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Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Hands On – XDA TV

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Perhaps one of the more peculiar announcements this year was the curved edge-screened Samsung Galaxy Note Edge. The Galaxy Note Edge has a curved ‘edge’ touchscreen. Many believe this to be an engineering exercise that was released to the public to show off how innovative Samsung is, with many viewing it in a light similar to concept cars from automobile manufacturers.


In this video, XDA TV Producer TK got some Hands On time with the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge at this year’s Big Android BBQ. With a Japanese release date on October 23, we think now is the time to examine the device. TK shows off the device, its uses, functionality and talks about his thoughts of the device. Check out this video.




Be sure to check out other great XDA TV Videos



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LG’s F490 shows up in Vietnam, up close images available

LG is creating quite a buzz with its supposed upcoming device, the LG F490 “Liger” (which is a lion and a tiger, geddit?). It might just be the first competitive device that will sport an LG-made processor – an octa-core processor at that – similar to what Samsung is doing with its Exynos cores. The F490 is not yet officially available, but it has shown up in Vietnam for a nice photo session.



As you can see from the pics, the device’s screen is huge at 5.9 inches. It is said that the F490 is slated to compete with the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and the Apple iPhone 6 Plus in the category of “smartphones with ginormous screens”. And as with LG’s usual way of doing things, the F490 will probably launch in the Korean market first – but most of us should expect an international version of this by mid to end of November.



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What is interesting about it is that LG is trying its best to do a Samsung and produce its own processors. For the F490, it is rumored to be the Odin/NUCLUN octa-core processor, complete with big.LITTLE architecture at quad Cortex A15 1.5Ghz and quad Cortex A7 1.2Ghz cores. Nothing bad with that, but nothing bad with Qualcomm cores either, which has octa-core solutions if needed. Does LG need to prove itself that it can put out its own procs? In my book, they don’t need to – but this looks like it.


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The F490 will reportedly have 2GB of RAM, and on a screen this big – 5.9-inch Full HD 1776x1080 – your performance might take a hit, even with 8 cores. That kinda shows with a middling AnTuTu benchmark result – which probably points to a lack of RAM (3GB would be better) or a GPU that is not up to spec. The benchmark result at 25460 is great, but to compete with the Galaxy Note 4 and the iPhone 6 Plus, the F490 has got to do better.



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SOURCE: Kenhcongnghe.vn





République: a stealth-action game to feed surveillance paranoia

Thanks to WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden and all the hacking and leaks from our favorite apps, we've become quite paranoid and suspicious when it comes to our privacy and what the government and corporations are doing to invade it. A brand new game on Android will feed on this a bit with its storyline, but serious mobile gamers will still play it since it has been developed by people who have brought such popular games as Metal Gear Solid, Halo and FEAR. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the République.



The game starts with you receiving a call from a woman named Hope, and she needs your help to escape from a totalitarian state that is monitoring its citizens' every move. You need to outmaneuver the government's "elaborate surveillance network" in order to help the woman escape from a tricky and elaborate conspiracy. You get to make strategic choices and solve puzzles along the way. The dialogue in the game is actually fullly translated in several languages, specifically French, German, Spanish, Russian and Portuguese.


This one-touch stealth action was in development for five years and was initially funded through Kickstarter. Another unique feature of the game is that it has an interactive developer commentary (although you have to purchase that in-app) that will give you a deeper insight into the game. Given the prestigious people who developed the game, serious gamers (and fellow developers as well) would probably want to have a listen on that feature.


There will be five episodes in République altogether, with the first three episodes now available. You can purchase the first one for $2.99 from the Google Play Store and then buy the subsequent episodes in-app. Early reviews from industry insiders have been very strong, so we guess the cost will not be an issue for those who'd like to play this game.


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Check Your I/O Usage with Iotop for Android

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Ever needed to check the I/O usage of apps? If so, you probably tried searching for an iotop port, a Python script for Linux–only to find none and either write one in a hurry or manually check /proc/ yourself.


