Back in December we told you T-Mobile unveiled a new service called DIGITS, which allowed subscribers to use a phone number across multiple device. At the time, the carrier launched an opt-in beta program, but fast forward to the present and the service is finally ready for prime-time.
Beginning on May 31, all T-Mobile customers will be upgraded to DIGITS free of charge. For those who want an additional line, it will cost them an extra $10/month with Auto Pay. For a limited time only, those signing up for a T-Mobile One Plus plan with unlimited talk, text and high-speed data will get an extra DIGITS line for free.
DIGITS allows customers to have the same phone number ring a number of devices including their phone, tablet, a second phone, a smartwatch or a PC. This way, the service eliminates the need to have multiple devices, one for personal use and one for work. The new service can even work with phones on other networks – all users need to do is have the DIGITS app installed on their Android or iOS device. DIGITS also works for text messages.
Screenshot from the DIGITS app for Android
T-Mobile also notes that 58 million American households still have a landline, with 43% saying they could eliminate it if they could. Now the Magenta carrier is giving these customers the chance to do exactly that with DIGITS.
DIGITS also allows enterprise customers to set up an employee with one number real quick, while giving him/her access to all the company’s corporate services.
With the OnePlus 5 on the horizon, what will happen to the OnePlus 3T?
One option is that it could get reduced to push remaining stock and make it even more affordable. However, In a post on the OnePlus Forums, staff member Steven G. gave the final news that the OnePlus 3T is close to being discontinued to make way for the OnePlus 5.
It seems OnePlus have done a great job of managing stock as well since the same staff member says there are only a few units remaining in the warehouse so a reduction plan really isn’t necessary. Is it worth picking up a OnePlus 3T at this point? Probably not. Not unless you are especially set on the device. Otherwise, wait for the OnePlus 5 as it’s set to be one heck of a device.
It makes sense for OnePlus to make the move to reduce inventory to only a single offering. While a cheaper OnePlus 3T would certainly pick up some of the prospective buyers that are looking for a device on a budget, having only the OnePlus 5 enables the company to focus its efforts and resources entirely on a single device.
The Samsung Galaxy S8 may have only been out for a few weeks but that doesn’t mean Samsung are slowing down. According to a Korean publication, the S9 and S9+ are codenamed “Star” and “Star 2” with development already begun.
This is, according to the source, around 3 to 4 months ahead of schedule so perhaps Samsung could be looking to once again push the boundaries of design and want the extra time to fully test.
It could well be given the source that the codename may change as did with the Galaxy Note 8 but early rumors seem to peg Star as the Galaxy S9 internal designation.
Don’t expect to see the Galaxy S9 leaked any time soon but at least we know the keyword to begin looking out for as far as Samsung development goes to learn what the company has in store for us with the next device.
Developed by GungHo Online Entertainment America, Inc., Super Senso is a new app with numerous downloads. Having been updated on May 17, 2017, the developer is constantly fixing various bugs with the latest update bringing a number of optimizations. Battle players from around the world in real-time PvP multiplayer matches and destroy the senso-gate to victory.
What it does
Using a mash-up squad of armored tanks, cats, and dinosaurs, tentacled aliens, giant mechs, creepy zombies, you’ll be battling in a turn-based strategy PvP game. Deploy your army to battle in real-time to outsmart your opponents.
Compete to top the challenge leaderboard and collect and level-up SENSO heroes that fit your play style! Whether it’s soaring over opponents with Chuck or dominating on defense with Guardian, you choose to battle in a 3D battle map to overcome your opponent.
Why we like it
Super Senso has great graphics and easy controls. It is a game that you can quickly just pick up and play. I would like to see more game modes included to expand the engagement factor and also an offline campaign mode to play. Otherwise, if you like PvP games then this one is worth a try.
How to get it
Super Senso is available for free from the Google Play Store. You can download it right here.
Email apps are getting smarter and smarter these days. They need to in order to be able to survive in today’s competitive landscape, where messaging apps reign supreme.
Case in point, this week, Alto – the email app developed by Verizon (more specifically AOL) – announced the advent of a new Alto experience for iOS and Android. The new version of the application comes with integration for multiple inboxes and calendars, as well as provide better Alexa integration.
Users will be able to link multiple email accounts including AOL, Google, Yahoo, Outlook.com, Office365, iCloud, and Exchange. The new experience also includes a Dashboard feature. This is the centerpiece of the Alto email experience and it’s where you will find highlighted the most important information across all connected inboxes.
