Trick or Treat? Next Nexus Phone Could Arrive This Halloween

 

Android fans could be in for a treat this Halloween. Google’s next Nexus device could arrive in October without any fanfare, and may use the name Nexus X instead of the anticipated Nexus 6 to avoid accusations of trademark infringement.

Because of the potential for lawsuits with the family of Philip K. Dick, the author of “Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep,” Phonearena says Google will eschew the logical Nexus 6 label. The 2012 and 2013 Nexus handsets were named Nexus 4 and 5 respectively, and the numbers also corresponded with the size of their displays.  Nexus 6, however, would be almost identical to the model name for androids in Dick’s novel (Nexus-6). 

Sources told Phonearena that Google is planning a quiet launch for the next Nexus similar to what it did for the Nexus 5 last year, rolling the device out around Halloween without an official announcement. While no price information is available yet, last year’s Nexus 5 cost $349 unlocked at launch, making it one of the best smartphone values without a contract. 

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The upcoming Nexus is expected to be made by Motorola and feature a 5.9-inch display with a 2K resolution (2560 x 1440). Phonearena says the purported Nexus X is also expected to carry a speedy 2.7-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 CPU and a 13-megapixel rear camera. 

Cherlynn joined the Laptopmag team in June 2013 and has since been writing about all things tech and digital with a focus on mobile and Internet software development. She also edits and reports occasionally on video. She graduated with a M.S. in Journalism (Broadcast) from Columbia University in May 2013 and has been designing personal websites since 2001.

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Lumia 635 review: Could this be the low-priced future of Windows Phone?

Microsoft Lumia 635 $168.00 The Lumia 635 from Microsoft is a budget Windows Phone that sacrifices some features, but generally meets the basic requirements of a modern smartphone.

I initially wanted to dislike the Lumia 635, only because I feel Microsoft’s Lumia phones can aspire to something better. But the phone delivers the basics, with one inexplicable omission: a front-facing camera.

Microsoft’s new Lumia 635 may be marketed as one of the first Windows Phones to be sold to customers with the amazing features of Windows Phone 8.1, but that doesn’t mean much: the “Cyan” update will soon roll out Windows Phone 8.1 to all Nokia Windows Phone 8 handsets. No, it’s the price that matters: $168 at T-Mobile, or $7 per month over 24 months. (The Lumia 635 is also available via AT&T for $139.) 

Why is the price so important? Because Microsoft said this week that the midrange is the company’s new focus. In July 18 report, analyst firm Chitika revealed that the Lumia 520 and Lumia 521 delivered more than 54 percent of the ad impressions to the Windows Phone platform. The new chief of Microsoft’s device business, Stephen Elop sealed the deal.

 “In the near term, we plan to drive Windows Phone volume by targeting the more affordable smartphone segments, which are the fastest growing segments of the market, with Lumia,” Elop wrote in a memo this week.

The Lumia 635 (right) alongside the Lumia Icon.

That puts new pressure on the Lumia 635.

The Lumia 635 is an inherently basic phone; the 4.5-inch, 854x480 display even has something I’d forgotten about: visible pixels. The display is viewable in bright sunlight, but you’ll need to maximize the brightness, and there’s no adaptive brightness control to facilitate that. In general, it looks a little dull.

Viewed outdoors, the Lumia 635 screen is barely legible.

Inside is a 1.2-GHz Snapdragon 400 quad-core chip, which is no slouch. Still, don’t expect to run high-performance apps. Our SunSpider test averaged 1.47 seconds, about three times slower than the flagship Lumia Icon. (Our Peacekeeper test failed to run.) But the 512 MB of RAM the phone includes means that you’ll be seeing the “Resuming...” message quite a bit as you switch between apps that the Windows Phone OS has suspended. I also noted several instances where the phone would simply lock up briefly, such as after entering the PIN to unlock it.

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The Bing Health & Fitness app can now pull information on how many steps you’ve taken, directly from the phone.

