Pressy aiming for April 28th delivery date, will “squash” copycats with patent

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Pressy aiming for April 28th delivery date, will “squash” copycats with patent

Delays on Kickstarter are like coughs on a cold day — you just come to expect them at this point. That’s why we weren’t too peeved when we heard Pressy had a bit of hold up during the initial engineering process, with the project creators claiming they weren’t terribly happy with the quality of the product.

Things seem to be moving along smoothly, though, as Nimrod Back is confident enough to say they will begin shipping on April 28th. The first batch will be coming in from China and then has to go out to everyone around the world, so the first actual deliveries aren’t expected to begin until Mid-May.

Nimrod Back also took this opportunity to address a couple of things. For starters, they’ve revealed a newly-designed holster for the Pressy button, which can now fit on your key chain or be looped onto a headphone wire.

They also took a nice little jab to “copycats” everywhere, saying they’ll be looking to “squash” them. They intend to do so with a patent that they smartly secured a while ago, so a day in court should be a walk in the park as long as those copycats () can’t prove prior art.

[via Pressy Kickstarter]

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Samsung wants to “Kapture the Moment” with event on April 29th; Galaxy S5 Zoom?

We might be right into the thick of the Samsung Galaxy S5 launch, but that doesn’t mean the South Korean company doesn’t have other goodies in the pipeline. It looks like Samsung might be looking to formally introduce the Samsung Galaxy S5 Zoom by the end of this month, with invitations for an April 29th press invites for a Singapore event going out.

The event asks folks to “Kapture the Moment,” which is almost a dead giveaway as to what they’ll be wanting to discuss. Unfortunately for Samsung we already have a pretty decent idea about the makeup of their second camera phone. Here are some of the early specs that were outed in a benchmark listing early on:

• 4.8-inch 720p SAMOLED display


• Exynos “hexa-core” SoC


• 2GB of RAM


• 20 megapixel camera with 10x zoom and Xenon flash


• 16GB internal storage


• NFC


• Android 4.4.2 KitKat.

Not too shabby. Oh, and as for that whole “K” thing in the invitation? Rumors are suggesting this will be known as the Samsung Galaxy K once it’s revealed (because “Zoom” just isn’t doing it for them, for whatever reason).

[Samsung]

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