Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter

Mugen 5500 mAh Internal Battery for Samsung Galaxy S4 Active Ships November 22
Braven 710 Bluetooth HD Stereo Speaker Announced
India is going to Mars this week
Nokia Lumia 525 Appears At Chinese FCC
Maingear Pulse 17 Unveiled As Worlds Thinnest Gaming Laptop
Minecraft Streaming Partnership Announced By Twitch And Mojang
iPad Air vs iPad 4 (Video)
UK government bans iPads from meetings due to spying fears
Apple iPad Air LTE Hotspot Can Be Run For 24 Hours On A Single Charge
BlackBerry Fairfax Buyout Falls Through
Two New Call of Duty Ghosts Trailers Released (videos)
Ultrastar He6 Helium Filled Hard Disk Drives Offer 50 Percent More Capacity
Qualcomm To Launch New Snapdragon Processor With Adreno 400 GPU Next Year
Latest Nokia Lumia Handsets Not Coming To T-Mobile
Bungie Destiny Game Need To Test Servers With A Million Players (video)
Nokia And Samsung Extend Patent Deal
Google Maps For iOS Updated
Starbucks Unveils Its New Paper Cup Designed For Tea Drinkers
Motorola Moto G To Be Announced November 13th
Google Glass 2 Adopters Will Now Be Briefed Over Google Hangouts
UK Will Have To Wait Months For Gadgets Flight Restrictions To Be Removed
Samsung Flexible Display Smartphone Concept Shown Off
Flipboard iOS App Updated With Performance And User Interface Enhancements
Apple iPad Air Sales Leap Ahead Of Last Years iPad Mini And iPad 4 Sales
CyanogenMod 10.2 M1 Release Brings Support For Over 70 Devices
Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Update Adds 20 Percent Battery Life
Google Ingress Game Opens To All Android Users On December 14th 2013 (video)
Samsung Galaxy S4 in UK Receiving Android 4.3 Jelly Bean Update
Nokia Now 4th In US Smartphone Market
MEMI iPhone Smartbracelet Launches On Kickstarter (video)
Samsung Galaxy Note 12.2 To Go Into Production By End Of The Year
HDMIPi Raspberry Pi HD Monitor Launches On Kickstarter (video)
Skype Third Party Applications To Stop In December 2013
Google Nexus 5 Gets Unboxed (Video)
Samsung W2014 Snapdragon 800 Flip Phone Announced
New Thief 4 Trailer Released For Stories From The City Series (video)
Samsung Galaxy S3 Android 4.3 Update Released
Xbox One Dashboard And User Interface Demonstrated (video)
Samsung Z9005 Tizen Smartphone Appears In Video
Some Google Nexus 5 Orders May Be Delayed
PS3 PlayStation Store Now Has PayPal Support
If Steve Wozniak ran Apple, he would partner with Google
T-Mobile Sony Xperia Z1 Spotted at Bluetooth SIG
The Nexus 5 Difference
Android Smartwatch Coming in December
Jelly Bean now on 50+% of Androids
Lasers to Cure Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s?
Apple iPad Air Could Set Record Weekend Sales
Android 4.4 KitKat Google Keyboard Available Now
Unofficial Android 4.4 KitKat ROMs Available for Galaxy Nexus

Mugen 5500 mAh Internal Battery for Samsung Galaxy S4 Active Ships November 22

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 07:05 AM PST

Mugen makes larger capacity batteries for a number of smartphones on the market today. Back in July of this year, the company rolled out a 5500 mAh internal battery for the Samsung Galaxy S4. Mugen is back with another large 5500 mAh internal battery for another Samsung smartphone. This time out the big internal battery […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 06:57 AM PST

We have featured a number of wireless speakers from Braven previously, the company has now introduced their latest model, the Braven 710. The Braven 710 is a portable wireless HD speaker, it comes with HD audio and connects to your devices with NFC or Bluetooth, the device is also designed to be waterproof. True to […]

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India is going to Mars this week

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 06:53 AM PST

India’s goal is to become the fourth nation or group of nations on the Earth to reach the red planet. India will soon launch a spacecraft called Mangalyaan, which translates to "Mars Craft" in Hindi. If they are successful, India will become the fourth nation to reach Mars. The Soviet Union, US, and a European […]

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Nokia Lumia 525 Appears At Chinese FCC

