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5 Of The Best Android Apps Amazon's Giving Away For Free This Weekend

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As they've done before, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=mas_lftnav_Deals?ie=UTF8&docId=1000620471&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-leftnav&pf_rd_r=0MGXHDM5TRX0XTFZYH2P&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1687351222&pf_rd_i=2350149011&&ascsub&tag=gizmodoamzn-20&ascsubtag=[referrer|www.google.com[type|link[postId|1639128004[authorId|5727177402741770316" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Amazon's App Store is having a blowout on some fantastic Android apps</a> this weekend. The Everything (App) Store is offering over $135 worth of apps for zero dollars-<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=s9_hps_ft_srch?node=2350149011&search-alias=mobile-apps&hidden-keywords=B00CT2P6VA%7CB007ZF4GU8%7CB00A7W29BE%7CB00DV2D0JC%7CB008IJT0CE%7CB00JFKEQBK%7CB00701L5XS%7CB00EEL0LGY%7CB007NZ7LIY%7CB00966YLNQ%7CB00GWYAMZ6%7CB006J1P770%7CB00HWWRYC6%7CB00G1YAD42%7CB0096DZKZC%7CB0067Q42BY%7CB0051UP5NQ%7CB008X8RSTM%7CB0055S348W%7CB004GYNPL2%7CB00IIITT08%7CB00FHEP9XM%7CB00ESCJG1U%7CB005J0VPNC%7CB0055PSKE8%7CB0055S348W%7CB00J0HVB7U%7CB00A7Z8KAU&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=1V3WK7NNVX0HMQ0SZKKD&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=1930390482&pf_rd_i=1000620471" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">27 apps, entirely free</a>. Here's the best of the temporary freebies:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sirvo-LLC-Threes/dp/B00JFKEQBK/ref=sr_1_6?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1411834826&sr=1-6" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Threes!</a>, the <a href="http://kotaku.com/tips-for-playing-threes-the-new-mobile-game-everyones-1522388747" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">addictingly awesome number puzzle game</a><inset id="1522388747"></inset>, normally $2</li>
<li style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Autodesk-Inc-SketchBook-Pro/dp/B00A7Z8KAU/ref=sr_1_9?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1411834826&sr=1-9" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">SketchBook Pro</a>, Autodesk's deeply functional paint and sketch program, usually $5</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; color: #222222; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style: disc inside; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Voyage-Apps-Alarm-Clock/dp/B00G1YAD42/ref=sr_1_25?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1411834826&sr=1-25" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Alarm Clock+</a>, a robust alarm clock, world clock, timer, and more, normally $1</li>
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Of course, given that this is a <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">free</em> app giveaway, you could very well just download all 27 and see which ones you like the most. First, you'll need the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/get-appstore/android/ref=mas_rw_ldg?tag=gizmodoamzn-20&ascsubtag=[referrer|www.google.com[type|link[postId|1596903622[authorId|5722770517196541541" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Amazon Appstore App for Android</a>, which comes pre-installed on the Kindle Fire and gives you access to Amazon's frequent Android app deals. Here's how to install it:</div>
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Go to <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Settings</strong> and navigate to <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Unknown sources</strong> option (which is under <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Applications</strong> or <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Security</strong>, depending on your device). If Unknown sources is unchecked, tap the checkbox and hit OK.</div>
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Then, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/getappstore?ascsub&tag=gizmodoamzn-20&ascsubtag=[referrer|www.google.com[type|link[postId|1613851544[authorId|5722770517196541541" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">head to this link to get the app</a>. When the app's downloaded, open your notifications and then tap the file called AmazonApps-release.apk. Tap install, then tap open and you're done. Phew! Now go get some free stuff. [<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=s9_hps_ft_srch?node=2350149011&search-alias=mobile-apps&hidden-keywords=B00CT2P6VA%7CB007ZF4GU8%7CB00A7W29BE%7CB00DV2D0JC%7CB008IJT0CE%7CB00JFKEQBK%7CB00701L5XS%7CB00EEL0LGY%7CB007NZ7LIY%7CB00966YLNQ%7CB00GWYAMZ6%7CB006J1P770%7CB00HWWRYC6%7CB00G1YAD42%7CB0096DZKZC%7CB0067Q42BY%7CB0051UP5NQ%7CB008X8RSTM%7CB0055S348W%7CB004GYNPL2%7CB00IIITT08%7CB00FHEP9XM%7CB00ESCJG1U%7CB005J0VPNC%7CB0055PSKE8%7CB0055S348W%7CB00J0HVB7U%7CB00A7Z8KAU&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=1V3WK7NNVX0HMQ0SZKKD&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_p=1930390482&pf_rd_i=1000620471" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Amazon</a>]</div>
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5 Of The Best Android Apps Amazon's Giving Away For Free This Weekend