The information is intelligently analyzed and then delivered in the forms of “cards” which can help you achieve anything – from tracking packages to calling a Lyft.
On top of that, the new Alto experience integrates a fully featured Calendar. Users will be able to easily scroll through appointments or events and upcoming engagements will appear in the form of actionable cards in the Dashboard, so you’ll never miss a deadline or a meeting.
Last but not least, Alto Alexa integration for Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Tap is now available. Which means users will be able to issue simple voice commands in order to do things like check the calendar, find a lost email or pull up flight information.
Alto takes advantage of an intelligent system of sorting emails called “Stacks”. It allows users to organize and manage every email in categories such as personal, travel, financial or social media.
If you’d like to check out the redesigned Alto for Android, you can grab it in the Play Store.
As the only native Spanish speaker in AndroidGuys, it is always amusing for me to see Android apps for learning Spanish. After all, it is a fairly useful language, with approximately 500 million people talking it natively throughout the world. There are different approaches for learning it, but MosaLingua Spanish uses a fairly common one: repetition.
Even though apps are trying to move from an extensive setup process and assume defaults that can be configured afterward, MosaLingua Spanish deviates from this approach and makes you go through a lenghty setup wizard.
First, in case you feel more comfortable in languages other than English, you will be glad to know that you can also learn Spanish with MosaLingua on the basis of French, Italian, Portuguese, and German. Also, in an effort to tailor the app to your needs, it asks you what are your motives for learning Spanish. Unfortunately for some of you, “Understanding reggaeton lyrics” is not one of the choices, but there are other possibilities for you:
Travel
Speak and socialize
Work and do business
Improve my grades at school or study abroad
Pass an exam (DELE, SIELE…)
Other
In case you already know some Spanish words, MosaLingua Spanish lets you start at a higher level. However, for testing the app, I started from the very basics.
Finally, the app asks you to make an account. If you don’t want to, you can scroll down and press skip, but some features will be unavailable until you sign in. Nevertheless, it’s nice to have the option of creating the account later, in case you discover that the app is not for you.
Overview
You can start at any level.
Unlike other language-learning apps, MosaLingua Spanish is not based on a gamification approach, like Duolingo. Instead, you are the biggest input for it. If you are the kind of person who writes words into cards and goes through them constantly, then you’ll feel right at home here.
The whole approach is based on repetition. The app makes you repeat each word by talking, reading, and spelling it, and then asks you at the end how confident you are that you memorized it correctly. If you feel like you will have problems with remembering the word in the future, you can let the app know and it will bring it up on your next sessions.
There are different categories of words, such as eating, weather, and transportation, but the recommended way is to follow the order that the app gives you. In it, you go through basic stuff and gradually get more challenging words and expressions.
General Impressions
Each exercise is composed of a set of cards, which the app will first read out loud to you. Then, it will ask you to record yourself. However, it doesn’t give you feedback on how good or bad you did. It more or less relies on how you think your sound compared with the recording, which is, frankly, not ideal.
Easy enough? It gets more difficult later, don’t worry.
Then, it makes you memorize the words by looking at a picture of it. Yet again, it speaks the word to you, so that you not only memorize its meaning but its pronunciation. Finally, the app asks you to spell the word (or phrase) by giving you the letters (or words) in a scrambled order. It will give you immediate feedback on how good you did.
Through constant repetition, the app aims to slowly improve your Spanish level. Later, it also adds dialogue in conventional situations, such as asking for a table in a restaurant, buying medicine, asking for a taxi, and similar useful situations.
As a native speaker, I find these dialogues to be very useful for anyone who is learning Spanish. There’s a point where learning more words is useless if you can’t form a sentence with them, so this is a great way to use all of this vocabulary.
There are different activities you do with each set of cards in order to memorize words.
Frankly, I’ve used a variant of this kind of repetition method myself when learning German and Estonian, and I know several people who have used similar approaches, so I’m sure that MosaLingua’s research about this topic is based on real evidence and not just made up.
If your motivations for learning Spanish are not enough, then the app has you covered. It keeps you going by asking you to do your exercises every day and by showing you different stats, progress graphs, and videos by MosaLingua members in which they constantly encourage you.
If you find that the available content is not enough for you, there are optional packs with more words and exercises. These include advanced vocabulary, slang, and vocabulary for specific situations, such as news and idioms that native speakers use. These are all available separately or can be bought as a discounted pack.
