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Aside from   its tendency to catch fire , the Galaxy Note7 was a good phone - so good, in fact, that some decided to keep theirs even after the final recall, using the reasoning that the chances of the phone burning itself and other things away was minimal. Thankfully, those of you who loved your Note7s don't have to do that anymore - a revised Galaxy Note Fan Edition has been released with the same hardware,   as leaks have suggested . Well, aside from the battery, of course. On the outside, the Note FE looks nearly identical to its predecessor. After all, the whole point of the FE is to reuse the Note7's unused parts so that the loss from the recalls is minimized. However, there are two small changes - there is no Samsung logo on the front of the phone underneath the earpiece, and there's a new "Galaxy Note Fan Edition" badge on the back in place of "Galaxy Note7." Personally, I'm just glad that the logo on the front is gone, as I found i...

YouTube Kids was originally released in 2015, as a portal for child-appropriate content on everyone's favorite video sharing site. However, there hasn't been a dedicated TV app for YouTube Kids, just iOS and Android apps. Today on the official company blog, YouTube announced a Kids app for various smart TVs - but Android TV is still strangely missing. According to the post, LG webOS TVs from 2015 onwards, Samsung Smart TVs and Blu-Ray players with the Samsung App Store, and Sony TVs from 2016 or newer (after a firmware update) will be supported. It's worth noting that YouTube Kids isn't available in all countries, so depending on where you buy your TV, you might be left out. Perhaps the strangest part of this announcement is that an official Android TV app still isn't available. The post says that it "will be available soon," but still.

When you talk about Samsung's Galaxy smartphones, it's hard not to talk about 'the average consumer.' Because the Galaxy S series is the second-most popular line of smartphones on earth, its audience is unashamedly mainstream, and the vast majority of sales of these devices will be to consumers who aren't what you'd call tech-savvy. The issue for Samsung, increasingly, is learning how to split the difference between a smartphone that provides a good experience for everybody and maintaining that all important credibility with its fans and enthusiasts. The Galaxy S8 and S8+, for example, have Quad HD displays - the best ones I've ever seen. But they're set to 1080p by default for improved performance. And as enthusiasts clamor for ever-larger batteries, Samsung has put very average, if not exactly small, ones in these new phones (though they should degrade less noticeably). The S8 is still a slippery metal and glass sandwich that essentially requires a...

CyanogenMod has been the most widely-used custom ROM for years, with at least 10 million users at one point. After Cyanogen Inc kicked the bucket, the community-maintained LineageOS continued CM's efforts. The official statistics page for the project now shows 515,000 active installs (at the time of writing), a great achievement for the relatively-new ROM. The statistics page has some other interesting information. The most popular device, in terms of active installations, is the OnePlus One (bacon) with 40,000 installs. This is followed by the Redmi Note 3 (kenzo), the OnePlus 3/3T (oneplus3), and the international Samsung Galaxy S3 (i9300). Since LineageOS is a direct continuation of the CyanogenMod project, it makes sense that the ROM would pick up many of the CM's former users - especially with a direct upgrade path. But it's still nice to see that project has achieved a good start, and I wish the developers luck for the future.