I thought the packaging of the device was nice. The packaging was simplistic but still had style.

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Setting up the device was easy. It asked me for my Google account. It also asks if me if I want to make a CyanogenMod account. Since I didn’t have an account I created one. My phone needed the XNPH25R Incremental CyanogenMod update, when I turned it on. I installed the updated and my phone was ready within a couple minutes.

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My first thought was this display is BIG. It has a beautiful, bright 5.5″ display. The touchscreen is very sensitive and responsive to the slightest touch. The display is made of Gorilla Glass 3 to help prevent against scratches. I haven’t had time to test it out though.

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Another thing that impresses me is how light this device is. It is only 162g. For this big of a device that is remarkable. The weight is evenly distributed which makes it feel great in your hand.

The back of the device was another point of interest. This phone has a textured rough back. One of my friends referred to the back of the device as “feeling like a fingernail file”. The back of the phone adds to the overall feel and design of the phone. One advantage is that this device isn’t slippy and doesn’t feel like it will jump out of your hand like some of the Samsung and HTC devices.

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I got a chance to take a couple pictures with the camera. The camera is definitely better than my other HTC. My first impression of the camera would be it is a pretty standard Android camera. If you want to take professional photos, grab your DSLR. I will have to take more pictures with the camera to reach a good conclusion. Here are a couple pictures my OnePlus took.

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Probably the weakest part of the device for me is the speaker. I became accustomed to the HTC One’s dual front stereo speakers. HTC’s speakers are pointed towards you so you get the maximum sound and quality. The OnePlus One’s speakers are on the bottom of the device. They are pretty loud but they don’t quite have the quality of an HTC One device.

Conclusion: This is an excellent device. If you can land an invite to buy this device, buy it. I’ll  post a more detailed review once I use the device more! Follow me on Twitter . I will be giving out an invite when I receive it.

This is what the Chrome address bar normally looks like.

This is the new Chrome-beta update they are trying on some users. Take notice of the address bar. Even though I had clicked on a couple links, the address bar says the website address instead of the URL string.

I found an article that talked about this update. I learned that you can disable this feature. Here are the steps.

Step One: Open Chrome and type Chrome://flags

Step Two: Hit Ctrl + F on your keyboard and search for origin chip. You should get a couple options.  “Enable Origin chip” should be set to default. “Enable origin chip in Omnibox” should be set to disabled.

Relaunch your browser. You should be back to the default URL string now.

One thing that really annoyed me with this update. When I want to copy a URL ,I need to click the origin chip. Then it would display the URL string. Then I could copy the URL. In my opinion, that is one step too many. I hope this helps you out.

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Traditionally, when you want to email someone you needed to get their email address. Google announced a few changes this week on their blog. Gmail will now suggest your Google+ contacts as recipients even though you don’t know their addresses. Lets stop and think, who really needs this? My friends have my email address and the people that don’t have it, really don’t need it.

By default for most people, Google has the “Email via Google+” option, set to “Anyone on Google+” can email you.  I am going to set that option to “only my Circles” can email me, without my address. I would recommend you to do the same. Most people I know can’t keep up with their email inbox already. Why would you want more random email? Don’t you get enough social updates about people you don’t care about already? 

Here is how you change the setting of who can send you email via your Google+ account. Drop down the little gear icon in your Gmail account and click Settings. Click the General tab and you will see half-way down the page, the option, Email via Google+. Click the drop down menu and you can choose between Anyone on Google+, Extended Circles, Circles, or No one. Choose the best option for you and save your changes.

This isn’t the worst thing to happen, but why does Google automatically set the option to “Anyone on Google+” can email me. You think they would respect our privacy, but then again Google is Google, and they can do anything.

This is strictly my opinion, by techspeeder.

First off I “Googled” my issues and came up with this site.

I selected my device.

However, that site didn’t give me any information on how to contact Google, then I found this site . This website had support numbers for various countries. I called Google and got a helpful representative on the phone.

She stepped me through a couple troubleshooting steps to confirm the device was dead- it was. Once finished with the questions, she took my information and told me Google would send me an email within 24 to 48 hours. She said the email would contain a unique link to the Google Play store to order my replacement device.

I received the email within an hour or so. I clicked the link and ordered my replacement device. 

Google will authorize the charge against your credit card but will only charge you if you don’t send your defective device back or its wasn’t a warranty issue etc.

Within a couple days I received my new Google Play Edition HTC One. I then sent back my defective HTC One ,with the shipping label they provided.

Overall I was very impressed with Google’s warranty department. Keep up the great work!

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The first site I have for you is called “ One second on the Internet there are“. . .

This site shows in graphical illustration just how many tweets are tweeted a second, how many videos are played on YouTube a second, how many files are uploaded to Drop box each second,

and many other statistics. It is quite mind-boggling the amount of media and data is consumed and created every second on the Internet.

The second site is called” Let me Google that for You“.

Let me Google that

This is the perfect website for the “tech guy” that gets bombarded with questions from family and friends about computers and other technical problems. Just enter the question in the search box and send them the link! It is a great way to let them know that you don’t need to be pestered every time they have an issue.  If you are a Bing fan they also have a website called let me Bing that for you.

Hope you enjoyed this post. Thanks to The Verge  for the tip on One Second on the Internet.