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Sprint and Boost Mobile announced on Tuesday that the waterproof Kyocera Hydro Edge will be offered later this summer. Pricing and exact timing are not clear however we’ll get those details closer to the launch. Key specifications for the Kyocera Hydro EDGE include Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, a 4-inch IPS impact-resistant display, 1GHz dual-core processor, and 5-megapixel rear camera. With an IP57 rating, the handset can withstand dust and water immersion (up to 30 minutes in 1 meter of water). Waterproof Kyocera Hydro Edge Splashes into Sprint and Boost Mobile this Summer LAS VEGAS – May 21, 2013 – Get summer-ready and ditch the water-damage worries of texting near water. Today,Sprint (NYSE:S), Boost Mobile and Kyocera Communications Inc. announce the upcoming availability of the Kyocera Hydro Edge smartphone. Whether it’s dropped in water or run through the sprinkler, Hydro Edge is built to withstand sprayed water or submersion in up to 3.28 feet of fresh water for 30 minutes. Building on the success of the original Kyocera Hydro, which launched at Boost Mobile in 2012, Hydro Edge will be available this summer from both Sprint and Boost Mobile, one of Sprint’s no-contract[1] brands. Hydro Edge boasts many enhancements to its predecessor, including a dual-core processor, 4-inch touchscreen, Android 4.1 and Kyocera’s Smart Sonic Receiver technology. Exact pricing and launch date will be announced closer to availability. “Just about everyone knows someone who has damaged their phone in water,” said Fared Adib, senior vice president-Product Development, Sprint. “Kyocera Hydro Edge is the perfect smartphone to eliminate the panic of water damage for busy parents or anyone who works outside – from lifeguards to landscape architects. Sprint is making it even more affordable to enjoy Hydro Edge by giving our customers the choice between Sprint and Boost Mobile for their device purchase.” The benefits of Hydro Edge from Sprint include: Upfront savings on the device with a new two-year service agreement or eligible upgrade. Truly UnlimitedSM data, text and calling to any mobile with no metering, no throttling, and no overages, all while on the Sprint network. Sprint is the most improved company in customer satisfaction, across all 47 industries, over the last five years, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Sprint customers have access to Sprint’s Ready Now service where trained retail associates will work one-on-one with customers to personalize their Kyocera Hydro Edge and set up such features as email, Web and apps before leaving the store. Customers have the choice of sitting down with a Sprint retail associate at the time of purchase or scheduling an appointment online for a later time. Customers choosing to dip their Hydro Edge into the no-contract pool with Boost Mobile will appreciate: Boost Mobile’s no-contract $55 Android Monthly Unlimited plan with unlimited nationwide talk, text and picture messaging, Web, email and calls to 411. ·         Significant savings over the life of their Hydro Edge with Boost Mobile’s Shrinking Payments: for every six on-time payments, the cost of Boost Mobile’s Monthly Unlimited plan shrinks by $5, eventually getting down to as low as $40 a month. Payments do not need to be consecutive to qualify for the next savings milestone. Boost Mobile’s award-winning experience: Boost has been recognized by J.D. Power and Associates as “Highest Satisfaction with the Purchase Experience among Non-Contract Wireless Providers.”[2] Regardless of how you pay for your wireless services, Kyocera Hydro Edge on Sprint and Boost includes: Android™ 4.1, Jelly Bean 1GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon® processor Smart Sonic Receiver technology – improves audio in noisy environments 4-inch capacitive impact-resistant touchscreen 5-megapixel camera with LED flash and video camera “Kyocera Hydro Edge is the next generation of the original Kyocera Hydro, which launched at Boost Mobile in 20

If you checked out the beta of the complete Opera browser app back in March and want to see the progress that was made, you can now try the complete real deal. Released this morning to Google Play, Opera brings a full-web experience, complete with custom features that make browsing the web painless and quick.  The browser [...] Full Version of Opera Released for Android, Features Speed Dial and... Click the post title to continue through and join the conversation!

