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Secure your phone on your bike or motorcycle with this inexpensive mount. For the first time ever, the iOttie Easy One Touch 4 Bicycle and Motorcycle Mount dropped in price down to $14.95 at Amazon. While it's still somewhat new, it's been selling between $17 and $20 since its release last October. The iOttie Easy One Touch 4 can universally hold all phones and even many with cases between 2.3 and 3.5 inches. It features a mounting system which can lock or release the device with one... easy touch. It fits bars from 20 to 34mm in diameter and is fully adjustable allowing you to rotate it 360 degrees with the ability to view in landscape or portrait mode. iOttie also includes a one-year warranty with this phone mount. While this product only has a few reviews on Amazon, iOttie mounts for automobiles have numerous well-rated ones that should be assuring enough to give this one a try. See at Amazon #Google #Android #Smartphones #OS #News @ndrdnws #ndrdnw

Finding a phone with a physical keyboard might be tough these days, but a major segment of the smartphone market is still dedicated to those who like to get things done. In fact, many of the biggest brands debut their cutting-edge technology in their dedicated power user brands, which includes series like the Galaxy Note range. Between the latest Samsung Galaxy Note 8 , Huawei P20 Pro , and LG V30 Plus , we're going to dive deep to pick the best phone for power users. To distill this comparison down to the power user experience we're going to focus on a few key areas. Multi-tasking capabilities and screen real estate, performance and multi-media, and the software experience. For a full overview of these handsets, with detailed closer looks at camera capabilities, check out our full reviews. There are a few reason why we picked the Huawei P20 Pro over the Mate 10 or Mate 10 Pro . First, the larger 6.1-inch display and 18.7:9 aspect ratio makes the P20 Pro feel like the bet

Welcome to the 245th edition on Android Apps Weekly ! Here are the big headlines and releases from the last week: Tons of places updated their terms of service in preparation of Europe's new GDPR . Tinder decided to add some other stuff to their ToS update. You can no longer sue or file a class action lawsuit against Tinder if you accept their new ToS. It's also retroactive and that may be problematic. You can opt-out of the retroactive part. However, you only have 30 days to do so and it's not a simple process inside of the app. Click the link to learn more . A new YouTube series highlights accomplishments from prominent members of the mobile gaming community. This includes voice actors/actresses, game designers, and other prominent members of the mobile gaming community. There are three episodes out now with more coming later. They feature Ashly Burch, Bennet Foddy, and Vassiliki Khonsari. It's a good watch and the videos aren't long. YouTube Music

How we're spending our leisure time. Everyone has a bit of quiet downtime once in a while. Whether you're sitting quietly at home or trying to relax on a plane or just giving your busy mind and hands a break, it's important to relax. A good way to do that is to read a book, listen to some music or watch a movie or show. See what's caught our attention for the week of May 26th . Ara Wagoner The new YouTube Music is here, and as I continue to dig into every nook and cranny of the new app looking for new quirks, old flaws, and more tips to our loyal AC readers, I'm also indulging an ungodly amount of music. YouTube Music has a selection that is unparalleled, between official music from the labels, remixes, covers, and live concert recordings from musicians and roadies of every shape and size, and so, so many songs that users have uploaded after seeing them missing from the catalog. YouTube Music's recommendations have also been taking me back i

Italy will be holding a 5G spectrum auction in September as part of an initiative meant to prepare the Mediterranean country for the next wireless revolution, communications regulator AGCOM said earlier this week. The auction is expected to see Italy raise at least €2.5 billion ($2.9 billion), with AGCOM already defining basic bidding rules, though the event has yet to see a firm date attached to it. Rome's agency will be organizing the auction by itself, with the move marking the confirmation of the first 5G spectrum auction in all of Europe. Germany is expected to follow Italy's lead and hold its first auction in early 2019, whereas its final conditions will be publicized by the end of the year. Vodafone Italia, Telecom Italia, Fastweb, and  Wind-Tre are all expected to participate in the auction, with TIM likely being the most active bidder. The move should also pay the way for a new category of wireless companies focused solely on operating infrastructure, according to A

If you are following the Android P development, chances are you are already familiar with most of the changes the new version of the OS brings. One of the most discussed revamps is the new recent apps horizontal switcher. Well, Google is looking to implement the same design concept in its Android Chrome app too. The latest update in Chrome Canary (an unstable version of Chrome with some experimental features) allows you to get a taste of what's coming to the standard version of the browser. The new design arranges the opened tabs side by side instead of overlapping them vertically. Now you can see the full content of the pages in each tab. Swiping up and down will close the tab. Google Chrome horizontal app switcher Incognito tab handling has also been changed - all tabs opened in incognito can be seen by tapping the incognito icon in the upper right corner. Tapping it again will bring you back to your regular tabs. The new horizontal tab switcher will probably be im