But this phone has one feature other Windows Phones don’t: motion-data collection. This enables it to act as a pedometer in addition to tracking your distance traveled via GPS. That feature ties into the Bing Health & Fitness app, as well as other apps you allow. Personally, knowing I walked a mile or so is good enough for me; but for those obsessed with accomplishing 10,000 steps or more, it might eliminate the need for a separate fitness tracker. 

The Lumia phones' other selling point has traditionally been the camera, so I was surprised to find the experience with those phone rather middling. Lumia fans will be disappointed to find out that the camera hardware button on the side of the phone has been removed; in fact, the home, back, and search buttons on the phone are also screen icons now. (Only the power and volume rocker switches remain.)

As I mentioned up top, the front-facing camera is gone as well. You can forget about taking selfies with this phone. For me, that's almost unforgiveable in this day and age. Sure, there's trimming the fat to save a few bucks. But this is trimming the fun.

The rear camera, meanwhile, is just 5 megapixels—that's a far cry from the 41MP the Lumia 1020 offers. The one unexpected plus is that the notorious shutter lag—the time from when you touch the camera shutter icon to when it takes a picture—has disappeared almost entirely. And I found nothing to complain about save for the fact the photos looked a bit washed out, as the Nokia Camera app (not the other stock “Camera” app) includes all the lovely manual controls.

Nokia has removed the hardware camera button from the Lumia 635.

I discovered numerous other oddities and bugs, too. Although the T-Mobile version of the device supports its LTE bands and Wi-Fi calling, it failed to connect to T-Mobile to register it, popping up a “REG90 Failed to Connect” warning over and over and over. Apps loaded slowly, and although the phone shipped with a Hulu+ live tile, the app wasn’t actually installed.

These latter glitches could have been just the vagaries of a test phone. I hope so. Fortunately, the Lumia 635 handles the basics pretty well. Calls were fairly clear, and they connected quickly. My only complaint while surfing the Web was that the low display resolution made pages like SFGate.com difficult to read when the desktop page was preferred. And the camera, while basic, did the job.

I wonder, though, how many Lumia 635s will be returned when consumers discover the lack of a front-facing camera. That’s a real blow to the platform, especially when you factor in the lack of first-party apps in the Windows Store. Phones like the Lumia 1020, Lumia Icon, and Lumia 1520 have given Lumia owners something to brag about. Phones like the Lumia 635 will straddle the narrow line between value and mediocrity.

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Mogees Turns Anything Into a Musical Instrument with Your Phone

Budding Beethovens, listen up. A new appcessory lets you turn any object around you into a musical instrument so you can strike up a tune wherever you go. Called Mogees, the device and companion app for Android and iOS devices is available for $65 (€48), if you back the Kickstarter project. The final produce is expected to ship in August.  

Mogees includes a microphone accessory that looks like a squat,  thumb-sized snare drum and an app that turns the collected information into notes. Plug the Mogee in your phone and attach the microphone’s sticky end on any thing you want turned into an instrument. The contact microphone analyzes the vibrations made from your interactions with surfaces and turns them into sounds. 

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In a video on the Kickstarter page for the project, creator Bruno Zamborlin, tapping on a bowl of fruit with Mogees attached, played snippets of melodies note-for-note after guitarist Rodrigo Sanchez strums them. Each tap creates an individual note. And different types of interactions, such as taps, swipes or even a breakdancer’s spinning head, creates new sounds. The companion app also lets you preload the MIDI file of a song, and then you can manipulate the tempo of the notes by touching and tapping your selected surface. 

Mogees is available in a variety of colors, including green, red and black. The campaign has already successfully met its £50,000 ($83,505) funding goal with 13 days remaining. 

Cherlynn joined the Laptopmag team in June 2013 and has since been writing about all things tech and digital with a focus on mobile and Internet software development. She also edits and reports occasionally on video. She graduated with a M.S. in Journalism (Broadcast) from Columbia University in May 2013 and has been designing personal websites since 2001.

