.3-inch 720p display, and rumors have suggested Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean instead of 4.1 like the current HTC One. Today a UAProf has all but confirmed those specs one more time. Nothing extremely new here, but this is just one more leak in a long line essentially confirming the handset. The leak also confirms the UltraPixel camera, and the processor. Instead of the powerful Snapdragon 600 like the original, we’ll get a toned down chip from Qualcomm. The HTC One mini will work with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 400 series processor, likely 2GB of RAM, and now we just need details, price, and release date and we’ll be set. Rumors are still suggestiong a Q3 launch by HTC, but we’re hopeful for sometime mid-summer. Drop us a comment below if you have additional details on the HTC One Mini. VIA: TechTastic |
| Facebook invite teases arrival of a “new product” next week Posted: 14 Jun 2013 12:48 PM PDT Apparently the folks from Facebook have another product they’d like to share with the world. The man in charge, Mark Zuckerberg, and his entire team have been busy adding Twitter-style #hashtags to Facebook, introducing new home replacement launchers on Android, and even the HTC First “Facebook Phone” (fail) but apparently they aren’t done yet.
We don’t have too many details at this point and time, but the company is preparing to host a quick event next week where they will be unveiling and announcing a new product. Facebook specifically mentions “product” and not features, software, or something else. So that is why we’re interested in this event invitation. Whether you’re a fan of Facebook, their Facebook phone, or any of their services is a completely different story we could talk about forever, but we’ll leave you with this little gem. We have mixed feelings about Facebook Home ourselves, not to mention the phone, and we’re not alone either. The HTC First has been delayed and might not even launch in Europe, as sales have been weak, so we’re not sure if this will be another hardware device or not.
According to ABC News, the details above are all Facebook has revealed, but it confirms they’ll be holding a media event on June 20th to reveal this new product. Whatever it may be. ABC mentions this wasn’t send via email, and came in the good old fashioned Snail Mail, so we’re not exactly sure what is going on here with Facebook. When they say “product” does that mean it will be hardware, or could this just be anything? We’ll update the minute we learn more, but feel free to sound off in the comments below with your thoughts. |
| Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini hits Bluetooth SIG on way to Verizon Posted: 14 Jun 2013 12:34 PM PDT Today, we’re seeing some mixed reports regarding a new Samsung smartphone that will be headed to Verizon Wireless. So far the details are scant, but it’s likely the newly announced Galaxy S4 Mini, but for Big Red here in the USA. Samsung devices for Verizon always have model numbers starting with SCH, and today we’re seeing a new one that has our interest piqued.
According to the Blog of Mobile this device indeed will be the Galaxy S4 Mini for Verizon, but chances are it could also be something else. The device is listed as the SCH-i435. Samsung’s carried multiple mid-range Samsung devices in the past like the Stratosphere and the Galaxy Stellar, so this could be a follow up to either of those as well. Reports from Droid-Life also speculate a similar situation, but for now it really is anyone’s guess as to what this device will be. To be specific here, the Galaxy S4 for Verizon is listed as SCH-I545. The Galaxy S III last year is the SCH-I535 and lower end devices like the Stratosphere 1/2 were SCH-I405 and i425.
Most likely the new device that has just cleared Bluetooth certification processes with Android 4.2.2 on board will be either a budget device we’ve yet to see, the Stratosphere 3 (keeping that keyboard alive) a follow up to the Galaxy Stellar, or of course most assume it’s the GS 4 Mini. Until we learn more we’ll just have to speculate. In the meantime know that it looks like Samsung will be offering a budget friendly device on Verizon in the near future. |
| CPU-Z comes to Android after years on the PC Posted: 14 Jun 2013 11:31 AM PDT Today we have some excellent news for all you PC and Android enthusiasts. After years and years of being one of the go-to programs on desktops, CPU-Z has arrived for Android. The popular tool is extremely useful in many usage scenarios and will give you important info about the CPU (processor) of your PC, and in this case, or Android devices.
Today the company CPUID, has officially launched their app on Android in beta form, but it is available to everyone as we speak. Myself being a huge PC enthusiast I’ve used CPU-Z for years and years of overclocking and watercooling my quad-core Intel processors and more. I’m excited to see this level of detail come to Android. Just like Quadrant, AnTuTu and others CPU-Z will show you a detailed breakdown of your device. Information such as the SoC (system on chip) like Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 600. You’ll get the name, architecture, speeds (of each core) and much more. It’s interesting to boot it up and see my Galaxy S4 only using one of the four cores, while only running around 1.2 Ghz instead of the 1.9 GHz spec. Talk about battery saving technology at work!
As you can see above, CPU-Z gives you a wide list of details about your Android smartphone and tablet. From battery information, health and temp, to all the sensors and more. Here’s the full list below:
If you’ve wanted to see what’s under the hood on your smartphone, this app is a great way to do just that. Sadly it only supports Android 3.0 and above, so Gingerbread users need not apply. Get it from the link today and enjoy. Enthusiasts, don’t go water-cooling your smartphone just yet. SOURCE: Play Store |
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