Latest Microsoft trade-in stunt offers up to $650 off Surface Pro 3 for MacBook Airs and more

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Latest Microsoft trade-in stunt offers up to $650 off Surface Pro 3 for MacBook Airs
Deal alert: 8-inch Acer Iconia A1-830 tablet drops to $100 via Kmart
FireChat's offline messaging works with iOS, Android
Huawei goes for Samsung and Apple's jugular with octa-core, super-slim Honor 6
Line apps reach 1 billion downloads
Microsoft sets no-contract Lumia 635 price: $99 with AT&T, $129 on T-Mobile
Internet Appreciation: Debunking 7 Myths About Life Before the Internet
Moto X+1 press render makes another appearance, protected by a case
Google Play revenue built on freemium apps
AT&T-bound HTC Desire 610 leaks out in press-friendly fashion
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Latest Microsoft trade-in stunt offers up to $650 off Surface Pro 3 for MacBook Airs

Microsoft has been working diligently on eroding Apple's leadership in the tablet and PC space for years now, trying hard to convince the world the Surface line can replace both iPads and MacBooks. Based on sales numbers, MS is a long way from changing mentalities, but Redmond continues to push. And push, and push.

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Deal alert: 8-inch Acer Iconia A1-830 tablet drops to $100 via Kmart

Have around 100 bucks saved for a new Android tablet but can't make up your mind between Toshiba's Excite Go, Lenovo's A7 and HP's 7 Plus? Maybe Kmart and Acer can lend a hand and help get you out of the pickle.

Released a mere three months back and initially sold for $180, the Iconia A1-830…

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FireChat's offline messaging works with iOS, Android

FireChat is an interesting messaging service since it allows people to anonymously contact each other without an internet connection as long as they are within 200 feet of each other. There are multiple applications for a service like FireChat, but the app had been limited because it only worked with either iOS or Android, not both. The app has now been updated to support cross-platform offline chats, enabling almost all smartphone users to chat with each other without a connection.

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Huawei goes for Samsung and Apple's jugular with octa-core, super-slim Honor 6

Being a relevant low-cost smartphone player is one thing, but making waves in the high-end market sector is an entirely different kettle of fish. Huawei knows that full well, so only after they've consolidated their entry-level and mid-range positions have the Chinese decided to go for the crown currently shared by Apple's iPhone 5s and Samsung's Galaxy S5.

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Line apps reach 1 billion downloads

The growing popularity of stickers and Line's involvement with them since the early days has resulted in the messaging app becoming very popular. Line has found ways to draw in revenue and expand its user base, all while still providing its primary messaging service to a group of 450 million people. Three years after launching, Line has announced that its whole family of apps has reached 1 billion combined downloads. Those apps include things like Line camera, Line Car, and Line Bubble.

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Microsoft sets no-contract Lumia 635 price: $99 with AT&T, $129 on T-Mobile

Mere hours after announcing the commencement of Nokia Lumia 635's global rollout with a handful of European and Asian markets, Microsoft has kicked pre-orders into gear stateside. Sadly, those are now closed, meaning someone probably jumped the gun sans approval.

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Internet Appreciation: Debunking 7 Myths About Life Before the Internet

There are a lot of arguments floating around about how life was better in the days before the internet. And though I can't comment or speculate on how hard the government will roll us with all the surveillance it conducts with the Internet, I can argue that we are far better off with access to the internet. Here are 7 arguments I've heard and reasons why they're LIES.

1. Boredom bred creativity.

This is a common argument that gets thrown around any time a Young brings up life before the internet. It's also false. Boredom doesn't breed creativity– sensory input does. Believe it or not, Millennials weren't born into a world with internet, smartphones and data plans. We did the whole lie-in-twelve-different-positions-while-thinking-of-ways-to-spend-this-summer-day-without-access-to-water thing and it sucked as hard as it sounds. It didn't breed creativity, it bred dangerous ideas that usually ended up in some sort of punishment or injury. Or it led to the inevitable activity of watching daytime TV.

We all became exponentially more creatively productive when sites like Tumblr happened because we were bombarded with sensory input that inspired us. Nobody gets inspired by an uneventful summer day in a long string of uneventful summer days. You know what inspires people? Fan fiction.

2. Finding information in books was fulfilling.

I call BS. The philosophy behind this argument is so flimsy it falls apart before we even get to how much the Dewey Decimal System cards sucked. What makes unnecessarily wasted time fulfilling? Are you sure you're not just nostalgic for the romance of time spent in a library? Because I know I am.

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Moto X+1 press render makes another appearance, protected by a case

Moto X+1

We've heard a handful of reports in the past few weeks, hinting at the launch of the Moto X+1, the successor of the highly customizable Moto X. Motorola dropped some tidbits about the successor at the Mobile World Congress earlier this month, and since then, the rumor mill has focused a little bit on it. The handset is said to make an official appearance in summer, possibly around the same time Moto X was launched last year.

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Google Play revenue built on freemium apps

Freemium apps are important on both Android and iOS, but the extent to which they provide revenue for app stores is not entirely clear. A new report from App Annie sheds some light on the matter and says that 98 percent of the Google Play Store's revenue is coming from freemium applications. Those games and apps are completely free to download and use, but they include in-app purchases that people are likely going to accept. That statistic suggests that either freemium apps make more sense when developers are trying to make money, or that there are just far more freemium apps being released.

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AT&T-bound HTC Desire 610 leaks out in press-friendly fashion

Expected out on AT&T and Verizon for a good few months now, HTC's solid mid-range Desire 610 smartphone remains exclusive to European and Asian territories. But probably not for long, as a press shot showcasing the 4.7 incher with AT&T bloatware and 4G LTE speeds has just made its way online.

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Latest Microsoft trade-in stunt offers up to $650 off Surface Pro 3 for MacBook Airs and more

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