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Sky Kids Launches On The Play Store, Peppa Pig And Lazytown In Tow
International pay-TV broadcaster Sky has launched Sky Kids, a new app specifically designed to allow your little ones to watch their favourite TV shows on an Android device. There's a caveat, though - it seems to be only available for tablets. Nonetheless, Sky say if you're a Sky TV customer with Sky+ Family, Variety or Sky Q, this app is available free of charge.
The app will let users set up profiles, much like Netflix does, so each child in the family can watch their own shows.
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Nintendo brings Miitomo game to U.S. and Europe
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Marvel Avengers Alliance 2 Is Out Of Geo-Limited Beta
All your favorite Marvel heroes are ready and waiting in the new Avengers Alliance 2 game, so I hope you didn't spend a lot of money playing the first one. That game is old news, and it doesn't look a pretty as the new one. This game was out in geo-limited beta a few weeks ago, but now it's available to everyone.
Like the original game, Avengers Alliance 2 is an action combat title based mostly on 3v3 combat.
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LG just fixed wireless charging’s biggest problem
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Top 10 new Android games this week: Dream Machine, Hex Defender
Welcome back to Android Gaming Weekly, our weekly recap of new game releases. We still plan to cover upcoming releases and games we’re playing, but this column is dedicated to new games that you can start playing right now. Check out our top picks and let us know in the comments section if you have any suggestions for next week’s post.
Slide the Shakes
Description: You have so many delicious milkshakes! Slide them along the bar, but don’t let them fall! Over 125 sweet levels. Stunning shakes to unlock. Delicious recipes. Interesting milkshake facts. Shakes are awesome!
Hex Defender
Description: Hex Defender is a tower defense game with a difference. With most tower defense games the turrets are placed and the position of that specific turret is fixed. With Hex Defender the six turrets are rotatable around a hexagon.
Operation Dracula
Description: Operation Dracula is a rip roaring bullet hell shooter that will scramble your brain and your fingers! Its an over the top arcade shoot-em-up inspired by the classic shmups. This all wouldn’t be complete without the awesome 80′s style 16 bit pixel art and fantastic Japanese style soundtrack.
Jetpack Disco Mouse
Description: Jetpack Disco Mouse needs your help to create the perfect party for his friends in this simply stunning, quirky side-scrolling adventure. Everyone knows mice can’t fly, but Disco Mouse is fully equipped with a state-of-the-art jetpack capable of blasting through farmyards and woodland as he busts his disco moves.
Tap Sports Baseball 2016
Description: Tap to swing and watch home runs fly out of the park! Simple controls and short gameplay sessions let you play anywhere, anytime.
Prison Run and Gun
Description: Prison Run and Gun is a retro puzzle platformer with the modern gameplay and mechanics. The recent events in a state prison, involving Jake and the others, was a perfect moment for some prisoners to escape – you are one of them.
Dream Machine
Description: Manipulate fantastical machinery and solve the many mysterious optical illusions that lie in wait. Use all your ability to survive hazardous levels and fight epic boss battles. Guide your mechanical friend from an oppressive workplace and lead them to freedom.
Flail Rider
Description: Blow EVERYTHING up with a giant flail attached to your vehicle! Flail Rider is a colorful, fast-paced, top down arcade racing game. Drive, drift, destroy and warp from one area to another. The more environment destroyed with your spiked ball, the higher the score
The Slimeking’s Tower
Description: Welcome to The Slimeking’s Tower, an amazing, action packed game that allows you to explore a massive set of dungeons with one single goal, and that is to get rid of all slime that comes in your way.
YO-KAI WATCH Wibble Wobble
Description: YO-KAI WATCH has “wobbled” its way into an exciting puzzle game available on mobile devices! Jibanyan, Komasan, and all your favorite Yo-kai have turned into adorable little Yo-kai Wib Wob! Connect them! Tap them! Pop them! Befriend them! Once you catch the fever, you’ll feel wibbly wobbly, too!
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Magic Jigsaw Puzzles – create your own puzzle games
Google Play Amazon Store Magic Jigsaw Puzzles features thousands of jigsaw puzzles you can solve at your leisure. There are plenty of high definition photos across numerous categories- and if that’s not enough you can create your own puzzles from photos you upload. It’s a zen-filled game for puzzle lovers. Download it for your tablet and... View Article
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[Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3] Facebook Is Testing A New Call Tab On Messenger
Much like Google, Facebook runs a lot of tests on its products, trying to gauge whether new things are a good idea. It tested a material update to Messenger, the Reactions button and Messenger SMS (which is still ongoing), multiple Messenger accounts, and probably more besides. Now it's got a new one for Messenger as well: a call tab.
You probably already know that users can make both video and voice calls through Messenger; there's even an app for it, although it hasn't been updated since August 2015.
