New details have emerged this week on Microsoft’s Xbox streaming platform as the preview service moves to a global audience to start 2020. Microsoft has long been playing around with Android devices as a medium for streaming full-on Xbox games, and now all Xbox insiders across the world are getting their first glimpse. This follows an initial beta process that rolled out late in 2019 to mostly…
Three different civil liberties groups are backing Apple in its refusal to create a weakened version of iOS to allow the FBI access to two iPhones used by the Pensacola shooter.
They support Apple’s position that compromising iPhone encryption would be a far greater risk…
iPhone growth is usually depicted in charts like the one on the above left. It looks impressive, but chartmeister Jason Snell argues that it underrepresents the true rate of growth …
Generally with graphs like this, the creator picks a convenient format and then scales the…
Xiaomi is spinning off its Poco brand into a new company
January 17, 2020
Last year, Xiaomi managed outdo OnePlus by releasing the powerful Pocophone F1 smartphone with a Snapdragon 845 processor for just $300. Now, the Chinese company announced that it’s spinning that sub-brand off into a whole new company called Poco, according to TechCrunch. “We feel the time is right to let Poco operate on its own now,” said executive Jai Mani in a statement.
Right on the heels of the LG G8 ThinQ receiving the Android 10 update, the LG V50 ThinQ is now joining the update party in South Korea.
The stable update is now rolling out for the LG V50 right now in South Korea (via ) and brings with it all of the important improvements…
POCO splits from Xiaomi to become completely independent brand
January 17, 2020
Xiaomi has spun off its popular POCO sub-brand into an independent brand in its own right.
The experimental sub-brand was created in 2018 and brought us one of the best-value Android experiences in the form of the POCO F1. The sub-$300 smartphone was extremely popular…
It shouldn’t really come as a surprise, but in a recent interview, OnePlus confirmed some good news. In a future smartphone that’s actually released on the market, OnePlus will use the disappearing camera trick from the OnePlus Concept One.
At CES 2020, OnePlus arrived in Vegas to show off the Concept One. This device is essentially a OnePlus 7T Pro with a special trick that lets it hide…
Leaks of Samsung’s Galaxy S20 have been hitting the web all week, but there’s one I couldn’t be more excited about. After five generations of madness, Samsung is ditching curved screens on the Galaxy S20.
Going back to the Galaxy S6 years, Samsung introduced the…
While we await what Google has in store for the recently acquired Fitbit, the fitness tracker firm has laid out plans to develop sleep apnea tracking.
An estimated 22 million American adult have the disorder, with many unaware that they are affected. Sleep apnea affects…
iPhone: How to turn off Live Photos for existing pictures
January 17, 2020
Do you have some, or maybe even a lot of pictures you’ve shot with iPhone that you’d like to turn off the Live Photos effect? Follow along for how to turn off Live Photos for existing pictures.
Live Photos is a neat feature that captures 1.5 seconds before and after you snap an image that can really bring a moment to life. But sometimes you might have had the feature turned on by accident…
