Need to recover files? Get Disk Drill Pro 2 for just $16 (with promo code)

We all know that feeling of dread in your stomach when you realize you’ve clumsily deleted some important files.

All is not lost. Instead of beating yourself up, you’ve got a great chance to recover the files using Disk Drill Pro 2. This expert-level software can find lost files in almost any system, and it’s a damn sight cheaper than paying a computer boffin to do it for you.

Disk Drill Pro 2 is easy to use and could be a lifesaver.

Disk Drill can recover over 200 types of files on your computer or even on external drives when you connect to a computer. It can even find whole missing partitions. It’s easy to use and could be a lifesaver.

You needn’t wait until an accident happens to protect your important files either. If you install Disk Drill now it will safely index your files, making them much easier to recover if and when disaster strikes.

Disk Drill at a glance:

• All future updates and major upgrades included
• Scan and recover data from virtually any storage device with just the click of a button
• Recover any file or folder or reconstruct over 200 file types with multiple recovery methods
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A lifetime license to Disk Drill Pro 2 is worth over $100, but this weekend Tech Deals are offering the license for just $19.99.

You can even save a few bucks more with our New Year promo code too. If you enter the code NEWYEAR2019 at the checkout then you’ll pay only $16.20.

The deal ends on Sunday, so now is a good time to protect your cherished photos. Hit the button below to find the deal.

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Amazon’s deal of the day includes a 512GB PNY microSD card for $110 off

It seems like our smartphones and other mobile gadgets never have enough storage. That’s why when Amazon cuts the price on microSD cards, we get interested. 

For today’s deal of the day, Amazon is taking 31 percent ($110) off of the 512GB microSD card. At just $239.99, this is a sale worth considering. 

Grab this deal!

With an additional 512GB of storage, PNY claims you can store over 100,000 18MP photos, over 80 hours of HD video, and much more. Basically, with this card installed, you shouldn’t have to worry about your phone, camera, drone, or anything else running out of space anytime soon. 

The biggest drawback with microSD cards this size is that some older devices don’t allow for more 256GB of additional storage. A quick Google search should tell you if your phone, camera, or whatever will accept the card. 

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Best 128 GB microSD cards

If you plan to download a lot of music, take a fair amount of pictures, and save TV shows and movies on your smartphone to watch later, a high capacity microSD card will go a …

One thing to keep in mind though is that this card is only class one. This classification means it’s only fast enough to capture HD photos and videos. 

If you want something specifically designed for 4K content, you should check out Samsung’s Class 3 Evo Plus microSD cards. 

Click the button below to purchase the 512GB PNY microSD card from Amazon. 

512GB PNY microSD Card

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Source: Android Zone

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We asked, you told us: Facebook’s privacy response was the biggest blunder of 2018

2018 has been a rollercoaster for a lot of tech companies this year. In addition to the usual screwups that are destined to happen from time to time, we saw failed product launches, problems with the government, and so much more.

While most of the prominent blunders of the last year happened in front of all of us, some affected our daily lives.

So with this in mind, we asked you what you thought the biggest mistake of 2018 was. Here are the results based on almost 2,000 votes.

What was the biggest blunder of 2018?

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Results

Unsurprisingly, Facebook’s less than favorable response to its user’s privacy concerns was seen as the biggest blunder of 2018. After the Cambridge Analytica scandal came to light, everyone asked how Mark Zuckerberg allowed it to happen.

If there was one benefit to this issue, it is the fact that people and nations alike are demanding Facebook and others protect user’s data. The results might currently consist of a mixed bag of confusion, at least solutions are getting worked on.

Following that, the two biggest blunders in the voter’s eyes were the lackluster launch of the Red Hydrogen One and Huawei’s repeated issues pertaining to the U.S. government. Seeing the Hydrogen One fail was expected. After repeated delays and a $1,295 price tag for year-old hardware, it’s no surprise that hardly anyone wanted to buy the handset.

And while Huawei’s problems might not initially hurt its business, its future expansion and development could be in trouble. As the U.S. pushes other countries to avoid the Chinese company, Huawei won’t be able to sell and deploy its 5G equipment.