Read More[Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3] Facebook Is Testing A New Call Tab On Messenger was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
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[Update: Winners] New Games Added To Humble Mobile Bundle 17, And We've Got 10 Free Codes To Give Away
Right on cue, Humble Bundle has announced that three new games that have been added to the Humble Mobile Bundle 17, giving everyone even more incentive to pay what you want for eleven games. We've also got 10 codes to give away. What more could you want, eh?
The additions to the Bundle are Kickback's Lost Echo, Puddle+ from Playdigous, and Unmechanical by Talawa Games and Teotl Studios.
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You Can Now Buy USB Type-C Cables From Amazon With Peace Of Mind!
In 2016, it’s all about the USB Type-C. The majority of smartphone manufacturers have been adopting the new reversible port and it’s just a matter of time before it becomes the standard for all plugs. Early on, however, purchasing additional cables has been a little bit dicey. Some cables were not meeting standards and had the potential to actually fry your device!
Well you can now shop with a little bit more peace of mind as one of the biggest marketplaces in the world has stepped up to protect us. Amazon has now added non-compliant USB Type-C’s to their prohibited listing list. Up till now we’ve had to rely on one Benson Leung to test out cables for us and while I still advise checking to see if Benson has reviewed a cable before buying, those non-compliant cables should fade away soon enough.
Well done Amazon, well done.
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LG G3 Marshmallow Update Rolling Out
We’ve got another Marshmallow update to share with you! LG has finally begun rolling out its Marshmallow update to the LG G3 here in Canada. The update is nearly 800 MB so you should probably get yourself connected to WiFi before you start the download (unless you’ve got yourself a fancy unlimited data plan!).
As always, the update to Marshmallow will bring new features such a Now on Tap, Doze, and Granular Permissions. Your phone will also likely get a nice little boost in performance as well.
If you haven’t received your update yet, jump into settings, scroll down to “about device” and do a manual check.
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AT&T said to be considering building a Cyanogen-powered Android phone
AT&T has been selling phones to subscribers for a long time, from manufacturers like Motorola, Apple, HTC, Samsung, and many others over the years. But apparently there’s been talks to make it possible for AT&T to sell its own phone at some point down the line, too.
According to a report from The Information, AT&T is said to be considering, or has at least considered, building its own phone to sell to subscribers. To do that, the Big Blue carrier had been in discussions with manufacturer ZTE to create the hardware, but apparently export sanctions made those talks dissolve for now.
However, the bigger part of the news could be the inclusion of Cyanogen in all of this. The company has apparently been in talks with AT&T to build the wireless carrier’s own version of Android for these smartphones, something akin to Amazon’s FireOS. That goes as far as the way the software would be handled and updated, with AT&T being in full control from the outset. This might make updates slow, and some features might not ever make it into the phone as Google rolls them out into Android, just as we’ve seen from other heavily modified variants of Android.
Cyanogen builds and licenses an alternate version of Android already, so a move like this wouldn’t be completely unheard of for the company. However, this would easily be the biggest deal to date.
As it stands, though, there’s no word on how dedicated AT&T is to this plan anymore, or if talks are still ongoing and something is already being built. Still, if AT&T does build its own phone and Cyanogen gets to create a version of Android to get it done, that’s pretty big news for a company that’s been part of the Android community for a long time.
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Samsung announces Galaxy A9 Pro for the Chinese market
The Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro SM-A9100 is the successor to the Galaxy A9, which packed some pretty good specs and an already massive 4,000 mAh battery. The A9 Pro one ups it in almost every way, but the selling point is the insane 5,000 mAh battery, rivaling many tablets in capacity.
Other specs include a 6-inch 1080p AMOLED display, a 1.8GHz Snapdragon 652 processor, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, a 16MP rear camera, an 8MP front camera, and Marshmallow out of the box. This comes in at a price of 3499 yuan, or around $541. Unfortunately, it is a China exclusive device, so most of us won’t have a chance to buy it.
The fact that we don’t have huge batteries in phones here is a bit ridiculous, as many people would gladly sacrifice thickness and other specs for a battery that big. Hopefully we’ll be getting something similar in the States someday. Would you buy a Galaxy A9 Pro? Leave a comment!
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OnePlus publicly releases nearly completed Marshmallow test build for OnePlus 2
Owners of the OnePlus 2 can now run a nearly ready test build of Marshmallow if they’re feeling adventurous, as OnePlus has released this build to the public. It’s only usable by flashing it, so it’s not for the every day user, and it still contains a few small bugs that need to be ironed out. It’s not the official release, but the company says it’s suitable for a “daily driver.”
Marshmallow is a great upgrade in general, with new features like Doze, Now on Tap, customizable permissions (OnePlus had this, but this time it’s Google supported), better audio control, and more. Along with that, OnePlus has made some big changes in OxygenOS 3.0.
- New OnePlus Camera UI: UI has been cleaned up: swiping up/down now switches between photo/video, whereas HD/HDR and flash settings live in the top right corner, you can now change the aspect ratio and toggle grid view without going all the way to the settings
- New wallpaper picker: Easily preview and set both home screen and lock screen wallpaper in one place.
