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Apple has announced the Beats Fit Pro. The true wireless earbuds for active users feature ANC and six hours of battery life. Pricing starts at $199. Apple’s true wireless earbud lineup just got a little more crowded. Its Beats division announced the Beats Fit Pro, earbuds that pack plenty of features for active music lovers.
The Beats Fit Pro’s design is reminiscent of other fitness-geared earbuds, complete with a rubber prong for a better fit within the ear.
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Honor has launched the Honor 50 series in China. This is the firm’s first major smartphone release since it was sold by Huawei. Update: October 26, 2021 (9 AM ET): It’s taken a really long time, but Honor has finally launched the Honor 50 series globally. Unfortunately, the Honor 50 Pro is missing, but the Honor 50 and Honor 50 Lite make the cut.
The Honor 50 starts at €529 (~$614) for the 6GB/128GB variant while the 8GB/256GB option will set you back €599 (~$695).
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The Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 battery will allegedly carry model number EB-BR900ABY. Rumors suggest this battery could have a 276mAh capacity. If true, this battery would be about 10% larger than the one in the 40mm Galaxy Watch 4. A new rumor suggests Samsung isn’t likely to make the same mistake with its next smartwatch. According to SamMobile, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 battery could be a 276mAh cell.
There are many reasons that you might want to start Android development. Building an app that will make you rich and change the world is only one motivation; others include learning to code, building tools that you can use yourself or even just having fun and impressing others. Programming is a fantastic skill to learn and with Android being so open and accessible, it’s a great place to start.
Python is a particularly simple and elegant coding language that is designed with the beginner in mind.
If music has seduced your soul, you’ll have picked up one of the basic but iconic instruments known to humankind — the guitar. With its strings and its wood, you can produce beautiful music. It’s easy to pluck away at the strings and image yourself in a few years’ time, singing to huge crowds or just crooning to a small intimate gathering.
Regardless of how big you want to be as a musician, you can’t always be next to your instruments 24/7.
The Galaxy Note range has traditionally followed the Galaxy S flagships in terms of design and the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge Plus are no different, bringing a new design that’s almost identical to the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge but in a larger form factor.
Like the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, both of Samsung’s new devices are made from a metal frame combined with a Gorilla Glass 4 panel on the front and rear.
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Updated, November 6, 2020 (17:53 PM): Google got back to Android Authority with an explanation about the app described below. As it turns out, this app first became active in July of this year, but only in Kenya. In that country, Google partnered with companies to get Android Go phones to people who otherwise couldn’t afford one. The Device Lock Controller app is thus intended to help creditors prevent defaulted loans for those devices.
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Verizon Wireless said it would launch an unlimited plan next week with no speed caps for data use. The announcement comes after firefighters, combating wildfires in California, had their data speeds throttled when using Verizon’s networks. Verizon has since apologized and has removed all speed caps for those firefighters, along with first responders in Hawaii that are dealing with Hurricane Lane. Verizon Wireless is finally going to offer a truly unlimited plan for its phone customers — but it took a natural disaster to make it happen.
Asus‘ attention in the smartphone space might be mostly on its ZenFone 4 series, but the company has not forgotten about the ZenFone 3 series, namely the ZenFone 3 Max. Today, the Taiwanese company announced it has kept its promise and update the battery-focused smartphone to ZenUI 4.0.
As a recap, ZenUI 4.0 is Asus’ Android skin that hopes to shed some of the bloat from previous iterations. When Asus first announced ZenUI 4.
They’re plastic.
Somewhere in this strange timeline of ours, we decided that glass phones were in, and plastic phones were out. Cell phones became fashion pieces, proving to our friends that we could afford such luxuries, with a premium “feel in the hand” becoming a significant factor in reviews.
At this point, I think we can all agree we’re a little tired of these fragile little pocket computers. Nearly everywhere I look, there’s some poor chap with a smashed phone.