You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past 24 hours — all handpicked by the editors here at the site. Click on through the break, and enjoy.
This afternoon the folks at the IDC released quarterly worldwide shipment numbers for tablets, suggesting as they did so that a slump in the market this quarter may be due to Apple’s lack of a new iPad. And we got to thinking: it’s easy to relate the growth of the tablet industry over the past […]
If you’ve got an Android device, you’ve probably used Google’s handy one-click authentication shortcut, that handy little button that lets you sign into various Google service sites without having to enter your password. It’s super convenient! For you and for hackers.
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This afternoon HTC has teased “Big things ahead” with a teaser for a trailer – yes, such things do now exist – for a new device or service, two of the most likely candidates being the fabled HTC One Max and the addition of Robert Downey Jr. It’s been suggested more than once in the […]
Since it’s been over a quarter since Apple released their last iPad, IDC worldwide tablet shipment numbers have shown not just that Android tablets have been gaining popularity, but that the whole market has slipped significantly. With a near 10% (9.7% to be precise) in worldwide tablet shipments this 2Q of 2013 compared to the […]
A bit more insight has been lent this week by Motorola on the Developer Editions of their new hero smartphone Moto X. This device will be released on several carriers here in the United States, but will also see developer-friendly iterations with several different sets of innards as well. It’s been made clear that one […]
One year ago, Motorola, fat and fed by its Google acquisition, inched quietly into a silicon-spun cocoon to gestate. The subsequent passage of time allowed it to transmogrify and re-emerge a thing of red, yellow, blue and sometimes green beauty; a Google thing made by a Google company. The Moto X, its newborn monarch, arrives in an array of different colors, made possible by the NikeID-like Moto Maker site. It also comes with a homespun narrative: it’s assembled here in the USA. Time to empty your wallets, patriots. This is America’s smartphone and it costs $199 on a two-year contract.
If I’m right in reading between the lines of Google’s marketing speak, the Moto X was made in the image of the everyman. It’s the product of a democratic process — you can take that future design poll on Facebook as proof of this point. The 4.7-inch screen size, the curvature of its back, the composite materials, its weight and front-face look were focus-tested for maximum inoffensiveness. The Moto X exudes no tech halo like the Galaxy S 4 or the HTC One because it is the sum of averages. Here’s how I see it: You know those people who own iPhones, but don’t know which model number they own and also refer to all Android phones as Droids? This phone is for them.
Gallery: Moto X review
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile, Google
Google is testing touchscreen-friendly Chrome navigation features that could make using the browser on Windows 8 tablets, touch-notebooks, and Chrome OS devices like Pixel more finger friendly. The new tweaks, spotted in the latest “bleeding edge” Canary build of Chrome, include the ability to swipe through the browser history by dragging a finger left or […]
It won’t be long now before we get to see the “next Galaxy”, as it were, Samsung’s next entry into the hero device market with what’ll almost certainly be the Samsung Galaxy Note III. This device has been teased by Samsung earlier today in an event pre-invite, then again here closer to noon with an […]
Google Glass has seen a number of helpful and interesting applications become available, but one application may help blind people “see.” Dapper Vision is working on a Google Glass application called OpenGlass, which is a number of tools and services that can help those with limited vision identify objects as well as receiving additional information through the wearable computer. (more…)
Google Glass App ‘OpenGlass’ Helps The Blind To Identify Objects original content from Ubergizmo. 
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