Yesterday, a few reports announcing that some select T-Mobile customers have stared seeing RCS support in Google Messenger app – made headlines across the web.
If you’re not familiar with RCS (or Rich Communication Services) let us tell you the term refers to the next-gen text-messaging standard, where users are allowed to send messages larger than 160 character, take advantage of improved group chat, share high-res imagery and type indicators. T-Mobile has been offering a RCS solution ever since 2015 and now it was taking the next logical step by tapping into Google’s Universal RCS platform.
But fast forward a few hours later and the report(s) turned out to be fake.
The source of yesterday’s reports was a Reddit thread entitled “RCS seems to be active, anyone confirm?” But as it turns out the person who started the topic isn’t even a legit T-Mobile customer, as he was simply citing various tweets by random Twitter accounts. The initial account was then given more credibility by another Reddit user who claimed to have been in contact with a source who confirmed that T-Mobile is currently testing the feature for a select few users.
Subsequently, an alleged screenshot showing how the RCS feature would look like for T-Mobile users appeared online, which was evidently staged.
Bottom line, everything was a sham. T-Mobile is not testing RCS in Google Messenger, or at least not for now. Basically all the story revolved around a few tweets by people who wrongly believed they had Google’s RCS offering active on their T-Mobile device. In all possibility they were merely confusing it with T-Mobile’s Advanced Messaging system.
While the prospect of having RCS support enable in Google’s Messaging app sounds exciting for T-Mobile users, it’s probably going to take a while until we’ll truly see that happen. However, we begin to feel hopeful, if we look towards Sprint. Back in November 2016, Google begun the rollout of enhanced RCS messaging on Sprint Android devices.
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The answer is yes, well sort of. According to a report coming out of ZDNET, Samsung is gearing up to roll out Samsung Pay Mini – a version of Samsung Pay designed to work with most Android-powered smartphones – in the first quarter (Q1) of 2017.
However, the new app will allow non-Samsung Galaxy phones to take advantage of Samsung Pay options such as membership, lifestyle and transportation.
We’re not told exactly when in Q1 we can expect to see 
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Today mostly high-end phones launch with Nougat onboard, but customers should be allowed to pick up a more affordable Nougat smartphone at this point in time. The new 
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The phone should be released in Black, White, Blue and Gold options. No word whether the phone will make it out on the international market, but we believe it will.
Other specs include a 12MP/8MP camera setup and Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box (upgradable to 
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Surely a selfie drone must light, compact and easy to use, right? The Dobby drone competently ticks all of these boxes. This little flying robot is promoted as a pocket sized selfie drone and can actually be tucked away easily.
Dobby offers 16GB of internal memory, as well as voice control functions, auto follow, face recognition and a GPS tracking system. It can also live stream video via Wi-Fi to your smartphone, so you definitely can use it for more than taking selfies.
Here we have another fun, cute and colorful little drone you can buy to photography you from above. The Kimon 
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For the time being pricing hasn’t been revealed, but the source does tell us the first 100 buyers will receive a discount. If the information is correct, in a few days you’ll be able to purchase this nifty Mod. Note that a Snap Panel will come at an additional cost.
I figure we should start with the main purpose of the cases, protection. Both of the shell cases we were provided with leave the top and bottom of the device exposed, undesirable if you are rough on your devices like I am. There are also cutouts for side buttons that leave ample space for proper functionality. There is also a piece of felt’ish material on the inside of the case, which, I can only assume is to prevent slipping of the device while in the case. The only real issue I have with the shell cases is the that the case does not have a very tight fit. One of the cases we received is designed for my Galaxy S7 and, as you can see in the picture, there is some overhang when installed on the device.
Casable also sent us two of their pouch style cases to check out. These cases feel like they are made of quality material. There is nice stitch work and some quality elastic on the sides. the real selling feature for these cases is that they have a pull tab that allows you to easily remove your phone from the case. This feature works great, provided your device does not have any rubberized material on it. My biggest complaint with the pouches is who uses pouch cases any more. Seriously though, I think Casable is going to have a difficult time marketing this case. I couldn’t name one guy who wants to pull the case our of their pocket then out of the case or a girl who wants to do the same in their purse. At least add a clip for belt/pocket/purse attachment. That being said, your screen is protected from scratches and scuffs.
Connect the controller to the NVIDIA Shield TV via USB cable
Press and hold the PS and share button until it starts to blink to put the controller into pairing mode
At this moment, we’re not sure whether being able to use these wireless controllers via Bluetooth was brought about by the Android 7.0 Nougat update or not, but it’s seems likely. If you want to read more about the new features it brings, check out our more in-depth article on the topic linked above.