“A curved Galaxy Note 7 gets leaked again in photos”.
“The Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is clearly just around the corner. The last few weeks have flooded the feed with news and rumours with a new leak shown above of the phone.”
The Samsung Note 7 is likely to cost a bomb at launch. Will you be prepared to pay such a premium, when you can have cheaper phones like the OnePlus 3?
“Pokemon Go expected to launch in UK and Europe in ‘a few days’ as Nintendo stock soars 25%.
Pokemon Go has become a huge hit rallying hundreds of millions of players in just a few short days. Widespread media coverage of the game (and its consequences) has made the Nintendo freemium title somewhat of a phenomenon, continuing to top App Store charts. This success — likely propelled by pent-up demand for a ‘real’ Pokemon game available on iOS — comes despite the game only launching three regions; the United States, New Zealand Australia. A new report from the Wall Street Journal indicates fans from other countries will not have to wait long for an official launch of Pokemon Go in the UK, Europe and more.”
Just shows if you have a social media hit, you can add $6 billion on to your share price overnight. Incredible success.
Android Pay coming to TSB in late 2016.
Q4 launch for Android Pay confirmed by TSB on Twitter. Despite the UK-wide rollout of Android Pay in May, some major British high street banks still aren’t signed up to the mobile payments service. Among those is TSB, and while the bank has made clear its intentions to support Android Pay at some point in the future, there’ve been no further details offered until now. Today TSB has confirmed on Twitter that it’ll be offering Android Pay to customers from the fourth quarter of 2016.
Let’s hope the other UK banks like Natwest pull their finger out too and confirm support for Android Pay.
If you are an Amazon Prime member, from midnight tonight there are 1,000s of deals across all categories available.
If you are not a Prime member, and haven’t been before, you can sign up to a 30 day trial now. Click HERE to get your 30 day free trial of Prime.
So what sort of gadgets, electronics, sports tech, headphones and more are on offer soon – click HERE to jump to all the deals on offer. There are so many more!
UPDATE – The Deals of the Day and New Deals added are insanely good.
– Amazon has slashed all its own devices – Fire Tablets, Kindle Paperwhite, Fire TV options – Here’s the direct link to the 8 special offers on Amazon devices – CLICK HERE
– Withings WS-30 Wireless Scales at 11.59pm
– AKG Y50bt Bluetooth headphones at midnight
– Aukey 20,000 mah power bank – 2.39am
– Aukey Quick charge 2 15,000mah portable – 3.44am
– Garmin Approach S2 GPS Watch – 5.59am –
– Jaybird X2 in ear wireless sport headphone – 6.59am –
– Garmin 3 inch dash – 6.59am –
– Sandisk Extreme 64gb micro sd – 7.59am –
– Beats by Dr Dre Studio 2 Over Ear headphones- 7.59am –
– Motorola X Style – black – 8am
– LG LAS550H 2.1 channel sound bar – 9.09am –
– Huawei W1 Stainless Steel Classic android wear watch – 10.00am
– RHA S500 in ear headphones – 10.19am –
– Motorola X Style Phone – white – 11.00am
– Withings WS-30 wireless scale white – 12.54pm –
– Optoma NuForce BE6l – Bluetooth headphones in ear –
– Lenovo Z50 15.6 inch laptop – 12.59pm –
– Sony mdr ex450ap in ear – 1.59pm
– Sony Xperia X phone in several colours – 2.00pm
– Withings Activite Steel black – 2.24pm
– Withings Activite Sapphire – 2.24pm
– Garmin Fenix 3 – 3.59pm
Also note that the deals have new items added regularly. Click HERE for Prime Day Sale Deals.
Please click using my links, as this will help Gavin’s Gadgets towards the running costs as you bag yourself a deal!
Please check back, as I will update this list with any other interesting offers that arrive during the sale. There will be more !
Apple uses the Health app to integrate other services and act as a hub. This makes sense to me. The Apple Watch acts as a fitness device and feeds basic information back into the Health app.
Google are trailing behind with their equivalent, Google Fit. But again, it is to serve the same purpose as Apple. Since Google where trailing behind, Samsung has powered ahead with its offering, S Health. It has come an awful long way in the last 4 months.
Samsung also sell a range of watches and fitness trackers.These are good devices.
Pictured above is the Garmin Fenix 3 HR. Probably one of the ultimate fitness devices on the market place, capable of so much and then some. Garmin also sell wireless scales. Garmin also sell a large range of activity devices and some of the best in class. There are many other brands too.
