Articles tagged "Misc"

YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium have expanded to 7 new countries - Chile, Colombia, Japan, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland and Ukraine - bringing the services' availability to 29 and 21 markets, respectively. The two services share the...

Time to vote for your favorite Android apps and games. Follow this link to the Google Play Store and cast your vote. Note that the voting is per-country (and not all countries are included). The voting ends in two weeks, the winners in each category...

In the latest installment of the notorious Pixel issues, the Pixel 3 and 3 XL are shutting down due to overheating. The issue has been reported by a few users - not enough to cause pandemonium, but enough to be considered a real issue by Google,...

Apple finally updated its cult classic Macbook Air with a Retina display and added all the necessary niceties a 2018 Apple laptop should offer - thinner bezels, precision aluminum body, gargantuan force touch trackpad and Touch ID. The new Air...

Google has revealed its findings about dark mode and how it affects battery life. During this week’s Android Developer Summit, Google spoke to app developers about what they can do in order to yield the best battery life for the user’s...

Xbox One owners can now get PUBG (PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds) and PES (Pro Evolution Soccer) 2019 for free from the Windows store. PUBG requires an Xbox Live Gold subscription ($9.99/month or $59.99/year) to play because it's a multiplayer...

Today, T-Mobile’s own Nevile Ray, Chief Technology Officer for the carrier, tweeted that the carrier has managed to deploy more 600 MHz spectrum across 257 new cities in the United States. T-Mobile has not stopped investing into its network and this...

Reports about Samsung removing the iris scanner from the Galaxy S10 become more and more frequent. A Korean media outlet has quoted industry insiders who claimed the company would stay away from the tech and will rely on the fingerprint scanner as...

The third quarter of 2018 saw less phones shipped globally than the same quarter in 2017 and marked the fourth consecutive trimester of shipments decline. Counterpoint estimates that 386.8 million phones were shipped globally in Q3 of 2018, down 3%...

According to data obtained by Rosenblatt Securities analyst Jun Zhang, Apple sold around 9 million iPhone XR units in the phone's opening weekend. Those are some stellar numbers but ones that fall short of said analyst' prediction of 10 million...

With the proliferation of cameras – especially phone cameras – supernatural beings seem to have all but disappeared. A blurry black & white photo may or may not show Nessie, but the sharp image taken with a modern smartphone leaves little room for...

In his latest durability test, Zack from JerryRigEverything gives the Razer Phone 2 the scratch, burn and bend test and the blocky phone passed without losing its structural integrity. There wasn't anything surprising in the video. The screen...

The Italian Competition and Market Authority (AGCM) opened an investigation against Samsung and Apple over claims of planned obsolescence. That was in January and the investigation has now closed – both companies were found guilty. Samsung and...

The Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 is set to be announced by Xiaomi on October 25 where it will announce a successor to the Xiaomi Mi Mi 2 (and 2S). Given the imaging ability that we saw on the Mi Mix 2S, we are expecting to see a very capable shooter on the Mi...

Today, in a statement to The Verge, Google confirmed that its Pixel Stand was made specifically for the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL in that these are the only two devices that can pull the fast 10W wireless charging current. Conversely, the Pixel 3...

Android turned 10 this year and to commemorate the occasion, Google brought out the family album to show images of its little robo-baby growing up. You can read the full post over at the official Google Blog. There are interesting tidbits and...

We’ve seen YouTuber JerryRigEverything make transparent versions of other phones in the past – so what makes the Pixel 3 any different? Well the Pixel 3 has the dual-texture glass on the back – most of the glass has a “frosty” texture that feels...

No, this isn’t the next edition of Counterclockwise, but it may as well be. Yesterday we saw the introduction of the Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL and their price may have brought you back to the time when cheap but powerful Nexus phones were...

The Wi-Fi Alliance has finally figured out that the versioning system it's been using to describe the different generations of the technology is simply not intuitive, or easy to understand by the average consumer. It's amazing that this...

Samsung's latest ad focuses on playing Fortnite on a Samsung Galaxy S9+, Galaxy Note9 or Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 but also on being a popular eSports gamer. The protagonist starts off at home, playing on a Galaxy S9+ but then receives a sponsorship...