Price drop! Ventura wireless headphones now under $45

The Christmas sales start earlier every year, and we’re not complaining. We’ll continue to pick out the choice deals you might like, including the Ventura wireless headphones.

These $99 phones from Trndlabs are $49 at Tech Deals right now, but you can do even better than that with our promo code.

They won’t deliver in time for Christmas, but since you’re probably buying them for yourself anyway, who cares. You’ll need a long-lasting and stylish pair of headphones to get you through the long winter months ahead. At this price, the Ventura headphones are a solid choice.

What Tech Deals is saying:

The Ventura Wireless Headphones offer absolutely everything you want out of Bluetooth headphones. Boasting a high-end, leather black-on-black design, the adjustable band and chrome-like accents will complement any outfit. With 40mm drivers and a Bluetooth range of up to 10 meters, these headphones deliver sound and function at the top of their class.

Ventura wireless headphones at a glance:

  • Wear comfortably all day thanks to cushy, soft foam ear cups
  • Pair with your smartphone, tablet, or laptop and move wirelessly
  • Control the volume, change tracks, and accept or reject calls with the concealed controls
  • Listen for longer with 10 hours of nonstop playback time

To get the best value on the Ventura wireless headphones, follow the link to Tech Deals and stick the headphones in your basket. At the checkout use the coupon code MERRY15. The total price you’ll pay is just $41.65.

Remember, the promo code expires on Christmas day, so don’t hang about. Hit the button below to find the deal.

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We asked, you told us: Pocophone is by far your favorite new smartphone brand

Xiaomi Pocophone F1.

Each year, the same manufacturers release newer versions of the same smartphones. This scheduled release schedule becomes an almost endless loop. But the market sometimes gets shaken up when a new company hits the market.

In 2018, we saw five companies come out with new smartphones. While some of these handsets could be seen as flops, others shined brighter than the competition.

With all of that in mind, we asked you which new smartphone brand of 2018 was your favorite.

Who was the best newcomer to the smartphone game this year?

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Results

Blowing away the competition, Pocophone was the winner of this week’s poll. Coming in with a combined 80 percent of the votes, it’s clear that most of the readers that voted enjoyed the budget-friendly, upper mid-range Pocophone F1.

Coming in at second place is Palm with 6 percent of the votes. While this is a name you might have heard long ago, it’s a completely different company. And while the Palm Phone might not be running webOS, it does introduce a new companion form factor that some might enjoy.

And with 5.5 percent of the votes, coming in third is Black Shark. This Xiaomi division was focused on the gaming market and released two smartphones that took on the Asus ROG Phone and Razer Phone 2.

Noteworthy comments

Here are some of the best comments from last week’s poll explaining why they voted the way that they did:

  • Realistically, Red is the only true new comer on the list.BUT, I have to give Xiaomi a lot of credit with what they did with Pocophone and the F1. A good idea that was well executed and received. NOW if they’d just get that thing stateside they’d have a serious sales boom on their hands. We’re stuck paying too much for that horsepower (assuming you’re willing to accept the compromises of the F1). Heck all of Xiaomi would get a boost if they did.I can already see the Palm being an utter flop, Red and Black Shark are very niche products. Realme is unfortunately, but wisely a niche regional market line.
  • Poco. Why is RED even in this list. Add RED in worse newcomers rather 😉
  • Realme. For me it’s Realme because they provided some very good smartphones at very low price which suits up the Indian market.
  • Any phone that chooses Micro USB over Usb C at this point of time is an immediate failure in my opinion. Every single RealMe phone has had Micro USB over USB C. RealMe will interest me once they future proof their phones
  • Is Palm a smartphone or smart accessory?
  • For 300 dollars, the poco offers specs that enables it to go toe to toe with the best of android (and even beat it in some departments)! And let’s not forget mkbhds blind camera test lol

That’s it for this week, everyone. As always, thanks for voting, thanks for the comments, and don’t forget to let us know what you thought of the results below.

