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over pins passwords and fingerprint scanners now all this came coupled with the news from the Korean site ZDNet that samsung is now ready to start mass-producing the w qhd display that crazy crazy big display for a mobile phone as early as february2014 does that mean that's when we can see the flagship Galaxy s5 launch we don't know but those high resolution displays are confirmed and I have to echo the complaint that many of you have that you know we have this crazy ever increasing high resolution screens on small mobile devices and yet so little innovation when it comes to practical things like battery lights whoo but from a marketing perspective you can see how easier and sexier it is to sell that big 2k display and a little device than it is battery life schmaderer life I mean come on look at the benefits with that kind of display you could zoom in painfully close to see my nose hairs see if you look over here you can see a mix and red and brown and over here there's some chunky stuff I can never get out no matter how well I clean it moving on to some great news with regards to the granddaddy of custom roms cyanogenmod opal has announced via their Google+ page that the opal and one version running cyanogenmod will ship as early as December 24th but if that wasn't wonderful news enough the senate mod team announced a huge milestone in their history just last Thursday the Oppo n1 will be the first google certified santa gen mod fun do you know what that means puppies well this means that this google certified phone will be able to access the google play store play google apps without having to sideload anything that my friends deserves a happy dance for every freedom lover out there daddy boo don't jump again I'll go get mom okay okay I should just really move on to pebble smartwatch news though the company behind the pebble smartwatch has launched what's called the pebble education project whereby they are donating more than 4,000 smartwatches to engineering and computer science students across the u.s. why well not only to teach them about SmartWatch technology but to increase the possibility that those engineers will they go on to create new apps for the new pebble appstore not to feel left out if your university has not been included in this program you can go to the pebble website and submit an application on behalf of your university but if you're older like me and out of school and you still want to take advantage of these great gadgets android authority has some great deals for you below where you can get the SmartWatch and the chromecast for fantastic deals right now and if you're really quick you can get them before Christmas good luck now because I'm one of those people who have the uncanny ability to capture people's pictures at just the right moment those pictures are precious you do not want to lose them capturing my son's face when I let him win at battlefield 4 and then again when I pone him on cod and then when I got him 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