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Pixel 5 and 4a 5G sold out on the Google Fi store, listings removed

Over the past weeks, we’ve been tracking how stock of Made by Google’s 2020 lineup has been running low at both the Google Store and various retailers. After being sold out for the most of this month, the first-party Google Fi store today delisted the Pixel 5 and 4a 5G. The MVNO sells phones from Samsung, Motorola, and Google. The latter lineup for most of this year has included the Pixel…
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Android 12 Beta 3.1 subtly tweaks the auto-rotate animation

Android 12 Beta 3.1 arrived just yesterday as a small bug fix update, but it also included a little bonus tweak for the auto-rotate animation. This change is so subtle that you might not even notice it at first, but the auto-rotate animation has a smoother, easier transition between portrait and landscape in Android 12 Beta 3.1. In Beta 3 it seemed to “snap” more into each orientation, but…
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Google shrinks in US smartphone market ahead of Pixel 6’s ‘reboot’ while OnePlus grows over 400%

The US smartphone market is dominated by names like Apple and Samsung, but others such as Google and OnePlus have been trying to make a meaningful impact in it for years now. As we near the Pixel 6 and its “soft reboot” of Google’s lineup, new stats on the US smartphone market in the first half of 2021 show that Google is actively losing market share while OnePlus is seeing a surge in…
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Latest Galaxy Watch 4 leak teases watchfaces, Wear OS apps, and more [Video]

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 will mark the start of a reboot for Google’s Wear OS platform, and so far we’ve already learned a lot about what it will bring to the table. In another leak today, the demo mode from the Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic confirms names, shows off watchfaces, and more. Posted to Twitter by SamMobile, a pair of demo mode animations most notably show off the…
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