TL;DR Valve has announced details for how Steam Deck pre-orders will work. You’ll need to put down a deposit starting July 16 and then pay for the rest in December. Once you decide which model you want, you won’t be able to change your mind. Earlier today, Steam parent company Valve surprised us all with the announcement of a new handheld gaming PC console. The Steam Deck looks like a Nintendo Switch but packs way more power under the hood — enough to play most AAA titles.

We’re roughly two weeks away from the Huawei P30 series unveiling in Paris, but it seems like the leak train is picking up steam. We’ve already seen supposed renders earlier this year via WinFuture, and we’ve now got more images courtesy of the German tech outlet. The renders show a Huawei P30 Pro with a very fetching red-orange color scheme, giving the canary yellow Galaxy S10e a run for its money when it comes to vibrant colorways.

TL;DR Vivo’s sub-brand IQOO has launched a Snapdragon 768G-powered phone in India. The IQOO Z3 costs as much as the Redmi Note 10 Pro Max and could be cheaper than the OnePlus Nord CE. The phone boasts a 120Hz display, 55W charging, and a 64MP triple camera setup. There’s a new smartphone in the Indian market that seeks to take on the well-established Redmi Note 10 Pro Max and the upcoming OnePlus Nord CE.

A lot has changed in the last couple decades. When I was a child, communication largely meant one of three methods: in-person, through the mail, or using a landline. Sure cellphones and email existed, but neither were that commonplace for average individuals until the later part of the 90s. Today’s technology has made it a lot easier to stay in touch with others, and that includes your children. Hoping to expand on the idea of letting parents communicate (and track) children when they aren’t at home, LG has now announced the KizON, a new wearable designed specifically for younger kids.

“The display assembly cannot be replaced without tunneling through the entire phone. This makes one of most common repairs, a damaged screen, very difficult to accomplish.” This is how the teardown experts at iFixit describe the situation they found inside the brand new HTC One (M8). iFixit is a company that creates teardown guides for DIY-ers and professionals, along with related tools and equipment. The company ranks devices on a repairability scale from 1 to 10, with 10 being the easiest to repair.

TL;DR OnePlus today announced two new budget smartphones: the OnePlus Nord N10 and Nord N100. The phones mark the return of the headphone jack and the first phones since the OnePlus X with a microSD card slot. The new Nords will launch in Europe and the UK first, but both will eventually land in North America. OnePlus just took the wraps off yet another pair of 2020 smartphones. The phones are budget entries in the brand new Nord series and land as the N10 and N100.

Today, several Android engineers are conducting a Reddit AMA. As of publishing this article, the AMA is still live, so if you have any questions you’d like to ask the team, get to it. If you just want to read some answers though, we highly recommend the one where slow Android updates are explained thoroughly. In an interesting outcome for a Reddit AMA, a redditor asked a very simple question and got a 1,500+ word response.

TL;DR Communication with prisoners can be difficut for their friends and family — and also costly and exploitative. A relatively new crop of prison apps have popped up to address this issue and take some of the burden off. A recent profile from Bloomberg dives deep into how these prison apps came around. Although taxes help pay for the daily needs of the millions of incarcerated individuals in the United States (making up about one percent of the entire U.

Oliver Cragg / Android Authority Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 is a premium device that comes with a hefty price tag. It may not be entirely up to par with the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, but you’ll want to protect your new phablet t any cost. Luckily, you can find plenty of affordable cases to balance out the cost of the phone. Here are the best cheap Galaxy Note 20 cases you can get right now.

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority In-display fingerprint sensors were instant hot hardware when they were first introduced in 2018, as major players embraced the ability to hide biometric authentication behind a smartphone’s screen. They’ve earned a mixed reputation since then, though, and it’s easy to see why. The first in-display fingerprint sensors were slower and way less accurate than conventional fingerprint readers. This is still the case to an extent — see the below-average scanner in the Google Pixel 6 series.