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 06:40 AM PST

The Nokia Lumia 525 is expected to launch shortly, the device is expected to share a similar design to the Nokia Lumia 520, and now we have a photo of the handset, which can be seen in the second photo below. The Nokia Lumia 525 recently turned up at the Chinese equivalent of the FCC, […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 06:40 AM PST

Maingear has today announced the launch of a new gaming laptop to its range inn the form of the Maingear Pulse 17 which is currently the worlds thinnest 17 inch gaming laptop. The new Maingear Pulse 17 starts at $2,099 increasing as you up the laptops specifications to meet your needs and includes "the very […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 06:28 AM PST

During the Minecon 2013 event this week Twitch and Mojang creators of the hugely popular Minecraft game have today announced a partnership that will bring Minecraft streaming to both PC and Mac users. The new Minecraft Twitc streaming feature will be provided via Twitch’s integrated streaming platform for Mac and PC gamers and the new […]

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iPad Air vs iPad 4 (Video)

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 06:23 AM PST

Apple’s iPad Air, launched last week, and now we have a video comparing the iPad Air vs iPad 4, which fives us a good look at the differences between the two tablets. A well as having update hardware inside the device, the iPad Air comes with a new slimmer design, the tablet is also lighter […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 06:17 AM PST

It looks like the British government is combating the overreaching electronic surveillance by intelligence agencies by banning tablets from closed door meetings. Thanks NSA. This is why we can’t have anything nice. Several iPads used during a presentation to the Cabinet were apparently seized shortly after it was over, as they were worried that they […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 06:01 AM PST

Anand Lal Shimpi from the AnandTech technology website has completed a few tests on his new Apple iPad Air tablet to compare its ability to preform as a LTE hotspot when compared to the LTE iPad 3 which was tested and is equipped with a larger battery. The older LTE Apple iPad 3 was capable […]

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BlackBerry Fairfax Buyout Falls Through

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 05:43 AM PST

Today, November the 4th is the day that Fairfax Financial was supposed to complete the due diligence on their buyout of BlackBerry, unfortunately it now looks like the deal has fallen through. We heard over that last few weeks that a number of other companies and groups have also been interesting in buying BlackBerry, the […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 05:43 AM PST

Gamers looking forward to the launch of the new Call of Duty Ghosts game tomorrow are sure to enjoy a couple of new Call of Duty Ghosts trailers which have been released for the launch of the new game. One of the new game trailers takes the form of a live action movie showing for […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 05:28 AM PST

Western Digital’s HGST subsidiary has this week announced that it is now shipping new internal hard drives which are filled with helium gas and provide a storage boost of 50 percent when compared to hard drives that are not filled with helium gas. The latest 3.5 inch hard drives that are filled with helium gas […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 05:23 AM PST

Qualcomm’s current high end mobile Snapdragon processor is the Snapdragon 800, the processor is used in a wide range of devices, like the Google Nexus 5, the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, the Samsung Galaxy S4 and more. The Snapdragon 800 processor features an Adreno 330 GPU, although it looks like Qualcomm has plans to replace […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 05:03 AM PST

Nokia recently announced a number of new Nokia Lumia smartphones and a tablet, the Nokia Lumia 1520, Lumia 1320 and the Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet. We already know that the Nokia Lumia 1320 and 1520 are headed to AT&T, and the Nokia Lumia 2520 tablet is headed to Verizon Wireless and AT&T. Now it would […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 04:57 AM PST

In an interview this week with gaming website IGN, Bungie Destiny developers of the new game have explained that to test their service when a Bungie Destiny beta release is made available to gamers in February of next year. They will require around 1 million players to logon and push the Bungie Destiny servers to their limit. The […]

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Nokia And Samsung Extend Patent Deal

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 04:53 AM PST

Nokia and Samsung have had a deal in place on patents for some time, the deal was due to run out at the end of this year, although the two companies have now extended their agreement. Nokia has announced that they have come to an agreement with Samsung for the licensing deal to be extended […]

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Google Maps For iOS Updated

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 04:39 AM PST

Google updated their Google Maps for iOS app around the middle of last month, and now Google has now released another udpate for their iOS mapping app. The latest version of Google Maps for iOS is version 2.4.3 and it comes with a range of new features, some bug fixes and also some other enhancements. […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 04:38 AM PST

Last week Starbucks unveiled their latest shop to open in the form of Teavana, which as the name suggests carters solely for the tastes of tea drinks. The new Teavana teashop is the very first such establishment that servers just tea and will be the companies flagship tea shop, joining the already existing 13,000+ coffee […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 04:27 AM PST

