Android Police: September 2018

Samsung Galaxy Watch 'Golf Edition' now on sale in South Korea

Do you like to go golfing? Is the normal Samsung Galaxy Watch just not doing it for you? If so, Samsung has the solution - a special 'Golf Edition' of its latest smartwatch. It's pre-loaded with the Smart Caddie application, which displays geographical information about a desired course.

Samsung says the watch was developed in collaboration with Golfzon Deca, a golf rangefinder manufacturer in South Korea. It can keep track of your shots, and the battery should last long enough for three rounds of golf (54 holes).

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Weekend poll: Do you subscribe to YouTube Premium?

Almost everyone watches YouTube — if not regularly, at least occasionally. The service is a functional monopoly when it comes to online video. It's also ad-supported, and while those advertisements aren't anywhere near as annoying or ridiculous as contemporary television, they are a noticeable part of using YouTube. With benefits like offline use, background playback, YouTube Music, and no advertisements, I'm curious how many of our readers have elected to pay for YouTube Premium.

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Samsung Galaxy Note9 gets camera quality improvements in latest update

The Galaxy Note9, arguably one of the best (and most expensive) Android phones you can buy right now, recently received an update. Despite getting bumped to the September security patch, the Note9 also received some camera quality improvements, including brightening faces in backlit conditions and HDR control accuracy.

Here's the changelog:

What's new

Security patch level: September 1, 2018
Camera picture quality has been improved
- Brightness of faces in backlit conditions has been improved
- Day/Night HDR control accuracy has been improved
- Low light brightness and SNR (signal noise reduction) has been improved

The Note9 already boasts a very good camera, so any improvements to it only serve to make an excellent thing even better.

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[Deal Alert] Grab a JBL Link View smart display for $200 ($50 off)

Assistant smart displays are a fairly new product, but we're already starting to see discounts on some. JBL is knocking $50 off its offering, the Link View, meaning that you only need to fork over $199.95 to get your own smart display.

If you want to more about this visual means of interacting with Assistant, be sure to check out our review. Being from JBL, it boasts great sound. Sure, there are some things to work out with Assistant on displays like these, but the use case is there and it's quite likely that Google will continue to improve the experience over time.

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21 best new Android games released this week including Monster Hunter Stories, Layton: Curious Village in HD, and Harvest Moon: Light of Hope

Welcome to the roundup of the best new Android games that went live in the Play Store or were spotted by us in the previous week or so. This week had more than a few quality titles land on Android. Monster Hunter Stories is, of course, a huge release with a fair price, but then Layton: Curious Village in HD and Harvest Moon: Light of Hope are also hugely popular titles that are worth their asking prices.

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Tesla Android app updated with new navigation and media features

Tesla just released a massive update for its fleet of cars with improvements to the Autopilot functionality, new dashboard applications, and more. To use all the new features, you'll need the latest version of the Android app, which has just been pushed to the Play Store.

Version 3.6.0-352 of the app is now rolling out, with the below changes:

- Start navigation in your car using the share feature in your favorite phone apps
- Allow passengers to quickly control media
- Start and cancel software updates on your car

To use the new functionality, your Tesla vehicle has to be on software version 2018.39 or later.

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Google estimated to be paying $9 billion to be Safari's default search engine

For search engines, there's nothing more lucrative than being the default provider on a popular web browser. In the past, companies have paid massive amounts of money for the position; Yahoo gave Mozilla over $300 million to be the default engine for Firefox, but the company was later outbid by Google. A new report estimates that Google's place as the default iPhone search engine is costing the company $9 billion this year.

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Sunday, September 30, 2018