Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Google is rolling out new features to current Pixel phones. These features include compatibility with an underwater camera housing, new Recorder functionality, and more. It’s a new month, so get ready for a new Pixel feature drop. A host of new features is hitting Pixels this month, including new camera tricks and smarter routine recognition. The first notable tweak comes to the Pixel’s Recorder app.

The Snapdragon 865 and 765 chipsets were unveiled yesterday, and will power a host of high-end and upper mid-range phones in 2020. We’ve already covered the key details, but one rather interesting addition is the ability for users to easily update their GPU drivers. Qualcomm said that it’ll allow GPU drivers to be updated via the Google Play Store, which is a much easier way of doing things than the current solution.

The Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 YP-G70 (international variant) has recently become the talk of the development community. XDA developer rumirand has taken the development of the Galaxy Player 5.0 to the next level with his own customized kernel capable of boosting the multimedia device in terms of speed, performance, and stability. Simply known as rj’s custom kernel, the hack will definitely turn your Galaxy Player 5.0 into one epic powerhouse device.

TL;DR Samsung launched a new Rose Pink option for the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus in the UK Rose Pink has been available in Taiwan and South Korea The new color does not bring any new features to the phones When Samsung launched the Galaxy S8 this past April, the company was praised for the phone’s near bezel-less design that is slowly becoming a smartphone staple. Now, you can pick up the phone and its larger sibling in a sharp-looking Rose Pink in the UK.

If your app is going to be a success, then you need to hold the user’s interest over time, and notifications are an important way to keep your audience engaged. By presenting the user with a timely, relevant notification at exactly the right moment, you can recapture their wandering interest, and pull them back into your app. Android has various classes for creating notifications on-device, but often the most compelling notifications are triggered externally.

Acer’s press event in New York City earlier today showed off a bunch of new and upcoming products from the Taiwan-based company. One of these products is a new fitness-themed smartwatch called the Acer Leap Ware (no, that’s not a typo) that will be priced at just $139. The best smartwatches you can buy (June 2022): Apple, Samsung, and more The Best Acer previously released the Liquid Leap+, a fitness smart band in 2015.

TL;DR The mysterious Pixel 3 “blueline” codename just appeared for the first time in an AOSP commit. We now have seen two of the three leaked codenames for Pixel 3 devices: crosshatch and blueline. We are missing albacore. Could it be that Google is using an “ABC” structure to signify which device is which? Back in October, we got word of a leak of three new codenames for the Pixel 3 lineup of devices: “albacore,” “blueline,” and “crosshatch.

The latest Galaxy S7 Active is here and it’s just as polarizing as ever. On the one hand, you have that questionable camo design. On the other, the S7 Active is a bigger, stronger, tougher version of the already excellent Galaxy S7. It’s hard to top that. Like its predecessors, AT&T will exclusively carry the Galaxy S7 Active, with in-store availability to begin later this week. We spent time with the device ahead of its official launch and we’re here to bring you all the key details.

TL;DR Verizon plans to shut down its 3G CDMA network by the end of 2019. To prepare for this change, Verizon will no longer activate 3G phones. In a world where carriers are working to launch 5G networks, it should come as no surprise that Verizon is looking to shut down its old 3G network. One of the carrier’s first steps to reach its self-imposed late-2019 deadline to shut down its CDMA network is to stop activating 3G phones altogether.

TL;DR AsteroidOS has launched version 1.0 of its self-titled smartwatch platform. The open source operating system is available now for a range of Android smartwatches. It delivers typical smartwatch features like notifications, an alarm clock, weather information and more. AsteroidOS, the creator of an open-source smartwatch platform of the same name, has released version 1.0 of its software (via SlashGear). AsteroidOS announced the launch on Twitter yesterday and it’s compatible with a range of current smartwatches.