Electronic Arts will acquire mobile game developer Glu Mobile in a deal valued at $ 2.4 billion. Glu shareholders will receive $ 12.50 in cash for each share they hold, a 36% premium over the share’s closing price on February 5 (note: Glu has $ 364 million in net cash) . Glu Mobile is known for casual games (including many board game conversions), celebrity-themed games (including Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and a Taylor Swift social network), sports games and many more. The typical Glu game is free and earns money through micro-transactions. The EA / Glu combined wallet has generated $…
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introduction The Pixel smartphone represents Google’s ideal vision of Android, but there has always been Something off on Google’s Pixel phone which made it difficult to recommend blindly. Dating back to the Pixel 2 (excluding all “ a ” models), every Pixel has dismayingly encountered a compromise that kept us from loving (almost) everything about it, no matter how much we love it. really wanted. The Pixel 5 is different this time around. With the success of the Pixels 3a and 4a, Google learned that a phone doesn’t need the top-performing chipset or top-notch functionality to be successful. Everything had…
nubia launched the nubia Watch last July and the company will soon be adding a new smartwatch to its portfolio called RedMagic Watch, as the FCC documentation just revealed. The RedMagic Watch’s FCC listing leaves little to the imagination, confirming the specifications, features, and design of the notebook. The RedMagic watch with the model code SW2102 has a circular design with two physical buttons on its right side, which reminds us of the Realme Watch S Pro. It has a 1.39 “AMOLED display with a resolution of 454×454 pixels and supports automatic brightness adjustment since the smartwatch has an ambient…
Samsung UK has revealed that pre-orders of the Galaxy S21 series have set a new record and surpassed pre-orders of the previous Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S10 series. The exact pre-order numbers were not revealed although the Galaxy S21 Ultra has been described as the most popular model accounting for more than half of all sales. This news comes nearly two weeks after the start of open sales for the S21 Series and almost a month since the opening of the initial pre-orders. We recently posted our written review of the Galaxy S21 +. You can also head in that…
Xiaomi introduced the flagship Mi 11 to the world yesterday and its brother Lite will apparently follow very soon. A device with model number M2101K9AG and product name “Mi 11 Lite” has been certified by Bluetooth SIG, as well as SIRIM – Malaysia’s Standard and Industrial Research Institute. Xiaomi Mi 11 Lite on Bluetooth SIG website The listings only reveal that the new phone will have MIUI 12 and Bluetooth 5.2, as well as dual SIM support. Malaysia’s certification also tells us all the GSM and LTE frequencies the Mi 11 Lite will work on, but nothing on 5G. However,…
Motorola has started sowing Android 10 firmware on the Moto G8 Play in Brazil. The firmware, QMD30.47-19, is the same Android 10 that Motorola pushed to One Macro in India a few weeks ago and is around 1.46GB in size. Android 10 brings a number of improvements. It enables gesture navigation, the dark theme, the improved navigation panel, and in this case, the December 2020 security patch. We haven’t had any reports of Moto G8 Play devices outside of Brazil receiving the update, but if you have the device, check your software update menu to see if the OTA has…
TikTok and Universal Music Group (UMG) have announced an extension of their partnership that will deepen the already active collaboration between the two, allowing TikTok users to use songs from all UMG labels and artists in their videos. TikTok users will now have access to the full UMG catalog and the two brands will continue to work together to bring new features and content. UMG and TikTok will now work more closely than ever to promote ambitious experimentation, innovation and collaboration – with the common goal of developing new musical experiences and features. The viral aspect of TikTok gives UMG…
The new gaming phone, nubia Red Magic 6, will have a completely redesigned cooling solution, the brand manager said. Ni Fei, who is also president of mobile devices at ZTE, revealed that the fan will be “beefed up” and will bring a nine-axis spatial sensor that will track the phone’s movement in multiple directions. To illustrate what would happen if you had a nine-axis tracker, combined with the most powerful cooling fans ever, Ni Fei posted a video where the nubia Red Magic 6 is literally floating in the air – not quite. fact how the phone will surely behave,…
An Asus device with the model designation I005DA and purported to be the ROG Phone 5 was spotted on Geekbench last December with 8GB of RAM. Now its 16GB RAM variant has appeared in the benchmark database, achieving 1131 and 3729 points in single-core and multi-core tests, respectively, which is higher than what the 8GB RAM model got. Like the 8GB RAM variant, the 16GB version also runs Android 11 and has a Snapdragon 888 SoC at the helm. Geekbench is not disclosing any other specifications for the ROG Phone 5, but TENAA has revealed that the smartphone will ship…
We’ve been hearing about the Redmi K40 for a long time now, and today Company Vice President Lu Weibing finally confirmed that K40 will be unveiled on February 25. The automatic translation of Mr. Lu’s Weibo message from Chinese reveals that the Redmi K40 will feature a brand new design, brand new positioning, and provide a whole new experience. Redmi K40 is coming February 25 The post did not reveal the Redmi K40’s design or detail its specs, but the executive previously confirmed that the K40 series will come with a Snapdragon 888 SoC, feature the most expensive flat panel…