Mobile

Foldable phones aren’t worth much without apps that can take advantage of their screens — Huawei even postponed the Mate X to give app makers more time to optimize their titles. That might not be much of a problem now that the revised Galaxy Fold is finally ready to make its debut. Samsung revealed that it has worked with Google and developers to bring Fold support to…

iMessage is a rich messenger platform with its own App Store and features like end-to-end encryption. However, advanced features like scheduled iMessages could make it an even more robust service. Recently an Apple user reached out to Craig Federighi about this feature request and got a detailed response about how the company is considering it. Reddit user Jmaster_888 (via Mark Gurman) shared the…

Opera’s former CEO launched the Vivaldi desktop browser in 2016, catering to power users who missed the shortcuts and tweaks of the original Opera. Now, the Vivaldi browser is available for Android too, in a fully-featured beta version. The Android version has all the features you’d expect from a mobile browser like multiple tabs, bookmark and password syncing and private browsing.

Gesture navigation is one of the biggest new features in Android 10, but it comes with some radical shifts to how we use the operating system. One interaction users are still trying to learn with the Android 10 gesture system is to open up side, or hamburger, menus in applications. Here are a couple of ways to do that. With Android 10’s new gestures, a swipe inward from either side of the…