- Shelf UX has been improved: No more edit mode, long press boards to rearrange or remove
- General system performance improvements: Benchmarked 47% faster than OxygenOS 2.2.1 on key test scenarios
- Fingerprint performance improvement: Tested 45% faster than OxygenOS 2.2.1 on average
- Settings changes: Old app permissions are gone, say hi to new (native Android) app permissions., alert Slider has its own entry point with more customization options, improved settings menu readability by changing the order a bit
- March security patches
But there are some problems you should be aware of.
- Your fingerprints will not be preserved after you flash the new build, so you will need to re-register your fingerprints if you have fingerprint authentication set up
- Maxxaudio tuner and presets will be removed
- Rolling back to previous OxygenOS versions will not work without wiping data
- Some soak testers have experienced wifi speed issues which we are investigating
- Some of your old apps won’t work without an upgrade to M compatible versions
- Shelf frequent apps board size might shrink if you are dirty flashing. Remove and re-add the board and it will fix itself
- Language localization is still being improved
Hit the source link if you want to download this newest build, but be sure to read all the warnings and instructions! Flashing is pretty simple, but it also has the potential for problems. If you’re not comfortable flashing this build, the official OxygenOS 3.0 update should be rolling out fairly soon once the final bugs are ironed out.
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Google puts stock calculator app with Android Wear support on Play Store
We’re surprised this one took so long, but Google has finally released the stock calculator app on the Play Store for all to use. Many stock Google apps have been available on the Play Store for quite some time now, but it’s nice to see Google’s functional and quick calculator join the club.
An extra bonus is that this app has Android Wear support. You get a calculator on your wrist, and the slide out panel that usually has your advanced functions on a phone now has the modifiers. The buttons are plenty big to comfortably press (at least on a first gen Moto 360) and it’s pretty well designed. I’m sure it’ll be useful at some point. Hit the source link to download it for yourself!
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Lyft Introduces Carpool Option To Help Drivers Earn Money Off Commutes, Rolls Out Waze Integration Nationwide
Using the carpool lane can cut time out of commutes, but it comes with the hassle of coordinating with another worker. That's annoying. It's so annoying that Lyft is now willing to pay people to do it. Sort of.
Lyft Carpool is a new way for drivers to potentially make hundreds of dollars a month driving to work like they already do, as long as they're willing to drive someone who pays a few bucks to sit in the passenger seat.
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Amazon bans non-compliant USB Type C cables from being sold on its site
USB Type C is an awesome new technology, with a reversible cable and higher speeds for future proofing devices for many years. The reversible part is quite useful in particular, as micro USB orientation can be a pain. But all new technology suffers from growing pain, and USB Type C is no exception. The problem is, the pain is coming from the third party.
Benson Leung, a Google employee, had taken it upon himself to test various USB Type C cables to see how well they work, and if they’re compliant with the standards set by the USB Implementers Forum Inc. The result was that many cables weren’t compliant and risked very real damage to your device. Unfortunately, he had his Chromebook Pixel damaged by one of these cables.
Although it took a while, Amazon has now banned the sale of non-compliant USB Type C cables on its site, which means a lot of the bad cables will be disappearing. This doesn’t guarantee that every cable on Amazon is safe, but it’s a big help for those who don’t know how much of a risk a cheap Type C cable is. If you’re in need of a cable, check out Leung’s Amazon profile for his reviews.
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Google Play Movies Launches In Turkey
There are many ways to go about watching movies on an Android phone or tablet, but when you fire up Google Play, one method takes center stage. That's Play Movies, Google's out-of-the-box way for you to buy or rent licenses to stream TV shows and films.
Play Movies isn't available everywhere in the world. Sometimes it comes to new countries one at a time. Sometimes it comes in batches. Right now, another country has made the list.
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Making It Mine: Galaxy S7 Edge (Video)
Gather ‘round, gather ‘round! The time has come to answer the age old question: What’s on your phone? I get this question A LOT, but I don’t answer it often since it changes so much. I thought I’d take a bit of a spin on it and also show you what I did to make a particular device (in this case the S7 Edge) really feel like my own. I’m convinced there’s a metric here.
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OnePlus 2’s Marshmallow beta now open to all
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Snapchat 9.27 Weaves Together Text, Photos, Audio, Video, And GIFs For Chat 2.0
Snapchat isn't merely an app you open up to take photos that will probably get you in trouble someday. It's also a place to have conversations that you will ultimately regret. But at least with version 9.27, you're likely to enjoy that conversation more than you would before.
The latest version of the instant messenger known for auto-deleting things introduces Chat 2.0, which is a redesign that takes the pre-existing experience and makes it more spiffy.
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Become a Java master with the Complete Programming Bootcamp [Deal]
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Google Calculator hits the Play Store with new Android Wear app
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