Gadgetory

it's time for gold galaxies and new kindles but not gold Kindles I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update Gold seems to be the new smartphone trend the gold iPhone 5s is a popular model and now it looks like Samsung is going to sell a gold galaxy s4 Samsung's Middle East Twitter and Facebook accounts posted photos of the galaxy s4 with a gold back plate and the front plate around the screen comes in either pink or brown we don't even know the price or even if this will be coming to America or other countries of course if you want your phone in real 24 karat gold there's always gold genie com the website is selling an actual gold iPhone 5s for under two thousand nine hundred dollars but if that's too pricey the real gold HTC One is a deal at just over two thousand five hundred dollars and if you think gold is a strange trend how about curved screens Samsung's already on it and plans to show off a smartphone with a curved display in October an executive of Samsung shared the news with Reuters indicating that the curved smartphone screen will be introduced first in South Korea now Samsung has shown off concepts for flexible screen back in January we just never saw it in a smartphone yet and here's some more practical tech amazon just came out with new versions of the Kindle Fire color tablets this third-generation lineup begins with the kindle fire HD it's got the same innards as last year but with a new outside design and it starts at one hundred and thirty dollars the more improved version is the kindle fire HDX it comes in a 7 inch screen starting at two hundred and thirty dollars and the 8.9 inch version starts at three hundred and eighty dollars the HDX models have a higher resolution display and each have top-of-the-line processors which means they'll be great for gaming other than size the only other difference between the HDX models is that only the larger 8.9 has a back camera the rest just have front-facing cameras there's new software to these tablets will have a mayday button that you can press to get tech support at any time amazon prime videos can now be downloaded ahead of time if you're traveling without an internet connection and you can't stream it and x-ray is now available for music so you can follow along with the lyrics kind of like karaoke or you could just find out what song is playing in a movie or TV show amazon is taking pre-orders now but the shipping times are all spread out first comes the regular fire HD that's next week then the HDX 7 inch arrives October 18th and the larger HDX 8.9 begins shipping november seventh that's your tech news update but you can get more details on these stories at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey