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Welcome to Wallpaper Wednesday! In this weekly roundup, we’ll give you a handful of Android wallpapers you can download and use on your phone, tablet, or even your laptop/PC. The images will come from folks here at Android Authority as well as our readers. All are free to use and come without watermarks. File formats are JPG and PNG, and we’ll provide images in both landscape and portrait modes, so they’ll be optimized for various screens.
Xiaomi’s Mi Box has been in the works for months. First unveiled during Google I/O back in May, the Mi Box aimed to be an affordable Android TV-powered set-top box with a few features other devices don’t offer. If you’ve been waiting patiently for this little device to go on sale, you’re in luck: the Xiaomi Mi Box can be yours starting today for just $69!
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The basic Android 13 schedule is here. Overall, the schedule looks to be shorter than last year’s. If all goes well, we could see an August 2022 launch of the stable release. That being said, the fourth beta represented Platform Stability, so it is nearly done. As such, it might get you excited for the rest of the Android 13 schedule and when you can expect the stable version to launch.
There’s good news for all you Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL users. Google has confirmed that the two flagships phones now support RCS Messaging on Google Fi. The information was confirmed in a tweet by Google’s Senior Director of Product & Design, Sanaz Ahari.
quick update – we rolled out DSDS support for Pixel 4. Pixel 4, Fi users should have RCS support now.
A Google product manager for RCS also recommended that Pixel 4 owners use Android Messages version 5.
We have the full list of official Samsung Galaxy S4 specs and features. What do you think, do they leave anything to be wanted?
As with every release of a major new handset there are rumors and leaks aplenty. But at long last we finally have our hands on the genuine specs for Samsung’s new Galaxy S4, and it turns out that many of the early reports were actually true.
Despite an average increase in internal storage capacities of electronics over the years, a trusty USB drive is still essential for anyone’s gear bag. However, as USB-A ports start to vanish, people might be looking for a great stick with USB-C support. If that’s you, then this SanDisk deal shouldn’t be missed!
Today and for a limited time, Amazon has the SanDisk iXpand Flash Drive Luxe on sale. The 128GB variant is just $36.
Honor View 20The Honor View 20 is a great camera phone to have, if you can get one in your market. The Honor View 20 is flashy, powerful, and notch-less, but can it take a good photo? That’s what some people care about most when looking into a smartphone. We took the Honor View 20 around town and put it through its paces.
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Honor steps into the smartphone battlefield with a large 1/2-inch sensor, 48MP resolution, a 3D sensor, a wide F/1.
Between high-end gaming, 120Hz displays, and the growth of machine learning, graphics performance and fidelity are increasingly important in the smartphone market. Arm has unveiled two new GPUs for us this year, the high-performance Mali-G78 and the new sub-premium tier Mali-G68.
Both are based on Arm’s Valhall micro-architecture found in the Mali-G77 and Mali-G57, but with a few key improvements. The Mali-G78 aims to push the performance envelope with support for more cores, up from 16 to 24 this generation.
Microsoft’s Xbox consoles have been a fixture in the gaming industry for two decades now, spanning four console generations and establishing Microsoft as a major player in the segment alongside Sony and Nintendo.
Microsoft is still a relative newcomer to the console space compared to its rivals, but the Xbox consoles have brought their fair share of innovation to the industry and become another cash cow for the Redmond giant. So with that in mind, we thought now’s a good a time as any to look at the history of Xbox.
As far back as I can remember, Withings has always been a company that’s focused on design. If the Activité taught us anything, it’s that Withings is capable of making a really nice looking fitness tracker. But what happens when the company scales back its efforts a bit and tries its hand at a budget-friendly fitness companion? That’s what you get with the Withings Go, a new $80 activity tracker with a few tricks up its sleeve.