Last week we saw a leaked photo and found on some specifications on the new Motorola Moto G, and now it looks like Google Will announce the handset on the 13th of November. Google has now launched a new website for the Motorola Moto G, and it has the date of the 13th of November […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 04:22 AM PST

Last week Google unveiled their next-generation of Google Glass 2 eyewear to the world revealing the devices new second generation design. Which will be made available to existing Google Glass Explorers when they trade in their previous and original Google Glass hardware. Following on from that unveiling Google has this week announced that to help […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 04:15 AM PST

Last week we heard that the FAA in the US had approved the usage of gadgets when airplanes are taking off and landing, as long as a device is in airplane mode, you will be able to use it on US flights. The change in the US is expected to happen shortly, although it appears […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 04:06 AM PST

Samsung released their first smartphone which uses a flexible display recently, the Samsung Galaxy Round, and now the company has shown off some concept designs for other flexible display smartphones. The photo below is of a flip phone concept with a flexible display, as you can see from the photo the device looks very thin, […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 03:56 AM PST

Users of the awesome Flipboard iOS application might be interested to learn that a new update has been rolled out by its developers which brings with it a number of new features, tweaks and performance enhancements. The latest Flipboard iOS App update brings with it a more refined user interface together with faster performance throughout the […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 03:38 AM PST

Fiksu the App marketing service has this week released Apple iPad Air sales results it has gained by tracking the adoption of Apple’s recent products including the new Apple iPad Air tablet which launched on November 1st and is now available to purchase from the Apple online Store. As you can see by the graphs below […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 03:24 AM PST

The CyanogenMod team have this week announced the release of the new CyanogenMod 10.2 M1 software which brings with it support for over 70 devices in the initial M-release. The M series of software releases provide users with a middle ground between the cutting edge and stable releases created by the CyanogenMod team and provide […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 03:12 AM PST

The Microsoft Surface Pro 2 already comes with an improved battery over the original tablet, according to Microsoft the device will give you up to 75 percent more battery power than the first generation tablet. The guys from the Verge tested out the Surface Pro 2 battery and got 7 hours and 33 minutes of […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 03:07 AM PST

Following on from the news last week that the Google Ingress game offering augmented reality fun and gameplay is now available to download from the Google Play Store. Google has this week announced that the Google Ingress game will open to all Android users on December 14, 2013. Previously the augmented reality game has been under test by Google […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 03:03 AM PST

Last month, Samsung started rolling out Android 4.3 update for Samsung Galaxy S4 for both the Exynos version (GT-I9500) as well as Snapdragon (GT-I9505). The update is rolling out in many countries, but it seems that UK is the next is line, as users are reporting about the latest Android 4.3 update hitting their devices. […]

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Nokia Now 4th In US Smartphone Market

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 03:02 AM PST

We recently heard that Nokia managed to sell a total of 8.8 million Lumia handsets in their last financial quarter, and now according to a recent report, the company is now number 4 in the US smartphone market. The news comes from a report from Counterpoint Research, who have placed Nokia in fourth place for […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:48 AM PST

The smartwatch market is expected to explode over the next few years offering users the ability to easily connect to their smartphone device or have a stand-alone device strapped to their wrist offering a range of features that are already available on their smartphones. However the first series of smart watches are far from an […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:39 AM PST

We recently heard some specifications on the new Samsung Galaxy Note 12.2, and then the tablet appeared at the FCC. According to a recent report the device is expected to go into production by the end of the year. This would mean that Samsung would launch the Galaxy Note 12.2 early next year, and with […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:26 AM PST

Users of the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC might be interested in the new Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign which is launched to create an affordable HDMIPi Raspberry Pi monitor specifically for use with the Raspberry Pi mini PC. The new Raspberry Pi mini PC monitor has been created by Alex Eames of the RasPi.TV company based in […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:11 AM PST

Skype has this week announced that any third-party applications that are linked to the Skype communication software using the current Skype desktop API will no longer work after December of this year. So if you are currently using any extra third-party applications, hardware or software with your Skype installation you unfortunately may not be to have access […]

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Google Nexus 5 Gets Unboxed (Video)

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 02:04 AM PST

Last week we saw a couple of quick hands on videos of the new Google Nexus 5, now we have an unboxing video of Google’s latest high end Android smartphone, the video is from the guys over at Clove. The Google Nexus 5 comes with Android 4.4 Kit Kat, the handset is powered by a […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 01:53 AM PST