Amazon currently has its Fire TV set-top box on sale for just $49.99. Now this is for the certified refurbished model, which is typically priced at $59.99, which makes this a pretty small deal, but still worth jumping on. Since this is a refurbished model, you do still get a warranty, so should anything go wrong, Amazon will take care of everything for you. The Amazon Fire TV runs on the Fire TV platform which brings you a ton of great apps and games available. All of the big names are available, including Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Netflix, HBO NOW, SHOWTIME ANYWHERE, DIRECTV NOW and so much more. It makes it really easy to essentially cut the cord from your cable company and move over to streaming everything. Now the Fire TV is a pendant model, so it's not quite a dongle, but not quite a set-top box. That won't affect the performance though, as you do still get 4K and HDR support here, giving you both a great picture, but also future proofs it for a few years while content

We have Monday off because others gave their lives for it. Monday is Memorial Day in the U.S., and while many of us will be grilling burgers or otherwise enjoying a relaxing long weekend, we should remember why we have it. I'm not one to glorify why we need armed forces. As a child too young to understand, I can remember each evening when several of my mother's friends would join us to watch the news; that's where Walter Cronkite would tell us all how many young men and women were killed in action that day in the Vietnam War. Growing up in an Army town meant there were usually tears and I learned at an early age that even to a civilian, war is hell. But all Americans need to remember that those young men and women, along with countless before them and countless after, gave their lives because they thought they could make ours better. Try to take a moment sometime this weekend to honor them in your own way, then celebrate with friends and family because that&

China's antitrust watchdog is set to approve Qualcomm's proposed acquisition of Dutch NXP Semiconductors valued at $44 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources with knowledge of the development. Beijing is the last party required to greenlight the deal that would allow Qualcomm to diversify beyond smartphone chips in a much more aggressive manner and was initially announced in late 2016. The prolonged nature of antitrust reviews the tie-up was subjected to already annoyed Qualcomm investors to the point that many of them were prepared to sell the company to Broadcom before President Trump blocked the technology industry 's largest ever proposed takeover initially valued at $121 billion. Beijing is said to have accelerated its review of the NXP deal earlier this month, possibly as a precursor to its trade negotiations with Washington. The report claiming its competition regulator is now prepared to greenlight the merger comes less than a day after ZTE reac

The retail packaging of Xiaomi's upcoming Mi 8 flagship has leaked online. The low-cost Chinese brand has already confirmed its plans to unveil the Xiaomi Mi 8 on May 31 and now, after a number of previous leaks, what appears to be the device's retail packaging has shown up, revealing various design details in the process. Overall, it appears Xiaomi's next flagship will resemble Apple's iPhone X quite closely, sporting what seems to be a bezel-less display complete with a notch up top. Additionally, this is rumored to house new hardware that will allow for Face ID-rivalling 3D facial recognition, ... #Google #Android #Smartphones #OS #News @ndrdnws #ndrdnws #AndroidNews

After the 2016 US election, social media services have felt increasing pressure to improve the integrity and quality of information its users discover in their ecosystems. This week, Twitter announced US election labels, which essentially act as enhanced verified badges specially made for candidates running in this year's US midterm general election. The company also announced its "Political Campaigning Policy" to make it easier for users to understand exactly who is backing political ads. These are two steps Twitter is taking to make good on its vow to protect its users from misinformation and bad actors abusing its platform. US election labels Twitter's US election labels will be denoted by a small gray icon of a government building (columns and a dome) and display the office the candidate is running for, the candidate's state, and the candidate's district number when relevant. These labels will be located underneath the candidate's Twitter

Following recent reports about the City of Orlando's use of Amazon's Rekognition , the Orlando Police Department (OPD) has now held a news conference clarifying that use. That's according to recent reports from local sources, which covered statements made by police Chief John Mina. Speaking with the press, Chief Mina admitted that at least three IRIS surveillance cameras located in downtown Orlando were connected to Rekognition. For those who may not know, Rekognition is effectively an A.I.-driven facial recognition software tool created by Amazon. Among the capabilities of that software is the ability to identify, track, and analyze up to 100 people in a single image. That happens in real time. However, Mina went on to reassure the public that none of those cameras were actively being tracked by the software. More directly, that's because only seven OPD officers are said to have had their images uploaded to the software. However, it's worth pointing out that, ac

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... Android tablets may be dying out in the consumer market , but you might be seeing more of them if you live in New York. Curb Mobility announced on Thursday that its fleet of NYC taxis will soon be updated to include not one, but two Android tablets. 'Dash' will replace the legacy digital meters currently in use by drivers, and 'Ryde' will display media content for passengers. The 'Dash' tablet Curb says the 'Dash' unit includes GPS navigation, live traffic information, and an emergency panic button. It will also help increase drivers' earning potential with fare heatmaps and upfront ride pricing. Meanwhile, Curb has partnered with NBC to show primetime, late night, weather, sports, and national news programs on the 'Ryde' tablet for passengers. Android seems to only be used as an embedded OS in this case, as it doesn't look like much (if any) of the stock interface is visible to the user. Still, if