Following Apple’s lead, a new trend in the smartphone industry is to strip the included charger and headphones to prevent e-waste and make packaging smaller. According to CEO Pete Lau, though, the OnePlus 9 won’t take part in that, with a charger still in the box.
In response to fan questions, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau directly confirmed that the company’s next flagship, the OnePlus 9 series…
Samsung’s mid-range Galaxy A series has proved to be the company’s most successful year after year, and the next generation of the Galaxy A50 series is incoming. Over the past several days, the Galaxy A52 and Galaxy A72 have leaked en masse, with a new design and new…
Last week, Google’s latest payment service left “early access” for those in the US. Besides being more easily downloadable, exiting beta means that users can leave public ratings. However, the Play Store is not currently letting users review the new Google Pay.
In…
Camera-based Google Fit heart & respiratory rate tracking rolling out to Pixel today [Update]
March 9, 2021
Back in February, Google announced that Fit for Android can measure heart and respiratory rate using just your phone. These new Google Fit camera tracking capabilities will start rolling out to Pixel phones on Monday.
Update 3/8: Fit’s new camera measurements are rolling out to Pixel phones starting today via a server-side update. Once live on your device, there will be new “Respiratory”…
Internet quality can greatly vary around the world, with Google hoping to expand who can participate in video calls with a Meet Global Dialing subscription.
The Google Meet Global Dialing subscription, which is not actually structured like a subscription, enables…
A report says that iPhone 12 production will start in India soon, with Foxconn assembling models for both domestic sale and export. Up to 10% of production is said to be moving to India from China, with Pegatron also set to begin iPhone assembly in the country later in the…
An iPhone 11 survived almost six months at the bottom of a lake before being found and rescued by divers. It was a particularly fortunate rescue since the phone hadn’t been backed up, so its owner was able to recover photos she thought were lost forever.
It’s a pretty big over-delivery on Apple’s promised waterproofing rating for the phone, which is defined as good for a maximum depth of two…
After making noise about the enhanced gaming mode with the launch of the OnePlus 7 Pro back in 2019, it appears that like the Mclaren partnership prior, OnePlus has cut ties with gaming brand Fnatic.
The recent rollout of OxygenOS 11 Open Beta 3 for the OnePlus 7 series…
The OxygenOS 11 Open Beta 4 update is now rolling out for the OnePlus Nord with some notable fixes and the February 2021 security patch in tow.
After rolling out the stable Android 11 update just a few weeks ago for the first properly affordable OnePlus device, the latest…
Google TV ‘kids’ profiles’ arrive on Chromecast this month w/ parental controls, time limits
March 8, 2021
The Google TV UI that ships on the new Chromecast has a lot of perks, but a lack of profile support is one complaint a lot of users have. Today, Google TV is plugging that gap at least a little bit with the arrival of kids’ profiles.
Launching on Chromecast with Google TV “this month,” kids’ profiles allows parents to set up their TV with enhanced parental controls.
Google says that the…
