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CES 2015 Wrap-Up: Trends and expectations (part 1) and more


CES 2015 Wrap-Up: Trends and expectations (part 1)

Although CES 2014 was my first, I felt I learned a lot from that experience. And since I've been told I'm a pretty smart guy, I devised a plan to make CES 2015 even more efficient. Maybe this time I wouldn't end up with a blistered limp by the end of the week (I didn't!). But this meant passing up on any scheduled booth meeting, minimizing backtracking across the show floors, and using buses as breaks to rest my soles. With this in mind, I had high expectations to squeeze out more for myself, like a glorified tech glutton.

Naturally, things didn't go quite as planned.

CES was so much bigger this year that my time went from being 'premium' to being borrowed. Compared to my vision of how I anticipated things to pan out, it was kind of a bummer. Although I can always hit up people via email in order to set phone/video conversations with company CEOs or managers, the dynamic is so different in person. There is a lot more to be had from keen questions when the answers come from breath and blood.

CES 2015 Western Digital 45th anniversary party

It was real (notice how someone checked), but never I saw a single slice go out!

Just as last year (and likely each year to come), breakfast consisted of a single piece of fruit and an energy drink, consumed during my march to the closest free bus to the LVCC.

Aside from water during the day, that was it for me until the free dinner buffets at Pepcom, Showstoppers, and Western Digital's 45th anniversary party. Unhealthy, right? Maybe. But breakfast and lunch lines are luxuries for those with time on their hands.

My apologies go out to all those companies who got stuck in the Palazzo suites and didn't get much foot traffic. It's a really craptastic place to be, because it's the absolute opposite of convenient. The same could be said about the Venetian's floors packed with high performance audio, but at least I can make good use of my time there. Even from the Sands Expo, it can take about 10 minutes to reach either tower's elevators. Tick tock.

There were way more overseas companies (e.g. Shenzhen, Guangzhou) this year, and they no longer just rimmed the outskirts of halls. Some had primo locations and sizeable booths. Aside from the extra walking spent to reach something more interesting, I didn't mind most of them – not even the booths showcasing a wide variety of products that looked all too similar to everything else. What I didn't care for in particular was that 'flea market' vibe given off by some. Unless you were a buyer or distributor, some people looked and/or talked to you as if you were in the way of an…

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Samsung wants to win back the ultra-budget crowd with the 64-bit Galaxy J1

Galaxy J1It looks like Samsung needed to start losing money to understand a couple of very important lessons consumers had clearly formulated in their heads a long time ago. Number one, plastic is not fantastic. Or acceptable for high-end, pricey Androids.

And number two, simplicity is the key to success as far as gadget branding goes. On that note, let's bid a long overdue…

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No going back: Samsung Galaxy S4 GPe 'no longer available for sale'

Galaxy S4 Google Play EditionThey say time heals all wounds, but the pain caused by the sudden death of nearly every Google Play Edition gadget out and about is still far from soothed. And it's been more than five months since the Play Store stopped selling Samsung's Galaxy S4 GPe.

Of course, part of why this keeps hurting is we let the suffering cloud our judgments, and continued to hope…

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BluBed holster, gadget that surprised me most at CES 2015

One of my favorite things about attending CES is finding those gadgets that stand out the most (to me). It never really happens in the moment as much as a day or so after. So when I originally passed by the BluBed booth at CES 2015, my curiosity paused me long enough for the big boss man to engage me in conversation.

Right before he greeted me I was thinking, "what a cute little boat-looking thingy.. I wonder what it's for?"

So BluBed is a holster for anyone who uses an earpiece for hands-free…

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Lenovo's A6000 is probably the cheapest 64-bit smartphone in the world

Lenovo A6000Lenovo was perhaps the busiest bee to take the Las Vegas stage for CES last week, bringing to light a whirlwind of eclectic new gadgetry ranging from "ultimate business ultrabooks" to super-versatile convertibles, dirt-cheap Android tablets and amazing budget smartphones.

All that pandemonium considered, it's perhaps not surprising a device exhibited at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show went virtually…

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Review: Canon PIXMA MG7520 Photo Printer

I happen to have fallen into possession of a Canon PIXMA MG7520, a pretty bitchin' photo printer if I do say so, which is one of the newest models to replace the MG5000 and MG6000 lines. The first thing I did when I got it hooked up was to narcissistically print photos of my own digital drawings, because ART.

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And they happened to make for great holiday decorations! (says my mom)

Next to print? CES 2015 left me with a lot of photos of un-CES-related activities that I think would look best covering my parents' refrigerator. They're away on vacation right now, but I know they'll appreciate it when they get home. I can't wait to explain what a beer bong is: "Well, mom and…

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Samsung wants to dive back into Windows Phone swamp, reduce Android reliance

samsung_ativ_seIt's no secret Android's global mobile OS share wouldn't be much without Samsung-made hardware, but you can probably say the same thing about Sammy's numbers if it weren't for Google's software. The Tizen experiment is DOA, that's getting clearer by the day, so Big G and Big S badly need one another.

The Korean company is nonetheless exploring their options, possibly turning the attention…

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Rumors claim next Twitter CEO will be Adam Bain

Rumors claim next Twitter CEO will be Adam Bain

It has been said that if Dick Costolo leaves his position at Twitter and opens up a gap at the head of the company, Adam Bain will take over. Now, more rumors are coming out stating that Bain is at the front of the line to replace Costolo, but a replacement may not be necessary for quite a while. Analysts and journalists alike have said Bain could make for a better CEO, but that doesn't mean Costolo is going anywhere immediately.

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Optical zoom smartphone for the masses? Meet Oppo's U3

Oppo U3It looks like Asus isn't the only Android OEM intent on refining the clever but flawed concept behind Samsung's Galaxy Zoom line of highly capable but fugly cameraphones. Less than a week after the introduction of the ZenFone Zoom, it's Oppo U3's turn to shine, and in many ways, the larger 5.9 incher seems to eclipse the 3X optical zoom-packing 5.5 incher from Asus.

For one…

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OnePlus One reached one million sales in 2014

OnePlus One reached one million sales in 2014OnePlus was just shy of one million One sales in 2014, and those sales have been driven by media coverage and recommendations rather than regular marketing. The company has put almost no money into marketing, but the inclusion of high-end specs in a low cost device was a recipe for success from the…

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