As they've done before, Amazon's App Store is having a blowout on some fantastic Android apps this weekend. The Everything (A...

Leaked: GoPro's New, Budget-Priced HERO Action Camera

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The GoPro leak machine<inset id="1639184775"></inset> just keeps on leaking<inset id="1639490102"></inset>: PetaPixel just revealed that GoPro will add a low-spec, budget model to the bottom of its action cam line. <a href="http://petapixel.com/2014/09/27/gopro-launch-cheaper-low-end-action-camera-simply-called-hero/" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Meet the HERO</a>.</div>
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If <a href="http://petapixel.com/2014/09/27/gopro-launch-cheaper-low-end-action-camera-simply-called-hero/" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">PetaPixel's intel</a> is to be believed-and they've been extremely reliable in the past-the simply-named HERO will give up some of the fancier features of its bigger brothers. No touch display, no 4K video mode, no Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity.</div>
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What it will have is high-quality 1080p30 and 720p60 video, a one-touch QuikCapture button to power-on and start recording with a single press, 5-frame-per-second burst mode at 5MP, and a 0.5 second time lapse.</div>
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The 3.9 oz model comes with an integrated, non-removable waterproof case safe to 131 feet, automatic low-light mode, 2.5 hours of battery life, a built-in microphone, and an SD slot for up to 32GB of removable storage.</div>
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We still don't know what pricing will be like, but if PetaPixel's info is legit, the affordable HERO should offer some great basic capabilities without the bells and whistles that could push the upcoming Hero4's pricing beyond reach for some customers. [<a href="http://petapixel.com/2014/09/27/gopro-launch-cheaper-low-end-action-camera-simply-called-hero/" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" x-inset="1">PetaPixel</a>]</div>
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The Best Alternative For Every Pre-Loaded IPhone App

