You’ve no doubt seen the trailers or at the very least heard about Pixels, an upcoming Sony Pictures movie starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Josh Gad, and sevearl other well known stars. Today Bandai Namco has announced it will be partnering with Sony to produce a free-to-play mobile game version of the upcoming film.
The game has you take on the role of the movies heroes, who are sent to stop the aliens that are using 80s gaming characters as their weapons of mass destruction.
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Images of the Home Hub in a charcoal colorway have leaked out. Thanks to the side profile image, Google’s Smart Display looks to be rather small. Last week, we were able to confirm that Google’s rumored Smart Display would be called the Home Hub and only cost $149. But at the time, we only had leaked renders of the device in a chalk colorway. But now, thanks to Android Headlines, we have several images of the Smart Display from several angles.
Xiaomi Redmi 9 PowerThe Redmi 9 Power is yet another safe bet from Xiaomi. It delivers on an eye-catching design, tremendous battery life and a reasonable price point at a great price point. Iffy cameras aside, there's not much to dislike here. That said, Xiaomi's product line-up is definitely starting to look really cluttered and could do well with some paring down. Table of contents
It’s been a busy year or so for Xiaomi.
Today’s deal is perfect for an amateur editor or social media fanatic. If you want to produce professional videos, wow your social followers, or get the your YouTube likes soaring, Wave.Video is a user-friendly solution.We’ve all got a great camera close at hand these days. You can document your life moments in an instant. Now you can edit videos without the complicated software. With a bit of clipping and some evocative music, random clips can quickly become mind-blowing montages.
When it comes to running Android on Windows, the popular choice is currently Bluestacks. There is nothing inherently wrong with Bluestacks. It runs Android apps fairly well and if there are apps you need to run on a PC, it works. What works better, though, is running Android natively. Now, WindowsAndroid gives you a chance to do so.It’s still in early development, but WindowsAndroid is already a pretty awesome tool. It works by creating a Dalvik virtual machine on the PC and running Android 4.
Update, March 31: Uptodown co-founder Luis Hernández Garrido has reached out following this article’s publication to clarify its store numbers. According to Garrido, Uptodown features “150,000 apps, plus 200,000 previous versions available to download and 4M APKs stored on [its] system.” The original Uptodown blog post on the matter has also been updated to reflect this.
Original story: Uptodown says it is the most visited Spanish website in the world. Uptodown also says it is the 180th most visited website globally.
Zoom technology is 2020’s hottest smartphone camera trend. Companies like Huawei, Samsung, and others have been pushing zoom quality to its limit, with promises of 5x, 10x, and even 100x zoom capabilities. Although spouting high x-factors is much easier than actually producing great looking zoomed-in images.
The problem with high-quality zoom in a smartphone form factor boils down to lenses. Compact and DSLR cameras can provide high-quality, flexible optical zoom via moving lenses to adjust their focal length.
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7-Eleven has announced it has started to accept payments made with Google Pay in the U.S. Most of the chain’s stores should support the service by the end of September. Having a convenience store chain with such a large presence on board is great news for Google Pay users. Shoppers in the U.S. will soon be able to use Google Pay to pay for goods at 7-Eleven stores.
The Google Pixel 2 (left) and the Google Pixel 2 XL (right)
Google is sending out referral codes that give users 15 percent off Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL purchases. The codes, which are being dispatched via email, also awards referrers a $50 coupon if someone uses their unique code.
The news arrives via DroidLife, but it’s unclear who exactly Google is sending the codes to; it looks like they’re being handed out to customers who’ve previously purchased a Pixel 2 (so those customers would be incentivized to get others to buy one).
Update: December 23, 2019 at 4:30 p.m. ET: WinFuture’s earlier report suggested the Note 10 Lite may debut on January 10, and we may have more details about the upcoming launch date. According to The Korea Herald, Samsung will debut the Galaxy Note 10 Lite and Galaxy S10 Lite at CES 2020 in January.
CES 2020 takes place in Las Vegas from January 7-10, 2020, and Android Authority will be there for the show.