Archive for category: Multimedia

YourTechReport on SiriusXM

Your-tech-reportDid you miss YourTechReport on SiriusXM? No problem, you can tune into the replay at 7pm Eastern (Saturday), Noon on Sundays, and 9am & Noon Eastern on Mondays. Or, you can listen to the show right here.

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Google Play Music All Access is our App of the Week!

IMG_20130517_102240Now Google Play Music has been an AOTW before; but following the announcement of Google’s All Access streaming internet radio service, we thought it would be a good time to revisit it.

Clearly targeting Pandora and Spotify, now Google is offering an all you can eat music service for $9.99 a month. So let’s click past the jump, and take a look at the new app!

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Smartphone Speaker Test! HTC One vs Galaxy S 4 vs LG Optimus G Pro!

vlcsnap-2013-05-13-08h18m41s52Time to take a listen to the best of the best Android phones!

Pitting the Samsung Galaxy S 4 against the HTC One and the AT&T-exclusive LG Optimus G Pro! Two tests here for all three phones. We’ll play the same acoustic guitar test, and then we’ll move into a movie clip featuring some hot, sweet, black & white zombie action from one of my all time favorite films.

Throw some headphones on to catch all of the nuances!

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Compare/Contrast: Samsung Galaxy S4 vs HTC One! (Includes speaker and front camera samples)

galaxy s4 vs htc oneThese two Android titans are due a showdown!

It’s difficult to describe how wholly unique these two phones are. For being slate smartphones, they really can’t be more different from each other.

Let’s break this comparison down feature for feature, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to crown a clear victor…

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Watch How The HTC One Was Designed And Manufactured

WP_20130503_003The HTC One is arguably one of the most attractive phones ever produced; and if you’re a design nut like I am, it’s fascinating getting to see how these devices get made–especially considering that for as fast as technology evolves, the phone in your pocket probably took about a year and a half to bring to market.

HTC is doing a much better job lately of communicating with their customers (they even have their own Reddit), and now on their Youtube channel you can see how the One is produced.

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Smartphone Speaker Test: HTC One BoomSound vs Samsung Galaxy Note 2 vs Nokia Lumia 920

smartphone speaker showdownTime to listen to some audio samples!

The BoomSound front-facing stereo speakers on the HTC are a design revelation, and they’re backed up by Beats Audio. Do they actually have the goods to go up against phones with decent audio?

One thing’s for certain: they’re at least pointed in the right direction…

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Call of Duty: Ghosts Masked Warriors Teaser Trailer Now Live!

call of duty ghost teaserNew Call of Duty!

Ghosts has been building some buzz with a pretty savvy online teaser site, and now they’ve added some video to keep us on the hook.

The teaser for COD: Ghosts is now available for your perusal.

We’ll get to see more of COD: Ghosts on May 21st during the XBox reveal!

Check out the COD site for more info!

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Airtight Games Launches OUYA exclusive with Soul Fjord

Airtight Games, makers of last years excellent Quantum Conundrum, has announced their exclusive title for the Kickstarted OUYA console. Taking place in a cartoonish world of Norse legend, Soul Fjord has you take the role of Magnus Jones—a fallen warrior who has found he has been left off the guest list for Ragnorok, and must fight his way up the World Tree to prove he is the baddest Viking in town. The trailer for the game can be found above and there’s a developer diary after the jump

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Video First Impressions: The Samsung Galaxy Note 8

vlcsnap-2013-04-25-08h34m50s62I like medium sized tablets a lot.

Samsung likes covering all of their bases by producing devices at every imaginable screen size. One of my favorite Android tablets was the GalaxyTab 8.9. The Note 8 feels like it’s cut from similar cloth thanks to its slightly larger screen.

Let’s take a first look at this mini-wunder-tab!

We’ll have a full review posted soon!

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Our BlackBerry Z10 Review Preview

blackberry-z10-sells-one-millionThe BlackBerry Z10 is the Canadian company’s first real next-gen contender (an argument could be made for the Storm or Torch, neither of which had much of a chance, due to their outdated operating system and bulky designs). The Z10 matches the expectations of today’s smartphone owners, while introducing a brand new operating system that definitely breaks the mold of today’s smartphone, embracing gestures like no other. While our full blown review gets its final touches, we figured a little tease was in order.

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