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The Blu Vivo Air features great build quality in a super thin package, and while it does fall short in a few areas, it is a fantastic smartphone overall, at a very affordable price. Blu may not be the most well-known of Android OEMs, but the Florida-based phone manufacturer has been continuing to add to an impressive portfolio of high-quality but affordable smartphones over the past few years.
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The Huawei Watch GT 3 is the company’s latest premium smartwatch, built for fitness and casual users. The smartwatch comes with Huawei’s new TruSeen 5.0 Plus heart rate sensor, running ability evaluations, and more fitness features. Available in two sizes, the Huawei Watch GT 3 will be available starting at €229. The smartwatch landscape is heating up. Apple’s Watch Series 7 offers significant design improvements, and Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 is an excellent showcase of the new Wear OS.
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Thieves are exploiting Samsung demo devices in stores to get the Samsung Fortnite Galaxy skin for free. The Fortnite Galaxy skin is reserved for owners of the Galaxy Note 9 and the Galaxy Tab S4. Samsung is trying to deter theft of the skin through demo unit limitations and retail signage. The Galaxy skin is one of the most exclusive (and expensive) skins in the game since to get one you must buy a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 (starting price: $999) or a Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 (starting price: $650).
Update, October 28, 2018 (12:40AM EST): The Red Dead Redemption 2 companion app is now available. The app is a free download and weighs in around 16MB. Your device must run at least Android 6.0 Marshmallow for the app to work.
You can download the app at the link below.
With Red Dead Redemption 2 set to envelop everything about your life in a few days, developer Rockstar Games announced a companion app that will be available alongside the upcoming game.
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Samsung has added a Routine Plus module to Good Lock that lets you craft advanced Bixby commands. You can reassign buttons, set macros, and more. Samsung just made Good Lock more useful, particularly if you wish you could wring more use out of Bixby. As Android Police reports, the company has released a new Routine Plus module for Good Lock that adds a raft of new features to Bixby’s shortcut system.
The Samsung Galaxy S3 should be available in the U.S. starting today from certain mobile operators, but it looks like the problems continue for some of them. Sprint had already announced that its Galaxy S3 would be available only online and via telesales today, but it looks like the company returned with more details for its subscribers.
Sprint has confirmed that it won’t have the handset in stock today due to “overwhelming demand.
Another front is open in the streaming wars.
With hours to go until its official debut, Disney Plus has become available in the Play Store.
You can download the Disney Plus Android app right now, and install on it on your Android smartphone or tablet or Android TV device, as well as use it to play content on your Chromecast.
Officially, you can’t start streaming The Mandalorian or your favorite Disney classic just yet.
When the July 2016 security update rolled out toNexus 5 devices, users began experiencing an array of volume related bugs. For some, in-call volume adjustment went kaput, others experienced an inability to mute apps, and a few even had all of their phone’s volume sliders drop just to the point of barely being audible.
Owners of the device took to reddit and other online forums and made Android devs aware of the issue.
Xiaomi launched the Redmi 4A in India back in March, a budget-friendly smartphone that comes with 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of storage. If that’s not enough for you, you’ll be happy to hear that Xiaomi has now announced an upgraded version of the device in the country, which offers 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage. The rest of the specs remain the same.
The upgraded Redmi 4A will be available starting tomorrow, August 31, from Mi.
However, Sammy has pleasantly surprised us all a couple of hours back, when it officially kick-started the promised Android 4.0 rollout with a tasty Ice Cream Sandwich software package for the Galaxy Tab 7.7.
Adopters of the 7-incher shouldn’t however wait for automatic prompt messages to encourage them to install the ICS update, because the upgrading process will not happen over-the-air. Instead, you’ll have to download Samsung’s Kies PC software, connect your tablet to a Windows-running desktop or laptop and look for the Android 4.