The Room franchise on Android includes two of the most legendary and immersive games around and they have now been joined by a third installment. The Room 3 is now available in Google Play for $4.99. 10 best Android horror games for a good scare Apps The Room 3 is a hefty 539 MB download, so make sure you have sufficient space before you try to install it. To give you an idea of just how popular The Room games are, The Room 3 already has a five-star Google Play rating based on 179 reviews.

Cracking the smartphone market in Europe isn’t the easiest thing to do if you don’t have all the chops and credentials. Just ask Panasonic, as the Japanese firm is reportedly on the verge of packing its bags and leaving behind its European dream for the second time around. We’re not sure if there’s more luck to be had for a European phone maker (French, to be exact), but it’s something that Alcatel is willing to bet its money on with the release of the One Touch 903 on Three UK.

Amazon has been playing around with a pretty interesting business model lately, and their use of it involving Android apps has seen a 300% growth since its inception. The idea is simple. Creators should get paid in proportion to the amount of time a consumer engages the creative content. Amazon first came up with the idea when crowds of writers with cartoonish dollar signs in their eyes flooded the Kindle self-publication platform with an unrelenting tide of werewolf erotica.

Poor battery life is unfortunately still a concern for many smartphone owners, with some handsets unable to last a full day in the hands of a power user. Ampy, a new Kickstarter project, aims to solve this issue without the hassle of remembering to charge up your battery pack. Instead, it stores kinetic energy from your daily walking and exercise routines. The little pack connects up to your smartphone like any other battery accessory, but generates its own store of power from your movements.

Eric Zeman / Android Authority 💌 Good morning! Happy Valentine’s Day! S22 tech oops?Tristan Rayner / Android Authority Here’s something odd. Samsung has changed its specs table for the S22 series a few days after launch. A simple mistake or something more? What’s happened: When Samsung announced the Galaxy S22 series, it announced display specs for each device, as you’d expect. All three were billed as supporting 120Hz variable refresh rate.

The weekend has landed, and what better way to celebrate than by treating yourself to some new tech gear? After all, you’ve earned it. Dailysteals is running a host of great deals on hardware and equipment you might like right now, and we’ve got some promo codes to save you even more. Check out the line up of deals below. Unlocked Samsung Galaxy S7The Samsung Galaxy S7 was the outstanding flagship a couple of years ago, receiving a nine-out-of-ten score and Editors’ Choice as part of our review.

TL;DR The Go SMS Pro app exposes private photos, videos, and other files of millions of users. Security researchers found the flaw back in August. The app maker has not yet responded to the findings or taken any steps to fix it. When it comes to third-party messaging apps for Android, Go SMS Pro is one of the most popular ones out there. It has over 100 million installs as per its Google Play Store listing and markets itself as the number one platform to replace Android’s stock messaging app.

In a future article, we will go over the inherent beauty of the Google Fiber Internet plan and its forecasted undermining of the monolithic structure that is US ISP’s. In this edition, we will briefly cover one of the services the plan serves to meet, and its a large segment of the market: HDTV. Broadband TV is not a new concept, with HDTV, DVR, and the now defunct TiVO, being used for the 1st generation of Internet based streaming video.

Update, June 28, 2019 (10:20 AM ET): After announcing earlier this month that it would do so, Google is now rolling out RCS messaging to the United Kingdom and France (via 9to5Google). Google is branding its RCS messaging features as “Chat.” Chat will eventually work on any Android device as long as the default messaging service is set to Messages (formerly Android Messages). However, during this initial rollout, it appears only Pixel devices with physical SIM cards installed are seeing the features.

One of the biggest complaints with modern smartwatches is battery life. If you’re buying anything powered by Google’s Wear OS, for instance, you can usually only expect the battery to last a day or so. A company called Matrix is well on its way to fixing that headache. Its new smartwatch, the Matrix PowerWatch 2, is powered by the user’s body heat and solar power, which means it never needs to be charged.