Mobile

HMD just announced the official arrival its rugged Nokia XR20 smartphone in India with pre-orders starting on October 20 and actual sales commencing on October 30. The handset’s main appeal is its durability boasting IP68 water and dust protection on top of the MIL-STD-810H military standard. The XR20 is powered by a Snapdragon 480 SoC paired with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of expandable…

Later today, Google will conclude 11 weeks of teasing and fully detail its highly anticipated 2021 flagship. You can watch the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro event at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. UTC. You can of course watch the Pixel 6 event on YouTube, but Google recommends viewing the “Pixel Fall Event” from the interactive pixelevent.withgoogle.com landing page. At the moment, it lets you…

Google is rolling out a simple but rather useful ability to “mark as unread” in Chat. This capability is already found on competing team messaging solutions, and doubles as a light reminder system.  On mobile, long pressing on a conversation will reveal a new “Mark as unread” option alongside Add reaction, Copy text, and Forward to inbox. It will also be available after tapping a…

Right after Apple’s September keynote, the company introduced iOS 15.1 beta, which reintroduces some features removed from iOS 15.0 and also adds some new ones. Now iOS 15.1 RC (Release Candidate) is available for developers and public beta users. One of the key iOS 15 features announced at WWDC 2021 in June was SharePlay, which lets users share songs, videos, or even the screen during a…