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9 reasons you should subscribe to Amazon Luna in 2024
Amazon Luna is an up-and-comer in the game streaming market, offering promising features that shouldn't be missed
When discussing the best streaming services for games, it was only a matter of time before corporate giant Amazon entered the picture. Thankfully, Amazon puts money where the mouth is, as Amazon Luna provides more than enough horsepower for streaming top-tier games on your favorite Android gaming phone.
13 best browser games you can play on Android in 2024
The most accessible web games to play on your mobile browser or pin to your home screen
Are you looking to shake up your gaming activities on your favorite Android gaming phone? But don't want to go through the hassle of downloading apps and finding storage space to host your library. If so, you may want to soak your feet into web-based gaming. All that's required is a handy mobile web browser and links to some classic browser games. And with how far mobile-compatible web browsers have come, now, you can bookmark these impressive titles without worrying about excess data usage and storage consumption.
Sandbox games are all about exploration, providing players with large and content-rich environments as well as extensive means for letting their imagination run wild. This can manifest in huge open worlds full of stuff to explore as well as smaller crafted environments that bring a ton of variance, all mechanics that make up some of the best Android games around. This is why we rounded up some of our favorite games within the sandbox genre. Everything from huge and beautiful worlds that take advantage of the best Android tablets to smaller story-rich games that fit comfortably in your own pocket awaits you in the roundup below.
Enjoy a night in with these 8 gorgeous films from queer filmmakers
Stream a classic from the best and brightest in queer cinema
The 1990s saw an unprecedented surge in the number of films created, written, and directed by queer filmmakers who brought a refreshing and often sobering perspective to a medium dominated by a stale, conspicuously male viewpoint. Over the past two decades, queer filmmakers have created a canon of films that are as diverse as LGBTQ communities around the world. And while many films would definitely be at home on this list, we chose eight films that we believe really stand apart from the competition.
Prepare for extreme weather with these radar apps for Android
Stay dry and stay alive with these five great apps
The weather can be unpredictable and occasionally deadly. If you live in an area that's prone to flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, fires, or severe thunderstorms, install a weather radar app on your phone that will give you minute-by-minute updates about extreme weather in your area.
Here are 824 apps and games available on Google Play Pass right now
All the apps you can get for free on Play Pass (that we've found)
Google Play Pass, a program that gives subscribers no-charge, ad-free access to premium apps and apps with premium features, launched in 2019 with over 350 titles on its roster. Thing is, though, Google doesn't make it easy to suss out all of the apps participating in the program, whether through the Play Store or external documentation on associated Google sites. Great. Well, guess what? We're gonna give it a try and list as many apps participating in Play Pass as we can.
Google's built-in price tracking for Chrome is inching closer to reality
It helps make shopping products at their lowest price much easier
It's no secret that we're constantly looking for ways to save our hard-earned cash when we purchase things. While there are plenty of resources to help us hunt for deals, it still requires a bit of work on our end to find the best prices. Thankfully, Google has been working to bring a price tracker to Chrome for Android, and with a future update, it could be even easier to find products at their best prices.
These are the Chromebooks getting Android 11
Check our master list to see if your Chrome OS device is due for an Android upgrade
Chrome OS devices also run Android, or at least a big enough chunk of Android's base to get apps running alongside Chrome's browser tabs. But you might not have given much thought to exactly what version of Android your Chromebook uses. After all, it's not immediately relevant for most of a Chrome OS device's functions: that's handled by the larger Chrome OS, which is frequently updated by Google along with the browser.
It's been a few months since I shared my list of 10 things I wished Google Home would do, and in the time since, three of these have come true and two were sort of working already and have been improved. One more item could soon become a reality, and it's the one we've all been asking for in the past months: Google Keep integration with Assistant.
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- Google has now announced that Shortlists are officially rolling out starting this week. The corresponding support page has also gone up. We'll keep an eye out and let you know if an app update is necessary of if it's a server-side rollout.
Summer is over and most Googlers are back at their desk working on releasing features we were promised at I/O 2018 (and making our lives, especially Cody's, a lot more busy). Just in the past couple of days, we've seen Photos' Color Pop effect and Assistant's new visual responses, and now, there's something new in Google Maps too: Shortlists.
