Lenovo’s tablets in its Smart Tab line are quite interesting. They’re decent tablets on their own but when you dock them they become more akin to an Amazon Echo smart display, powered by Alexa. At CES 2020, the company unveiled the newest entry in the family, the Lenovo Smart Tab M10.
However, that’s not the full name of the device. The full, official name of the tablet is the Lenovo Smart Tab M10 FHD Plus 2nd Gen with Google Assistant.
Quite a departure from Angry Birds and its spin-offs, Rovio and DreamWorks have teamed up to bring you The Croods, which is available now via Google Play.
Instead of flinging birds across the gamestage, the game is all about hunting and gathering while finding unique creatures along the way. While the ‘creatures’ are somewhat inspired by primitive-era mammals, they certainly have a dose of fantasy added in thanks to wacky looks and crazy names like “molarbear” and “girelephant”.
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Bloomberg reports that Verizon has dropped plans to sell Huawei phones in the US. Verizon is said to have been pressured by the US government to call off the deal over security concerns. The news follows soon after AT&T also canceled its Huawei partnership plans, apparently on the same grounds. Verizon has cancelled plans to sell Huawei phones in the US, according to speculation from Bloomberg. The news site’s sources indicated that pressure from the US government prompted Verizon’s decision, which stands to set Huawei’s US expansion goals back once again.
Google’s Chrome for Android has been receiving a few updates in the closing quarter of the year and the browser is now boasting tougher security features as well. Coming (almost) straight from the company’s desktop software, Chrome Safe Browsing is now built into version 46 of Chrome for Android.
The updated security features are designed to offer additional protection against malware, unwanted software and social engineering websites. If you accidentally stumble onto a suspicious page, Chrome will now offer up a big red warning page and to let you have another think about the site.
Reverse wireless charging has always been a weird feature. Ever since we first saw it in the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, it was clear that, while convenient, you usually lost way more power than you transferred to the other phone. But when Samsung first launched the Galaxy Buds with the Samsung Galaxy S10 series, it became clear to me that this feature was way more useful for accessories, which tend to have much smaller batteries.
Update #2 (2/24): Telltale Games has finally released the first episode its much anticipated Michonne mini-series to the Google Play Store. It's available now at the download link below for $4.99. If you're positive that you're going to be purchasing episodes 2 and 3, you can save 20% by buying a season pass via the game's in-app menu. Interested? Follow the link below for the download!
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Samsung has big things planned for the home automation space next year it seems. The company has just announced that its entire line-up of 2016 smart TVs will be internet-of-things ready and can connected up to the company’s SmartThings platform.
In case you missed it, SmartThings is an open IoT platform that allows users to control other smart home devices. This includes products such as lights, thermostats, alarms and even security cameras.
Sony has been one of the more developer friendly OEMs over the past few years, opening up its bootloaders, kernel source code, and driver binaries to aid others in the development of custom ROMs and the like. The company looks set to take its relationship with the custom ROM community one step further, but providing stock Android (AOSP) ROMs for its major smartphones in the future.
Back in June, Alin Jerpelea from CyanogenMod’s FreeXperia team joined Sony’s Developer Program, and he has been giving a talk at the XDA Devcon this week about where Sony will be taking ROM support in the future.
OnePlus, aside from being known for providing one of the best Android experiences with its clean OxygenOS, has also introduced popular apps and features such as Clipt, WellPaper, Canvas AOD, and Zen Mode. Between them, they’ve garnered hundreds of thousands of downloads on the Google Play Store and have expanded through word-of-mouth beyond OnePlus owners to the whole Android community.
A number of these apps and features come from OneLab — a creative engine within OnePlus composed of UI/UX designers, product managers, and developers from around the world.
The Ascend G6 is rather premium looking device that continues with the design language that Huawei introduced last year with the Ascend P6. You get the same clean lines without many needless flourishes, the same rounded bottom, and the same placement of buttons and ports.
The back plate of the device is a smooth plastic that doesn’t pick up a lot of fingerprints and oil stains. The faux metal accents around the camera and on the sides also complement the main material nicely.