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It’s time for the Sunday giveaway! Like every week, we’re giving away a brand new Android phone to one lucky Android Authority reader. The DGiT Daily newsletter is a daily briefing focused on bringing you the best tech news and links to what’s happening all around the web. It doesn’t matter if it’s from The Wall Street Journal or the depths of a 41-tweet Twitter thread — we’ll find it, and tell you what it means.

Xiaomi Mi MixThe XIaomi Mi Mix gives us a glimpse into what the future for smartphones possibly hold but at the same time, it shows us how that future is further than we hope. Whichever way you look at it, it's the closest we've ever come to the holy grail of a bezel-less smartphone. Table of contents Xiaomi made quite a splash with what they called a ‘concept phone”; a phone that, they hope, will give us a glimpse into a future where smartphones are slabs of glass that project the magic that lies within.

AT&T is offering more information on its plans to trial its 5G network service in 2017. The wireless carrier has already launched business customer trials for 5G speeds in Austin, Texas, and plans to expand its efforts in the next year. The best AT&T prepaid phones currently available The Best AT&T says it will begin a new trial in the first half 0f 2017 for a number of residential customers in Austin, where they will be able to access the recently launched streaming TV service DirecTV Now via a fixed 5G wireless connection.

What is Mobie360 Launcher? Mobie360 Launcher is an app that’s currently in beta. It wants to be the end-all-be-all of your launcher selections and has a lot of features to that effect. We’re not just talking about launcher features, but features you’ get from others apps too. First and foremost, Mobie360 Launcher is a launcher which means it’ll replace your stock launcher. It comes with three lock screens. The left screen is your device health, set up status, and various other phone statistics.

This newly obtained patent describes a variety of user interface elements and the way users would interact with them, or better said, the patent pretty much describes the current smartphone experience that we get to take advantage of no matter what mobile platform we may temporarily favor: Some portable communication devices (e.g., mobile telephones, sometimes called mobile phones, cell phones, cellular telephones, and the like) have resorted to adding more pushbuttons, increasing the density of push buttons, overloading the functions of pushbuttons, or using complex menu systems to allow a user to access, store and manipulate data.

Google+ may not compete on the same level as Facebook when it comes to mainstream popularity (which many of us G+ users prefer that way…), but the company continues to work towards improving the service, even if rumors earlier this year suggested Google wasphasing back its plans for the social network. The latest effort to make Google+ even better apparently involves the purchase of Polar, a startup that focuses on polling mobile device users for their opinions.

Anker is one of the most prominent names in the charging game, offering a variety of accessories for your smartphones and other devices. You don’t have to pay full price for their goodies today though, thanks to Amazon’s deal of the day promotion. Anker USB-A to USB-C cable three-pack Anker PowerWave 7.5 wireless car charger Anker Powerline Lightning three-pack Anker PowerCore USB-C 30W charger Anker PowerDrive 24W car charger Anker PowerCore Essential 20,000mAh PD

The internet is crawling with trackers designed to harvest your personal information - sometimes for things as innocent as understanding what ads to display on the web for you, sometimes for far more nefarious purposes. Regardless, web tracking ranges from innocuous to deeply serious, and it's more important than ever to take precautions to ensure your internet security. Disconnect blocks trackers and malware across your entire device, allowing you to browse up to 44% faster, using up to 39% less bandwidth, and greatly improve battery life.

HTC EMEA lightning rod Graham Wheeler just took to Twitter again to announce that the HTC One M9 in mainland Europe, Turkey and South Africa is getting the Nougat update today, with “more countries to follow over the coming days”. Flashbacks and Forecasts: HTC in 2017 Features When questioned in the comments about the halted HTC 10 update, Wheeler said he will have some news “in the next few days”.

One of the most acclaimed and successful indie games in the past few years has been Prison Architect, from developer Introversion Software. Today, publisher Paradox Interactive announced it was working with Introversion to launch a version for Android tablets, along with Apple’s iPad. 15 best simulation games for Android Apps The game is all about you building and running a high security prison The game is all about you building and running a high security prison.