The OnePlus 6 is, without much question in my mind, one of the best phones of this year. On paper, it matches most of 2018's flagships, but the aggressive pricing makes it a great value when compared to most of its competition. Still, there are a lot of ways that the OnePlus 6 could be improved if the company sticks to its mid-generation "T" refresh, and I've put together a decent-sized list of all the things I'd like to see in the OnePlus 6T.In what I'm learning is something of an unpopular opinion, I'm actually a very big fan of OnePlus' twice-yearly release schedule. I think it makes any time a good time to buy a OnePlus phone because you know the current model is, at most, only a few months out of date. That means customers can just buy a OnePlus phone whenever they need to, rather than check to see when the next model is expected to land and plan their upgrade schedule around that — if they even can, accidents do happen.In comparison, it's pretty hard to recommend that someone pick up a Pixel 2 right now, and that's been my stance for all summer. I guess if you're absolutely determined to have the latest device, the fact that a newer model is bound to land in the next year could be upsetting, but I think that's a pretty minor complaint.However you feel about it, odds are the next OnePlus phone is on the way, so let's take a look at the things I'd love to see in it, from pie-in-the-sky hopes to nitpicks, and maybe even a few realistic expectations.
If there's one Amazon/eBay feature I've searched for and hoped for in the last few years, it's a collaborative wishlist. Ever since I met my now-husband and we started planning a life together, we've had issues keeping a single list of items we're considering purchasing. Both Amazon and eBay let us share our lists, but by "share," they simply mean let the other person view it. Adding items, editing them, removing things, that was all too much to ask for, unless we were using a Wedding registry on Amazon. For regular Amazon lists, those features didn't exist until now.As I was browsing my Amazon wishlist yesterday, I noticed a new avatar icon with a + Invite button next to it. The explanation pop-up said, "Invite others to add or remove list items," and I nearly squealed from joy. Could it be? For real? By golly, it was finally happening!
The 10th anniversary of the first commercially-available Android device, the T-Mobile G1, is fast approaching. In that past decade, we've seen some pretty crazy Android phones enter the market - some successful, but mostly nothing more than cool design experiments. In celebration of Android's 10th birthday, we thought we'd organize a list of 10 of the weirdest Android phones of all time, sorted from oldest to newest.
There was a huge uptick of augmented reality apps and games released on the Play Store back in March that was a result of ARCore's expanded device support. AP covered both the games and apps published at the time, but I wanted to keep track of further releases just to see if we could keep these AR roundups going. It may have taken four months, but I finally have a solid AR roundup for all of our readers. This time around, instead of writing two separate lists, I have combined both apps and games into one article. So without further ado, here are the best new AR apps and games released in the last four months.
Augmented reality is having a moment on Android. Thanks to ARCore, which now works on more than a dozen device models—Google says that's more than 100 million individual devices—we've seen a ton of new applications that insert virtual objects into our real surroundings. A lot of them are shopping and interior design apps, which makes sense—AR's ability to make items appear in your home is a great way to see what a couch looks like in your living room without actually lugging it in there. But AR can do so much more. Here are 10 augmented reality apps that are useful, fascinating, or just plain cool.
The worst thing about the future is all the waiting it takes to get there. Those of us anticipating T-Mobile's new LTE-Advanced to go live have had to make do without an official list. Thankfully, just before the weekend, T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray tweeted the general location of all his company's active LTE-A sites.
The giving season is almost upon us, and if you didn't get your holiday shopping done during the sales running from Black Friday to Cyber Monday, then you might want to start now. Thankfully, if someone on your list is interested in a big-screen device for running apps, we're here to help. Here's a nice simple list of our favorite Chromebooks and tablets for your consideration.
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One of the most important features included in Android 8.0 Oreo is 'Project Treble,' Google's attempt to modularize Android. We covered it in detail here, but in a nutshell, Treble separates all the low-level device drivers (known as the 'vendor implementation') from the rest of Android. This makes updating phones/tablets to the latest version of Android much easier for manufacturers, as long as they already support Treble.
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A few days ago, Google Keep 3.4.901 rolled out and the only change we spotted were 4 new colors for notes. However, the official changelog was released yesterday and it contained another interesting tidbit: auto-numbered lists in text notes.
