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Android Central's Best of 2019 Awards — The Tech We Loved This Year
by Android Central2019 was yet another excellent year for technology fans — particularly those who lean toward the Android world. There are so many great phones at a variety of price points, amazing cameras across the board, and the best features we all want are just about standardized. And outside of phones, 2019 brought tons of amazing accessories that enhance our connected world, from headphones to smartwatches and into the smart home.
These are our picks for the best products of 2019.
Best Android Phones of 2019
Best Overall
OnePlus 7T
OnePlus consistently over-delivers in every category given its price.
The OnePlus 7T is a great phone, primarily because it keeps things simple. Its hardware and specs are top-notch, and its OxygenOS software is fast, consistent and useful. It's not the best in every category, but it nails the user experience where it counts. It's telling that even though the OnePlus 7 Pro is a higher-end phone, and is only marginally more expensive, that we still picked the 7T — it's all the phone most people need, at a great price.
1st Runner-up
Huawei P30 Pro
Filled with features and an incredibly versatile camera setup.
Huawei goes after the highest-end phones, and in many ways, succeeds. The P30 Pro takes on much of Samsung's approach in giving you beautiful hardware with a packed spec sheet and huge display and adds in what is simply a better camera system. Battery life is a true winner with the P30 Pro, even over the already stellar Galaxy S10+. The only real downside is the software, which has improved over the years but still feels overbearing and tough to manage.
2nd Runner-up
Samsung Galaxy S10 / S10+
The one flagship phone that can address every person's needs.
Samsung takes everything that people crave in a high-end smartphone and packages it all up into a single device. It matches or beats the competition in hardware, with every little spec and feature you could ask for, and ties it up in beautiful metal and glass with the best-looking screen you'll see in a phone. The cameras come up short of the competition in outright quality, but are still solid and consistent from shot to shot.
Best Value Android Phone of 2019
Best Overall
Google Pixel 3a + 3a XL
You get far more than you pay for — including one of the best cameras in the business.
Google's focus on simplicity in its smartphones translates incredibly well to the mid-range Pixel 3a. Its hardware, display and specs are nothing out of the ordinary, but the software is fantastic and the 3a XL's battery life is strong. And to think you can get a camera that's nearly identical to the Pixel 4's for half the price is amazing. The Pixel 3a is a perfect example of a value-focused phone being far more than the sum of its parts, and worth more than its price.
Runner-up
OnePlus 7T
More than enough phone for most people, at a really appealing sub-flagship price.
It's an incredible achievement for the OnePlus 7T to be both our top overall pick and our runner-up in the value category. One of the things that makes the 7T so appealing is everything it offers for only $600, making it a fantastic value. Yes, it's notably more expensive than the Pixel 3a XL, but it offers a lot more across the phone experience in return.
Best Android Phone Camera of 2019
Best Overall
Google Pixel 4 + 4 XL
Hands-down the best Android camera available.
Google extended its lead in photography once again. The Pixel 4 takes incredible photos with crisp details and great colors in all types of scenes, and Night Sight takes the best low-light photos of any phone. Google's gotten rid of the performance hiccups of prior models, and its camera app has plenty of useful shooting features as well. The sole downside of the Pixel 4's camera is the lack of a wide-angle lens, but you wouldn't be willing to give up its amazing image quality in order to get one.
Runner-up
Huawei P30 Pro
A great all-around camera system with 5X zoom and versatile features.
The P30 Pro really holds its own in shots during the day, with great colors and consistent shot-to-shot quality. It has an ultra-wide camera for interesting shots, and its telephoto lens offers both 5X lossless zoom and really good hybrid digital zoom to rival Google's. But even its impressive night mode can't match Google's on the Pixel 4.
Best Chromebook of 2019
Best Overall
Google Pixelbook Go
A powerful, premium Chromebook with Google's great design prowess on display.
The Pixelbook Go isn't a 2-in-1 or convertible like most other Chromebooks, but Google's design and build quality still stands out. The rounded body, ergonomic keys and non-slip bottom are all usability wins. It also has a great screen and 12-hour battery life, with high-end options for RAM, storage and processor if you want to go all-out.
Runner-up
Asus Chromebook Flip C434
A portable powerhouse you can use anywhere.
