Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem are coming to our smartphones. Photo: Nintendo
After the successful debut of Miitomo, Nintendo has announced that its second and third mobile games will be based on the Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem franchises — and are set to debut on iOS and Android devices this fall.
Look out for bumper ads! Image: Killian Bell/Cult of Android.
When you’re excited to watch the latest videos from your favorite YouTube channels, the last thing you want to see before them is ads you can’t skip. Normally, they don’t appear on every video you watch, but Google is planning to change that.
The company today announced that is introducing 6-second “bumper ads” that will play before all videos watched on mobile devices, and you have no choice but to sit through them.
Xperia X UHD? No. Photo: PhoneRadar
Dreaming of an Xperia X Premium with a 4K HDR display? Forget it!
Sony has confirmed that it has no plans to launch a Premium version of the new Xperia X, which means the Xperia Z5 Premium isn’t getting a successor anytime soon.
Marshmallow has arrived! Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android
BlackBerry has started rolling out its latest Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow update to all Priv handsets, just two weeks after it kicked off its beta test.
The release brings features like Doze and Google Now on Tap, plus slow-motion video recording, improved typing, a greater BlackBerry Hub experience, and more.
The looming shutdown of Revolv has some home-automation fans questioning the Internet of Things. Photo: Andrew Stawarz/Flickr CC
Revolv smart hubs will no longer be supported as of May 15. Even though subscribers have known this was coming since February, there wasn’t a lot of attention until an author’s highly critical piece was published on Medium.
That story has spurred conversations questioning investment in the Internet of Things, or IoT, and prompted Nest to consider compensating users who were early investors in the Revolv hub.
