BGR Daily Breaking Stories

Daily Headlines FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2015

Apple isn’t even Samsung’s biggest nightmare Samsung’s holiday quarter wasn’t as devastating as the previous quarter, which saw the company’s profit plummet 60% on-year, but the company’s fourth-quarter report still showed steep declines in profit and revenue as Samsung continues its struggle to steady the ship. The South Korean giant has enjoyed explosive growth over the past couple of years, but pressure from Apple at the high end and from dirt-cheap Android phone makers at the low end has created a puzzle that Samsung can’t quite seem to piece together yet. There is no question that the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus comprise a terrifying nightmare for Samsung, which has seen its high-end phone sales dwindle since the phones were released this past September. But as it turns out, Samsung’s biggest headache may lie elsewhere.  MORE → Study: iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are the most valuable handsets of 2014 A British study conducted by trade-in monitoring company CompareMyMoble, and shared by Phone Arena, reveals that Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are the most valuable devices of 2014, followed distantly by Samsung phones such as the Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 3.  MORE → The 2-minute ‘Game of Thrones’ season 5 trailer you’ve been waiting for just leaked HBO has always been a cut above the competition, but the network really outdid itself with Game of Thrones. The big-budget fantasy series based on George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book series quickly became one of HBO’s most popular shows ever, and its fifth season is easily its most highly anticipated season yet. HBO has posted short clips along with a teaser here and there, but now the big 2-minute Game of Thrones season 5 you’ve been waiting for has just leaked.  MORE → Video: Watch Marshawn Lynch and Gronk play Mortal Kombat on Conan Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch and Rob Gronkowski are two of the NFL’s most entertaining personalities, although for very different reasons. While Gronk is a gregarious, hard-partying lug, Lynch is often hilariously unfriendly during media interviews and will often respond with a single sentence to every question he gets asked. Conan O’Brien decided to get the two of them together during Super Bowl week down in Arizona to play the yet-to-be-released game Mortal Kombat X and the results were about as amusing as you’d expect.  MORE → Google explains how its email killer is changing your life Google on Thursday posted an infographic detailing the usage of its latest email-killing product, Inbox by Gmail, while simultaneously offering users the chance of getting free Inbox invites for a 24-hour period.  MORE → Bring AdBlock to the real world with Brand Killer If you live in the city, you’ve probably stopped noticing the advertisements that flood your vision every time you leave your place. They’re so omnipresent that they’ve just become an inseparable part of your world, but what if you could block them out just like you block the ads on your computer?  MORE → Google Fiber is going out of its way to make rival ISPs miserable Remember when AT&T issued a high-decibel shriek that reclassifying ISPs as common carriers would kill off its ability to invest in future network buildouts and upgrades? Well, it turns out that not every ISP thinks that way.  MORE → Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S Edge expected to include Gear VR support Against all odds, the Gear VR turned out to be an incredibly cool accessory. Unfortunately, unless you own a Galaxy Note 4, you aren’t able to use one, but according to SamMobile, that’s going to change. SamMobile’s sources say that both the Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S Edge will support the virtual reality display when they launch later this year.  MORE → How to make a four-year-old MacBook Pro run like a ‘brand-new computer’ for just $170 MacBook Pros are great computers but they can always benefit from getting a nice hardware upgrade. A Redditor at r/apple who goes by the name of ZuluZuluZuluZulu has posted a quick guide for anyone who wants to make their old MacBook Pro run like brand new for a relatively small sum of just under $...  MORE → How to make a four-year-old MacBook Pro run like a ‘brand-new computer’ for just $170 MacBook Pros are great computers but they can always benefit from getting a nice hardware upgrade. A Redditor at r/apple who goes by the name of ZuluZuluZuluZulu has posted a quick guide for anyone who wants to make their old MacBook Pro run like brand new for a relatively small sum of just under $170.  MORE →