Android Pie has been available for barely three months, but it’s time to move on to Android Q news. A purported leaked build of Google’s forthcoming version of its mobile operating system has surfaced, showing the much-anticipated systemwide dark mode and a new permissions structure and interface that will give you a lot more useful …
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Google’s Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL have a lot to like. They’re fast, have incredible displays, and the camera is simply amazing. With Android Pie 9.0 on each device, there are some settings and features that you’ll surely want to tweak as you set up and begin using your phone. Here are ten such settings you should change right …
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Do you fantasize about the days when little clamshell PDA devices were all the rage? At last year’s CES in Las Vegas, the Gemini was a novelty that brought a mechanical keyboard to an Android phone. The Gemini’s sequel of sorts, the Cosmo Communicator, is coming this summer for around $799 (about £620 or AU$1,110), also made by the UK-based …
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Google’s upcoming Android Q may add a system-wide dark mode. “Dark mode is an approved Q feature,” Google’s Lukasz Zbylut wrote in the Chromium bug tracker, according to Android Police. “The Q team wants to ensure that all preloaded apps support dark mode natively. In order to ship dark mode successfully, we need all UI elements to be ideally themed dark …
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Looks like Google won’t make your Android apps obsolete whenever it switches to the Fuchsia operating system. A file posted on the Android Open Source Project suggests that the search giant is implementing a specially made version of Android Runtime (ART) — the architecture used by the apps — in the upcoming operating system, as previously reported by 9to5Google. “These …
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If the Galaxy S10 comes out with superfast 5G connectivity and an in-screen fingerprint reader, you can likely thank Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 855 processor. Qualcomm is the world’s largest supplier of mobile chipsets, and its latest 855 will drive major Android devices in 2019, a roster that’s likely to include flagship handsets from Samsung, Google and LG. At Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Technology …
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Get a new Pixel ($695 at Amazon) phone for the holidays? Sweet! Even if it’s an older model, and not a Pixel 3 ($250 at Amazon) or Pixel 3 XL ($400 at Walmart), you still have a fully capable phone that over time will gain most of the same software features as the latest Pixel phones. Now playing: Watch this: …
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Blu, a company that manufactures super-cheap phones, just announced its latest device: the Blu Vivo Go. What makes the phone special is that it runs Android Go, a specific version of Android built to run smoothly on entry-level phones. Android Go phones are also among the first to get Google’s latest version of the OS. This holds true for the …
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Qualcomm’s next flagship processor is embracing the same photo format technology championed by Apple, a move that will let you squeeze more pictures into your next high-end Android smartphone and maybe advance beyond ordinary snapshots. Last year, Apple introduced support for High Efficiency Image File Format, or HEIF, as part of an effort to improve digital photography, giving it an …
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Pixel’s Call Screen feature makes it all too easy to monitor incoming calls from unknown numbers. When the call comes in, you can let Google answer the call for you and view a live transcript of the caller’s responses. However when the feature first launched, as soon as the call ended the transcript of the call disappeared. This made it …
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