On stage during its India launch event of the OnePlus 7T, OnePlus formally revealed it will launch a mobile payment system called OnePlus Pay at some point in 2020.
The company was very cryptic surrounding details of the new service. Other than the name and the tentative release date of “sometime next year,” the company didn’t divulge any other info.
“And lastly, we have a special announcement to make,” said Szymon Kopec, the head of the Software Product Growth division at OnePlus.
If you want wired listening with the new iPhone XR, XS, or XS Max, then you’ll have to buy the Apple dongle separately.
Although its inclusion was a small gesture, the absence could rub customers the wrong way. After all, a one-time payment for the base model iPhone XS Max is $1,099. You’d think the trillion-dollar company could afford to provide users with an adapter.
Granted, many users who listen via true wireless or traditional wireless earbuds may not care about the omission.
2017 is shaping up to be the year of the virtual assistant, with Google and Amazon already rolling out their new Assistant and Alexa software to more devices over previous months. Not forgetting that Apple’s Siri has already nabbed a big share of the smartphone market, tucked away in every iPhone, and Microsoft continues to focus on Cortana. Samsung has also announced its new virtual assistant – Bixby – this year. However, Samsung’s voice assistant is only available in South Korea at launch, will be rolling out to the US later in the spring, and other parts of the world over the coming year.
Samsung Galaxy A53 5GThe Samsung Galaxy A53 5G takes the best parts of its predecessor and (mostly) improves on them, while also lowering the price tag. It's not perfect, but Samsung also didn't fix what wasn't broken, and the superb update commitment means this affordable phone will stay current long after others have retired.
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Samsung is going all-in on mid-range excellence. It set the bar high in 2021 with the well-rounded Galaxy A52 5G, and we’ve been waiting patiently to see what its successor has in store.
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Android code reveals that the Pixel Tablet may connect to a dedicated “Google Dock.” The dock will likely charge the tablet when it’s not in use and double up as a speaker. The publication reports that the Pixel Tablet indeed aims to replace the Nest Hub in your homes. The pogo pins at the back of the tablet will connect to a dedicated dock referred to as the “Google Dock” in Android code.
A lot has changed in the last couple decades. When I was a child, communication largely meant one of three methods: in-person, through the mail, or using a landline. Sure cellphones and email existed, but neither were that commonplace for average individuals until the later part of the 90s. Today’s technology has made it a lot easier to stay in touch with others, and that includes your children. Hoping to expand on the idea of letting parents communicate (and track) children when they aren’t at home, LG has now announced the KizON, a new wearable designed specifically for younger kids.
“The display assembly cannot be replaced without tunneling through the entire phone. This makes one of most common repairs, a damaged screen, very difficult to accomplish.” This is how the teardown experts at iFixit describe the situation they found inside the brand new HTC One (M8).
iFixit is a company that creates teardown guides for DIY-ers and professionals, along with related tools and equipment. The company ranks devices on a repairability scale from 1 to 10, with 10 being the easiest to repair.
We’ve been expecting this day for at least two or three years, basically since Chrome came out and quickly started to become the default desktop browser for many of us, even when it was still in beta. Since then, we wanted to see Chrome for Android, but for some reason, Google kept avoiding the subject until this year.
This year we saw Chrome for Android Beta for the first time, and we were impressed by the browser’s speed and performance (you’d expect that from Chrome after all).
MediaTek has been putting increasing pressure on the mobile SoC market leaders lately, and newly leaked details about a high-end Helio X20 SoC could point to the company’s biggest challenger yet. According to the leak, MediaTek is working on a Helio X20 SoC that will feature 10 CPU cores.
The ‘deca-core’ design is arranged in a tri-cluster big.LITTLE setup. There are two high performance, more efficientCortex-A72 cores clocked at around 2.
Update: May 24, 2019 at 10:46 a.m. ET: An Honor spokesperson reached out to Android Authority regarding the claims below. The Honor 20 Pro release date is still scheduled for July 2019, and Honor will update us with more availability information once it has more details.
Original article: May 23, 2019 at 7:43 a.m. ET: Huawei subsidiary Honor launched its latest smartphone earlier this week, the Honor 20 Pro, expected to be released in early July.