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The American Airlines app for Android has received a nice update today that brings support for Android Wear devices.  Now once you have viewed your boarding pass within the app on your phone, you will have it available on your watch for quicker boarding of your flight.  It’s one of the latest apps to support Android Wear and one that busy travelers who have Wear devices will likely find quite, erm, handy.  For those keeping score at home, the updated version is 4.0.1 and it is available now in the Google Play Store.

American Airlines for Android – Free – Download Now

Microsoft continues to improve their apps for Android and the latest update to Outlook for Android is a case-in-point.  The latest update brings with it a much improved Agenda Widget which you can install on a page on your Android phone to give a quick glance at your upcoming events.  This update, version 1.2.9 for those keeping score at home, also brings performance improvements and bug fixes to the email, calendar and contact app.

Outlook for Android – Free – Download Now

Earlier today Microsoft released Build 10122 for Windows 10 for PCs to the Fast Ring participants of the Windows Insider program.  The new build has a pile of new features along with a lot of improvements and fixes over the build released a couple of weeks ago.  While the Windows 10 builds started out slow in coming, Gabe Aul and the team at Microsoft are releasing builds fast and furious now which is critical given that it is expect to reach GM (Gold Master) in July.

Unlike previous updates to Windows 10, the blog post on the Windows Blog clearly stated an issue up front for users of AMD processors.  That issues has to do with crashes of the new Microsoft Edge (Project Spartan) browser.  In fact, AMD users are advised by Microsoft to “sit this one out”

I usually start these posts with the fun stuff at the top but want to call out our only big known Issue here right away – if you’re using an AMD GPU you’re likely to run into frequent crashes in Microsoft Edge (still branded as “Project Spartan” in this build.) If you want to avoid that, simply go to Settings > Update & security > Windows Update > Advanced and change to the Slow ring to sit this one out.

So if you are using an AMD processor you will need to do as advised and move to the Slow Ring until a fix is released.

Today over at Amazon you can score a great deal on the dual-SIM BLU Studio 6 HD Android phablet for only $140.83.  That is a 25% savings off the regular price of $189.00.  The 6″ display device was recently announced to be receiving the Lollipop update this month which makes it even better considering not every phone will get the latest build of Android.  The sale is on the 8GB storage version of the device (which can be expanded up to an additional 64GB via the MicroSD slot) which has a 6″ 720 x 1280 display.  If you are looking for a phablet experience without the phablet price, this is on to take a look at today.

BLU Studio 6.0 HD Smartphone – Unlocked – Black