Update (4/6): If you've been waiting for the new Assistant button to make its way to your device, your wait is almost up. According to a response to a user on Twitter, Google's Head of Product, Amit Fulay, confirmed that the Assistant button in Allo is now rolling out to all users.
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OnePlus will bring the OnePlus 10 Pro with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage to the United States and Canada on June 15. Previously, this model was only available outside North America. Buyers who already committed to the 8/128GB model might be a bit miffed by this news. OnePlus launched its latest flagship smartphone in China back in January and brought it to the rest of the world in April.
Samsung is known for the first-party accessories it curates for its flagships, and it’s no different with the Galaxy S20 Plus. The company has plenty of official cases to choose from, ranging from ultra-thin to extremely rugged options, with many innovative features built-in. Here are the official Samsung cases currently available for the Galaxy S20 Plus.
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Besides the CPU, one of the most important components in a System-On-a-Chip is the Graphical Processing Unit, otherwise known as the GPU. However for many people the GPU is shrouded in mystery. You might know it has something to do with 3D gaming, but beyond that maybe you don’t really understand what is going on. With that in mind, let’s take a peek and see what is behind the curtain.
[related_videos title=”Gary Explains series:” align=”right” type=”custom” videos=”689971,684167,683935,682738,681421,679133″]The GPU is a special piece of hardware that is really fast at doing certain types of math calculations, especially floating point, vector and matrix operations.
What do you do if you are trying to establish an ecosystem of apps for your mobile operating system, or are simply trying to bolster the numbers a bit in order to look more attractive to consumers? If you’re Jolla or Blackberry, the answer is adding Android app compatibility. It’s something we are seeing more of as of late when it comes to smaller players in the mobile OS market, and it seems that Samsung is now getting on this train too — well, sort of.
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Samsung and Google made headlines last week after announcing that they would follow Apple’s lead with their own self-repair programs and would sell smartphone components directly to end-users. Better yet, both companies have partnered with iFixit — a reputable source of repair guides and smartphone spare parts. While this may sound like a victory for the right-to-repair movement, the unfortunate reality is that these programs aren’t as user-centric as they seem on the surface.
The Sony Xperia 5 brings some of the defining features of the flagship Xperia 1 — like the 21:9 display aspect ratio, impressive audio quality, a high-end processor, and more — to a more compact and affordable package. If you’ve bought the phone, you’ll obviously want to keep it protected from accidental bumps and drops. Here’s our roundup of the best Sony Xperia 5 cases you can buy right now!
For a long time, the keyboard mobile app market has been dominated by fairly straightforward, serviceable interfaces. Keyboards are simple things, after all, and most attempts to reinvent the wheel by bringing along a bit of pizazz have resulted in clutter rather than increased functionality. But now CooTek has launched a seriously upgraded keyboard application TouchPal that may just become many people’s go-to option.
TouchPal is perhaps the smartest keyboard we’ve ever seen.
One of the biggest and longest running problems with OEM skins is how heavy and bloated they feel, and while Samsung and LG have made pretty good strides with regards to streamlining their respective software experiences, no one has done a better job with that than HTC.
HTC’s Sense UI has always been one of the favorites when it comes to custom OEM interfaces, and while early versions of the Sense UI did have its problems, HTC has made some noticeable improvements over the years, leading to the best version of the Sense UI yet, as seen with the HTC 10.
Recently, I did a week-long experiment where I exclusively used a OnePlus One as my daily driver in an effort to see how the device has held up over the years. As part of that experiment, I used the device running the last official ROM available, which is based on Android 5 Lollipop.
Although I preemptively noted in the article that this might ruffle some feathers for Android Authority readers, I did it that way for a reason.