Pebble may have shut down in December 2016, but the original smartwatches live on courtesy of a new app from the Rebble community called Sideload Helper that lets you open Pebble files on modern Android smartphones and sideload them for usage and installation on the basic wearable.
Sideload Helper was developed by Alice Grey and Lavender Glaab from the Rebble project and helps prolong the…
Lawnchair 11 arrives in Alpha with Android 11 support
March 29, 2021
After a complete from-the-ground-up rebuild, Lawnchair 11 has arrived in Alpha with support for that latest Android 11 release.
Lawnchair Launcher is one of the most popular home screen replacements for a number of reasons, one of those being just how clean it is. The…
The Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra has now officially been unveiled, with the smartphone taking the Mi 11 DNA and adding in some seriously powerful added internals and camera prowess.
So think of the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra as just the standard Mi 11 1 — which is a great smartphone in…
Alongside the Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra, the Chinese tech giant has also unveiled the Mi 11 Lite, which offers a little taste of the latest series but with some notable compromises.
Let’s start with the raw specifications as the Mi 11 Lite comes with a 6.55-inch FHD+ AMOLED display clocked at 90Hz, and with a 240Hz touch sampling rate. Inside it takes advantage of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 732G…
New Android spyware designed to look like a system update, but was never in the Play Store
March 29, 2021
While Android is a far more secure operating system than a lot of people give it credit for, malware and spyware can still appear from time to time. Recently, a security firm uncovered a worrisome bit of spyware on Android that disguises itself as a system…
Last May, Google released an app for creating one-tap Assistant shortcuts on Android homescreens. An update today adds Action Blocks backup and restore when moving to new devices, as well as other small tweaks.
Version 1.3 of Action Blocks is rolling out this morning and…
A new Google device, which could be an upcoming Nest Cam, passed through the FCC late on Sunday evening. It’s officially referred to as a “Wireless Streaming Device,” a description that the company has not previously used.
G3AL9, which fits the company’s new model number scheme, notably features a physical FCC ID located at the “back of the device,” thus suggesting that no screen is…
With Discover, Google wants to “help you uncover fresh and interesting content about things that matter to you.” Something appears to have recently changed with Google Discover as more than a few users are increasingly being served old news and more evergreen…
After rolling out the update to Android 11 for the Zenfone 6 back in December (in Taiwan) and January (globally), Asus is now finally ready to do the same for its newer Zenfone 7 series.
The new software version is now appearing over-the-air on both Zenfone 7 and Zenfone 7…
Realme yesterday announced the GT Neo arriving on March 31 will pack a 64MP primary camera, which the company today revealed will use a Sony IMX682 sensor.
Realme also said the main unit supports multi-frame synthesis technology (machine translated from Chinese), which improves the details of the pictures and lets you zoom in to an image and crop it without losing sharpness and clarity…