Luckily for you, XDA Forum Moderator and Recognized Developer laufersteppenwolf has written a shell script to replicate the original features of iotop. It will allow you to examine I/O loads/usage for every process, see the total amount of read and written bytes or even the current read/write speeds.


Before you use the script, though, you’ll have to make sure you have the following:



  1. A rooted device.

  2. A kernel with I/O accounting enabled. This usually isn’t the case by default, but you can always ask your kernel developer to enable the necessary configs (or enable them yourself if you’re compiling your own kernel — if not, you unfortunately can’t do anything else).


This can be particularly handy if you’re experiencing lag but CPU isn’t the issue (in which case you could fire iotop up and check if any process is causing a lot of I/O activity in the background), or if you’re trying to debug your app. If you’d like to find out more, visit the iotop for Android forum thread now to see how to install and use it.


The post Check Your I/O Usage with Iotop for Android appeared first on xda-developers.


Droid Turbo spied in the flesh

Not too long ago some images of the coming Motorola Droid Turbo turned up showing what the device will look like. Those images were renderings rather than shots of a real phone in the flesh. This week some leaked photos of an actual device have turned up on the web.



The photos show a rounded device with what looks to be a faux carbon fiber back in a satin black color. When the rendered images turned up, the specs for the device also leaked. We know it will have a 5.2-inch screen.


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The resolution of that big screen will be 2560 x 1440 and the smartphone will pack 3GB of RAM. Those specifications are confirmed in the leaked images. Under the hood will live a Snapdragon 805 processor.


Power will come from a 3900 mAh internal battery and the camera on the rear will be a 21MP unit. The leaked images also show that the device will run Android 4.4.4 and will be coming to Verizon. The official announcement is slated for October 28.


SOURCE: Android Spin





Sony intros LinkedIn for Info-eye camera

Sony’s Info-eye Xperia camera app has been revolutionary. When it was first introduced, Sony had little to show. We knew it’s a smart social camera that could do more than just take photos. It’s a smartphone camera being reimagined to make “socializing” faster and easier.



Sony collaborated with LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network, to turn the smartphone camera into something that will make business networking a cinch. With the updated Info-eye app, a user can take a picture of a business card. The app then scans the card and automatically searches LinkedIn for matches. This way, the user can quickly connect with the contact. Even if you lose the card, at least, you already found the person and connected with him on LinkedIn.


The app seems like an easy project to do but it was not. Sato Takasi, a member of the Info-eye developers, said that they had a hard time matching up fonts. He said: “The inherent difficulties in matching up different fonts, different fields and then integrating all that into a reliable LinkedIn search posed a huge challenge but we’re really happy with the result.”


Takasi also noted that 'immediacy of the contact' is very important in business networking. Snapping a photo of the business card and connecting to LinkedIn is a great solution to socialize with another professionals while it is fresh.


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The Info-eye is considered as the “smart eye” of the phone. This may be the first app but we can expect more similar programs to be developed. After LinkedIn, maybe Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or Instagram integration? All these are possible with face recognition.


Actually, the Info-eye team earlier mentioned something about food recognition. That seems useless but you know, taking photos before every meal is the norm these days. Maybe food recognition will make it easier for people on Instagram to tag a certain restaurant or meal….or not. What do you think?


SOURCE: Sony Mobile





Humble MoBOOile Bundle offers spooky games for Halloween

It's time again for a new version of the Humble Mobile Bundle, and this time out it's a special version for Halloween. The bundle for October is called the Humble MoBOOile Bundle and the six games that are available have more of a spooky twist to them.



The games that you get no matter how much you spend include Rebuild, Oscura: Second Shadow, and Containment: The Zombie Puzzler. If you spend more than the average payment, you get three additional games.


Right now dropping $2.98 or more will also get you Five Nights at Freddy's, Dead Effect, and The Walking Dead: Assault. There is also another free game you get with the bundle called The Spookening.


The folks behind the Humble Bundle say that more free games will be added later in the week. So far, the spooky bundle has raised over $52,000 with 17,736 purchases.


SOURCE: HumbleBundle





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