Ever since it was announced, gamers and gaming media outlets have struggled to answer the question: “Just who is Google Stadia for?” The answer to that question is me: a 30-year-old dad who used to buy the latest consoles and game releases, but no longer has the free time to justify buying a dedicated box just to collect dust in the living room. I used to be a pretty heavy gamer, but nowadays I have an hour or two to devote to gaming, generally in short spurts throughout the day.

Are you sick of people telling you that there is no tablet market, only an iPad market? From now on, tell your iPad-toting buddies to check out this report from iSuppli, which essentially puts the iPad dominance theory to the rest. In a nutshell: Apple still sells more tablets than anyone else, but Cupertino’s iron grip on the market is finally loosening. So, who deserves the credit? Without doubt, Amazon’s Kindle Fire, the star of Q4 2011.

A well-known leaker says that the LG V510 is “indeed” a Nexus tablet, although Google is yet to officially announce it. This isn’t the first time we hear the LG V510 will be a Nexus device, with past rumors saying that the device is either a future Nexus 8 tablet or a new Nexus 10 model. Without going into further details about the product, @evleaks has tweeted the message above. As you can see, it’s not clear what kind of Nexus tablet we’re looking at.

If you are a parent and have pre-teen or early teenaged children, they might already be fans of Game Shakers, a live-action sitcom on the Nickelodeon TV network. The premise of the show is that two 7th grade kids make their own video game for a school project, and it become so successful that they form their own game development studio. This week, Nickelodeon released Llama Llama Spit Spit for Android in the Google Play Store.

TL;DR The Xiaomi Mi Max 3 Pro is reportedly on the way, delivering more power than the standard Mi Max 3. The Pro model purportedly leaked via Xiaomi’s website, tipped to launch with a Snapdragon 710 processor. Aside from a more powerful chipset, the Pro variant seems to offer the same specs as the standard model. We already know about Xiaomi’s supposed Mi Max 3 surfacing on China’s TENAA website, but an apparently deleted page on Xiaomi’s website (h/t: TechRadar) shows a Mi Max 3 Pro is coming.

It’s no surprise that Microsoft is earning royalties from each Android device sold; at least from manufacturers it has licensing agreements with. What’s quite concerning is how Microsoft earns significantly more from Android than its own home-grown mobile operating system, Windows Phone. $792 million in three months is no chump change, even for a company that has reported earnings of $18.06 billion in its fourth fiscal quarter of 2012 from Windows, Office and other software and hardware businesses.

TL;DR The new Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 aims to make premium smartphone features less expensive. The 710 touts significant performance and battery life improvements compared to the Snapdragon 660. Smartphone manufacturers already have access to the chip, and we should see the first devices using the 710 within the coming weeks. Qualcomm states that the Snapdragon 710 was designed around the most popular consumer use cases. You can expect a two-fold increase in overall AI performance compared to the Snapdragon 660, stronger image processing thanks to added hardware acceleration, as well as reduced power consumption.

A system dump from the Samsung Galaxy S8 has made its way online, including all of the device’s app, priv-app and media folders. The 1.11 GB folder was uploaded by a member of the XDA Developers forums a few hours ago and it appears that some of the forum-goers have already tested some of the apps on their devices. Many of these apps don’t require root to install, including Messaging, Clock, Video, My Files, Galaxy Apps, Samsung Account, and Samsung Cloud.

Gone are the days when writers used to scribble their thoughts on a rugged piece of paper with a pen and ink on the side. Thanks to the wonders of technology, the pen is now replacing the stylus, and the paper? Well, apps for PCs, smartphones, and tablets are now the best and fastest ways to write down ideas, notes and blogs. If you are both a writer and an Android user, check out some of the best Android apps we’ve prepared for you.

Digital Inspiration has extracted data from the Play Store to find the most downloaded apps, as well as which have the most reviews. The data, which can show both a heavy Google lean and which services are independently popular, is pretty interesting for consumers. Of the most downloaded apps — those which are on 500 million to one billion devices — only Facebook cracks the top five, and it comes in behind four Google services.