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Samsung Galaxy S22 and Tab S8 series announcement coverage wrap-up

February 11, 2022

Samsung’s big Unpacked event is over and it brought six new flagships – half of them smartphones, the other half tablets. The Galaxy S22 Ultra marks the return of the Note series, the smaller S22 models bring updates over their S20 and S21 counterparts. Samsung is also one of the few companies that offers high end alternatives to Apple’s iPads. There were other exciting announcements, like…

Android 13 prepares new user profile switcher on the lockscreen

February 11, 2022

User-facing changes in Android 13’s first developer preview were relatively minor, but there’s much more to come. We’ve been able to enable a few new features Google is still working on in Android 13, including a new lockscreen user profile switcher. Android 13…

Here’s what Android 13’s ‘Tap to Transfer’ feature looks like; new media card design too [Gallery]

February 11, 2022

A few weeks back, concept renders revealed that Google was working on a new “Tap to Transfer” feature in Android 13 for speakers and other devices. Now, in the first developer preview, we’ve been able to turn on the feature so you can see what it looks like. Android…

Xiaomi targeting Apple in ‘life and death’ growth plan with 20,000 new retail stores and more

February 11, 2022

An ambitious new growth plan will see Xiaomi targeting Apple, aiming to overtake the Cupertino company to become China’s biggest premium smartphone brand. It follows news that record iPhone 13 sales in China saw Apple take the top slot in China during Q4, achieving its highest ever share of the smartphone market in the country… Background Xiaomi rose to prominence by essentially aiming to…

Samsung’s new Galaxy S22 Ultra ad embraces the spider-like design of the rear cameras [Video]

February 11, 2022

The Galaxy S22 Ultra is a Note by another name, but its most unique design aspect is easily the five circular camera-related cutouts on the back of the device. In a new ad, Samsung is fully embracing how that design reminds one of a spider. Published in Germany, this new…

LumaFusion is coming to Android in the ‘first half’ of 2022 [Update: More details]

February 11, 2022

Thanks to the popularity and power of the iPad, it’s not uncommon for some professional-level utilities to make their way to iOS before Android. After announcing its Android version last year, LumaFusion has confirmed that it will debut on Android in the first half of…

Currents, previously Google+, shutting down next year in favor of Spaces in Gmail/Chat

February 11, 2022

Google+ shut down in April of 2020 as a social network for consumers, but the product was kept around for businesses that wanted an internal tool to communicate with employees in a post/stream-like manner. Citing low usage, Google is shutting down Currents and replacing it with Spaces in the new integrated Gmail/Chat. Spaces originally started out as “Rooms” but was given a big rename and…

Google disables web browser on non-Nest Hub Smart Displays citing lack of SafeSearch support

February 11, 2022

Starting in January, Google disabled the ability for third-party Smart Displays from Lenovo and JBL to browse the web. The company has now revealed that this is due to those devices not featuring hardware support for SafeSearch. This removal first emerged at the start of…

Google launches Android 13 Developer Preview for Pixel phones

February 11, 2022

Even as 12L is still in the Beta Program ahead of its Q1 launch, Google today announced the Android 13 Developer Preview. This is now the seventh year that Google is providing an early look at the direction Android is going in the fall. The preview is again getting…

Android 13 DP1: Any app can now offer a Material You-style Themed Icon

February 11, 2022

Google has shared info on how, starting with Android 13, any app can offer their own Themed Icon to appear in the Pixel Launcher and more. With Android 12, Google launched a “beta” feature for the Pixel Launcher called Themed Icons which gives many of Google’s apps a new monochrome icon suited to your Material You theme. To do this, the Pixel Launcher had a built-in catalog of icons to…