People who love to read but hate having to store tons of paper and hardback books can become addicted to buying ebooks very quickly. Amazon has led the ebook trend since the beginning with its Kindle store and ereader hardware. For Cyber Monday, the retailer has a number of ereaders on sale, including this Kindle Paperwhite Essentials Bundle deal which you can save up to $70 on right now.
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Flutter is an app development platform that works with both Android and iOS. With one set of code, app developers can create and release apps for both operating systems at the same time. This will hopefully lead to a less fragmented Android experience. One of the biggest issues Android faces is fragmentation. With hundreds of manufacturers creating thousands of devices with different display sizes and hardware capabilities, it’s difficult to control anything in regards to the operating system and its apps.
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Google has revamped its Pay app to focus on the people and stores you deal with most often. It can also help save you money through deals and spending tools. The company also teased Plex bank accounts coming in 2021. The Google Pay app is getting a makeover to reflect your real-world shopping habits. Google has unveiled a redesign for Android and iOS that focuses on the people and stores you deal with most often, in addition to saving you some money.
According to a new analysis of both app stores from Apptentive, iOS applications have more fake reviews than apps on Android.
55% of apps containing fake reviews were on iTunes 45% of apps containing fake reviews were on Google Play. But as TechCrunch notes, while iOS apps had more fake reviews than those on Android, it was the Android apps that were actually the “worst” offenders, as determined by Apptentive with their “Reviewer Quality” Score.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai admits he’s not really a gamer, but he’s extremely confident in yet another game streaming service launching later this year: Google Stadia.
Introduced during Google’s GDC 2019 keynote, we don’t know any specifics about Google’s upcoming platform. Will it run a virtual machine hosting games you purchase and install in the cloud? Will it be a subscription like Xbox Game Pass providing a rotating mixture of games, only without the downloads?
Google hopes to bring some holiday cheer by making it easier to directly donate to various organizations through the Play Store.
All you have to do is either open the Play Store or go to this website on an Android device. From there, you can donate money to any of the following non-profits:
American Red Cross charity: water Doctors Without Borders USA Girls Who Code International Rescue Committee Room to Read Save the Children UNICEF World Wildlife Fund US 100 percent of contributions go to the organizations you choose to donate to.
Back during MWCSandisk unveiled a 200GB microSD card with an estimated price tag of $400. While 200GB is a ton of storage space, it seems that Microdia has one-upped Sandisk with an even larger solution.
The new Microdia Xtra Elite 512GB microSD card will play nicely in any device that supports the SDXC format, meaning most newer smartphones that offer microSD expansion. Of course, such a huge amount of space doesn’t come cheaply, packing a whopping $1000 price tag that makes the Sandisk 200GB card seem affordable.
Remember that Android 4.0.4 firmware soak test for the Droid 4 we told you Motorola was preparing for last week? Apparently Verizon has now given its blessing for the update, which means that those who have registered for the soak test should be getting the notification update today.
Upon installing version 6.16.217 of the new firmware on your Motorola Droid 4, you’ll be bringing your phone that much closer to the latest Android OS.
A recent Motorola job posting hints that the company may be interested in creating a variety of wearable devices in the near future.
The company is looking for a Senior Director of Industrial Design for “wearables” with the experience, knowledge and “courage” needed to develop interesting new wearable products.
While the job description doesn’t actually mention the sort of wearable devices the company will be working on, the focus is clearly on the buyer of such devices:
Comic book and movie fans have probably dreamed of becoming Professor X – without the wheelchair restriction – at one point in time, if only to get a taste of the mutant leader’s ability to control people and objects with his mind.
It seems tech companies have been listening to our childhood fantasies and are developing technology that will enable us to tap into the power of our brain – albeit not at the same out-of-this-world level.