Deal: Amazon Offering Nearly 300 MP3 Albums for $5

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Amazon always has some great deals, and today they have a deal that’s not quite Android related, but we all love music right? Well Amazon has a ton of MP3 Albums on sale today for just $5. There’s around 300 of them on sale today in all kinds of genres. You’ve got stuff from 2Pac, 2Chainz, Jay-Z, Lil Kim, and so much more. We are currently unaware if this is just for today, or for this week, but it’s still a great deal, and you’re going to want to grab these before they are gone. You can play them on your Android devices with Amazon’s app as well. Unfortunately Amazon Prime Instant Video is the only one not really available on Android – aside from the Kindle Fire HD, and HDX.

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Project Tango Gets Torn Down by iFixit

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Not like iFixit needs an introduction, but as most of you know, iFixit likes to grab the latest and greatest tech and tear it down. Give a repairability report and such. As well as what is inside the device. Right now, Project Tango is just a developer prototype, and Google only made a few thousand of these for developers as well. iFixit got their hands on a non-functioning unit of Project Tango and tore it apart like only they can do. So now we can see exactly what is inside.

Inside we’re looking at a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU, which is a pretty decent chip if I do say so. Paired with 2GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage, a microSD card slot, and a 3000mAh battery. It also sports a 5-inch LCD display. As we all know already, Project Tango isn’t really about the phone capabilities, but more so about the array of 3D sensors that Google has put on this device. Basically what Google is attempting to do with this device, is to have everyone help them with Google Maps and street view. I’m sure you’ve noticed that a lot of the street view images are pretty outdated. And this would help keep those updated, as long as Google can get it off the ground and get plenty of people to buy Project Tango when it does finally get released. Project Tango isn’t a sexy phone like the HTC One (M8), but it’s definitely an interesting piece of technology that we, hopefully, will get some play time with a bit later on.

So not much to see here with the tear down of the Project Tango phone, not even much of a surprise here. But still interesting to see the internals of the device, even though the internals are basically a very high-spec’d device. Especially with the 64GB of on-board storage. I really hope that becomes standard soon.

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Deal: Google Nexus 7 (2013) 16GB Available for $199

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Today, Amazon is offering the Google Nexus 7 (2013) 16GB version for about $30 off, at a low price of $199. For those looking for a bit more storage, they have the 32GB version for $239 which is also $30 off the regular price. The Nexus 7 (2013) has a 7-inch 1920×1200 resolution display, 2GB of RAM, Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor which is a quad-core 1.5GHz chip, 16GB or 32GB of internal storage and no microSD card slot, 3950mAh battery inside and Android 4.4.2 KitKat. It’s an amazing device, and one of our favorite tablets of 2013. Because it is a Nexus, it’s always got the latest version of Android, and should be getting Android 4.4.3 fairly soon as it’s due to hit the Sprint Nexus 5 pretty soon – in fact Sprint says this week.

For those of you interested, we have both sizes of the Nexus 7 (2013) listed below for you to check out.

Google Nexus 7 (2013) – 16GB

Google Nexus 7 (2013) – 32GB

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11.6 and 13.3-inch ASUS Chromebooks to Feature Faster Celeron CPUs

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While Google’s Chrome OS might still be on the slow uptake, more and more hardware partners are joining Google’s cause, and in the past year we’ve seen HP and ASUS jump onboard. HP have two devices on shelves right now, the Chromebook 11 and the Chromebook 14 (which I am writing this very article with) and ASUS have a Chromebox announced for those that like desktop orientated options. Recently we saw a leaked image of an ASUS Chromebook and now, more information has leaked out thanks to careless online retailers.

According to online listings, the two Chromebooks from ASUS will be dubbed the C200 and the C300, coming in at 11.6-inches and 13.3-inches, respectively. Starting with the 11.6-inch C200, an online listing shows that the device is to feature 16GB of storage (as is normal for Chromebooks) 2GB of RAM and an Intel N2830 Celeron CPU. Moving on to the 13.3-inch model and the story is much the same, with the same processor but with 4GB of RAM being included, instead of 2GB and twice the storage at 32GB. While there’s no word yet on the resolution of either device, we could be seeing a 1080p 13.3-inch display on the C300, as online retailer Antares Pro is listing a price around $330, close to that of the Chromebook 2 from Samsung.