Interface and Sound
The dialogue at first sounds very generic, but you can download a pack to improve its quality. I suggest you download it because audio recordings go from regular to top-notch with this. If you are interested to know, the dialogue sometimes uses the Latin American way of pronouncing “c” and “z” (that is, make everything sound like an “s”), and sometimes it uses the Spanish way (so they have a “th” characteristic sound, as in “thaw” or “theater”). Look it up on YouTube if you are unsure of what I mean, but this lack of cohesion between pronunciations could be very confusing for newcomers.
Interface is the weakest point of the app
Regarding the interface of the app, I find that sometimes it looks like kind of unpolished. It feels as if the app was developed with one of these mobile web frameworks that then generate Android apps, instead of using native tools. Animations are not as fluid as they could be, interface doesn’t follow material design guidelines, elements such as alerts appear out of nowhere instead of using Android’s built-in animations, and the app itself feels like it was brought directly from the Jelly Bean days.
It also sometimes doesn’t feel responsive enough, and I found a bug in which if I went to the optional packs screen, tried to buy one but canceled instead of going through with the payment, and the app became unresponsive.
Conclusion
MosaLingua uses a different approach than several language-learning apps. Instead of incorporating a gamification aspect to the process, MosaLingua bases its method on constant repetition of words throughout time for the best results. Obviously, every person learns stuff in a different way, which is why we should be thankful that there are so many options. There’s a free version of MosaLingua Spanish if you want to evaluate its effectiveness first. If you are able to deal with a fairly antiquated interface, the content beneath it is good, and, in the end, eso es lo único que importa.
A few days ago we told you accessory maker Mophie introduced a Juice Pack battery case for the Pixel XL which brought an additional 2,950 mAh battery.
Well if that’s enough for you maybe you’d like to look at ZeroLemon’s offering instead. The company just launched four new cases on Amazon. ZeroLemon’s accessories can add 6,500 mAh to the Pixel, 8,500 mAh to the Pixel XL and 7,500 mAh to the OnePlus 3, OnePlus 3T and Moto Z.
Their cases are quite bulky, but that’s what you get when you attach a huge 8,500 mAh powerhouse on the back of your device.
ZeroLemon’s cases offer pass-through charging, so users can charge their phones first. Only afterward will the case start to charge itself. Like with the Morphie case, there’s a LED indicator on the cases which allows you to see how much power is left in the battery itself.
The cases are currently available at discounted prices, but their MSRP ranges between $80 to $100 – which is a pretty hefty sum. Mophie’s case for the Pixel XL launched with a $99.95 price-tag. But if you purchase the ZeroLemon case now it’ll only run you $59.99.
Many of us own a smartphone. As technology has advanced, there’s been an increased need to always stay in touch with loved ones. And while these smartphones can be used for making calls and sending texts, they can do much more.
These days, depending on your personality or career type, your smartphone can be your video player, magnifying glass, internet browser, game console, music player, amongst other things.
Sounds smart enough already, right? But what if you could take things up a notch and make the already smart phones even smarter?
Didn’t think it was possible? Well, think again. Your smartphone can do a lot these days. But with a few extra accessories, it can do even more.
With the constant advancement of technology, new apps spring up faster these days than ever before. While a smarter smartphone may sound a little overboard, a few apps, wearables and gadgets will transform your perception of your smartphone and change everything you thought you knew.
So, whether yours is an android or an iPhone, how exactly can you make your smartphone even smarter?
Use Google Now
Google Now is the name when it comes to an app that does your bidding and anticipating your needs.
Google Now is an intelligent personal assistant developed by Google and includes cards, voice search and commands, is available in the Google app for Android and iOS. Google Now is activated by saying “Okay Google,” and this voice command is used on any device that runs Google.
To get the best out of Google Now (or Google Assistant), you can give it a few hints about your favorite websites, movies and more. These suggestions will help the app do a better job of serving up smart suggestions, and ultimately extend your smartphone functionality.
Tell Google Now where you live versus where you work, and it will give you details on your commute before you even ask.
Use it as a tracker
You’re probably familiar with the maps on your phone. You use them to chart your routes and all. But, what if your phone can keep you safe?
With a tracking app like Family Locator by Life360, you can let loved ones and family members know about your whereabouts as the app uses GPS intelligence to track your movements.
Apart from this, it can also send you some sort of notifications when you arrive at preset locations.
