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Pixel 4 phones announced with 90Hz display & exceptional camera

Pixel 4 phones announced with 90Hz display & exceptional camera

There is no doubt that smartphones are getting even smarter. Google’s new Pixel 4 series phones have just been announced and they feature all sort of technologies including Radar type of tech.

Google’s Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL are now officially revealed, and they pack a lot of interesting specs, but also some letdowns.

Both phones come with a complete 90Hz display (no notch, no cutouts in the…

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Chromebook 4 and Chromebook 4+ are Samsung's latest Android-ready laptops

Chromebook 4 and Chromebook 4+ are Samsung’s latest Android-ready laptops

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Samsung Electronics as just released its fourth generation Chromebook laptops (that’s right, plural because there are two of them) sequel to Chromebook 3.

The brand new laptops with Chrome OS are now available in the US at a great price tag considering that they come with Google Play store access, thus you can download and install any Android app or game available.

Chromebook 4+

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Surface Duo is Microsoft's upcoming foldable smartphone powered by Android

Surface Duo is Microsoft’s upcoming foldable smartphone powered by Android

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Surface Duo is Microsoft’s attempt at making smartphones once more.

No joke, Microsoft is making smartphones again (more importantly Android running smartphones) two years after the company shut down its Windows Phone business.

The upcoming device that bears an uncanny resemblance to a notebook is called Surface Duo, it is powered by Google’s mobile operating system Android, and it…

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YouTube Music app to replace Play Music as a preinstalled app on future phones

YouTube Music app to replace Play Music as a preinstalled app on future phones

Youtube Music app replaces Google Play Music app as a native preinstalled app on future Android devices.

Google Inc is replacing the Play Music Android application with YouTube Music app as part of Google Apps package of preinstalled apps. Meaning the YouTube Music app is now officially part of the licensing deal Google makes with mobile makers, and so Google Play Music app will no longer come…

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Play Pass cost $5 / month for access to games and apps without ads / in-app purchases

Play Pass cost $5 / month for access to games and apps without ads / in-app purchases

Play Pass is Google’s competitor for Apple’s Arcade gaming subscription service.

Like Apple with its Arcade, Google is also starting to push out a similar service called Play Pass, which is pretty much Google’s way of saying: “Here, access to select paid games and apps for free and without ads or any in-app purchases“.

What Google’s Play Pass service for Android devices (not available to iOS…

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Mate 30 Pro and Mate 30 officially announced by Huawei in Munich

Mate 30 Pro and Mate 30 officially announced by Huawei in Munich

At a press event held earlier today in Munich, Germany, the Chinese mobile maker Huawei unveiled its latest Mate series smartphones: the Mate 30 Pro and Mate 30 (which also includes the Mate 30 Lite, but not shown off on stage during the presentation).

The brand new smartphones come with a new and improved design that some will like, other not so much after Mate 20 Pro winning the most beautiful…

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Battle Souls - A retro turn-based RPG with nice 8bit art

Battle Souls – A retro turn-based RPG with nice 8bit art

Nostalgic about 80s and early 90s arcade games with 8-bit graphics? Then you’re in for a treat with Battle Souls.

The game is a turn-based retro style RPG game available on Android devices. Its story starts a very long time ago when “a strange moon appeared in the sky, since then the world has begun to collapse slowly, sinking into the sea. When this happened, the gods went north through the…

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Geekbench 5 is now available in Google's Play store

Geekbench 5 is now available in Google’s Play store

The latest cross-platform benchmark application from Prime Labs is now available in the Google Play store for Android devices.

Geekbench 5 is only available in 64-bit version (no more 32-bit versions from now on). As for its improvements: new benchmark tests which model challenges your system faces when running the latest Android applications.

In order to more accurately simulate the workloads…

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Motorola One Zoom announced at IFA2019

Motorola One Zoom announced at IFA2019

Lenovo’s Motorola brand has just announced new phones at IFA 2019 in Berlin. Among these new phones is the Motorola One Zoom that feature a 6.4-inch OLED display with Full HD+ screen resolution and an under display fingerprint sensor.