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Nokia Lumia Icon review: The best Windows Phone so far

Nokia Lumia Icon $200.00 While the Nokia Lumia Icon for Verizon remains the best Windows Phone we've tested in 2014, noticeable shutter lag and a nagging lack of applications still hold it back.

Simply put, Nokia’s latest Windows Phone, the $200 Lumia Icon for Verizon, is solid. It's solidly built, and sits solidly atop all other available Windows Phones. And, yes, it even ships with a solid app lineup, with most of its software bearing the Nokia name.

Nevertheless, for a phone whose legacy includes the 41-megapixel Lumia 1020, the Icon suffers one flaw that should give you pause: noticeable shutter lag of more than a second from the phone’s 20-megapixel sensor. Although the Lumia Icon includes a wealth of manual settings within the Nokia Camera app—along with a nice mix of associated creative software—none of it matters if you can’t capture the original shot.

The Lumia 1520 (left) towers above the Lumia Icon.

Aside from the terrible shutter lag, people with smaller hands will find the Icon a noticeable step down from the Lumia 1520, Nokia’s 2013 phablet, but in the best possible way. While the Icon shares the 1920x1080 resolution of the Lumia 1520, it’s much smaller: 5.39 inches by 2.79 inches by just 9.9 mm (0.39 inches). The 1520, meanwhile, is a 6-inch device. Shrinking the display size produces a corresponding increase in pixel density to 441 pixels per square inch—that's 35 percent more pixel density than the iPhone 5s’ “retina display." The Icon is small enough for most people to traverse one-handed with just a thumb, tracing the phone's Gorilla Glass 3 from edge to edge.

As noted above, the Icon feels solid. It's a mix of polycarbonate and metal that weighs 5.86 ounces, or 20 percent less than the 1520. I would recommend a case, however, as even the matte finish still won’t stop the Icon from slipping from a careless palm. 

A combination of metal and polycarbonate gives the Icon a solid feel./

The Icon’s 2.2 GHz quad-core Snapdragon CPU is identical to what you’ll find in the Lumia 1520. In the newer phone, it launches and runs apps in a snap. It’s a sealed phone, so there's no slot for removable storage, but the 32GB of internal storage is supplemented by 7GB of free OneDrive cloud storage. As far as battery performance goes, the Icon survived 7 hours and 50 minutes of continuous video playback during our homegrown rundown test.

Besides the size, the other noticeable difference between the 1520 and the Icon is the newer phone's OLED display, which offers deep blacks and high contrast ratio. Outside, you shouldn’t have any problem reading the Icon’s display, even in full sunlight. And like earlier Nokia phones, the Icon’s display includes Sunlight Readability Enhancement and High Brightness Mode, two features specifically designed for outdoor use. The difference may be slight, but web pages and other white backgrounds do look better rendered on the OLED screen.

Shutter lag has long been a bane of smartphone cameras, but the most recent handsets from Apple and Android manufacturers have licked the problem. But not Nokia. The Icon suffers serious shutter lag that's painfully out of step with modern standards.

Nokia’s Lumia Icon Camera app.

In fact, I noticed lag of up to 1.5 seconds while shooting. (I took pictures of a stopwatch app on another phone, timing the shutter to increments of 10 seconds, then recording the results.) From focus to shot with the flash off, I noticed lag of 1.3 to 1.5 seconds. That's on par with a Lumia 928 that I tested against. An HTC 8X Windows Phone produced lag of about 0.5 seconds.

Much of the Icon's lag can be eliminated by pre-focusing the camera. You simply depress the camera button half-way—though this forces you to anticipate you next shot. Otherwise, the Zeiss optics (f/2.4, wide angle lens, with optical stabilization) generally performed well in terms of image quality, although with a bluish cast to some of the photos. Naturally, the phone records 1080p video at 30 fps. A front-facing selfie camera grabs 1.2-megapixel photos. 

I've included some sample photos below, which you can click to view in detail. In each case, I've compared the Icon's camera output to the output of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (when you click, note that Samsung images appear on top; Nokia images appear on the bottom). In every case, I used default camera apps, and all settings were left at “auto."

Inside, no flash

Inside, with flash

Plus some other shots:

Outside, evening shot

Inside, natural light

From a productivity standpoint, Windows Phones win bonus points simply by including the suite of mobile Office apps, although editing and especially creating documents can be next to impossible on a small, mobile vehicle. 

Nokia, however, has filled in some of the gaps on the consumer side with apps like HERE+, a real-time traffic app that ships free with the phone. Apps like Nokia’s screen-sharing Beamer app and the Nokia MixRadio Pandora clone complement the Camera app itself, with its limited (but welcome) manual refocusing and other options, including a whole submenu that crops up when the “smart sequence” burst mode is launched. There’s also Nokia Storyteller, which creates albums or stories based on where photos were taken; Cinemagraph, an animated GIF creator; and Creative Studio for on-app photo editing. 

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A manual focus mode allows Lumia Icon owners to craft shots using bokeh.

You’ll be able to connect globally, as the phone uses GSM (850MHz, 900MHz, 1800MHz, 1900MHz) and UMTS (850MHz, 900MHz, 1900MHz, 2100MHz). Otherwise, you can use the 802.11 a/b/g/n/a radio for Wi-Fi connectivity, or Bluetooth 4.0 LE. 

Call quality will obviously vary by location, depending on your proximity to Verizon’s cell-phone network. I noticed little difference in call quality between the Icon and the Galaxy Note 3, based on a voice mail I left myself. Other callers who I spoke to didn’t prefer one phone over the other. I did think that a call connected through the Icon’s speakerphone sounded noticeably warmer than calls through the Note 3's speakerphone. 

Nokia has also designed in four mics on all sides of the phone, both as a built-in noise reduction system as well as to provide a sense of direction to sounds recorded by the phone. This did a serviceable job both in cutting noise and improving video, somewhat eliminating the monotone effect of most smartphone video.

For any Windows Phone fan considering a move to Verizon, buying the Icon is a no-brainer. And Nokia’s apps provide justification for ditching an older phone like the HTC 8X (which I’ve personally owned and enjoyed), and moving to the Icon.

Owning a Windows Phone, however, still feels like living a year or so behind the rest of the market. If you’re an app fiend, you’d still be better off buying an iPhone or Android phone, which dependably receive third-party apps. But the Icon and Lumia 1520 are clearly the best Windows Phones on the market. Deciding between them simply depends on which size you prefer. 

Updated at 5:35 p.m. PT with a video review.

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Wiko Wax Hands-On: First Tegra 4i Phone Targets Budget Shoppers

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Nvidia released some technically impressive mobile processors in the past few years, but the company has had few smartphone design wins to show for its efforts. At last year’s Mobile World Congress, the company showed off  its Tegra 4i platform for the first time, and now that low-cost, small form-factor SoC with integrated LTE has found a home in a pair of upcoming handsets. We had a chance to spend a few minutes with the Wiko Wax, which along with Latin American versions of the LG G2 mini, will be the first phone to sport a Tegra 4i processor and take note of its smooth performance.

The product of Wiko, a French manufacturer of unlocked phones that sell in Europe only, the Wax sports a 4.7-inch, 720p display, an 8-MP rear camera and a 5-MP front-facer for taking sharp selfies. We were impressed with the phone’s subtle but stylish black, soft-touch chassis, which has subtle curves that reminded us of the HTC One’s shape along with a snazzy gray accent stripe in the bottom bezel. 

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Though the display was only 720p, images like the background wallpaper, looked particularly sharp and colorful. The screen also seemed to have a more matte finish than most handsets as overhead lights in the room produced very little glare. 

The phone was running a stock version of Android Jellybean, which was skinned only with an Nvidia-themed wallpaper. The unit did not have much in the way of preloade software, but it did have TegraZone for downloading the latest games and a copy of “Real Boxing” which we used to try out the phone’s graphics capabilities.