Let it be your doctor
Instead of chasing after the doctor — which isn’t bad — there are some really good apps out there that can help you to check on your physical state when you’re hiking, taking a jog or stretching in the gym.
Some these apps use the technique that medical pulse oximeters use by using your phone’s built-in camera to track color changes on the fingertip that are directly linked to your pulse. A real-time chart will show your every heartbeat.
There you have it: 3 ways to make your smartphone smarter. Give them a try and you’ll soon see for yourself what you’ve missing out on.
China might be the land of cheap clones, but over the years these imitations have been getting better and better. Case in point, Elephone – an obscure device maker who has been copying the design of lots of popular Android products including the Galaxy S7 Edge – recently teased its upcoming flagship.
As you can see for yourself, the phone looks remarkably similar to the Samsung Galaxy S8 (with a slimmer upper bezel). At least frontally. On the back, one can spot a dual-camera arrangement, something which is not available with the current Samsung flagship.
What’s even more interesting, Elephone revealed that Android 8.0 is going to be onboard of the device, which makes this the first teaser of an Android O flagship to appeared online. Google’s new version of Android is expected to arrive sometime during the end of this summer, which probably translates to August.
Samsung Galaxy S8
We’re also told the Galaxy S8 clone will arrive with the “latest chip” which could mean the Snapdragon 835, but given that Elephone is a low-cost handset maker, we’ll probably see the device ship out with MediaTek’s latest Helio X30.
A super affordable flagship with Snapdragon 835, Android O, and dual-camera setup would certainly be pretty amazing. If a product like that becomes available, would you give the obscure Elephone a chance?
Shortly after introducing the Xiaomi Mi 6 flagship, the company returns with a worthy middle-range device – the often leaked Mi Max 2 phablet.
The device arrives with a spacious 6.2-inch display with unknown resolution, although knowing Xiaomi it’s probably a full HD panel. The product features a full metal unibody improved for one-handed use. It packs a Snapdragon 625 processor with 4GB of RAM and either 64GB or 128GB of internal storage (expandable up to 256GB via microSD card slot).
The phone features the same main camera sensor the Xiaomi Mi 6 and takes advantage of a 12-megapixel Sony IMX386 with phase detection autofocus and enhanced quality for low-light photography. No info is provided about the secondary selfie camera so far.
Probably the biggest selling point of the Xiaomi Mi Max 2 is the huge 5,300 mAh battery inside. It has Quick Charge 3.0 and Parallel charging so users can charge up to 68% in 1 hour. We’re told the powerhouse can sustain up to two days of use (or 18 hours of video playback and 9 hours of gaming).
The phone includes a front-facing and a bottom-facing stereo speaker which can switch from mono to stereo once the device moves into landscape.
Like usually the Xiaomi Mi Max 2 goes on sale in China. The 64GB of storage variant will cost approximately $245, while the 128GB model will take you back with around $290. While the phone won’t arrive officially in the US, customers will be able to buy it from third-party websites like GearBest.
Users will be able to link multiple email accounts including AOL, Google, Yahoo, Outlook.com, Office365, iCloud, and Exchange. The new experience also includes a Dashboard feature. This is the centerpiece of the Alto email experience and it’s where you will find highlighted the most important information across all connected inboxes.
On top of that, the new Alto experience integrates a fully featured Calendar. Users will be able to easily scroll through appointments or events and upcoming engagements will appear in the form of actionable cards in the Dashboard, so you’ll never miss a deadline or a meeting.
Alto takes advantage of an intelligent system of sorting emails called “Stacks”. It allows users to organize and manage every email in categories such as personal, travel, financial or social media.
Their cases are quite bulky, but that’s what you get when you attach a huge 8,500 mAh powerhouse on the back of your device.
ZeroLemon’s cases offer pass-through charging, so users can charge their phones first. Only afterward will the case start to charge itself. Like with the Morphie case, there’s a LED indicator on the cases which allows you to see how much power is left in the battery itself.
The cases are currently available at discounted prices, but their MSRP ranges between $80 to $100 – which is a pretty hefty sum. Mophie’s case for the Pixel XL launched with a $99.95 price-tag. But if you purchase the ZeroLemon case now it’ll only run you $59.99.
What’s even more interesting, Elephone revealed that Android 8.0 is going to be onboard of the device, which makes this the first teaser of an 
The phone features the same main camera sensor the 
The phone includes a front-facing and a bottom-facing stereo speaker which can switch from mono to stereo once the device moves into landscape.