March, 2017

• 22 March

  Android O: The best features in the developer preview

  

  Now playing: Watch this: New features in Android O 1:31 It’s a fun day when the developer preview for an upcoming operating system is released. Whether you’re a developer or not you get a sneak peek at upcoming features that may soon be coming to your phone. Google released Tuesday the developer version of its …

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• 22 March

  OnePlus 3T available in another special

  

  Now playing: Watch this: OnePlus 3T ups the ante on an already great phone 2:11 OnePlus can’t stop hyping. Its latest flagship, the 3T, is already a great phone on its own. But apparently it needs more hype. So OnePlus released a special gold variant in January. But that still wasn’t enough. So the company teamed up with Colette, the …

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• 22 March

  How Assistant differs on Android, Android Wear, Google Home and Allo

  

  Google Assistant, the brains behind the Google Home ($75 at Walmart) speaker and the virtual assistant found on Android phones and watches and within Allo, is oddly fragmented. Unlike Alexa, which works virtually the same whether you’re accessing it from an official device, third-party hardware, a DIY Alexa speaker or even the Amazon app on an iOS, Google Assistant’s feature …

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• 22 March

  Samsung Pay joins India’s digital

  

  As India’s cash issues continue to create incentives for new mobile payment systems, it’s no surprise that Samsung has jumped into the fray with its its Samsung Pay digital wallet. The Apple Pay competitor’s implementation includes support for PayTM and the Unified Payments interface. It has a ton of network financial services partners, though Citibank India is still forthcoming. Samsung …

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• 22 March

  Best and worst cities for AT&T, Sprint, T

  

  Think “speed” and Indianapolis, and there’s a good chance you’ll conjure up the Indiana city’s famous speedway, which has been hosting motor sports for 108 years. Who knew Indianapolis also took the checkered flag for best mobile network coverage of any US city in the last half of 2016? The next four on the list of cities with the best …

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• 22 March

  Amazon Alexa on a phone: What you will and won’t get

  

  Imagine if Siri and Google Now had an app store filled with 7,000 extra tricks you could teach them for free. That’s the promise of Amazon’s cloud-based Alexa assistant on a phone, which has debuted in the Amazon shopping app for the iPhone and iPad, and on Huawei Mate 9 phones in the US, through a specialized app. The integration …

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• 22 March

  Amazon Alexa comes to its first Android phone, the Huawei Mate 9

  

  Amazon Alexa on an Android phone is here, and Huawei Mate 9 owners in the US will get it first in an over-the-air update (and later through the Google Play store). But if the thought of Amazon Alexa on a phone conjures images of an always-listening digital servant to answer your every whim and summon taxis to your exact locale, …

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• 22 March

  Google says it’s stopped a ton of ‘dangerous’ Android apps

  

  Google wants you to know it’s got your back, Android users. The company on Tuesday released its third annual Android Security Year in Review (PDF), a look back at Google’s progress in keeping bad apps away from more than 1.4 billion users of its mobile operating software. “In 2016, we improved our abilities to stop dangerous apps, built new security …

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• 22 March

  Stop saying ‘108’ Siri

  

  If someone told you everyone’s jumping off a cliff, would you do it, too? The latest social media craze to go viral is almost as stupidly dangerous: Telling Siri to say “108,” India’s equivalent of the 9-1-1 emergency call line. That’s because Apple made it easy for people to call emergency services from anywhere in the world. Saying any country’s …

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• 22 March

  LG to launch mobile payment service in South Korea this year

  

  LG Electronics wants a chunk of the meaty mobile payment market that is estimated to reach $780 billion worldwide this year. The South Korean company told CNET on Wednesday that it will roll out its new mobile payment service via its LG G6 flagship smartphones in South Korea in the third quarter. The service will be called LG Pay. The …

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