tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78771260764835716762024-02-21T15:42:34.104+05:30All About AndroidEverything to know about Google Android Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9769125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877126076483571676.post-78035743718587566162015-11-28T20:03:00.002+05:302015-11-28T20:03:38.924+05:30ASUS Chromebit review – the little Chrome OS dongle that could<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Current<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/tag/google/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Google</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>CEO Sundar Pichai once<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/sundar-pichai-interview-398562/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">said he wanted to see Chrome and Android in every screen available</a>, a goal that is now looking more real than ever. Android is obviously all over the spectrum, but there is a whole other beast Google has been very good at taking over the market with – Chrome OS.</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/asus-zenfone-2-review-600414/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Asus Zenfone 2 review</a></strong></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/google-folding-chrome-os-android-652805/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Android + Chrome OS: four big questions</a></strong></li>
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This web-based operating system now exists on laptops, desktop computers and even all-in-one PCs. These are known as Chromebooks, Chromeboxes and Chromebases, but that is not where Google wants to let things end. This light, fast and affordable platform is now making its way into a new form-factor that allows more flexibility.</div>
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Today we are focusing on the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/tag/google-chromebit/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">ASUS Chromebit</a>, a small dongle that can fit into any pocket and convert any HDMI-enabled screen into a full-fledged Chrome OS device. Yes, even your TV, likely the largest screen you own.</div>
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But what is the benefit here? That is something we will talk more about later in the review, but let me give you a little teaser here – the ASUS Chromebit is only $84.99. Interested? Keep reading for more details!</div>
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Design & build quality</h1>
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Thinking back on how big computers needed to be just a decade ago, this thing does seem like a marvel. We used to own large boxes that took over a huge part of our desks. Now I find myself getting an ASUS Chromebit in the mail, in a box that could easily fit a glass. This thing fits right in the palm of my hand and can easily outperform my first desktop computer. If you want numbers, it measures in at 123 x 31 x 17 mm. That’s just digits, though, so I am better off telling you it is about the size of one of those wide highlighters we used to have back in school.</div>
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The ASUS Chromebit certainly doesn’t look bad, but it’s also nothing to write home about. And that’s a good thing! This is not a product you will be showing off to anyone. It will live behind your screen and stay hidden most of the time, something it does a very good job at. It is discrete, both in size and aesthetics.</div>
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What you probably will care about is whether it’s well-built or not. After all, this is a portable device of sorts. The idea is that you can use it at your living room, desk, work, presentations and even hotel room. This jack of all trades can do it all, so it needs to be built to withstand such lifestyle.</div>
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Hopefully the guys at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/tag/asus/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">ASUS</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>never read this bit, but I actually dropped the Chromebit once. It fell out of my pocket and came out of this accident without a single scratch. Literally, the thing still looks new. This is pure testament of its good build quality, but you don’t need to mess up (like me) and put it to the test to know this. You can feel it right off the bat, the first time it lays on your hand.</div>
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Even if built mostly of plastic, the Chromebit definitely feels solid. It has a certain weight that let’s you know it’s definitely not a hollow product, a factor that gives off a level of security I never had with a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/tag/chromecast/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Chromecast</a>.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a class="cboxElement" href="http://cdn01.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ASUS-Chromebit-2.jpg" rel="lightbox[657983]" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank"><img alt="ASUS-Chromebit-2" class="aligncenter wp-image-658039 size-large" height="558" src="http://cdn01.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ASUS-Chromebit-2-840x558.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" width="840" /></a></div>
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Hardware & specs</h1>
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Let’s go through the externals first, shall we? Everything is pretty straight forward here. Uncover one end of the ASUS Chromebit and you will be presented with a full-sized HDMI connector. The box also includes an extension for those TVs that make it hard to connect this device directly to. On the other end we can find a USB 2.0 port for connecting all your peripherals and storage devices. There’s also a small power jack on the side, which is used to keep your mini PC alive.</div>
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Let me touch a bit on that energy system, though. It’s already bad enough that it uses a non-USB power port, but there are a couple other inconveniences I found here. For starters, you can’t plug this into the TV’s USB port and grab energy from there. This is justified, though, as it is a Chrome OS computer and needs more energy.</div>
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What really gets to me is that the included Power cable is uncomfortably short. I would say this cable is about 1.25 meters, which makes it a pain to plug in if your TV (or whatever screen you are using) is a tiny bit too far from an outlet.</div>
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How about them specs? Let’s go over them real quick.</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Chrome OS</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rockchip quad-core RK3288C CPU</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">ARM Mali-T624 GPU</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">2 GB of RAM</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">16 GB of internal storage</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">100 GB of Gogole Drive storage for 2 years</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bluetooth 4.0</li>
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Performance and OS</h1>
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Now, the moment of truth. How good is the ASUS Chromebit as a computer? Let’s begin with the OS, which will really be what most of you will care about. That is because, like most other Chrome OS devices, the Chromebit is very good at some things, but very bad at others.</div>
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Keep in mind this pretty much runs a glorified version of the Chrome browser. Google has added plenty of offline features and apps to Chrome OS, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that it heavily relies on an internet connection. Regardless, most people use computers for the internet alone, which is the whole idea behind the very existence of this operating system.</div>
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The only thing to keep in mind is that you will have to sacrifice popular programs that any user would otherwise have at their disposal when working with Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. Say goodbye to Photoshop, Lightroom, Microsoft Office, most games and any other program you would usually run natively from a PC. Everything is web-based (or limited).<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a class="cboxElement" href="http://cdn01.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ASUS-Chromebit-4.jpg" rel="lightbox[657983]" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank"><img alt="ASUS-Chromebit-4" class="aligncenter wp-image-658041 size-large" height="558" src="http://cdn01.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ASUS-Chromebit-4-840x558.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" width="840" /></a></div>
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That’s not to say the OS is bad, as there are plenty of benefits to be had with it. Keep in mind that because it is a web-based OS, it is also very light. Super light. This thing will boot up faster than any other computer. In fact, the Chromebit was usually on by the time my TV decided to boot up. And because it doesn’t need much resources, it can run very well without crazy specs.</div>
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This takes us to the next point – how well does the ASUS Chromebit perform? Those who have used a lower-end Chromebook will find a very similar experience going on here. The computer runs perfectly if you are a basic user. I was streaming Full HD videos with no issue, and I never saw any hiccups with casual usage. Nor did I find any bugs or problems.</div>
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My only gripe with the Chromebit is that those 2 GB of RAM are definitely not enough for any multi-tasker out there. I found that even having 4 tabs open started slowing down the machine, something that is simply unacceptable in my line of work.</div>
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<a class="cboxElement" href="http://cdn01.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ASUS-Chromebit-5.jpg" rel="lightbox[657983]" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank"><img alt="ASUS-Chromebit-5" class="aligncenter wp-image-658042 size-large" height="558" src="http://cdn01.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ASUS-Chromebit-5-840x558.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" width="840" /></a>But if you never really open 4 tabs or more, this may not be an issue at all. I mean, this is an $84 computer, after all. If multi-tasking is the only thing I can complain about, in terms of performance, I say ASUS is doing a really good job.</div>
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Should you buy the ASUS Chromebit?</h1>
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With that, we come back to the question you asked yourself at the beginning of this review – should you buy an ASUS Chromebit? As it goes with most devices, the answer is not as simple as a “yes” or “no”. I will tell you this device is not for everyone, though. Who is it for?</div>
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It’s portability and affordable price point make it a great secondary computer for those who move around frequently, are always on-the-go, or need a good presentation machine. It will take care of all your browsing needs, as long as you don’t go nuts with multi-tasking. Now, things may be a bit more complicated if you want to make this your primary computer, but it’s definitely doable depending on your needs.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a class="cboxElement" href="http://cdn01.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ASUS-Chromebit-7.jpg" rel="lightbox[657983]" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank"><img alt="ASUS-Chromebit-7" class="aligncenter wp-image-658054 size-large" height="558" src="http://cdn01.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/ASUS-Chromebit-7-840x558.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" width="840" /></a></div>
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A casual user who simply wants to browse the web, visit social networks and stream movies/music will be satisfied. I can also see it being a great tool for public places (schools, hotels, libraries, etc.), as it is affordable and very easy to manage for IT departments. If you only need to use the web, don’t multi-task much and won’t need your traditional programs, this little dongle is great.</div>
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And the Chromebit definitely has its market, which is something I happen to be fond of… it has its purpose and place in the wide ecosystem of devices we own. I personally wouldn’t say the same about Chromeboxes, which sacrifice portability, screen and keyboard, yet cost about the same as a Chromebook. I just don’t see the point in that. But for $84.99, I can definitely get behind something like the ASUS Chromebit.</div>
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If you fit the category described above, it’s certainly a great buy. And at this price you would be hard-pressed to find anything better.</div>
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</script>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877126076483571676.post-56469100787813149612015-11-28T19:46:00.000+05:302015-11-28T19:46:15.494+05:30How to start Android app development for complete beginners in 5 steps<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<img alt="How to Start Android App Development for Complete Beginners in 5 Steps-aa" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-658538" height="473" src="http://cdn02.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/How-to-Start-Android-App-Development-for-Complete-Beginners-in-5-Steps-aa-840x473.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1 !important; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" width="840" />So you have a killer app idea and you’re ready to turn it into a reality and take it to market. No doubt you’re itching to start getting your first downloads, reviews and profits… But there’s just one problem: you don’t have a clue where to start!</div>
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Learning to code is difficult enough on its own but with Android development it can be more complicated. Not only do you need to understand Java, you also need to install all the Android-specific software and learn all of the unique quirks of Android app development.</div>
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In general, creating an Android app requires the SDK (Software Development Kit), an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) like<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Android Studio</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Eclipse</strong>, the Java Software Development Kit (JDK) and a virtual device to test on. All this takes work to set up, and that’s before you’ve even started looking into things like Google Play Services, screen sizes, API levels…</div>
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It’s just such a dense amount of information and it’s enough to put an awful lot of people off before they even begin. My aim with this article then, is to provide an approachable guide to try and make the whole prospect of creating an app a little less daunting… I’ll explain the bits you need to know and gloss over the rest and by the end you should have a basic app that you can start iterating on and experimenting with.</div>
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Go and make yourself a cup of tea first though, this may take a while…</div>
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Step 1: Download Android Studio</h1>
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To program in most languages, you need a piece of software called an IDE or ‘Integrated Development Environment’. The most common IDE for Android development is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Android Studio</strong>, which comes direct from Google itself. You can get it<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html?gclid=Cj0KEQiAm-CyBRDx65nBhcmVtbIBEiQA7zm8lWCaBd9n9KYYunFXxXsQCPojBVHk5eIH4p9CWM1eLfUaAmd28P8HAQ" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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An IDE is what gives you the main UI where you’ll enter your code (you can’t just start typing into notepad). It also highlights things you get wrong, offers suggestions and lets you run and test your creations conveniently. It creates the files you need, it provides basic layouts and generally it saves you a lot of time and effort.</div>
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What’s great about Android Studio is that it is designed specifically for Android development (unlike the second most popular option, Eclipse). This means that when you download the software, you’ll also get a lot of the other bits you need including the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Android SDK</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(a selection of tools including the Android platform itself) and the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Android Virtual Device</strong>, which is an emulator you can test your apps on. When you go through the installation, make sure you leave the boxes ticked to confirm that you want these additional components. You could manually add them later, but this will just complicate matters.</div>
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As mentioned, there are some alternatives to Android Studio.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://eclipse.org/downloads/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">Eclipse</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is an older IDE that can be used for developing other things too (such as iOS apps) and that is a bit more flexible overall. It’s also a much more fiddly to get started with though and not nearly as beginner-friendly. Another personal favorite of mine is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.b4x.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">Basic4Android</a>. Basic4Android is an IDE that lets you code Android apps with the BASIC programming language. It makes things easier in a number of other ways too and is focused on ‘rapid development’.</div>
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There are other options too, such as Unity3D and numerous app builders, each of which has specific strengths and weaknesses depending on what you’re planning on building. For the sake of simplicity though, we’re focusing on Android Studio because it has become the ‘main’ way to build basic apps and pretty much the industry standard. If you think you might ever sell your business, if you want to give yourself the most flexibility and control possible, or if you’d like to become a professional app developer, you’ll need this tool.</div>