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5 Android apps you shouldn’t miss this week! – Android Apps Weekly

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Welcome to the 274th edition of Android Apps Weekly! Here are the big headlines from the last week:

  • We announced our picks for the best new Android apps and best new Android games from 2018! Every app and game launched some time in 2018. Some notable selections include Bouncer, YouTube Music, Carrot Weather, Dolphin Emulator, PUBG Mobile. Fortnite, Part Time UFO, and many others. There are over 50 total selections between both lists and each one’s honorable mentions. Check them out at the links above!
  • Google launched a huge update for the Google My Business app this week. It is basically a complete re-design with small businesses in mind. Business owners can now upload photos easier, add and edit information easier, and track various metrics. This is a redesign of an older app and that’s why it’s not below in the app section. Still, it’s a fairly significant update and it makes a lot of the functions easier to use.
  • Facebook had a couple of problems this week. The first was a bug that potentially exposed private photos to just about anybody. It only affects photos uploaded to the service but not publicly shared. The bug allegedly affected up to 6.8 million users in total. The second problem is a little more serious. Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to your private messages. Netflix denied that it ever asked for such permissions. This problem is still a work in progress, though. Hit the link to learn more!
  • A former Microsoft employee accused Google of sabotage in regards to the company’s Edge browser. Basically, the employee accused Google of changing YouTube site code for nefarious reasons. The change added a blank div space and that prevented Edge browser from recognizing it as a video site. Thus, Edge could not engage in its hardware acceleration mode. Google claims it was an accident. However, Google has intentionally thrown competitors under the bus like this before. We’ll have to wait and see what happens.
  • On a positive note, Google Play and several developers are having massive year-end sales on the Play Store. Some of the stuff available includes subscriptions for HBO and Starz, image editor Picsart, and TuneIn Radio. Additionally, Clash Royale, Pokemon Go, Lineage 2, PUBG Mobile, and Summoners War. Some additional stuff includes John Wick and The Predator movies, several TV shows, and even a few bucks. Hit the link for more! Additionally, Square Enix is putting its popular series of Final Fantasy ports (along with Chrono Trigger) on sale as well. Happy hunting!

My Board Game Collection

Price: Free
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My Board Game Collection is what the name suggests. It keeps track of all of your board games. The industry is in the midst of a rise of popularity and collecting board games is actually fairly popular. Why shouldn’t we have an app to track them? The app uses Board Game Geek as its search engine and you can add all of your games. You can then access the game’s official website, game manuals, and other resources from there. You can also sort your games for things like complexity, number of players, and average length of time per game. My Board Game Collection is in beta right now. Thus, expect bugs and frequent changes. However, we actually really liked it.
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My Board Game Collection

ROME: Total War

Price: $9.99
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ROME: Total War is a new real-time strategy game. The game features a full RTS experience without any freemium nonsense. Additionally, the game features 19 playable factions, deep tactical game play, massive battles and more. Players train troops, manage their cities, and conduct combat against the bad guys. The touch screen UI is serviceable as well and we didn’t have any trouble playing the game. Some players reported crashes at the end of battles, but these reports are few and far between. It’s a shame that we already wrote our best Android games of 2018 list because this would probably be on it. Perhaps in 2019!
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00:37

Price: Free
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00:37 is a minimal style fitness app. It doesn’t have any exercise routines or instructional videos. Instead, it lets you create timers for various exercises for your own routine. You can track each time you perform the exercise as well and organize your results for a variety of metrics like tags, routine, alphabetically, etc. It’s a little tedious at first. However, it actually works quite well once you get it all set up and ready to go. It’s an open beta so you can expect bugs and other potential problems. Otherwise, it’s a neat little minimal fitness app that cuts out a lot of the fluff.
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00:37

Beach Buggy Racing 2

Price: Freemium
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Beach Buggy Racing 2 is the latest game from Vector Unit, developers of the popular Riptide GP series. This is a standard kart style racing game similar to its predecessor. It plays a lot like Mario Kart. You race through tracks, pick up weapon boxes, and launch weapons at the other racers for a competitive edge. There are several playable characters, over 40 cars to unlock, online multiplayer races, various customizations, and a couple of extra game modes not in the first game. The game ramps up its grind game rather quickly and we’re not fans of that. Additionally, it has the occasional bug like most new mobile games do. Otherwise, it’s quite enjoyable.
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Widget Drawer

Price: $0.99
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Widget Drawer is a neat idea for widget lovers out there. It essentially creates a whole new drawer similar to the app drawer. However, this drawer is solely for widgets. Some launcher apps have this functionality already, but this app works anywhere. Basically, you create the drawer, populate it with your favorite widgets, and that’s it. You then decide how to access the drawer with a little tab on the side of the screen that is also lightly customizable. We would like a free demo version. Thus, we recommend really giving it a shot inside of the refund time. Otherwise, it worked well for us.
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Widget Drawer

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If we missed any big Android apps or games news, updates, or releases, tell us about them in the comments! Also, check out our weekly Android Authority podcast here!

