If there was one brand you knew was going to come out big for Prime Day this year, it was Baseus. Low-cost, high-quality gadgets and accessory makers always impress us during big sales events, and thankfully Prime Day 2020 is no different! The Bassus Amazon big shopping event is happening on October 13th and 14th. Free shipping is available with Prime membership and you can enjoy up to 60% discount on Baseus products. There’s truly something for everyone in Baseus’ big Prime Day sale, so make sure you check it out.
These are the most popular Baseus products from 2020.
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Did you think that Amazon would be the only ones with deals during Prime Day 2020? Other retailers are also having their sales events during Prime Day, and they want you to spend your money with them. In some cases, these deals are even better than the Prime Day offerings–and you don’t need a subscription to take advantage of it!
But, with Amazon flooding you with deals for 48 hours, it can be hard to look away and sift through even more deals. You don’t have to worry about that, though–we’ve done the research and pulled out the ten best non-Amazon Prime Day 2020 deals below!
This list will be updated continuously throughout the week. Bookmark this page and keep checking back to see what’s new!
Amazon isn't the only retailer with the Bose QC 35 on sale! You can pick up these amazing headphones at Target for $100, with the choice of Black, Sliver, or Rose Gold. Get these while they last!
Why settle for less, when you can get a pair of Beats on sale this week? The Beats Solo Pro is $100 off at Best Buy, and you can pick them up in a variety of colors. With active noise canceling and great Bluetooth capabilities, why not treat yourself to the best?
Who says you can't get a good phone for cheap? If you activate today at Best Buy, you can pick up the moto g Fast for just $100, or 50% off. The Snapdragon 665 processor isn't the cutting edge, but you really can't beat this price for a new phone.
Save $50 on the Apple AirPods Pro at Target! These wireless, noise-cancelling buds are well-regarded, and Apple products don't go on sale often. Snap one up at Target, and depending on your location, you may be eligible for in-store pick-up and same-day delivery!
Normally $150, you can get Insignia's 2.1 channel soundbar and subwoofer for a low $70 at Best Buy. If you live in an apartment or situation where you can't go all out with a home theater set-up, this soundbar and subwoofer will give you great audio at a lower price.
Sometimes, you want earbuds that will work with any fitness routine and won't get lost somewhere along the way. The PowerBeats3 are wireless earbuds, but they are attached to each other, making them easy to take one in and out while working out. Currently $79 at Walmart, you can pick between four colors and never worry about your earbuds during your workout again.
Need a quality headset? Turtle Beach's Recon Spark is available at Target, and it's only $35! The wired headset works with PC and consoles, and the memory foam ear cups means that you can game for hours without discomfort.
Bluetooth speakers can be hit or miss, but you can't go wrong with Bose. Their SoundLink Revolve Bluetooth speakers are only $120 for the next two days, an $80 off MSRP. With 12 hours of battery life, this speaker will provide great sound all day.
It's time for a Smart TV. The JVC 55-inch Roku Smart TV is only $248 right now at Walmart, and it will be able to stream shows from all your favorite streaming services. Why wait until Black Friday to secure yourself a new TV? Grab this one today!
Prime Day is the perfect time to upgrade your gaming monitor, and Best Buy has just the deal for you. Save $100 on the Dell 32-inch curved FreeSync monitor, bringing the total down to $350. With a 165Hz refresh rate and FreeSync technology, this is one of the better monitors you can get to game on, that isn't an ultra-wide monitor!
The day is finally upon us–it’s time for Amazon Prime Day 2020. The 48-hour shopping event will be full of deals, deals, and even more deals, enough to make your head spin! You’ll see deep cuts on Amazon’s own products, as well as discounts from plenty of other sellers trying to get a piece of the Prime Day pie.
With lightning deals and more happening throughout October 13th and 14th, you might find yourself a little overwhelmed. Don’t be, though, as we have you covered! We have found the ten best Prime Day 2020 for you, ready for you to click and buy. Check them out below!
This list will be updated continuously throughout Prime Day. Bookmark this page and keep checking back to see what’s new!
Get the best gaming experience around! Save $30 on the Razer Wolverine Controller, an officially licensed Xbox One controller. Active the Hair Trigger mode to stop the triggers from pushing in all the way, upping your response time!
If you need a new phone and want one of Samsung's latest phones, look no further than this deal. You can save up to 30% off Galaxy devices, with the Galaxy A71 available for $419.99 (30% savings), the Galaxy S20+ for $899.99 (25% off) and big savings on the 512GB version of the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra 5G for $1199.99, which is 17% off!
You can't beat a Smart TV deal this good. The 32-inch Insignia Fire TV is only $110 during Prime Day, and this deal is sure to go quickly. Get one for yourself, or as a great gift for the Smart TV-less family member!
If you picked up a new Nintendo Switch in one of the recent restocks, you'll know the Nintendo experience isn't complete without Switch Online. Get a 12-month Switch Online Family membership, which can accommodate up to eight accounts, and a 128 GB MicroSD for just $45. The membership is usually $35 on its own alone, so you'll essentially be getting a (much-needed) memory card for $10!
