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It certainly hasn’t been easy to choose from Lenovo’s many deeply discounted Android tablets with a variety of screen sizes and price points ranging from under $100 to close to $1,000 in the last few weeks, but Amazon appears to have discreetly made your decision a little more straightforward with a killer new deal on the company’s latest jumbo-sized mid-ranger.If you hurry, you can get the largely unremarkable but arguably well-rounded 11-incher at a record high discount… that Amazon is actually underselling a little. The e-commerce giant is listing the slate’s “typical price” at $226.29 with a stylus and folio…
For years, Samsung has been teaming up with companies in China to make smartphones through a method called Joint Design Manufacturing (JDM). This approach helps the tech giant save on production costs by divvying up some of the pre-production work among its partners.Samsung usually reserves this production tactic for its budget-friendly phones rather than its flagship models, and now it seems it is planning to expand its collaboration with Chinese companies even more.25% of Samsung’s phone production this year is expected to come from outsourced sourcesAccording to reports from Korean tech media The Elec, Samsung plans to ramp up smartphone…
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Fancy a new Windows tablet with a keyboard? Best Buy’s got you covered! It’s again selling the fantastic 16/256GB Surface Pro 9 bundle with the Surface Pro Keyboard at discounted prices. If you’re quick enough, you can save as much as $440 on this capable Android tablet rival.If this deal sounds familiar, that’s because we’ve told you about it before. The last time we came across the discounted bundle, however, you could save $540. But the offer we now see is still quite attractive, particularly because you won’t find it on Amazon or Walmart. So, if you’d like the (almost)…
Earlier today, we shared a Moto G Play (2024) deal with an alternative Moto G 5G (2023) option for those seeking 5G and higher refresh rates. While these may be a good choice for hardcore Motorola fans, we’ve got something even better to show everyone else. Surprise, surprise, it’s another OnePlus Nord 30 5G deal! This smartphone is once again available at $50 off, the second-best price we’ve ever seen. The exciting offer is available at Amazon and OnePlus.com. We’d like to point out that users with an old phone in good condition might want to skip Amazon, as the official…
Meta-owned WhatsApp boasts over 3 billion monthly active users, making it one of the most popular messaging apps globally. Despite its popularity, users have longed for more customization options, a gap often filled by competitors like Telegram. However, it seems change is on the horizon, as reports suggest WhatsApp is working on a new customization feature.In the latest WhatsApp beta for iOS, the go-to source for WhatsApp updates, WABetaInfo found that Meta is tinkering with a new default chat theme feature. Image Credit–WABetaInfo The attached screenshot shows a section for selecting the default chat theme of the app. Similar to…
If Huang Zhenyu’s mastery of a complex alphanumeric code weren’t impressive enough, consider the staggering speed of his performance. He transcribed the first 31 Chinese characters of Hu Jintao’s speech in roughly 5 seconds, for an extrapolated speed of 372 Chinese characters per minute. By the close of the grueling 20-minute contest, one extending over thousands of characters, he crossed the finish line with an almost unbelievable speed of 221.9 characters per minute. That’s 3.7 Chinese characters every second. In the context of English, Huang’s opening 5 seconds would have been the equivalent of around 375 English words-per-minute, with his…
Google allows users to edit documents in Docs, edit speaker notes in Slides by using their voice, as well as turn on automatic captions while presenting in Slides, but these features are only available on Google Chrome. Over the weekend, the search giant announced that it has decided to expand availability of these features to more browsers like Safari and Edge. This an important step toward more inclusive and accessible user interactions within Docs and Slides for more users.If you’re using Safar or Edge, you’ll now be able to turn on voice typing or captions. Once that’s done, the web…
It might be hard to believe but Xiaomi’s sub-brand Poco never released a tablet until recently despite the fact that it’s active in the smartphone market since 2018. The Chinese company became famous after launching the Pocophone F1, so the naming of its first-ever tablet makes perfect sense, the Poco Pad.The Poco Pad feels like a great mid-range tablet on paper, and a decent enough price. For starters, the tablet is equipped with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 processor, paired with 8GB RAM and 256GB internal storage (expandable up to 1.5TB via microSD card).Another selling point of Poco’s new tablet…
In February 2022, Spotify publicly launched its car accessory called Car Thing. Unfortunately for the Thing, it didn’t achieve the success its creators had envisioned and was discontinued in the same year it was introduced. And now, Spotify is planning to disable all Car Thing units at the end of 2024, so in the chance you have one, it will continue working until December 9, 2024. Spotify’s Car Thing (R.I.P) was a car display that was focused on letting you enjoy music and podcasts in your car. However, it wasn’t as attractive and couldn’t do as much as Android Auto…
We have good news and bad news. The good news is that Best Buy is selling the powerful Galaxy Tab S9 with 256GB of storage at a pretty sweet $200 discount. So, you can currently grab one for $719.99, down from $919.99.The bad news is that this is one of Best Buy’s deals of the day, which means you have less than 24 hours to seize the opportunity to get one of the best tablets on the market at a lower price. Powered by a top-tier Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset and 12GB of RAM, this bad boy delivers incredible performance.…
You would think that a T-Mobile rep would want to sell as many phones as possible to a consumer. But the truth of the matter is that selling phones will not put more food on the table for the rep’s family unless the sale is accompanied by a few extras. A Reddit subscriber with the user name “jaexone” says that he works for T-Mobile and as he explains, “If I don’t sell every phone with a rate plan change, a smartwatch, insurance, a case, and screen protector, then my metrics will be affected negatively.” So what’s a rep to do?…
Those #BestPhoneForever ads depict an amazing friendship between iPhone and Pixel and they typically result in Pixel showing off some cool feature that isn’t available to iPhone users. While the latest advertisement is pretty much more of the same, it does introduce us to two new characters, iPhone’s parents (referred to by Pixel as Mr. “i” and Mrs. “i.”). So what does iPhone’s dad look like? He is a 2007 original generation model wearing a tie while iPhone’s mom is also an OG iPhone wearing what is supposed to be a dress.The video starts with Pixel thanking Mr and Mrs.…
Unlike Google Maps, Waze needs an internet connection to download and upload traffic information. If you drive in an area without any cellular connectivity, the app will not provide you with updated traffic reports or suggest alternative routes. That seems pretty easy to understand. No internet, no updated traffic, no alternative routes. But per autoevolution, Waze users have noticed a new message appearing on the screen that says “Using offline maps.” There is only one problem. Waze doesn’t have offline maps.”Besides that discrepancy, the message appears to show up even when the Waze app is connected to the internet via…
Without a doubt, design is the most subjective aspect of a smartphone. Hence, it’s no surprise I often talk about it in opinion pieces. Duh…One particular aspect of smartphone design, which seems to unite most people, is display borders. The popular opinion on phone display borders is “the thinner – the better”. It’s as simple as that.Then again, a less “popular opinion” is that symmetrical display borders should be an even bigger priority. However, not every phone-maker shares either one of those two views.Take Samsung and Google, for example… Two of the most influential phone-makers in the world aren’t shy…
Are you appalled by the $999.99 starting price of Microsoft’s latest 2-in-1 Surface Pro computing machine with Snapdragon X processing power? Would you be willing to consider an older Windows-running tablet from the same manufacturer as long as it strikes a better balance between functionality and affordability?Unfortunately, the 2022-released Surface Pro 9 is already starting to get a little hard to come by, with Microsoft’s official US e-store currently listing it as out of stock in all configurations and Best Buy running a few different “clearance” deals on a few variants before eventually discontinuing the device altogether as well.Believe it…