These are the best-sellers from record-breaking Amazon Prime Day

Amazon has a lot to celebrate with its recent Prime Day sale, the 36-hour event schedule from July 16^th to 17^th marked its largest shopping event ever, surpassing sales from last year’s Cyber Monday, Black Friday, and Prime Day. Over five million items were sold worldwide in different categories including: toys, apparel, beauty products, PCs, computer accessories, and kitchen items. Globally, July 16 marked the best sales day ever for Fire TV and Kindle e-readers. In Canada, the best-selling products included the Echo Dot, Instant Pot Duo 7-in-1 multi-use programmable pressure cooker, LifeStraw Personal Water Filter, and Bose QuietComfort Noise Cancelling headphones.

‘Alto’s Odyssey’ is coming to Android for free starting next week

After a bit of a wait, game developer Snowman is finally bringing Apple Design Award winner Alto’s Odyssey to the Android platform. It took a while but the game will be launching for free on Android starting July 26^th. Its iOS counterpart will still cost $6.99 on iOS even after the Android app goes live. But this is because Snowman has to adjust how it markets the game on Google’s mobile platform. Snowman has heard from other indie developers how hard it is to get App Store-level sales on Google Play if they release a paid game out of the gate instead of employing a free model with ad support.

This method has worked for Snowman’s previous game Alto’s Adventure, which has been downloaded 36.5 million times on Android and has 647 billion play sessions. Even now that the game is over two years old, it still logs an average of 13 million sessions per day across 1.5 million devices.

Source: Engadget

This might be what the Galaxy Note 9 looks like

Renowned and reliable leaker Evan Blass just shared what could be the official press render of the upcoming Galaxy Note 9. While countless other renders have showed up before, this is the first one that shows off the blue and yellow colorway or the navy blue phablet with the yellow S Pen. This dual-tone stylus looks like it combines a matte finish with a glossy/shiny top and its backend sporting the same navy blue color that matches the smartphone (perhaps to make it easier to meld with the rest of the phone). We can’t confirm from this image how the S Pen will be charged within the phone (it’s said to have Bluetooth connectivity).

What this leaked render also confirms is that the fingerprint sensor gets moved below the dual-camera setup and the bottom bezel gets shaved off a bit. The power, volume, and Bixby buttons seem to have been raised when compared to its predecessor. But we just have to wait a bit until the phone is launched.

Source: Android Authority

Emporio Armani outs new Wear OS-powered smartwatches

Canadian pop superstar Shawn Mendes continues on as the face of Armani Connected smartwatches

The Wear OS platform isn’t getting its big update just yet, but that doesn’t mean fashion brands trying to break into the tech space aren’t going to release anything. Emporio Armani just introduced the latest entry into its Connected series of watches. The new fall models looks pretty similar to its other entries in the market. But since they come from a fashion brand, you get options of either getting a metal mono-link or a rubber/leather two-piece strap bracelet, while the other has a metal mesh or leather bracelet.

These model carry a 1.19-inch AMOLED front and come with a heart-rate monitor, GPS, and NFC support for Google Pay mobile payments. These smartwatches also has up to 5 ATM water resistance, Google Assistant support, and running the old Snapdragon Wear 2100 processor. These are now available for pre-order on Armani’s website with the mono-link model coming in at US$395 (around CA$520) and the mesh or leather one at US$295 (around CA$390). These will be available worldwide starting September 2018.

Source: Engadget