One of the worst things to happen is hearing a song play, thinking you’ll remember it to find later, only to completely forget. Fortunately, your Pixel has a feature called Now Playing. It lets you identify playing songs in the background so you can easily add any song you hear to your library. On top of that, you can find songs that played near your Pixel over a week ago in your Now Playing…
In a limited experiment, Google Search has begun showing like counts for articles in the Android app’s Discover feed for some.
Update: Google is continuing to test this feature, with a slightly broader rollout.
When browsing news and blog articles on social media, the…
Google exec teases what Matter will mean for the Home app: ‘proactive’ actions, lower latency, more
May 11, 2022
We’ve been hearing about the Matter smart home standard and what it could do for ages now, and things are on track to finally arrive later this year. In an interview ahead of this week’s Google I/O, the company has teased what Matter will mean for the Google Home app…
Like the main Android client, Google is now offering Play Store betas for YouTube Music and TV to presumably test new features ahead of time.
You can sign-up via the Play Store listings on mobile or directly on the web:
YouTube Music
YouTube TV
At the moment, there are no beta releases available for either application, but it’s taking an awfully long time for the Play Store to acknowledge…
Just a few days ago, I wrote an article asking why Apple is still selling the iPod touch in 2022. Coincidentally or not, the company announced on Tuesday that the iPod touch and the iPod brand have reached the end of their lives. What’s interesting to think about is that…
The popular third-party TWRP recovery for Android has now officially added support for the Samsung Galaxy S20 and Note 20 series alongside a plethora of other devices.
If you are dead set on slapping a custom ROM on your Android device, you might look to TWRP to get…
Ahead of I/O 2022, many big Google products have already been updated this year – what’s next
May 10, 2022
With I/O 2022 kicking off tomorrow, we’re taking a look at the state of Google products before the big event. The surprising takeaway is that many of Google’s consumer-facing apps and services have already seen major updates in recent months.
Big product updates in 2022
Google Photos is the canonical I/O announcement for using the company’s machine learning prowess to create features…
Review: 1More EVO brings wireless hi-res audio and Google Fast Pair in one excellent package
May 10, 2022
There are plenty of truly wireless earbud options out there right now. Plenty fall into the budget category, while a lot cost a pretty penny without actually delivering quality. 1More’s EVO earbuds look to change that, offering much higher fidelity for a comparable price.
The Galaxy S21 Ultra and Galaxy S21 Ultra share one of the best camera arrays you can find on any smartphone today, but it seems Samsung is ready to change things up on the next generation. According to a new report, the Galaxy S23 Ultra will offer a 200MP camera…
Google has restored the status bar vibrate mode icon to Android 12 QPR3 Beta with a new settings menu toggle.
In all previous versions of Android, you’ll get status bar icons when in vibrate or silent mode to help make it easier to quickly decipher whether your phone will bleep, vibrate, or make no noise whatsoever.
Although this side beta offers very little in terms of functionality, it adds…
