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T-Mobile, Nokia, and Oculus Rift: 90 Seconds on The Verge

2014-01-08
it's Wednesday January 8 2014 i'm ross miller and sometimes you just need a break from all this chaos of CES this is 90 seconds on the verge the uncarrier bad boy reputation continues brash profane t-mobile CEO John ledger today promise that the carrier will now pay up to three hundred and fifty dollars per line to cover the cost of breaking your current phone contract and switching to t-mobile ledger is calling it a get-out-of-jail-free card so here's an idea call your family plan beauty chest Nokia's been building its own android smartphone and now we're starting to the first screens of its user interface it looks like a mix of Windows Phone in Nokia's own asha platform with hardware support for dual SIM cards Nokia's version of Android said to be a forked version the platform that's not aligned with Google's version the fate of Nokia android phone is still unclear but we'll probably know more soon Microsoft will finish acquiring the company in the next couple months and finally oculus rift the virtual reality headsets made waves at CES last year Evans now come back the latest version of the headset is a high-resolution prototype called Crystal Cove which uses an oled display that significantly brings down latency issues och us is also using a technique called low persistence of vision which makes nauseating motion blur virtually invisible the oculus rift is due out this year and rumor has it may even develop its own video games that's it for today's top stories you know I am feeling a little better coming up tomorrow full night's sleep and a hearty breakfast all right now let's start the show hmm breezy in here
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