Don’t you ever wish you could buy a decent, Android-powered flip phone? No, me neither. But Samsung is building one anyway. It’s called the Galaxy Folder, and we first heard about it back in July. Now the device has been pictured in the wild ahead of its official unveiling.
A Chinese variant of the upcoming HTC One Max has been snapped, showing the device looking very similar to the current HTC One. However, the Max does have some clear differences; one of which being the 5.9-inch display.
The Starck-designed Parrot Zik.
It has the technological sophistication of a sonic screwdriver. Its design elements look as if pulled straight out of another dimension. And there may not be another set of headphones on this planet — or any other — baked with as many ingredients as the Parrot Zik.
But we were curious — would all this tech work? And how would the Ziks sound? So we poked them with a stick, and here’s what we discovered. Allons-y!
Suddenly, Google is a major hardware company. And a surprisingly great one. But why?
I asked a Motorola executive involved in the Moto X project recently whether Google’s ownership of the company had any effect on their decision to get radical.
By radical, of course, I mean doing things no handset maker had ever done, such as make phones operate hands-free and build them to order in the United States for delivery in four days.
You’ll note that these and other radical attributes of the Moto X are options that would have been available to Motorola with or without Google. After all, the X8 Mobile Computing System that enables hands-free usage is Motorola’s, not Google’s, and was originally developed for Motorola smartwatches.
So why is Motorola suddenly radical now that Google owns the company?
Last week, Koushik Dutta showed off his new phone-to-Chromecast video streaming app which will enable users to “cast” photos or videos stored locally on any Android device directly to an HD TV. And now, less than a week later he is showing off another one of his great inventions which will permit users to stream video, pictures or music from Dropbox to a Chromecast unit, in his brand new Dropbox-to-Chromecast app.
