If you were anywhere near the East Coast yesterday, you might have received an emergency storm alert on your phone telling you it’s time to to break into mass hysteria. Or maybe you didn’t! While it was nice to know that someone cared for those that got it, the emergency alert was hitting people’s phones pretty sporadically and without any real rhyme or reason as to which phones were getting the message—or so it seemed. More »
Ever since Spotify debuted in the U.S. back in the summer of 2011, it’s been slowly taking over every platform it can think of by publishing its app on anything and everything with a connection to the Internet. Up until now, Windows Phone 8 owners have been left out in the dark as Spotify published an iOS and Android version of its application, to then move on to set-top-boxes and media streamers. The company has gone back to developing its application to mobile as Windows Phone 8 users are now able to download Spotify on their devices.
Spotify subscribers can download the Windows Phone 8 application immediately to start listening to their tunes on their mobile platform of choice, while non-subscribers can use the service for free for their first 30 days. Once those 30 days are up, you’ll need to cough up $9.99 a month for Spotify’s premium service.
Unfortunately, it looks as though the Radio feature has yet to make it into the Windows Phone 8 application. If you’ve been using that feature on other Spotify applications, don’t expect it to be on your Windows Phone 8 device with today’s release.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Google Default Search Status in iOS Estimated At $1 Billion A Year, Vodafone Advises iPhone Users To Not Update To iOS 6.1,
In what seems like an effort to make the transition to OLED displays, Apple has hired OLED expert Dr. Lee Jeung-Jil from LG. Lee was a senior researcher of OLED screen technology at LG Display, and also worked with Samsung in the past. It seems that Apple will use Lee’s expertise to develop and manufacturer OLED displays for future products.
It seems that Apple is keeping mum about the news, but OLED-Info is reporting that the Cupertino-based company ended up snatching the OLED expert in hopes to develop higher-quality displays for future iPhone, iPads, and maybe even televisions one day. Of course, OLED displays were abundant in televisions at CES last month, so it could mean that Apple will use Lee to help the company build a television set sometime in the future.
OLED (organic light-emitting diode) has a number of advantages over regular LCD screens. For starters, OLED features brighter colors with deeper blacks, and it also offers wider viewing angles and faster response times. Plus, the technology can be used to create thinner displays that are very battery efficient, and it has been used to created flexible displays that could be in our future.
Of course, Apple hasn’t confirmed the hire of Lee at this point, and we’re not sure if or when they’ll officially announce it, but it certainly makes sense that Apple is moving further and further into the OLED kingdom, where we could soon see their mobile devices utilizing the new lighting technology.
[via AppleInsider]
Apple hires former LG OLED expert is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We’ve featured a handful of videogame collections for sale, but this one takes the cake. eBay member videogames.museum is selling what amounts to uhm, a videogame museum. Hundreds of consoles, thousands of games and hundreds upon hundreds of accessories and promo items.
The collection includes more than 330 consoles, from the Atari 2600 to the current generation consoles and everything in-between, including rare variants as well as obscure flops like the Virtual Boy, the Gizmondo and the Nokia N-Gage. There are also more than 6,850 games; the seller claims that he has completed all the games from some franchises, including Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Kirby, Castlevania, Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, Sakura Wars and Super Robot Taisen. There are also controllers, action figures, magazines, strategy guides and countless other stuff.
If you still don’t appreciate just how insane this collection is, videogames.museum has this to say: “I spent the last two months of my life taking pictures and making lists, working about eight hours a day just in order to make an inventory and to figure out what I have. Even now after all the time spent checking things I’m not sure to have included all in the lists…” You can download that list as a pdf file. It is 135 pages long.
Videogames.museum is asking at least $550,000 (USD) for all of these goodies. He may also be persuaded to sell off the items per lot, but he’d really rather sell them as one package. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if he’ll gladly pay anyone who’ll get the N-Gage off his hands. You can check out a lot more pictures of the collection on his Imageshack account.
