Right now, you can head over to a T-Mobile store and grab a 2017 flagship for only $500. The Moto Z2 Force is now discounted $250 from its base price of $750. Not only that, but you can still cash on the free Insta-Share Projector Moto Mod offer too. The phone is discounted right now so you don’t need to worry about buying it at full price and waiting on a rebate of any kind.

In the early days of Android, OEM-created UX skins were perhaps a “necessary evil” in the eyes of some critics. Google’s own OS had far less usability solutions than it does today, meaning that TouchWiz and its irk provided some clear and sincere “value added services”. Defenders often point out, for example, that Samsung had a brightness slider and quick setting toggles on the notification shade ages before Mountain View ever got inspired.

Although July has fast become the month of Amazon Prime Day, that doesn’t stop other retailers from capitalizing on bargain-hunters searching around for awesome deals in the summertime. This weekend, Best Buy is hosting its annual Black Friday in July promotion — and there are some pretty awesome deals to be found. Unfortunately, the focus point for the Best Buy Black Friday in July sale is Apple products. Some notoriously expensive items from the Apple repertoire, including MacBooks, iPads, and the Apple Watch, are getting some decent discounts.

If you were thinking that there had been a drought of adorable comedy-adventure titles on Android, then the news of CHUCHEL might be music to your ears. CHUCHEL is an upcoming game from Czech indie studio Amanita Design, who you may know as the team behind point-and-click adventure games Samorost, Botanicula, and Machinarium. It looks like another wacky take on the adventure game genre, typical of the studio, though trying to work out specifically how it plays based on the trailer above isn’t exactly easy (I’d recommend playing it with sound if you want to get the full experience).

☕ Good morning! Samsung Unpacked happens about three hours after you get this email… Samsung UnpackedLater today, Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S22 series with its new Note-like approach, and Samsung’s new tablet series, with the Tab S8, which looks to be rejuvenated. The event goes live at 10AM ET / 7AM PT, where all the news and rumors go quiet for a second and we get a sense of what Samsung is trying to do.

In terms of its gaming and hardware features, the Razer Phone was one of the more impressive Android smartphones released in 2017. The $700 price tag also makes the phone a pricy option, though Razer looks to mitigate the blow on your wallet with a promo code. Whether you pick the standard or limited gold edition Razer Phone, make sure to type in promo code 120HZ at checkout. This nets you a $100 discount on Razer’s flagship.

TL;DR Google is working on the ability to let you summon Assistant via your phone’s power button. OEMs have previously offered this functionality on their devices. Google already lets you summon the Google Assistant with either a wake-word, a gesture from the corners, and more. But it looks like the company is working on yet another way to activate its voice assistant. XDA-Developers has dug into version 12.18.6.29 of the Google app and discovered references to the Assistant being triggered via a phone’s power button.

Following on from his earlier root success, renowned developer Chainfire has successfully rooted the Google Pixel, this time achieving full systemless root with switchable DM-verity and an unmodified system partition. Chainfire tweeted the above to his followers, following up to say that “automating, cleanup, packaging etc could take a few days”. So if you want to fully root the Google Pixel, stay tuned, as over the coming days Chainfire will be adding SuperSU support for the Pixels in the very near future.

Are you worried about that van that’s been parked outside your house for a suspiciously long time? Are you concerned that there’s a master criminal in there picking off your internet banking details? Don’t worry, you’re probably just losing your mind. But what is terrifying is that you don’t have to be an evil genius to learn Wi-Fi hacking. Most networks have a variety of weaknesses that a 13-year-old kid could quickly learn to infiltrate.

The ads – Amazon’s Special Offers – will appear on the lock screen, and users won’t be able to pay Amazon the extra buck to remove them. And while the ads aren’t exactly intrusive, and users would not mind seeing some special offers – especially the ones they’d like to take advantage of – the fact still remains that not everybody likes to be bombarded with ads. This aren’t the first Amazon-made devices to get the Special Offers treatment.