Yesterday, Google announced they would shutter the Checkouts program for online merchants. Instead, those online retailers who utilize Checkouts are urged to migrate to Google Wallet, which has made some recent improvements ahead of this announcement. Those improvements, geared toward making life easier for merchants, include a few new APIs. The Instant Buy API is meant to allow for faster checkout, especially on mobile devices. The Wallet Objects API allows for a loyalty rewards program, like earned points. For merchants who may not have a payment processing portal, Google has wisely approached a few of the bigger names to offer a discounted rate for those who need to sign up. Retailers can get up to a 20% discount at Braintree, Shopify, or Freshbooks just for being a new Google Wallet customer. Freshbooks is even offering a 60 day free trial for those who migrate. There is no rush for retailers, though. They’ll have until November 20, 2013 to find new solutions for their business. Google has made the migration process as seamless as possible, which will trickle down to consumers. We only hope retailers take advantage of all that Google has on offer. A faster checkout with a rewards program sounds like e-commerce heaven.

The waterproof Kyocera Hydro Edge joins Boost and separately Sprint’s network this summer. It can withstand a splash of water and submersion in up to 3.28 feet of fresh water for 30 minutes. The new Hydro Edge will run on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), powered by 1GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 4-inch durable screen, 5-megapixel rear shooter with LED flash, Smart Sonic... View ArticleKyocera Hydro Edge for Boost Mobile & Sprint is a post from: AndroidTapp.com Check Out More Related: Kyocera Hydro XTRM for U.S. Cellular The Kyocera Echo, The First Dual-Touchscreen Android Smartphone Boost Mobile & Virgin Mobile gets Samsung Galaxy S3

The Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 now has a price tag attached to it, at least for the UK market, courtesy of retailer Clove. Clove, which has the Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 available for pre-order at the moment, offers it in both white and black versions. Still, you can only get the 16GB model, as the 8GB version isn’t listed. The price, no matter what color option you choose, is £460 (VAT included) – not including VAT, the phone costs £383.33. As far as the release date goes for the large-sized device (you can see how large it is in these hands-on pictures), it is the same as the one Carphone Warehouse has listed a few days ago, namely the month of July. The Galaxy Mega 5.8 won’t be coming to the UK at all, so you’ll have to settle for the large version. The Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 is aimed at those buyers looking for a device with a truly large screen. It has a 6.3-inch touchscreen at 720p resolution, and features a dual-core CPU and 1.5GB of RAM memory. Internal memory is 8 or 16GB (expandable using the microSD slot), with an 8-megapixel rear camera allowing you to take pictures wherever you go. The front camera is a 1.9-megapixel one and it’s also important to know that the smartphone runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean with Samsung’s own TouchWiz interface on top of it. If that all sounds interesting, pre-orders at Clove are underway, so you can make sure you get yours come July. Are you thinking about pre-ordering a Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3?

If you’ve checked out the new Hangouts app on AT&T, chances are you’re pretty familiar with the message stating “You must be connected to a Wi-Fi network to join a video call”. Heck, you’re even used to it if you’ve tried to use FaceTime over their cellular data network. According to AT&T at first, the issue with Hangouts was to be blamed on Google. According to them, since the app replaced a native Android app (Talk), then it was up to Google to make it work. Now, however, AT&T has come out to say that all their video chat apps will work over mobile data by the end of the year. In a statement, AT&T said: For video chat apps that come pre-loaded on devices, we currently give all OS and device makers the ability for those apps to work over cellular for our customers who are on Mobile Share or Tiered plans. Apple, Samsung and Blackberry have chosen to enable this for their pre-loaded video chat apps. And by mid-June, we’ll have enabled those apps over cellular for our unlimited plan customers who have LTE devices from those three manufacturers. Throughout the second half of this year, we plan to enable pre-loaded video chat apps over cellular for all our customers, regardless of data plan or device; that work is expected to be complete by yearend. Today, all of our customers can use any mobile video chat app that they download from the Internet, such as Skype. Be sure to let us know your thoughts below. via engadget The post AT&T: we plan to enable pre-loaded video chat apps over cellular for all our customers appeared first on AndroidGuys.

