MobileNews

Google Tasks upgrade brings Assistant integration and will replace ‘Reminders’

As we’ve been expecting since June, Google is “simplifying [its] task management solutions by migrating Assistant and Calendar Reminders to Google Tasks.” The years-old Assistant Reminders offering is quite bad. Adding them via “Hey Google” voice commands is fine, but interacting via touch using the Google app on Android or assistant.google.com/reminders results in a slow, laggy…
Read more
MobileNews

Try these games completely free on Google Stadia with no account or downloads

Did you know there are free game trials on Stadia that don’t require you to sign up? In fact, there are several genuinely fantastic titles that are free to play. Here are the games you can jump into right now without an account. Table of contents What is Google Stadia? Free trials on Stadia HITMAN PixelJunk Raiders Moonlighter Epistory Nanotale Submerged: Hidden Depths A Place for the…
Read more
MobileNews

What cameras fully integrate with the Google Home app

The beauty of smart home systems like Google Home is that you can connect tons of different devices from a plethora of different manufacturers. How well those devices work with Google Home is a complicated matter, however. We’ll go over cameras that work well with the…
MobileNews

Samsung expands Android 13 beta to the Galaxy S21 series in the US

Android 13 is likely a few months away from its full launch on Samsung devices, but things are chugging along. This week, the Galaxy S21 series is getting its Android 13 beta in the United States after the beta debuted in other regions recently. Samsung first launched the Android 13 beta in the United States in early August, but that was only for the Galaxy S22, S22+, and S22 Ultra. Now, the…
Read more
MobileNews

Apple warns keyboard haptics in iOS 16 ‘might affect’ your iPhone’s battery life

iOS 16 includes a handful of major new features like the all-new Lock Screen customization options and iMessage updates. Outside of those flagship features, one of the more popular updates is support for enabling haptic feedback for your iPhone’s keyboard. In a recently-published support document, however, Apple cautions that enabling this feature could impact your iPhone’s battery life. In…
Read more