T-Mobile partners with 20th Century Fox to offer $4 tickets to five upcoming movies

Starting next week, T-Mobile customers will be able to score a ticket to five of the year's biggest 20th Century Fox-produced movies for just $4 a pop on various dates.

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Google unsurprisingly names Super Mario Run 2017’s most popular new Android game

Google Play's US Best of 2017 lists include Super Mario Run in the lead in the new game category, and Photo Editor as the year's most popular new app.

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Android games, apps, movies and books feature on Google’s list of Play Store Black Friday deals

You can get a number of "premium" Android games at up to 80 percent off from Google Play, as well as free Play Music and heavily discounted books.

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No mobile VR plans for Sony as it expands from gaming to video content

With the PlayStation VR arriving in time to meet up with a couple of new PlayStation 4 variants, Sony would have done well and good to start planning 360° TV and movie content a long time ago. Alas, we’re hearing today that the Japanese company will likely be licensing content from other multimedia outfits at first.The PlayStation VR will be released on October 13, which gives the company less than a month to ...

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Asus ZenPad 3S 10 hands on: a thin tablet for multimedia junkies

Asus set a high standard for android tablets, and alongside new Transformers, they also revealed the new ZenPad 3S 10. Not the most graceful name, but a sleek slate built around high quality media consumption. This 9.7” screen is housed in an aluminum frame with some tiny bezels bordering that screen, and a 78% screen to body ratio. That 2k display clocks in at a resolution of 2048 x 1536.It’s sleek, it’s shiny, and Asus thinks it’s the right recipe for you music and movie junkies. The ZenPad 3S 10 aims to do battle with Apple and Samsung with a high quality screen ...

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You can now start sharing stuff within your Google Play Family Library

Google officially announced that content purchased on Google Play accounts can be shared with up to six people through its new Family Library feature.All possible devices that the content can be used on will be usable for each person sharing the account — from large screens to mobile ones, from iOS to PC to Android, from games to books to movies. Some content may be ineligible for sharing. The account holder can also partition some content for themselves.When members of the account want to get apps, ...

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Sanity triumphs as movie theater flip-flops on texting-allowed experiment

Here at Pocketnow, we love smartphones. LURVE ’em. Eat, sleep, and breathe smartphones. But we’re also not monsters, and we know that there are situations during which our phones simply aren’t to be used. You don’t text while driving, you don’t shoot selfies at a funeral, and you don’t do anything -ANYTHING- with an illuminated screen when watching a film in a darkened theater. We thought the rest of the world was on board with similar beliefs, but earlier this week the ...

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New AMC head: PHONES, in theaters soon

Netflix and Chill” has not killed the theater, but it seems to moviegoers that the only way that theaters have been adapting to the times is by raising prices on tickets and concessions.Well, if you’re 22 years old, has Adam Aron got something to say to you. Aron’s the new CEO of AMC Entertainment and he’s about to lead an acquisition of competitor Carmike that will result in the world’s largest theater chain. And he wants to make sure that the company doesn’t get ...

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