Articles tagged "Mobile software"

The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 5G has a more usable cover screen than its predecessor, but it's still far from letting you control all of the phone's features. It basically runs a copy of the Galaxy Watch4's OS - giving you an always-on clock,...

Telegram is ending the year with a bang. The latest update comes with a bunch of new features for both Android and iOS. Reactions are now part of the app - and if you've ever used Facebook Messenger you know how these work. The difference is that in...

Ride-hailing service Bolt is getting Huawei Petal Maps integration. Users will see the Bolt app as a means of transport when route-planning in Huawei's Petal Maps and will then be taken to the Bolt app to choose driver and ride options. Bolt was...

WhatsApp's voice messages are really popular, as unlike on Facebook Messenger you aren't time-limited and you can also see when they've been listened too. You can even change the speed at which to hear them. And from now on, you get another neat...

WhatsApp lets you change the speed of playback of voice notes since earlier this year and it's now beta-testing the same speed control for audio messages. An audio message is a voice note, which you've forwarded to another chat, and in that...

Life360, the company behind the app by the same name, which allows you to share your locations with friends and family, will acquire Tile in a deal worth $205 million. The deal is expected to close in the first three months of the new year. This...

WhatsApp is constantly working behind the scenes to add new features to its service, and today we're talking about just such a thing. The beta version of WhatsApp for Android now has an option to hide your "last seen" status from specific...

Today Instagram proudly announced that you can now see previews of Instagram posts on Twitter. These will automatically be made into a card format once you enter any Instagram link into any tweet. That sounds like a neat feature to have, of...

For a short while you've been able to transfer your WhatsApp history from an iPhone to a Samsung device, and now this capability is being extended to all Google Pixels too. Not just that, however - Google is announcing that any phone launching...

Adobe kicked off its Max conference with updates to its entire suite of apps. One of the biggest announcements is Photoshop for the web browser. It's a web version of Photoshop with limited editing support, meant for collaborative work. You can...

Aside from phones today Google also made the Pixel Pass service official. This was leaked a few days ago, and now it's unveiled. It's a subscription service that costs $45 per month for the Pixel 6 and $55 per month for the Pixel 6 Pro. With both...

Starting today, WhatsApp is adding end-to-end encryption to your cloud backups on both Android and iOS. While WhatsApp itself has been end-to-end encrypted by default for the past five years, until now if you chose to backup your chats to Google...

At the onset of the pandemic app installs shot up as people searched for something to do. Now with the vaccine rollout app installs on the Google and Apple platforms are down slightly (1.2% and 2.1%, respectively, year over year), but revenues have...

Facebook's never-ending quest to quash its competitors through copying their features has reached a new high (or low, depending on how you look at it) today with the launch of Reels. "But wait", you say, "isn't that an Instagram feature?" And the...

As we inch closer to the supposed October 4 stable release of Google’s Android 12, smartphone OEMs are slowly pushing their first public betas to users. Samsung has officially begun seeding its One UI 4 based on Android 12 and it is now available to...

Google released its final beta build of Android 12 last week and now XDA’s Mishaal Rahman shared an internal Google document which details the Android 12 source code will be published on Google’s Android Open Source Project (AOSP) on October...

Oppo’s ColorOS is ready to hit version 12 and now the company officially confirmed that it will be introduced on September 16 in China. The latest version of Oppo’s OS will be based on Android 12 and a beta for the Find X3 series is expected to...

Xiaomi has always treated MIUI with plenty of respect, care and attention, as technically its first and still one of its most successful products. Things are going great with the latest MIUI 12.5, as well as the later-unveiled 12.5 Enhanced Edition,...

Last month on the day of Samsung's official unveiling of the Galaxy Z Fold3 and Z Flip3 WhatsApp unveiled plans to support moving chat history from iOS to Samsung devices running Android 10 or 11. Today this feature finally went live. So, if you...

While some Android makers have implemented system-wide search on their devices, it is not part of the core OS. That is about to change with Android 12 as beta 4 for the Pixel phones does support it, even if it this feature hasn’t been officially...