Last December, Google brought Android 10 to Android TV and announced a “developer-focused streaming media device” for app testing. ADT-3 with Android TV is now available to buy from an OEM partner.
Sold by Askey, the ADT-3 Developer Kit costs $79.00. The store description notes how this is intended for “software developers to validate their applications on the latest version of the OS.”…
Huawei has been in a really tough situation for months now after a US ban cut off the company’s access to Google apps. In a recent interview, a Huawei representative made the bold claim that even if the government ban lifts, Huawei wouldn’t get back on board with Google…
Samsung’s delayed Galaxy Book S will arrive on February 13th
January 30, 2020
Samsung’s Galaxy Book S laptop that runs on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx processor is now available for preorder at Samsung.com starting at $999.99, and it will start shipping on February 13th. Samsung is giving out $100 gift cards toward Samsung PCs, tablets, and…
Early iPhone hit SpellTower gets reimagined a decade later
January 30, 2020
In 2011, designer Zach Gage decided to try something different: make a game in a genre he hated. The result was SpellTower, a mashup of word games and puzzlers, which went on to become one of his most popular titles to date, with more than 1 million downloads. Its approachable nature reached a varied audience, including everyone from traditional gamers battling for a high score to grandparents who…
The latest Apple Watch clone is on the way from Chinese smartphone maker Oppo. A render of an upcoming smartwatch was posted by a noted leaker.
Oppo itself teased the watch in December, though it only showed a silhouette at the time…
spotted the tweet by @UniverseIce…
Report: Huawei surpassed Apple to become 2nd largest smartphone vendor in 2019 despite sanctions
January 30, 2020
According to a new report, Huawei has surpassed Apple to become the second-largest smartphone vendor globally for 2019, as Samsung retains top spot yet again.
The report comes from and shows the volume of smartphone shipments actually declining by 1% across the entire…
Can the iPhone survive a nearly 4,000 mph tethered spin? This kinetic space launch company tested it
January 30, 2020
I have to admit that this has never occurred to me as something to test in an iPhone review, but it’s reassuring to see someone has apparently tried it.
According to a new profile on the kinetic space launch system firm SpinLaunch, Apple’s iPhone can survive rotations when physically tethered.
SpinLaunch wants to create a launch system that uses kinetic energy to deploy payloads like…
Want to become more efficient with Reminders on your Apple devices? Read on for how to use Siri to set location-based Reminders on iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, Mac, and HomePod.
Using the Reminders app to alert you about your to-do items at a certain time can be helpful, but…
The Unicode Consortium just detailed Emoji 13.0 with 62 new characters, and 55 skin tone and gender variants. Google today announced that the new emoji will be available with Android 11, as well as the company’s five contributions to the 2020 set.
For Emoji 13.0, Google…
The new emoji that will arrive in 2020 on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and other devices have been officially set. Additions in Emoji Version 13.0 include “Italian Hand,” ninjas, the Transgender flag, anatomical body parts, smiling face with tear, disguised face, new animals, food, parents feeding baby, and much more.
As reported by Emojipedia, the officially approved Emoji Version 13.0 list was…
