Daily Archives: March 8, 2016

Xiaomi’s Mi Powerbank Pro supports USB Type-C, costs just $22

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Xiaomi is a company that’s made itself a name not just in smartphones, but also in accessories. The company offers a wide variety of accessories and accompaniment devices for smartphones and has garnered positive feedback for its Powerbank portable charging packs. Xiaomi is now launching a new variety, the Mi Powerbank Pro, which offers great value and is future-proofed for the next generation of smartphone charging.

Xiaomi’s Mi Powerbank Pro offers a 10,000mAh capacity with smart charging capabilities, allowing it to offer the proper voltage for the fastest charge on your device. The Mi Powerbank Pro also supports the new USB Type-C standard, which is fitting considering that the Xiaomi Mi 5 will be using USB Type-C. This new charging pack is 42% thinner than the previous model and comes with an 18W charger that allows it to be charged to full capacity in just three and a half hours.

The Mi Powerbank Pro is currently available only in China for ￥149, or about $22 USD. The company hasn’t yet released details on global availability, but in the past, Xiaomi’s Powerbanks have become globally available fairly quickly.

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20 Essential Survival Tips For The Division: Day One

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The Division is a unique release in the sense that the press only started playing the game yesterday, at the earliest, and as such, there should be no reviews out today, on launch day. Normally, I would have already beaten the game by now and had sage wisdom to share about my 50 hours of gameplay, but today I find myself in a different situation.

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Pandora Now Lets Artists Record Their Own ‘Ads’

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Over the past year or so, internet streaming radio service Pandora has slowly been snapping up companies and starting new initiatives in an effort to become what the company’s co-founder Tim Westergren calls a “listening marketplace”, and not just a place to hear the latest hits. Early on Tuesday morning, the company announced its plans to roll out AMPcast, a new feature where artists can speak directly to their fans. The idea is pretty simple, yet it could have a profound impact on the the revenues derived from the streaming service.

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Verison and T-Mobile HTC One (M8) units are now receiving Android Marshmallow

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As originally promised, HTC will bring Android Marshmallow to all of its flagship handsets, going back to and including the One (M8). Today the OTA has started seeding for both the Verison and T-Mobile carrier versions of the phone.

The former is receiving a software version 6.21.605.3 package, while the latter has the build 6.20.531.5. Both, however are based on Android 6.0 and bring about all the Marshmallow goodies Google’s OS has to offer, like run time permissions, app Dozing, Google Now on Tap and many others. The software should also come with new volume controls for notifications, audio and alarms and simplified screen capture.

In other news, T-Mobile is also spreading some Marshmallow love to its more price-conscious clients, owners of the LG G Stylo. It has also started receiving an Android 6.0 OTA, already spotted in the wild with a version number of “H63120b” and weighing in at 767MB.

Bear in mind that both carriers are conducting a staged rollout of all the updates, so it might be a few days before your handset receives the payload. T-Mobile has even cited a rather lengthy update window, ranging from March 7 to March 21, so a bit more patience might still be required.

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