In the first developer previews for Android 12, we enabled and gave you a preview for a new native feature called “Game Mode.” It’s a feature that Google has yet to officially announce, but it’s live and accessible in the first Android 12 beta, though it’s nowhere close to release.
Game Mode in Android 12 is designed to give players useful tools while they’re playing games as well as…
In this video, we’re heading to Washington’s Discovery Coast with photographer Corey Arnold and the Fujifilm GFX 100S to visit the Shelburne Hotel, the oldest continuously operating hotel in the state.
The Fujifilm GFX 100S is a high-resolution medium-format…
Google has announced updates to its suite of AI-powered features in an effort to make it easier to look back and find meaningful moments and memories while giving better control over what is relived.
The most important takeaway from Google’s updates to Memories today is…
As part of a customization project he undertook, self-described media creator David Knop disassembled a Polaroid Go, the company’s latest instant camera. Impressed with the engineering and design, Knop decided to share what it looks like under the hood.
Polaroid announced the Go Instant Camera in late April. At the time, it referred to it as the “the tiniest member to join the Polaroid…
Landscape photographers dread the feeling of standing in front of an incredible scene only to look up to find blue skies filled with harsh sunlight and no clouds. On a recent photography trip to Death Valley National Park, Michael Shainblum decided to use the harsh…
When iOS 14.5 was introduced, Apple also made the new App Tracking Transparency feature available to the public, so that users can opt out of being tracked by third-party apps. However, several users had been complaining that the Tracking toggle was grayed out for unknown…
Android 12 Beta 1: Google’s design overhaul is here, but most of the features are missing
May 19, 2021
Years in the making, Android 12 is bringing a huge visual overhaul to the platform with the biggest impact since Material Design first debuted in Lollipop. “Material You” has some major potential and we’re seeing the first effects from it in the first Android 12 Beta release, but most of the good stuff is missing.
If you install Android 12 Beta 1 on a Google Pixel phone, you’ll be…
The Android 12 Beta launched today for Pixel phones, and in it, we’ve found model numbers for all of the Made by Google phones to release in 2021 including the Pixel 6 family and the reported foldable ‘Passport.’
This year’s lineup of Made by Google phones has been…
Android 12 Beta 1: Power menu is blocked by Assistant, but an upcoming button will fix that
May 19, 2021
In Android 12, the power button now acts a shortcut to Google Assistant. Google may have pitched this as a handy shortcut but, let’s be honest, this is just copying a trend Apple started. Regardless of how you feel about that, there’s a very unfortunate side effect. At…
Colors are going to be a big part of Android 12 when it reaches its final form and, while most aren’t live yet, Google is also adding more colors to the charging animations on Pixels with this update.
Whenever you provide power to a Pixel smartphone you’ll get a neat little animation along with it. A circular array of dots appear at the center of the display when using a wireless charger.
