The best Cyber Monday smartwatch, fitness tracker deals of 2019

Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 vs Fossil Gen 5 Smartwatch Cyber Monday 2019 is officially underway, and there are plenty of deals worth checking out. Below, you’ll find a list of the best Cyber Monday smartwatch deals and best Cyber Monday fitness tracker deals we could find. Best Cyber Monday smartwatch deals As you can see, there are a lot of Cyber Monday smartwatch deals already live, and most of them can be found on Amazon.

The best Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus thin cases to buy

David Imel / Android Authority Samsung’s Galaxy S21 Plus is a beast of a device, coming in with a 6.7-inch display. Of course, you’ll want to keep the phone safe from harm seeing as it costs a cool $1,000. The best way to do so might be with a case that offers solid protection without much bulk. We’ve put together our list of the best Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus thin cases to help you choose.

The newest Sprint unlimited plan might make you sit up and take notice

TL;DR Sprint has announced a new high-end unlimited plan, called Unlimited Premium, for $90 a month. It includes a free subscription to Amazon Prime, in addition to free access to Hulu and Tidal. The plan also throws in 50GB of LTE mobile hotspot data a month. Sprint made a surprise late Friday announcement, revealing that it has launched a new unlimited plan. This one is called Unlimited Premium, and it has a few features that might make it very attractive for many customers, even with its high price tag of $90 a month (with auto-pay) for one line.

What to expect from next-gen phone SoCs

Robert Triggs / Android Authority As 2021 draws to a close, talk inevitably turns to next-gen smartphones and their upcoming features. The beating heart of every handset is the system on a chip (SoC), packing in countless transistors that your phone’s apps, games, photographs, and more depend on. Big changes here can revolutionize your next smartphone experience, although industry maturity makes this more of a rarity these days. Apple and Google have already announced their flagship smartphones that will last for the bulk of 2022, complete with in-house SoCs.

Why 8 and 10 CPU cores in smartphones are a good idea

The processor in my smartphone has more CPU cores than my desktop PC! It is true, but it doesn’t sound right. How is it that this little handheld device is sporting eight-cores but my PC only has four? Does my smartphone perform better than my PC? Does my smartphone need 8 cores, or even 10? These are good questions and according to a Forbes article written by Patrick Moorhead, the well known technology commentator, 8 and 10 CPU cores in smartphones are a bad idea, and he uses the car as an example.

BlackBerry switches to the dark side of the Force with the Limited Edition Black KEYone

BlackBerry needed a device to help reinvigorate its brand, and the KEYone, which launched during the waning days of May, certainly helped that cause, to some extent. Now, BlackBerry hopes to double down on that reinvigoration with the Limited Edition Black KEYone. Funny enough, the phone officially goes by Limited-Edition KEYone Mercury Black Device By BlackBerry Made By Optiemus Infracom. As incredibly clunky of an official name that may be, it does give a bit of insight into the phone’s background.

Chrome OS Flex: Your PC/Mac is now a Chromebook

Eric Zeman / Android Authority TL;DR Google has announced Chrome OS Flex, which is an easy way to turn your existing computer into a Chrome OS machine. You can boot the OS from a USB stick or replace your machine’s current operating system. Google is pushing this as a green way to reutilize older machines. It enters early access today. A lot of us have an old laptop collecting dust in a closet somewhere.

Closer to the Pro model?

TL;DR A new leak has shown off the design of the OnePlus 10 or OnePlus 10T. It looks like the phone has a similar design compared to the Pro variant. Specs also point to 150W charging and a Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 SoC. We’ve seen plenty of leaks regarding the next flagship-level OnePlus device, said to either be the OnePlus 10 or OnePlus 10T. Either way, new renders have surfaced online this week alongside purported specs.

Garmin vívoactive HR review - Android Authority

Garmin vívoactive HRIf you’re looking for a fitness tracker with GPS, a big screen, water resistance and aren’t worried about size, the Garmin vívoactive HR is for you. While Garmin does have some room to improve with its Move IQ technology and Connect app, we can honestly say that, for the money, this is one of the better fitness trackers on the market. Garmin has been making fitness and activity trackers for quite some time now, and perhaps one of the most beefy, jack-of-all-trade offerings from the company so far is the vívoactive HR.

Let's give it to Samsung for making 64 GB standard in the Galaxy S8

One of the more subtle points of note on the new Galaxy S8 spec sheet is the move on over to 64 GB of internal memory as the only storage option on offer. Samsung initially took this decision with the Note 7 and, in fact, isn’t even advertising 32 GB UFS flash memory chips over at its memory business either. The company only has three modules, which are available in 64, 128, and 256 GB capacities.