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That said, if you read through all this and you find it too much still, you might want to consider Basic4Android as a simpler approach and I’ll be covering that in a future post.</div>
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Okay, just to recap: we now have Android Studio downloaded and installed. But, don’t run it until you read step two! So far so good… What could possibly go wrong?</div>
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Step 2: Setting Up Android Studio</h1>
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Now you have Android Studio installed you’ve taken your first, bold step toward becoming a developer! A lot of people only manage it this far and then leave the software installed on their computer for months on end, feeling guilty every time they see it in the Start Menu. Eventually they end deleting it to make space for the next AAA title on Steam and so ends the whole sorry affair… Don’t end up like them – it’s time for some more affirmative action!</div>
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Before you can get started, you also need to install Java on your machine to use Android Studio. Specifically, you’re going to need install the Java Development Kit (JDK). Java is the programming language you’re going to be using to build your apps in this instance and you need to install the JDK in order for Android Studio to be able to interpret and compile your code (compiling means turning the source into something that is understood by the CPU – machine code). You’ll find the Java Development Kit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">here</a>. Just download and follow the instructions to install.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Now<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>you can click on Android Studio to launch it. Once it opens up, you’ll be presented with a menu where you’ll be able to get started or configure some options. The great thing is that everything is handled for you at this point, though you may want to familiarize yourself with the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">SDK Manager</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Configure > SDK Manager) which is where you’ll update your Android SDK to support newer versions, as well as download things like code samples or support for Google Glass. But don’t worry about that now but if Android Studio says you’re missing something, this is where you’ll probably need to go to find it.</div>
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So really there are three main things interacting when you use Android Studio to create your apps.</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Android Studio itself, which is an IDE that provides you with a nice interface for coding.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">The code you write in Java, which you installed a moment ago…</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">And the Android SDK which you’ll access through your Java code in order to do Android-type things</li>
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If you find this all a bit complicated and daunting then… well, you don’t know you’re born. This used to be<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">way<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>worse.</div>
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Maybe that offers some consolation…</div>
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Step 3: Starting a New Project</h1>
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Once you’ve installed your samples, you can go back to the first page you saw when you loaded up Android Studio. Now you want to choose<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Start a new Android Studio Project<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>– it’s finally happening!</div>
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Enter the name you want for your application and your ‘company domain’. Together these elements will be used to create your package name with the following format:</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">com.companyname.appname</strong></div>
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The package will be the compiled file or<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">APK<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>(‘Android Package File’) that you’ll eventually upload to the Google Play Store. There are ways that people can see this, so if you’re planning on making something you’ll eventually release, try to stay away from using ‘funny words’.</div>
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The last field to enter is the directory where you want to save all the files pertaining to your app. I like to save in DropBox to make sure I always have a backup of my code. Click Next again and guess what… More options! Huzzah! Don’t worry, we’re nearly there…</div>
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Next you need to decide what type of device you’re going to be developing for and in this case we’ll start with the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Phone and Tablet</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>option. Other options are TV, Wear and Glass. It’s fine if you want to develop for a myriad of platforms in the future – that’s one of the wonders of Android – but let’s start with something a bit more straightforward to begin with, okay?</div>
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The other choice you have to make at this stage is the ‘Minimum SDK’. This is the lowest version of Android you want to support. Why not just enter the latest version of Android in here? Well, because relatively few people actually<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>the latest version of Android installed on their device at any given time. You want to support phones that are still running older versions in order to reach the largest possible audience – especially overseas.</div>
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Why not just go with Android 1.1? Well, apart from this not being an option (Froyo is as low as you can go), that would also prevent you from using any of the fancy new features from the latest updates.</div>
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The best bet at this stage is to go with the default option, so just leave this field as it is. On the next page, you’ll be given the option to pick the way you want your app to look at the start. This will be the look of your main ‘<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Activity Module</strong>’ which is basically the main page of your app. Think of these like templates; do you want to have the title of your app along the top of the screen, or do you want your UI to fill the whole display? Do you want to start off with some elements ready-designed for you? Is your app primarily going to use Google Maps (don’t go here for a bit, things get more complicated with Google Play Services).</div>
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Bear in mind that an app can have multiple activities that act like separate pages on a website. You might have a ‘settings’ activity for instance and a ‘main’ activity. So the activity isn’t the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">app</em>per say but rather one stand-alone page of your app.</div>
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For your first creation though, you’ll probably do best to make something<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">really<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>simple that just displays a single, basic activity. Select ‘<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Basic Activity</strong>’ to keep things as simple as possible and for all intents and purposes, this will now be your app. Click Next again you get the last few options.</div>
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Now you get to pick the name for your activity and the layout name (if you chose ‘Basic Activity’ you’ll also have the title option and the ‘menu_resource’ name). The activity name is how you’ll refer to your activities in your code, so call it something logical (good advice for coding generally) like ‘MainActivity’. Creative, I know.</div>
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The layout name meanwhile describes a file that determines the layout of an activity. This is a separate piece of code that runs in concert with the main activity code to define where elements like images and menus go and what fonts you’ll use. This is actually not Java but XML – or Extensible Markup Language if you want to impress your friends.</div>
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For anyone with a background in web development, your XML is going to work a little like HTML or a CSS style sheet. The Java code for the activity meanwhile says<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">what<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>the elements on the screen do when pressed etc. It’s fine to leave the default name here as ‘activity_main’. Lastly, choose a name for the menu and for the title. Pick something nice for the title, as your users will be able to see this at some points. Click next… and now you get to see your app!</div>
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Your blank, useless app… All that just to get started! You see why people give up? But really we can break it down into the following very basic steps:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Download and install Android Studio, making sure to include the Android SDK</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Install Java SDK</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Start a new project and select the basic details</li>
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So it’s really not that bad… And remember: once you’ve done all this once, you can forget about it forever and focus on the fun stuff: creating apps! Your tea is probably cold at this point, so the next very important step, is to get more.</div>
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Step 4: Making an Actual Thing</h1>
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Once your app opens, you should see a directory tree on the left with all the different files and folders that make up your app and a picture of a phone displaying ‘Hello World!’ in the center. Well, hello to you as well!</div>
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(A basic app that displays ‘Hello World’ is what most new developers make first when they learn to program in a new language. Android Studio cheats though, because it does it for you!)</div>
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You might notice that the open tab (along the top) is ‘<span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="box-sizing: border-box;">activity_main.xml</span>’, which is what the big phone is showing on its display. You may recall that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="box-sizing: border-box;">activity_main.xml</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is the XML code that defines the layout instructions for your main activity.</div>
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If you selected ‘Basic Activity’ when you started your project, then you’ll see a second XML file too called ‘<span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="box-sizing: border-box;">content_main.xml</span>’. For the most part, these two do the same thing but the ‘<span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="box-sizing: border-box;">acitvity_main.xml</span>’ contains the basic layout that Android Studio created for you when you selected ‘Basic Activity’. The stuff you want to edit is in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="box-sizing: border-box;">content_main.xml</span>, so open that up and don’t worry about it for now.</div>
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(If this isn’t what is open to start, then use the directory on the left to open it by choosing:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">app > res ><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="box-sizing: border-box;">content_main.xml</span>.</em>)</div>
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The Layout</h3>
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Android Studio is not showing the XML code itself here but rather a rendering of how the layout will appear on the screen. This is a visual editor a bit like Dreamweaver for web design and it makes life a little easier for us developers.</div>
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You also have a bunch of options called ‘<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">widgets</strong>’ down the left that you can add to your app. This is your basic app stuff; so for instance, if you want to add a button saying ‘OK’ to your activity, you can simply drag it over to the screen and drop it anywhere you like. Go ahead and dump an ‘OK’ button right underneath the ‘Hello World’.</div>
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Something else you’ll find is that you can click on either of these elements in order to change the text and the ‘ID’. The ID is how you’re refer to each element (called a ‘<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">view</strong>’) in your Java code, while the text is of course what you display to the user.</div>
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Delete the ‘Hello World’ widget (or view) and change the text on the button to ‘Hello?’. Likewise, change the ‘id’ on the button to ‘button1’.</div>
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I am now stealthily getting you to write a little program… Notice as well that when you select a view, you get options in the bottom right to change the text color and size etc. You can play around with these variables if you like to change the look of your button. We’re coming back here in a minute though so make a mental note!</div>
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Now open up your<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="box-sizing: border-box;">MainActivity.java</span>. The tab will be along the top but in case it isn’t, find it under:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">App > Java.</em></div>
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This is the code that defines the behavior of your app. At this stage, you’re going to add in a little passage of code:</div>
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<code class="hljs java" style="background: rgb(234, 238, 243); border-radius: 4px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00193a; display: block; font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: 17.1px; overflow-x: auto; padding: 0.5em;"><span class="hljs-function" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="hljs-keyword" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">public</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hljs-keyword" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">void</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="hljs-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0048ab; font-weight: bold;">buttonOnClick</span><span class="hljs-params" style="box-sizing: border-box;">(View v)</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>{<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Button button1 = (Button) v;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />((Button) v).setText(<span class="hljs-string" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0048ab;">"Hello!"</span>);<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />}</code></div>
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This is going to go right underneath the first lone<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">closed<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>bracket ‘}’, just before the “<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">@Override, Public Boolean</strong>”. It should look like this:</div>
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What does it all mean? Well basically, anything following “<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">void buttonOnClick</strong>” will be carried out when someone clicks on the button. We’re then finding the button with the “<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Button button1 = (Button) v;</strong>” code and then changing the text.</div>
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Yes, there are other ways you could achieve the same thing but I feel like this keeps it nice and simple and thus easy to understand. Spend some time reading it and try to get your head around what is doing what…</div>
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At the top of the page is the word ‘import…’. Click on that to expand it and make sure that somewhere there is the line: “<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">import android.widget.Button;</strong>”. It should have appeared on its own when you typed out the last bit (Android Studio is smart like that) but you can add it yourself if it didn’t.</div>
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(Notice as we type that lines end in “;”. This is basic Java formatting and if you forget one, it will throw up an error. Get used to searching around for them!)</div>
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Now go back to your<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="box-sizing: border-box;">content_main.xml</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and click on the button. In the right corner, where you have your parameters for the button, you should be able to find an option called ‘onClick’. Click on this and then select the ‘onClick’ line of code you just wrote from the drop down menu. What you’ve just done, is told Android Studio that you want to associate the section of code with the button you created (because you’ll have lots of buttons in future).</div>
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Now all that’s left to do is run the app you just made. Simple go to ‘run’ along the top and then select ‘run app’ from the drop down menu. You should already have your AVD (Android Virtual Device) installed but if not, you can go to:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">tools > Android > AVD Manager > + Create Virtual Device</em>. Don’t forget you also need to install an Android version<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">onto<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>the device.</div>