When users speak of 4G, it is like talking about finding a four leaf clover (it is pretty darn hard to find.) When you find that four leaf clover however (or a 4G footprint in this case, ) you feel like the luckiest person in the world. Hopefully the days of roaming around hoping to find a random connection is behind us, with the introduction of Mosaik’s CellMaps Mobile Coverage app. Announced today at CTIA 2013, the coverage app lets U.S. Andy owners see 4G availability for AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon in real time. Users can also view cellular network services in their current area or scan the overall 4G picture nationally. Even more appealing is the ability to filter 4G coverage in smaller details such as 2G, 3G, 4G, and 4G LTE. The CellMaps Mobile Coverage app is available now for free via Google Play, or you can choose to upgrade the application by purchasing the $1.99 annual subscription. The post See 4G coverage in real time with new app from Mosaik appeared first on AndroidGuys.

While far from the biggest player in the browser wars, Opera has been around in one form or another since the mid-90s. Hoping to expand its presence, the company announced in February their plans to ditch the Presto framework. Shortly after, the Opera Beta app was released, leaping over to the WebKit rendering engine. Today marks another big milestone for Opera, they are losing the “Beta” tag on their Android app. So what’s new now that the app is out of the awkward Beta phase? Mostly it is about speed improvements and bug fixes, but there are also some changes such as the option to toggle the navigation bar from the top or bottom of the screen and the ability to wrap text when zooming. For those who have yet to play around with the Beta, you’ll also find quite a few other exciting features. The two biggest of these are Discover and Off-Road. The former of these features is designed to recommend content for users and is also populated with content from user-chosen categories. As for Off-Road, it connects you to the web through a proxy. Using the Opera proxy, the data is compressed before it is sent to your mobile device, which means it should play nicely with slower, unreliable networks. This is likely just the beginning for Opera, who already confirms that they will be making the move to Google’s WebKit fork Blink in the near-future. The big question is whether these changes will be enough for Opera’s browser to truly take on rivals such as Chrome and Firefox. For those that have yet to try it out, you can grab it now through Google Play. Readers that have already tried it out, what do you think?

Available from June, no pricing details available yet Following T-Mobile's announcement yesterday, Sprint-based MVNOs Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile have confirmed that they'll offer a 4G LTE-capable Galaxy S3 from next month. The device will run on Sprint's 4G LTE network, which will be available to Virgin and Boost customers in some 88 markets. Pricing for the phone itself remains up in the air, but you'll get the usual range of price plan options from Boost and Virgin. On the Boost Mobile side, you've got the Android Monthly plan with shrinking payments, starting at $55 per month, going down to $40 in $5 increments. That gets you unlimited calls, texts and web use. With Virgin Mobile, you've got monthly no-contract plans starting at $35 per month, which give you unlimited messaging and data. Besides the changes in availability and price, this device is essentially the same Sprint Galaxy S3 we've gotten to know over the past year -- 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 CPU, 2GB of RAM, 720p SuperAMOLED display and 8-megapixel rear camera. On the software side, you've got TouchWiz'd Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean out of the box.

Samsung’s ‘galaxy” line has been long joked about to be a hint at their intention to take over the universe, but the latest analytics numbers may prove that to be startlingly accurate. Not in a literal sense, of course, but rather in a financial way. According to research from Strategy Analytics, Samsung raked in a full ninety-five percent of the total profits made on global Android devices in the first quarter of this year. According to the study, total profits made from Android in Q1 were an estimated $5.3 billion. How much did Samsung take in out of that amount? According to the report: We estimate Samsung’s Android smartphone shipments generated US$5.1 billion of operating profit worldwide in Q1 2013. Samsung captured a huge 95 percent share of all Android smartphone industry profits. An efficient supply chain, sleek products and crisp marketing have been among the main drivers of Samsung’s impressive profitability. LG followed in second place and took 3 percent global profit share. The report goes on to say that, while LG did see a small profit, the company simply does not have the massive “volume scale needed to match Samsung’s outsized profits”. Neil Mawston, Director of Strategy Analytics, believes that Samsung is now making more money off of Android than Google. Let that sink in for a moment. via strategyanalytics | digitaltrends The post Running the tables: Samsung took 95% of global profits earned from Android in Q1 2013 appeared first on AndroidGuys.