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Google removes Androidify avatar maker from Play Store

Released back in 2011, Androidify lets you create a custom Android avatar of yourself and others. The Android app has been updated over the years, but was recently removed from the Google Play Store. Extremely customizable, Androidify starts by letting you choose a skin tone for your droid or stick to the default bright green. In addition to adjusting length and width, body features include hair…
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Watch a robot fold the Motorola Razr until it dies [Livestream]

As we start off 2020, more foldable smartphones are hitting the market, and the latest is from Motorola. To see just how durable it is, CNET has tasked a robot with folding the Motorola Razr until it dies, and you can watch live. This test of the Motorola Razr is using the same machinery as a similar test on Samsung’s Galaxy Fold last October. In that test, the Galaxy Fold died after roughly…
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Netflix has started streaming to Android in AV1

Netflix has started rolling out AV1 encoded content on the Android platform. Users will be able to watch select titles encoded in AV1 by enabling the ‘Save Data’ feature in the app. Netflix currently streams its content in a wide variety of codecs, including…
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Peek-a-View iPhone app aims to protect your photos from those meddling kids

A Disney World family trip led to a developer coming up with Peek-a-View, a way to protect your photos from accidental deletion when your kids want to scroll through them. It can also be used when handing your iPhone to friends, colleagues, or clients to ensure they see only the photos you want to show them… Casey Liss explains. It all started with a trip to Disney World. We went for my…
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Google promises "something exciting" at Galaxy Unpacked event

Samsung is having an event on February 11 and we expect to see plenty of new hardware from the S20 debut through a new foldable screen phone to Galaxy Buds+. Apparently, the event will also see Android make its own announcement, according to a tweet that has appeared earlier…
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ZTE Axon 10s Pro unveiled with S865 chipset, 5G connectivity and 48MP main cam

ZTE has effectively made the Axon 10s Pro official – there’s a detailed product page on the company’s website, leaving only the small details of when the phone will be available to consumers and how much it will cost. The phone is powered by a Snapdragon 865 chipset with 6/12GB of RAM and 128/256GB of storage. ZTE used fast LPDDR5 and UFS 3.0 chips respectively. There’s a chance that this Axon…
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