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<img alt="Basic hello app" class="alignright wp-image-658477 size-medium" height="533" src="http://cdn01.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Hello-300x533.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: right; height: auto; margin: 10px 0px 15px 15px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1 !important; vertical-align: middle;" width="300" />Follow the steps to launch the emulator running your app. Be patient, it can sometimes take an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">age<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>to load up… If it<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">never<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>loads up, you can consider ‘packaging’ the app in order to create an APK. Drag this onto your Android device and double click on it to install and run it.</div>
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Once it’s finally up and running you can have a go with this fun, fun app. What you should find is that when you click the button, the text from ‘Hello?’ to ‘Hello!’. We’re going to be rich…</div>
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(If it doesn’t work… something has gone wrong. It wasn’t me, my one works! Look for red text in your code and hover your mouse over it to get suggestions from Android Studio.)</div>
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Step 5: How to Get Better At App Development</h1>
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Okay, so that was a lie. We’re probably<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">not<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>going to be rich. At the moment the app we’ve made is pretty lame. You can try and sell it sure but you probably won’t get that many good reviews.</div>
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The reason I talked you through this basic app creation though is because it teaches you the very fundamentals of programming. You have an action and a reaction – pressing on a button<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">does<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>something. Throw in some variables and some math, add some pretty images and a useful function and that’s genuinely enough to make a very basic app.</div>
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So where do we go from here? There’s so much more to learn: we haven’t looked at the<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Android Manifest</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>yet, we haven’t talked about your<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">private keysign<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>(or how fun it is when you lose that) and we haven’t even studied the Android app ‘lifecycle’ (nothing to do with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Lion King</em>). There’s issues with supporting different screen sizes and there’s just so much more to learn.</div>
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Unfortunately, it would take an entire<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">book<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>to teach you the entirety of Android app development. So that’s a good place to start: buy a book!</div>
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But more important is just to play around and try things. Don’t set out to make your world-changing app on day one. Instead, focus on making something simple and straightforward and then build on that. Try changing the layout of the text and try adding in more buttons and more rules to make your app actually useful.</div>
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Eventually, you’ll find there’s something you want to do that you can’t figure out on your own. Maybe you want a sound to play when someone clicks on your button, for example. This is where the real learning starts. Now all you need to do is search in Google: “How to play sound onClick Android”</div>
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You’ll find a bunch of complicated answers but eventually someone, probably on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">Stack Overflow</a>, will break down the answer simply for you. Then what you do is you copy that code and you paste it into your app, making a few changes as you go.</div>
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Likewise, try out some of the code samples available through Android studio. See how they work, try changing things and just experiment. Things will go wrong and error messages will come up but for the most part, if you just follow the instructions, it’s easy enough to handle. Don’t panic! And that’s pretty much<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">how you learn to make apps</em>. A lot of it boils down to reverse engineering and copying and pasting. Once you have the main program in place, the rest you pick up as you go.</div>
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If you want the absolute easiest way to start, then just find some sample code that’s close to what you make and change it. No one is going to be able to explain all this to you in a way that makes any sense and if you worry about not grasping everything to begin with, you’ll never get anywhere.</div>
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So instead, dive in, get your hands dirty and learn on the job. It’s complicated and it’s frustrating but ultimately it’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">highly<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>rewarding and more than worth the initial effort.</div>
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One of the fastest growing areas in consumer electronics right now is that of the ‘connected TV device’. New research by key industry analyst<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.strategyanalytics.com/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Strategy Analytics</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>shows that the global connected TV device market – including smart TVs and game consoles – hit 53 million units in the third quarter of 2015, suggesting that full year sales will reach 221 million units, representing a growth versus 2014 of 17%.</div>
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What’s really interesting about the new Strategy Analytics report, though, is how the sales of all the various connected devices break down. For instance, where the games console market is concerned global sales figures show that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="quotecard ng-isolate-scope" data-exchange="null" data-link="/companies/sony" data-name="Sony" data-naturalid="fred/company/4017" data-quotes-closing="0.0" data-quotes-now="0.0" data-ticker="null" data-type="organization" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="ng-binding" href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/sony" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">Sony</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>sold more than twice as many PS4s as<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="quotecard ng-isolate-scope" data-exchange="NASDAQ" data-link="/companies/microsoft" data-name="Microsoft" data-naturalid="fred/company/2854" data-quotes-closing="53.69" data-quotes-now="53.95" data-ticker="MSFT" data-type="organization" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="ng-binding" href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/microsoft" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">Microsoft</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="card-preview ng-scope" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="preview positive" href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/microsoft" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: #eaf3ea; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(214, 232, 214); box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 0.6em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">MSFT +0.00%</a></span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>sold Xbox Ones.</div>
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Strategy Analytics suggests that this painful state of affairs for Microsoft may improve in the final quarter with the arrival of what it calls ‘appealing 1st and 3rd party bundles’, but based on the Q3 figures it’s going to take some incredibly aggressive bundling and pre-Christmas pricing to get the Xbox One anywhere near sales parity with its rival.</div>
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Turning to smart TVs, the Strategy Analytics report shows Samsung dominating its rivals, accounting for one in four smart TVs in use worldwide.</div>
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Even more eye catching is the extent to which<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="quotecard ng-isolate-scope" data-exchange="NASDAQ" data-link="/companies/google" data-name="Google" data-naturalid="fred/company/1821" data-quotes-closing="769.26" data-quotes-now="771.965" data-ticker="GOOGL" data-type="organization" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="ng-binding" href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/google" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">Google</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="card-preview ng-scope" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="preview positive" href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/google" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: #eaf3ea; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(214, 232, 214); box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 0.6em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">GOOGL +0.26%</a></span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>dominates the external connected TV device (also known as digital media streamer) market with its Chromecast.</div>
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The latest figures for the third quarter show that from a total global sale of 9.2 million digital media streamer units, the Chromecast bagged a huge 35% market share against its arch rivals from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="quotecard ng-isolate-scope" data-exchange="NASDAQ" data-link="/companies/apple" data-name="Apple" data-naturalid="fred/company/280" data-quotes-closing="118.03" data-quotes-now="117.82" data-ticker="AAPL" data-type="organization" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="ng-binding" href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/apple" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">Apple</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="card-preview ng-scope" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="preview negative" href="http://www.forbes.com/companies/apple" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: #faeceb; border-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(246, 219, 217); box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 0.6em; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 600; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">AAPL -0.85%</a></span></span>, Roku and Amazon. To appreciate just how big a lead this is, Apple, the brand in second place, accounts for just 20%, while Roku and Amazon both manage only 16% each.</div>
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It must be stressed, of course, that these Q3 sales figures do not take into account the potential impact of the various new streaming devices introduced by all the major players over recent weeks. These include the new 4th generation Apple TV box and new 4K-capable Amazon Fire TV and Roku TV boxes. It will be particularly interesting to see if the introduction of 4K to some of these devices and Apple’s big push for its new Apple TV have any major market share impact.</div>
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For now, though, with its Android TV platform also now apparently accounting for around 8-10% of the Smart TV marketplace, it looks as if Google is, in Strategy Analytics’ words, ‘winning the race’ – at least if you measure success on device popularity alone.</div>
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The full Strategy Analytics report can be found<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.strategyanalytics.com/access-services/devices/connected-home/consumer-electronics/market-data/report-detail/global-connected-tv-device-vendor-share-q3-20151#.Vlhy2YR3bR1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Or if you’d like to read my thoughts on the new Apple TV box, check out<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2015/11/06/apple-tv-review-10-reasons-you-should-buy-one/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">10 Reasons You Should Buy An Apple TV</a>, as well as<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2015/11/07/apple-tv-review-10-reasons-you-shouldnt-buy-one/" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self">10 Reasons You Shouldn’t</a>.</div>
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While millions of shoppers head out to the stores today, millions more stay in avoiding the traffic, but still taking advantage of deals via the internet.</div>
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This year it looks like Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) and their Google Chromecast dongle will be the clear winners in the connected TV area. A Strategy Analytics report indicates that for the third quarter, Google’s Chromecast had a 35% market share on the media streaming, connected TV category out of a total of 9.2 million digital media units sold. Apple TV took second place with a 20% share, while Roku and Amazon Fire TV tied for third place with 16% of the market share a piece.</div>
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The stock is up 0.21% or $1.55 after the positive news, hitting $749.7 per share. About 352,116 shares traded hands. GOOG has risen 32.40% since April 24, 2015 and is uptrending. It has outperformed by 33.76% the S&P500.</div>
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Out of 28 analysts covering Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), 24 rate it “Buy”, 0 “Sell”, while 4 “Hold”. This means 86% are positive. $900 is the highest target while $700 is the lowest. The $825 average target is 10.04% above today’s ($749.7) stock price. Google Inc. was the topic in 37 analyst reports since July 21, 2015 according to StockzIntelligence Inc. Deutsche Bank maintained the stock on October 23 with “Buy” rating. Pivotal Research maintained it with “Hold” rating and $740 target price in an October 23 report. Piper Jaffray maintained the shares of GOOG in a report on October 23 with “Overweight” rating. Pacific Crest maintained the firm’s rating on October 23. Pacific Crest has “Overweight” rating and $820 price target. Finally, Credit Suisse maintained the stock with “Outperform” rating in an October 23 report.</div>
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The institutional sentiment increased to 1.2 in Q2 2015. Its up 0.05, from 1.15 in 2015Q1. The ratio improved, as 78 funds sold all Alphabet Inc shares owned while 586 reduced positions. 106 funds bought stakes while 691 increased positions. They now own 232.53 million shares or 33.46% less from 349.45 million shares in 2015Q1.</div>
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Zenit Asset Management Ab holds 19.07% of its portfolio in Alphabet Inc for 235,752 shares. Ancient Art L.P. owns 115,300 shares or 13.64% of their US portfolio. Moreover, Kenmare Capital Partners L.L.C. has 11.02% invested in the company for 29,725 shares. The New York-based Farley Capital Ii L.P. has invested 8% in the stock. Two Creeks Capital Management Lp, a New York-based fund reported 150,802 shares.</div>
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Since February 25, 2015, the stock had 0 insider purchases, and 61 selling transactions for $803.52 million net activity. Brin Sergey sold 16,670 shares worth $10.24M. Page Lawrence sold 16,670 shares worth $10.34 million. Doerr L John sold 5,269 shares worth $3.33M. Drummond David C sold 5,290 shares worth $3.39 million. The insider Mather Ann sold 6,000 shares worth $3.48M.</div>
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Alphabet Inc is a collection of Companies. The company has a market cap of $522.83 billion. The Company’s collection include Calico, Google’s health and longevity effort; Nest its connected home business; Fiber, its gigabit internet arm; and its investment divisions such as Google Ventures and Google Capital, and incubator projects, such as Google X. It has 35.26 P/E ratio. These will be managed separately in Alphabet.</div>
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Everyone loves a freebie and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/tag/chromecast/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">Chromecast</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>owners old and new can grab 3 months of Spotify Premium for absolutely nothing for a limited time, no strings attached. The deal comes directly from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://cast.google.com/chromecast/offers/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">Google’s Chromecast offers page</a>.</div>
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Spotify Premium usually costs $9.99 per month. Alternatively, Google Play Music has a three month free sign-up offer for Chromecast owners as well.</div>
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If you don’t own a Chromecast, you can grab a pair of them for just $50<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://store.google.com/product/chromecast_2015" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">from the Google Store</a>. Spotify is also currently offering<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.spotify.com/us/premium/?&ca_source=gaw&ca_ace=&ca_nw=g&ca_dev=c&ca_pl=&ca_pos=1t1&ca_cid=84048532941&ca_agid=9443316141&ca_caid=185976381&ca_adid=84048532941&ca_chid=2001882&ca_kwt=spotify%20premium&ca_mt=e&ca_fid=&ca_tid=kwd-16068637657&ca_lp=9045953&ca_li=&ca_devm=&ca_plt=&ca_sadt=&ca_smid=&ca_spc=&ca_spid=&ca_sco=&ca_sla=&ca_sptid=&ca_ssc=&utm_source=google&utm_medium=growth_paid&utm_campaign=brand_gb_exact&gclid=CK_3zevNsMkCFSLkwgod83ADDw" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">90 days of Premium for just $0.99</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>anyway, so you don’t really need Google’s hardware to enjoy ad-free music streaming. This offer is good until January 2<sup style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14.25px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">nd</sup>2016 and should apply to all 60 countries that Spotify is available in.</div>
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Get ready for the Google Monocle. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://pimg-fpiw.uspto.gov/fdd/67/950/091/0.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #089e00; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a new patent</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to Google for a potential upcoming version of Google Glass. The best way to put it is that it doesn’t look like a pair of glasses anymore — it’s a glorious monocle that wraps around your head.</div>
