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Xiaomi may have just announced its shiny new Mi 4 smartphone, but it wasn’t done yet with the big revelations. Although most rumors and leaks have focused on the company’s upcoming smartphone, it seems that Xiaomi was actually also busy preparing a wearable device. Don’t get too excited though, it isn’t a smartwatch. The Mi Band, Xiaomi’s entry […]
Xiaomi has announced its flagship smartphone for this year: the Mi 4. The Xiaomi Mi 4 comes with a 5-inch 1080p, fully laminated display and top notch hardware: it runs on the quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 system chip clocked at up to 2.5GHz, and comes with a plentiful 3GB of RAM.
Since you’re not spending enough time on Facebook, you can now save things to read or view later … on Facebook. On Monday, the company announced the Save feature, which allows users to bookmark things like links, photos or videos to view when they actually have time to sit down and enjoy them. It’s Facebook’s answer to […]
We’ve all been in a situation where we need to communicate but have no cellular coverage. Often it’s a matter of being in a foreign, remote, or highly obstructed area. Occasionally, it means being in a large crowd like at a festival. But in the worst of cases, it means being in a natural disaster-like […]
Google Wallet is a mobile payment system developed by Google that allows its users to store debit cards, credit cards, loyalty cards, and gift cards among other things, as well as redeeming sales promotions on their mobile phone. Google Wallet uses near field communication (NFC) to “make secure payments fast and convenient by simply tapping […]
Keyboards are a dime a dozen, but few are as retro and classy as the Qwerkywriter, a typewriter-styled keyboard and dock for your Bluetooth-equipped slate or computer. The Qwerkywriter was funded through Kickstarter, where it exceeded its goal by about $40,000.
The latest update of Google Camera features the ability to take a photo using an Android Wear watch as a remote shutter. With this, selfies just got about hundred times better! The update is currently available from Google Play and adds a card to an Android Wear watch that appears when the app is launched […]
After unveiling the world’s first flexible OLED TV at CES earlier this year, LG has gone a step further with the unveiling of two new 18-inch OLED panels: the first is a transparent display, while the second can be rolled up. Although both fall short of the 77-inch flexible TV on show at CES, the company says […]
LG Electronics is catering to parents who want to keep a closer eye on their children when they’re not around. The company unveiled a new wearable designed for kids on Tuesday that’s dubbed the LG Kizon. The device uses both GPS and WiFi to track kids wearing the device while also providing kids with a way […]
Google is “putting trivia on the map” with a new geography quiz that popped up over the holiday weekend. Dubbed Smarty Pins, the game involves dropping a pin on a location corresponding with the answer of map-oriented trivia questions as an extension of Google Maps. While the game is perhaps best enjoyed via the main website, […]