Noteworthy comments

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

• Facebook has really started to go downhill, from the 2016 election to data privacy to censorship of users political speech. I am glad I deleted my account at the beginning of 2017.. ..what a disaster.
• I don’t think 2018 was a bad year for Huawei. They came up with the P20 Pro and the Mate 20 Pro and those are very good phones. The problem with the Huawei scare has more to do with the Chinese government than Huawei the company (or technology) itself.
• Pixel 3’s notch-gate
• Pretty much any game released by EA this year. This goes for mobile titles and PC/console.
• My vote: the notch and the many ways in which OEMs have tried to “solve” the notch issue. They shot themselves in the foot over something we never needed.Bezels on the LG V30 and Samsung S9s showed how small they’ve gotten and how much thinner they could get without cutting into the phone’s display. You keep those bezels intact and it can better house all the sensors you want/need and also front-facing speakers.

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.

Source: Android Zone

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OnePlus 6 and 6T open beta updates bring app and display improvements

On its forums, OnePlus announced Open Beta 2 for the OnePlus 6T and Open Beta 10 for the OnePlus 6. The OnePlus 6T received Open Beta 1 a little over a week ago, so this is a quick turnaround for the flagship smartphone.

The updates include app and display improvements for both phones, along with bug fixes and system stability improvements. Interestingly, those in India also get a caller ID feature that should help them identify unknown callers.

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Founded on December 16, 2013, by former Oppo vice-president Pete Lau and Carl Pei, OnePlus is an extremely young company when compared to more established players like Samsung and Huawei. That said, the company has …

Before you download the updates, remember that this is beta software. If you’re okay with the quirks that usually come with beta software, you can go here to learn how to install it on your OnePlus 6 or 6T.

If your OnePlus 6 or 6T is already running open beta software, the new update will arrive as an OTA update. We will provide download links once they are available.

In the meantime, you can check out the changelog below:

• System
  • Improvements for screen brightness control
  • Confirm PIN without tapping √ for app locker
  • Improved color adaptation for navigation bar when using third-party apps
  • General bug fixes and system stability improvements
• Phone
  • Added the caller identification feature (for India only)
  • Improved UI for Call History
• Gallery
  • Added create a collection, copy and move photos features
  • New illustrations and design on blank pages
  • General bug fixes and overall experience improvements
• Launcher
  • Added recommended tools in Toolbox
  • Improved UI for category tags in app drawer

Source: Android Zone

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HTC in 2019: Last chance saloon

Remember those awful Robert Downey Jr.-starring ads HTC spent millions on that joked HTC was an acronym for ‘hilariously’ random phrases like “Hipster Troll Car wash?”

I know, I tried to forget too.

After yet another rough year of layoffs, free-falling sales numbers, and a further drift into obscurity in the smartphone market, HTC in 2018 could quite easily have stood for “Hard Times Continued.”

2018 marked the tenth anniversary of the first ever Android smartphone — the HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1 — but unfortunately for HTC, there was very little else worth celebrating.

Let’s review HTC’s 2018 and look ahead to see we can expect from the fallen Android giant in 2019.

Another 12 months of turmoil

Rewind back to the start of 2018 and HTC found itself in a bit of a transitional phase. Fresh off an atrocious 12 months where revenues plummeted to a 13-year low, the firm received a much-needed injection of cash after selling its “Powered by HTC” R&D division to Google for $1.1 billion.

Despite the reduced workforce and talent pool, Google’s money meant HTC had the time and funds to design and develop new phones to try to turn its fortunes around. Unfortunately, fortune wasn’t ready to turn in HTC’s favor.

A fresh round of layoffs hit the company’s North American wing in February as part of a restructuring plan to bring together the smartphone and VR teams. This was followed by a much wider cull in July when 1,500 employees were cut at HTC’s HQ in Taiwan.

Read more: Here are the best HTC phones you can buy right now

The latter represented a whopping 22 percent of the company’s global workforce and was justified by HTC as being an essential move to ensure “more effective and flexible resource management going forward.”

Some of HTC’s most high profile figureheads also abandoned their stations. Smartphone president Chialin Chang departed in February after a six year tenure, while Mo Versi — a.k.a. the HTC updates guy — exited in March.

The overall picture gets even bleaker when you delve into HTC’s 2018 financials.

