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I welcome to CES here at the scene at stage CES 2014 we're live here at the stage at the Las Vegas Convention Center I'm Donald Bell she's Bridget Carey and we're going to get to the news lots of it plenty of it we're gonna be talking yesterday was pressed day which we'll see maybe had more announcements than I've ever seen yes so far so we have a lot to talk about already especially if you didn't join us yesterday so we're gonna recap some of that stuff I think most of the stuff we saw yesterday from press day was television related i'd say at least a lot of the big announcements tvs are always big at the show tvs are big of the show last year was the kind of the big debut of 4k this year they they mean it every every TV we're seeing this year is 4k more 4k better 4k may be cheaper for K although prices really haven't been attached to any of these TVs yet but we we heard from Samsung we heard from LG or from Panasonic we saw TVs from all of them the most notable all seem to be these curved televisions without the transcript I'm gonna get to that one I think I even before that there is a Dueling 105 inch already curve permanently curved displays from Samsung and LG that were nearly identical they might differ on price once we learn what the price will be if anyone needs a hundred and five inch TV curved or not delivered to their home probably a wall will have to get knocked down in order for that to happen but the the other thing we saw was samsung had for the people who couldn't quite were on the fence maybe about what kind of television they want to be curved or no my flat you want curved they had a transforming it was like an 85-inch a more reasonably sized TV I suppose ya still too big for me but a bendable TV a transfer button and it goes from flat to a little curve you know fun gimmick are we are we that desperate to find something new to sell us on now for tv's if you can't make up your mind it is interesting because maybe you don't want to go all the way with a curb TV if you're not sure if you're going to like it or not so they had that middle ground that maybe if you have a you know curve is supposed to be immersive if you have a big audience you can flatten it out every time I talk to someone about the curved TVs here the follow-up question is so why does it matter and I'm it doesn't it really doesn't it's like it's like the bell bottoms of TV's now it's like it's really it's gonna be a fad right I think from like a cinema file perspective if you're really getting that like that really thin like 21 is it figure the aspect ratio but like the cinema aspect ratio and you're getting the curve you might have a more movie like experience yeah but otherwise I don't know it's just kind of a trend all right so you probably already heard about all the television stuff but what we haven't talked about a lot yet are the phones of CES and there's a reason for that there usually isn't a lot of interesting phone announcements at CES butlers either come from one-off announcements from like a samsung or their come from Mobile World Congress which happens pretty soon after this but we do see phones here we do get some interesting phone news I think one of the most interesting bits of information we got is that AT&T has just announced they're sponsored data program for companies this is a get free data the deal is here is that ATT is opening up the possibility for say like a yahoo or cnet to absorb the cost of delivering data to a customer so like if I a cell phone customer maybe has a very limited tier data plan on their phone they don't want to waste any of it going to you know a Google or Yahoo or whatever that that company Google or Yahoo can absorb the cost of providing that data to the customer so that they can go there without incurring any data use interesting way 482 make a little more exactly so they get a check from that company sponsoring it's like a 1-800 number for websites delivered to mobile devices yeah so also it'll be interesting to see who takes him up on that it starts and starts testing that out you know right like browsing on the web I think the there ATT is claiming this is a way for them to ease congestion of their network but then the BS call on that people have already made is that it still is the same data it's just that they're getting paid from a different source yeah I mean data's where they make their money yeah so interesting well it'll be we'll see if that becomes a trend whether or not companies bite on absorbing the cost or not for sponsoring data to customers it seems like an awful idea to me but I'm not a corporate fat cat so I don't know there was some other what mobile news of a different flavor that I came up last night under we caught this about t-mobile were their CEO John Ledger tried to crash the AT&T party last night I mean it was like a Macklemore performance is macklemore ryan lewis and he ended up getting tickets apparently from macklemore's agents so after getting kicked out no actually well I'm not sure all the details but but i know that when he got there he ran into our CNN executive editor roger cheng who quickly tweeted a picture of john ledger crashing the party and not 15 minutes after that tweet went up ATT security came by and escorted him and his team away and he's he's there wearing his big old pink you know t-mobile shirt all proud you know being Batman like it usually it wasn't too incognito yeah so um yeah then he got back in I think macklemore ryan lewis's publicist god man yeah well it's still one of those things where it's like it's that cool or not I don't know but it is show that t-mobile has likes to likes to you know shake it up shake it up and they're also having their own announcement on Wednesday so I have to keep tuned to that one of their uncarrier announcements to see how they're going to shake things up again with how they charge customers all right one of the cooler actual pieces of hardware I've seen from CES Jessica dual-core has a piece on a blackberry styled physical keyboard case for the iphone this is really interesting because it provides for all those blackberry people who can't give up their keyboard this is the this is the answer supposedly Jessica dual core is actually pretty excited about it it's got a lot of buzz even before CES everyone's been waiting to see what it's like in person and it's it's supposedly just exactly styled after the blackberry physical keyboard so it gives you that tactile interface for your keyboard it's so exact that blackberry is actually yeah they're they're gonna have to deal with that lawsuit now for the fact that the keyboard is too much alike yeah there was a lot of a hype about that because everyone's like Oh finally a good keyboard for an iphone yeah yeah maybe maybe that'll take off or not lot to see i also like this this is a phone from cat like the the manufacturer of like construction trucks and equipment a super ruggedized phone that can just take a beating we've seen these kind of year after year this is like the updated version of it the specs are nothing that you would go out and buy for necessarily but if you want to look like a real be a Karen a phone around this is like the ultra testosterone phone of the year yeah you could probably you know run it over with construction equipment all right two more stories here another big trend here at CES 2014 are the wearables yes the pebble steel watch did you get a chance to see this yet oh this thing looks so slick this is the pebble 2 point 0 pebble was big last year at the show and now it's comes in metal yeah well so it looks like it's slim down it kind of looks like a big like a like a toy it look like a toy that was strapped to your wrist this one goes incognito and I don't think it's going to trip off the nerd alert when you wear it around we'll see it's got a lot of apps now they didn't have an app store before now there's apps already from foursquare in yelp and ESPN and it works with Mercedes cars so they're really kind of showing how your SmartWatch can actually make sense to you for glancing at information very clear right and then for the more fitness friendly or at least fitness focused wearable tech there's the razor Naboo when I did not expect to see because razor is like more of a gaming peripheral company but they've got the Naboo hark tractor with two screens yeah that's the big innovation here one that just kind of tips you off that something's happened the smaller screen and anyone you want to get more information you flip it around you can actually read a text message or a tweet or whatever I kind of like the best of both worlds fitness and also your texting I can show Twitter messages on it too yeah you know of course I thought its finds the name they picked Naboo nope he's not like the Star Wars Naboo nab you all right so that was all the news from before CES has even kicked off because we are here right now on the first day 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