When we fired up “Real Boxing,” a game with 3D rendered characters and fast action, images were smooth and fine details like the boxer’s skin seemed particularly detailed. Though not as fast as its big-brother, the Tegra 4, the Tegra 4i contains 60 GPU cores, which should provide really strong gaming and video playback experiences. 

For Nvidia’s Tegra 4i platform to succeed, the chip needs to appear in some more widely-distributed phones, but with the Wiko Wax, it looks like it’s off to a decent start. The Wax will start selling throughout Europe this April.

The official Geeks Geek, as his weekly column is titled, Avram Piltch has guided the editorial and production of Laptopmag.com since 2007. With his technical knowledge and passion for testing, Avram programmed several of LAPTOP's real-world benchmarks, including the LAPTOP Battery Test. He holds a master’s degree in English from NYU.

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Samsung Phone With Bended Display May Come This Year

Samsung debuted the first smartphone with a curved display last year, and now it’s got its sights set on launching bent phone in 2014. A new report from The Korea Herald suggests that this angled smartphone will be part of the Samsung Galaxy line as well.

This aligns with plans that Samsung revealed during its Analyst Day event in Novemeber 2013. Samsung’s chart shows that it will begin introducing bended displays in 2014 and 2015, while fully foldable phones are expected to debut in the 2016-2017 timeframe.

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There’s no telling whether or not this technology will appear on a Galaxy flagship or a new Galaxy line (i.e. the Galaxy Round), but a report from Bloomberg hints we may see a bended display on the Note 4.

“Samsung’s next Galaxy Note handset may use a three-sided display so that messages can be read from an angle,” the Bloomberg report read. The Note 3 successor is said to be released in the second half of 2014.

Samsung has been showcasing this technology over the past several years, but we have yet to see it in any major products. Bloomberg’s report seems to describe Samsung’s YOUM bendable displays, which can curve over the edge of a smartphone to display information such as notifications along its side.

Bloomberg refers to this as a “wraparound” display, which sounds similar to an Apple design patent published last year. Apple’s patented technology would wrap a display around the entire body of an iPhone or iPod, allowing images to be displayed around the entire handset rather than just the front.

Samsung has posted concept videos that illustrate how rollable, foldable displays can be used to bring technology to your everyday household objects. The video imagines a world where cutting boards can display information on the food you just chopped and your coffee mug can bring you news headlines and health information in the morning.

Lisa has been reporting on all things mobile for Laptopmag.com since early 2013. When she’s not reviewing gadgets, she’s usually browsing patent databases or interviewing experts to track down the hottest tech trends before they even happen. Lisa holds a B.A. in Journalism from SUNY Purchase and has contributed to The International Business Times, The New York Daily News and Guitar World Magazine.

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LG’s Upcoming G Pro 2 Phone Will Shoot 4K Video

We don’t know much about the LG G Pro 2 just yet, but the Korea-based manufacturer promises that it’s camera will deliver. After teasing that the phablet will appear in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress, LG has confirmed that it will feature a 13-MP camera capable of 4K video recording.

In a post to its Korean social website, LG said the device will come with improved optical image stabilization and a 2.1-MP front-facing camera as well. LG is referring to this OIS camera enhancement as its new Electro Image System feature, which the company says will ensure your shots appear sharper and more crisp. The G Pro 2 will also be capable of slow motion video capture at 25 percent speed and will feature a Burst Mode for firing off multiple shots in a row.

We’re expecting to see the LG Optimus G Pro successor go head-to-head with Samsung’s Galaxy S5, vying for attention at the show in Barcelona. LG hasn’t revealed any other information about the G2 Pro, but rumors suggest it will launch with a 6-inch 1080p display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor and LTE-A support. Recently leaked images also depict what claims to be the G Pro 2 with the Rear Key design that has quickly become a staple of LG handsets. Like most of LG’s flagships, the G Pro 2 is likely to debut in Korea before making its way to the U.S.

