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Google may provide free or reduced-rate international roaming with its wireless service
4/6/2015 3:15:00 AM

While Google has sewn up its MVNO arrangements with T-Mobile and Sprint, and we wait to see what will be in store for prospective customers, it looks as though Google wants to ensure its customers have the ability to roam internationally.

The Telegraph reports that Google has an idea to create a global MVNO, with a flat customer rate anywhere in the world. Google is reportedly discussing service agreements with Hutchison Whampoa, the Hong Kong-based conglomerate that owns the "3" brand in the UK and Europe, as well as significant telecommunication holdings in Asia.

In the United States, ...

 

Remember the Galaxy S6 edge bend test? Samsung posted an official answer, guidelines for a second test
4/6/2015 2:52:00 AM


A few days ago, extended warranty service provider SquareTrade ran its infamous bend test on Samsung's newest handsets – the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge – and compared how they fare against other flagships on the market. The video of the process showed that the S6 edge would bend at 110 pounds – the same force that it takes to bend an iPhone 6 Plus – however, the edge also showed a cracked screen. Further cranking the pressure, the futuristic Sammy flagship would shatter at 149 pounds, while the iPhone 6 Plus gave up on its will to exist at the 179 pund mark.

Today, ...

 

Some Galaxy S6 edge fronts appear scratched out of the box, displays show funky colors
4/6/2015 2:30:00 AM

A number of users have reported concentric or hairline scratches on their Galaxy S6 edge displays which are visible the second they take the phone out of its boxing wrapper. Those are not the deep I-carried-it-with-keys-in-my-pocket type of scratches, but rather those short abrasive bundles visible from an angle under strong light, like a car polish that has seen too many soft bristle washes.


The S6 edge has a proprietary 3D thermoformed Gorilla Glass 4 at the front, which has been heated and bent sideways to wrap around the flexible AMOLED with plastic substrate that makes the ...

 

LG shows off the LG G4's user interface and features, primes the flagship for April 28 launch
4/6/2015 2:01:00 AM

The LG G4 launch campaign is going by the textbook. Last week, we got to know what its 5.5-inch Quad-HD display has in store, and now, ahead of the LG G4's April 28 reveal, LG published a video showing off its new LG UX 4.0 user experience - that is, the Android interface that the smartphone operates with. At a quick glance, LG UX 4.0 improves on the LG G3's interface with subtle color changes and a number of new features. 


Speaking of features, there's camera-centric stuff like Quick Shot and Expert Camera Mode, letting you double-press the volume down button on the back ...

 

More details are outed about the possible use of the Kirin 935 SoC on the Huawei P8
4/6/2015 1:02:00 AM

Just a few days ago, we told you that there is speculation that instead of being powered by the Kirin 930 SoC, the Huawei P8 would be powered by the Kirin 935 chipset. Both are home grown by Huawei, but obviously there are changes between the two. First, we should point out that the Huawei Mediapad X2 features the Kirin 930. But the latter offers quad Cortex A53 cores and quad Cortex A53e cores which just might not produce flagship-worthy performance.

Another change between the two chips deals with clock speed. On the Kirin 930, we are talking about 2GHz while the Kirin 935 offers speeds ...

 

Asus Padfone S Plus coming to Malaysia with 3GB of RAM, 64GB storage for $302 USD
4/6/2015 12:20:00 AM

The Asus Padfone is a phone that is docked inside the back of a docking station to turn the latter into a working tablet. With the Asus Padfone S Plus, the manufacturer takes the Asus Padfone S (which itself is the international version of the Asus Padfone X) and bumps up some of the specs. The parts of the phone that are unchanged from the previous model include the 5-inch screen with a resolution of 1080 x 1920, the 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 CPU, the 13MP rear-facing camera, and the 2300mAh battery.

The changes can be found inside with the use of 3GB of RAM, a 50% improvement from ...

 

How to keep your Android home screen clean and uncluttered
4/5/2015 11:56:00 PM

Please note: this is a tutorial for inexperienced users.

Your Android smartphone's home screen can become quite messy pretty fast, especially if you constantly download a lot of apps. Fortunately, keeping the home screen clean requires little effort. That is, of course, if you want it clean, because some people may actually like their home screen to be chock-full of apps and widgets.

There are two important things that you can do to try and keep your home screen uncluttered.

First, you have to stop shortcuts from being automatically added to the home screen whenever a new ...

 

Issue with box is turning on AT&T customers' Samsung Galaxy S6/Galaxy S6 edge while in transit
4/5/2015 11:34:00 PM

One of our loyal readers apparently works for AT&T and has sent us an interesting memo that was allegedly sent to AT&T employees. Apparently, there is an issue with the box that the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Samsung Galaxy S6 edge was shipped to customers in. According to this memo, the problem can cause the two handsets to turn on inside the box while in transit.

This isn't the end of the world, of course, and AT&T is telling its reps that if customers complain that they can't turn on their new Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 edge out of the box, they should use the charger that comes with ...

 

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