Save up to 60% on these open box Sony headphones

Ever since the Walkman was released in 1979, Sony has been at the cutting edge of audio technology. The tech giant makes some of the best headphones around, although you usually have to pay a premium for the brand. If you are looking for a more affordable upgrade, take a look at these enticing deals on some new open box Sony headphones at the XDA Developers Depot. 

For the uninitiated, new open box items are usually considered excess inventory from store shelves. They might have some assorted stickers on the packaging and/or have been exposed to customer contact. Plus, the packaging sometimes shows signs of extra handling. Regardless, the products will still be verified to be in new condition and put in clean packaging, so you can trust they’ll work like new while enjoying a fairly significant discount.

Sony MDR-XB650BT Extra Bass™ Wireless Headphones

Described by Trusted Reviews as “technically impressive”, the MDR-XB650BT headphones can keep going for 30 hours on a full charge. They connect to your phone via Bluetooth or NFC, with Extra Bass technology for richer sound and a built-in mic for hands-free calls. Normally $129.99, the headphones are now $59.99 open box.

Sony ZX220BT Wireless On-Ear Bluetooth Headphones

Thanks to 1.18″ dome drivers, these on-ear headphones deliver dynamic audio for eight hours straight. They work on Bluetooth, or you can tap them against any NFC device for an instant wireless connection. They also have a unique swiveling design that makes them great for travel. They are usually $79.99, but you can grab them now for just $34.99 open box.

Sony MDR-XB450AP Extra Bass™ Headphones

Featuring 1.18” drivers with an extended low-frequency range, these Extra Bass headphones are rated at 4 out of 5 stars on Amazon. An acoustic seal helps to keep that bass contained, while the Smart Key app allows you to make adjustments with a tap. In addition, they weigh only 5.82 ounces. Normally priced at $79.99, they are currently just $29.99 open box.

Sony ZX110AP Extra Bass™ Headphones

For audiophiles on a budget, the ZX110AP headphones offer impressive specs. They have 1.38″ neodymium dynamic drivers that deliver crisp highs and a powerful bass, with a closed-back design to lock the sound in. You also get plush ear cushions, an inline remote, a mic for hands-free calls, and a folding design. They retail for $29.99, but they are now reduced to $16.99 open box.

Prices subject to change 

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Motorola Moto G8 Power Lite leaks with basically the same design as the Moto G Power

Motorola’s G series of budget and mid-range smartphones have been a fan favorite ever since the company launched the original Moto G back in 2013. The company has since launched well over 20 devices as part of the Moto G series, with the Moto G Power and Moto G Stylus joining the lineup early last month. The latest devices in the Moto G family feature decidedly mid-range specifications, with a Snapdragon 665 SoC, 4GB of RAM, and up to 128GB of internal storage. Now, Motorola seems to have taken some inspiration from other smartphone manufacturers and is launching a “lite” version of the Moto G Power (previously referred to as the Moto G8 Power).

Motorola Moto G8 Power Lite. pic.twitter.com/4WiKSWG4eX

— Roland Quandt (still going to Not-MWC) (@rquandt) March 3, 2020

Images of the upcoming Motorola Moto G8 Power Lite have now surfaced online, thanks to renowned leakster Roland Quandt (@rquandt).  The images reveal that the upcoming device features basically the same design as the Moto G Power, with a triple camera setup on the back, a capacitive fingerprint scanner with the Motorola logo, and a hole-punch display with a single cutout for the selfie camera.

Motorola One Mid
-Snapdragon 675
-6.53″ 2340×1080 display
-4000mAh battery

Motorola Moto G8 Power Lite (who comes up with these names?)
-MediaTek Helio P35 (mt6765)
-5000mAh battery

— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) February 25, 2020

The images also reveal that the device will feature a headphone jack on the bottom edge, along with what looks like a micro USB port for charging and data syncing. As far as the specifications are concerned, the Moto G8 Power Lite is expected to pack in a MediaTek Helio P35 (mt6765) SoC, coupled with a massive 5,000 mAh battery. While Motorola hasn’t revealed any official information about the device yet, we expect the company to divulge more details as we get closer to its launch. It’s worth noting that Motorola is also working on a flagship device called the Motorola Edge+ which will be powered by Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 865 chip and feature 5G support.

