Mobile

Since its inception, Google has given Fi members a holiday gift. For 2021, the “year-end gift” is simply $10 in Google Play credit that can be redeemed from the Fi app. Update 12/24: If the Fi website says you are ineligible, Google says to make sure you’re redeeming with the right account, and offers the following steps: Open your Fi account (desktop or app) and click on “Claim your…

The viral hit TikTok has basically taken over the internet during the past two years, and now there are stats to back it up. According to a new report, TikTok was a more popular domain than Google over the course of 2021. CloudFlare this week went through some data on the most popular entities on the internet. As it turns out, the most popular domain on the internet during 2021, at least most of…

MKBHD is back once again for the 2021 smartphone awards. After the blind camera test last week, where the iPhone 13 Pro was beaten by the $399 Pixel 5a, he is back picking the best phone in nine different categories, ending with the overall ‘Phone of the Year.’ Before starting the awards, he had a moment of silence for LG, which stopped making smartphones this year. There are nine categories…

In the coming days, many people will be setting up new phones that they received as presents. Google has released a video in ASL that walks those that are “hard of hearing or profoundly Deaf” through helpful Pixel accessibility features like Live Transcribe and Caption. This video is not specific to the Pixel 6 lineup and covers functionality that all modern Google phones feature, though…