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