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Samsung’s Clock app on the Galaxy S20 lets you set Spotify as the alarm

After weeks of leaks and rumors surrounding its flagships for 2020, Samsung finally lifted the covers off the Galaxy S20 series early last month. Much like last year, the company launched three devices as part of the series, including the Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+, and Galaxy S20 Ultra. As you’d expect, the smartphones feature top-of-the-line specifications with the high-end Galaxy S20 Ultra boasting of a 100x Space Zoom feature. Along with the Galaxy S20 series, Samsung also rolled out One UI 2.1 — its latest software release based on Android 10.

Galaxy S20 XDA Forums || Galaxy S20+ XDA Forums || Galaxy S20 Ultra XDA Forums

While One UI 2.1 is largely the same as One UI 2.0, it does pack in some additional features that aren’t available on older devices yet. These include features like Quick Share, which is Samsung’s alternative to Apple’s AirDrop that lets you easily share images or files with other users with a supported device. The One UI 2.1 update also includes revamped AR Emoji, a new Music Share feature, and streamlined Google Duo integration. However, that’s not all that’s new in One UI 2.1.

Samsung has also updated its stock Clock app in One UI 2.1 and it now gives users the ability to choose “Spotify” as the alarm sound. As you’d expect, choosing the streaming service as your alarm will allow you to wake up to your favorite songs, which is always better than using the stock alarm sounds included on the device. The new feature can be found in the “Alarm sound” settings within the Clock app on all Galaxy S20 devices. It goes without saying that you’ll also need to install the Spotify app on your device in order to use this feature.

As of now, the feature isn’t available for older devices, but we expect Samsung to roll it out to more devices along with the One UI 2.1 update in the near future. It’s worth noting that Samsung isn’t the first to include the option to use Spotify as the alarm sound on its devices. Google rolled out support for Spotify in the Google Clock app all the way back in 2018. So in case you haven’t received the feature on your Samsung device yet, you can install the Google Clock app from the Play Store and set up Spotify as your alarm sound right away.

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Your rooted Android phone can jailbreak an iPhone with checkra1n

A lot of us here at XDA-Developers.com actually chanced upon the forums for the first time when we were looking to root our Android devices. After all, our forums are over 17 years old at this point, and currently, boast of over 10 million members who have created more than 3.4 million threads and 77 million posts over the years — creating an invaluable community resource for helping enthusiasts root their devices and get the most out of it. A rooted Android phone opens up a plethora of opportunities for the enthusiast community, unlocking the door for all sorts of crazy stuff — like jailbreaking your iPhone, for instance.

Jailbreaking an iPhone is similar to rooting an Android device in its core concept — you are essentially granting yourself escalated permissions and disabling a lot of protections that are built into the OS, iOS and Android respectively. While rooting several popular Android phones has largely become a trivial matter thanks to cooperative OEMs, jailbreaking an iPhone remains a moving challenge because of Apple and its walled-garden approach. Every time a jailbreak is released, Apple works on patching the vulnerabilities that allowed it to happen, closing the door for the same solutions to be viable for future devices and future software updates. Jailbreaks thus tend to be very specific on the phone and iOS version they work on, and also require very specific and very particular steps to achieve success.

Checkra1n is one jailbreak solution, credited for being the first jailbreak for Apple devices running iOS 13. It also works on a wide variety of Apple hardware. And because it utilizes an exploit that targets a flaw in the Boot ROM on Apple hardware instead of a vulnerability within iOS, it is also being credited as being one of the only solutions that will work across software updates on vulnerable phones. However, as drawbacks, Checkra1n is a semi-tethered jailbreak, meaning that you need to re-jailbreak every time you reboot the device. Adding on to this inconvenience is the fact that the jailbreak was initially only possible through MacOS v10.10+ — vastly limiting your options if your phone ever rebooted out of schedule.

Recently though, Checkra1n gained support for Linux, making it possible to jailbreak iOS 13 devices using a Linux computer. Obviously, this expands the possible platforms you can use, but as Reddit user /u/stblr found out, this can also tackle the inconvenience aspect of a semi-tethered jailbreak by letting you jailbreak using a rooted Android smartphone!

[News] It is possible to run checkra1n from an Android device! from jailbreak

Reddit user /u/stblr notes a few pre-requisites:

1. Of course, first, you need an iPhone or iPad which is compatible with Checkra1n (iPhone 5s to iPhone X, iOS 12.3 and up).
2. An Android device with root access, preferably with newer Linux and Android versions. The video demo uses a Sony Xperia XZ1 Compact on Android 10 with Linux kernel 4.14, and was rooted with Magisk.
3. A terminal app on your Android phone.
4. A way to connect the two phones. Some of Apple’s USB-C to Lightning cables do not work as they lack pins to put the iDevice into DFU mode.

