Mobile

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 accessories if you buy one before release date. Additionally, it will be available for purchase from the Microsoft Store and Verizon…

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 industry. Even with heavy trade restrictions in place, Huawei has seen growth within Chinese borders, where it made up almost…

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 proposed all gender variants for “person in veil” and “person in tuxedo,” as well as “person feeding baby with a…

Fantastical, one of the oldest and most loved calendar apps on Apple devices, just received its biggest update in years. The most significant change is that Fantastical is now a universal app you pay for through a subscription. As such, you don’t need to purchase separate licenses to use the app on multiple devices. Developer Flexibits has also introduced a new tier that allows you to check…