Join the Amazon smart home ecosystem with the Echo Dot being at one of its lowest prices yet. The third-generation Echo Dot is a shockingly low $19, you can outfit your whole house with the smart speakers for cheap. This generation of Echo Dots can also be mounted on the wall, keeping them out of the way if you have limited table space.
Get into seeing the world from 300 feet in the air with the DJI Mavic Mini drone. I love this little drone and its compact size makes it really easy to travel it. With this prime day deal, it's available at its lowest price ever and you can save 20%, bringing it down to $399.99!
Enjoy some nice, socially distanced outdoor movie nights with Dser's portable projector! By using the code DSERPROJat checkout, you'll get this 1080p projector for just $90, so $50 off the MSRP. This projector is capable of projecting up to 160 inches, so you know it'll be great for a backyard or park get-together.
Get one of the best gaming mouses on the market for just a Benjamin. Razer's Basilisk Ultimate wireless mouse is $100, and it offers near-zero latency and eleven programmable buttons for all of your macros. If you're a hardcore PC gamer, you owe it to yourself to grab this mouse.
Why vacuum yourself, when you could have a little robot friend to do it for you? There's a reason that iRobot is recognized as having some of the best robot vacuums on the market, and the Roomba 692 is available for 38% off saving you $120! There's also other iRobot deals available – whichever you buy, these are some of the lowest prices we've ever seen for the iRobot range!
Shortly after OnePlus released its first Android 11 developer preview for the OnePlus 8 Series, the company rolled out the redesigned OnePlus Weather app from OxygenOS 11 for all OnePlus users. The OnePlus Notes app from OxygenOS 11 followed soon thereafter, bringing the redesigned look to users with older OnePlus devices. The company is now rolling out OnePlus Gallery 4.0.77 via the Google Play Store, and it also includes the OxygenOS 11 design refresh.
As per a recent 9to5Google report, the latest update for OnePlus Gallery brings the new OxygenOS 11 UI to older OnePlus devices. The updated UI includes several improvements for easier one-handed use, with the most noticeable change being the space at the top that moves all UI elements closer to the bottom of your phone.
Along with the OxygenOS 11 UI changes, the update also includes optimizations for faster app launch speed and bug fixes. Here’s the complete changelog for OnePlus Gallery 4.0.77:
Optimize the speed of app launch
Update OOS11 UI style
Fix issues with missing screenshots and photos
As mentioned earlier, the update is now available for all OnePlus users on the Google Play Store. In case you haven’t received the update notification yet, you can head over to the Play Store listing from the link below and update it to the latest version of the app. Alternatively, you can download the latest APK from APKMirror.
Before you go ahead and update to the latest version of the OnePlus Gallery app though, do note that you may encounter some issues following the update. As per recent reviews on the Google Play Store, a few users have experienced bugs like photos not appearing, app crashes, and laggy performance in the latest release. OnePlus will likely address these issues in the next few days, so it would be best to wait for some time before updating to the latest version.
Between Instagram and TikTok, it seems like most young people these days really enjoy taking photos and videos of themselves. And so it’s surprising that Vivo is the only brand with a phone line whose entire shtick is catering to the selfie generation. Ever since the Vivo V5 in early 2017, which was billed as the “perfect selfie phone,” the Chinese company has pumped out a V phone two to three times a year, and they all usually feature sort of bland design — plastic back and muted colors — but highlighted by a selfie camera that packs more pixels than most phones’ main cameras.
The new Vivo V20 series brings the same selfie-focused feature again — this time the top two variants of the phone pack a whopping 44MP front-facing camera — but for the first time in a V series, the devices look and feel good. It helps that Vivo gave them glass backs and a matte, gradient coating. The rear camera module also has one of the cleaner designs in my opinion.
Still, the highlight of the series is that front-facing camera — well, that and the standard V20 somehow beat Google to shipping a device with Android 11 — and so for this piece I’m going to put the Vivo V20 Pro’s 44MP shooter to the test against some high-profile devices such as the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2, Galaxy S20 FE, and iPhone 11 Pro.
But first, a rundown of the specs of all three devices:
We’ll start simple with a basic selfie outside on a sunny day.
This is a clear win for the Vivo V20 Pro, as it produced the image with the least amount of flaws. The Galaxy Z Fold 2’s 10MP selfie camera smoothened my face so much that I do not look natural, while the iPhone 11 Pro blows out the light in the back. One thing to note is that the Vivo V20 Pro supports eye auto-focus that works similarly to Sony’s mirrorless cameras. As soon as a face goes into frame, I can see a yellow box around my eye. However, in all my testing, I’m not sure it really made a difference, as the other phones managed to track my face just fine.