And the steps for jailbreaking are surprisingly simple, compared to some of the more complicated methods the iOS community has seen in the past:

1. Download the Checkra1n binary for Linux, noting the correct µarch of your Android device:
   1. You can check for your phone’s architecture by running this ADB command on your computer while your phone is connected:

      adb shell getprop ro.product.cpu.abi

      The output would be your phone’s architecture.

2. Place the downloaded binary into /data on your rooted Android phone. You can search for your device in our subforums to know the best method to root it.
3. Connect your iDevice to your Android phone.
4. Open the terminal app, and gain root access by typing the “su” command.
5. Type “lsusb” to check if your iDevice is recognized. The USB ID displayed should be “05ac:12a8“.
6. Put your iDevice into DFU (Device Firmware Upgrade) mode. You can find device-specific instructions over here.
7. Check whether your iDevice is still recognized with “lsusb“. The USB ID displayed should now be “05ac:1227“.
8. Run checkra1n in CLI mode using the command “./checkra1n -c“.
9. Your iDevice should now be jailbroken. However, the method is not entirely reliable, so you may need to retry the steps to achieve success.

The steps may appear to be daunting, but they are not really. If you have a rooted device, we can presume you are comfortable with following instructions and typing in a few commands. Nonetheless, keep in mind that jailbreaking and rooting devices come with their own risks, so do not attempt either without fully understanding what you are doing.

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Major Google Photos redesign removes hamburger menu and moves search to bottom bar

Google offers a variety of different apps on the Play Store and while a lot of these apps are pretty great, none of them stack up to the might of Google Photos. The machine learning-powered gallery app from Google offers a ton of useful features and Google keeps on improving the app with more features ever so often. However, the app hasn’t received a UI refresh in quite some time. Google rolled out the last redesign for the app all the way back in September 2018, which brought Google’s Material Theme to the app. Since then, we’ve only seen one significant change in the app’s UI — a new account switching gesture that was released late last year. Now, according to a recent report from Android Police, Google is rolling out a major redesign for Google Photos that gets rid of the hamburger menu and the search bar.

The updated design for Google Photos is currently rolling out as a server-side update and it brings two major changes to the app’s UI. First off, the search bar and the accompanying hamburger menu has been replaced with a Google Photos logo, giving the app a cleaner look. Right underneath it is the Memories section, followed by all your recent photos. Secondly, since the search bar and hamburger menu are now gone, all of the app’s features can now be accessed from the bottom bar. In order to accommodate the additional features, the bottom bar has also received a slight redesign and it now houses five icons, namely Photos, Search, For You, Sharing, and Library.

Tapping on the new Search icon in the bottom bar brings up a few suggests that are a bit more pleasing to look at when compared to the ones you’d get in the old interface. People & Pets previews are significantly larger, and places and things suggestions are accompanied by photos. These changes make the Search tab look a lot like the old Album tab. Scrolling down in the Search tab brings up specific search terms in the form of categories, like “screenshots”, “selfies”, “videos”, and more. On top of that, you can also access all your recently uploaded photos in the same tab.

Since the Album tab has been removed in the new redesign, its content has been split into the Search tab and the Library tab. The Library tab also lists some of the items that were previously found in the hamburger menu, including device folders, the archive, trash, and some “utilities”. As mentioned earlier, the redesign is rolling out as a server-side update and it’s currently limited to a very small group of users. Even though I’m using the beta version of the app, I don’t see the redesigned UI on any of my devices. However, since the redesign has started appearing in the stable version of the app, we expect Google to roll it out to more users in the coming days. We’ll update this post as and when Google rolls out the new Google Photos UI to a wider audience.

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Source: Android Police

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OnePlus 8, 8 Pro, and 8 Lite could launch next month

Just a few days after the launch of the OnePlus 7T (review) and OnePlus 7T Pro (review) last year, we started seeing leaks about OnePlus’ next flagships — the OnePlus 8 and the OnePlus 8 Pro. At the time, leaked renders of the devices revealed that the company was also taking the Samsung route and adding hole-punch cutouts for the selfie cameras on its next flagships. We also learned that the OnePlus 8 Pro will feature a quad-camera setup and that the devices may launch on Verizon with support for its 5G Ultra WideBand network. The leaks kept pouring in and we also learned that the OnePlus 8 series might be the company’s first smartphones to feature wireless charging, as the company joined the Wireless Power Consortium. While the company hasn’t revealed any details about its upcoming devices yet, a recent report from TechRadar reveals that the OnePlus 8 series might be launched next month.

