The Google Play Music app has been recently updated, adding a series of useful tweaks to the user experience.
While it may not look like a huge update, what’s been improved can be very helpful in your everyday use of the app (and I’m sure you’ve started to use it even more if Google Play Music All Access is available in your country).
First of all, the app now has the option to delete tracks, so you can get rid of the songs you’re not listening to straight from the app, freeing some space on your device in the process.
Android 4.4 KitKat landed on Halloween with a bag full of treats, including a refreshed user interface, new features, better integration with Google’s apps and services, and a slew of improvements under the hood.
While there are plenty of sources online where you can get up to speed with Google’s latest and greatest operating system, sometimes it’s better to go right to the source. For those of you who can’t get enough of KitKat, that source is Google’s own Android Quick Start Guide, Android 4.
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The first leaked images of the Microsoft Surface Duo 2 just landed. The leak shows a redesigned rear camera module with three lenses, suggesting better camera hardware. Microsoft’s treatment of imaging as an afterthought was a major pain point of the original Surface Duo. One of the reasons it may not have fared well was the fact that it ignored some smartphone aspects that buyers prioritize.
A new version of the Adblock Plus app for Android has been released, but you’ll have to get it straight from the developer’s site in order to get updates from now on, since the app has been removed from the Google Play Store.
The developers of the app have made it available on their website and note that you need so set your Android device to allow the installation of apps from Unknown sources in order to install it.
The LG G7 ThinQ (left) and Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus (right).
The Samsung Galaxy S10 and LG G8 may house fully bezel-less screens without a display notch, as both companies are said to have found an alternative to the controversial feature.
According to Etnews (via TechRadar), Samsung Display and LG Display have developed sound-emitting screens that would remove the requirement of a front-facing speaker. Thus, the cut-out area that supports the speaker — what we’ve come to call the notch — also wouldn’t be necessary.
Apple’s annual WWDC Conference is its time to showcase the next year of its smartphone, tablet, and Mac operating systems. As with everything Apple does, it is always a pretty big deal in the tech world.
This year’s event, held back in June, was a historic one — and not just because it was held entirely online. It’s barely been a hot minute since WWDC and already Apple has changed the conversation around tech in more ways than one.
Update: August 26, 2020 (7:37 AM ET): The Red Magic 5S is now available to pre-order if you live beyond the borders of China. Although it’s taken the phone a little over a month to be made available internationally, prospective buyers can now book their devices before they ship on September 2.
The Red Magic 5S will be available through its own store starting at $579 for the 8GB/128GB model jumping to $649 for the 12GB/256GB version.
WhatsApp is reportedly the next company in the government’s firing line in the great encryption debate. The New York Times is reporting that government officials are “privately debating how to resolve a prolonged standoff” with WhatsApp over access to its encrypted messages and phone calls.
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Nothing has been made official yet, so there’s no court order or high-profile backdrop like there is in the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone case.
In addition to the plethora of apps and utilities current smartphones can offer, they can be further customized to aid us with various daily routines, such as starting and stopping the engine of a scooter or popping open the seat latch. That’s exactly what Brad Nelson, an ingenious Android smartphone owner who also happens to be a Kymco ZX50 scooter driver, did. He customized his scooter to respond to gesture-based commands issued from his Motorola Droid 4 via Bluetooth.
Huawei’s not a company known for its subtlety, preferring to break world records rather than innovate understatedly. That being said, the company’s newest version of software for Android seems to be a happy confluence of sensible features and unique design. Initially unveiled last July, the overlay – known as Emotion UI – is, Huawei spokespeople say, simpler to use and easier to modify than stock Android.
Customizability and simplicity certainly seem to be the focus of Huawei’s video preview of the latest Emotion UI.