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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The iPhone comes with a bunch of apps you never use. Some of them are poorly implemented. Others are lacking important features. Fortunately, there's a whole world of developers offering some very viable third-party alternatives. You still can't delete the apps your iPhone comes with, but here are some alternatives that will free you from their boring grips.</span></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Phone/FaceTime - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skype-for-iphone/id304878510?mt=8" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Skype</a></strong></h3>
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Google Voice is very close to being merged into Google Hangouts, but in the meantime, Skype is just about the best alt-phone app you can find. The VOIP app lets you make domestic and international calls, it's just about the best cross-platorm video chat app around, which means you can do a face-to-face with people other than your Apple friends and family. Skype is very widely used at this point, so call away! <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Free</strong></div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Messages - <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/groupme/id392796698?mt=8" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">GroupMe</a></strong></h3>
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This is hands down one of the best ways to text, especially amongst different groups of friends or colleagues. The best part is it's totally free, on any platform you can think of, and compatible with SMS. <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Free</strong></div>
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There's a strong chance you have either a Gmail or an iCloud account, in which case Mailbox is a very good say to whip your inbox into shape. It's fast, easy to navigate, and it learns which crap emails you're more inclined to delete off the bat. The point is to get you to the white whale of inbox zero, which is a very good thing. <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Free</strong></div>
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Sunrise pulls in your Google and Facebook Calendars, shows you the weather for the day, and gives you directions to scheduled events using Google Maps. It even lets you wish someone a happy birthday via text without leaving the app. Also? It looks beautiful. <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Free</strong><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></strong></div>
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Never run into a video format that your player won't support. GoodPlayer works with everything from AVI to Xvid to Dvix to FLV to pretty much anything else you can throw at it, so you can watch whatever you want without having to convert it first.<strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">$3</strong></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You have a full cornucopia of choices when it comes to weather app, but <a data-provider="default" href="http://lifehacker.com/the-best-weather-app-for-iphone-5982744" id="inset1855" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">per our Lifehacker friends</a><inset id="5982744"></inset>, Yahoo Weather is number one because it has a ton of features without being overwhelming. Radars! Forecasts! Satellites! Heat mats! The Yahoo app will make you into a regular Al Roker. </span><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Free</strong></div>
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Any.Do is great because it toes the line between simple and stocked with features. It syncs to the cloud, has a desktop client, and includes time- and location-based reminders in a clean, pro-productivity interface. <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Free</strong></div>
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Say for some reason you need to do some higher-level computations. No need to dig up your old, expensive TI-84-you get all of the same graphing calculator functions in QuickGraph. <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Free</strong></div>
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I don't even use iTunes anymore. I just pay Spotify's flat $10 monthly fee to stream all the music I want from my iPhone. Trust me, it's worth it. <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Free download, $10/month subscription</strong></div>
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iCloud is an okay service, but as recent celeb news would show, it's not that secure. Also you can get a lot of storage<inset id="1627423823"></inset> for not a lot of money from Google Drive. You have apps that work across platforms, and chances are, you're already using Gmail and other Google products already. Synergy! <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Free</strong></div>
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Amazon just has a better, cheaper book selection, plain and simple. And if you aren't exclusively using Apple devices, this reader app will work on whatever you're using. <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Free</strong></div>
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This app is a little more advanced than what you get pre-loaded. You get more control over editing the audio and you can make longer recordings, and it will also pick up sounds the stock app won't. I use it regularly to record interviews. <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Free</strong></div>
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Here's an absolute no-brainer. Apple Maps has gotten better but when compared with Google Maps, it's still not great. Google Maps is wonderful and reliable. <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Free</strong></div>
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Safari certainly leaves something to be desired, but Chrome is terrific. It's fast, it syncs with Chrome on the desktop, and it's pretty much the browser you know and love in mobile form. <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Free</strong></div>
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Transport by sea has been a favorite of smugglers for centuries - it's hard to patrol an entire coastline, and it's easier to move a ton of stuff by sea than by land. In the future, though, getting your contraband through a port might be made exponentially more difficult by this tiny, ultrasound-packing submersible robot.</div>
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Designed by a MIT grad student and her prof, the robot, which is a little smaller than a football, uses ultrasound to inspect ships, looking for false hulls and prop shafts that smugglers often use to hide stuff from regular, human-powered inspections. The robot uses a unique pump-powered propulsion system that leaves no wake, so boats wouldn't have any idea that they're being inspected, either.</div>
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Best of all for port officials and their bean-counters, the robots are easy to make - most of the structural components were 3-D printed in a lab - and Sampriti Bhattacharyya, the grad student responsible for the project, reckons they could be manufactured for around $600 a pop. [<a href="https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/underwater-robot-for-port-security-0926" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">MIT News</a>]</div>
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Consumer Reports Bend Test Pits IPhone 6 Plus Against The Competition

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Sure, Apple's only received nine reports<inset id="1639173696"></inset> of bent iPhones and we highly doubt you'll have any reason to worry about your own, but do Apple's new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus handle pressure any better than competing models? Consumer Reports put that to the test today, pitting the new iPhones against other giant handsets including the Samsung Galaxy Note 3.</div>
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Using an Instron compression test machine to squash the devices, the publication added force in 10 pound increments until the phones were permanently bent. <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Surprisingly, the Galaxy Note 3 came out on top, withstanding an entire 150 pounds of force before giving out, while the iPhone 6 Plus took only 90 pounds. The LG G3 had a strong showing at 130 pounds, and the HTC One M8 and iPhone 6 came in last by withstanding just 70 pounds of pressure. Still, as the publication points out, even pressing down with 70 pounds requires quite a bit of effort: roughly the same as trying to break four full-size wooden pencils simultaneously. Don't try it with your bare hands.<inset id="1638267139"></inset> </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[</span><a href="http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/09/consumer-reports-tests-iphone-6-bendgate/index.htm" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Consumer Reports</a><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">]</span></div>
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Google And Microsoft Are Mapping Favelas So They Can Sell Things There

