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Today’s Deal is another great accessory from the folks over at AUKEY.  Now through September 1st, you can pick up the AUKEY Mini Bluetooth Speaker for $16.99 over at Amazon.  This 5W speaker measures just 65 x 67 x 67mm, or 2.56” x 2.64” x 2.64” in old money, so it is perfect to take along with you on road trips, having in your office, or outside as you work or play.

The special price comes thanks to a coupon code from AUKEY for ClintonFitch.com readers.  When you check out, use the code AUKEYSP7 when you check out.  The price will drop from the normal $24.99 down to the special price.

The AUKEY Mini Bluetooth Speaker offers 5W of full range sound with up to 10 hours of battery life between charges.  It connects to your phone via Bluetooth 4.2 so you can use it up to 33′ away and it automatically reconnects to your phone when it is in range.

OnePlus has begun the process of rolling out an update to OxygenOS for the OnePlus 3 and 3T.  The updated version is 4.1.7 and brings a handful of fixes, security improvements and optimizations to the Android-based platform.

The August 2017 Android Security Update is included in the 4.1.7 build, bringing it up from the May 2017 patch, the last time the OnePlus 3 and 3T so an OS update.  This makes the 3 and 3T one of just a handful of phones outside of Google’s own Nexus or Pixel devices that have the August update.

OnePlus has also optimized the battery and improved overall system fluidity which should make these devices a feel a bit snappier when you are using them.  What exactly was improved here was not outlined in the release notes but users are reporting that these are positive steps in usability.

This weekend, Hurricane Harvey struck the state of Texas here in the US, leaving a path of complete destruction.  The death toll as of this morning sits at six but with another 24″ of rain expected in some areas, that is likely to rise.  Once the waters recede from the Texas coast, the billions of dollars in damage will be revealed and it is going to be very high.

The American Red Cross is already in the area helping victims of the storm and Google is helping their efforts.  Google.org, the charitable arm of Google, has grant donation of $250,000 to the American Red Cross and Google employees themselves have donated another $250,000.  This will help the ARC continue their work in the area, who will be active for a long time after Hurricane Harvey is no more.

Microsoft OneDrive for Android has a new update rolling out that brings some significant improvements to key features within the storage app.  The updated build is rolling out in the Play Store now and should be landing on devices that have it installed via an OTA update over the course of the next few days.

The first big improvement in this update is around the Scan feature.  Microsoft OneDrive has had a scanning feature built in for a while now but it was pretty limited.  Now they have essentially taken the Office Lens app and integrated it with OneDrive to give you a far superior experience.  You can now crop and clean up scanned documents within OneDrive which is a direct leveraging of Office Lens’ features.