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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.
Then there’s the Bluestacks GamePop, an Android game console with a twist: you get as many apps as you can handle just by paying a monthly fee. It seems that BlueStacks isn’t content with just one model however, as the company has now announced that there will also be an even cheaper system, the so-called GamePop Mini.
So what’s different about this ‘mini’ variant? While an early pre-order deal gave customers a chance to get the GamePop free by pre-paying for a year’s worth of subscription service (around $84), the main console actually will retail for around $129.
When you want the best action camera on the market, there’s only one name that comes to mind. And while GoPros come with a premium price tag, this huge price drop offers you more than one-third off retail. The GoPro Hero 10 Black is currently just $349.98 ($200 off).
The GoPro Hero 10 Black is small and portable enough to be able to mount anywhere, but still delivers 23MP images and 5.
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Oura has launched the Oura Ring Generation 3, on sale now starting at $299. A new $5.99/month Oura Membership grants users access to the Oura app and is necessary for utilizing the Gen 3 ring. The latest ring features upgraded activity tracking, improved sleep tracking, and period prediction. The team behind the Oura Ring continues to focus on actionable wellness data with the launch of the Oura Ring Gen 3.
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Apple Fitness Plus is a catalog of guided workout programs and classes available for $9.99 per month. The service is intended to help Apple Watch users pursue health and fitness goals, and keep users motivated with on-screen metrics. Read on to find out everything you need to know about Apple Fitness Plus.
See also: Everything you need to know about Apple Watches
What is Apple Fitness Plus?
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TCL just launched a bunch of new devices at MWC 2022. The most noteworthy of the lot is a super affordable 5G tablet. TCL also expanded its 30-series smartphone lineup with five new devices. Cheap 5G Android tablets are few and far between. Ones that come with Android 12 out of the box are even rarer. Targeting this unique segment, display-maker TCL has launched one of the most affordable 5G tablets at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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Though many have moved on to the newer, more powerful iPhone 12, Apple’s iPhone 11 still a solid phone that comes in several colors. If you’re tired of your original color choice, it might be time to switch things up. One way to change things up is with a case, though you might want something lighter and slimmer. Why not give one of the best iPhone 11 skins a try and keep the weight off?
The “T” line of OnePlus devices usually represents an incremental upgrade to the previous model in that it only offers a handful of new specs and features. On October 29, 2018, OnePlus officially launched the latest entry in its incremental series, the OnePlus 6T.
In many ways, the OnePlus 6T is very similar to the previous OnePlus 6. But even more so than in years past, the OnePlus 6T also packs a ton of new features, design changes, and upgrades which almost make it feel like a OnePlus 7 rather than just an incremental entry.
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Google is preparing to purge nearly 900,000 apps from the Play Store. The apps in question have not been updated for at least two years. Apple is taking similar action on the App Store. The Google Play Store could see the number of available apps drop by nearly a third as Google prepares to purge apps that haven’t been updated.
Google and Apple have both unveiled measures to deal with abandoned apps or apps that have not been updated in two years.
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An AT&T RCS system has appeared in Google Messages on select AT&T devices. The apparently new system is wreaking havoc and forcing users to contact non-AT&T devices with SMS/MMS. So far, AT&T’s responses in support threads haven’t been very reassuring. For years, United States carriers squabbled amongst themselves about the rollout of rich content services messaging, also known as RCS. Eventually, Google needed to step in and take care of the whole situation by incorporating RCS support within its own Messages app.