The Samsung Galaxy S10 is almost certain to be one of the best selling phones of 2019. It’ll also be one of the most expensive, but what if there was a premium smartphone you could buy instead that didn’t carry a premium price tag? Plenty of OEMs deliver affordable flagship smartphones, but none have garnered the same cult following as OnePlus — the Chinese brand from the BBK group that promises to “Never Settle,” delivering phones with top specs and stunning designs at relatively modest prices.
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SwiftKey has announced the release of SwiftKey 7.0. The company says it is the biggest update since it was bought by Microsoft in 2016. The update includes a new toolbar and editable stickers, while location and calendar sharing is coming soon. SwiftKey has announced the release of SwiftKey 7.0, an update to its keyboard that the company is calling the biggest since it was bought by Microsoft in 2016.
Verizon is looking to not only provide you an easier way to pay your phone bill, but also any other bills you may have hanging over your head. Android Authority has received information from a source familiar with the matter that Big Red is working on a finance management app called Prism.
Prism first asks you to choose all of your billers. From there, you connect the billers to Prism, and the service takes it from there— it will sync your account balances and bills and present them in the app.
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Google has revealed that its Gboard keyboard app now supports 500 languages across over 40 writing systems. Some of the more recent languages added to Gboard include Nigerian Pidgin and Balinese. Google has also detailed its process of adding a new language to the keyboard app. Gboard became a key fixture on Android in the short time after its release, delivering a solid typing experience and plenty of neat extra features.
If you love playing video games, you know the woes of needing to game on a PC monitor vs being able to hang out on your couch and play on the TV. Technically you could stream your game to your TV or just connect it directly, but you could never really get the same experience on a TV as you could on your high end monitor. So why hasn’t someone taken computer monitor technology and just put it into something the size of a TV?
The Fitbit Blaze is a deceptive little fitness tracker. It may look like a smartwatch on the surface, but dive a little deeper and you’ll find it’s actually missing most of the smartwatch-y features we’ve come to expect from fitness tracker/smartwatch hybrids. When we reviewed the Blaze a few months ago, the lack of third-party notification support and poor selection of watch faces were some of our biggest gripes with this tracker. Thankfully Fitbit has finally heard our cries and released a new update that fixes these issues.
In March this year, former OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei announced what we had all been expecting: his new company, Nothing, would launch an Android smartphone this year. However, aside from the device’s name, Pei left a lot of details to mystery.
Now, we have a few more breadcrumbs to go on. Pei and lead Nothing designer Tom Howard sat down with Wallpaper to discuss the design process of the Nothing Phone 1.
A few days ago, Arm quietly launched its Cortex-A78C CPU core in a blog post. The processor builds on the previously announced Cortex-A78, but with a higher performance target than smartphones. The Cortex-A78C is designed primarily for always-connected laptops and other high-performance, battery-powered products. With Arm-powered Macs right around the corner, the Cortex-A78C could end up as the rival CPU in the Windows on Arm ecosystem for 2021 laptops.
Richard Yu’s keynote announcement of Huawei’s new Kirin 980 smartphone SoC was an unusually aggressive affair. The company has Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 firmly in its sights, with comparisons and benchmarks abound that showcase the Kirin 980 coming out on top.
Of course, without a smartphone in our own hands, we shouldn’t be too trusting of Huawei’s own internal testing. However, we can definitely take a look at some of the company’s claims and see which make sense given the bountiful details that we already have on the latest Arm CPU and GPU parts that the 980 is using.
The Google Pixel 4 doesn’t have the most comprehensive video recording support, lacking the 4K/60fps functionality that’s become the top-end recording option for many flagship phones.
Now, XDA-Developers editor-in-chief Mishaal Rahman has revealed that the Pixel 4 series originally offered the feature, citing references on Google’s Git repository. Unfortunately, the references show that 4K/60fps support was pulled before launch.
The pulled feature means that the Google Pixel 4 tops out at 4K/30fps.