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Google Maps for Wear OS adds phoneless navigation on LTE watches

As previously teased, Google Maps for Wear OS now supports turn-by-turn navigation without needing a paired phone for LTE watch owners. Stand-alone navigation is specifically available “if you have an LTE-enabled watch, or your watch is connected to the internet via WiFi.” Google imagines this as being “especially helpful when you’re out for a run or ride and have left your phone behind…
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Google’s CES Booth Tour: Android swings and slot machines [Video]

Google is back at CES for the first time in several years. To highlight several of the big software announcements, there’s a huge Android booth for attendees to visit. Not everyone is able to attend CES in Las Vegas, but we’ve made things a little easier by touring it for you. The space just outside the Las Vegas Convention Center is home to Google for CES 2023, but it also is most certainly a…
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Oorbit partners with LG to bring interoperable metaverse platform to TVs

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. Oorbit, which operates a metaverse platform, has partnered with LG Electronics to bring interoperable virtual worlds to LG TVs. Through this partnership, Oorbit and LG will bring immersive games and experiences together and make it easy for consumers to interact in the metaverse. LG’s endorsement of the metaverse is…
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Google proclaims official Android RISC-V support

Google has officially announced that Android will support the RISC-V instruction set architecture. The announcement is from the RISC-V Summit held last month. For those unfamiliar, RISC-V is the Reduced Instruction Set Computer V architecture – an open, free-to-use…
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Oppo reveals global ColorOS 13 rollout schedule for Q1 2023

Oppo published its global timeline for updating existing models to ColorOS 13 (Android 13) for the first three months of the new year. This is similar to the timeline for China, though it has more precise timing for some regions. The update process takes time – for example, Oppo started updating the Find X5 and older Find X3 series back in December, but the rollout is still ongoing. There are…
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