Chris and Taylor talk about the new BlackBerry Passport, Amazon’s new tablets and Kindles, iPhone 6 reactions, a new Age of Empires, and some home theater tech.
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Top News
- A Phone Only a BlackBerry User Will Love via ReCode
- Samsung Galaxy Alpha launches exclusively on AT&T September 26th via Phandroid
- Amazon reveals sleek new e-reader, beefed-up HDX tablet, keyboard via ArsTechnica
- The new Kindle Voyage e-reader is shockingly good via theVerge
Afterburner
- Amazon brings Kindle Unlimited to the UK, an all-you-can-eat book subscription service for £7.99 a month via theNextWeb
- AT&T’s Cord-Cutter Pitch: Broadband, HBO + Amazon, for $40 a Month via ReCode
- PSA: PlayStation TV launching October 14 in US for $99 via ArsTechnica
- Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter connects your Miracast devices to HDTVs via theNextWeb
- Home Depot Hacked After Months of Security Warnings via BusinessWeek
- Google’s easing back on G+ sign-ups for new email accounts via Engadget
- Google Currents For iOS Now Called Google Play Newsstand Following Big Redesign via TechCrunch
- Simultaneous Voice/Data, HD Voice Now Available to Verizon iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Users via MacRumors
thEndUsr Stories
- iFixit tears new iPhones apart, finds they’re pretty easy to fix via ArsTechnica
- iPhone 6’s NFC will only be usable for Apple Pay—at least for now via ArsTechnica
- iCloud for Windows update means PCs can use iCloud Drive before Macs can via ArsTechnica
- iOS 8 HealthKit app support delayed until “end of the month” via ArsTechnica
- Apple Releases iOS 8.0.1 With Fixes for HealthKit, Keyboards, and More [WARNING: iOS 8.0.1 Causing Issues With Cell Service, Touch ID] via MacRumors
- Apple pulls iOS 8.0.1 after users report major problems with update via theVerge
- Apple’s two-factor authentication now protects iCloud backups via ArsTechnica
- Apple expands data encryption under iOS 8, making handover to cops moot via ArsTechnica
- Some iPhone 6 Plus Owners Accidentally Bending Their iPhones in Pockets via MacRumors
- Age of Empires: Castle Siege for Windows Phone and Windows 8
- Harmony Smart Remote and Simple Remote
- Energy Take Classic 5.1 and a Denon AVR 1513 Receiver
- New technique gets pure hydrogen out of splitting water
Tip of the Week:iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Capable of Faster Charging Using iPad 2.1A Adapter via MacRumors
App Pick: Hack runs Android apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers via ArsTechnica
Kicker: India becomes the first Asian country to reach Mars and Maven successfully enters Mars orbit via Ars Technica
Hey guys in your talk about the BlackBerry Passport you forgot to mention what it is probably the most important and innovative feature about the keyboard, it is a touch sensitive keyboard that functions as a trackpad for scrolling on Web pages or applications without the need to touch the screen at all, you can swipe up to for predictive text or swipe right to left to delete words.
In regards to the Android apps running on BlackBerry 10, there’s no need to tailor anything unless your apps requires Google services, other then that you can run the apps as they’re packaged for Android devices, all you need is the app.apk since you can install those directly, aside from the Amazon app store you can also use android apps stores such as 1Mobile market or even the Nokia android app store.
There is also an application called Snap, which is a native BlackBerry 10 app that allows you to access the Google play store apps catalog, this has to be sideloaded though, but once that’s done you just need to sign in with you Google account and you get access to any application you have installed in any android device including your paid apps (note that paid apk files are immediately deleted once installed to avoid piracy).
Reading your comment on the show tonight! Great points all around