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- Verizon Galaxy S III pre-orders set to arrive July 5-6
- Google Now Voice Search Hands-on [Video]
- Dead Trigger zombie shooter hits the Play Store [Hands-on]
- Google Now being ported to Ice Cream Sandwich
- Verizon confirms Galaxy S III July 10th launch date
| Verizon Galaxy S III pre-orders set to arrive July 5-6 Posted: 03 Jul 2012 04:34 PM PDT Good news folks, it looks like the guys at Big Red have finally started shipping out those Galaxy S III pre-orders. Today Verizon officially announced that the flagship Galaxy S III will be in stores and available to purchase starting July 10th, but we can now confirm those that pre-ordered will get the impressive new phone even sooner.
Customers are now starting to get confirmation emails today from Verizon stating that the Galaxy S III has shipped. We are hearing July 6th from a few tips but a screenshot gathered by Droid-Life shows July 5th. After all the excitement and anticipation the wait is almost over guys! According to many tips, devices are starting to ship today and if you were one that chose overnight shipping you should get it Thursday morning, since tomorrow is the 4th of July and not open for shipping. Between the tips, leaks, and reports it looks like most of you who pre-ordered back in June, or recently, should all start getting your devices in the next few days. Who’s excited?   Device Info
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| Google Now Voice Search Hands-on [Video] Posted: 03 Jul 2012 03:54 PM PDT One of the most interesting and exciting features of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is Google Now. Google’s new virtual voice and search assistant much like Siri, only smarter. Being able to gather from the biggest search engine in the world surely helps their cause. We’ve seen plenty of the features outlined from Google themselves during IO last week, and have reported on them ourselves. What you’ll see below however is an extensive hands-on video asking Google Now tons and tons of questions.
This doesn’t really need too much explanation other than the fact that I will say Google Now is simply amazing. This is the first initial release and we expect it to really grow into something excellent as it evolves. In its current form on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and the Nexus 7 it does tons of things great — but a few areas need improving. Voice recognition is extremely accurate, response time blows Siri out of the water, and the results are very simple and informative. Without further explaining, enjoy the video! Now I didn’t get everything right the first time when I first started enjoying Google Now, but now that I’ve had a week to toy with it I’ve learned to ask the right questions (reminds me of iRobot). As you could see from my video above the response time is extremely quick. Whether it will remain that perfect as thousands and thousands start to use Jelly Bean as it rolls out is another question, but for now it’s blazing fast and useful. Show this off to your family and friends, particularly those that love Siri, and see what they think. I hope you learned a few new tricks you can try, and enjoyed the barrel roll. I know I did!
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| Dead Trigger zombie shooter hits the Play Store [Hands-on] Posted: 03 Jul 2012 03:15 PM PDT It’s finally here folks! If you’re the type that loves to run around guns blazing while trying to save the world from zombies this will be your favorite mobile game. From the extremely successful and popular developers MadFinger Games comes the next epic shooter for Android — Dead Trigger. Following in Shadowgun‘s impressive footsteps this game delivers on more than just graphics. Lets take a look.
We’ve talked about this game more than a few times, and have been dying to get our hands on it. After experiencing a few problems and not launching yesterday like originally planned, you can get it today. Now that MadFinger has finally released it to the Play Store (and for the low price of $0.99) we’ve given it a quick look. The controls are essentially very similar to Shadowgun and if you’ve played it (you should ) you’ll feel right at home. Trust us when we say this will be $1 well spent. Check out our quick and first hand impressions while we continue playing this week. Dead Trigger brings the same amazing visuals and lighting effects, impressive weapon selection, and more all to a post-apocalyptic world full of Zombies. With well over 40 hours of gameplay this is worth every penny if you ask me. My short limited time with the game has me completely amused, and I’ll probably be playing this more than I should come tomorrow for the 4th. Already getting more than enough headshots this will be one for the record books. Obviously from the video above you can see it working great with the Nexus 7 running on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and the stunning graphics are smooth thanks to collaboration with NVIDIA and their Tegra 3 quad-core processor. The video should be enough for you to run out and buy this already, but if not check out the additional screenshots below then head to the Google Play Store link and buy this stellar game today for only $0.99 — Enjoy! Dead Trigger Store Link         
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| Google Now being ported to Ice Cream Sandwich Posted: 03 Jul 2012 01:02 PM PDT One of the best things about the Android Community is the fact they are always willing to help development for the greater world of Android. Take Google Now for example. The awesome new Siri-besting voice assistant announced alongside Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. We all want it, and developers from XDA are already hard at work making it work on Ice Cream Sandwich.
This brand new feature is extremely awesome but currently is only available for the select few using an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean device, or a few of the JB ROM’s released too. The folks from Droid-Life spotted some awesome development under way bringing Google Now to all, and we can’t wait to give it a try on more devices. As usual the folks from XDA Developers are hard at work staying up all hours of the night working to get this figured out, and it appears they are quite close. You can install Google Now and the new search bar right to Ice Cream Sandwich with their modded APK, tweak a few settings and permissions, and give it a try today. Sadly it still isn’t working with voice, which is one of the coolest features but surely they’ll get it all sorted out soon. To follow the entire thread and development check out the source link below. For directions and the install file click here. [via XDA]
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| Verizon confirms Galaxy S III July 10th launch date Posted: 03 Jul 2012 11:50 AM PDT Verizon has just confirmed what we all basically already knew. That their version of the flagship Samsung Galaxy S III will be available starting July 10th both online and in-stores nationwide. Users will be able to enjoy their fast 4G LTE services across the country with a new Galaxy S III.
Verizon originally started pre-orders early June just like many other carriers, and later we started seeing ship date confirmations stating July 9th. Then pre-order ship dates slipped to the 10th, and last week the 11th. Just like T-Mobile and AT&T who had to delay and filter their launch dates, Verizon was preparing for the extra demand — but it appears that wasn’t needed. Verizon does state however that the 32GB model is only available online for the time being, and not in stores. It looks like online and local stores will have the Galaxy S III in stock and available come July 10th, and those who pre-ordered will probably get theirs come the same day. Even if previous pre-order confirmations stated the 11th it looks like Samsung has stopped the bleeding with the overly high demand and has enough to cover this initial push. We have a feeling Verizon stores will still be selling out, so you’ll want to get down there quick if interested. Be sure to check out our Galaxy S III Review, as well as plenty of additional coverage below. Device Info
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