[via Geekologie]
A few weeks ago we got a tip: check Amazon Warehouse after the Super Bowl. The logic goes that lots of folks buy more TV than they can afford to impress their friends, then they take advantage of Amazon’s rather generous return policy. Amazon can’t sell the now-“used” TVs at full price, so they lop 20%-30% off, and sell it on their Amazon Warehouse site. Lo and behold, five business days after the Super Bowl, there are some stellar used HDTV deals. More »
Today it’s been tipped that the HTC marketing team have decided to strip away all the extra nonsense from the name of their next hero device, calling it simply “HTC One.” This naming scheme would have the device take on a brand new level of “hero” mode with a similar strategy to that of Apple when they decided to call the iPad 3 “the New iPad”, with each subsequent iPad simply retaining that one top name. This tip surrounds the device known as the HTC M7, a smartphone that’s been leaked several times before today by several sources including the CEO of HTC himself.
With the source of this bit of information being @evleaks, a notoriously accurate leaker of details for quite some time now, we’re inclined to believe it. Now we have only to figure out what HTC plans on doing with the other two (or so) devices it may or may not be releasing in the imminent future. This naming scheme doesn’t leave a lot of room for errors, that much should be clear right out of the box.
This HTC M7 or “HTC One” device will keep with HTC’s strategy revealed approximately one year ago when they first introduced the HTC One line to the world at Mobile World Congress. This year it would seem that they’ve separated themselves from the big MWC 2013 conglomeration of releases with an event set for the 17th of this month – better separate than lost in the fray. With the HTC One, the company will push their hero strategy to the limit with an all-in sort of attitude and a collection of features that make for a singular “this is the one you want” sort of presentation.
The HTC One (aka M7) will be bringing a high-powered display and processor to team up with a next-generation camera and audio experience without a doubt. What we’ve seen in leaks and tips thus far leads us to believe that a multi-lens camera system will be paired with a quad-core processor of some type or another with a display that’s more dense than any HTC smartphone has ever been before. Stick around and see!
HTC M7 final name: “HTC One” is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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OUYA CEO Julie Uhrman’s promising a quick, simple approval process for games on her company’s upcoming Android-powered game console, the OUYA. She told us in an interview this week:
“It’s similar to mobile: they’ll submit their games, and we’ll review for intellectual property infringement, and malware, and excessive pornography. But ultimately it’s a quick review and you’re in the storefront in one capacity or another.”
That’s not the only mobile model OUYA’s following; Urhman already said the OUYA hardware will iterate on an annual basis, similar to the mobile market.
Despite the console’s impending March launch to Kickstarter supporters, OUYA’s yet to begin reviewing games for its storefront. “We literally just opened the ability for developers to upload their games into the store,” Uhrman explained. The review process isn’t too far off, however — she’s predicting a “middle-to-end of this month” timeframe. “We’re building that right now,” she said, when asked who’s staffing that approvals process. “We are a start-up like any other start-up, it’s just-in-time business.”
The first consumer-ready OUYA consoles are planned for a March launch, with availability at retail to follow in June. The $99 console made a big splash on Kickstarter, eventually raising over $8.5 million when the original goal was a meager $950K.
I was invited to the new Leica store in SoHo to check out some of their latest gear this week. I knew about their compact offerings, the X2 and D-Lux 6, so I knew what I was getting myself into. But there was one product that called out to me, something completely unique among all current digital cameras. The M Monochrom—a camera that shoots only black and white. More »
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We’ve been hearing a number of PlayStation 4 rumors over the past few months that discuss its hardware that may be stronger than the next-generation Xbox, its controller capable of touch inputs as well as its retail price.
A new PlayStation 4 rumor is circulating today from a Japanese news outlet Nikkei who is sourcing an unidentified official of Sony Computer Entertainment. The source revealed Sony isn’t focusing as much on its upcoming console’s ability to deliver amazing graphics, instead, it’s focusing more on delivering “new playing options” to its customers. In addition, Sony also has planned to make its next PlayStation a “nerve center” for home entertainment by connecting and sharing information via mobile devices. (more…)
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Report: Xbox 720 To Feature Siri-Like Voice Control, Sony PlayStation 4 Rumored To Cost Around $400,
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