A reliable Twitter account for leaks, @evleaks, has posted what is a proposed design of the Galaxy S IV set to be announced on March 14th at a press event in NYC (which I’ll be attending). What’s more interesting are the purported specs: a crsip and clear Super AMOLED Full HD screen of unknown size, 16GB/32GB/64GB storage options with 2GB of RAM, a 13MP camera and Android 4.2 as the operating system. While the design is mostly not what we’d come to expect, the specs seem pretty realistic — we’ll know for sure on the 14th, of course.
Via: @evleaks
The Assassin’s Creed franchise has struck again, this time with pirates in the Caribbean. After the end of the half-British, half-Native American assassin Connor in the previous game, AC4 will take the player on an open-world naval warfare adventure with a new assassin, named Edward Kenway of The Caribbean. Kenway’s the captain of a pirate vessel known as “The Jackdaw”, and besides having a crew, he can explore the islands, including underwater expeditions where you’d come across sharks looking for booty. And rather being Desmond Miles, you are a Templar, running through your memories in the Animus, attempting to uncover the past.
Next time you log in to Evernote, you’ll have to reset your password. A hack on the 28th of February successfully breached all forms of security, including your emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords — except personal information. So, it’s time to reset; thankfully the passwords were encrypted, thus rendered nearly useless.
With all of the tablets available, some of the more investigative users want to know just what’s inside, and if repairs are possible, like on laptops and desktops. Well, iFixit has created a list of repairability that ranks most recent tablets. So with that aside, it’s interesting to learn that the Microsoft Surface has the worst score rating, at just 1 point, with the iPad 4 following at a mediocre score of 2 — both received such low scores due to their use of adhesives.
By the time the PS4 is ready for launch this holiday season, Sony will have a catalog of 4K movies available for streaming to the console. The only grimy part of this dream is that the average 4K movie is around 100GB of bandwidth, which would require not only a fast but reliable internet connection to make full use of. In fact, Sony is so sure that everything will line up perfectly for this happen, that Sony President and COO Phil Molyneux promised that we “will not be disappointed.”
With the merger of T-Mobile USA to MetroPCS, there’s a slight drop in revenue: down to $4.9 billion from $5.2 billion last year, while income was down a whopping 25.1 percent to $1.05 billion year-over-year. Meanwhile the company lost 515,000 branded contract customers compared to 492,000 last quarter, representing a ‘churn’ rate of 2.5%, which is only a slight improvement. As for more miserable news: T-Mobile made $424 million less than in 2011 ($4.9 billion), while showing a total loss of $6.4 billion thanks to depreciation and impairment charges.
Are you a manly man? Do you have a smartphone? Well, Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, thinks that whether it’s iOS or Android, your touchscreen makes you a pansy. Some may think Brin’s words at a recent TED talk were asinine, but whatever the case is, he called it downright ”emasculating”.
The Razer Edge? You don’t remember the amazing Windows 8 tablet/gaming controller hybrid? I feel sorry for you then; I thought you were an honest gamer. Equipped with either Core i5 or Core i7 processors, a GeForce GTX 640M with Intel HD4000 graphics, 8GB of DDR3 RAM and either 128/256GB SSDs — all with Windows 8 Pro. As a result, you have a very capable gaming device (for a high price) that can double as a primary PC.