Between its thin and solid construction, excellent battery life, and options for higher RAM and storage, the C434 is a Chromebook that can do it all. One of the few Chromebooks to offer a backlit keyboard, it's perfect for long nights and dim offices. The 14-inch touchscreen fits into a typical 13-inch laptop size, preserving portability.
Best Smartwatch of 2019
Best Overall
Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2
Samsung's best-balanced wearable that hits fitness and daily smartwatch features.
Samsung's wearable hardware is excellent, with a sleek body that matches up nicely to a wide range of bands and a really good display with a capacitive touch bezel. On the software side, it has all of the features you want for fitness tracking, linking up to Samsung Health, but also day-to-day smartwatch usage with helpful widgets. This is a single smartwatch that can bridge the gap between fitness and daily use.
Runner-up
Fitbit Versa 2
The incredible Fitbit tracking and ecosystem meets more smartwatch extras.
The Fitbit Versa 2 isn't a drastic upgrade from its predecessor, but the changes it makes are all for the better. The shift to an AMOLED display is great to see, Fitbit Pay is now included by default, and battery life is outstanding. FitbitOS still has room to grow, particularly outside of the fitness aspects of a smartwatch, but this is still a great wearable.
Best Headphones of 2019
Best Overall
Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700
Bose returns with a new design and amazing noise cancellation.
The headphone industry is evolving, and Bose is once again leading the pack with its new Noise Cancelling Headphones 700. Featuring a beautiful, stylish metal frame, incredibly comfortable and breathable ear cups, and some of the smoothest, most easy-listening sound on the market, the Bose NC700s are fantastic. Even better is the noise cancellation, which cuts out even the most persistent droning.

Many, many companies release true wireless earbuds in 2019, but Jabra's Elite 75t's were worth waiting for. The tiny buds are exceptionally comfortable while delivering superb sound, call quality, and battery life. If you're looking to cut down on the size of your everyday carry, these are for you.
Best Smart Home Device of 2019
Best Overall
Google Nest Hub Max
A true hub for your home, with a great display and speakers to back up the smarts.
The Nest Hub Max has what it takes to really be the hub of your home. For $230 you get a great speaker with a phenomenal display and a genuinely useful video chat experience, plus all of the Google Assistant smarts and ecosystem connections you expect. And for people who use smart displays in the kitchen, being able to control the music without your voice and without smearing food on the display is amazing.
Runner-up
Google Nest Mini
Bringing Google's smart home platform to as many rooms as you want.
The Nest Mini is a fantastic smart home device for many of the same reasons as the Nest Hub Max. Google Assistant is helpful and extensible, and Google's ecosystem of products brings everything together well. The Mini makes it dead-simple to bring all of those great features to any room in your home, with multiple color options and a simple mounting system if you want to keep it on a wall.
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Preparation time
overnight
Cooking time
30 mins to 1 hour
Serves
Serves 2
Pork and apple is a classic combination, use good quality cider to make this dish extra special.
For the beans, place the butterbeans into a stainless steel bowl, cover with plenty of water and leave to soak overnight.
Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
Drain the soaked beans, and rinse with fresh water then place into a large saucepan and add enough fresh water to just cover the beans. Place on the heat, bring to the boil then reduce the heat and cook for 20-25 minutes, or until just softened (do not add any salt at this stage as this well make the beans tough).
Drain the beans and blend in a food processor with the vinegar and butter to form a firm paste (alternatively crush with a fork and mix well with a wooden spoon.) Season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper, and place in a saucepan ready to be warmed up just before serving.
For the pork, season the pork fillet with salt and black pepper then lightly cover in half the olive oil. Heat a large non-stick ovenproof pan on the hob until hot, then add the pork fillet and sear for a few minutes, turning every so often until the fillet is coloured on each side.
Add the crushed garlic and a knob of the butter to the pan and baste the fillet, then place into the oven for 8-10 minutes, turning half way through cooking, until the pork is cooked through. The pork is cooked if the juices run clear when a skewer inserted into the thickest part of the fillet.
Meanwhile, for the apple sauce, put the cider into a saucepan and bring to the boil. Cook for 3-4 minutes, or until the volume of liquid is reduced by half.
Add the stock, bring to the boil and cook for 5 minutes, or until the volume of liquid has reduced by half again. Add the apple sauce, chopped apple and butter and stir to combine. Season, to taste, with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Place the treacle into a small saucepan and warm through over a low heat.
Remove the pork from the oven, discard the garlic and pour over the warm treacle. Set the pork aside to rest for a few minutes.
