Mac OS Ken: 06.19.2014

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

4.7 • 995 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2014

⏱️ 19 minutes

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A Look at the Amazon Fire Smartphone No Immediate Worry for Other Phone Makers in Amazon Fire Phone T-Mobile Makes Music Plays at Uncarrier 5.0 Event T-Mobile Test Drive Lets People Try Out the Network with a Loaner iPhone 5s Apple Intros New Entry-Level iMac Wired Wonders Over Underpowered iMac NYT: Apple Picking Down Considerably with Activation Lock Societie Generale Analyst Sings a Song of App Store SaneBox: Bring Sanity to Your Inbox with a 2-Week Free Trial at

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKIN.
0:09.2	Buying take center stage at the Amazon event, music takes center stage at a T-Mobile event, and a surprising
0:19.6	IMAC makes the scene.
0:22.0	It's Thursday June 19, 2014. I'm Kan Ray and this is news from
0:27.9	MacoS. Ken, brought to you by yours truly and supported by I-Chart magazine, putting Apple and Tech News
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0:43.7	Wednesday turns out to have been a more interesting day for the phone space than might have been expected.
0:49.1	Part of that was due to Amazon's anticipated entry into the smartphone game, though another part had to do with the
0:54.7	Uncarrier.
0:56.7	We'll start in Seattle.
0:58.2	True to rumor, Amazon did introduce a smartphone of its very own on Wednesday. The verge runs down some of what
1:04.5	Amazon's fire phone is and does. Hitting some specs, the piece says Firephone has a
1:10.8	4.7 inch 720 p display, aluminum buttons, a Qualcomm processor,
1:17.0	adreno 330 graphics, and 2 gigabytes of RAM.
1:21.0	It's 0.35 inches thick and weighs 5.64 ounces. The device packs a 13
1:28.9	pixel camera, an F2.0 lens, an optical image stabilization.
1:35.0	It'll run Amazon's forked brand of Android Fire OS 3.5.
1:41.0	Specs blend in the operations and functions for the fire.
1:46.0	Quoting the verge, four front-facing cameras team up to create dynamic perspective, a head
1:50.8	tracking tool that changes the phone depending on how you look at it.
1:54.7	But 3D doesn't just stop there.
1:56.8	Amazon CEO Jeff Bazaos showed how things change in maps, looking for a restaurant,
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