Shut down in 2019, Google+ was never really a favorite for most in the social media landscape. However, during today’s massive and extended Facebook outage, Google+ came to mind for quite a few people.
On Twitter this afternoon, Google+ picked up some steam with thousands of tweets referencing the now-defunct social network in the aftermath of the Facebook outage. Twitter’s recap of the…
In recent years, the Android team has released partner videos with Samsung highlighting how the OS takes advantage of new hardware, like foldables. Google today released a curious trio of ads about its apps running on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Flip 3.
The most recent…
We recently reported on an ophthalmologist using the iPhone 13’s new macro photography feature to document patient progress.
Thanks to the Macro mode, Dr Tommy Korn can take extremely detailed photos of the eyes, which lets him observe and record important details about…
A teardown analysis by TechInsights shows that the iPhone 13 Pro has a higher build cost when compared to the iPhone 12 Pro. The report says that the semiconductor shortage affected the iPhone 13 production as the A15 Bionic cost more to produce, as well as the NAND memory, the display subsystem price, and an increase in the main enclosure cost.
TechInsights also compared the iPhone 13 Pro and…
Filmic Pro updated with support for ProRes video capture on iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max
October 4, 2021
Today Filmic Pro version 6.17 is being released with full support for ProRes video for the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max, making it the first iOS app available with support for capturing ProRes. ProRes video, which is hardware-accelerated by the A15 Bionic chip, is one…
WhatsApp for iOS working to improve voice message player
October 4, 2021
After releasing different playback speeds for audio messages, WhatsApp is now working on a global voice message player for its app.
According to always reliable WABetaInfo, the global voice message player “allows listening to voice messages when you leave chats. It’s…
According to some rumors, Android 12 is set to arrive today but while it is not technically official yet, we asked you what Android version you were running on your device and now we have the results.
As we mentioned, Google no longer provides official up-to-date information on the distribution data of the world’s biggest mobile OS. We’re under no illusions that a quick poll or survey would…
Google Photos adds ability to edit time and date of uploaded images/videos on Android
October 4, 2021
Google Photos has now added the ability to edit the time and date of when an image or video in your library was taken directly from your Android phone.
For a long time, you needed to use a third-party application when trying to adjust this pertinent metadata attached to…
Surprisingly enough, the side-by-side timed speed test thing is, well, still a thing. And now that a new top dog iPhone launched, you’d naturally expect that to be pitted against the best Samsung has to offer for 2021. And you’d be right.
So here’s a speed test…
Huawei employee reveals Huawei's Harmony OS 3 is coming soon
October 4, 2021
reported that a Huawei employee revealed in a social post that Huawei would be unveiling HarmonyOS 3.0 very soon. According to the report, the Chinese phone maker will be holding the Huawei Developer Conference on October 24. At said conference, Huawei will outline the updates coming to HarmonyOS 3.0.
Huawei has had to rely less so on Google services and re-invented it’s smartphones’…
