It has been an amazing week for Final Fantasy enthusiasts. Especially for Final Fantasy 7 fans, who will be granted a couple of requests they have been begging for for years. For starters, Sony and Square Enix totally won E3 with the announcement of a Final Fantasy 7 HD remake (can you even believe it’s actually happening?). Now Square Enix executive producer Shinji Hashimoto is telling us the original Final Fantasy 7 is finally coming to mobile!
A security firm posted information about a new Android Trojan that appears unlike anything seen before when it comes to complexity and the number of malicious actions it’s able to perform.
Called Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a, the malware is compared to malicious threats that usually target Windows, not Android. The new malware uses several exploits, some of them new to security researchers from Kaspersky, who discovered Obad.a.
The Trojan is able to perform a variety of tasks once installed, and it appears to be impossible to remove, as Obad.
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The Sennheiser HD 250BT Bluetooth headphones come to the North American market, and retail for $69.95. They feature a 25-hour battery life and support high-quality codecs. The Sennheiser HD 250BT comes to the North American market and brings the club to you. These on-ear headphones take inspiration from DJ headsets, and promise to deliver loud, clear bass. Despite its lightweight design, the HD 250BT can endure all of your urban adventures.
OnePlus has announced free standard shipping on all orders exceeding $100 from oneplus.net. Priority shipping will also be offered at a reduced price. As the company notes in a blog post, “a change of this size will naturally have a negative impact on our bottom-line. However, if we’re to survive in this blink-and-you’ll-miss-it business we need to be able to offer our users the level of service they’ve come to expect when shopping online.
It’s that time of year again! The holiday festivities are gearing up, and even under lockdown, we’re all feeling that ever-present crunch of time. It seems like there are never enough hours in the day to get everything done.
Time is everyone’s most valuable and finite resource, so this year, why not give someone the gift of time or get some time back for yourself? Robot vacuum cleaners, like those from Roborock, aim to do just that: they spend the time doing the menial cleanup so you don’t have to.
Despite marching ever closer to its one year anniversary, the Nexus 6P is still a standout phone in the Android arena. You can attribute that to its Nexus stature, but it also happens to be a solid smartphone in its own right, which holds up well against the current competition. An extra benefit to considering a phone that’s a little more ‘aged’ than the latest flagships are the price cuts that are likely to pop up.
BBM for Android and iOS is finally rolling out (for real this time) and it looks that BlackBerry’s still got it.
The troubled Canadian phone maker proudly announced that five million users downloaded the Android and iOS versions of BlackBerry Messenger in the first eight hours of availability.
The figure only includes users who downloaded the app and activated their BBM account, so the actual number may be higher. That’s a fairly impressive number for a service that has been until now exclusive to a dwindling platform.
Every smartphone we see at Android Authority has some kind of compromise. Maybe the speakers are no good or the battery life sucks; maybe the design is dated or the UI is atrocious. Recently though, the most controversial compromise of all is whether or not the display has a notch.
Critics say it’s a cynical attempt to copy Apple, and that interpretation is very much the one in the crosshairs of the enthusiast Android community.
Google shocked Android fans earlier today when it announced the next step for its mobile operating system: Android 4.4 KitKat, without revealing too many details as to why the OS will soon have a name that sounds very much like Nestle’s KitKat.
Instead Google was following a well-established – and very secret – plan dating back to November 2012, when officials from the two companies first talked about the idea.
From waking up early and preparing breakfast for the kids to buying groceries after work, life as a family man or woman can be tough. Fortunately, help is available when you know where to look. If you have a smartphone or a tablet, for instance, just download and install these 5 apps to fully manage your family matters.
Cozi Family Organizer Perhaps the best practical app for parents, especially moms, Cozi Family Organizer provides a free and shareable calendar and lists to synchronize the schedule of each family member.