Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Google Devices and Activity dash shows you every device logged into your account

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Between work, home, your phone, and maybe a tablet, you likely have multiple devices signed into your Google account at the same time. This can sometimes make your account activity a little difficult to decipher. All those connections and all those IP addresses. It can be hard to figure out if there’s be unauthorized access or not. And what about when you access your account from a public machine and then can’t remember if you signed out?
Google now has an answer for the above situations. Called Devices and Activity dash, it’s geared towards IT managers and their staff but it works just fine for individuals, too. The dash gives users a list of all the devices that are currently signed into their account. It also lists those that have been active for the last 28 days. You’ll be able to see which devices connected and when they were last online. Pretty handy.
There’s also a new account checkup tool that will allow you to quickly run through all the security settings you currently have in place without having to dig around and find each one in account settings. It’ll verify your phone number for two-step authentication as well as your recovery email address. It will also show you a list of recent connections and sign-ins and a list of apps and devices with access.

Nexus 6 Canadian carrier pricing is $299.99 on a 2-year contract

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Google opened up orders for the Nexus 6 last Wednesday and went out of stock within 10 minutes. Beginning at $749 for the 32GB model, the Motorola-made device will be arriving at several Canadian carriers in the coming days. While American carriers priced the Nexus 6 at $250 on a 2-year contract, Canadian carriers remained silent.
According to our sources, Rogers (and presumably other Canadian carriers) will offer the Nexus 6 at a slightly higher 2-year contract price than our friends south of the border. An internal doc we received shows the no-term price at $749.99, and the 2-year contract price at $299.99. This is for the 32GB Nexus 6 in Midnight Blue only.
Update: In addition to the pricing of Rogers, we can also confirm Bell is on board with this pricing. According to a doc that we received reveals that the Nexus 6 will launch on November 26th and availability “will be in tight supply,” but “additional supply is expected the week of December 1st.”
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Courtesy MobileSyrup

Friday, November 7, 2014

Nexus Player Entertainment tailored for you

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S 8.4 LTE coming to TELUS

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Galaxy Tab S 8.4


The Galaxy Tab S 8.4 packs an 8.4-inch 2560 x 1600 Super AMOLED display with a 1.3 GHz octa-core processor, 3GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, an 8MP camera in the back, a 2.1MP camera up front, a fingerprint scanner, a 4,900 mAh battery, and NFC.

The Galaxy Tab S 8.4 LTE is priced at $580 outright.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch

I have been using the original Galaxy Gear for about 6 months now and the watch was fantastic. I say was because I recently broke my Samsung phone. I replaced it with a Nexus 5 and although its reported to work with any Android phone on KitKat most of the features no longer work. I knew I was going to lose S-voice and other proprietary apps from Samsung but the lack of functionality makes the watch worse than the old Sony smart watch I had. If you've got a Samsung phone I'd recommend one of the tizen powered watches but if not steer clear of any Samsung watches.

Nexus 9 review: HTC and Google team up to make one of the best tablets on the market

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Nexus 9 Tablet by HTC

The Nexus 9 is one of the best tablets available on the market today. HTC has a strong pedigree of building great hardware, and having the 8.9-inch display as a showcase for Android 5.0 — and 64-bit Android in general — is a boon for developers and consumers alike.

The NVIDIA Tegra K1 chip inside is one of the fastest on the market, beating the iPad Air 2 in many graphics benchmarks, while Android 5.0 proves that Google can finally make software that is both powerful and user-friendly.

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Specs
  • Android 5.0 Lollipop
  • 8.9-inch 2048×1536 pixel IPS display, Gorilla Glass 3
  • 2.5Ghz dual-core 64-bit NVIDIA Tegra K1 ‘Logan’ SoC w/ 192 CUDA core Kepler GPU
  • 2GB RAM
  • 16/32GB internal storage
  • 8MP rear camera, 1.6MP front-facing camera
  • 1080p video capture
  • WiFi (MIMO, 802.11ac), Bluetooth 4.1, NFC
  • Stereo front-facing speakers
  • 6,700mAh internal battery
  • 153.68 mm x 228.25 mm x 7.95 mm
  • 425 grams
  • Colours: Indigo Black, Lunar White, Sand
  • Price: 16GB WiFi, $429CDN / 32GB WiFi, $529CDN / 32GB LTE, $669CDN

Nexus Player 5.0 available now!!

Android Central: Nexus Player's Android 5.0 factory image now available. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwoMWQkBI

Android Lollipop on its way!!

Android 5.0 Lollipop builds are slowly starting to leak out for the Nexus series of devices. So far officially released are builds for the Nexus 9, and the Nexus player. Hopefully we will see builds for the Nexus 5 and 4 very soon. The official build for the Nexus 6 will probably begin its rollout once the device is official released.