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The twisting sidewalks and dizzying density of Brazil's favelas might deter most outsiders from navigating these crowded inner-city neighborhoods, which informally house about 1.5 million of the country's residents. Yet in the last few months, both Google and Microsoft have both been seen mapping their narrow streets and dirt paths.</div>
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<a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/google-microsoft-expose-brazils-favelas-1411659687" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">According to the </a><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/google-microsoft-expose-brazils-favelas-1411659687" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a></em>, both companies have<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> recently launched concerted efforts to accurately map these sprawling communities. But before you think this is some kind of goodwill effort to represent the people of this world more fairly, consider this fact that Google released, per the <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Journal</em>: Although the areas had almost uniformly been seen as places of extreme poverty, now </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">85 percent of favela residents have mobile phones.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Google and Microsoft want to map these areas so they can figure out how to market to the people who live there. Knowing exactly where people live allows Google to sell specific, geotargeted advertising. Local businesses can then be mapped, which means their owners can be tapped to market their services online. And there will also now be a way to track buying habits and internet usage with bit more geographic preciseness.</span></div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vidigal, a favela in Rio de Janeiro, now is represented on Google Maps, although no Street View yet.</em></div>
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Before the tech giants decided to capitalize on Brazil's favelas, there had been other, less commercialized efforts to properly map these neighborhoods, which are informing the Microsoft and Google invasion. A nonprofit called <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/22/brazil-favelas-rio-de-janeiro_n_2528407.html" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Redes da Mare</a> fought to get the favela of Mare properly represented on Rio de Janerio maps, with street names, addresses, and zip codes. Microsoft is working with this group to make sure their maps match the way locals think of their community, a smart move. Google meanwhile is recruiting local volunteers using its MapMaker app to photograph and plot businesses on its maps. Some streets and passageways don't have official names, so meetings have been held so residents can vote to name them.</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As you can see from the Google Maps example above, the blanks in Vidigal, Rio de Janeiro are starting to be filled in with some street names and even pedestrian walkways connecting different corners of the community. Given the ever-changing nature of a favela-with no development codes, people could easily reroute a street or remove a building at their whim-keeping these neighborhoods up-to-date will surely keep mapmakers on their toes. But if it means reaching a growing potential audience, I'm sure they'll figure out how to make it work. </span><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[</span><a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/google-microsoft-expose-brazils-favelas-1411659687" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">WSJ</a><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">]</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/lg-prepping-3g-connected-smartwatch-leaks-indicate/" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Newly-surfaced FCC papers</a> seem to indicate that LG's upcoming smartwatch will boast a 3G cellular connection. Soon you could be wearing your LG cellphone on your wrist!</div>
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Yes, the device, known only as the LG-VC100, will pack a 3G CDMA cellular connection, judging by the <a href="https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&RequestTimeout=500&calledFromFrame=N&application_id=181938&fcc_id=ZNFVC100" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">papers filed with the FCC</a>. That means, hypothetically at least, that LG wants to join the ranks of the Samsung Gear S<inset id="1629924474"></inset> and the Neptune Pine<inset id="1637632048"></inset>, both of which are smartwatches with the capability to make and receive phone calls.</div>
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Judging by <a href="https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&RequestTimeout=500&calledFromFrame=N&application_id=181938&fcc_id=ZNFVC100" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">the dimensions listed on the FCC documents</a>, the LG smartphone-watch-hybrid-thing will come in slightly smaller than the Gear S. It would also assumedly wear a square or square-ish display, going by the shape of the housing indicated in the papers.</div>
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<a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/lg-prepping-3g-connected-smartwatch-leaks-indicate/" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Rumor has it</a> the device will debut later this year and have service on Verizon. As with any rumor, take it with a grain of salt. But don't dismiss it entirely: By the time a device hits the FCC, it's usually something more than just vaporware. [<a href="https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm?mode=Exhibits&RequestTimeout=500&calledFromFrame=N&application_id=181938&fcc_id=ZNFVC100" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">FCC</a> via<a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/lg-prepping-3g-connected-smartwatch-leaks-indicate/" style="color: #4296b5; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" x-inset="1">Cnet</a>]</div>
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FCC Papers Show LG May Be Building A Smartwatch With A Cell Connection

Newly-surfaced FCC papers seem to indicate that LG's upcoming smartwatch will boast a 3G cellular connection. Soon you could be we...