After a little over a five-month wait, the OxygenOS Open Beta 1 for the OnePlus 7T and 7T Pro is now available to download, bringing with it some added new features.
If you’re not familiar with the OxygenOS Open Beta program, it essentially allows you to install early builds of the OS. You’ll often get some new features long ahead of “stable” builds, but you do so by giving up some…
The release of the Samsung Galaxy S20 series also saw a minor bump up in One UI to version 2.1. At the moment, only four devices now run the slightly modified build of Android 10, but as expected, that is set to increase as Samsung is set to bring the update to older…
We’ve been hearing reports about a new iPhone 3D camera system since 2017, with a Ming-Chi Kuo report last year saying the tech would be arriving this year. A new report today corroborates that, stating that the depth-sensing feature for rear cameras is ‘in the design’…
OnePlus commits $30 million to 5G development
March 12, 2020
OnePlus is committing $30 million to “scale up and upgrade” its 5G research and development efforts. The announcement comes in the same week as the Chinese smartphone maker confirmed that it would be going all-in on 5G with its next flagship smartphone lineup.
“5G is a top priority in our product strategy,” OnePlus cofounder and CEO Pete Lau said in a press release.
OnePlus has built a…
Apple signs open letter voicing opposition to new legislation targeting LGBTQ community
March 12, 2020
Apple is among 40 companies voicing opposition to recent bills introduced across the United States that target LGBTQ citizens. The businesses who signed the open letter, which was published today by the Human Rights Campaign, argue that these bills are bad for business.
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The impact of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak hasn’t just affected hardware, but also software efforts in the tech industry. Today, Nokia is revising its Android 10 update schedule to reflect the virus.
Back in August, shortly after the Android 10 update hit Pixels…
For a long, long time Google has had a restriction in place for Android manufacturers that they can’t fork the Android platform for risking support for the Play Store and other Google Services. What you might not have known, though, is that Google also places that restriction on its Android TV partners, barring them from also producing models with Amazon’s Fire TV.
In the current landscape…
Android Auto has become an important feature of millions of vehicles and, for many, is a feature that can make or break a purchase. Now, Android Auto is going to be a standard feature on all new vehicles from… Harley-Davidson.
Harley-Davidson recently announced (via )…
Due to the open nature of Android, updates are generally a fairly big issue when looking at the ecosystem as a whole. As Android 11 starts preparations for release later this year, a report card for Android 10 shows how companies like OnePlus and Samsung are leaving the…
Google brings Play Store dark theme all the way back to Android 5.0 with manual setting
March 11, 2020
After rolling out to Android 10 devices last October, the Google Play Store’s dark theme is now available for “any” phone and tablet going back to 2014. This wider launch also comes with a preferences menu to manually set the look.
The darker look for Android’s app store is quite straightforward with an inversion of the predominantly white background that sees the section accents (green…
