News

Chrome 77 started rolling out a few days ago, and it has plenty of improvements — a feature for sending links to other devices, a contact picker for web apps, a faster Lite Mode, and more. However, it also introduced one (admittedly minor) bug: printing might not work from Google Calendar. A new Google support […]

Samsung devices haven’t historically been the quickest to receive OS updates. This week, Android 9 Pie came to the T-Mobile variant of the extra-durable Galaxy S8 Active, nearly a year and a half after the Oreo update. The update, which has baseband version number G892USQU5CSG7, comes with all the normal Pie improvements, like optional two-button […]

You know what you’re getting with each new Galaxy Note release: a big honkin’ display, great build, great performance, and of course, the S Pen. Those things are all still true of the Note10 and 10+ — but frankly, it’s getting a little predictable at this point. Here are the five best and worst things […]

Google first revealed Project Jacquard in 2015 as a platform for interactive clothing, and the first retail product using it — the Levi’s Commuter Trucker Jacket — arrived in 2017. You could hover your hand over the jacket’s arm to skip music, accept/dismiss calls, and so on. The jacket isn’t sold anymore, but Google isn’t […]

PopSockets, the maker of the popular eponymous smartphone grips, has launched a new product: PopThirst Cup Sleeves. Upcoming phones: The future smartphones of 2019 They’re exactly what you think they are: Popsocket-equipped sleeves, for your mug. They should fit most “coffee cups, pint glasses, and various beverage cups”, according to PopSockets, which shared promo materials of the […]

It has been about a month since Chrome 77 entered beta, and right on schedule, it has now graduated to the stable branch. This release doesn’t have many groundbreaking changes on the surface, but there are still some new features worth mentioning. Without further ado, let’s take a deep dive into Chrome 77! Sending pages […]

Update 1: 2019/09/13 2:00am PDT About a month ago, the Google app started showing early signs of a dark mode implementation, but users who had the design only saw it interspersed throughout the interface in some sort of chimera mode that mixed white elements, dark ones, and illegible text in many instances. Now, the proper dark […]

Google offers a system-wide, easily accessible dark theme in Android 10 and more and more apps are receiving updates to support it. However, there is no native schedule option to switch between light and dark mode automatically. Due to Android’s open nature, though, one developer was quick to introduce an app called Automatic Dark Theme […]

No product is more emblematic of the fusion of Google and Nest into a single brand than the new Google Nest Hub Max. This is the bigger brother to the Google Home Hub, later renamed the Google Nest Hub. The two devices share many of the same features like Ambient EQ and smart home controls, […]

Motorola once held a practically unchallenged position at the top of the budget smartphone food chain, but increasingly capable competition from the likes of Nokia and a host of Chinese brands has changed the landscape in recent years. The now Lenovo-owned company has also lost its value proposition edge, with the Moto G7 not able […]

With the advent of last year’s iPhone XS and XR as well as the iPhone 11, it’s easy to overlook the iPhone 8 and larger-scale iPhone 8 Plus. But that’s a mistake – the Touch ID and home button-based iPhone 8 line up still has so much to offer and that’s why it still remains on sale despite […]

Update 1: 2019/09/11 5:12am PDT We’re fast approaching the final release of Android Q, but Android 9 Pie is still trickling out to some devices. Two such devices: Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S3 and Galaxy Tab A, both released in 2017. The tablets have started seeing the update in some Asian countries. The LTE variant of the […]