It’s finally happening, folks. OnePlus is adopting wireless charging. It only took three years after everyone else, but the OnePlus 8 Pro will feature support for Qi charging. That’s great! But personally, I think OnePlus has missed the point entirely — here’s why.
OnePlus’ excuse for not using Qi wireless charging for the past few years has been the same over, and over, and over, and…
In the Android world, two different types of “foldables” have been on the rise — those that have a foldable display like the Galaxy Z Flip and those that have two separate displays like the LG V60 ThinQ and Microsoft Surface Duo. It looks like Google Chrome for Android…
The Google Pixel 3a still remains one the best affordable Android phones you can buy, simply because it offers the best bits of the Pixel series with only a few compromises.
While the 3a is by no means the first affordable Android phone that gives you an experience that…
Google wants ‘A/B’ partitions mandatory w/ Android 11, pushing Seamless Updates on holdouts
April 8, 2020
Google has made a lot of quality-of-life changes to Android over the years, but not all of them have been mandatory. Now, though, Google is making Android’s useful “A/B partitions” mandatory for future smartphones, essentially making Seamless Updates a standard feature at the same time.
A commit to AOSP Gerrit titled “Require Virtual A/B on R launches” updates the Vendor Test Suite —…
YouTube TV for Android adds long overdue dark mode
April 8, 2020
Last month, Google’s cord cutting television service was mired in contract disputes and lost Fox Region Sport Networks in some parts of the country. YouTube TV for Android is now rolling out a dark mode.
Compared to the primary app and Music — where it’s the default…
One persistent YouTube trend sees the apps and web client adopting larger video previews. The latest example of this is an A/B test that sees full-width YouTube thumbnails in search results.
Instead of thumbnails that take up half the screen’s width, YouTube search on…
Oppo Reno Ace 2 official renders surface online
April 8, 2020
The Oppo Reno Ace 2 is expected to arrive on April 13 and we already have a pretty solid idea of what to expect thanks to a TENAA listing. It will adopt the 65W Super VOOC 2.0 fast charging from the Reno Ace, but this time it will have mind-blowing 40W wireless fast-charging capabilities.
The phone is now listed at JD.com, and the Chinese retailer uploaded the official renders of the phone…
In the 4G era, the cellular industry prioritized rolling out higher-speed data transfers over upgrading traditional phone calls, leading to comparatively late and under-coordinated launches of “Voice over LTE” (VoLTE) telephony services. As 5G networks and devices spread…
Three employees at Blue Origin test positive for COVID-19 after workers voice concern over test launch
April 8, 2020
Three Blue Origin employees have now tested positive for COVID-19 in Washington, according to emails from the company seen by The Verge. The cases, first reported by CNBC and GeekWire, were just announced over the weekend, days after Blue Origin management pressured…
Who is buying a $1,000 Chromebook? That’s the question people debated across the internet when Google unveiled the Pixelbook in 2017, and it’s a debate that will continue as the 2-in-1 Samsung Galaxy Chromebook makes its way onto shelves.
In a market packed with laptops that are getting thinner and faster each year, a Chromebook’s comparative advantage is usually in battery life and price.
