Mobile

After announcing new unthreaded rooms last week, Google Chat is now adding Calendar integration for streamlined event creation. Google Chat’s compose field today lets you quickly add or take an image, browse files in Drive, and start a Meet call. Calendar now joins to become the fifth option. Tapping on mobile will open the full Google Calendar app directly to the event creation field, with…

In the integrated Gmail experience available to Workspace customers, classic Hangouts has already been swapped out. Google Chat is in its place, with conversations now able to be pinned for consistent Gmail sidebar access. You can now pin a direct message or a room in Google Chat. This keeps that conversation at the top of your list view in Chat in Gmail. You can access pinned conversations…

Coinciding with the launch of the Pixel 5, the Google Camera app got an update to version 8.0, bringing a clean redesign to the app. Today, Google Camera 8.1 has begun rolling out, bringing that same design to older Pixel phones. For the past month, owners of the Pixel 5 have had essentially exclusive access to the latest redesign of the Google Camera app, as version 8.0 of the app only rolled…

Noted tipster who has one of the most accurate track records on Samsung devices is confirming that the upcoming Galaxy S21 Ultra will pack an S Pen stylus. There were previous reports that the S Pen would make its way to the upcoming S21 Ultra and that the Galaxy Note series would eventually be replaced by the Z Fold lineup as soon as the next-gen foldable screens are durable enough to work with…