Android Police: January 2017

TANKOUT is a retro multiplayer shooter from the maker of Galcon

Who doesn't like shooting stuff with tanks? No one, that's who. Now you can shoot blocks, other blocks, slightly different blocks, and other tanks in TANKOUT. It's a new online multiplayer game from the maker of popular strategy game Galcon.

TANKOUT is a top-down shooter taking place in a retro block-based world. You and the other tanks do battle, while also collecting coins to buy more blocks, weapons, and other objects.

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Samsung sets its MWC press conference for February 26

Phone nerds like us love February (me especially... it's my birthday month) because of the Mobile World Congress. Every year, most of the big players in the industry, and a lot of small ones, make their announcements for their product lineups in Barcelona. Samsung, being no stranger to the event, has scheduled its press conference for February 26.

Usually, Sammy announces its Galaxy S device(s) at MWC, but we are expecting the Galaxy S8 to make an appearance later this year.

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The cheapest smartphone plans in the United States

Every day we seem to be inundated with ads about who has the absolute cheapest data plan. Online, television, billboards, junk mail, even old-fashioned radio - it seems I can't go five minutes without each carrier telling me how much cheaper they are than everyone else, going so far as to hire old Verizon spokesmen and make dubious claims about reliability.

You know what? To hell with all of that. I've looked at every smartphone plan from every nationwide carrier in the country, big and small, to find the absolute cheapest plans.

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Brookstone releases two new speakers with Chromecast and Bluetooth functionality

Brookstone has been making wireless speakers for years, but only now is jumping onto the Chromecast bandwagon. The company has now released updated models of the Big Blue Studio and Big Blue Party speakers, both with added casting functionality.

The Big Blue Studio is already available from Brookstone for $129.99. The tower-like Big Blue Party, costing $249.99, is also now on sale. Both speakers have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, in case you want to play music outside of a wireless network.

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[Deal Alert] Get a 256GB SanDisk microSD card for $120 ($60 off)

The mighty microSD card gets better and better as time goes along. Even though my daily driver phones have not supported the tiny storage medium in some time, I still get excited about deals like the one we have here. B&H has the SanDisk 256GB Ultra on sale for $119.95, a savings of $60.

With a read speed of 95MB/s, you can access your scores of data quickly. The card itself is water-, temperature-, shock-, x-ray, and magnet-proof, so calling it durable is an understatement.

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Snapseed updated to v2.15 with new curves tool, improved multi-line text, and more [APK Download]

Snapseed is one of the apps Google has actually been keeping up after acquiring it, and good thing too. Adobe's mobile apps aren't great, and Snapseed is excellent for simple image edits. In the first update of 2017, Snapseed has a new curves editing tool, and there are changes to the way text and face detection work.

There's a Google+ post with details, but here it is in list form.

New curves tool
Choose location of word wrap in multi-line text
Improved face detection
Higher quality grain in black and white filter

The curves tool lets you change an image's tonality.

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RCS support in Messenger going live for some T-Mobile users

RCS, short for Rich Communication Services, has been aiming to replace SMS for years. But unlike the universal SMS standard, there are multiple RCS implementations that don't work with each other. Google has been working to solve this, by adding RCS support to Google Messenger and working with carriers to implement Jibe's 'Universal RCS Profile.'

Right now, only Sprint and Rogers support the Jibe RCS profile, but T-Mobile may be next. Multiple T-Mobile customers on Reddit, Twitter, and Google+ have reported seeing the RCS activation popup in Google Messenger.

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Tuesday, January 31, 2017