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Update: October 7, 2020 (5:50 AM ET): Realme has announced European pricing and availability details for the Realme 7 series. While the Realme 7 Pro is seemingly the same device that launched in India in September, the Realme 7 does feature one significant change made to the camera department. A more detailed look of the Realme 7 in Europe can be found here. Pricing and available details have also been added to this article.
The Samsung Galaxy S4 Brown edition appears in a new Samsung video that’s designed to showcase some of the Samsung flagship’s signature features.
The short music video, called “Hi Hey Hello,” features The Chicharones’ song by the same name, and has been directed by Grammy Award-winning director Joseph Khan, a man known to have worked with names such as George Michael, Maroon 5 and Lady Gaga, to mention but a few.
The siren’s crooning, the heavy bass, the melodies in the air. These are the things you can never get enough of. Whether you want to dance out to your music with everyone or just like to put on the earplugs for some personal auditory relaxation, music is within your reach especially if you own an Android phone. Not only music in fact, since you can also get the best books, podcasts and more.
The number of people who use voice-controlled devices like the Amazon Echo and Google Home is expected to climb to 35.6 million by the end of 2017. As such, it is intriguing to think about what exactly these people use devices for. Activity automation app If This Then That (IFTTT) sought to answer that question by polling some of its users over a few days, with the data showing they use their devices for more than just turning the lights on and off.
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Earlier this week, we reported on the Ecobee4, a smart thermostat that could also accept voice commands from Amazon’s Alexa digital assistant. Now, GE has announced it will sell a smart desk lamp that will also have Alexa voice support. Pre-orders for the lamp, called The C by GE Sol (yeah, we know it’s weird) will be going live soon.
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The LED lamp can be used by its owners to perform any Alexa voice command, such as reading the news, ordering dinner, or playing a song.
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Steam for Chrome OS is finally 100% official. The service will start as an alpha test with only a limited number of Chromebooks supported. Since this is an alpha test, it is most certainly not ready for primetime. Last week, Google mistakenly showed off a presentation slide that appeared to confirm the long-awaited support of Steam on Chromebooks. The presentation mentioned a site people could read with information on how to get started with alpha testing, but no site materialized.
The beta version of Google Maps just received an update giving us a sneak peek at what we can expect to see arrive on the stable version in the near future. These additions include a long-awaited feature that lets you choose to keep your map north-oriented as well as a passive swipe-protection capability that lets Maps interpret deliberate swipes versus accidental ones.
“Keep map north up” is the new feature available in the Navigation settings.
It’s a new day which means Google has a new Nexus 7 short and to the point video tutorial for anyone interested in more details on how their newly purchased Jelly Bean tablet works.
It’s now time to look at a more interesting Jelly Bean feature, the new Google Now search function that’s available on the device. The 60-second video embedded below shows users how Google Now works and why it can be a great app to use for your daily activities.
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Google’s third-ever Pixel feature drop lands today. It comes with some brand new features as well as some tweaks to existing features. Every Pixel phone will get the update except for the original Pixel and Pixel XL. Those two phones no longer receive updates. The biggest update in the Pixel feature drop is an improved Adaptive Battery. Hopefully, this will make your Pixel go longer without a charge. Today, the third Google Pixel feature drop lands.