To serve, warm the butterbeans through and divide between 2 plates. Slice the pork and fan half the slices over each serving of beans, then drizzle over the apple and cider sauce.


Launching Spatial Analysis Site
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Who we are
Led by Luc Anselin, we’re a group of students, staff, and faculty at the University of Chicago who use spatial methods in our research and teaching. As spatial thinkers, we’re excited to launch this site to teach introductory spatial analysis.
Over the next few months, we plan to build out teaching materials based off of Luc Anselin’s spatial data courses at the University of Chicago. Our goal is to demonstrate how you can get started with exploratory spatial data analysis, including spatial dependence and spatial modeling.
Next steps
In the short term, we’re working on completing an R-based version of Luc’s lab notes for his Introduction to Spatial Data Science class at UChicago, mirroring the GeoDa curriculum. These lab notes focus on spatial analysis with the open-source programming language R and can be found under Tutorials.
Additionally, we plan to collect links to useful spatial analysis resources, demos, and tutorials. Alongside these tutorials, we’ll share materials from our weekly R spatial workshops on this blog.
Contribute your ideas!
We’re looking to curate use cases for spatial analysis, so if you’re doing interesting research or developing open-source spatial software, let us know and we can feature you on this blog.
Let us know what tutorials would helpful to you by submitting an issue in our Github repository, or emailing us at spatial [at] uchicago.edu.


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Step 1: For Over-Easy or Over-Hard Eggs: Heat 2 tsp. butter in nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until hot.
Step 2: Break eggs and Slip into pan, 1 at a time, immediately reduce heat to low.
Step 3: Cook SLOWLY until whites are completely set and yolks begin to thicken but are not hard.
Step 4: Slide turner under each egg and carefully Flip it over in pan.
Step 5: Cook second side to desired doneness.
Step 6: Sprinkle with salt and pepper and serve immediately.


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Despite being seemingly obvious that NLI (Natural Language Interface) has wide applicability to many applications and software systems there are specific areas where NLI is already used today and has demonstrated its unique capabilities.
Natural Language enhanced search is one area where NLI has been successful for a number of years already. Look at Google Analytics, GMail, JIRA, or many other applications that allow you to search, filter or sort their content with natural language queries. This use case is a perfect application of NLI as it naturally augments the existing UI/UX by replacing often cumbersome and hard-to-use search/filter/sort UX with a simple text box.
As a matter of fact, all major general purpose search platforms today (i.e. Google, Bing, or Siri) use NLI-enhanced approach to their search queries processing.
NLI is clearly at the heart of any chatbot implementation. And although most initial naive implementations of chatbots have struggles to gain traction - the advancement in NLI technology is allowing modern chatbots to become gradually more sophisticated and outgrow the early "childhood" problems of parasitic dialogues, lack of contextual awareness, inability to comprehend a spoken, free-form language, and primitive rule-based logic.
Fully deterministic NLI systems like NLPCraft provide critical technology for NLI-based data reporting. Unlike data insights analytics or data exploration, the data reporting typically cannot rely on the probabilistic nature of ML/DL-based approaches as it must provide 100% correctness in all cases.
NLPCraft employs advanced semantic modelling that provides fully deterministic results and natural language comprehension.
One of the most exciting applications of NLI is an ad-hoc data analytics or data exploration. This is the area where the proper NLI application can bring about a fundamental seismic change to how we explore our data and discover the insights from it.
Today the most data is walled off in the silos of the individual, incompatible data systems making it mostly inaccessible to the all but a few "power" users. Very few can gain access to all the different systems in a typical company, learn all the different ways to analyse the data and master incompatible and drastically different user interfaces.
The NLI-based approach can democratize access to the sprawling silo-ed data with a single unified UX by allowing users to use the natural language to explore and analyse the data. The natural language is the only UX/UI that everyone already knows, requires no training or learning and is universal regardless of the data source.
With the popularization of consumer technologies like Amazon Alexa, Apple HomeKit, Mercedes MBUX and similar the NLI-based control of various devices and systems becoming a norm.
While most of these systems today can only understand the rudimentary 2-3 words command the advancements in NLI technology is rapidly leading to more sophisticated interfaces. The enterprise world is starting to catch up and NLI-based systems appear today in various manufacturing, oil and gas, pharma and medical applications.