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Android Pie now rolling out to the T-Mobile Galaxy S8 Active

After an extended wait, the T-Mobile Galaxy S8 Active is now receiving the Android Pie update. Some two months after we saw the first wave of US carriers push out the Android Pie update, T-Mobile subscribers can now get the year-old OS update for the very first time. If you didn’t already know, Samsung’s version of Pie comes with the One UI skin on top (via Reddit). It provides quite the step…
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HTC Vive Cosmos hands-on: VR never looked so good

In 2016, HTC revealed the Vive VR headset to the world. In the years since, HTC has released several versions, like the Vive Pro, Vive Pro Eye and the standalone Vive Focus and Vive Focus Plus (for developers and businesses). Now it’s ready to launch a brand-new…
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Google Translate 6.2 fixes ‘Tap to Translate’ on Android 10, preps ‘Continuous Translation’ [APK Insight]

During the Android Q Betas, Google Translate’s “Tap to Translate” did not work. Following Android 10’s launch last week, a new version of the app fixes the feature and makes it more subtle. Meanwhile, version 6.2 hints at a continuously audio translation mode. About APK Insight: In this ‘APK Insight’ post, we’ve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to…
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Hands-on with Assistant Ambient mode for Android devices [Video]

At IFA 2019, Lenovo unveiled two new Android tablets that include the new Assistant Ambient mode as standard, which enabled us to go hands-on with the new mode. You’re probably aware that Google loves to make things more than once. This, naturally, leads us to Assistant…
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Here’s everything Apple didn’t announce at its September iPhone 11 event

Apple’s September event brought us the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max, Apple Watch Series 5, launch details for Apple Arcade and Apple TV+, and even the new seventh-generation iPad with a larger 10.2-inch screen. However, there are a number of product launches that Apple has decided to save for a potential October event (or another time) and some that were possibly even scrapped…
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Google seemingly scraps ‘touchless’ Chrome for Android feature phones

For the past six months, we’ve been tracking Google’s progress on introducing feature phones as a new form factor for both Android and the Chrome browser. Now it seems plans may have changed, as Google seems to be removing all of the code for Chrome’s Android-based touchless mode. Early this year, we discovered that Google was working on a version of Chrome that was designed to be used by…
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