HTC’s final revenue figures for 2018 will make for dire reading.

HTC registered its lowest revenue total in 13 years at NTD 62.12 billion ($2.1 billion) in 2017. As of Q3 2018, the company’s overall revenue for the year sat at a paltry NTD 19.6 billion (~$636 million).

Save for an incredibly unlikely miraculous turnaround in Q4, HTC’s final revenue figures for 2018 will make for some dire reading when they are eventually released to investors and the public in the coming weeks.

Amidst all of the speculation surrounding HTC’s uncertain future, rumors that the brand was considering pulling of out India completely, and getting slapped by U.K. advertising standards over a “misleading” ad, the phones that HTC actually released in 2018 more or less got lost in the wider discourse.

On the flagship front, HTC eschewed recent tradition and released the HTC U12 Plus — a follow-up to the U11 series that didn’t enjoy a non-Plus version, instead adopting the moniker due to its large size and top-tier specs.

Yet despite its all-round impressive performance and gorgeous Liquid Surface design, the HTC U12 Plus was a hard phone for many to recommend.

In our HTC U12 Plus review, Jimmy Westenberg bemoaned HTC’s neglected software suite, its innovative-yet-awkward pressure sensitive buttons, the higher price tag compared to the U11, and the lack of any tangible reason to recommend the phone over rival devices from Samsung, Google, or even LG.

The U12 series was later bolstered by the arrival of the U12 Life — a capable mid-ranger with a severe identity crisis that seemed to echo its creator’s own lack of direction.

Aside from three entries in the affordable Desire 12 series, HTC’s only other notable contribution to the Android market in 2018 was the company’s first blockchain phone, the HTC Exodus 1, which went up for pre-order exclusively in bitcoin or ethereum tokens in late October.

With the value of major cryptocurrencies dropping throughout the year, it’s hard to imagine that HTC’s ultra-niche blockchain phone will have delivered the kind of sales numbers the company desperately needs.

New horizons

Without that $1.1 billion windfall from Google, there’s every chance HTC’s smartphone division (and perhaps even the company as a whole) wouldn’t have made it to 2019.

HTC said it would invest in virtual reality and Internet of Things technologies at the time of the big-money sale. The latter has yet to really materialize, but HTC’s support of the Vive brand remains resolute.

Related: VR headset buyer’s guide – what are your options?

HTC went on the offensive singling out critics of forecasts showing evidence of the VR market shrinking in a bullish blog post in mid-2018. It also talked up demand for the wireless Vive Pro headset and high interest in China for the enterprise-focused, standalone Vive Focus, which launched worldwide in November.

One encouraging development for HTC’s wider ambitions in both the smartphone and VR sectors is the imminent dawn of 5G.

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All you need to know about every 5G phone confirmed so far (Updated December 12)

“5G is coming.”

We’ve heard it repeated by telecom giants and smartphone OEMs for years now. The fifth-generation network promises lightning fast download speeds, an IoT revolution, and rapid streaming with essentially zero latency, but what …

The next-generation networks, which are due to start turning on in the U.S. throughout 2019, could potentially shake up the status quo and open up new opportunities for struggling Android OEMs.

Likewise, virtual reality experiences are set to benefit greatly from 5G’s lower latency, increased fidelity, and a potentially lower entry price for consumers and businesses as computational work shifts away from expensive PC hardware toward cloud-based solutions.

Of course, each new investment will eat further into HTC’s coffers and if revenue continues to fall, something will have to give. There’s no doubt that HTC absolutely can’t afford another year of dwindling sales if it wants to remain in the smartphone market long-term.

The beginning of the end, or the start of something new?

So, how can HTC save its smartphone business?

Android Authority’s C. Scott Brown has already shared a few ideas that could help stop the slump, but HTC has mostly stuck to the same “strategic investments” line we also heard back in 2012 and 2017.

The only real indication of HTC’s plans for 2019 and beyond came in an interview with HTC president Darren Chen in December. Chen said the company will “continue to extend its high-end U12 Plus lineup in 2019,” which sparked speculation that HTC wouldn’t be released a ‘new’ flagship in the first half of the year.

