Pebble Time to get its own contactless payment via accessory watchbands

Pagaré is a watch strap that connects to the Pebble’s smart accessory port. The watchband takes advantage of Pebble's smart accessory port to create a hardware extension that adds extra functionality to the device. Thanks to its built-in NFC, an accompanying app Pagaré will enable Pebble smartwatch the ability to conduct mobile payments. You can pay for stuff with Pebble using the Pagaré NFC Smartstrap.

Pagaré is designed to be both simple to manage and simple to use. Just add the Pagaré app to your Pebble Timeline, scan in your cards and you are ready to start making transactions. Contactless payments are possible at millions of retail locations worldwide. When you see the contactless symbol at the point of sale, just hold your wrist near the terminal and your transaction is complete! Pagaré is being introduced to early birds on Kickstarter for $49.

Google introduces peer-to-peer for Hangouts on Android

As a way to improve call quality on its app, Google Hangouts latest update introduces peer-to-peer connection. This means, you and the person you’re calling will be directly connected to each other and will not be using Google’s servers when possible. This P2P option should improve both audio and video calls for users who’ve had poor connections before. And if you’re worried about security, it appears there isn’t a way for Hangouts to display your IP address.

Google didn’t say what the requirements are to get P2P working but they did say that if there is no P2P connection, you should connect to the company’s servers as usual—which means you may or may not notice any difference at all. It’s initially available to Android but Google plans to bring it to iOS and web as well.

Source: Google | Via: SlashGear

Captain America: Civil War Superbowl spot reveals more about the upcoming film

The new Captain America: Civil War TV spot just aired during the Superbowl and it does help build tension and anticipation for the third installment of the Captain America franchise. The thing about Civil War is that it looks to be as epic and packed with heroes as The Avengers: Age of Ultron. The Civil War storyline is about the superhuman registration act and a schism between the Avengers and other superhumans taking sides.

 Aside from Iron Man and Cap, we have Hawkeye, Falcon, Black Widow, Scarlet Witch, Vision, Winter Soldier reprising their roles while getting an assist from Ant-Man as well as Black Panther. No hints of the teenage Spiderman in this teaser which definitely shows that Marvel still has the mojo to go toe to toe with DC at the box office. The film comes April 29.

Your future flagship smartphone might have Sony’s dual-camera system

Dual-camera setups for smartphones aren’t exactly that new. But there are rumours of the likes of the iPhone 7 and LG G5 that would be sporting this type of camera system. Adding more credence to the rumours is the recent announcement by Sony’s Chief Financial Officer Kenichiro Yoshida that “major smartphone players” will be using Sony’s own dual-camera system.

He was asked by an analyst what his thoughts were on dual-camera adoption in the next one to two years and what these could me for operations. “Well, for next year, our so-called dual lens – dual camera platform will be launched by, we believe, from major smartphone players. However, as I said previously, recently, our smartphone market is growing and particularly, our high-end smartphone market is now slowing down. So, that may impact the demand or production schedule of dual camera smartphones by the major smartphone manufacturers. So, we believe the real start, the takeoff of smartphone with dual lens camera will be in the year of 2017.”

Source: SlashGear