Lisa has been reporting on all things mobile for Laptopmag.com since early 2013. When she’s not reviewing gadgets, she’s usually browsing patent databases or interviewing experts to track down the hottest tech trends before they even happen. Lisa holds a B.A. in Journalism from SUNY Purchase and has contributed to The International Business Times, The New York Daily News and Guitar World Magazine.

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Unhand that phone! Texting tools for the big screen

Don't cramp your style texting on that teeny-tiny smartphone. There's no need, especially when you consider how many apps and services make it easy for you to text from the roomy comfort of your computer's monitor and keyboard.

We tested five services to see how well they worked, and whether they were able to reliably bring the convenience of texting on your smartphone to your PC. The good news: Most were impressive, many are free, and all were easy to use.

All of the solutions we tested work with Android phones, as its open nature allows apps more access to your phone's messages. Apple's limits are more restrictive, and as such, most of the services we tested don't work with iOS devices. And, even those that do come with some limitations that make them less than desirable.

Like many of the services we tested, MobiTexter (free) works with Android devices only, and it requires that you install an app on your  Android phone. Once you install the app on your phone, you register your Google account with it, and head over to your PC. From your browser, MobiTexter asks for access to your Google account, including your contacts. Once you grant it permission, the site links you right to the main texting tools.

MobiTexter displays recent text conversations on the left of the screen, while fields for creating new individual or group texts sit on the right.

MobiTexter's Web interface is basic, but serviceable. It automatically pulls in your most recent text message conversations, which are displayed in a list on the left side of the page. On the right, you have fields for entering new individual or group texts.

MobiTexter limits you to 160 characters per message, and displays incoming messages in small pop-up windows. It does let you type more than 160 characters, but it starts a new message each time you reach the limit. And while it does display messages in conversation threads, it doesn't automatically add incoming messages to those threads, which is unfortunate. It makes it harder to reply naturally when the message to which you're replying doesn't show up in the conversation view.

As you compose your message, MobiText counts the number of characters you've typed. While the number counts down, it's not actually a hard and fast limit.

I also wish that MobiTexter supported MMS, so you could send pictures and videos. Unfortunately, it doesn't. Still, MobiTexter is free and is a reliable way to send and receive basic texts on your computer.

Spot the trend: BrowserTexting ($10), too, works with Android devices only. And, also like many of the products included in this round-up, it's a two-part solution, as it's both an app that you install on your phone and a Web app that you use on your computer.

Browsertexting's interface is bland, but easy to understand, and it neatly displays conversations in tabs, making it easly to switch between them.

You first need to install the app on your Android phone, which is a quick and simple process. You then fire up your computer's browser and head to BrowserTexting.com. The setup process here was also simple and streamlined: The website displays QR code that you scan to connect your phone to your browser.

Then you're good to go. BrowserTexting automatically displays a list of your contacts. You can select one from the list or enter a number on the screen to begin texting. Once you start the message, BrowserTexting brings up past conversations with that person right on the screen, so you can view your texting history as a conversation, just as you would on your phone. You can send MMS messages and group texts, too. New messages pop up on your computer screen, and all of your correspondence is synced back to your phone.

The interface is bland, featuring little more than a big blank space for messages, but easy enough to understand. I like that BrowserTexting offers extensions for Firefox and Google Chrome, which allow you to read and compose messages without opening a dedicated browser window or tab. And I like that it opens new text message conversations in tabs, making it easy to switch between them.

BrowserTexting connects to your phone by displaying a QR code on your PC, which you scan with your mobile device.

I did notice a slight delay when clicking around the interface, whether I was entering a contact name or number or trying to compose a message. That's a minor annoyance, though. More troublesome is BrowserTexting's price: at $10 (after a 30-day free trial), this application is expensive. When most of the competitors are free, an application that costs $10 has to offer far more features. And this one doesn't. BrowserTexting is just as good as some of its rivals, but it costs far more.

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