[Poll] Still interested in Samsung’s Android Wear watches? Google is
Android Wear on Samsung hardware is a big deal post-2016. Regardless of whether or not you’ve forgotten that it was a deal in the first place, which I totally did not and it absolutely is. You know, as absolute as such a statement can be, not coming directly from Samsung. But don’t worry, that’s still pretty absolute, for all intents and purposes.
And I should know, I make predictions about Samsung-affiliated and adjacent things for a living. This naturally makes me pretty good at them, complementing the only aspect of my character – sarcasm. What I’m not good at for real, however, is reading people’s minds.
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Who has the time to watch and listen to everything out there, right? Netflix has riled up movie makers by testing out variable speed settings in its Android app so you can speed up the movie to get through it faster. For the time being, it’s only a limited test, but you’ve got a host of other ways to get through your movies and your podcasts more quickly.
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When the the first Roku TV in the form of the Hisense Roku B7120UK arrived, it instantly
marked itself out as one of the best cheap TVs on the market.
The Hisense and Roku combo returns in the Hisense R50A7200GTUK Roku TV, adding new features while maintaining its affordable price for even more value-tastic appeal.
They say lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place but – allow us to mix our metaphors – Hisense and Roku look to have struck gold again with the A7200G.
Hisense R50A7200GTUK Roku TV price and availability
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Yes, there’s a lot about LG’s new G1 OLED TV range that’s new and interesting and exciting and intriguing. Yes, LG has made changes to the OLED panel itself, to the operating system you use to interact with it, to the processing protocols that govern picture quality, even to the TV’s remote control. And yet despite all this, there’s one question above all others that we need an answer to.
Where exactly does LG get the nerve to charge three grand for a television that doesn’t even have any feet?
Design and build: shallow, in a good way
This Week in Apps: A surprising report on App Tracking, Apple event predictions, Instagram for kids
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.
The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020.
Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7 hours of live TV per day, but now spends four hours per day on their mobile devices.