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Here’s an abstract from the patent:</div>
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The band is adjustable such that it can be configured by a user to contact the head of the user at a first location near a temple, a second location along a portion of the user’s ear adjacent the temple, and at a third location along a rear position of the head of the user.</div>
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Once you configure it, Glass should retain its configuration. The question is whether this will be enough to revive interest for this device.</div>
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As a reminder, Google halted sales of Glass<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/19/today-is-the-last-day-to-buy-google-glass/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #089e00; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">back in January</a>. The company later said that it needed to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/29/google-glass-patrick-pichette/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #089e00; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">“pause” and “reset”</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>development of the device.</div>
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In March, we reported that Google was looking for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/04/google-glass-is-alive-and-well-and-living-in-the-enterprise/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #089e00; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">new areas of opportunity</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for Glass. In particular, Google could sell Glass to enterprise customers.</div>
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But the company has been mostly silent since then. It’s unclear whether Google is still working on software and hardware improvements. But it looks like today’s new patent proves that Google hasn’t given up just yet.</div>
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Google has revealed its discounts as part of Black Friday and Cyber Monday offer price cuts on tablets, smartphones, Chromecasts and smartwatches.</div>
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The deepest discount comes for one of the older products on sale in Google's official online store, with the Nexus 9 tablet, which was launched over a year ago, seeing a cut of $200, which means that the 8.9-inch tablet now costs $199 -- even better than HTC's own Black Friday deal, which took 40 percent off the asking price.</div>
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A much newer product is the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/lg-nexus-5x-hands-googles-budget-android-60-smartphone-gets-basics-right-2119534" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #d84b0e; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Nexus 5X</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that was launched just last month and Google has taken a significant $80 off the asking price, which means you can now pick one of these Android Marshmallow phones for $299. There are similar deals available from other retailers with B&H offering the same price drop plus a $25 gift card.</div>
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Elsewhere, Android Wear smartwatches are also getting discounts, with the <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/huawei-watch-review-classy-android-wear-smartwatch-its-no-apple-watch-2147139" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #d84b0e; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Huawei Watch</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>available for up to $100 off the normal asking price of $399 for the black model, or $80 off the silver model. LG's G Watch Urbane (the second model of which was oddly pulled from the market this week after just six days on sale) is available for $70 off, bringing the price down to $279.</div>
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The company's new<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/chromecast-2015-review-googles-revamped-dongle-just-got-even-better-watching-netflix-2120922" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #d84b0e; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Chromecast</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/googles-chromecast-audio-turns-your-old-speakers-connected-sound-system-2119157" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #d84b0e; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Chromecast Audio</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are also given discounts, with Google offering a two for $50 deal and you can mix-and-match depending on your needs. There are also $50 discounts available on a range of Chromebooks from Asus and Acer, which means you can pick one up for under $120.</div>
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Google's smart home division Nest is also offering some deals, with $30 off the Nest Cam while anyone buying the third generation Nest Smart Thermostat will get a $50 Play Store gift voucher.</div>
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With so many tempting deals available many could rush into purchases they instantly regret, but to protect you Google has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://support.google.com/store/answer/2411741" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: transparent; border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #d84b0e; list-style: none outside none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">extended the returns date</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for any product bought through its online store between now and Christmas to Jan. 22, 2016.</div>
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<img src="http://www.androidcentral.com/sites/androidcentral.com/files/styles/xlarge/public/article_images/2015/11/best-tablets.jpg?itok=cFOa0b1H" />These are the best Android tablets you can buy right now. We've got them side-by-side for a quick and easy comparison.</div>
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You're on the hunt for the best Android tablet out there, and we're going to help you out. Whether you're looking for something slim and compact, or a big-screen beauty bordering on laptop replacement, we're rounding up the best of the best.</div>
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The diversity of the Android ecosystem means there is likely something to suit everyone. Large tablets, small tablets, those that don't cost so much, those that are the bleeding edge. Whatever it is you're looking for this little list is what we consider to be the cream of the crop.</div>
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The Shield Tablet is a gaming powerhouse featuring NVIDIA's cutting edge 2.2 GHz Tegra K1 processor. Forward-facing stereo speakers offer quality sound, and the now optional stylus opens up helpful functionality for day-to-day usage. But the Shield Tablet's software is what really sets it apart. Built right into the notification tray, for example, is the ability to stream what's on your screen to Twitch. Remote access software combined with the optional hardware gamepad allow you to play games that are running on your PC.</div>
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Alternatively, the Geforce Now cloud gaming service lets you do the same with games and computers hosted by NVIDIA. The Shield Tablet K1 recently received a mild refresh over the original, changing the exterior styling a little but more importantly reducing the price by $100. You no longer get a charger or the stylus included in the box, but the savings do give you enough extra cash to pick up the cover and controller. Which you really want if you're going to use the Shield to its fullest.</div>
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Even for those that aren't hardcore gamers, the NVIDIA Shield Tablet is a powerful tablet and offers excellent value for the price. In 2016 it will also get updated to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidcentral.com/marshmallow" style="background: transparent; border: 0px none; color: #8eb611; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Android 6.0 Marshmallow</a>.</div>
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Google partnered with HTC to deliver the Nexus 9 tablet as a spearhead for the Android Lollipop release. As it stands, the Nexus 9's blazing 64-bit 2.3 GHz processor and direct affiliation with Google provide it with a healthy degree of future-proofing, despite the fact it's over a year old, now. The Nexus 9 shuns the 16:9 form factor favored by so many Android tablets and instead goes for a more portrait friendly 4:3 with a 2048 x 1536 resolution display. So it's much nicer to hold in either orientation.</div>
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The back of the Nexus 9 has a soft touch coating available in a few different colors, but what's great about it right now is that you can find it for some bargain prices. Deals are frequent and since it's a Nexus you're getting the latest software, usually before everyone else. If you want to get some work done with the Nexus 9, there's an optional keyboard cover for it, too.</div>
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For Android enthusiasts, the Nexus 9 is an easy pick. But if you just want a big tablet, running Android and don't want to spend the earth, check it out.</div>
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 brings together some of the best components available. As usual, Samsung delivers a high-quality display, and manages to do it in a particularly slim package. To top it all off, it's got the processing power to handle just about anything you could throw at it.</div>
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 is available in two sizes, 8 inches and 9.7 inches, each only 5.6 mm thin. The display resolution comes in at 2048 x 1536, which is more than enough for enjoying HD movies or 3D games. Inside you'll find a 1.9 GHz processor and 3GB of RAM. An 8 megapixel camera sits on the back, and the home button doubles as a fingerprint scanner. The Galaxy Tab S2 ticks all of the boxes on hardware and while Samsung's software still divides opinion, it's packed with useful features.</div>
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The Venue 10 7000 continues Dell's successful dive into the world of Android tablets. The company is using some of its PC design tools and putting them onto Android tablets, and that's a good thing for everyone. The Venue 10 7000 earns high marks in particular for its great keyboard accessory. Typing is a pure joy on it, as it is on many Dell laptops. The Venue 10 7000 has a sturdy construction and an excellent 10.5-inch 2560 x 1600 display.</div>
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The Intel 2.3 GHz quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM can handle most things you'll throw at it in the course of a day. Variants with 16GB and 32GB of storage are available, and though you can pick up the tablet on its own, we really suggest grabbing the keyboard dock while you're at it. It's what sets it apart from the crowd.</div>
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ASUS has been making Android tablets for as long as they have been a thing and has been known in the past for some wild ideas. The Zenpad S 8.0 isn't necessarily wild, but it is very good quality. Packed with high-end internals like a 2K display, 64-bit Intel CPU and 4GB of RAM, the Zenpad S 8.0 is up there with the best on raw hardware. Where it perhaps pulls in front is on price. For what's on offer, this tablet is extremely good value for money.</div>
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ASUS' software is a bit hit-and-miss, but all the pre-loaded apps right down to the launcher and camera are in the Google Play Store. This means updates without waiting on a whole OS refresh. That's the right way to do things. There are some thoughtful design touches too, like the off-center USB-C port that makes it easier to charge while using in landscape. The metallic back adds an air of the luxury and there is a good selection of accessories, too, including a keyboard and and additional speaker to crank up your audio even further.</div>
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ASUS' Zenpad line can be confusing to navigate, but if you're taken by its approach and the price, this is the one to get.</div>
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The Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet continues the company's design trend of squeezing high-end components into an absurdly slim form factor. The Xperia Z4 Tablet is so slim and light for something of this size you'd be forgiven for thinking it was just an empty shell.</div>
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The 10.1-inch display has a 2560 x 1600 resolution, and is powered by a 2 GHz octa-core processor with 3GB of RAM. The rear camera has an 8 megapixel sensor, while the front wide-angle unit is 5.1 megapixels. Sony pre-loads some useful apps, including now the Microsoft Office suite, and some not so useful, but most is removable. Sony's take on Android has improved over the years and is nowadays a pleasurable thing to use.</div>
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An added bonus for gamers is the PS4 remote play capabilities built into new Xperia devices along with Sony's own software solution to allow livestreaming to both Twitch and YouTube.</div>
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday are no longer alone in the world of deals to come after we stuff our faces with turkey. Websites have been adopting what has come to be known as Cyber Weekend, extending online offers throughout the weekend (and sometimes even longer). Of course, Google is not staying behind!</div>
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The Search Giant has just announced its Google Play Store Cyber Week offers and there is plenty to be had here. The deals include discounts on apps, games, movies, TV shows, music, magazines and more! The selection is extensive, so it wouldn’t quite make sense to list it here, but we will give you a curated collection of our very favorite apps and content right below.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Games</strong></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_enix.android_googleplay.dq2_gp" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Dragon Quest II ($2.49)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_enix.android_googleplay.dq3_gp" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Dragon Quest III ($4.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_enix.android_googleplay.dq4" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Dragon Quest IV ($7.49)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_enix.android_googleplay.dq8" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Dragon Quest VIII (9.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_enix.android_googleplay.FFIII_GP" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Final Fantasy III ($7.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_enix.android_googleplay.FFIV_GP" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Final Fantasy IV ($7.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_enix.android_googleplay.FFV_GP" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Final Fantasy V ($7.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_enix.android_googleplay.FFVI" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Final Fantasy VI ($7.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gameloft.android.ANMP.GloftKRHM" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">The Dark Knight Rises ($0.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trueaxis.trueskate" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">True Skate ($0.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bandainamcoent.pacmancedx" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">PAC-MAN CE DX ($1.99)</a></li>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Music</strong></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/music/album/The_Notorious_B_I_G_Greatest_Hits?id=Bc6crmcagtfh6mojddd7mtodgcm" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Notorious B.I.G. – Greatest Hits ($0.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Muse_Drones?id=Bb6qc6b5nffqvmjpth5u5d6mrta" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Muse – Drones ($0.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Fleetwood_Mac_Rumours?id=B6lhckewfewpe23jlbzipc6ywby" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Fleetwood Mac – Rumours ($0.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Michael_Jackson_Number_Ones?id=Bagivkyhiqvj6bksuafotn2p5oe" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Michael Jackson – Number Ones ($6.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Justin_Bieber_Purpose?id=Bmdtgvq7nsx2ujjk6xll33uvedu" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Justin Bieber – Purpose ($7.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Taylor_Swift_1989?id=Bm6l5gvjd6hponuuvzdzk2jwqsm" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Taylor Swift – 1989 ($7.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Meghan_Trainor_Title?id=Beuzdxmmwkeoe5f37tp263yuadi" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Meghan Trainor – Title ($7.99)</a></li>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Movies</strong></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/San_Andreas?id=gmWb9wgRHFc" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">San Andreas ($3.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Divergent?id=WOUsDY4XVLg" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Divergent ($5.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Man_of_Steel?id=bHUkdsVVEk4" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Man of Steel ($2.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/The_Heat?id=YqthdG-mukQ" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">The Heat ($2.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/The_Hunger_Games_Mockingjay_Part_1?id=VQEkLPDVjo8" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 ($3.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Ender_s_Game?id=SCAEOH5kGkk" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Ender’s Game ($2.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Fifty_Shades_of_Grey?id=a3m5lvdOTiQ" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Fifty Shades of Grey ($9.99)</a></li>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Books</strong></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Alan_Moore_V_for_Vendetta?id=efPjAAAAQBAJ" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">V for Vendetta ($9.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Heidi_W_Durrow_The_Girl_Who_Fell_from_the_Sky?id=H3K3pbkoDskC" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">The Girl Who Fell from the Sky ($1.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Phillip_Margolin_Fugitive?id=CVSGe6AWzn4C" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Fugitive ($1.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Fern_Michaels_No_Place_Like_Home?id=cnRjJ3DMqLsC" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">No Place Like Home ($2.99)</a></li>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">TV Shows</b></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/tv/show/Game_of_Thrones?id=71Edzxe9gmo" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Game of Thrones</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/tv/show/Being_Mary_Jane?id=rnFqjjq_z7E" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Being Mary Jane</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/tv/show/The_Originals?id=O2luW1f0kpU" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">The Originals</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/tv/show/Nashville?id=pAuEc6Dlb_c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Nashville</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/tv/show/Silicon_Valley?id=Y5cw5EDM0bk" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Silicon Valley</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/tv/show/Quantico?id=yVQNdRgSrkM" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Quantico</a></li>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Magazines</strong></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/newsstand/details/Maxim?id=CAow3N1o" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Maxim ($0.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/newsstand/details/Us_Weekly_Magazine?id=CAowno2lAQ" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">US Weekly ($0.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/newsstand/details/Cosmopolitan_Magazine?id=CAow1th3" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Cosmopolitan ($0.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/newsstand/details/WIRED?id=CAowuOyBAQ" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">WIRED ($0.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/newsstand/details/National_Geographic_Magazine?id=CAowntiKAQ" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">National Geographic ($0.99)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://play.google.com/store/newsstand/details/PCWorld?id=CAowmbBl" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">PC World ($0.99)</a></li>
