MobileNews

Apple has a hidden AR surprise on its ‘iPhone 12’ October event site

Apple officially announced its iPhone 12 event set for October 13. The tagline is “Hi, Speed” and after we saw a fun little Easter egg on the Apple Events page for the September “Time Flies” event, there’s another one for the big iPhone 12 event. Head to Apple’s Events website and you’ll see the date and time for the October “Hi, Speed” event along with an option to add it to…
Read more
MobileNews

Of course Razer made a light-up prepaid credit card

Gaming peripheral company Razer is known for making a lot of… interesting products that go well beyond its core PC hardware market. But nothing prepared me for today’s news of Razer’s latest venture: a light-up prepaid credit card. That’s right. Razer has created…
MobileNews

Chrome 86 rolling out: Password Checkup and Enhanced Safe Browsing on Android, domain URL test, more

Following version 85’s release on Android, Mac, Windows, and Linux, the next release of Google’s browser is rolling out today. Chrome 86 makes a number of security-focused additions and a handful of other usability tweaks. A number of security features that first debuted on desktop Chrome are now coming to mobile with version 86: Password Checkup, which can analyze whether your saved…
Read more
MobileNews

Apple schedules iPhone 12 media event for October 13

Following the September “Time Flies” media event for new Apple Watch and iPad models, Apple today announced an October event called “Hi, Speed” that will focus primarily on new iPhones — the most popular products and biggest revenue generators from the world’s largest tech company. The event will kick off at 10 a.m. Pacific Time on October 13, and once again will use a virtual format…
Read more
MobileNews

Samsung Galaxy Note 8 drops from monthly to quarterly updates

Bad — but not quite terrible — news for those still hanging on to the Galaxy Note 8, as the curtains have been drawn on regular monthly updates. It’s moved to a quarterly update path. This has been coming for some time, but from today, you won’t be getting monthly…
MobileNews

YouTube TV is now ‘YT TV’ on Android homescreens as icon tweaked on Google TV

A minor update to YouTube TV for Android today sees Google change the app name to “YT TV.” Additionally, the Android/Google TV app icon has also been ever so slightly tweaked. Version 4.40 for Android (phones and tablets) sees the app name change from “YouTube TV” to “YT TV.” This change is reflected on homescreens and app launchers, but not on the app info page or Play Store…
Read more