TL;DR Nintendo has revealed a Fortnite limited edition Switch with a custom design. It also includes free cosmetic items and V-Bucks. It reaches Europe on October 30, and comes to Australia and New Zealand on November 6. If you thought the limited edition Animal Crossing Switch was a coveted item, you haven’t seen anything yet. Nintendo Life (via Kotaku) reports Nintendo is releasing a Fortnite special edition of the Switch with a unique design and loads of software extras.

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Qualcomm has announced the familiar mid-cycle refresh of its flagship mobile chipset. 2022’s Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 promises 10% clock speed improvements and, perhaps more importantly, power efficiency improvements ranging from 15 to 30% over its current flagship chip. If these promises hold up in consumer devices, Qualcomm’s latest Plus model will be a notable step up from this year’s so-so Snapdragon 8 Gen 1.

With the release of any new phone, it’s natural to wonder about how it compares to its predecessor. Samsung just took the wraps off the latest additions to its vaunted Galaxy Note series. Do the Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Plus do enough to stand above and beyond the fantastic Galaxy Note 9? Let’s take a look at the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 series vs the Galaxy Note 9.

TL;DR The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Cloud Silver edition will be a Best Buy exclusive and go on sale on October 5. Samsung will also finally bring the Midnight Black edition of the Galaxy Note 9 to the United States on October 12. Pricing for the devices wasn’t explicitly stated, but we assume pricing will be the same as previous color variants. Samsung launched the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 in three different colors: Midnight Black, Ocean Blue, and Lavender Purple.

Samsung and Apple are longtime rivals in the mobile industry. Every year it’s always exciting to see how their smartphones stack up against one another. The Galaxy Note 9 and iPhone XS Max are two of the biggest, most powerful, and most expensive mainstream smartphones we’ve ever seen. Let’s find out which one is the better thousand-dollar smartphone in our full Samsung Galaxy Note 9 vs iPhone XS Max comparison.

Google Pixel 3a XLThe camera of the Google Pixel 3a XL may be all the camera many people ever need. Table of contents The Google Pixel 3a XL is a delightfully capable device. The low-cost wonder carries forward the basic principles of Google’s no-muss, no-fuss Pixel line — and that includes the powerful camera. Since Google debuted the original Pixel in 2016, the series has been known for its photography prowess.

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR A Korean outlet has claimed that Samsung is readying a Galaxy-exclusive SoC for 2025. The outlet adds that there won’t be in-house processors for Galaxy phones in 2023 and 2024. A Samsung semiconductor representative told us that “no specific decision” has been made. Update: May 25, 2022 (1:18 AM ET): A news story yesterday (seen below) reiterated a previous claim that Samsung is readying a “Galaxy-exclusive” chipset for 2025.

Netflix caused a stir over the weekend when it announced that it would be instituting a price hike in Canada and the US. The price increase means that US customers in particular will now pay $9.99 a month for the basic tier, $15.49 for the standard package, and $19.99 for the top-end option. We wondered just how many people would be annoyed enough by the price hike to actually cancel their subscriptions, so we posed this question on Monday.

The iconic Flappy Bird game came and went seemingly overnight. The developer closed up shop on his mega popular game and that left us with, well, nothing. Since the game reached viral success, there have been many imitations but only a few are really worth checking out. Yes, they are clones but since the original is gone these are the only options we have to be a part of that Flappy Bird madness.

Motorola is now rolling out the Android 8.1 Oreo update to the Moto G4 Plus. The company announced the deployment in a recent post on its U.S. support website (via XDA), more than 16 months after confirming Oreo for the handset. The update delivers the December 2018 security patches along with expected Oreo goodness like adaptive icons, notification dots, and picture-in-picture mode (and it’s been a while since I typed that!