Other companies like FitBit also sell trackers and scales. In fact the market place is flooding with options but not everything plays nicely with each other. FitBit does not integrate with Apple Health app directly.
Why? The Health market and the data it will harness is worth millions. So before you decide what fitness or tracker you would like, ask yourself a few questions –
– What do you need it to do?
– What devices have your friends got, so if you need the social aspects, you all use the same brand
– What apps and services do you need the device to integrate into
– Apart from a fitness devices, do you need any other medical or fitness hardware / services. If so check which work with what.
So what devices are you using and why?
Tidal adds Chromecast support for its iOS and Android apps.
I have been using Tidal streaming services for a while again. I did briefly stop using it, but I missed the FLAC streaming and music discovery aspect. One feature had been missing. But not anymore.
Tidal’s latest app update added Chromecast support for iPhones, iPads and Android devices.
Superb!
Nothing in life will prepare you for the Sony MDR-XB950BT headphones. Nothing!
The Sony headphones arrived about 3 days ago and I have been putting them through the paces in both Bluetooth and wired mode.
Some basic specs –
– Bluetooth with NFC
– 20 hours battery life
– Bass Boost button
– Foldable cups
– Sensitivty 102 db/mW
– 40mm dynamic driver
– Frequency range 3 – 28,000 hz with headphones cable, 20 -20,000 hz Bluetooth mode
The very first thing I wanted to do when I received these headphones was pair them to my Samsung Galaxy S7 and listen to the bass these headphones are meant to be able to produce. I think I swore when I first heard them. I then thought the bass boost button was left on, so I pressed it, and OMFG. The bass and sub bass was so extreme my teeth felt like they could rattle. I’ll be honest I don’t use the bass boost button as these headphones produce plenty without it. I do however press it and listen for a few minutes just to bring a smile to my face a few times a day.
Now you can also connect these via the supplied audio cable. Bluetooth turns off. So does the use of the bass boost button. But in wired mode these operate at a gut drawing level of 3 – 28,000 hz. They also sound better too in wired mode. And there is still epic levels of bass.
Now the cons. I have listened to every genre. Some tracks collapse with the bass levels and sound wrong. But the majority are fine. In fact, in some cases having the extra bass or I should say sub bass adds a whole fun listening level. Some jazz and classical tracks really worked well with these. Some just got swamped with too much bass as the mids got lost. For example Michael Buble, Feeling Good has lots of depth and didn’t get ruined by the extra bass. With dance , rap or electronic music these are like being at a rave or club, and even better if you switch on the bass boost button!
These headphones aren’t for everyone, but I love them. They go against all the rules I believe in, but they add swagger to a lot of my music across many genres that for the times the bass becomes overpowering, I just skip to the next track or lower the bass in the equaliser settings. These are my first impressions, and I will evaluate these for a longer period and report back accordingly.
The question to ask yourself, are you brave enough to own a pair 🙂
Available from Amazon UK – Click HERE.
A few weeks ago I posted an article on how I took footage upside down on my Samsung Gear 360. Click HERE to recap.
A lot of you have written in asking how I achieved this.
First of all, connect the Gear 360 to your Samsung phone. Check using the Gear 360 app on your Samsung phone for any firmware updates. Update if required.
Next with the Gear 360 powered on, connected to the phone, make sure your settings look like mine below.
Take some footage. Save it to your phone. And share it from the Samsung Gallery app to YouTube or wherever required.
“It’s a phone! It’s a tablet! It’s the newly unveiled 7-inch Samsung Galaxy J Max.
“Designed for those who are looking for a complete entertainment experience on a mobile device.” The Samsung Galaxy J Max has a 7-inch screen, with in-box Bluetooth headset.”
The future is big. Big phone / tablets. Or is it ? Come summer where do you stash your huge phone!
“A Nissan dealer in Spain just sold a car over Twitter — a first for an automotive brand in Europe, Nissan said this week. Twitter user Raul Escolano used the hashtag #compraruncocheportwitter (“Buy a car on Twitter”) to challenge automakers across Spain to sell him a car solely using social networks. Antamotor, a Nissan dealer in the Spanish city of A Coruña, used Periscope to stream video of the Nissan X-Trail, giving @escolano a personalized walkthrough of the car. He also posted a poll on Twitter asking followers to rate the cars he was considering. The X-Trail received 43 percent of the vote, which Nissan says helped “seal the deal.” The keys to the car were delivered to Mr. Escolano by courier, keeping the dealer at arm’s length”.
Just wow. Could twitter become the new shopping channel. Perhaps with flash deals?
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