HTC later clarified this won’t be the case, although I’m left wondering whether it’ll have been better off being true come the end of 2019. A vague commitment to deliver a new flagship and a few mid-range devices doesn’t sound like the drastic rethink HTC could well need to claw back much needed market share.

HTC’s glory years fade further from memory with each passing year.

Perhaps the next elite HTC smartphone will be a Galaxy S10 killer. HTC’s Desire series — including the mega-affordable, entry-level Desire 12s launched in December — could finally become a true contender in the ultra-competitive emergent markets currently dominated by Chinese OEMs. Maybe the Exodus 1 will be the go-to phone for crypto fans all across the world. 2019 could even be the year where virtual reality and Vive enters the mainstream powered by 5G.

All of these things are possible, but the company’s scattershot strategies and limp statements of intent will do little to convince the growing number of doubters inside the smartphone industry, or the buyers whose memories of HTC’s glory years fade further with each passing year.

Ten years ago HTC changed the game with the G1. A decade later it finds itself in the last chance saloon. How the mighty have fallen.

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Do you think HTC can right the ship in 2019? Let us know in the comments and be sure to look out for our other posts in this series for the rest of Android’s leading OEMs.

Source: Android Zone

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UK Deals of the Week: Save £120 on Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro, 40% off Lenovo Smart Display

Welcome to your weekly round-up of the best U.K. deals of the week for Android phones, network plans, accessories, smart home tech, and a little of whatever else is on offer in the world of mobile!

Editor’s Pick

Google Home Hub vs Lenovo Smart Display

There are now a few choices if you’re in the market for a new smart display. The JBL Link View, Amazon Echo Show, Lenovo Smart Display, and the new Google Home Hub all pair the convenience …

This week’s deals include a bunch of discounts on Xiaomi phones, a huge saving on some Sennheiser over-ear wireless headphones, offers on the Lenovo Smart Display, and much more.

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Below are the most enticing deals we’ve seen this week hand-picked with a little help from the folks over at HotUKDeals – the U.K.’s biggest deal-sharing community.

Phones

Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro (SIM free, 128GB) – £429 (was £549) @ Amazon

Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro (SIM free, 64GB) – £179 (was £249) @ Amazon

Xiaomi Redmi S2 (SIM free, 32GB) – £129 (was £179) @ Amazon

Nokia 6.1 (SIM free, 32GB) – £149 (was £199) @ Carphone Warehouse

Moto G6 Play (SIM free, 32GB) – £127 (was £169) @ Amazon

Honor 8X (SIM free, 64GB) – £195 (was £229) @ Amazon

Accessories

SanDisk Ultra 128 GB Dual Type-C USB 3.0 Flash Drive – £31 (was £56) @ Amazon

Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 Over-Ear Wireless Headphones – £169 (was £379) @ Amazon

Tech

Lenovo Smart Display – £99 (was £169) @ John Lewis

Huawei MediaPad T3 10 tablet (16GB) – £99 (was £129) @ John Lewis

Ultimate Ears Boom 2 – £59 (was £119) @ Amazon

Google Home Mini – £29 (was £34) @ Carphone Warehouse

More UK content:

• Picking the best UK mobile carrier
• Best Android UK phones you can get right now
• Where to buy phones in the UK
• Best SIM free phones under £500

Have you seen any amazing deals this week? Be sure to share your finds in the comments.

Source: Android Zone

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Galaxy S10 series: How much do you really know about the upcoming phones?

Although the Samsung Galaxy S10 series hasn’t been announced yet, that hasn’t stopped the rumor mill from working overtime. There have already been a ton of leaks!

How about you? If you’ve been following Android Authority or smartphone-related news in general, you’ve probably heard a thing or two about Samsung’s upcoming devices. This quiz will test out just how much you know about them.

Remember: These are just rumors. We won’t officially know anything about the Galaxy S10 until it’s announced, so please treat all the questions in this quiz as rumors.

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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This is the 23rd quiz in our regular weekly series. You can take a few of the most popular ones via the links below or check out all of them by clicking here.

• Smartphone quiz: Do you remember these gimmicky features?
• Can you name a smartphone just by looking at it?
• How much do you really know about Android?
• Which phone did it first?
• How much do you really know about Samsung?
• Name that smartphone!

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

Source: Android Zone

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