Sub-$200 smartphones used to be plasticky, cheap-feeling and just downright bad. Luckily that’s not the case anymore. There are some really great budget-friendly Android smartphones on the market nowadays, and the line between low-end and mid-tier is fading rapidly. Lenovo has just announced two new smartphones at MWC 2016 that aim to perfectly combine affordability and user friendliness.
The Lenovo VIBE K5 and VIBE K5 Plus are the newest devices to come from the Chinese smartphone manufacturer.
Metro PCS is now selling its second Huawei LTE network compatible smartphone in stores and online. The new handset is called the Huawei Premia 4G and will set you back a modest sum of $149.99.
Contacts start at $40 a month for unlimited talk, text messages, and 500MB of 4G data, and range up to $60 for a totally unlimited LTE data experience. Metro PCS is also offering the option to purchase on-demand music from Rhapsody for just $5 a month with your package.
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Poco’s two upcoming phones have leaked online. The Poco F4 is identical to the Redmi K40s, save for a different main camera. Meanwhile, the Poco X4 GT seems to be based on a previously released Redmi phone. Poco confirmed that it will launch the Poco F4 and Poco X4 GT globally on June 23, adding that the former device will arrive with a Snapdragon 870 chipset. Now, it looks like the phones have been leaked in full.
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The Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 battery will allegedly carry model number EB-BR900ABY. Rumors suggest this battery could have a 276mAh capacity. If true, this battery would be about 10% larger than the one in the 40mm Galaxy Watch 4. A new rumor suggests Samsung isn’t likely to make the same mistake with its next smartwatch. According to SamMobile, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 battery could be a 276mAh cell.
If you’re interested in getting started with Android game development, using a game engine like Unity or Unreal Engine 4 is often the best strategy. But which one should you ultimately pick?
Both represent a sweet spot between ease of use and power. These are fully integrated development environments that let you write as much code as you need, giving you complete control over the look and performance of your game.
The “endless runner” genre has become a haven for free-to-play titles, particularly those that have a license tagged to it. Adventure Time Run: The Ooo Expedition is one such game, though at least there is a bit of variation.
As the name implies, Adventure Time Run is an endless runner that lets you swipe to avoid obstacles and collect things, all the while you visit multiple worlds. With the coins you collect, you can improve your character’s attributes, such as defense, attack, and HP.
What’s the best URL shortener you can use? The answer for many of you was probably goo.gl for quite a long time now, but at the end of March this year Google announced its plans for shutting down their URL shortening service. Those who have never used the service before won’t be able to create new short links starting from April 13, 2018, while existing users can continue to use all features until March 30, 2019.
There are many reasons that you might want to start Android development. Building an app that will make you rich and change the world is only one motivation; others include learning to code, building tools that you can use yourself or even just having fun and impressing others. Programming is a fantastic skill to learn and with Android being so open and accessible, it’s a great place to start.
Python is a particularly simple and elegant coding language that is designed with the beginner in mind.
If music has seduced your soul, you’ll have picked up one of the basic but iconic instruments known to humankind — the guitar. With its strings and its wood, you can produce beautiful music. It’s easy to pluck away at the strings and image yourself in a few years’ time, singing to huge crowds or just crooning to a small intimate gathering.
Regardless of how big you want to be as a musician, you can’t always be next to your instruments 24/7.
As is the case with every iteration, the Samsung Galaxy S5 was one of the most anticipated releases of the year, and while it may not have featured the major overhaul that some hoped for, what you get is a device with a beautiful display, the best processing package currently available, a fantastic camera, and of course, a still feature-packed but more streamlined and far smoother and lag free TouchWiz UI.