Samsung is now offering a FREE $50 credit towards its upcoming new Odyssey and ViewFinity monitors alongside the ongoing spring sale and the Amazon Big Spring Sale, but it’s now time for the Wednesday Google Play deals. Just be sure to also scope out the deals we are tracking today on Nothing’s Ear (a) wireless buds as well as the Galaxy Buds 3 and Amazon’s new flagship Kindle Scribe reader and notebook, but for now it’s on to the apps – highlights include Defenchick, Skel and Defense, LIMBO, and more. Everything awaits below.
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YouTube metrics are vital for creators, and Shorts have historically been a shrouded part of YouTube analytics. Today, YouTube announced that it would be adjusting how YouTube Shorts are counted, switching from a timed approach to a more finite metric.
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Following their unveiling earlier this month, Samsung has just opened sales of the Galaxy A36 and Galaxy A26 in the US starting at $299.
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While we’ve seen it in person a couple of times already, new official-looking renders are offering a first look at the colors of the Galaxy S25 Edge and its “Titanium” variants.
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Waze on iOS is about to lose a feature that should have been integral to the app, but has in fact spent more than a year in various states of being broken. Google Assistant support is officially being removed from Waze’s iPhone app.
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Samsung’s schedule for the One UI 7 rollout has been a bit vague thus far, but new details continue to come in, this time with Samsung offering a few date ranges to keep in mind.
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After making Ask Music more prominent in the Home feed and bringing to iOS, YouTube Music today announced the ability to tune AI radios, as well as a handful of other features.
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Day 2 of the Amazon Big Spring Sale is now in full swing alongside the Samsung spring event and the FREE $50 credit it is offering on its new Odyssey 4K 240Hz gaming display (among other models), plus we have some fresh new deals to scope out today. First let’s start off with some earbuds offers – Samsung’s Galaxy Buds 3 are now $80 off with no trades or bundles required (this is the proper U.S. version, too) and Nothing’s Ear (a) wireless buds are back down at $77. Next up we have Galaxy SmartTag 2 item trackers down at $17 alongside a new low on Amazon’s latest smart Ring Battery Doorbell. All of that and more awaits below in today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break.
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For years now, Android has been developed in a way that allowed the public to look in on Google’s work, but that’s now changing as Google has just confirmed that it will start to develop the operating system entirely in its internal branch.
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Nothing is, once again, turning over the design work to the community for its Phone (3a). This is the second annual “Community Edition” design contest, in which the winner’s design will be used on the next limited edition of the Nothing Phone (3a).
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The Galaxy Tab S10 FE and FE+ are expected to be released by Samsung soon, and leaked marketing images cement that idea further. They also showcase the two expected sizes that the Galaxy Tab S10 FE models will come in.
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Many people have come to rely on their smartphones as alarm clocks, which is why an issue with failing alarms on Google Pixel devices is so… alarming.
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Besides gaining 2.5 Pro yesterday, the Gemini app is finally doing a better job of remembering what model you selected.
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After no updates since November 2024, the March 2025 patch brought with it a sizable Wear OS 5.1 update to Pixel Watch hardware. However, it appears that the Wear OS 5.1 update has a few bugs in tow.
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A tweak that coincides with the Wear OS 5.1 update briefly introduces app icons to Tiles on the Pixel Watch.
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After spending 2024 cycling through different looks before reverting to the original for some reason, Google Messages has widely rolled out a redesign of the text field.
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Find My Device’s offline tracking only works when a lot of people have the right settings, but Google initially rolled the feature out with the worst settings possible, essentially making the network worthless. On a personal and privacy level, do you actually care whether or not your device is used to locate other offline devices with Find My Device, and what setting do you use?
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Infininx is out to offer a premium experience at a price tag that comes in at under $500, and the NOTE 50 Pro+ offers that experience with some incredible touches. The phone has a high-performance silicon-carbon battery, and unique AI features to enhance daily use.
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Samsung is rolling out another new One UI 7 beta update for its 2024 Galaxy Z Fold 6 and Flip 6 foldables, with this latest update delivering a new shortcut for accessing Gemini among other improvements.
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The Amazon Big Spring Sale kicked into overdrive this morning alongside the ongoing Samsung spring sale event with hundreds in enhanced trade-in values, but we are once again taking a short break to uncover the day’s best Android game and app deals. Alongside today’s new all-time low on Anker’s new display-equipped 25K mAh power bank as well these Galaxy Buds 3 Pro deals, the best price ever on Amazon’s new Kindle Colorsoft, and Samsung’s Smart Monitors at up to $300 off, it’s now time for the Google Play offers. Highlights include Children of Morta, Front Armies, Star Survivor, and more Hit the jump for a closer look.
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Google today previewed upcoming safety features coming to Google Play and Android apps in 2025.
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One of Samsung’s upgrades on the Galaxy S25 series is the addition of Qi2 support, sort of, as the company launched cases to use its new smartphones with chargers, cases, and other magnetic accessories. Those cases have not been well-recieved, but are now finally available in full, right as Samsung seems to be reviving its mysterious 3-in-1 wireless charger.
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Even as Samsung is working to release One UI 7, Galaxy devices running the previous version are receiving continued security updates. This is a constantly updated list of Galaxy devices getting Samsung’s March 2025 security update.
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Following updates to the models that are available for all users, Google today announced Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) for Advanced subscribers and developers. Like before, Google is doing another mid-year/model update.
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