Duncan has been interested in technology since coding "Mary had a little Lamb" in Basic on his ZX Spectrum. A fan of all things Android, most days you'll find Duncan trawling the web for Android news or quietly editing away on Map Maker.
Following on from recent teases and announcements two variants of the Samsung Gear S2 smart watch has just passed through the FCC- the USA’s communication regulation and testing agency. Apart from a slight difference in size – 0.9mm across the width – there is no indication of what the differences between …
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Following a couple of outings in Chicago on the wrists of suspected Moto employees last week, the now much leaked Moto 360 2015 has once again been spotted in the wild in a couple of clear shots for your viewing pleasure. The two shots show off both the Moto 360L …
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Evernote, popular for its epnoymous note-taking come online-indexing service, announced on their blog today that they would be “ending support” for their dedicated ‘Food’ app across all platforms. The Food app was an extension of Evernote’s cross device service, specifically for food related matters, which allowed users to journal, record …
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Following last week’s release of a dedicated web interface for Hangouts Google engineer Jordanna Chord has come back to Google+ to announce the first update to the new site. I’ve been reading all of the user feedback submitted on the launch of https://hangouts.google.com and there are a ton of good …
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Despite announcing that we will not be seeing consumer hardware with the latest Snapdragon 820 until 2016, Qualcomm continues to announce the new features of the incoming SOC. This week, the announcement was for a “Hexagon 680 DSP”. A DSP, or Digital Signal Processor, is a specialised processor – typically used in low …
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YouTube is set to release its Twitch game-streaming competitor ‘YouTube Gaming’ tomorrow, and it’s coming to Australia (kind of). Many tech industry pundits expected YouTube to purchase the popular game streaming service Twitch, but due to apparent anti-trust concerns, YouTube withdrew from any potential purchase allowing Amazon to buy the …
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Samsung originally teased a successor to the Tizen-powered Samsung Gear S smartwatch at the end of their latest unpacked event. Today while espousing the virtues of their recent released devices and further teasing the Samsung Gear 2 they also made a somewhat cryptic comment. … with the debut of the Samsung …
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At this stage, the expected Sony Xperia Z5 series of phones must be close to the most leaked device in recent times. Today more Z5 images have apparently broken cover, this time in the form of manufacturing “props” used by 3rd party manufacturers to test accessories. The images continue to be …
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After months of being dormant the Project Ara – Google’s user configurable “modular ” phone project – twitter account has been pumping out the tweets in recent days. It seems they had a lot to say late last night with two spec teases and a clarification. Better battery life? We're on …
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Sony is set to announce the next model in the Xperia Z line of flagship Android phones at his year’s IFA conference in Berlin. The anticipated Xperia Z5 is rumored to be coming in three variants a standard, compact and plus version. Today what looks to be a press image of …
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Asus announced two models of the ZenWatch 2 ahead of this year’s Computex conference in Taipei, at that time there were a few details missing from the announcement. Sifting through the FCC filings, and other documents, we have filled in a few of the blanks, across the board both models/ sizes …
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After breaking cover in the Playstore in June this year Sony has now officially announced the SmartBand 2. The updated fitness tracker has kept all of the features from the original device we reviewed last July and has added a heart rate sensor. As fitness trackers are becoming more and more common, and …
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Google had announced an update to the Android version of Google Photos. Hot on the heels of this week’s update to the web version, v1.3 of the Android app brings a number of improvements: The inclusion of reordering images in an album follows the update that added this function to …
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US based design and manufacturing company Fossil were given the opportunity to show off their upcoming wearable range at Intel’s annual Developer Forum, which is currently under way in San Francisco. Among the three ‘connected’ devices shown off were a bracelet and two smart watches, one of which was Fossil’s …
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The Google Photos team have announced an incremental update to the Photos service on the web. The updated functionality only pertains to the web interface for now, but we could see these features in an update to the mobile app at any time. The first improvement is a much-requested feature …
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