Google just unwrapped its latest flagship and it’s only natural to wonder how it compares to the other big phones of the year. At $849 for the Pixel 2 XL, it’s definitely on the pricey side of the smartphone market and for less than $100 more, you can nab yourself Samsung’s latest flagship, the Galaxy Note 8.
Both devices have a lot to offer and appeal largely to different types of customers, but how do they stack up?
Google’s Clock app has seen several redesigns over the years, and the trend continues with Android O as Google looks to have revamped one of the more useful apps on your Android phone.
The first thing you will notice is the redesigned icon – compared to the current icon, which is just an image of a circular clock, the new icon is a blue clock in a gray square. Given how Google has redesigned other icons to feature either a circular motif or the removal of a square background, this is an intriguing change.
Changes made to your Windows 10 desktop or laptop don’t always work as planned. For instance, you may install new drivers for your storage device or discrete graphics chip, but the drivers are broken at launch and cause chaos across the system. Lucky for you, Windows 10 has a great tool to return your PC to its previous working state.
In this guide we’ll show you how to do a System Restore on Windows 10 step-by-step.
NBA superstar LeBron James is endorsing Samsung’s products in a couple of new commercials.
King James first got involved with Samsung last year, when he promoted the Galaxy Note 2 in a series of ads. Now he’s back with two more spots for Samsung’s recently launched Galaxy Note 3 smartphone, Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet, and Galaxy Gear smartwatch.
The ads, which are in the same vein with last year’s campaign, show LeBron spending time with family and friends or sweating it out in the training room, with Samsung devices just a cut away.
We’ve been hearing about the Nokia 9.2 PureView for months now, with the flagship previously said to be delayed from the first half of the year to H2 2020.
Now, a source has told NokiaPowerUser that the upcoming HMD phone will have a penta-camera setup featuring some high resolution cameras. More specifically, the source says the phone will pack a 64MP main camera with OIS, and a 108MP ultra-wide shooter.
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Google quietly hinted that the Pixel Launcher will let you toggle between light and dark themes. The toggle will arrive as a software update, though Google did not say when the update will be available. The Pixel Launcher is exclusive to Pixel phones, though you can download unofficial ports. Even though the Pixel Launcher features a dark theme, you do not control when it turns on. That will eventually change, though how Android Police learned about it is a story unto itself.
Many older devices are a bit limited when it comes to RAM. RAM (Random Access Memory) is where your applications store parts of their program and data during operation. One of the biggest RAM-hogs on stock phones are the customised Home Screens, such as HTC Sense.
If you were to swap out to a homescreen that takes up a fraction of the memory the bloaters do, it would load faster, operate smoothly, and leave far more memory available for other multi-task applications to make good use of.
The Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy Note 9 both offered a dual-aperture camera last year, and it’s an interesting concept. The feature allowed users to shoot at a wider aperture (f/1.5) in low light, then switching to a narrower aperture (f/2.4) in daytime conditions when you don’t need to capture all the available light.
Now, noted tipster Ice Universe has claimed that the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 camera will offer the ability to switch between three apertures (f/1.
Vodafone Smart Ultra 6Affordable smartphones usually involve a compromise in some form or another but aside from an uninspiring design, the Vodafone Smart Ultra 6 delivers a premium flagship experience at a fraction of the cost and shows that a good smartphone experience can be affordable for all.
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Mainstream manufacturers such as Samsung, LG and HTC all offer handsets at the entry-level market, but these are usually designed with profits in mind, resulting in lower specs than is possible at the price tag.
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Intel has developed a prototype set of smart glasses called Vaunt. Unlike Google Glass and Snap Spectacles, Vaunt looks like a normal set of glasses. The prototypes will be available to developers soon. One of the biggest hurdles Google faced with Google Glass (and, similarly, Snap faced with Spectacles) was that the glasses looked like something from a sci-fi movie. While the idea of smart glasses may not be a concept consumers outright reject, the message was made clear that the smart glasses they want should look like the glasses they already own.