Xiaomi Mi 9TThe Xiaomi Mi 9T is an excellently balanced smartphone with oodles of tech with very few compromises. With an awesome camera and gorgeous design, this has to be the best mid-range smartphone on the planet. Table of contents
Xiaomi’s Mi 9, which launched four months ago, was a great phone that lacked aesthetics and perceived quality, areas in which its competitors were focusing. The Mi 9T makes up for those cosmetic shortcomings, but at what cost?
For those of us above a certain age, custom ringtones were a rite of passage. Blasting your favorite tune from your flip phone was as critical to your identity as your MySpace profile (and equally cringe-inducing in retrospect).
But what happened to these little snippets of self-expression? Today, having your phone make any noise at all in public is a source of embarrassment, despite it being easier than ever to get music on your phone.
The easiest way to distribute an Android app is via the Google Play store. It isn’t the only distribution method, but it is the simplest way to reach millions of potential users. Publishing your first app in the Play Store isn’t hard, with a few tips and pointers you can have your app ready for download in next to no time.
Google has a one time $25 registration fee which you need to pay before you can upload an app.
Google is known for making well-made apps. Its app portfolio stretches pages upon pages of recognizable apps like YouTube, Google Maps, and Google Photos. But, it recently put up a listing for a brand new app that caught everyone’s attention. It’s a file manager named Files Go and it’s currently in beta. There are a million file managers in the Play Store, so what makes Files Go so different? We spent some time with it to find out.
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Google’s Nest brand just launched four new Nest cameras for 2021. Included are an indoor/outdoor security camera, an outdoor cam with floodlights, an indoor-only cam, and a wireless doorbell cam. These are the first new cameras from the company in quite a while. Availability begins at the end of August 2021. Early on in its history, Nest was known for basically two things: smart thermostats and security systems.
From the Vault: As the streaming space keeps growing, massive studio catalogues are becoming more and more available. These include lost and forgotten gems, so-bad-it’s-good duds, and just plain weird pieces of film history. And you probably won’t find them by waiting for streamers to put them in front of you. In From the Vault, Android Authority aims to rescue these titles from the algorithm graveyard and help you get more out of your streaming subscriptions.
If you’re constantly moving, then replying to WhatsApp messages promptly can be difficult. After all, if you’re driving, picking up kids, shopping, running for your bus, or whatever it is you do, then trying to type a reply to someone can be distracting and annoying. That’s why you should send voice messages on WhatsApp instead. How do you do it? Glad you asked because that’s exactly what we’ll be looking at here.
Logitech MX Master 3The Logitech MX Master 3 is a stylish productivity dream with few to no caveats. It is well worth the price tag if the work-enabling features appear useful to you. Logitech mice are known for ergonomics and helpful productivity-focused features, and that culminates in the MX Master 3.
At $100, the Logitech MX Master 3 includes Logitech’s signature features such as the free-scrolling wheel and horizontal scroll wheel, in addition to multiple other buttons.
Most people don’t think of CES as an auto show, but the Las Vegas tech extravaganza hosts many automotive-related announcements every year. And that’s perfectly normal — modern cars are, increasingly, computers on wheels.
At CES 2022, we saw cool new tech, new model launches, and even some exciting announcements from companies you wouldn’t normally associate with cars.
Here are our favorite automotive announcements from CES 2022.
BMW iX FlowBMW had multiple announcements at CES 2022, including a beastly 610-horsepower electric car called iX M60.
The Samsung Galaxy Buds are true wireless earbuds and the successor to the older Gear IconX earbuds. The Galaxy Buds are supposed to be 30 percent smaller than the Gear IconX buds and Samsung says the Galaxy Buds will last up to six hours for music playing on a single charge. They support Bluetooth 5.0 and come in black, white, and Canary Yellow colors. They can be charged wirelessly with their pill-shaped charging case, and they even support Samsung’s Wireless PowerShare feature, which means you can put the case on top of a Samsung Galaxy S10 phone with that support, and the earbuds should charge up.