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NYPD will replace handwritten logs with an iPhone app later this month

After more than a century, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) is retiring the handwritten memo books carried by police officers and replacing them with an app, The New York Times reports. On February 17th, officers will begin recording their detailed activity logs in an iOS app on department-issued iPhones. The app will send notes to a department database, which offers a few benefits…
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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…
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First details of Motorola’s 2020 flagship leak w/ 90Hz ‘waterfall’ display

Motorola has plans to re-enter the premium smartphone space sometime in 2020, but we don’t know much about what the company has in store for this year aside from the Moto G8 series and Razr. Now, leaked photos are showing off a presumed Motorola flagship device with a fancy display and 5G connectivity. According to information obtained by , there are two upcoming Motorola phones to keep an…
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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…
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Huawei, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi team up to help developers port apps to their proprietary app stores

The ongoing Huawei ban saga has become a large scale game of chess with carefully calculated moves from both sides of the board. Arguably the biggest issue for Huawei right now is the lack of popular third-party apps in its App Gallery but according to a new report from , Huawei has teamed up with fellow Chinese smartphone giants Xiaomi, Vivo and Oppo to offer international developers an easier…
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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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Huawei, Oppo, Xiaomi, and Vivo working on a Play Store alternative for Android

In the midst of its struggles with a ban from the US government, Huawei has been working on alternatives to the Play Store. Now, a report from  is shedding light on plans from Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo to create a Play Store competitor of sorts. As it stands today, the Google Play Store can’t be used in China along with other Google applications and services. This has left Android…
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