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Vivo V20 series beats Pixel 5 to be first with Android 11 out of the box

September 30, 2020

The Pixel 4a 5G and the Pixel 5 were widely expected to be the first Android devices to come with Android 11 pre-installed. However, the Vivo V20 series has beaten Google to the punch coming with Android 11 right out of the box. Coming with the most recent software update at launch is not as common as it probably should be on Android. OEMs have improved things over the past few years, and Google…

Xiaomi says its new smartwatch only needs to charge twice a month

September 30, 2020

Xiaomi just unveiled several new phones (we’ll come one of those a bit later), but the new Mi Watch is a little more interesting. It’s not the half-price Apple Watch clone from late last year, but something closer to Google’s WearOS wearable family — or a Garmin —…

September 30, 2020 – iOS 14.2 with new emoji, iPhone 12 speculation

September 30, 2020

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OnePlus 8T confirmed to come with Android 11 and new OxygenOS pre-installed

September 30, 2020

The OnePlus 8T is set to debut on October 14th with some revised specs and hardware, but also a new trick up its sleeve in the software department. The OnePlus 8T will ship with Android 11 pre-installed. In a forum post, OnePlus confirmed that its 8T smartphone will be one of the first smartphones to ship with Android 11. Of course, the Pixel 5 and 4a 5G being announced later today are expected…

More inclusive emoji will come to iPhones in iOS 14.2

September 30, 2020

The latest iOS betas nearly always reveal a glimpse into what to expect when the rest of us update our iPhones. If you’re into emoji, then iOS 14.2 might be a treat. The new additions, detailed by Emojipedia, should be only a few weeks away, include transgender flags and…

Android Pie update now rolling out for the Xiaomi Mi Box 3

September 30, 2020

As we await the release of Google’s first Android TV-powered Chromecast device, it’s still worth noting that there are plenty of great quality, affordable options out there. One such affordable option — the Xiaomi Mi Box 3 — is now finally getting an update to…

Xiaomi launches its first Google Assistant-powered smart speaker w/ $50 price

September 30, 2020

Xiaomi has now quietly launched the Mi Smart Smart Speaker in India — its first-ever Google Assistant-powered smart speaker. The Chinese firm has released a number of smart home add-ons that all play relatively nicely with the Google Assistant ecosystem but this proves to be a long-overdue addition to their product lineup. The Mi Smart Speaker has taken a number of design cues from other…

Voice tweets coming to more iOS Twitter users; transcription later

September 30, 2020

Voice tweets – the ability to record and tweet an audio message – are coming to more iOS Twitter users, while Android and web users will need to wait until some time next year. The company first began testing the feature on iOS back in June. Twitter is also working to…

Twitter’s voice tweets are rolling out to more iOS users, and transcriptions are on the way

September 30, 2020

Twitter has just expanded its voice tweets feature, which lets you record a snippet of audio to include with a tweet, to more users on iOS. But perhaps more significantly, Twitter is now saying it plans to add transcriptions to voice tweets to improve accessibility, which…

DuckDuckGo slams Google’s Android search engine auction as ‘fundamentally flawed’ after losing to Bing

September 30, 2020

Microsoft’s Bing search engine has beaten out competitor DuckDuckGo and will now be offered as an option for Android users during setup in select European countries, according to the results of Google’s most recent default search engine auction. DuckDuckGo, previously the most frequently offered alternative, was not pleased, and the company slammed Google’s auction process as…