Where ASUS’ Chromebooks really differ however, is from the Intel Celeron N2830, which is a dual-core CPU said to be clocked at 2.18 Ghz in these laptops, however Intel lists that a maximum clock speed of 2.41 Ghz is achievable. That’s a big difference from the 2955U inside the Acer C720P and the HP Chromebook 14 which is clocked at just 1.4 Ghz. Still, I use the Chromebook 14 for the majority of things I need to do, and the performance is very good for me. Faster processors and better displays would be one way for ASUS to compete on the hardware front with vendors such as Samsung and Acer.

While the release date is pegged for April, we’ve yet to hear anything official from ASUS, so take this all with a grain of salt. One thing’s for certain though, there’s soon to be some new Chromebooks in town. Have you got a Chromebook? Drop us a line in the comments below or over on Google+!

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“New Form Factor” in The Works for Samsung’s Galaxy Note 4

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Things are starting to get mighty busy for Samsung as 2014 really gets underway. The Galaxy S5 and Gear 2 family have finally launched all over the world and as their marketing machine ramps up to full power promoting their latest and greatest, we’re sure that back in Korea, designers and engineers have their heads down working on the next Galaxy Note. What was once laughed at being one of the largest and “impossible” to use devices has now become a real money spinner for Samsung and the Galaxy Note line is almost as popular as the Galaxy S line now. So, with the Galaxy Note 4 expected this Fall as always, what does Samsung have in store for fans of big smartphones?

Well, according to Yoon Han-Kil, an executive at Samsung, we should be expecting a “new form factor. Speaking with Reuters he explained that he expects the Galaxy S5 to outsell last year’s Galaxy S4 and that the company is getting ready to finally launch its first Tizen-based smartphone later this year as well. Of course, what we’re most interested in is just what this “new form factor” could be. Unfortunately, Yoon Han-Kil didn’t go into any more detail than that, so we’re left to simply guess at what Samsung has in the works for the next Galaxy Note.

Something involving flexible OLED could be on the cards, but we question how much effect that’d have on the S-Pen that makes the Galaxy Note, a “Note”. Besides, flexible OLED isn’t ready to create new form factors altogether just yet, so Samsung could be looking to leverage a flip case or something like that into the hardware design. We’re not really sure what Samsung could do to create a “new form factor”, unless they’re simply talking about either a much bigger Galaxy Note or a bigger variant to go along with a “regular” sized Note. What do you guys think though? Let us know in the comments below and over on Google+!

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Intel CEO Bets on Android Tablets Rather than Windows to Bring Profitability to Mobile Division

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In case you haven’t already heard, 2013 wasn’t the best of years for Intel’s mobile processor unit. The company released financial figures for FY 2013 earlier, and it looks like Intel’s mobile processor division is bleeding money. The company says it has a plan for profitability moving forward, and new remarks from Intel CEO Brian Krzanich suggest that future should probably involve Android heavily. Speaking during a first-quarter earnings call, Krzanich said that “80 to 90%” of Intel’s mobile processor shipments are for Android tablets. The rest are destined for Windows tablets, which means that Microsoft could be playing catch up to Android and Apple for some time to come.

Windows tablets haven’t appeared to catch on in a big way with consumers, who seem far more likely to pick up something like an iPad or one of Samsung’s Galaxy Tabs. Microsoft may dominate the desktop and laptop space with Windows, but it appears that consumers would prefer to have either iOS or Android running on their tablets. “Windows tablet numbers in general have been pretty modest,” Techanalysis Research founder Bob O’Donnell told CNET.

So, while Intel has to worry about making its mobile processor sector profitable while we hear Qualcomm‘s name popping up everywhere, Microsoft has its own share of tablet woes. Make no mistake, there’s definitely a small yet dedicated Surface following out there, but when the number of Windows tablet shipments lag tens of millions behind Apple and Android, it’s hard to consider Surface or tablets from other Windows manufacturers successful in any significant sense.

Unsurprisingly, O’Donnell also told CNET that consumers want Windows on their desktop or laptop, two machines that go hand-in-hand with a keyboard. It would seem that the transition from PC to tablet leaves something to be desired in Windows users, though manufacturers have been trying to bridge that gap, releasing 2-in-1 devices that double as a notebook or a tablet. For its part, Intel told CNET that 2-in-1 aren’t even counted in tablet shipments, rather being counted among Intel’s PC shipments. Regardless of what’s considered a tablet and what isn’t, one thing is clear here: Windows tablet sales are definitely suffering thanks to intense competition from the likes of Android and Apple.

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