Sony has been updating its Android gaming software suite lately. The PlayStation App has received a couple of new features and Sony’s PS4 Remote Play service, which allows users to stream PS4 games wirelessly to their smartphone or tablet, has arrived on the Google Play store with support for a small number of devices.
PS4 owners can now remotely play their PlayStation 4 games through their Xperia Z3 or Xperia Z3 Compact phones, as well as the Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact.
The company made the announcement in a press release earlier today, revealing eUFS 3.0 delivers twice the read speeds of eUFS 2.1 and more than one-and-a-half times the write speeds.
Samsung said the new solution is “four times faster” than SATA solid state drives (SSDs), “20 times faster” than typical microSD cards, and would allow a premium smartphone to transfer “a Full HD movie to a PC in about three seconds.
Update (02/14): Moto G4 Play users in Brazil starting seeing Android 7.1.1 Nougat back in January, and it's now arriving through Verizon in the US. The update was spotted by Android Police while Verizon has also updated its official software updates page to announce the rollout. The update arrives with build number MPIS24.241-2.35-1-17 and brings all of the typical Nougat features like multi-window support and improved notifications. It also includes the December 2017 security patches with the Krack exploit fix.
Don’t worry, I’m not suggesting anything as earth-shattering as quitting Facebook. Just quitting the official Facebook app. Among tech aficionados, the Facebook app is the one app you would never put on a new device because of how bloated and resource-hungry it is, but there are plenty of folks out there that do have it installed. However, a recent ground-swell of anti-Facebook sentiment is seeing more and more people try life without the official app, and liking what they see.
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MediaTek was in the news last month after tracking firm Omdia found that it was the world’s biggest smartphone chipset vendor in 2020. This would be the first time the Taiwanese chipmaker has achieved this goal, with its success attributed to low-end and mid-range segments.
This news got us wondering whether Android Authority readers would be eyeing a MediaTek-powered phone in 2021. We posted a poll last week and here’s how you voted.
The Huawei Mate 20 Pro may be a contender for best smartphone of the year, but its 1,049-euro (~$1,217) price is certainly eye watering. The regular Huawei Mate 20 starts at just 799 euros (~$927), which is still expensive but perhaps more in-line with that consumers are used to paying for very high-end smartphones.
A 250-euro difference is nothing to sneeze at, but are there really any major downsides by opting for Huawei’s slightly more affordable new flagship smartphone?
Android fragmentation is a constant issue for the world’s most popular operating system. While high-end consumers are treated to a fresh Android version each year, another version comes along before it can even hit the top spot for market share. In the more affordable tiers, it’s still all too common to be a year out of date, along with infrequent updates and missing security patches.
Google has put plenty of effort into addressing the issue over the years, although it’s doubtful that Android fragmentation can ever be truly solved.
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February 2, 2021
Stadia shakeup looks bad
Google’s fledging game streaming service, Stadia, was announced in early 2019, and launched in November that year, as a platform promising to bring revolution to games, with instant loads, no PC or console required, the ability to be played on a phone, from a browser, or even just on your TV with a Chromecast.
The Black Friday 2017 shopping period is underway and as usual big screen televisions are among the hottest selling products you can get your hands on. Retailers will slash the prices of a number of TVs, sometimes by hundreds of dollars, in a move to get you to buy them.
In this article, we take a look at four such Black Friday 2017 TV deals that we think stand out from the rest.
OnePlus has released a beta build of the Marshmallow-based OxygenOS 3.0 ROM for the OnePlus 2. While this might not be the official OnePlus 2 Marshmallow update everyone has been waiting for, it is in the final stages before being finalized. The best part is you can download it right now.
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OnePlus is calling the beta release a “community build”, meaning it is essentially targeted at the die-hard OnePlus faithful to help identify any last minute bugs and help get everything ready for widespread release.