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Blackberry Priv Unboxing & Get a OnePlus X without an Invite? - Android Weekly

2015-11-02
this episode of Edward authority is brought to you by domain.com now if you are quick and depending on where you live in the world I may be able to help you buy a oneplus X without having to go through the pesky invite system I know you're thinking Jase oneplus will be selling a limited number of its X smartphones each day at pop-up stores appearing in the following cities the handsets will be sold on a first-come first-served basis so you'll probably have to be fast to avoid disappointment now the first pop-up store has already arrived in Paris today November 2nd but the deven will be located right here and although it started today at 11 a.m. Paris time it will run until November 4th here's a list of the other scheduled cities and dates Paris London Berlin Rome Hong Kong and Los Angeles now oneplus did say that they would be having other events today and tomorrow in Mumbai and Delhi but with the wording it suggests that they wouldn't be selling phones there any of you who are in these cities and buy these phones tell me about it please show me a photo tell me about the phone shared on Twitter or Google+ and I will add it in next week's show now let's move on to the BlackBerry Prive the Prive originally referred to as the Venice is set to ship November 6 for customers in the US on the other side of the pond however UK retailer Carphone Warehouse has received a release unit and unboxed it for us all to behold we first get a quick look at the packaging which contains the words privilege and privacy now for the British they pronounced a privacy privacy giving a some indication on how blackberry chose the name the video also demonstrates several unique blackberry features carried over from bb10 blackberry hub is retained and can be accessed by holding down the home button and swiping to the right hub is also a one-stop go for all your notifications the Printz virtual keyboard allowed you to quote flick word predictions into the text field by swiping up from a key now the is $750 u.s. unlocked to me an ominous indication of how well the phone is going to sell it's not good friends now let's talk about a new launcher from Microsoft the Redmond computer giant introduces a new app that some of you may be familiar with it's called the arrow launcher the launcher is optimized for the Android experience but it is unlike vanilla Android or most other third-party launchers for that matter the whole point of microsoft's customized UI is that it tries to offer a smarter experience and adapts to your own usage habits it gets rid of all the extra fluff and tries to put all your information front and center you will notice it really has no homescreen the UI consists of three sections people apps notes and reminders the people section unites your contacts and messaging services so all your recent numbers messages and email addresses will be readily available there you can also dial your own digits and find people other features include widgets page rearrangement a customizable dock icon pack support and more now we did receive a little hint that Google may be getting into the hardware market even more historically google hasn't been much of a hardware company having relied on partnerships with OEMs to bring products like its Chromebooks and Nexus smartphones to market that changed with the Chromebook pixel and more recently with the pixel see tablet a new Google job listing for a quote multimedia chip architect suggests that Google may be planning to go all the way and design its own processors for future products as well now the listing was apparently posted by the pixel division and Jim McGregor a chip expert said this with the trend towards vertical integration especially at Microsoft and Apple it wouldn't surprise me if Google developed their own chips especially for Android productivity tablets to compete with the surface pro and iPad pro now that makes sense and please bring on those productivity tablets so do you guys will remember from like 15 years ago when people were making money hand over fist in the dot-com bubble remember we didn't call it a dotnet bubble or dot org bubble we didn't call them dot biz billionaires we called them dot-com billionaires because that's the power of a dot-com now why is that because no domain name extension tells your story with the same degree of trust as a dot-com or dotnet domain name.com and dotnet domain name extensions inject credibility into your online presence save 15% on domain names and web hosting when you use our coupon code Android at domain.com check out when you think domain names think domain.com thanks for watching and word army my name is Jace love to connect with you right here on Google+ or Twitter and don't forget about my brothers and sister and Android we're working super hard to be your source for all things Android
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