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• A study proclaimed Android Auto safer than standard car infotainment systems this week. This is hardly surprising. Android Auto is extremely simple, but effective and functional. By comparison, most car infotainment systems are busy with a cluttered UI. The study showed that people performed tasks more quickly in Android Auto by about 24%. That’s not a small amount. Android Auto is still difficult to find in vehicles. However, it’s getting more and more common.
• Pokemon games on mobile make a ton of money to the surprise of no one. Recent data suggests that Pokemon Quest already earned $3 million in its first week of availability. Pokemon Go saw a reported haul of $104 million during May of 2018 when the game suddenly made a resurgence. That is encouraging because that means Nintendo is making tons of money. That makes it more likely that more titles are heading our way.
• Google confirmed that third party apps can read your emails this week. That makes sense, even if it’s not a good thing. Google stated that third party apps can ask for permission to read one’s email for a variety of reasons. The simple fix is to simply uninstall those third party apps. That seems fairly reasonable. Those who don’t want their email read by third parties simply need to disable third party add-ons that ask for it. Easy enough!
• Gameloft’s famous Asphalt series is getting its next game very soon. Asphalt 9: Legends saw another trailer recently. It’s available for pre-registration as of earlier this week. The game should have many of the same elements as prior titles with some fun new additions, tracks, vehicles, and other stuff. It should rise to be among the best racing games in fairly short order like its predecessors. Hit the link above to pre-register if you want to.
• Google Duplex is getting all kinds of bad press lately. We guess people can only see the worst in things. In any case, reports indicated that Google was shopping Duplex to call centers and similar businesses. Google denied these claims and said that their focus was consumer use only. Thus, this is a thing that we likely don’t have to worry about for a while. It’s probably better to keep its roll-out slow.

If we missed any big Android apps or games news or releases, tell us about them in the comments! See you next week!