Outside of Workspace apps, Google Camera, Clock, Contacts, and Phone have already been updated with the company’s new design language. Google Photos is the latest app to get Material You, though it’s a work in progress.
The most prominent change is the taller bottom bar that allows for a pill-shaped selection indicator. That particular highlight — and others — are blue, with Google…    
    
Just this week, Google has teased the Pixel 6 from a long-dead Twitter account and with 10,000 bags of potato chips. Google Store Chelsea now has the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro on display.
The company’s first retail store in New York City features floor-to-ceiling windows…
iPhone 13 versus iPhone 12 performance comparisons missing from keynote
September 15, 2021
There was one interesting thing missing from yesterday’s keynote: Despite all the time Apple spent talking about the chips, there was no iPhone 13 versus iPhone 12 performance comparison.
Usually, Apple tells us how much faster and more powerful the latest iPhone is…
Here’s a look at the new emoji that could come to iPhone this year [Update: Emoji 14.0 finalized]
September 15, 2021
Emoji 14.0 draft renderings by Jeremy Burge
The draft candidates for the Unicode Consortium’s Emoji 14.0 release are up for approval and Emojipedia has shared a great look at many of the new emoji that could come to iPhone over the next year. Seven new faces are in the mix like melting face and face with peeking eye, with other candidates including heart hands, person with crown, troll, low…    
    
Yet again, Brazil has the most expensive iPhone 13, US the cheapest
September 15, 2021
Are you planning to buy the iPhone 13? If your answer is yes, well, you may not want to buy it in Brazil, as once again the South American country has the most expensive iPhone 13 in the world.
The report is conducted by Nukeni and shows all the sales prices, including…
Apple discontinues 256GB iPhone SE following iPhone 13 introduction
September 15, 2021
Amid other shakeups to the iPhone lineup this week, Apple appears to have quietly discontinued the 256GB variant of the iPhone SE. Until this week, the iPhone SE was available in 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB configurations, but Apple’s online store now indicates that only the…
After debuting Material You revamps for other Workspace apps earlier this month, Google is today announcing that Google Keep is next in line for the update.
Already being a pretty colorful app by design, it’s interesting to see how Keep is adopting the new Dynamic Color feature. Based on Google’s example below, the Material You version of the theme will desaturate the colors of many notes…    
    
Xiaomi 11T Pro goes official w/ 120W charging, 108MP camera, more
September 15, 2021
Xiaomi has now officially unveiled the 11T Pro and 11 Lite 5G NE, which continues the Mi 11 series without the “Mi” branding. 
The undoubted star of this duo is the Xiaomi 11T Pro, which is a direct successor to last year’s Mi 10T Pro and comes with some notable…
Xiaomi 11T Pro vs. Mi 11 Ultra: Premium performance packages [Video]
September 15, 2021
Xiaomi’s recent surge to second in the global smartphone manufacturer charts has been built upon the back of devices such as the 11T Pro and Mi 11 Ultra — but which is the better device?
The Chinese OEM has had an excellent 18 months, benefiting from the downfall of…
Google is going all out to advertise its next flagship phone around the world. In Japan, it offered “Google Original (Potato) Chips” to highlight the new Tensor SoC in the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro.
Tensor is Google’s first consumer system on a chip (SoC) — with some technical details leaking over the past few days, and the company created a big of potato chips to hammer that point in…