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Samsung Galaxy S20 and S20+ get new color options before release

February 13, 2020
Samsung unveiled only a very limited color selection for its S20 phones, but it looks like people will have more hues to choose from than initially thought. The Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S20+ are available in Cosmic White. You can see those on the pre-order pages of Samsung’s Korean, Italian and Spanish sites, for example. Cosmic White versions of Galaxy S20 and S20+ The S20+ may also have two…
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Motorola's foldable Razr is unsurprisingly hard to repair

February 13, 2020
Motorala’s contemporary take on the Razr has been quite publicly panned by testers. CNET, for example, wanted to see if the device could withstand 100,000 folds — it only made it to the 27,000th fold before it started showing problems (which Motorala has…
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Android saw a 98 percent drop in apps asking for call and text data

February 13, 2020
Google has been clamping down on Android apps that abuse permissions, and that appears to have had a very tangible effect on the Play Store. As part of a larger piece explaining how Google continues to fight “bad apps,” the company revealed that there was a 98 percent drop in the number of Play Store apps accessing call log and SMS data in 2019. Simply put, an October 2018 policy…
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Microsoft's Project xCloud preview extends to iOS devices

February 13, 2020
After first launching in preview on Android phones, Microsoft’s Project xCloud is making its way over to iOS devices. Starting today, iPhone and iPad owners can check out the game streaming service through Apple’s TestFlight platform. With this being a…
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The Galaxy Home Mini is finally available, but most people can't get it

February 13, 2020
After almost two years, it looks like at least one of Samsung’s long-in-development Bixby smart speakers will finally make its way out to consumers — though likely not in the way most of us imagined. After Samsung skipped announcing the Galaxy Home Mini at its Unpacked event on Tuesday, TizenHelp spotted that people in South Korea can get the device as a bonus for pre-ordering the…
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Gboard for Android combines old emoji to create new ones

February 13, 2020
Google has launched a new feature for Gboard on Android, which uses existing emoji as ingredients to create new stickers. The tech giant aptly calls it Emoji Kitchen, and it’s rolling out to Android users starting today. Unfortunately, you can’t create your own recipes to fuse any two expressions you want — you’ll just have to hope that one of the designers who worked on…
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