Not long ago Google announced the availability of Android gameplay recording through its YouTube Gaming app, and starting today you have another way to do that.

See, the latest version of the Google Play Games app lets you easily record gameplay too. You simply open it, select any game you want to play, and then tap the record button. The resolution choices for capturing your gameplay are 720p and 480p.

You also have the option of adding video of yourself playing and commenting, via the front-facing camera and microphone. After you’re done, it’s possible to edit the video, then upload it to YouTube.

Gameplay recording will be out in the US and UK first, over the coming days. More countries will get the new feature “soon after”, according to Google.

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Huawei’s next top of the line Kirin chipset is all set to become official on November 5, at a special event. The Chinese company is sending out invites for the gathering to media outlets in the country, and they look like the image you can see to the left.

There’s no doubt that this event will be all about a Kirin chipset, even if its exact model isn’t mentioned in the material. Many months of rumors however have pegged this as being the Kirin 950, which we’ve even seen getting benchmarked back in August.

Now it looks like Huawei is done tuning it, and is ready to announce the Kirin 950. The source of the event invite image says the SoC’s CPU will feature Cortex-A72 cores, Cat.10 LTE connectivity, and will be made on TSMC’s 16nm FinFET process.

That aforementioned benchmark gave us a fuller picture. The Kirin 950 will come with an octa-core CPU. Four of those cores will indeed by Cortex-A72, ARM’s newest high-performing design. These cores will be clocked at up to 2.4 GHz. The other four will be Cortex-A57 cores, while the GPU is a Mali-T880. The chipset supports LPDDR4 RAM. With such specs, it’s not surprising that the Kirin 950 received higher benchmark scores than Samsung’s Exynos 7420, which is inside all four of its 2015 flagships.

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HTC One A9 is not just a phone, it’s a corporate rejuvenation. A9 is the boost HTC needs to swim out of the murky waters and claim its piece on the market. HTC may have outed a few very capable phones this year, but it needs a game changer, a statement that the king is still alive and kicking…

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While HTC has already confirmed that its latest flagship smartphone One A9 will be compatible with Verizon’s network, there has been no information on when the carrier would start offering the device.

However, that was until now, as HTC has revealed that users will be able to order the handset from Big Red in the month of December. The revelation came in the form of a mention on the Taiwanese company’s US website.

The One A9 is now up for preorder in the US, where most carriers, including AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Cricket, and MetroPCS are offering it. The device is currently priced at $399.99, but will be available for $499.99 beginning November…

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Closely emulating something that it’s already done for the G4 earlier this year, LG now has a new promotion running for people in the US. If you buy an LG V10 until November 15, you’ll get three free items: a 200GB microSD card, a second battery, and a battery charging cradle – an approximate retail value of $319.97.

To be eligible, you can purchase the V10 from a carrier such as AT&T or T-Mobile, or an authorized retailer – which basically means Amazon, Best Buy, or “carrier authorized retailers reselling operator services” according to the promo’s terms and conditions.

You have until November 30 to redeem your free items, after which you should allow 4-6 weeks for shipping. The LG V10 is already up for pre-order at both AT&T and…

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Back in February this year, the British telecommunications giant BT announced its plans to acquire UK’s leading mobile carrier EE for $19 billion (£12.5 billion). The deal – which will create a communications giant offering services like broadband, fixed-line, mobile, and TV – has now received a provisional nod from the country’s competition watchdog CMA (Competition and Markets Authority).

“Having considered all the evidence, the group does not provisionally believe that, in a dynamic and evolving sector, it is more likely than not that BT/EE will be able to use its position to damage competition or the interests of consumers,” said John Wotton, who chaired the CMA’s inquiry into the deal.

There is, however, still one hurdle that the deal needs to clear – competitors Vodafone and TalkTalk are of the view that BT should spin off its Openreach broadband infrastructure service to provide better service and promote healthy competition. CMA is expected to publish a final report in January next…

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At its IFA 2015 press event, Samsung emphasized the customization options of the Gear S2 and the plethora of designers and partners it has to pull it off. The collaborations include companies like Case-Mate, Casetify, Chow Tai Fook, Incipio, iTFit and SLG Design (also known as TheSom) and now Samsung is showing off what they have done for the Gear S2.

