If you’re dedicated to Apple and want a smart speaker, look no further than the HomePod and the newer HomePod Mini. The smaller speaker serves as Apple’s successor, and it cuts down on the painful retail price. Better yet, there are a few opportunities to save money right now. Here are the best Apple HomePod deals available. Before you get much further, the Apple HomePod is really not your best choice if you aren’t already in Apple’s ecosystem.

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority One of the most essential pieces of tech you can get your hands on is a good power strip. It is easy to forget about the benefits these simple devices offer, but they can make your life much easier and protect your electronics. Here’s a list of our favorite options, as well as some information you should know before making the purchase. More: These are the best phone charging accessories

Imagine you’re listening to your favorite track on Spotify on full blast and browsing Facebook at the same time. Suddenly, you spot a dog video you want to play out, and a shrill barking sound bursts through your ear canal as you frantically press the volume down button to adjust it to acceptable levels. On Windows PCs, you have the ability to customize the volume output for specific apps to avoid something like this from happening.

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 – August 27, 2019 – We have added Sprint’s four new 5G cities (Los Angeles, New York City, Phoenix and Washington, D.C.) plus added the carrier’s next 5G phone, the OnePlus 7 Pro 5G. If you ask Sprint, its competitors are trying to “make lemonade out of the lemons they have.” Sprint believes it will provide the best 5G service with its massive spectrum holdings in the 2.5GHz band. Thus, while Verizon and AT&T are betting on short-range millimeter-wave connectivity in densely populated cities first, Sprint is shooting for Massive MIMO and beamforming to provide more coverage per cell site than its competitors.

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.

TL;DR Google may be working on an Apple-like Find My network for Android phones. With the “Find My Device Network,” you would ideally help other Android users find their phones and vice versa. Apple’s Find My network is perhaps the strongest community of devices that can help locate lost or stolen iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and other Apple products. It can even help track a device that is offline with the help of millions of other Apple devices that may be around the lost device.

Fitbit‘s Auto Pause feature is a nifty addition for some and a loathsome one for others. While it’s intended to provide a more accurate representation of a workout by cutting out stationary moments, it often bugs out. That’s why it’s best you learn how to disable and enable the feature as you see fit. Below, we’ll take a look at Auto Pause in more detail. QUICK ANSWER Head to the Exercise app on your Fitbit, select Run or Bike as the workout of choice, access additional settings, and toggle off Auto Pause.

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.

Learning a new language is one of the most common bucket list tasks for people around the world, and with a multitude of freely available language apps, it should be easy, right? But how effective are free language apps like Duolingo? Can they expand your vocabulary and improve your grammar, or are they only good for learning the conversational basics? I recently tried using two of them consistently for a month to see if free language apps can really be relied on as a main language learning tool.