Tag Archives: mobile

Google Wallet comes to Sprint HTC One, Galaxy Note II, GS4 and US Cellular Note II

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Currently, Google Wallet is available on a plethora of smartphones, but is there really such a thing as too much coverage? Google surely doesn’t seem to think so. Earlier today, the company added support for its mobile payment system to the GS4, H…


PrimeSense demonstrates Capri 3D sensor on Nexus 10 (hands-on)

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Take the 3D sensor inside the Microsoft Kinect, shrink it down to a tenth of its original size and add a bunch of mobile capabilities, and you have yourself PrimeSense’s latest conquest, better known as Capri. The company, which is the brains behi…


Android to get built-in Bluetooth Smart Ready support this year

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As powerful as Android can be, Bluetooth is one of its glaring weaknesses: the absence of a default Bluetooth framework has led to inconsistent implementations from both device builders and app developers. Google is at last covering that gaping ho…


Google+ Hangouts app hands-on

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Google’s new, unified Hangouts platform focuses heavily on its mobile apps, which give Android and iOS users a common platform for text and video chats. In theory, they’re the cure for the consistency problems Google’s messaging systems have faced…


Google I/O 2013 opening keynote roundup: All Access music streaming, a vanilla GS4 and more

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Phew. Day one of Google I/O is far from over, but there’s already been an onslaught of news. While our editors are running around the floor, why not catch up on any bits of the opening keynote you may have missed? There’s now a Galaxy S 4 with van…


Google Play Music All Access hands-on

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Google reportedly signs deal with Sony and Universal
Google launches All Access music-streaming service
Google reportedly in negotiations with music labels to launch streaming service

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Apple marks 50 billion downloads from the App Store

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You think 50 billion is a big number? It’s certainly a bit bigger than some other numbers that spring to mind, such as 48 billion, and that in itself gives Apple something to celebrate. As is customary with these App Store milestones, whichever lu…


NTT DoCoMo details its 150Mbps LTE rollout, plans to double base stations

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To this day, relatively few wireless carriers offer LTE at its loftiest 150Mbps speeds. We’ll soon get to count NTT DoCoMo among those ranks, however. Alongside the launch of its summer phone lineup, the Japanese network has firmed up some details…


Google’s conversational voice search reaches the desktop through Chrome

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We’re used to Google’s mobile search apps letting us ask questions as we would with real people, but the desktop has usually been quite stiff. That’s changing today: Google is bringing conversation-like voice search to our computers through Chrome…


Google launches new Google+ Hangouts platform and mobile apps with focus on conversations

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The rumors were apparently true: Google’s unified chat platform (widely nicknamed Babel) is launching as the new Hangouts, with new mobile apps to match. The messaging service puts Android, Chrome, Gmail and iOS all on the same page for the first …