Mobile

We laud the efforts made by OEMs to keep devices updated for up to three or four years, but praise must be lavished upon a developer who has managed to boot Android 12 to the 10-year old Samsung Galaxy S3. Despite effectively being obsolete at this stage, the Samsung Galaxy S3 is still being tinkered with almost 10 years since it first hit store shelves. Developer html6405 has managed to boot…

In mid-2019, Google introduced live previews for videos in the main timeline of the Photos app. This autoplay behavior in the Google Photos for Android grid can be disabled.  While it serves as a fast way to preview videos as you’re scrolling the timeline, some find this behavior to be annoying and rather distracting. (It’s pretty much standard behavior, e.g. Instagram’s “Search” tab…

Earlier this month, Google confirmed that a bug between Microsoft Teams and Android could lead to users being unable to reliably call 911. That issue has since been fixed, but Google is now notifying users over email to update the app if they haven’t already done so. An email push going out to some Android users as documented on Twitter and Reddit comes directly from Google to let users know…

What appears to be an official teaser video for the OnePlus 10 Pro has arrived online, offering another look at the camera bump and green colorway as well as the device’s launch event date. OnePlus has been preparing to shake things up a bit this coming year, with Pete Lau recently teasing that their 2022 phones would be announced in January instead of the usual March/April window. We now have…