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Spotify’s Android widget will return in a future update

After stepping into a hornet’s nest of angry users, Spotify says it’s bringing back its Android home screen widget. The move comes just one month after the company retired the feature. When it first removed the widget, the company said, “We always take retiring features in Spotify very seriously.” It went on to justify the removal by noting people could access much of the…
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Huawei Mate 30 Pro detailed in new leaked renders w/ notch, no volume buttons

Huawei’s future in Android is very uncertain, but the company has already confirmed that its next flagship will be on Google’s OS. Today, new renders of the Huawei Mate 30 Pro have leaked out, this time revealing that the phone might be lacking any physical volume buttons. The Mate 30 Pro has already leaked, but leading up to the September unveiling, we’ve not seen much. Courtesy of and…
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Apple releasing second iOS 13.1 developer beta today

Apple will release the second developer beta of iOS 13.1 today. This comes after Apple kicked off the iOS 13.1 beta testing process last week. Apple’s public beta builds should follow at a later date after the latest developer beta has been tested in the wild. The focus of…
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Comment: ‘Android Auto for Phone Screens’ is a rare Google consolation

The extreme to which Google takes the ‘fail forward’ mentality has earned it a reputation of being the world’s best product killer, and one of the more recent of those was the Android Auto phone screen experience. In a rare move, it looks like Google is backtracking on that and offering consolation for those perturbed by the move to the new Assistant driving mode. Here’s how things…
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Comment: The latest rumor is not the iPhone SE 2 many of us want to see

The iPhone SE 2 – or whatever Apple would call a successor to the SE – has provoked more comment than any iPhone that doesn’t yet, and likely never will, exist. Regular readers will know that I’m a great fan of the size and slab-sided design of the iPhone SE. I welcomed its introduction back in 2016, ‘downgraded‘ to it shortly afterwards and quickly knew it was the right decision. It…
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