Picture this. You’re reading through a wall of text and come across a sentence you want to copy and paste. On Android, highlighting a line of text (and not overshooting or cutting off words) can be a pain even if you have the skinniest and nimblest fingers. iOS comes with a text-magnifying feature to make …
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Google’s Android P mobile OS just got a little bit closer to your phone. Google announced that Android P Beta 3 is now available. With Beta 3, Google says it’s very close to the final version of Android P that will release to the public later this summer. This is the third version of the Android P beta, following the …
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If you’re in the market for a top Android phone, the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Google Pixel 2 are probably on your list of considerations (note that the next flagship phone from each of these manufacturers–the Note 9 and Pixel 3–should be here in August and October, respectively. That’s no surprise — as the reigning Android phone maker, Samsung has …
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When it comes to choosing an Android phone, it may seem like the go-to option is the Samsung Galaxy S9 (or S9 Plus). But there are plenty of others that don’t cost as much, including the Google Pixel 2 from 2017 and the OnePlus 6, which was released in May. The Pixel 2 is Google’s marquee phone, and starts at …
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Eager to see what Android P has in store for your phone? Google just announced its Android P Beta 2, previewing what’s to come with the latest version of Android. The Android P Beta 2 marks the debut of multi-camera APIs. The API lets phones stream from two different physical cameras at the same time. This gives developers the chance to …
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Google wants to trick you into thinking machines are human. That’s a theme the tech titan pushed as it rolled out new features for its Google Assistant voice software at Google I/O, Google’s annual conference for developers. Google Assistant is in nearly every Android phone, the Google Home smart speaker and drives future smart displays, which means that robo-voices that …
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Still resisting the notch fever sweeping phone designs these days? Give it up. Google has. The Android P beta, a build meant for app developers that anyone is free to download and use, supports not one, but three different notch designs. There’s the central Cycloptic notch we find in phones like the iPhone X, Huawei P20, LG G7 and Essential …
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Google’s Android P beta software brings radical change to the way that you’ll navigate an Android phone. As with the iPhone X, Android P is all about gestures. Case in point: You swipe up from the bottom to see an overview of all your apps and to open the app drawer, and swipe left and right to select apps. It’d …
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When installing a new app, you have to click “accept” to give the program access to your location, camera and microphone. That unlocks a lot of potential in your apps, but it also opens up the question of when exactly those apps are collecting your data. Until now, it’s been hard to know the answer on phones use the Android …
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Google I/O, the Big G’s annual developer conference, crammed in a mind-boggling number of demos and announcements to show off advancements in everything that the tech behemoth touches. These are the changes that’ll you’ll use every day on your phone, your work and your home. The most important updates come to Google Assistant, Android, Google Maps and AR. Now …
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