Google is four years into making its own self-branded Android smartphones and, for the most part, they’re all great devices with one or two glaring flaws. Unfortunately, even after four years, Google’s Pixel 4 is another device with that same problem, but at the end of the day, it’s also the best experience you can get on an Android smartphone – for a limited time only.
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When it rains, it pours. Just minutes after the first official-looking image of the folding Motorola Razr phone hit the web, another leak reveals more images of the device, as well as some of its key specs.
posted a gallery of images of the upcoming…
Ford is bringing Android Auto Wireless to ‘select’ 2020 vehicles
October 31, 2019
Ford has only offered Android Auto support for a little while now, but it’s soon to be one of the first carmakers to adopt its Wireless version. In select 2020 Ford models, you’ll be able to use Android Auto without a wire.
This week, Ford revealed…
Yesterday’s record-breaking Q4 earnings report might have suggested the opposite, but reports from all three of the big market intelligence firms say that iPhone shipments fell year-on-year during the quarter.
Apple’s fiscal Q4/calendar Q3 numbers were all good. Revenue was $64B, which was at the very top end of the company’s guidance and well above Wall Street expectations. iPhone revenue…
WhatsApp for Android rolling out fingerprint lock support
October 31, 2019
One of the world’s most popular messaging services, WhatsApp, is today announcing support for a new feature on Android. In the latest update, WhatsApp users on Android can lock their conversations behind a fingerprint.
Announced in a blog post today…
Folding phones have struggled a bit so far with delays and disastrous design flaws, but there’s another big name in the pipeline. Motorola is set to reveal its folding Razr phone in just a few weeks, and today a leaked image is showing off the…
You can now unlock WhatsApp for Android with your fingerprint
October 31, 2019
WhatsApp is finally rolling out fingerprint unlocking to Android phones, some 10 months after the feature first reared its head in an early Android beta build.
It’s worth noting here that WhatsApp has already introduced biometric security to its iPhone app, having added support for Face ID and Touch ID back in February. Touch ID, which involves using your fingerprint to authenticate an app, is…
Biometric authentication has been a part of Android for a few years at this point, but times are changing and so is the way we log into our phones. Face unlock is the next big thing, and Google is urging developers to add support for the “Biometric API” for Android which…
An iPhone subscription would once have sounded like a bad joke. But these days it’s a growing reality.
Apple has long faced a problem. Its biggest cash cow is the iPhone, historically generating the majority of the company’s revenues. But where people once bought a new…
US Census Bureau to use iOS devices for data collection and management in 2020 census
October 30, 2019
Apple CFO Luca Maestri said today that the US Census Bureau is adopting iOS devices for next year’s census. Maestri explained that the adoption of iOS devices will help the Census Bureau produce “quality results” and lower costs.
By using iOS devices, the US Census Bureau will be able to leverage the privacy and user experience of Apple’s platform. This will be an “innovating new model…