Some of our readers will remember the Samsung W2014 that we heard about last month, the handset is now official and it will launch in China with China Telecom. The Samsung W2014 is an Android flip phone that is powered by a quad core 2.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, the handset also comes with 2GB […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 01:44 AM PST

If you are looking forward to the launch of the new Thief 4 game which is currently under development by Eidos Montreal and will be published by Square Enix. You are sure to enjoy this new two-minute Thief 4 trailer which is being created to provide you with a look at the new stories from the […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 01:40 AM PST

On the weekend we heard about a leaked Samsung Galaxy S3 Android 4.3 update, and not the official update has started rolling out for the Galaxy S3. The Samsung Galaxy S3 Android 4.3 update is for the handset with the model number GT-I9300, the update should be available for you handset as an over the […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 01:30 AM PST

As the launch of the highly anticipated next-generation Microsoft Xbox One edges ever closer, you might be interested in a new video which shows another look at the Xbox One dashboard and user interface. Providing you with a different run through of its features and layout thanks to Tom Warren who also narrates throughout the […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 12:40 AM PST

The Samsung Z9005 is expected to be Samsung’s first Tizen smartphone, we heard about the handsets specifications a while back and now we have an actual video of this new Tizen handset. We heard previously that the Samsung Z9005 would feature a HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, the handset is […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 12:27 AM PST

The Google Nexus 5 was announced last week, the handset also went up for sale and started shipping out to customers on Friday, although it would appear that some customers may have to wait a little longer. If you have ordered a Google Nexus 5 or are about to order one, you may see a […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 12:21 AM PST

One of the more frustrating aspects of The PSN store is that you can’t use Paypal to purchase your games. Well now, Sony has announced that users can add funds to their Sony Entertainment Network wallet through the PS3 PlayStation Store which now supports PayPal. PayPal integration was actually introduced earlier this year in January, […]

Posted: 04 Nov 2013 12:12 AM PST

Imagine a world were Apple and Google are partners. No, you have not stepped into the Twilight Zone, but have instead caught a glimpse inside of Steve Wozniak’s mind. The Apple co-founder told the BBC that “I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future.” Wozniak likes how Google’s search […]

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 10:31 PM PST

The unlocked version of the HSPA+ version of the Sony Xperia Z1 is already available in the United States, but if you’re waiting for a more carrier-friendly version, we have some good news for you. If you don’t remember, it was rumored earlier that Sony Xperia Z1 is hitting T-Mobile in the near future. It […]

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The Nexus 5 Difference

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 01:26 PM PST

Did anyone else know there were two different Nexus 5 models available for purchase? There's a North America model, D820, and a D821 model that's pretty much meant for the rest of the world. The D821 model may be a number higher, but the two phones are pretty much the same. The difference lies in […]

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Android Smartwatch Coming in December

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 01:20 PM PST

Android, the fashion watch company, is creating a smartwatch that is appropriately, or perhaps ironically, compatible with Android devices. It'll be available this December for Android users everywhere, although no news has been released about exactly when it'll be available or how much it'll launch for. The teaser trailer below is a little teaser trailer […]

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Jelly Bean now on 50+% of Androids

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 01:15 PM PST

I know the big news right now is the Nexus 5 and KitKat launch, which is Android 4.4, but it's going to be a while still before most of us have KitKat in our hands. Jelly Bean, Android 4.1 – 4.3, just made it onto 52.1% of all active Android devices, which is quite a […]

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 01:11 PM PST

Recent findings by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and Polish Wroclaw University of Technology have found that it's possible to use multi-photon lasers to distinguish protein masses that are thought to cause brain disease. Identifying the proteins is just the first step though. They also have to be removed, which can prove a challenging […]

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 01:02 PM PST

Many of us who had any doubt about the success of the new iPad Air should think again. Apple CEO Tim Cook mentioned at the earnings that the company is expecting strong iPad Air sales and it seems that it might be true. According to Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster, Apple might score a record iPad Air sales […]

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 12:12 PM PST

Google unveiled the latest Android 4.4 KitKat operating system on Thursday along with the long-rumored Google Nexus 5. The new operating system comes with a lot of new features with the most common one being the support for budget devices, as well as a few design changes. One thing that many of us failed to […]

Posted: 03 Nov 2013 11:38 AM PST

Google announced its next-generation operating system Android 4.4 KitKat on Thursday. Along with the announcement, Google also mentioned the list of devices that will get the latest Android 4.4 update. The list includes HTC One and Galaxy S4 Google Play edition, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10. In addition, Motorola and HTC also announced […]

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