For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Accidents happen. Cracking your iPhone’s ($500 at Best Buy) screen or breaking your Android phone’s charging port is the last thing any of us wants to worry about right now. Especially with most of us under stay-at-home orders, practicing …
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Braille has been helping the blind and vision-impaired to read and communicate for more than 150 years. Now Google wants to help blind and vision-impaired Android users put braille to work on their smartphones. To do so, Google developed a virtual braille keyboard called TalkBack. In essence, it divides the user’s screen into six zones, each one representing one of …
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Chinese giant TCL, best known for its excellent TVs, is rebranding its mobile line under its own name after years of using brands like Alcatel, BlackBerry and Palm to market its phones. The first group of mobile products, what it calls the 10 Series, will start hitting Australia, Europe, the UK and North America in the coming weeks. First detailed earlier …
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A report by 9to5Google says that Google will use Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 765G processor in its upcoming Pixel 5 phones. The 765G isn’t the top-of-the-line processor made by Qualcomm. That honor goes to the Snapdragon 865, which can be found in a number of devices, including the Samsung Galaxy S20 line. Now playing: Watch this: What you should know about the …
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Google dropped a handful of notable software updates today, enabling new features for its line of Pixel Android phones, including its main flagship handset, the Pixel 4. While some of these updates bring brand-new tools to the Pixel 4, others are previously-known features that are either newly available to other Pixel models or expanded to different countries where Pixel phones …
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On Friday, the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip foldable phone went on sale just days after it was formally announced at the Samsung Unpacked Event in San Francisco. It comes out a week after the Motorola Razr — another foldable-screen clamshell phone — hit stores. The Razr and Galaxy Z Flip have a lot in common, but they’re also very different phones. …
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For years, iOS has maintained an iron grip on its reputation as the most secure mobile operating system, but Android 10’s granular controls over app permissions and increased efforts toward security updates are a noticeable improvement. Plus, the upcoming Android 11 (currently available as a developer preview) further shows Google is making more headway with its latest privacy-focused features. Both Android …
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The long-sought-for holy grail for those who use a laptop and phone is a seamless handoff between the two for anyone who doesn’t want to stop what they’re doing on one screen to do something else on the smaller display. Now Microsoft helps bridge the divide by letting you make and answer phone calls right from your PC. You can also send …
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Can you look at someone and tell whether they prefer the iPhone or an Android phone? We decided to put YouTube star Marques Brownlee to this test during a recent visit to CNET’s New York studio. Here’s the setup. In multiple rounds, two people walk up to Brownlee. The goal? To figure out which person is an iPhone user and …
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Google usually holds its annual I/O developer conference in the spring, and with January almost behind us it’s time for the company to start looking ahead to its big event. To kick things off in an unsurprisingly Google way, the search giant launched a way for interested developers and fans to get details by solving a collective online game. Called …
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