Gadget Lab Show: A Look at the HTC One, Google Keep and 'Send to Kindle'

This week, the Gadget Lab team is taking a look at new products from HTC, Google and Amazon. Phones, apps and the (potential) destiny of your long-reading future. What more can you ask for?
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First up, staff writer Nathan Olivarez-Giles and reviews editor Michael Calore take a look at the HTC One, the new flagship from (you guessed it) HTC. The One has just about everything you could ask for from a smartphone these days: a massive 1080p display, a top-notch camera, handsome aluminum construction and one of the slickest versions of Android we’ve seen (outside of stock Android). Unfortunately, we still don’t know when the One will launch in the United States. Whenever it does arrive, it will be available from AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and likely Verizon.

Nathan has been using Google Keep on the One for the last couple of days. Keep is Google’s new note-taking and reminders app, build for Android and the web, that serves as an alternative to Evernote. Its feature set isn’t quite as robust as Evernote, but Keep does what it does well — storing reminders, checklists, voice and written notes, and photos too.

To wrap up this week’s episode, staff writer Roberto Baldwin shows off the new Send to Kindle button — a tool web developers can add to a webpage that sends text from any given website straight to a Kindle e-reader or app. As Roberto wrote earlier this week, the handy new button could spell d-o-o-m for read-it-later services Pocket and Instapaper, among others.

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