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Brawl Stars makes $10 million in its first week, but is well behind launch of Clash Royale

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Brawl Stars, the new multiplayer mobile arena action game from developer Supercell, finally launched globally last week for Android and iOS, over a year since it first soft-launched in Canada on iOS in June 2017. This week, a new report states that the game has generated over $10 million in revenue in its first seven days after the global launch.

The report comes from the research firm Sensor Tower. In a chat with VentureBeat, Sensor Tower co-founder Alex Malafeev stated that revenue numbers for Brawl Stars were excellent, and added that in the U.S., they were about 20 times more than a similar game, Arena of Valor, made in the U.S. during its first week. Brawl Stars made $3 million just in the U.S. alone, according to Sensor Tower, and the game has also done very well in Japan, with $1.6 million in revenue from that country in its first seven days. The report added that the game was number one for downloads on the Google Play Store in 20 countries, and was in the top 10 regarding revenues in 29 countries.

Editor’s Pick

While all those revenue and download numbers are good, the launch week for Brawl Stars was well behind that of Supercell’s last game, Clash Royale. That game generated $38 million in revenue when it launched globally back in March 2016, according to Sensor Tower. Clash Royale also had about 30 million downloads in its first week, while Brawl Stars had 15 million downloads.

However, Sensor Tower points out in its report that Clash Royale launched in China during its first global week, and made about a quarter of its first-week revenue from that country. Brawl Stars has yet to make its debut in China. In addition, Malafeev told VentureBeat that Clash Royale had an advantage in that it was a spin-off of another highly successful Supercell game, Clash of Clans, while Brawl Stars has no such link with earlier games from the developer.

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Pay what you want to master the Adobe Creative Cloud

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It’s ‘pay what you want’ time folks, and this package is enormous. The Adobe CC A-Z Lifetime Bundle is 100 hours of training in the world’s leading design suite. You can access the lot for just a few bucks.

Whichever area of design you’d like to train in, it’s likely to be covered in this bundle. There’s instruction in Adobe Photoshop for your images, Illustrator for your graphics, Premiere Pro for video editing, and a whole lot more.

No design course in 2018 would be complete without some training in web design either, and this collection of learning kits is no exception. UI/UX and Web Design Using Adobe XD teaches you the art of making beautiful apps and websites. It’s worth $200 alone.

Here’s the full Adobe CC rundown:

While there’s almost $2,600 of training in total, you only have to beat the average price to get the lot. At the time of writing it was around the $13 mark, so it’s not exactly breaking the bank.

It may sound suspiciously cheap, but there are no elephant traps here. You’re buying not bidding, and the average price to beat is no secret either. Thousands of bundles have already been sold, which is how Tech Deals can afford to offer them at such a great price.

Even if you pay just $1, you still get Adobe After Effects: The Complete Motion Graphics Course. At $297 value it’s quite a steal. If you’re feeling generous and top the leaderboard you may even win the epic giveaway, whatever that is.

Hit the button below to find out more. The average price is creeping up, so the faster you move the less you’ll pay.

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5 most controversial Android apps and games from 2018!

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Android apps and games took huge leaps in 2018. We saw AAA game titles like Fortnite and PUBG hit Android. We also saw excellent new apps and services like Bouncer and YouTube Music. However, some apps and games simply didn’t have such good luck. There were a number of scandals and mistakes made in 2018. Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal immediately comes to mind, but that was more Facebook the service rather than Facebook the app. Some apps were removed from Google Play for silly reasons (that actually happens a lot). In any case, some incidents simply stand above the rest. We are happy to report that Uber managed to not make this list for the first time in this list’s history. Congratulations to Uber! Here are the five most controversial Android apps and games from 2018!


The Cheetah Mobile Play Store page.

Ad fraud served two ways

Google Play had not one, but two big ad fraud problems in 2018. The first used bots to simulate real people. Here’s how it worked. A group of developers would purchase popular apps on Google Play from developers for Bitcoin. They would keep the app maintained and track user behavior. The developers would then create bots that emulated the human behavior they observed, except these bots also viewed ads along with doing the other stuff. The bots managed to avoid Google Play bot detection for a very long time.  Hit the link above to find the full list of all 129 apps that did it. The reason this probably didn’t hit harder was because it didn’t actually affect any end users. It was essentially a bunch of developers defrauding advertisers. Still, that’s not great and many of those apps were available in the Play Store at the time the report took place.