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These are only some of our favorites, but you can click through the button below to get the complete list of deals coming from the Google Play Store. There’s plenty to be had and the deals are available right away, but act quickly, because the site doesn’t specify when the offers end. We do assume they’ll be around all weekend, though.</div>
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Are you getting any of these apps and content? I am definitely grabbing at least two of the Square Enix titles, which are being offered at a 50% discount. Other Square Enix fans will know these games are not cheap!</div>
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It is Black Friday. Well, it will be in a couple of days although according to most of our social feeds, the day may as well be here as there are a ton of deals now<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidheadlines.com/2015/11/black-friday-2015-preview-smartphones-tablets-chromebooks.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b41617; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">becoming available</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and being announced. Deals relating to just about everything, from just about all stores and catering to just about all price ranges and budgets. Well, Google is not one to be left out of any party and especially when it comes to Black Friday. After all, the company does operate both a hardware store and software store online and on that note, it does look likely that Google is preparing to announce some deals for Black Friday.</div>
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At the moment, the details of what is likely to be announced are essentially nonexistent, as Google has not announced anything in particular. What has happened though in the last hour is that both the Android and Nexus twitter feeds have sent out very similar messages. In terms of the Android account, the message sent out reads “<em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">#Android deals are coming. #BlackFriday”</em>. Which was then followed a minute or two later by the Nexus twitter account replying to the Android message with a message of their own and which read “<em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">@Android #Nexus is ready! #BlackFriday</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“.</div>
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Therefore, it does seem likely that there will be some form of Nexus deals being offered as part of the Black Friday sales. Although, with these being teasing tweets, nothing can be said for certain. What does seem very likely though is that Google is preparing to announce something, at some point in preparation for Black Friday. Of course, with Black Friday still being a couple of days away, there is no guarantee that the announcement will actually come through today. These are only teasers after all. If there are sales on Nexus devices, then it would be presumed that Google would be looking to offer up the big two Nexus devices, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidheadlines.com/2015/10/featured-review-google-nexus-6p-2015.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b41617; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Nexus 6P</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and Nexus 5X. While it is also just as likely that the Play Store will see a bunch of content be discounted too. Whether this is in app form, music or movies, or otherwise, remains to be seen for now.</div>
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If you are in need of some additional power to keep your smartphones or other mobile devices charged during the day, then the best way is to make use of a power bank. In fact, right now, there are some great deals available for those looking for a new power bank. Two of which come in the form of a power bank from Aukey and one from Poweradd.</div>
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In terms of the Aukey option, this is the Aukey Quick Charge 2.0 10000mAh Portable External Battery and as the name suggests, this one will bring with it a 10,000 mAh capacity to make use of. As well as offering you the ability to charge your device, this one also comes with Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 2.0 built-in, for an even faster charge when used with compatible devices. This charger is currently available on sale for $29.99. However, you can save even more when using coupon code 6YXULUXP which will take $11 off the price and bring the total down to only $18.99</div>
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In terms of the Poweradd option, this is the Poweradd Pilot X7 20,000mAh Portable Charger and as the name suggests, offers a 20,000 mAh capacity. Which should be big enough to offer you a good number of charge cycles before the charger needs to be recharged again. This one is currently on sale from $23.99 although you can save even more by using a coupon code and bringing the final cost down to only $17.99. This one is available in either black and red or blue and white colors. Depending on which color you choose, make sure to use the right coupon code.</div>
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<a href="http://geni.us/2MwN" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b41617; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Buy the Poweradd Pilot X7 20,000mAh Portable Charger $17.99</a> Black and Red use code HHF436NV</div>
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While Samsung’s skin hasn’t been formally called “Touchwiz” since the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://androidheadlines.com/samsung-galaxy-s3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b41617; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Galaxy S3</a>, we still all know it as Touchwiz. And There was a time when their proprietary skin was pretty bad. Samsung has since cleaned it up a bit, especially in 2015, and gotten rid of a lot of features that they found users were not using. But Touchwiz still has its issues, most notably the RAM management issues that are on this year’s crop of flagships from the South Korean manufacturer. Even the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+ are having issues with RAM management, even though they both feature 4GB of RAM. However, there’s a new rumor floating around that Google is supposedly helping out Samsung in optimizing Touchwiz. That’s one crazy rumor.</div>
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This rumor is coming out of Samsung Viet, and states that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidheadlines.com/2015/11/googles-accelerated-mobile-pages-project-takes-off.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b41617; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Google</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is looking to work with Samsung to optimize Touchwiz. Google likely wants to be sure that the king of Android has a fast skin on top of Android, if they aren’t going to stick with vanilla Android, which is likely Google’s first choice. They would also be helping the company overcome some bugs that would come in with Touchwiz.</div>
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Now you may remember a couple years ago when Google got into Samsung’s operating system, and basically told the company to stop duplicating Google’s services. And since then have dropped a lot of their competing services with Google’s own. Including moving over to giving Galaxy Gifts in Google Play. Now this was just a rumor, and we likely will never know if this was indeed true. But it certainly seems like it is. It’s likely that with this rumor about Google looking to optimize Touchwiz, that we’ll never know if it is a true rumor or not. But if the Galaxy S7 comes without any RAM management issues, then it’ll likely be true.</div>
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The big question here is, why would Google want to help Samsung? Well a few reasons. Samsung still accounts for more than half of all Android smartphones or devices in general, sold. Thus, when there are issues with Touchwiz, most users see it as a problem with Android and not Touchwiz. A bit unfair, but that’s the way things go down these days.</div>
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Just a few days ago<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/tag/nvidia/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">NVIDIA</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>announced that it has begun<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/nvidia-including-free-remote-with-shield-android-tv-purchase-655985/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">throwing in a free Shield Remote</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>($50 value) with the purchase of a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/tag/nvidia-shield-android-tv/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Shield Android TV</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>set-top box. That promotion is still going on, but on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/black-friday-2015-best-deals-654853/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Black Friday</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>this year, the company is planning on kicking it up a notch. This Black Friday, you’ll be able to purchase a Shield Android TV for $50 off from a number of participating retailers, including Best Buy, Canada Computers, Fry’s, GameStop, Memory Express and Micro Center. This makes the 16GB base model only $150, plus you’ll still get a free Shield Remote with your purchase. Not bad!</div>
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If you aren’t interested in heading out to a brick-and-mortar store on Friday, no need to worry. NVIDIA is offering the same exact promotion on Cyber Monday at participating online retailers, including<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://shield.nvidia.com/store/android-tv" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">shield.nvidia.com</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://geni.us/1a63" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">Amazon</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ncix.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">NCIX.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and Newegg. To clarify, the deal is only available in brick-and-mortar stores on Friday, and available online on Monday.</div>
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Can’t get enough<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/tag/star-wars/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Star Wars</a>? Good, because it’s everywhere nowadays. Following yesterday’s<a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/join-the-dark-side-657248/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">big Star Wars announcement from Google</a>, Disney has just announced another partnership with Google and Verizon that will bring content from The Force Awakens to virtual reality. Beginning Wednesday, December 2nd, you’ll be able to experience a new<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/tag/virtual-reality/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">virtual reality</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>story based on Star Wars: The Force Awakens through your<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/tag/google-cardboard/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Google Cardboard</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>headset.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/tag/disney/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Disney</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>says the VR experience will “tie directly into” The Force Awakens’ opening. We’re not entirely sure what that means at this point, so it’ll be interesting to see what the company is talking about. The new experience will be available in the official Star Wars app for Android.</div>
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The VR experience was created by ILMxLAB, a lab for immersive entertainment from Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound. Check out the video below to get a good look at what ILMxLAB is capable of.</div>
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Gionee has announced two handsets back in June, their new flagship phablet, the Elife E8, and a mid-ranger with a huge battery, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidheadlines.com/2015/06/gionees-dual-battery-marathon-m5-handset-official.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b41617; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Marathon M5</a>. The latter one has been available out in the market for quite some time now, and the company has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidheadlines.com/2015/11/big-battery-gionee-marathon-m5-launching-india-nov-24.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b41617; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">announced</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>quite recently that the device will be announced in India today. Well, that’s exactly what happened, Gionee held an event in India and unveiled their handset, let’s see what it has to offer, shall we.</div>
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The Gionee Marathon actually looks really good considering it’s a mid-range handset. The device sports three capacitive buttons below the display, the overview, home and back keys, respectively. The Gionee Marathon M5 features a 5.5-inch HD (1280 x 720) AMOLED display along with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage (expandable up to 128GB via microSD card). The device is fueled by MediaTek’s MT6735 64-bit quad-core processor running at 1.3GHz, and interesting enough, there’s a 6,020mAh battery on the inside. Well, there are actually two 3,010mAh battery units on the inside which you can charge really quickly thanks to fast charging. You can fully charge this phone in 90 minutes considering these battery units actually sport separate charging chips.</div>
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Anyhow, the 13-megapixel snapper (PDAF included) is available on the back of the Marathon M5, along with an LED flash. The 5-megapixel shooter (82-degree wide-angle lens) can be found up front, and this is also a dual-SIM handset which offer 4G LTE connectivity. The Gionee Marathon M5 ships with Android 5.1 Lollipop pre-installed with Gionee’s Amigo OS 3.0 installed on top of Android. The handset measures 152 x 76 x 8.5mm, while it weighs 213 grams. Now, keep in mind that this variant of the Marathon M5 sports a somewhat better specs than the variant that was announced in China. This handset ships with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage, while the Chinese variant comes with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of native storage. Either way, the Gionee Marathon M5 costs Rs. 17,999 ($271) in India, and will be available exclusively via Flipkart. Interesting enough, the Elife E8 has been announced a while back, and it is available through Snapdeal. The phone will be available really soon, in case you’re interested.</div>
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When Google went under its recent corporate restructuring with the creation of a new parent company called Alphabet Inc., the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidheadlines.com/2015/08/google-x-life-sciences-group-becomes-separate-company.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b41617; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Life Sciences division</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was spun out of Google X (Google’s R&D facility) to be its own individual subsidiary. Before splitting from the Google X team, the Life Science division had been reportedly working on a wearable device targeted at the health industry. Its production codename is “capicola”, and new pictures of the beefed up health tracker band have recently been made public.</div>
