Samsung’s new flagships come with an option for an always-on home button. For those of you who were worried about burn-in problems, you’ll be happy to know that the button actually moves around slightly to prevent any unintended image retention. Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus review: Almost to Infinity Reviews This year’s Galaxy S flagships – Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus – may not have the iconic physical home button on the front, but they do have a pressure sensitive software home key.

Google has announced that it will officially end support for Android Market on devices running Android 2.1 Eclair or below at the end of this month. From Android Market to Google Play: a brief history of the Play Store News If you’ve been with Android from the beginning, you probably know just how far Google’s operating system has come. And more importantly, you are probably familiar with the paper bag icon with the beloved Bugdroid on it: Google’s very own app store before it was rebranded.

Google Play Books 3.4.5 brings a change that typography aficionados will appreciate: a new default typeface called Literata. Literata, which was officially introduced yesterday on Twitter, is an elegant serif typeface that Google commissioned from type foundry Type-Together in April 2014, designed to replace Droid Serif as the default typeface of Play Books. (For a discussion about the difference between font and typeface, read this Fast Co Design article.) Literate delivers, according to Type-Together, “outstanding reading experience on a whole range of devices and high resolution screens.

What about the release date, though? While we don’t have specifics, we do know that the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 will be available in Marble White or Titanium Gray starting in October for the European, Asian and Middle Eastern markets. As for price? It’s hard to say at this point, though the original Note launched at $300 with 2-year-contract through AT&T – so it’s possible the Note 2 could be priced similarly.

CyanogenMod 12 is based on Android 5.0.1 Lollipop, which is Google’s latest build of the Android OS. If you are unfamiliar with the title, Nightlies refer to a ‘beta’ stream of the custom ROM, which will include some bugs and omit a few features and hardware support. Cyanogen Inc. say they are about 85% done the official stable release of CyanogenMod 12 M. For now, CM12 Nightlies are available for about 30 devices, including the Nexus 4, 6, 7 (2013 WiFi), OnePlus One, LG G3 and the HTC One (M7) and (M8).

MMORPGs take too much of your time, efforts and sometimes money. Choosing which you will play is of salient importance. After all, these are not games you just play for a little bit, or can finish in a few hours. A good MMORPG will keep you busy for months, or even years. Is Order & Chaos 2: Redemption the one you will dedicate your time to? The series sure has plenty of followers, so there is an ample community that will tell you this is the mobile MMORPG to download.

Several months ago, the popular Plex media server added support for controlling it with  your voice via Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant. Today, the Android version of Plex started rolling out an update, and it includes support for using another digital companion, Google Assistant, if you use a Android TV device. Basically, you can now use your voice to search and launch for videos and TV shows with Google Assistant on Android TV-based televisions, along with set-top boxes like the NVIDIA Shield TV.

Looking for a decent tablet for very little down? If you don’t mind tying yourself to Sprint for two years, you might want to check out the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0. Starting on October 11th, the tablet will be available both online and in-stores for just $49.99 with contract. Honestly, this is a pretty good deal if you live in an area with solid Sprint coverage and can’t afford to put a whole lot of money down for a tablet.

Samsung is apparently on track to spend $14 billion this year on advertising and marketing in order to sell more Galaxy handsets and other products, but ads will not always work in its favor. Reuters reports that the Samsung’s promotion budget this year is actually bigger than Iceland’s entire GDP, although we’re not surprised to hear that the South Korean company is willing to pay even more cash on ads, TV spots and promo offers to sell its plethora of devices.

Palm announced the unlocked version of the diminutive Palm Phone, which you can now pre-order from Palm’s website. The unlocked version won’t replace the existing Palm Phone. Unlike the existing Palm Phone variants that must be used on Verizon’s network, the unlocked version works on GSM networks, such as T-Mobile and AT&T. Unfortunately, the unlocked Palm Phone doesn’t support CDMA networks, such as Verizon and Sprint. The unlocked Palm Phone can be yours for $349.