This Energizer phone has an 18,000mAh battery

Energizer teased this phone ahead of MWC 2019, but in case you haven't seen it yet. Here's a quick look at this brick of a phone from French company Avenir Holdings. The Energizer P18K Pop has a gigantic 18,000mAh battery—and it shows. It basically looks like a power bank attached to the back of a smartphone. What do you get by having this big, chunky boy? You're promised up to 50 days on standby, 90 hours of calls, or two straight days of video. You need a full eight hours to completely charge its battery.

In front, you get a 6.2-inch edge-to-edge display. The lack of a notch is because the camera is hidden and just pops up when you need it (thus, the Pop in its name). It has two front-facing cameras and three at the back. The Energizer P18k Pop runs on a MediaTek Helio P70, Android Pie, 6GB of RAM, and 128GB expandable storage. It also comes with a side-mounted fingerprint sensor, which is wise because trying to wrap your hand around and get to a fingerprint reader in the back isn't ideal. According to a rep from Avenir Telecom, we could expect to see this phone as early as June 2019 with a starting price of around €600 (around CA$900).

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Microsoft to stop support for Band apps and services, offers refund for hardware

Microsoft discontinued the Microsoft Band over two years ago. Now, the company plans to kill off the Microsoft Health Dashboard apps and services by May 31st. All these backend services will lose support and apps will be taken out of the Microsoft Store, Google Play, and Apple's App Store. Existing Band users can export their data before the end of May. Services powered by the cloud will stop working by June. But the fitness tracker can still record daily steps, workouts, heart rate, activities, sleep, and work as an alarm. However, if you reset the device, Microsoft says it will be "impossible to set up the device again."

Some Microsoft Band owners are eligible for a refund. Active users who synced data from a Band to the Health Dashboard between December 1, 2018, and March 1, 2019, can apply for a refund on their hardware. Microsoft is offering US$79.99 refund for Band 1 owners, and $175 for Band 2 devices. If your Microsoft Band is under warranty, the same refund values will be available.

Source: Microsoft

New Siri shortcuts help amplify fitness routines

Apple's focus on health tracking takes a big step with Siri shortcuts. Starting and maintaining health and fitness routines gets even easier as more apps offer Siri Shortcuts, joining the thousands that have integrated shortcuts since their introduction with iOS 12.

Using powerful on-device intelligence, Siri Shortcuts help people get things done faster across iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, HomePod, AirPods and CarPlay, allowing them to easily access and use their favourite apps with just a tap or by asking Siri.

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Trigger Facebook Messenger's Dark Mode with a moon emoji

There's a simple way to activate the Dark Mode feature of Facebook Messenger. All you need is one emoji: this 🌙 moon emoji. Send the crescent moon to anyone in Messenger, exit the app completely, and enter it again. Just head to your profile (the icon on your upper left) and the toggle for Dark Mode should be there. According to XDA-Developers, this works for both Android and iOS.