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When the device from Google X labs first started making the rounds for FCC certification, tech pundits speculated as to what strange treasure the R&D team could be dreaming up, some even speculated that it may be a new version of Google Glass. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidheadlines.com/2015/06/new-google-x-wristband-tracks-health.html" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b41617; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Back in June</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>when we got our first look at the wearable, it was clear that “capicola” was not another glass iteration. The stock photo shows a fitness tracker with the bulk and shape of smartwatch. The team behind the device says they hope one day to see doctors be able to pass these health trackers out to patients to help monitor and improve their health. This is the first such device we’ve seen built in house from Google.</div>
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From what has been gathered about the mysterious wearable, it is packed full of sensors. The device can measure pulse, heart rhythm, and skin temperature, light exposure and environmental noise levels. Since Life Science’s split from Google X, no comments about the production of the “capicola” health band had been made. In the middle of October new images did surface that provide a few additional details. The new images show that the device can be detached from its band and for the first time we can see sensors on the rear, meant to contact the skin for readings. The screen is very small and obviously not intended to be used for complex interaction or input. So little information is available at this time just about everything in regards to specs and features is speculation. Given this is a product last heard about while in the R&D facility, even the continued production of the “capicola” is uncertain.</div>
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<a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/tag/xiaomi" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Xiaomi</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has had some fun in the last few days, teasing their own device announcements for a November 24th event. The 5.5-inch Redmi Note 3 is the main event, sneaking in the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/tag/xiaomi-mi-pad-2" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Mi Pad 2</a>rather unconventionally ahead of time, releasing all but device availability through a photo gallery on Facebook.</div>
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Further info has since been released. Let’s take a closer look at the new Xiaomi Mi Pad 2.</div>
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The new<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/xiaomi-mi-pad-2-nov-24-656889/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Xiaomi Mi Pad 2</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is not a huge departure from the Mi Pad before it. You still get a 7.9-inch device with more than respectable specifications for the price.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/miui-7-global-rollout-october-27-650516/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">MIUI 7</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is still behind the glass, based on Android 5.x Lollipop. An additional version with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://tabtimes.com/windows-10-review-33458/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;" target="_blank">Windows 10</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was also announced, with more details to follow and a later release date than the Android version.</div>
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The metal construction of the Mi Pad 2 is significantly thinner than the first take on this tablet. Measuring in at 6.95mm thick, it also looses a good amount of weight, down to 322g. For reference, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/xiaomi-mi-pad-specs-features-381682/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Mi Pad</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was 8.5mm thick and weighed 360g.</div>
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In place of the previous processing package,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/tegra-k1-exynos-5433-snap-805-541582/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">NVIDIA’s Tegra K1</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is out and the Intel X5-Z8500 is used in its place. This is a 14nm contructed 64-bit processor with four cores clocked in at 1.44GHz, bursting up to 2.24GHz. Backing this up is Intel HD Graphics and 2GB of RAM.</div>
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Two storage options are available, the entry level 16GB model is complemented by a 64GB option. Sadly, there is no evidence at this point for expanded storage on this WiFi only tablet. But we’ll be sure to come back and clarify this if we are found to be incorrect.</div>
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<img alt="Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 Announcement3" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-34585" height="474" src="http://tabtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Xiaomi-Mi-Pad-2-Announcement3.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1 !important; vertical-align: middle;" width="842" /></div>
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While tablet photography is still not really a thing, the 8MP rear facing camera with LED flash and f/2.0 aperture and the 5MP sensor on the front should offer up a decent experience. Speaking of decent, the display comes in with 326ppi, that means 2048 x 1536 resolution on this 7.9-inch panel.</div>
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Xiaomi opted to include the new<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/usb-type-c-and-3-1-explained-656552/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">USB Type-C</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as the power and data transfer port for the Mi Pad 2.</div>
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<img alt="Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 Announcement4" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-34586" height="474" src="http://tabtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Xiaomi-Mi-Pad-2-Announcement4.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1 !important; vertical-align: middle;" width="842" /></div>
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Finally, to keep the lights on, Xiaomi has equipped a 6190mAh Lithium-ion polymer battery into the Mi Pad 2. With support for 5V, 2A fast charging, they claim a whopping 648.8 hours of standby time, 100 hours of music playback with the display off and 12.5 hours of screen on time. These are claims I am very interested in testing for myself at some point.</div>
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Specifications</h3>
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<tr class="row-1 odd" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="column-1" style="background: rgb(221, 221, 221) !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(56, 56, 56) !important; float: none !important; font-family: Arial !important; font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Processor</td><td class="column-2" style="background: rgb(221, 221, 221) !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-width: 0px 1px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(56, 56, 56) !important; float: none !important; font-family: Arial !important; font-size: 14px !important; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Intel Atom X5-Z8500, 1.44GHz quad-core, 64-bit</td></tr>
<tr class="row-2 even" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="column-1" style="background: rgb(235, 235, 235) !important; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(56, 56, 56) !important; float: none !important; font-family: Arial !important; font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">RAM</td><td class="column-2" style="background: rgb(235, 235, 235) !important; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(56, 56, 56) !important; float: none !important; font-family: Arial !important; font-size: 14px !important; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">2GB DDR3</td></tr>
<tr class="row-3 odd" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="column-1" style="background: rgb(221, 221, 221) !important; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(56, 56, 56) !important; float: none !important; font-family: Arial !important; font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Display</td><td class="column-2" style="background: rgb(221, 221, 221) !important; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(56, 56, 56) !important; float: none !important; font-family: Arial !important; font-size: 14px !important; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">7.9-inch IPS<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2048 x 1536<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />326ppi</td></tr>
<tr class="row-4 even" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="column-1" style="background: rgb(235, 235, 235) !important; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(56, 56, 56) !important; float: none !important; font-family: Arial !important; font-size: 14px !important; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Internal Storage</td><td class="column-2" style="background: rgb(235, 235, 235) !important; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(56, 56, 56) !important; float: none !important; font-family: Arial !important; font-size: 14px !important; line-height: 1.42857; padding: 8px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">16GB or 64GB</td></tr>
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Pricing and final thoughts</h3>
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For us North Americans, there has only ever really been one problem with Xiaomi products – availability. While the Mi Pad 2 is no exception to this experience, it will be available in China before the end of the month. The Windows 10 powered option will come later in December. A North American release would be a pleasant surprise, but we’re not holding our breath.</div>
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Look for great pricing options for the Mi Pad 2, with the 16GB model set to sell for RMB 999 (US$156) and the 64GB model for RMB 1249 (US$197.)</div>
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I dare say, a well spec’ed Android tablet with 64GB of internal storage for under $200 is a solid deal these days. It is no surprise the original Mi Pad made it on to our list of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/cheap-android-tablets-268082/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">best cheap Android tablets</a>, and this new Mi Pad 2 will soon take its place.</div>
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What do you think, is the Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 the type of tablet you’d like to get your hands on?</div>
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</script>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7877126076483571676.post-6147964046618488452015-11-24T22:19:00.003+05:302015-11-24T22:19:32.822+05:30Want to start making money from Android Apps? Here’s what NOT to do<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
<img alt="LG-Rolly-Keyboard-4" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-637334" height="560" src="http://cdn01.androidauthority.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/LG-Rolly-Keyboard-4-840x560.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1 !important; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;" width="840" />Creating a successful Android app is a goal worth pursuing. If you can create a genuine hit, then you’ll have a source of passive income that can generate money while you sleep for years to come. What’s more, you’ll have the immense satisfaction of being able to tell people you’re an app developer; and of knowing that something<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>created is being used by thousands of people around the world.</div>
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There’s no feeling quite like seeing someone load up the app<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>made on their commute to work. But with so much competition, how can one person – sans a huge marketing budget – possibly stand out and have a hit? Unfortunately, there’s no one answer to that question. Instead then, let’s start with some of the things you definitely<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">shouldn’t<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>do when you’re getting started…</div>
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Become Jealously Protective Of Your Idea</h1>
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Most people who want to start developing apps will have one ‘big idea’ initially. At some point, they get their ‘eureka’ moment and they just know that they’ve stumbled onto something that will make them rich and change the world!</div>
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Problem is, they don’t know how to program and they aren’t exactly great at using Photoshop or marketing themselves. In other words, they need help.</div>
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But this is where the catch22 comes in: how do you go about approaching people for help without the risk of them running off with your idea and making it for themselves? How do you avoid becoming the next Winklevoss story?</div>
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In other words, no one wants to steal your idea.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">As a programmer myself, this is something I encounter regularly. People will often approach me to help them code their app but then refuse to tell me what the app is, or even what it involves.</span><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px;">
How am I supposed to tell them whether I can help if they won’t tell me the nature of the project? How can I give them a rough quote or any advice? And if they have no experience with apps, why would I take time out of my day to meet them for coffee and sign an NDA?</div>
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Even some of my close friends refuse to tell me their app ideas for fear that I’ll steal them (I presume??). It’s rather insulting actually!</div>
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When it comes to app development, it’s genuinely the execution that trumps the idea. People you discuss your ideas with will either lack the technical know-how to steal them, or they’ll have their own projects on the go that they’re more passionate about (and likely halfway through development with). In other words, no one wants to steal your idea.</div>
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And in the rare case that they do? There’s nothing you can do to prevent them anyway – you’ll need to start talking about your app eventually! So your only<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">real<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>defence is to be the first and the best.</div>
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Play At “Business”</h1>
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Arranging a meeting and getting someone to sign an NDA is a classic example of wantrepreneurialism.</div>
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This ties in with the last point. Arranging a meeting and getting someone to sign an NDA is a classic example of wantrepreneurialism (wantrepreneurmanship?). Don’t arrange an in-person meeting with someone unless it’s the fastest and most efficient way to exchange information. Of course face-to-face meetings are useful for networking and building relationships but this won’t always be relevant if you’re just reaching out to someone to see if they’ll make a sound effect for you. Under those circumstances, a meeting would just be a waste of everyone’s time.</div>
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Keep ‘communication overhead’ to a minimum and consider the ROI (Return On Investment) you’re offering to the people you work with. Don’t make them jump through hoops to do business with you, it’s frustrating and they’ll likely just move on.</div>
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Likewise, there’s nothing wrong with being friendly and jokey in e-mails. And don’t use the plural ‘we’ when you’re addressing people unless you actually<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">have</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a team. It’s transparent and it can be a bit cringey…</div>
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Try To Design The Next Facebook</h1>
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When my friends do tell me their big app ideas, I often still find myself rolling my eyes (maybe<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">that’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>why they don’t want to share?). As soon as someone tells me that they’re building a social network, or something that requires accounts and private messaging, I face-palm. Building a social network as an app is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">hard<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>work. Not only do you create more complications by requiring a server and more stringent security measures but you also need to build a user-base of several hundred before your app will be at all appealing. No one wants to join a social network with 6 other people!</div>
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Go and take a look at the new streaming apps<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.periscope.android&hl=en_GB" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Periscope</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.getair.meerkat&hl=en_GB" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Meerkat</a>. Even these apps, which have been getting massive media attention for the last few months, feel somewhat barren and empty. Apps like these are just a massive undertaking and while it’s great to dream big, it doesn’t make any sense for your first project.</div>
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Want to start making money from apps? Then start with something simple.</div>
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Want to start making money from apps? Then start with something<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">simple</em>. One of my first apps was a keyboard, which was followed quickly by a slideshow of parkour images and later a word count utility (back when there weren’t any other apps that included that function). They weren’t ground breaking but they only took a couple of days to make in each case and they let me get something out there<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">fast<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>that I could begin earning and learning from.</div>
