Google’s Android TV platform is getting some new hardware in India this week. Airtel recently announced its new Xstream streaming stick and set-top box with Android TV and the first dedicated Prime Video button, too.
Airtel is currently one of the largest telecom operators in India, with upwards of 320 million subscribers. With these new Android TV-based offerings, the company hopes to continue…
Android 10 is rolling out to the Redmi K20 Pro and Essential Phone, OnePlus 7/7 Pro get open beta
September 3, 2019
Mere hours ago Google officially released Android 10 for its Pixels, and now a bunch of companies are following suit, each in its own way.
First off, the Essential Phone is now receiving the update to Android 10, which shouldn’t be very surprising considering the…
Hands-on with the Android 10 Nonogram Easter Egg [Video]
September 3, 2019
It just wouldn’t be a new version of Android without an Easter Egg. Although we have already had a glimpse of the Android 10 Easter Egg thanks to Essential and Huawei adding it to their own builds ahead of Google, they managed to beat Google to the punch by a a few…
Porsche got thousands of Twitch viewers to play its newest ad
September 3, 2019
It took Twitch viewers four hours to figure out the puzzles in Porsche’s latest ad, an interactive playthrough where viewers controlled the IRL actions of two drivers in order to reveal the team’s newest electric car, the Porsche 99X. As Twitch’s Adam Harris told Digiday, the Choose Your Own Adventure-style game was aimed squarely at a younger audience of 18- to 34-year-olds who weren’t…
How to use the new Digital Wellbeing features in Android 10, Focus Mode, and site timers
September 3, 2019
Today’s the big day of the Android 10 launch on Google Pixel phones, and one of Google’s continued focuses has been on their Digital Wellbeing initiative. With Android 10, Digital Wellbeing is picking up two new capabilities, Focus Mode, which keeps you from using…
Google unveils official Android 10 statue in Mountain View
September 3, 2019
While Android releases are no longer named after desserts, Google is still keeping the tradition of marking each new version with a statue. The Android 10 monument is just the number 10 with the tweaked robot head making an appearance. The company is also letting people…
Android 10 just dropped today for Google Pixel devices, but it’ll probably be a while before most devices get the update. Breaking that tradition, though, is the Essential Phone, as usual, and Xiaomi’s Redmi K20 Pro with day one Android 10 updates.
It should come as no surprise that the Essential Phone is getting Android 10 on day one. While there’s no second generation (yet, hopefully), the…
With Android 10 now available for Pixel users and some other devices, OnePlus is making the update available as well. If you’ve got a OnePlus 7 or OnePlus 7 Pro, the latest OxygenOS Open Beta is based on Android 10 and available for download right now.
Announced in a forum…
Android 10 is now rolling out to Pixels with Dark Theme, new gestures, better privacy
September 3, 2019
The rumors were right: today, Google has officially released Android 10 to the public. That is, the public that owns Pixel smartphones. The update to the stable build of the new OS version is going out now to the Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL…
Spotify for Android recently lost its widget in an update, and some users have been furious about the removal. Today, Spotify confirmed that in a future update, it will bring back the widget.
A community manager from Spotify confirmed the news in a thread earlier today. They explain that the decision to bring back the widget was made because of user feedback. The removal of the widget didn’t…
