Police officers have a lot of tools to help them out. That includes hardware communications, a laptop in the car, weapons, and whatever else they need. However, that doesn’t mean that a smartphone can’t come in handy on occasion. There were mobile apps for police officers years ago that offered up some varying options. A lot of those apps either don’t exist or were abandoned by the developer years ago. We tried our best to find some good apps for police officers.
Apple’s Beats lineup of audio accessories has been fan favorites for some time, but the price tags can be offputting. Fortunately, Amazon is offering a selection of notable beats deals on headphones and earbuds, old and new, to brighten up your Friday.
The biggest price drops are on the classic models, with both the Studio 3 and Solo 3 headphones subject to huge discounts. The Studio 3 wireless headphones are down to $179.
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More and more people are using a virtual private network (VPN) to improve their browsing experience. There are so many providers out there to choose from that you may not know where to start. To give you a hand, we’ve rounded up the best VPN deals from many of the top providers.
A VPN encrypts your internet connection and allows you to route it through servers in different countries.
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$200. That’s how much cheaper the new $799 Samsung Galaxy S21 is than the 2020’s $999 Galaxy S20. In fact, the swanky new flagship costs just $50 over 2019’s Galaxy S10e value proposition and just $100 more than last year’s affordable flagship — the Galaxy S20 FE. It’s an astonishing announcement from a company that has been pushing phone prices well above the $1,000 barrier for the past couple years, leaving them out of reach for most consumers.
In-app purchases are a fact of life these days, especially in mobile games. Thankfully, Google has a points program that earns you rewards you can trade for cash that apply to in-app purchases from lots of popular games and services.
This will eliminate a very cumbersome step from the process of cashing out your points. It will also make the Play Points system more appealing to general users who will now be able to more easily see how their points work.
TCL 10 5G UWTCL's aim is to bring 5G to the masses with its 10 5G UW. The phone is the most affordable 5G device in Verizon Wireless' lineup and delivers on some key features, including an appealing design, solid software, and excellent battery life. Even without 5G, the TCL 10 5G UW would be a solid choice for those on a budget. 5G as an extra is just icing on the cupcake.
OnePlus 10ROn the face of it, the OnePlus 10R is just a rebadged Realme phone, but there's more than meets the eye. The lack of bloatware and distinctive design help it stand out. However, the lackluster cameras, missing alert slider, and inconsistent software pull the phone back. The OnePlus 10R just isn't a great package unless you need to be on the bleeding edge of charging specs.
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The marketing push for Quibi really began in earnest at CES 2020. The founders of the streaming service were concentrating on how its mobile-only original content would be perfect for people on the go with their smartphones. They also touted its technology, which allows Quibi shows to be viewed in either landscape or portrait mode, and that moving from one to the other would be handled seamlessly. Now that the service has arrived in the US, Canada, and (unofficially) other countries, does it fulfill its promises?
Our Android phones and tablets can perform numerous functions besides mere phone calls, SMS texting, and web browsing, but often take these things for granted because most of the time we use it for playing games, watching videos and using other apps. In turn, we don’t get to know some of the things that our Android devices can do for us.
For example, maybe you don’t know that you can actually use your device as a backup modem, speaker, and virtual microphone–with the help of an app such as WO Mic, that is.
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While a smart home certainly isn’t a necessity, a smarter home can make all the difference in convenience, control, and even power savings. As a lifelong tinkerer, I’ve been on the connected home bandwagon for close to a decade. In fact, the idea for an automated household struck me while building a smart city model for a high school project.
The advent of devices like the Amazon Echo and Google Home around 2014 was the push that it took for me to dive in and implement smart lights, water heaters, air conditioners, and even infrared blasters for vintage equipment that couldn’t be made much smarter.