One gigabit of download speed. It’s easy to talk about, but not easily conceived. We can read all the stats and data we like, but until it’s experienced, none of it really makes sense.
So, how can we actually experience Fiber? Building a fiber optic network is a huge task, so how does Google accomplish it all? More importantly, we want to know how we can get it in our cities.
Many Android OEMs bank on the name recognition of their popular, high-end smartphones by releasing different versions that share the flagship name. As manufacturers have tended to do, this is seen in the form of Plus iterations, that indicate a bigger size in general, and in some cases, more powerful specifications, and Lite versions, that take things down a notch in terms of size, specs, and most importantly price. This has become an increasingly common practice across the board, and Huawei is certainly not a stranger to it.
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Vivo announced its latest mid-range phone, the V11. The device offers an in-display fingerprint scanner and sub-flagship specs. The new phone also has a 25MP selfie camera and a variety of AI-branded features. Vivo made quite a splash when it demonstrated the X20 Plus UD and its in-display fingerprint scanner at CES 2018. Now, the company is hoping to bring some of that innovation to a lower price point with the new Vivo V11 (known as the V11 Pro in India).
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Streaming music services are big business, with loads of platforms out there. They all operate on the same principle, letting you pay a monthly subscription fee or offering free access to millions of music tracks.
This theoretically means that you don’t need to store local music files on your smartphone, save for music downloaded from these streaming services for offline playback. We were curious to find out just how many people had traditional music files on their phones, and here’s what you told us.
Google is notifying certain app developers about an upcoming change to the way the Google Play Store distributes app updates (via Android Police). In the future, it seems pre-installed apps will have access to updates even if you haven’t signed in with a Google account.
When you first set up a new Android device, the pre-installed apps will be at the most recent version they were on when installed. To get the newest versions, you’ll have to sign in to the Google Play Store with a Google account.
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Is Pac-Man relevant enough to drive sales for OnePlus? Does the titular orb chomping away at dots and the occasional ghost really have the clout to attract a Gen Z audience? The cultural relevance behind a 40-year-old video game character collaborating with a smartphone brand is not a discussion I imagined having on a Monday afternoon in the Android Authority Slack channel, but here we are.
The iPhone 6s is no spring chicken, having launched way back in 2015. In fact, the move to 5G has numbered its days even further. However, it can still be a great music player thanks to the headphone jack, so you’ll want to keep it safe. Here are the best Apple iPhone 6s cases you can buy to do just that.
See also: How to switch from iPhone to Android: Sync your contacts, photos, and more!
Mobile, console and PC game developers who work with the Unity engine will see some changes in how it is labeled in the next year. The company revealed that the last major update for its Unity 5 engine cycle will be released in March 2017, and after that the next version will use a year-based date label, or Unity 2017.
How to create a 3D shooter for Android with Unity - Part one
Pebble smartwatch
The smartwatch is a device on the rise this year, if we were to believe what an ABI Research forecast (press release below) says, with 1.2 million units expected to ship this year.
The degree of penetration smartphones have achieved (35 percent of customers opt for high-end devices, another study says), “a flourishing app ecosystem,” as well as the fact that that components are getting cheaper, are the main reasons behind ABI’s prediction.
HP has just announced two new Android-powered tablets, the 12.3-inch HP Pro Slate 12 and the 7.9-inch HP Pro Slate 8. HP has never really been known to release tablets with amazingly up to date specifications, but these two tablets actually have the potential to run quite well. Both devices are running a 2.3GHz Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB of RAM and both are only 8mm thick. The Pro Slate 8 is using a new Corning Gorilla Glass 4 panel, coming in with a resolution of 2048 x 1536 and a pixel density of 326ppi.