Wednesday, February 1, 2017

[Deal Alert] Samsung's truly wireless Bluetooth headphones, the Gear IconX on sale for just $79.99 at TechRabbit ($70 off)

We've been calling Bluetooth headphones, 'wireless headphones' for quite some time now. However, truly wireless headphones are a fairly new phenomena. This new generation of completely wire-free headphones are more liberating than ever, but come with a couple of trade-offs from more traditional Bluetooth earbuds. One is battery life, which tends to be shorter, and the other is price, which tends to be higher – but not today. Right now you can pick up a pair of Samsung's Gear IconX headphones for only $79.99 at TechRabbit, that's almost half off.

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The EU finally abolishes roaming charges, will take effect in June

Europeans will know the pain of roaming charges. Head to another country on holiday or business and try and check email, or text the boss/wife/husband/partner/colleague/friend (delete as applicable) and you'll be hit with fees. However, in a good piece of news, the European Union, the legislative body that governs Europe, is set to abolish roaming charges by summer 2017. Fantastic!

The EU has been gunning for this since 2007. It's been pushed back and delayed, with a final date of June 15 2017 finally proposed almost two years ago.

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Save the world and write your own destiny in Book of Unwritten Tales 2

I love fantasy. Growing up as a huge Lord of the Rings nerd, I go crazy for books and games in the genre. I like the serious titles, but I also enjoy the fun, comical ones that do not take themselves too seriously (The Bard's Tale comes to mind). Book of Unwritten Tales 2 is just that: silly and whimsical.

 

This game follows four characters, each with different personalities and skills. Their adventure will take them through a strange, magical land while they meet other quirky people and stumble across the slew of pop culture references.

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ASUS ZenFone 3 Deluxe review: Buy a OnePlus 3T instead

Budget flagships are all the rage these days. After all, why would anyone pay $769 for something like a Google Pixel XL when similar or only marginally worse performance can be had from a $439 OnePlus 3T? The category has come a seriously long way since the Nexus 4 first pioneered it, largely thanks to loads of new entrants in the past few years from both new and storied nameplates.

ASUS has historically been known as more of a budget phone manufacturer, but the ZenFone 2 introduced the company into the realm of the budget flagship. However, although the ZenFone 2 Laser improved upon the ZenFone 2, and the ZenFone 3 upon the ZenFone 2 Laser, all of these phones have the same major sticking point - ZenUI.

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Flipagram sold to Chinese company, as Take-Two Interactive acquires F2P company for $250 million

Flipagram is a popular mobile app for creating photo and video slideshows, with over 50 million installs on just the Play Store alone. Today, Chinese company Toutiao announced they have purchased Flipagram for an undisclosed sum. In a similar vein, popular video game publisher Take-Two Interactive has acquired F2P game developer Social Point for $250 million.

Toutiao's reasoning for purchasing Flipagram is to expand its global reach to the United States. Toutiao also hopes to bring its existing recommendations system, already used in the company's primary app (a personalized news application), to Flipagram.

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The Honor 6X fails catastrophically in JerryRigEverything's durability testing

When companies send us review units, they usually expect that our testing will not include intentionally breaking them. That's why JerryRigEverything has a niche on YouTube. He buys and destroys phones to see how durable (or not) they are. His latest victim is the Honor 6X, and it doesn't go well for that phone. At all.

The Honor 6X is one of those phones that ships with a thick plastic cover on the display that some people seem to think is a screen protector (it's not).

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