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Welcome to your weekly round-up of the best U.K. deals of the week for Android phones, network plans, accessories, smart home tech, and a little of whatever else is on offer in the world of mobile. Editor's Pick Huawei P20 and P20 Pro hands-on: Holding nothing back Editor’s note: We’ll update our Huawei P20 and P20 Pro hands-on and related coverage with more details in the coming hours, so stay tuned! They say the best revenge is massive success, and Huawei seems poised … This week’s deals include an incredible pre-order offer on the newly-announced Huawei P20 and P20 Pro , as well as discounts on the LG G6 , Huawei P Smart, a 20,000mAh portable charger, an Asus Chromebook Flip for less than £200, and much more. Below are the most enticing deals we’ve seen this week hand-picked with a little help from the folks over at HotUKDeals – the U.K.’s biggest deal-sharing community. Phones Free Bose QC35 II wireless headphones (worth $329.25) w/ every Huawei P20/P20 Pro pre...

Crunchyroll announced DanMachi – Memoria Freese, the first game under its Crunchyroll Games brand. The game is based on the DanMachi anime. Memoria Freese is now available as a free download. It might have had sketchy beginnings, but Crunchyroll has grown to become a legitimate anime streaming and manga reading network. It would make sense, then, that the service’s first game is based on manga-turned-anime series Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? At its core, DanMachi – Memoria Freese is a 2D dungeon-crawler RPG that lets you build, upgrade, and customize your party and includes turn-based battles. The game features an original storyline based on the anime’s first season, though I have not played enough of the game to decipher what that storyline is. The game certainly looks great, however, and ran with little to no hiccups on my Galaxy S9 Plus . Even the voice acting, which can easily be an afterthought in a free-to-play title, is up to par and is done by th...

Smartphones are dreamily thin, composed mostly of metal and glass materials which aren’t always well-suited to the rough and tumble of everyday life. The industry is always on the lookout for new materials. We’ve seen a progression from plastic to aluminum and aerospace-aluminum alloys, to stainless steel, ceramics, and even titanium reinforcements. While metal designs tend to be highly durable and enhance heat dissipation from warm processors and batteries, they struggle with shielding. The metallic backs on phones — such as the classic HTC M8 and M9 phones — prevent wireless charging from working and reduce the sensitivity of antennas. Ceramics are another good material option with helpful advantages like superior hardness to resist scratching. They also tend to be more brittle, which can be a problem on a device dropped as frequently as a smartphone. We have seen companies dabble with wood on smartphones in the past. Motorola’s 2014 Moto X offered a wood backin...

Networking is absolutely integral to almost every business on the planet. Forbes magazine estimates that Cisco is 15 times bigger than it’s nearest rival in the networking game. Naturally then, Cisco engineers are in very high demand Kick-start a new career in style If you’re thinking of wading in to the vast career of network engineering , The Ultimate Cisco Certification Super Bundle is the perfect launch pad. This monstrous bundle contains nine course . Each course alone contains all the materials you need to cruise through the corresponding certification exam, and further enhancing your rep as the go-to Cisco guy. Here’s the full line up: Cisco 100-105: Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 1 – ICND1 V3 Cisco 200-105: Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 2 – ICND2 V3 Cisco 210-260: Implementing Cisco Network Security Cisco 200-355: Implementing Cisco Wireless Networking Fundamentals Cisco 210-060: Implementing Cisco Collaboration Devices (C...

Google will use machine learning to predict the winners of the NCAA Final Four. Once it has its prediction ready, it will post an ad during halftime announcing who it thinks will win. Google will use real-time data from the game as well as historical sports data to generate its predictions. If you’ve placed any bets on the upcoming NCAA Final Four college basketball games, you might want to talk to Google before placing any more. That’s because Google will be using machine learning to determine which teams will win the Final Four games, processing both past data and data that’s happening in real time as the games progress. We can all agree that no matter how lucky you think you are when it comes to predicting basketball games, Google’s machine learning systems are probably better. Google teamed up with NCAA late last year to load almost a hundred years of sports data into Google Cloud Platform . Using that data combined with real-time information rolling in as t...

What does a free coupon really cost? Internet commerce practically runs on coupons, coupon plugin, vouchers, and promotional codes, with a number of dedicated sites, platforms, and tools like Honey and  InvisibleHand to help you save at checkout. It’s a marketing tactic dating back to the 19th century, when  Asa Candler used coupons  to help popularize the beverage company he bought, “distributing thousands of coupons for a complimentary glass of Coca-Cola.” Obviously Candler’s efforts were a success — perhaps you’ve heard of Coca-Cola — and today there are very few e-retailers that don’t offer the chance to “apply a code” before buying something online. Plenty of savvy users take this opportunity to do a quick Google search for an easy way to save some money, with millions of codes posted and available for free on a multitude of websites. More savvy online shoppers don’t even search for coupons anymore, but use a coupon plugin loaded into their browser, whi...

The Samsung Galaxy S5 is a phone close to my heart. Android Authority is your cutting edge guide to the latest Android devices , but it doesn’t mean we can’t get a bit sentimental now and again. Why are you getting all misty eyed? I admit it’s strange, but I love this phone. There’s one dutifully sitting on the desk next to me right now. When the S8 came out, I stuck with the S5 . When I had it stolen in South America, I sourced a new one in the next city. It’s the phone for me. Ok it’s not going to give you the mind-blowing levels of functionality that the new S9 can boast, but it still holds its own in most of the metrics .  Samsung Galaxy S5 Spec: Android 5.0 Lollipop 2.5 GHz Quad-Core Qualcomm® Snapdragon processor Rear camera: 16 megapixel; Auto Focus with Flash & Zero Shutter Lag, BIS Front camera: 2 megapixel, Full HD recording @30fps with Zero Shutter Lag, BIS Screen: 5.1 inch Full HD Super AMOLED (1920 x 1080) display, 441 ppi 16GB of Internal Memory...