Google’s first Project Tango smartphone, the Lenovo Phab2 Pro, was delayed to this fall but it’s finally getting closer to release. The augmented reality smartphone will hit the scene next month at $499 unlocked. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

Google took the wraps off its latest gadgets, and the new Pixel XL comes as the successor to the popular Nexus 6P from last year. Is it worth the upgrade? …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Desire Athow LaCie is probably not a name you’d recognise as a popular hard drive vendor. However, the Seagate-owned French brand (‘Cie’ is a shorter version of ‘company’ in French) has carved out a nice little niche in the crowded storage market. Our review of the Porsche Design Mobile Drive 4TB left us hungry…

By Devin Coldewey It isn’t quite as lovable as the spherical droid from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but this robot from Carnegie Mellon University has the benefit of being more than a special effect (however cool). And believe it or not, it basically has no moving parts. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Devin Coldewey Virtual Reality is pretty convincing when you’re all jacked in and wired up — but even the best headsets today aren’t particularly sharp. Sharp, taking notice of this, has produced a display specifically for VR that’s double the resolution of what’s out there right now. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets

By John Biggs It’s time to call it: the mobile wars are over. The mobile market was once vibrant and variegated, a virtual coral reef of odd devices aimed at specific users. There was phone with a 3D camera! There was one with weird version of Android that catered to the security-conscious! There was one…

By Darrell Etherington Skylanders, Amiibo, Disney Infinity – the toys-to-life category got big, fast, but most of the action in the space following Skylanders tended to be mostly derivative, without really pushing the category forward when it comes to the breadth of available technologies. Lightseekers, a new cross-platform action RPG game debuting on Kickstarter today…

Verizon has a trade-in promo for the recently unveiled Google Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones. Subscribers can save up to $300 if they join in the program. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Natasha Lomas At its hardware launch event in San Francisco yesterday, Alphabet showed the sweeping breadth of its ambition to own consumers’ personal data, as computing continues to accelerate away from static desktops and screens, coalescing into a cloud of connected devices with the potential to generate far more data — and data of…

Google announced its new Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones on Tuesday with impressive specs to take on Apple’s iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, but the names for its color options stole the show. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Darrell Etherington Amazon launched another benefit for Prime members today: Prime Reading, which lets users read from a section of over a thousand Kindle books, digital magazines, short stories, comics and more for free as part of their subscription. It’s essentially a version of Kindle Unlimited with a pared down catalog (Unlimited boasts over…

The Google Pixel is finally here, but how does it stack up against rivals? Here’s how it fares against the iPhone 7 and the Samsung Galaxy S7. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Darren Allan Remember the Surface-branded keyboard which was rumored last week? Well, we’ve now got a look at the device courtesy of images filed by Microsoft with the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) – and apparently there’s a Surface Mouse in the pipeline, too. Windows Central spotted the image of the keyboard which you can…

By Darren Allan Remember the Surface-branded keyboard which was rumored last week? Well, we’ve now got a look at the device courtesy of images filed by Microsoft with the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) – and apparently there’s a Surface Mouse in the pipeline, too. Windows Central spotted the image of the keyboard which you can…

By Darren Allan Remember the Surface-branded keyboard which was rumored last week? Well, we’ve now got a look at the device courtesy of images filed by Microsoft with the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) – and apparently there’s a Surface Mouse in the pipeline, too. Windows Central spotted the image of the keyboard which you can…