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T-Mobile Extends Offer of Free High-Speed Data in South America and Europe Until 2017

Tim September 28, 2016 3

T-Mobile announced this morning it will extend its current offering of free high-speed "unlimited" data to all users who are traveling throughout South America and Europe. Specifically, customers on a post-paid account receive this benefit at no extra cost,...

Report: Huawei to Ditch Android Wear in Favor of Samsung’s Tizen for Next Smartwatch

Tim September 28, 2016 105

In a previous report, it was detailed that Huawei was not intending to launch an Android Wear smartwatch anytime too soon, which likely would have been a Huawei Watch followup. Adding insult to injury for Android fans, the most recent intel out of South Korea...

Samsung Pay Turns One, Adds Support for Coupons

Tim September 27, 2016 25

Samsung Pay, Samsung's mobile and desktop payments platform, is now officially one year old. According to Samsung, the platform supports over 500 banks, representing over 80% of the US debit and credit card market. To celebrate this joyous occasion, Samsung is...

Tuesday Poll: Are You Still Using Allo?

Tim September 27, 2016 153

You have now had a week to adopt Allo and implement it into your daily life, but have you? On a personal level, while I admit the app is cool, it simply does not offer me enough to kick the habit of Hangouts and standard text messaging. Maybe if a desktop...

Google News and Chrome Getting Retooled for Those on Slower Networks

Tim September 27, 2016 7

Google is introducing ways for people on slower data connections to better enjoy the Chrome mobile experience, as well as a Google News update. For Chrome, the changes are rather prominent, with the highlights being changes for downloads, Data Saver, and...

Upcoming YouTube Go App Engineered to Limit Data Usage, Help Those With Slow Data Speeds

Tim September 27, 2016 10

In 2017, YouTube intends to launch a new application called YouTube Go. The app has been in the works at YouTube for some time, with teams of engineers, designers, and researchers travelling to India, collecting ideas and testing prototypes with hundreds of...

Here’s the Google Pixel

Tim September 26, 2016 247

If you want October 4 to be a surprise, cover your eyes very quickly. The above image is of the upcoming Pixel smartphone from Google, the smaller sibling to the Pixel XL. Both are essentially confirmed to be unveiled on October 4, along with a few other...

HTC Ocean Master, Ocean Note, and Ocean Smart are Reported Codenames for Upcoming Devices

Tim September 26, 2016 32

Known HTC info leaker LlabTooFeR is back this week, essentially calling BS on HTC's denial of last week's Ocean news. In case you missed it, an HTC designer posted what appeared to be a concept reel of a device codenamed Ocean. The device features pressure...