First responders and emergency personnel often have their hands full in the field. To help deliver them the information they need without requiring them to divert their attention from the task at hand, Motorola Solutions, the data communications and telecommunications equipment provider that spun off Motorola Mobility in 2011, is launching what it describes as a virtual assistant for first…
Apple TV+ could be $9B business, 5G iPhone to drive AAPL in 2020
October 24, 2019
In a new investor note today, Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty expressed optimism about how Apple TV+ and Apple’s other services will perform over the coming users. Huberty specifically predicted that Apple’s Services business will grow by 20% next year.
As detailed…
Just a few short months after the release of the Pixel Slate, Google formally announced that they were getting out of the business of making tablets. Many took this as a bad sign for the future of Chrome OS tablets, thinking that Google wouldn’t bother developing…
The Nvidia Shield TV is the best set-top box you can buy for Android TV right now, and today it’s companion app is getting a redesign. The updated Nvidia Shield TV remote app now includes app and game shortcuts, new buttons, and more.
Rolling out now on Google Play, version 2.1.0 of the Nvidia Shield TV remote app has a ton of pretty big changes. The biggest one you’ll notice when you first…
Just last month, Samsung introduced the Exynos 980 system-on-chip (SoC), combining a CPU, GPU, and 5G modem onto a single energy-efficient die for midrange to premium phones. Now the company is announcing a “premium” alternative named Exynos 990, alongside a separate new…
Apple releasing fourth developer beta of iOS 13.2 today
October 23, 2019
Apple today is releasing the fourth developer beta of iOS 13.2 and iPadOS 13.2. Today’s release comes exactly one week after the release of the third iOS 13.2 beta with Deep Fusion camera technology, Siri changes, and more.
Deep Fusion is Apple’s new camera processing…
For Android developers who like to keep up with the latest features, there are two major events hosted by Google that are not to be missed — Google I/O and the Android Dev Summit. Today being the latter event, Google has brought Android Studio 4.0 to the Android Dev Summit with an early developer preview of Jetpack Compose.
For better or worse, much of Android UI design has traditionally been…
At Android Dev Summit 2019 today in Sunnyvale, Google made a slew of developer announcements for its mobile operating system. The company released expanded APIs for Android Jetpack, Jetpack Compose in developer preview, and Android Studio 4.0 Canary, the latest version of…
Last October, Google stoped providing Android distribution numbers on a consistent monthly basis. The last update was during I/O 2019 in May. Ahead of the 2019 Android Dev Summit, Google today shared a new stat that highlights Project Treble’s successful impact on Android…
Grammarly Keyboard for Android now supports swipe typing
October 23, 2019
Typos are all too common on smartphones and while many keyboards are great at fixing that, many ignore grammar mistakes. Grammarly Keyboard has been around for a while to help in that area, and now the app is adding support for swipe typing.
Swipe typing has been around on Android for the better part of a decade and it’s a serious gamechanger once you get the hang of it. Google adopted…
