Of course, the biggest and most exciting April Fools Day unveiling happened on April 1st of 2004. What was so significant about that day? Google actually revealed a real product and not just a prank, one that has been going strong ever since: Gmail.
Due to the timing of the announcement, many folks originally thought that the invite-only (until 2007) Gmail service was nothing more than a gag, especially considering the company’s ambitious plans to provide a full gigabyte of storage — 500 times as much as Hotmail offered.
As with most manufacturers, Samsung typically takes months to bring the latest version of Android to its flagships. Despite this and the fact that Samsung hasn’t announced when it plans to make the firmware upgrade available, XDA-Developers was able to use a tool called Firmware.Science to install Samsung Experience 10.0 based on Android 9 Pie onto the Galaxy S9 Plus.
Looking at the below screenshots of Samsung Experience 10.0, it’s pretty clear that the South Korean company is still in the alpha stage of development.
If you’re sending someone a WhatsApp message, you may not want those messages to stay forever in the recipient’s phone. It could be something potentially embarrassing or compromising in the future, or maybe you want to have an auto-delete function on your WhatsApp to keep things tidy? After a specific period of time, the message goes off to WhatsApp message heaven forever, never to be seen again. That’s the purpose of WhatsApp Disappearing Messages.
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Calm.com licensed the audio stream of “The Joy of Painting” to help you fall asleep. While it’s not a Bob Ross app, it’s the only legitimate way to listen to Ross while you doze off. The Calm app will eventually bring more Bob Ross audio should this first phase prove successful. Calm.com – which created the popular Android app Calm which is geared towards relaxing and meditation – just announced a new app feature called Sleep Stories, via The New York Times.
If you’ve been having problems listening to music through headphones on your Galaxy S4 then you’re not alone. A lot of other users have been complaining on Reddit and XDA about a strange audio clipping issue occurring on their handsets.
The problem seems to be affecting users with Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 powered handsets who are plugging in low-impedance (sub 16 ohm) headphones into the smartphone’s 3mm jack. The issue manifests as an irritating buzzing or crackling sound if the volume is turned up past a certain point, but the exact cause has been a little harder to diagnose.
There’s plenty of wearables and activity trackers out there, but very few of them can strike a balance between functionality, build quality and price. If they are not too basic, they are expensive, or they are ugly. Looking for the right activity tracker? Lucky for you, the AA Deals Store currently has an offer on a great wearable.
The Striiv Fusion is usually priced at $100, but right now you can grab it for only $53.
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Amazon just announced the Show Mode Charging Dock, which turns your Fire HD tablet into a makeshift Echo Show. The dock is available for the Amazon Fire HD 10 and Fire HD 8 tablets. The docks list for $55 and $40 respectively, and ship on July 12. Pre-orders are open now. The Amazon Echo Show is a nifty piece of hardware that gives you all the power of an Echo smart speaker combined with a tablet-like display for additional functions.
Update, January 31, 2020 (4:43AM ET): Verizon has extended its 5G network to three more US cities. These include: Little Rock, Kansas City, and Cincinnati. These three new cities join the list of 31 other cities covered by Verizon 5G in 2019.
In Little Rock, Verizon’s 5G service will be available in parts of Midtown, University District, Birchwood, Otter Creek, and near landmarks such as: UAMS College of Medicine, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Rock Creek Square Plaza Shopping Center, and Outlets of Little Rock.
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OnePlus has launched its Red Cable Club rewards program in Europe. This offers discounts on several product categories on the OnePlus website. You’ll also get early access to buy an upcoming audio product. The OnePlus Red Cable Club launched in India in 2019, promising a variety of benefits for OnePlus fans. It’s only taken almost two years, but the rewards program has finally launched in Europe.
The European take on the Red Cable Club currently offers a variety of discounts on items purchased via OnePlus.
If you are using the Oxygen OS launcher on your OnePlus phone, a swipe to the right of your main home screen will show you the OnePlus Shelf feature. However, the new OnePlus 8 series of phones appear to do away with Shelf, and that could mean the end of the feature for other phones, too.
In place of the OnePlus Shelf feature on the OnePlus 8 and OnePlus 8 Pro is the Google Discover feed.