Starting with Case-Mate, which will offer leather bands for the Gear S2 and Gear S2 classic. Then, there are the more colorful Casetify straps in five distinctive designs (Dark Marble, Woodland Camouflage, Coral Tribal, Diamond, White Marble). They’re made of sweat-resistant thermoplastic polyurethane (try saying that three times fast).

Case-Mate bands • Casetify straps

Chow Tai Fook bands will be sold in China and Hong Kong and are quite luxurious with diamond accents and 18k gold. iTFit will offers several straps made from NATO materials, which feature woven cloth and are hypoallergenic. Finally, SLG Design and Incipio will also offer straps, some of which look quite cool for our taste.

Chow Tai Fook • iTFit • SLG Design

This all goes to show the lengths to which Samsung has gone to offer unmatched personalization for its Gear S2 and Gear S2 classic smartwatches. It’ll be interesting to see how much these niceties will cost, but we doubt any of them will beat an Apple Watch Edition with an Hermes leather…

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The ginormous tablet that Samsung teased back at IFA 2015 is now official. The Samsung Galaxy View touts a large 18.4″ TFT LCD display of 1080p resolution resulting in a pixel density of 123ppi.

The Galaxy View comes with a handle for an easy carry, as it weighs 2.65kg and measures 275.8 x 451.8 x 11.9mm. Rubber feet at the bottom keep it from sliding about and the back features a 2-way stand. Samsung says the tablet’s 5700mAh can provide up to 8 hours of continuous video playback, although it’s pretty clear you won’t be going away from a power socket often. You’ll be further enjoying the video content with a dual 4W stereo speaker setup.

Powering the Galaxy View is an 1.6GHz octa-core CPU and 2GB of RAM, part of the Samsung Exynos 7580 chipset. Internal storage is either 32GB or 64GB and is expandable via the microSD card slot on board. Above the display, there’s a 2.1MP camera for video conferencing. The connectivity suite includes Bluetooth 4.1 BLE, Wi-Fi 802.11 ac and an LTE model with a nano-SIM slot.

The company is shipping the tablet with a Media UX skin on top of Android 5.1 Lollipop and is placing a strong accent on video watching.

Samsung hasn’t officially revealed pricing and availability information. However, a prematurely online listing from US store Adorama (cached) reveals the Galaxy View US price of…

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We should abandon our traditional timekeeping measures and just name months after HTC releases. Here’s Miss October, aka HTC One M9e. Note the “e,” this is different from the original One M9, the M9+, the M9+ Supreme Camera, the One E9, E9+, E9s dual SIM…

That I had to type the previous sentence is all that’s wrong with HTC’s product strategy. And as if things weren’t confusing enough, Tmall, where the M9e launched, often calls the handset just “One M9,” even though it is not.

What it is is a One M9 crossed over with the new A9. No, you don’t get the snazzier new design (even though HTC says it will bring the A9 style to One M and Desire phones), but you do get the 13MP OIS camera. Unfortunately, this also means that you’re limited to 1080p recording, no 4K.

And it’s not the chipset this time either, this handset uses the One M9+ chipset – the MediaTek MT6795T Helio X10. That one is perfectly capable of 2160p video, unlike the Snapdragon 617 in the One A9. You don’t get 3GB RAM either, just 2GB. And 16GB of storage instead of 32GB.

To recap, the HTC One M9e is an M9, but with A9’s camera, a parred down M9+ processing power and video capture. There’s no secondary camera on the back or laser autofocus, but you do get the UltraPixel selfie camera.

The M9e launches with an older Android 5.0 Lollipop styled with HTC Sense, which will run on the 5″ 1080p screen. It’s a single-SIM phone with an aluminum unibody and a CNY 2,700 price tag ($425/€385). For comparison, Tmall sells the more advanced One M9+ for CNY 2,520.

Having launched on Tmall isn’t a great indication that it will be available in the west, by the way.

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The Microsoft Surface Pro 4 put up quite a fight before revealing its secrets to the iFixit team. The screen was held in by glue and two cables. After those were cleared, the motherboard still wasn’t accessible though.

Inside is a M.2 Samsung SSD, this bodes well for upgradeability. The RAM is soldered onto the motherboard, however, so there’s no hope of upgrading. Above all that is a big copper heatsink and an empty space – presumably that’s where the fan goes on higher powered models (the Core i3 model doesn’t have one).

Overall, iFixit gave the Surface Pro 4 a measly 2 out 10 repairability score. The only positive is the swappable SSD, the rest – from the glued down screen to the glued down battery – is very hard to…

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