Sprint is taking on Verizon’s new 5GB for $55 data plan with a new offer of its own, in the hopes users will find it superior.
The carrier has just announced that for four days only (limited promotion), new customers jumping onboard with Sprint will get Unlimited Data, Talk and Text for $50 per month. Those who add a second line will be asked to pay only $90 and extra lines can be added for $30 extra.
Sprint bashes Verizon for thinking that customers will manage to get by with only 5GB of data/month. The carrier says a user can spent 5GB of data in a glimpse, for example by simply watching seven episodes of their favorite Netflix TV Show in HD viewing.
Using data provided by Fierce Wireless, P3 and Strategy Analytics, Sprint reveals how much data customers actually on a monthly basis. For example, did you know 1 hour of web browsing (50 pages) eats up tp 50Mb or that checking your emails daily hogs 150Mb /month? Music streaming takes 100MB/hour and daily instant messaging on WhatsApp or Facebook consumes 250Mb daily.
While Sprint is throwing around big words, don’t go thinking the carrier’s Unlimited plan will let you go overboard with data usage.
Sprint will automatically down grade quality of video or music streaming for those who use more than 23GB of data/month. Data reprioritization also applies during times of congestion. Last but not least, we should note that new customers who jump onboard with Sprint for the new data bundle, will be required to pay $60/month after March 31, 2018.
Apart from the Unlimited plan, Sprint is also offering rate plans that provide sensible data buckets.
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LeEco plans to give a lucky winner and a guest what it calls the Ultimate SB51 Experience which includes:
On top of that LeEco is giving off daily freebies between January 27 and February 3, including Super4 x65 TVs and Le Pro3 smartphones. In case you can’t remember here’s what the 
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According to the folks of 9to5Google who have spoken with reliable sources, the next-gen Pixels are likely to be waterproof. This is not a definitive feature for the time being, but Google is strongly considering it.
Google has surprised everyone when it glued a premium price tag to the Pixel. After all the 
Obviously the Qualcomm chips will go into the higher-end Pixel 2, while the Pixel 2B is most likely going to get Intel SoC treatment.
Sources familiar with the matter also reveal Google is looking to improve main camera capabilities on the Pixel. It’s next-gen phones might come with a sensor capable to perform batter in low lighting environments plus other extra features.
Google and HTC are having a hard time keeping up with Pixel demand, especially the 128GB Pixel XL model. The phone is currently listed as “Out of Stock” in the 
Yes, the Google Play Store also offers the Pixels with interest-free financing options, but some people might want to buy a phone from a carrier for various other reasons. They should be allowed to have that option.
On the gaming side of things, NVIDIA Games now replaces the older Shield Hub app and its associated home screen titles including Shield games, GeForce NOW and GameStream. NVIDIA Games allows gamers to have their pick from a large collection of titles including GeForce Now games, exclusive Android games and NVIDIA GameStream games.
Those who have a Nest camera will now be able to view it through the Shield TV. On top of that there’s a new Cast support feat for HBO GO which allows owners to play/pause media from their remote by double-tapping the volume slider.
It’s important to note that this update paves the way for the arrival of 
Going back to the current update, the software welcomes the arrival of a few new apps including NFL, new Twitter for TV, Comedy Central, Vimeo and Viki. New games have also been added:
On the Nougat side of things, the update adds a few new tweaks like:
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One of the highlights of WSOP is the “clean” gameplay. I know that’s quite the term, but it might just be the best one for describing the experience of this game. Upon entering a game or tournament, you appear at a poker table with a varying amount of other players already there (people jump in and jump out, but it’s not as random or as quick as other poker games, in my opinion). You are asked to wait until the next hand to play (duh), and then, you are dealt in. Most people play Texas Hold-Em, but Omaha (where you are dealt four cards in lieu of two) is an option as well.
Upon deal-in, you should be paying attention because, for the most part, other
In game, you are positioned at the bottom of the table (and therefore the bottom of the screen). There, you can see your cards and your play options. These depend of the stage of the hand, but generally vary between fold, check/fold, check, call X amount of dollars, bet, or call-any. You can pre-select an option so that when your turn comes up the game automatically grabs your selection and moves to the next player.
One more niggle is the amount of splash pages you’ll encounter from time to time touting all kinds of bonus chips, money, and such. This is particularly the case if you sign up for an account tied to your Facebook. I simply do not trust this so I can’t speak to the consequences of doing it, but I can only guess that your Facebook page would start to show quite a few gaming app ads. No thanks.
Users who prefer larger phones will probably go for the Blu Vivo XL2 instead of the ASUS ZenFone 3 Max. However, both phones offer a pretty spacious display that can accommodate most of daily tasks.
Both phones are powered by two slightly different variants of the MediaTek MT6737. The one inside the ASUS phone is a quad-core 1.25 GHz Cortex-A53, while the Blu one is a somewhat improved quad-core 1.4GHz Cortex-A53 CPU. This means you should see similar performance on both devices.
Budget smartphones such as these two won’t blow anyone away in terms of photography, as they deliver the standard package.
Both models run Android 6.0 Marshmallow, with little chance of ever seeing the Android 7.0 Nougat update. That’s the sad truth, most 
Battery is one of the ASUS ZenFone 3 Max’s biggest strengths. So if you want a phone with a huge powerhouse to last you a full day (and even more – depending on usage), the ASUS device is for you.
The Blu device offers more storage by default and has a microSD card slot which allows for memory expansion up to 64GB. The ASUS ZenFone is sold in two variants plus a microSD card slot for memory expansion to 256GB.
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