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mardi 3 mai 2016

Toast Skins Need You! Grab A Free Skin

If you are the proud owner of an HTC 10 or Huawei Mate 8 and live in the U.S. you can grab a free Toast Skin by helping make two new device communities become toasted. Toast are best known for using only real natural materials in their skins, that means when you buy one of their leather, ash, bamboo, ebony, or walnut skin that’s exactly what you get!

In order for them to bring their products to new devices, they need to get their hands on devices for scanning/measuring first. By reaching out to the community for help they can keep costs down which in turn get passed on to you. Toast are now looking to borrow a HTC 10 and a Huawei Mate 8, they will handle all the shipping costs, promise to treat it with the utmost care and return it a couple of days later along with a Toast of your choosing! If you have a backup phone you could use for a couple of days, love freebies and are interested fill in the form below and they’ll be in touch soon!

If you are still undecided check out Mario’s review when he bought custom wooden skins for his Nexus 6P and Note 5 or head over to the Toast website to check out their other cool products

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Sony Xperia X Performance European Pricing Revealed; Xperia X Family Pre-orders Live for Europe

Good news is flowing in for Sony fans in Europe, as the pre-orders for the Sony Xperia X family (Xperia XA, Xperia X and Xperia X Performance) are now live on the Sony Store for Europe. Further, it has become known that the Xperia X Performance will cost €699 and launch in early July 2016, but only for select European nations.



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Google Announces New APIs for Chrome 51

In Chrome v51, Google has introduced two emerging web standards, passive event listeners and Intersection Observer. Touch event listeners will not only improve the scrolling experience, but it will also help to improve user engagement analytics. Intersection Observer will help to provide viewability information in a more efficient way since a site can receive a callback when any element intersects a watched element.

 



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Intel Reportedly Sunk $10+ Billion in Mobile Before Giving Up

Just last week we told you about reports of Intel cutting 11% of its workforce as well as cancelling major projects aimed at mobile products. Analyst Jan Dawson from Jackdaw Research believes Intel invested “well over $10 billion” in an attempt to make the company relevant in the mobile industry. This data comes from a 2014 report of $7.4 billion in losses, along with projected estimates into 2016.



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What Do You Think About Multiwindow on Phones?

Multiwindow has been in the works on Android for a while now. But with Android N, the feature appears to be a lot more polished than its initial appearances, likely in anticipation of making its primetime debut with the official public release of Android N.

However, multiwindow on phones is not always well-received. Screen sizes aside, developers of certain apps may not want to enable multi-window functionality for their app for fear of breaking important parts of their UI.

So, what do you think about multiwindow functionality, specifically on phones? Will it be something you would use on your phone in your daily usage? Would it be a sensible feature to switch on by default universally across Android, with no minimum limit on screen size?

Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!



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HTC Smartwatch Allegedly Scheduled for June Release

Last year the HTC smartwatch was rumored to be released in February, then it was said to be delayed and pushed back for a release sometime in April. Well, we are into May and there still hasn’t been talk of an HTC smartwatch. Evan Blass claims to know more about it now and says it will be released on “the week of June 6th.”



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LeEco Reportedly Buys 48.6 Acres of Land from Yahoo

Yahoo originally purchased these 48.6 acres of land about 10 years ago for $106 million as they were wanting to create a new headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Nothing ever happened to it and to this day it remains undeveloped. It’s unknown exactly what LeEco plans to do with the land (as they’ve already opened up a headquarters in San Jose), but it seems they have big plans.



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