The brand new device is equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 675 just like Moto Z4, which is backed up by only 4GB of RAM and comes with 128GB internal storage…

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Galaxy A90 5G announced with Snapdragon 855 CPU & Dex

Galaxy A90 5G announced with Snapdragon 855 CPU & Dex

Samsung Electronics surprises as with a brand new 5G smartphone, Galaxy A90 5G. The handset has a neat looking glass back with a unique geometric pattern.

After releasing three premium 5G smartphones in the last few months: Galaxy S10 5G, Galaxy Note10 5G and Note10+ 5G, this week the South Korean tech giant is launching a mid-range phone with said technology on-board.

Samsung’s Galaxy A90 5G is…

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Play store videos will start to autoplay

Play store videos will start to autoplay

Google will soon implement a new feature into its Play store, feature that will annoy for sure both Android users and Android app and game developers.

According to Google’s Play Console help page, as of September 2019 all videos embedded in each app and game inside the Play store (app and web version) will autoplay themselves.

Google thinks this way users will pay more attention to each app and…

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LifeAfter - Probably the best zombie survival game on smartphones

LifeAfter – Probably the best zombie survival game on smartphones

You can never have enough of zombie stories (can you?) whether they are told through books, movies such as World World Z or TV shows such as The Walking Dead.

The fact of the matter is that we love a good post apocalyptic story filled with infected humans controlled by an unknown virus.

One such story is told by LifeAfter Night falls, an open world survival game with great 3D graphics developed…

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Google removes 100 million downloads Android app from Play store

Google removes 100 million downloads Android app from Play store

The popular PDF creating and scanning Android app CamScanner (available since 2010 in the Play store, and with over 100 million downloads until present day) has recently been removed by Google on malware spreading grounds.

According to Kaspersky Labs, CamScanner has been detected spreading malware on Android mobile devices. The app delivered via an ad library malicious code or what Kaspersky…

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Pixel 4 live images confirm what we were afraid all along?

Pixel 4 live images confirm what we were afraid all along?

Pixel 4 smartphone allegedly caught on camera months ahead of its unveil.

Google is two months away from unveiling its 2019 Pixel smartphones, but until that day comes it might not be anything left to unveil.

Back in July 3D redners showed off what could be the Pixel 4 XL, and becuase of those renders Google surprisingly came out with its own rendered image of the back of the device itself.

Toda…

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Evil Lands - An online action MMORPG for Android devices

Evil Lands – An online action MMORPG for Android devices

Evil Lands – One of the best newly discovered MMORPG for Android devices

There are hundreds of millions, if not billions of gamers world-wide who play massively multiplayer online role-playing games every day. And with Android OS always optimizing its features, and the creative level of fantasy games going through the roof, the MMORPG genre starts booming on mobile platforms.

One such game we…

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Google account sign-in using fingerprint sensor on Pixel phones & others (How to)

Google account sign-in using fingerprint sensor on Pixel phones & others (How to)

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Google Inc is pushing out a new feature to Android smartphones, one that will allow us to not only login into our Google accounts using our fingerprints, but also accessing certain Google services or native applications with current smartphone’s most used biometric sensor – the fingerprint reader.

Google is evidently not that fond of passwords, which is why it is hard at work to finding new…

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Abstruct app brings 4K Wallpapers to OLED screens

Abstruct app brings 4K Wallpapers to OLED screens

Abstruct app – many unique 4K wallpapers in one place

From Hampus Olsson the master creator behind Oneplus’ multiple smartphone abstract wallpapers comes an app filled with over 300 4K wallpapers and growing. All ready to apply to the lock and home screen of your Android powered smartphone.

Apart from a plethora of new abstract wallpaper design you also get all Oneplus wallpapers in one place…

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