The second ad fraud case was by several Cheetah Mobile apps. This one is a little less creative. Several Cheetah Mobile apps, including Kika Keyboard and CM File Manager, would read the apps installed on a user’s phone. CM would then take credit for all the apps the user installed and collected the advertising money. Cheetah Mobile swears up and down that it did not do anything and the advertising SDKs were to blame. However, Cheetah Mobile has pulled some deceptive ad tactics before so we don’t necessarily trust them. Google is still investigating as of the writing of this article so we’ll have to wait and see how it turns out.


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Fortnite bucks the trends for better or worse

The biggest Android game narrative of 2018 was PUBG Mobile versus Fortnite. PUBG Mobile’s launch was fairly typical. It came out in Google Play, people enjoy it, and everything went as normal. Then Fortnite came around. To start, the game is not available on the Google Play Store. Instead, it opted for a launch on Epic Games’ own website  along with Samsung’s app store. People lost their minds about it. The CEO called it a move to promote a free and open platform. It also stands as the biggest mobile game to do this. The installer had its share of problems, including a massive security issue early on. There was also that pesky problem of all the fake Fortnite APKs. The PUBG developers even sued Fortnite for stealing content, although that suit was eventually dropped.  Things have smoothed out for now, but goodness Fortnite’s mobile game had a rough first six months.


Google shuts down all the things

The Google app library had a surprisingly rough year. Let’s start with Hangouts and make our way around the circle. Google Hangouts is reportedly changing from a single chat service to a group chat service similar to Slack or Discord. That reporting prompted a surprisingly aggressive Twitter conversation with a Hangouts developer. This puts an end to one of the few consistently decent chat services that Google had and the closest it ever came to a true Android version of iMessage. Google then shocked everybody by announcing the end of Google Allo. Many of Allo’s features are headed to Android Messages for now, but Allo is now officially circling the drain. Finally, Google is shuttering Google+ in 2019 after not one, but two major data breaches. It all leaves Google in a bit of a hole after it announced no major new apps in 2018. They did re-brand a bunch of stuff for no apparent reason, though. It’s been a surprisingly rough year for Google.


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Telltale Games had an epic crash and burn

Telltale Games had some of the best point-and-click adventure games on mobile. They usually work with existing titles like The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Minecraft, Borderlands, and others. Well, 2018 is probably its last year in existence. The company announced a massive layoff in mid-September that spared only 25 employees. The layoff also doubled as the announcement that the company was shuttering its doors. Telltale Games’ CEO Pete Hawley cited poor sales as the primary reason and that makes sense. The company simply didn’t generate as much buzz this year as they did in previous years. To make matters worse, the employees filed a class-action lawsuit against Telltale Games for unlawful termination, citing WARN laws. That lawsuit is in progress as of the writing of this article.


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Google and Amazon are seriously still fighting

Amazon and Google have been competitors for a while. However, late 2017 saw things take a nasty turn for consumers when Google yanked YouTube from all Amazon Fire devices, starting with the Echo Show. This turned into a year long trench war that is only making things suck more for consumers who use both Amazon and Google products. Initially, Amazon promised to start selling Chromecasts again, which it only started doing again in early December 2018. That certainly didn’t help things. Both companies announced that talks were underway to restore YouTube to Amazon devices along with possibly some other stuff. While we definitely don’t mean to pry, we would love it if Amazon Prime Video received Chromecast support as well.

In any case, the companies broke off talks early into 2018 after Google intentionally made YouTube worse for Silk Browser, Amazon’s default browser. In March 2018, Amazon stopped selling Google’s Nest products. Of course, YouTube TV never made it to a Fire device either, so you can add that to the list too. This has gone on long enough and is now bordering on the absurd. We’re really hoping that Amazon selling the Chromecast helps bring an end to this ridiculous and long-winded problem sooner rather than later. Until the dust settles, we highly recommend just buying Roku or Nvidia Shield. Those devices don’t seem to be affected by this preposterous pissing match.


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If we missed any controversial Android apps and games, tell us about them in the comments! Check out all of our Android app and game lists by clicking here!

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Can you name the VIPs of the smartphone industry? — pop quiz

You may be familiar with all the latest phones and technologies on the market, but how well do you know the VIPs of the smartphone industry who run the show: company founders, CEOs, chief product officers? We’re about to find out.

This quiz contains 10 images that show important individuals from the smartphone world, and your job is to figure out who they are. Some are familiar faces, while others not as much — we don’t want to make things too easy for you. But all of them regularly appear in the media, so you’ve probably seen them numerous times if you follow smartphone-related news.

Click the Start button below to test out your knowledge, and don’t forget to share your score on social media at the end.

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Let us know which questions you thought were the hardest and share your result with others in the comment section.

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