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If you have some grand vision for ‘changing the way we do business’, start with something smaller first and build up to it.</div>
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Avoid Taking The Path Of Least Resistance</h1>
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Once you’ve chosen a simple app idea for your first project, the next step is to start making it. Now you’ll be presented with a lot of options: you can use an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://mashable.com/2013/12/03/build-mobile-apps/#NPCFHeXJEqqm" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">app builder</a>, you can use<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/android-studio-tutorial-beginners-637572/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Android Studio</a>, you can use<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.b4x.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Basic4Android</a>, you can use<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/writing-your-first-android-game-623386/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Corona</a>…</div>
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All of these are tools and/or IDEs (Independent Development Environments) that facilitate the creation of your app’s code. If you’re creating a game meanwhile, you might choose to use<a href="https://unity3d.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Unity</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>which streamlines the process by providing a ready-made engine and intuitive interface, while handling a lot of the physics and other code for you. Or you can always outsource the programming to a developer rather than handling everything yourself (more on this in a moment!).</div>
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So which is the best choice for building your app? That very much depends on the nature of the app, your time frame and your current level of expertise. But what’s key here is that you take the fastest and least complicated route. Don’t be a snob about tools that make things easier.</div>
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If you’re making a game for instance, then using Unity will save you a huge amount of time and the end result will be much more professional than if you’d done it all yourself. That’s because the physics engine in Unity has been created by a team of professionals and refined over several years – unless you can rival that amount of time and experience, then their physics engine will always be better than one you build. And seeing as it’s ready to ‘plug and play’, it really doesn’t make any sense to make life more difficult for yourself. Even using a simplified app builder is fine if your app only needs to convey information.</div>
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For those of you familiar with web design, this is the equivalent of building your own website from scratch versus using WordPress. WordPress, like Unity or certain app builders, will allow you to build something more professional in a fraction of the time.</div>
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You can find out more in our guide: <a href="http://www.androidauthority.com/want-develop-android-apps-languages-learn-391008/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">I want to develop Android Apps – What languages should I learn?</a></div>
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Do Everything Yourself</h1>
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Asking for help is also very important. Don’t try and make all the graphics yourself unless this is something you’re specifically good at. The same goes for the sound.</div>
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You can find good graphic designers on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.fiverr.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Fiverr</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.upwork.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">UpWork</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.elance.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">Elance</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and again they’ll be able to make something much more professional in far less time. Focus on what<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">you’re<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>good at and let others handle the rest.</div>
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If you’re going to hire a developer though, then take extra measures to make sure they’re good at what they do before you commit. Ask to see samples of their work and look for someone local wherever possible so you can speed up the refinement process.</div>
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Skip The Validation Process</h1>
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Even if you’re creating a small app in the easiest way possible, you’re still going to be investing a fair amount of time and/or money into its creation. That’s why it doesn’t make sense to start building until you know for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">sure<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>that there’s a market out there for you (or until you’re as sure as you can be).</div>
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This is called ‘validating’ the idea – which essentially means getting proof that there is sufficient interest in what you’ve got planned to make the development worthwhile.</div>
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I knew someone who spent two years building an app, hired a legal team and even paid to trademark the name; only for the final product to sell about three copies…</div>
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Taking to Kickstarter is a fantastic way to validate an idea<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>to get funds for hiring coders and designers (though it still doesn’t guarantee success). Alternatively, you might take the ‘fail fast’ approach where you release your MVP (minimum viable product) to test the market before investing more time and effort to develop it further.</div>
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There are<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/233408" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #719d41; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease;">other strategies for validating</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>an idea too: such as conducting surveys, asking around on forums, building a mailing list or looking for similar apps to yours to see how they’re performing.</div>
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Think as well about your ‘route to market’ and any contacts you may already have that you can work with. If you happen to know the editor of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gardening Weekly</em>, then making an app aimed at gardeners might just be a smart move. I made one app with a very popular YouTube vlogger and that meant I could be fairly certain it would reach a large audience. With the risk mitigated, that allowed us to spend more time on the app prior to its initial launch.</div>
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In short, you need to consider how you’re going to sell your app<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">before<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>you create it and you mustn’t spend months and years building something unless you can be fairly sure it won’t flop. I knew someone who spent two years building an app, hired a legal team and even paid to trademark the name; only for the final product to sell about three copies…</div>
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As you might imagine, they rather quickly lost their enthusiasm for app development.</div>
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Conclusion: Keep It Simple!</h2>
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If you’re building an app purely out of love/for the fun of it then you can disregard everything I just said. This article applies to those of you who want to start<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">earning money<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>from apps. If you’re looking to make this into a business so you can exit the rat race, or if you plan on supplementing your current income, then you should focus on ROI. That means assessing the risk against the potential profit to be made and it means finding ways to reduce your overheads – both financial and time-wise.</div>
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Try not to get carried away with app ideas that will change the world. You’re far more likely to make money from something simple and easy and there’s nothing wrong with that. For every Mark Zuckerberg, there are countless people who get rich from gardening apps or fancy calculators.</div>
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And the best part about this business model is that it’s highly repeatable. If the first app doesn’t make a splash, just rinse and repeat. It’s a lot of fun and you’ll learn as you go. If throw enough ideas at the wall – as long as they’re ideas you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">believe<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>in – eventually something will stick!</div>
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Now is the time of year when retailers start to drop prices in an effort to stimulate your innate shopping instincts. Only by keeping a close eye on the ebb and flow of deals can you beat your fellow man to the best stuff at the best price. We're here to aggregate all the deals in one place so you can plan ahead. We'll try to keep this post updated throughout the coming days as Black Friday sales heat up.</div>
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Android Devices</h5>
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<a class="external" href="https://ss7.vzw.com/is/content/VerizonWireless/2015/Holiday/circular/cnat-13154-11.26-black-friday-circular-web-v1.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;" target="_blank">LG V10, Samsung Galaxy Note 5, and Galaxy S6 Edge+</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Verizon): $100 off (November 27-29th)</div>
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<a class="external" href="https://ss7.vzw.com/is/content/VerizonWireless/2015/Holiday/circular/cnat-13154-11.26-black-friday-circular-web-v1.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;" target="_blank">Ellipsis 8</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Verizon): $49.99 down from $79.99 with 2-year contract (November 27-29th)</div>
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<a class="external" href="http://www.zteusa.com/axon-pro" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;" target="_blank">ZTE Axon Pro (32GB)</a>: $329.98 from $399.98 with coupon code CYBER32 (November 23-30th)</div>
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<a class="external" href="http://www.zteusa.com/axon-pro" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;" target="_blank">ZTE Axon Pro (64GB)</a>: $329.98 from $399.98 with coupon code CYBER64 (November 23-30th)</div>
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<a class="external" href="http://www.zteusa.com/zte-spro-2-wifi/" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;" target="_blank">ZTE Spro 2</a>: $449.98 from $549.98 with coupon code CYBERSP (November 23-30th)</div>
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<a class="external" href="http://www.htc.com/us/go/htc-hot-deals/" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;" target="_blank">HTC One M9</a>: $390 from $649.99 (November 29th 9PM to December 2nd)</div>
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<a href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/11/19/huawei-is-knocking-up-to-100-off-the-price-of-the-huawei-watch-this-black-friday/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;">Huawei Watch</a>: $50-100 off most models (Black Friday only for best discounts, then $50 off on all)</div>
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Accessories</h5>
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<a class="external" href="https://ss7.vzw.com/is/content/VerizonWireless/2015/Holiday/circular/cnat-13154-11.26-black-friday-circular-web-v1.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;" target="_blank">Nest Cam</a>: $169.99 from $199.99 at Verizon (November 27-29th)</div>
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<a class="external" href="http://www.htc.com/us/go/htc-hot-deals/" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;" target="_blank">All HTC accessories</a>: 40% off from HTC (November 27th 9PM to November 29th 9PM)</div>
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The Google Store has been the sole source for new Nexus phones thus far, but now the Nexus 5X is expanding. This device is now available officially on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="external" href="http://www.amazon.com/?tag=androidpolice-20" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;" target="_blank" title="Amazon">Amazon</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and B&H Photo. All the colors and capacities are listed, but there's no way to get Google's Nexus Protect add-on if you buy from these outlets.</div>
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Amazon and B&H are both listing the device for the standard $379/429 price points. So depending on where you live, the final price for the Nexus 5X could be much lower than the Google store, which charges tax and shipping. It looks like everything is available from both retailers for shipping today, with the exception of the 16GB ice blue phone. Also, this color is being called "mint" now, I guess.</div>
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This is the same device you can get from the Google Store. The only notable difference is that the $69 Nexus Protect plan isn't available. That means you're at the mercy of LG's warranty service if something goes wrong.</div>
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<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/03/archeologists-eschewing-traditional-whip-leather-jacket-combo/" style="color: #3399cc; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;">Jordan</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is home to some extremely significant historical and religious sites. However, visiting those landmarks in person is no mean feat -- which is why Google<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2015/11/discover-jordans-past-and-present-in.html" style="color: #3399cc; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">just added</a>many of them to Street View. Fire up your web browser and you can get virtual, 360-degree tours of more than 30 ancient locations, including the city of Petra (above), Jerash and legendary castles from the Crusades. We suspect that this will pale in comparison to the grandeur of seeing these relics first-hand, but you should at least have an inkling of what the experience would be like.</div>
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During the keynote address yesterday for this year's Chrome Dev Summit, VP of Chrome Darin Fisher shared some numbers about the mobile web browser's rate of adoption.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">tl;dr</em>, people are flocking to Chrome, and fast. Over the past year, the number of 30 day active users has doubled from 400 million to 800 million.<span id="more-346771" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div>
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Chrome's adoption has been boosted by an increasing number of devices now shipping the browser by default. Chrome for Android users visit 100+ sites a month on average, showing a decent level of engagement.</div>
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Polymer has been used in over a million web pages since reaching<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="external" href="https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;" target="_blank">1.0 at this year's Google I/O</a>. Google has used the library in over 300 projects, and it continues work to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/07/13/google-releases-mdl-to-help-you-give-your-website-that-material-design-feel/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;">help more web designers adopt material design online</a>.</div>
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<span class="update-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This build also brings Auto HDR+ to some devices, like the Nexus 6 (unfortunately, not the Nexus 5 - you're stuck with manual HDR+ modes there). Switching HDR+ modes is</span></div>
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<span class="update-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Tapping on the screen while taking a video now focuses on the tapped spot instead of taking a still photo. Much better!</span></div>
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Hey you! Yes, you, the Android fan who spent $650 to get a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="external" href="http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Nexus-32GB-Unlocked-Midnight/dp/B00R1984DI/ref=sr_1_10?tag=androidpolice-20&s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1424713525&sr=1-10&keywords=nexus+6" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;" target="_blank" title="Nexus 6">Nexus 6</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the moment it became available, then felt somewhat disheartened when it started popping up for $300 or less, then heroically resisted the siren song of new devices from Huawei and LG! To reward your frugal self-control, Google is now allowing you to play with the camera user interface featured on the new Nexus phones without spending any money whatsoever! Ain't that great? Just don't ask about slow motion video or burst mode for stills, because your puny camera module can't handle it.</div>
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The latest update to Google's first party camera app back-ports the interface from the Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X to any phone that happens to be running Marshmallow, Nexus or otherwise. The biggest shift is a rather handy full-screen swipe between the main modes: swipe left to shoot video, right to capture still photos. Neat. Everything else has been gently adjusted as well, with the rear/front switch hanging out next to the shutter/record button and the quick link to the Photos app on the other side. You can adjust shooting modes and other settings with the slide-out menu.</div>
