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Daily Headlines FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2014

How to save a ton of money when you buy your next iPhone Smartphones are expensive. It’s an inescapable part of living in modern day society, but there are ways to significantly decrease the price of your next smartphone if you know where to look. PhoneArena notes in a recent article that most carriers offer preowned, refurbished phones at a discount, so whether you’re looking for an iPhone 6 or an LG G3, there’s probably a deal for you.  MORE → This is the next awesome feature coming to Google’s Inbox app If a team of engineers at Google is to be believed, the company’s new Inbox app is the future of email and it will eventually replace Gmail entirely. That’s a long-term goal, of course. In the meantime, Google’s fresh new take on email in an experiment that aims to help people better manage the flood of messages we all receive each day. As an added bonus, Inbox will allow user to test all sorts of cool features in the coming months — and one of the next new features the app will get will be hugely appreciated.  MORE → A huge leak may have just revealed the Galaxy S6’s monster specs Various reports have claimed that Samsung is designing its next-gen top Android handset from scratch in an attempt to reinvent its flagship smartphone, as the previous Galaxy S5 and Galaxy S4 failed to really impress buyers. A new report from Chinese publication cnmo.com suggests that the Galaxy S6 might have already been spotted in AnTuTu, with the benchmark app having possibly revealed the phone’s specs in the process.  MORE → The hottest Samsung Galaxy phones won’t be upgraded to Lollipop until early 2015 Even though some Galaxy S5 models have already started receiving the Android 5.0 Lollipop update much earlier than anticipated, Samsung apparently revealed that most hot Galaxy handsets won’t be upgraded to Google’s latest mobile operating system until some point in early 2015.  MORE → Here are the next two phones set to receive Android Lollipop updates HTC on Thursday announced that its 2013 and 2014 flagship devices will be updated to Android 5.0 Lollipop starting on December 5th (around noon), but there’s a huge catch for getting your HTC One (M7) or HTC One (M8) upgraded to Google’s latest Android operating system: You must own a Google Play Edition (GPE) device in order to be eligible for the upgrade.  MORE → The latest big leak in the Sony hack is a huge file directory for passwords… called ‘Password’ Sony Pictures recent data breach might be the biggest yet even though it might not affect as many people as recent credit and debit card thefts, as hackers stole a huge number of files related to the company’s business — from unreleased movies and future plans to personal data belonging to employees and internal files — exposing many of them online.  MORE → This awesome iOS keyboard does something that SwiftKey, Swype and others can’t With so many third-party iOS 8 keyboards to choose from these days, standing out can be a huge challenge for anyone who’s not an established player. New iOS keyboard Nintype, however, brings something completely new to the table in that it lets you use two fingers at once to quickly zip out messages on your smartphone.  MORE → iPhone 6 sneaks into Yahoo’s top 10 searches of 2014 As has become the trend, celebrities dominated the charts in Yahoo’s yearly ranking of top searches for 2014. Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian and Miley Cyrus are unsurprising additions to the list, but climbing its way into ninth position is one device that people around the country are still lining up for months after launch: the iPhone 6.  MORE → Use this clever Moto X trick to turn on your voice commands without saying a word One of the things we liked the best about the second-generation Moto X was the way Motorola thoughtfully added a small number of software features to Android that didn’t come off as gimmicks and actually really helped improve the phone’s user experience. In particular, we liked how Motorola cleverly made gestures and touch-free voice commands an integral part of the user experience for the device in a way that neither Samsung, LG or HTC had successfully done so far.  MORE → Amazon CEO inadvertently explains why even the Fire Phone was a better idea than Windows 8 Amazon’s Fire Phone is without a doubt this year’s biggest mobile flop but Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos isn’t too worried about it. The reason, he tells Business Insider, is that he tries to foster a corporate culture that encourages experimentation and that tolerates failure, at least on a limited basis. After all, not every risky bet you take will pay off and you have to live with the hits as well as the misses if you want to remain an innovative company.  MORE →

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