The report cites a source close to the company who has revealed that the OnePlus 8 series will be unveiled in the second week of April. The source suggests that it will be a global announcement, so it’s quite likely that the device will be released worldwide at the same time. While the source didn’t confirm the names or specifications for the devices that it’ll be launching, several leaks have suggested that OnePlus will be launching three product lines in 2020. The company’s next flagship range is expected to include a “Lite” model which will, most likely, be a premium mid-ranger.

OnePlus 8 Lite

The OnePlus 8 Lite has previously been spotted in renders shared by renowned leakster @OnLeaks, which suggest that it will feature a more angular design, with a 6.4-inch display for the punch-hole selfie camera. Since OnePlus has already confirmed that all of its future devices will feature a high refresh rate display, we expect the OnePlus 9 Lite to sport, at least, a 90Hz display. The renders also reveal a triple camera setup, with a high-resolution primary camera, an ultrawide camera, and a ToF sensor for portrait photos. In terms of specifications, the OnePlus 8 Lite is rumored to feature MediaTek’s new Dimensity 1000 chipset.

OnePlus 8

As far as the standard OnePlus 8 is concerned, leaks suggest that it will feature a 6.6-inch curved display with a hole-punch cutout in the left corner for the selfie camera. While OnePlus is expected to stick to FHD+ resolution for the device, it might make a shift to a smoother 120Hz display. The device is expected to feature a triple camera setup with a high-resolution primary camera, an ultrawide camera, and a telephoto camera.

OnePlus 8 Pro

Finally, the top-of-the-line Pro variant is said to feature a QHD+ display with a 120Hz refresh rate. Both the OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro will most likely be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 865 chip and include 5G support. The high-end device is expected to feature a quad-camera setup, with a high-resolution primary camera, an ultrawide camera, a telephoto camera, and a ToF sensor. We also expect OnePlus to include bigger batteries and faster charging on all three devices.

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Source: TechRadar

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PUBG Mobile 0.17.0 adds Hardcore Mode, Death Replay, and more

Earlier this year in January, PUBG Mobile rolled out update v0.16.5, kicking off Season 11 for the game and introducing a new Arena map and Domination mode. Now, the game is receiving yet another massive update in preparation for its second-anniversary celebrations. PUBG Mobile v.0.17.0 has already started rolling out on the Play Store and the latest update is marked by the return of the infamous Hardcore Mode in Arcade, along with new features and improvements to the Classic Mode. The update also lays down the groundwork for the upcoming second-anniversary celebrations and the Royale Pass Season 12.

To celebrate the PUBG Mobile’s second anniversary, the Royale Pass Season 12 will have a new “2gether We Play” theme when it kicks off on March 9. The season pass will include a fresh selection of festive gear, challenges, and rewards to keep players engaged. The game will also include an Amusement Park Mode in the classic Erangel map starting from March 12, where players will be able to enjoy interactive games and attractions. Players who participate in the anniversary celebrations in-game will receive exclusive rewards and achievements.

Other than the anniversary celebrations, which will kick off later this month, here’s everything new in PUBG Mobile v.0.17.0:

• New airdrop weapon: DBS
  • The powerful double-barrel shotgun, that we’ve already seen in action on the PC version of the game, is finally making its way to PUBG Mobile. It fires two shots per magazine and holds 14 rounds of 12 Gauge ammo per reload. The DBS can be equipped with a Holo Sight, Red Dot, and 2x to 6x scopes.
• Brothers in Arms System
  • Players can register as Rookie or Veteran and play together in the battle of Classic Mode. Veterans with rich game experience can guide rookies in the game and receive great rewards, during which the rookies can learn from the veterans and master the game quickly.
• Death Replay function
  • Players can now watch from the attacker’s perspective for a certain time prior to their deaths.
• Universal Marks
  • Players can now mark locations, supplies, vehicles, death crates, and doors for teammates, allowing for quick communications.
• Colorblind Mode
  • Graphics settings now include more color options for in-game indicators, such as Poison, Smoke and Auxiliary Lines, for people with color blindness.
• Teammate Volume Control
  • Players can now adjust the voice volume of individual teammates in battle.
• Firearm balancing and other improvements

Along with all the aforementioned changes, the latest update includes a ton of other minor changes to the game. You can check out the complete patch notes for the PUBG Mobile v.0.17.0 update by following this link.

PUBG MOBILE - 2nd Anniversary (Free⁺, Google Play) →

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