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This build also brings<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Auto HDR+</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to some devices, like the Nexus 6 (unfortunately, not the Nexus 5 - you're stuck with manual HDR+ modes there). Switching HDR+ modes is now infinitely faster too - no more multi-second UI freezes!</div>
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Tapping on the screen while taking a video now focuses on the tapped spot instead of taking a still photo. Much better!</div>
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Disabling SmartBurst in Burst settings on the Nexus 6P now lets you take any number of burst photos. Previously in Camera 3.0, if you disabled SmartBurst, you couldn't take burst photos at all anymore. Very nice.</div>
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Again, you won't get any of the cool new photo tools from the Nexus 6P and 5X simply by installing the newer version of the app (although it's possible that newer phones than my Nexus 6 might be compatible with slow motion and burst mode). The update is rolling out slowly on the Play Store (no official changelog yet) but we have standard ARM and ARM64 versions on APK Mirror. As mentioned above, these files are currently<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">only<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></em>for Android 6.0. Download them below.</div>
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The APK is signed by Google and upgrades your existing app. The cryptographic signature guarantees that the file is safe to install and was not tampered with in any way. Rather than wait for Google to push this download to your devices, which can take days, download and install it just like any other APK.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-weight: 700;">File Name:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>com.google.android.GoogleCamera_3.1.021_(2428808-30)-31021130_minAPI23(armeabi-v7a)(nodpi).apk</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-weight: 700;">Version:</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>3.1.021 (2428808-30) (31021130)</div>
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Google does things—<em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">a lot of things</em>. For two years now, the company has been<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/12/04/google-makes-it-easier-to-open-search-results-inside-related-apps-improves-app-discovery/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;">indexing the content inside of apps</a>. This way it can point you to other Android apps when they can better provide answers to your query than a general website. Google says 40% of searches done on Android bring up app content.</div>
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But there remained two issues with this approach. One, Google could only display information from apps that had matching content available on the web. Two, opening results required installing said app if you hadn't done so already.</div>
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Now Google will begin showing content that exists only in apps, and it will start offering you the option to stream apps that you don't have installed.</div>
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Here you can see Google pulling up results from the HotelTonight app that appeared when searching for a "hotel right now in chicago."</div>
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Right now Google has worked with only a few app makers in addition to HotelTonight, such as Chimani, Daily Horoscope, and New York Subway. Keep an eye out for more partners to appear going forward.</div>
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by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Google+Inc." style="animation: none !important; background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: underline; transform: none !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;" target="blank">Google Inc.</a><br style="animation: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; transform: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" />1,000,000,000 - 5,000,000,000 downloads</div>
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Appears in a list of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://playboard.me/android/channels/51d3078f4368c34948004d35?ref_host=www.androidpolice.com" style="animation: none !important; background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transform: none !important; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;" target="blank">Apps you wont uninstall<br style="animation: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; transform: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" /><img src="http://d19enoakkf7gvs.cloudfront.net/51d3078f4368c34948004d35_small.jpg" style="animation: none !important; border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 5px 0px 0px; max-width: 100%; transform: none !important; transition-property: none !important;" width="160px" /></a></div>
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<span class="update-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Well, here's something: you can now copy changelogs and descriptions. Also, the search bar doesn't seem to be disappearing anymore if you tap into it before the main activity finishes</span></div>
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<span class="update-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The new UI teased by Kirill is coming alive for select few at this point (thanks, Brett, AnthonyRyan89, Steven Jakubovic). Here are some screenshots:</span></div>
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<span class="update-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">As we've started getting dozens of daily tips about this (still staged) UI switch-over and the recently released v6.0 that's not very different from v5.10 and v5.12, we're</span></div>
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Well, we know a big redesign is in store for Google Play (see<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="external" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+KirillGrouchnikov/posts/N65XbP87c1a" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;" target="_blank">here</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="external" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+KirillGrouchnikov/posts/fqJQgYTz85k" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;" target="_blank">here</a>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="external" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+KirillGrouchnikov/posts/N6ouFWSbjFN" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a class="external" href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/+KirillGrouchnikov/posts/J71Paw5H7Ud" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;" target="_blank">here</a>),<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><del style="box-sizing: border-box;">but today's 5.10.29 update doesn't actually include that. Technically, it <em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">might</em><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>be that these big design changes are controlled on the server side and simply waiting to be activated for end users, but we just don't know yet.</del><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Update: Confirmed, see updates below.</em> Regardless, today's update is probably at the least laying the groundwork for the new version, and does include one noticeable visual alteration: the new Google Play text logo.</div>
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Otherwise, we're not spotting any major changes (there are animation tweaks here and there). You can get the APK on APK Mirror, as usual, below.</div>
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<span class="nav-fix" id="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute; top: -30px;"></span><a class="banner banner-update banner-update-start" href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/11/19/update-play-store-6-0-play-store-5-10-adds-new-google-play-logo-updated-ui-may-need-wait-apk-download/#1" style="background: rgb(255, 247, 176); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 222, 107); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: -38px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px 6px 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: -14px; transition: all 0.3s ease-out;"><span class="update-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: Oswald, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1; text-transform: uppercase;">UPDATE<span class="update_1" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: none; line-height: 1;"> 1</span>: 2015/10/15 5:38PM PDT</span></a><section style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px;">
Well, here's something:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/10/15/copy-all-the-things-you-can-now-copy-changelogs-and-app-descriptions-using-android-play-store-app" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;">you can now copy changelogs and descriptions</a>.</div>
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Also, the search bar doesn't seem to be disappearing anymore if you tap into it before the main activity finishes loading. It will still happen if you're very quick, but the bug is pretty much gone.</div>
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<span class="nav-fix" id="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute; top: -30px;"></span><a class="banner banner-update banner-update-start" href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/11/19/update-play-store-6-0-play-store-5-10-adds-new-google-play-logo-updated-ui-may-need-wait-apk-download/#2" style="background: rgb(255, 247, 176); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 222, 107); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: -38px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px 6px 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: -14px; transition: all 0.3s ease-out;"><span class="update-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: Oswald, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1; text-transform: uppercase;">UPDATE<span class="update_2" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; line-height: 1;"> 2</span>: 2015/10/16 12:57AM PDT</span></a><section style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px;">
The new UI teased by Kirill is coming alive for select few at this point (thanks, Brett, AnthonyRyan89, Steven Jakubovic). Here are some screenshots:</div>
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<a class=" no-style" data-index="1" data-lightbox-gallery="ap-gallery" href="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_original-11.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="original (1)" class="alignnone size-smallish-size wp-image-341594" height="386" src="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_original-11-217x386.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 217px;" width="217" /></a> <a class=" no-style" data-index="2" data-lightbox-gallery="ap-gallery" href="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_original1.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="original" class="alignnone size-smallish-size wp-image-341593" height="386" src="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_original1-217x386.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 217px;" width="217" /></a> <a class=" no-style" data-index="3" data-lightbox-gallery="ap-gallery" href="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_original-3.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="original (3)" class="alignnone size-smallish-size wp-image-341595" height="386" src="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_original-3-217x386.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 217px;" width="217" /></a></div>
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<a class=" no-style" data-index="4" data-lightbox-gallery="ap-gallery" href="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_original.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="original" class="alignnone size-smallish-size wp-image-341586" height="386" src="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_original-217x386.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 217px;" width="217" /></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class=" no-style" data-index="5" data-lightbox-gallery="ap-gallery" href="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_original-1.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="original (1)" class="alignnone wp-image-341587 size-smallish-size" height="386" src="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_original-1-217x386.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 217px;" width="217" /></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class=" no-style" data-index="6" data-lightbox-gallery="ap-gallery" href="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_original-2.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="original (2)" class="alignnone wp-image-341588 size-smallish-size" height="386" src="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_original-2-217x386.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 217px;" width="217" /></a></div>
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<a class=" no-style" data-index="7" data-lightbox-gallery="ap-gallery" href="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_screenshot_2015-10-16-01-52-50.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="nexus2cee_screenshot_2015-10-16-01-52-50" class="alignnone size-smallish-size wp-image-341589" height="386" src="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_screenshot_2015-10-16-01-52-50-217x386.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 217px;" width="217" /></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class=" no-style" data-index="8" data-lightbox-gallery="ap-gallery" href="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_screenshot_2015-10-16-02-12-09.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="nexus2cee_screenshot_2015-10-16-02-12-09" class="alignnone size-smallish-size wp-image-341590" height="386" src="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_screenshot_2015-10-16-02-12-09-217x386.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 217px;" width="217" /></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class=" no-style" data-index="9" data-lightbox-gallery="ap-gallery" href="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_screenshot_2015-10-16-02-12-15.png" style="background: transparent; border: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="nexus2cee_screenshot_2015-10-16-02-12-15" class="alignnone size-smallish-size wp-image-341591" height="386" src="http://www.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nexus2cee_screenshot_2015-10-16-02-12-15-217x386.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 217px;" width="217" /></a></div>
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<span class="nav-fix" id="3" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute; top: -30px;"></span><a class="banner banner-update banner-update-start" href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/11/19/update-play-store-6-0-play-store-5-10-adds-new-google-play-logo-updated-ui-may-need-wait-apk-download/#3" style="background: rgb(255, 247, 176); border: 1px solid rgb(238, 222, 107); box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; display: inline-block; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: -38px; max-width: 100%; padding: 4px 6px 0px; position: absolute; text-decoration: none; top: -14px; transition: all 0.3s ease-out;"><span class="update-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: Oswald, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1; text-transform: uppercase;">UPDATE<span class="update_3" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; line-height: 1;"> 3</span>: 2015/11/19 12:05AM PST</span></a><section style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px;">
As we've started getting dozens of daily tips about this (still staged) UI switch-over and the recently released<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-store/google-play-store-6-0-0-android-apk-download/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;">v6.0</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that's not very different from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-store/google-play-store-5-10-30-android-apk-download/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;">v5.10</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-store/google-play-store-5-12-10-android-apk-download/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;">v5.12</a>, we're bumping this post in hopes to get more eyeballs on the announcement once again and hopefully save would-be tipsters some time and effort.</div>
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APK Download</h3>
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The APKs are signed by Google and upgrade your existing app. The cryptographic signature guarantees that the files are safe to install and were not tampered with in any way. Rather than wait for Google to push these downloads to your devices, which can take days, download and install them just like any other APKs.</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-store/google-play-store-5-10-29-android-apk-download/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;">Play Store 5.10.29 (APK Mirror) (first released 10/15/15)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-store/google-play-store-5-10-30-android-apk-download/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;">Play Store 5.10.30 (APK Mirror) (first released 10/20/15)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-store/google-play-store-android-tv-5-10-31-leanback-android-apk-download/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;">Play Store for Android TV 5.10.31 (first released 11/10/15)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-store/google-play-store-5-12-9-android-apk-download/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;">Play Store 5.12.9 (APK Mirror) (first released 11/6/15)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-store/google-play-store-5-12-10-android-apk-download/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;">Play Store 5.12.10 (APK Mirror) (first released 11/10/15)</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/google-play-store/google-play-store-5-10-29-android-apk-download/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00517c; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-out;">Play Store 6.0 (APK Mirror) (first released 11/13/15)</a></li>
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