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Samsung announced its new $99 Gear VR portable virtual reality viewer back in September and is now ready to start shipping it to consumers. Pre-orders are open in the United States on Amazon, Best Buy, and Samsung‘s sites, with orders ready to ship on November 20. Units will also be available for sale in Best […]
Welcome back to another week of the Android Police Podcast. To catch us live on Hangouts On Air every Thursday at 5:30PM PST (subject to change as per the calendar widget below), just head over to androidpolice.com/podcast. For the unedited video show, click here (warning: this video is uncut). As always, we’ll take your questions […]
At the 56th Battery Symposium in Japan, Huawei showed off its next generation of quick charging batteries. Huh? Yes, there’s a Battery Symposium in Japan, and yes, there have been fifty-five of them in the past. Stay focused here. Huawei says its new lithium-ion batteries can achieve charging speeds ten times faster than normal batteries. […]
Coming across a genuinely new launcher interface and paradigm on Android is rare. Most third-party clients try to emulate the default Android launcher and add some customizations and improvements here and there. Not to undermine the power of something like Nova Launcher, but there’s only so many times you can swipe left and right between […]
It’s nice to stop every once in a while and realize just how much Google search has improved over the years. For quite a while, Google didn’t really prioritize time-sensitive content versus regular content when it crawled the web. This meant breaking news stories were cached about as frequently as Wikipedia entries on the history […]
Update 1: 2015/11/11 12:05pm PST Update 2: 2015/11/11 12:21pm PST Hey, did you notice yesterday at any point that T-Mobile said it’s raising its prices? Well, that’s because they never actually said it. They even got us – with all the talk of unlimited video streaming and double data, seemingly almost nobody noticed that the Uncarrier has […]
Good news, Sprint customers: you now get a free year of Amazon Prime! Maybe. If you activate a “qualifying” Samsung phone for a new line of service or a renewed line, Sprint will foot the bill for Amazon’s premium shipping option for a year. The promotion starts today, and those qualifying phones are limited to […]
Verizon has signed a sponsorship deal with the National Basketball Association. As part of this arrangement, the carrier’s new Go90 video-streaming service will get access to live and original NBA content. Users, who don’t have to be Verizon customers, will get to watch highlights and original content on demand. They will also be able to share clips […]
Google knows a lot about you. From your name to your location, photo, email and physical addresses, places you’ve lived, education, and more, there’s a breadth of information that you’re leaving scattered across the Internet that God-knows-who can find out about you. If you want to edit and manage that information, and most importantly specify which […]
Audio latency is defined as the time delay that a signal experiences as it passes through a system. On a mobile device, this is deeply related to how long it takes between tapping on a screen and receiving audio feedback. Low audio latency can be the difference between an immersive gaming experience and an unpleasant, disconnected one. Too long a […]
The 2013 Nexus 7 may not see many more updates now that it has received Lollipop, but it’s still one of the best Android tablets out there. It’s small, it’s capable of running most apps, and it’s cheap. Did I say cheap? Because I meant to say cheaper. Groupon is offering the 16GB Nexus 7 […]
I need to be real with you guys here: I’ve never liked any device that forced me to use whatever garbage skin the manufacturer was putting on them at the time. In other words, I’ve always been an “Android Purist,” if you will — it was stock Android and nothing else for me, and it’s really […]
