BGR Daily Breaking Stories

Daily Headlines TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2015

These are all the best and worst things about the iPhone 6 Apple’s iPhone 6 was released more than three months ago now, but it’s still seemingly selling as quickly as Apple’s manufacturing partners can build it. Millions upon millions of people are still buying the new phone each month, and tens of millions more will purchase the phone over the course of the next few months. If you fall into the latter category, or if you’re considering an iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus purchase and still on the fence, there’s certainly no shortage of coverage to check out — here’s our iPhone 6 review from back in September, for example. But those of you looking for more recent impressions after a longer period of usage now have a great new option.  MORE → The Galaxy S6 news we’ve been waiting for may have just leaked We’re just months away from the unveiling of Samsung’s 2015 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S6, and it seems like we have been waiting forever. It’s not that the rumor cycle has been particularly long this time around, it’s that the Galaxy S5 was a pretty big disappointment all around, and smartphone fans are hoping that the Galaxy S6 makes up for lost time. Whether or not the Galaxy S6 actually will be the innovative phone we’ve been waiting for remains to be seen, but so far early rumors have definitely been promising. Now, another new report suggests that Samsung is definitely moving in the right direction with this year’s Galaxy S6.  MORE → New report details major improvements Apple may make with the iPhone 6s’s camera The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus both won wide acclaim for their cameras, even from some Android fans who admitted they were envious of the iPhone 6’s camera software. G for Games points us to a new report in Chinese language website United Daily News that claims Apple isn’t sitting on its laurels and plans to make some key changes to its smartphone camera for the iPhone 6s that will make it better than ever.  MORE → Watch this now: The second ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ trailer has arrived On Monday night, during the first ever College Football Playoff National Championship, Marvel debuted the second full-length trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron. The trailer was originally teased at the beginning of the month, but we didn’t expect to see quite so much new footage this time around.  MORE → An Apple supplier just debuted a phone with an ‘unbreakable’ sapphire screen Chinese company Desay has launched a new Android smartphone in the region, The Wall Street Journal reports, which offers high-end specs, a very affordable price, and an ultra-durable sapphire screen. Interestingly, Desay already has a supply business with Apple as a partner, although the company is believed to be focused on providing batteries for the iPhone maker.  MORE → You’ll soon be able to run Windows 10 on your Windows Phone Windows fans interested in experiencing Microsoft’s Windows 10 way ahead of its official release have been able to do so quite a while now, via the company’s official preview program. In addition to desktops, however, Windows 10 is also coming to mobile devices including tablets and smartphones, and a Windows Phone 10 preview version should be available by the end of the month, according to The Verge.  MORE → Charlie Hebdo fallout: U.K. wants to ban WhatsApp, iMessage and other encrypted chat apps In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack, some governments are already planning to take preemptive action against similar future events, by coming up with additional security means that could also further infringe on the privacy of regular users. Such is the case in the U.K., The Independent reports, where Prime Minister David Cameron said he wants to ban securely encrypted communication services including WhatsApp, SnapChat, iMessage and FaceTime should he win the next elections.  MORE → A tiny, flexible gold-plated device may be the key to restoring paralyzed humans’ spinal functions One of the health conditions modern medicine has yet to fix is paralysis in patients who have experienced accidents affecting their spinal cords. But, CNET reports, researchers from Switzerland have already come up with a tiny, flexible, gold-plated device that can be implanted in patients to restore spinal cord functionality and allow paralyzed patients to walk again.  MORE → ‘Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ is coming to CBS on September 8th It’s been tough to start 2015 knowing that we wouldn’t be seeing Stephen Colbert’s incredible character on our television screens any longer, but now we know when the man behind The Colbert Report will be making his triumphant return. CBS announced on Monday that Late Show with Stephen Colbert will debut on Tuesday, September 8th at 11:35 p.m. ET.  MORE → Watch the full trailer for Better Call Saul, the prequel to Breaking Bad Breaking Bad might have ended (rather emphatically) in 2013, but there’s still another story that needs to be told. On February 8th at 10 p.m. ET, Better Call Saul will premiere on AMC. The spin-off series will follow sleazy lawyer Saul Goodman (né James McGill) in the years before he became wrapped up with Walter White and Jesse Pinkman.  MORE →

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