Test 2: Indoor, against harsh backlight
For this test, I purposely made it a challenging shot by shooting with harsh light coming right behind me. And the results is similar to test one, in that the iPhone 11’s camera just could not find the right balance, as it blew out the lights through the window entirely. Samsung’s image still gives my skin an unnatural look, and it still slightly overexposes the sky outside.
Test 3: Portrait/bokeh, with two faces
For this test, I shot a portrait/bokeh selfie with an extra person in frame to see how edge detection would work. The first thing I noticed is that the Vivo V20 Pro’s shot doesn’t really have any depth-of-field effect, but left both of our faces looking natural and well lit. I switched to another Samsung phone for this shot — the Galaxy S20 FE — but the usual Samsung crazy skin smoothening effect is still here, though at least there’s a very creamy bokeh effect with natural edge detection.
Test 4: Low light
This is a night shot taken in a relatively dark corner of a street with a giant tree covering most of the city’s ambient lights. Considering the Galaxy S20 FE’s 32MP, f/2.2 front-facing camera at least gets close to the Vivo V20 Pro’s 44MP, f/2.0 selfie in specs, I thought it’d be close in low light, but no — Samsung’s image exhibits a lot more noise.
Test 5: Extreme low light
For this shot, I took selfies in a really dark alley. If we’re just shooting a regular shot, the Pixel 4’s 8MP selfie camera did an admirable job considering the hardware limitation, but it still fell short of the Vivo V20 Pro’s camera. But Google has a trick up its sleeve — computational photography. With “Night Sight” on, the Pixel 4 pulls far ahead.
Test 6: Video selfie, day time
Below are 4K/60fps videos captured by the Vivo V20 Pro and the Samsung Galaxy S20 FE — another landslide win for Vivo.
Conclusion: The Vivo V20 Pro’s selfie camera is legit
It would appear that all the marketing hype around the Vivo V20 Pro’s selfie camera is justified, as it can clearly produce sharper, better lit, and better balanced selfies than every phone I threw against it. The only area where the Vivo V20 Pro lost is in extreme low light against the Pixel 4.
But of course, there’s a lot more to a phone than just the selfie camera, and the Vivo V20 Pro would almost certainly fall to the other rivals on this list if we were to test the other cameras.
OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, who’s been the face of the company in the west for the last seven years, has reportedly left the company. News regarding his departure first popped up on Reddit (via AndroidPolice), when user JonSigur shared screenshots of internal memos at OnePlus. The memos listed the company’s leadership structure, but Pei’s name wasn’t included. The screenshots also mentioned that Emily Dai, who’s been in charge of the company’s operations in India, was recently appointed as the head of the Nord product line globally. Pei was previously in-charge of Nord, and he was a prominent figure in the recently released documentary about the phone’s development.
Two sources familiar with the matter have confirmed to Android Centralthat Pei had left his position at OnePlus in recent weeks, and no longer appears in the company’s latest organizational chart. Although OnePlus and Pei are yet to release a statement on the matter, a report from TechCrunch claims that Pei has left the company to start his own venture.
OnePlus is scheduled to launch the OnePlus 8T in just a day, and Pei’s departure in the midst of a major product launch has raised questions about the circumstances of his departure. The news comes just weeks before Pei’s latest project, the OnePlus Nord, is expected to make its way to US shores in the form of two affordable devices — the OnePlus Nord N10 and N100. The company’s other co-founder, Pete Lau, is still at the company and holds the position of CEO. However, he recently took on an additional role as Senior Vice President and Chief Product Experience Officer of OPLUS, an investment firm that oversees OnePlus, OPPO, and possibly others.
With the release of the new Google Chromecast, Google is now doubling down on their Android TV experience, which they have renamed to Google TV on this device and other devices launching in the future. Despite the rebranding, all your favorite Android TV apps will continue working on the new Chromecast with Google TV, but many of them will get updates to match the new experience. One app that is getting this treatment today is YouTube Music, Google’s music streaming service that was launched for TVs this past July, with a much needed revamp that brings it more in line with the mobile version of the app.
So first up, the app now features a revamped UX that allows you to easily access your playlists and liked songs. There’s also a new player UI that showcases album art and playlist art in “their best form”, according to Google. These changes are available on “all smart TVs.”
For Android TV in particular, you’re also getting support for playing the music you’ve uploaded to the service, a feature that YouTube Music added earlier this year to achieve feature parity with Google Play Music. Also, you can now browse tunes directly from the Android TV home screen by going into the YouTube Music row, which mostly features recommendations based on your listening habits. That way, you can quickly start playing something on your TV. The playback interface has been revamped with information like the song and artist name and a progress bar for the current track.
The official blog post also confirms that even more features, such as background playback for YouTube Music Premium users—a feature that the Android TV app lacks right now—will be coming very soon. So if that’s something you’re waiting for, then stay tuned. Otherwise, this seems like a pretty amazing update for the TV app that is slowly achieving feature parity with the mobile app. If you have an Android TV device, the update is rolling out right now through the Google Play Store.
