Motorola’s upcoming Nexus device may have just just made an appearance at the FCC. The new Motorola smartphone has a 6-inch screen and the model number XT1254. The device operates on LTE Bands 2, 4, 5, and 17, and supports GSM and WCDMA at frequencies of 850MHz, 1700MHz, and 1900MHz, bands that are supported by AT&T and T-Mobile in the United States.
Google Voice was such a cool idea when it first came on the scene. You could make calls, and send text messages from your computer back when most people were still working off desktop machines. Immediately, questions arose about whether Google was going to make a go at the mobile market. How was Google Voice going to disrupt the big carriers (before the word ‘disrupt’ was [Read More…]
Earlier this week, Pebble dropped the price of the Pebble Steel to just $ 199 — which is a $ 50 savings off of the original price tag. Some eagle eyed shoppers have spotted an even better deal though, as it appears that you can pick up a brushed stainless model of the Steel at Amazon for just $ 169.99 — an additional $ 30 savings.
The good folks at Pebble today are kicking things up a notch with a new software update that allows for full activity tracking and sleep monitoring for all Pebble watches. No longer will you need your Pebble on one wrist and a fitness band on the other — Pebble now does it all. Today, Pebble is announcing new health and fitness apps from Misfit, Jawbone, and Swim.com that allow you to take advantage of the new [Read More…]
If you have been waiting for the price of the Pebble smartwatch to get a lot lower, then perhaps Best Buy might be able to help. The retailer is currently selling the basic version of the Pebble for just $ 99.99, a $ 50 reduction from its normal price of $ 149.99.
Just Dance Now recently launched for iOS and Android, which offers booty-shaking gameplay minus the console. Players use their smartphone as a motion controller, and any screen with browser access as the primary game display. You need to match up with the movements of the dancer on the TV, laptop, or tablet, and are scored based on how closely you mimic the movements. If you’re feeling brave, you can share video clips of your sweet, sweet dance moves to [Read More…]
It’s taken a while, but we now have the first mocked-up images of what the rumored Motorola Nexus phone will looks like, along with a purported spec sheet for the device that’s been variously called Nexus 6, Nexus X or simply “shamu.” This year, however, the usual excitement over a new Nexus handset — and an updated version of Android to go with it — have been tempered with hesitance that the sixth Nexus will just [Read More…]
If you want to use your Google Voice number for every call, keep the app installed for now
The times, they are a-changin’. Google Voice is slowly but surely being absorbed into Hangouts, and you can do basically everything you used to do in the Google Voice app inside Hangouts now instead. I say “basically” because there’s one important function the Google Voice app still offers that Hangouts doesn’t — the ability to make calls from [Read More…]
U.S. prepaid carrier Cricket is, for a limited time, raising the roof on their data allotments. New customers that sign up between September 13 and an as-yet undetermined cut-off date will get anywhere from 500MB to 5GB more LTE data on their plan for the same amount. Existing customers will also get more data on their plans automatically, and they won’t have to pay anything more for it.
The worst part about getting new phones is having to recollect all of your contacts. Well Motorola decided to make that easier. Motorola Migrate is a powerful tool by Motorola that enables users to transfer data from their old phones to their new Motorola handset. Initially, it would only work with your old Android phones, but a update later added compatibility for iPhones. Now [Read More…]
