It’s Thanksgiving in the United States, and many of us are getting ready to spend time with family, watch some American football, relax, and get ready to hunt for Black Friday deals ahead of the Christmas shopping season. One of the timeless traditions for a lot of us Apple fans around the holidays is a technology tune-up for the family and friends you only see once a year. You’ll get the…
The long wait is over for the stable update of Android 10 on the Samsung Galaxy S10, as the update is now rolling out in Europe — with Germany first in line.
Initially, the update was only available to Galaxy S10 owners in Germany who were part of the original Android 10…
A designer/developer has created an iPhone app that recreates the UI of a click wheel iPod Classic, right down to haptic feedback and click sounds …
Elvin Hu blended it with a Cover Flow album view above the click wheel.
He tweeted a short video of the app (below), which…
This iPhone app will make you nostalgic for the iPod click wheel
November 28, 2019
An iOS developer is building an iPhone app that will turn the smartphone into an iPod Classic with its nostalgic click wheel. Elvin Hu, a design student at Cooper Union college in New York City, has been working on the project since October, and shared an early look at the app on Twitter yesterday. It essentially turns your iPhone into a fullscreen iPod Classic with a click wheel that includes…
Oppo's Reno3 Pro is set to become one of the thinnest 5G phones
November 28, 2019
Oppo has teased a new smartphone, the Reno3 Pro 5G, that follows its tradition of making very slim devices. At just 7.7mm thick, not including the lens, it “may just be the thinnest dual-mode 5G phone in its price segment,” according to a tweet by VP Brian…
If you’re not quite ready to sign up for a full-fledged cloud gaming service like Google Stadia — and who could blame you? — there are plenty of ways to dip your toe in the streaming game waters for free or cheap. The latest is exclusive to Samsung Galaxy phones…
Hisense H9F Review: Great picture w/ poor Android TV performance for not much money
November 27, 2019
Smart TVs are just about everywhere at this point and slowly but surely, Google’s Android TV is also breaking into that market. Hisense has been putting out Android TV models for a little while now and for the past few weeks, I’ve been using the Hisense H9F – here’s what you need to know.
Design
The design of the Hisense H9F is attractive in most settings. It has thin bezels all around, a…
You can play Google Stadia on almost any Android phone with root
November 27, 2019
Google Stadia launched last week, allowing you to stream AAA video games to your laptop, desktop, Chrome OS tablet, Chromecast Ultra, or Pixel phone. Of course, the Android power user community was none too pleased about Stadia’s seemingly arbitrary restriction preventing…
Google Stadia’s launch didn’t make sense. The cloud-gaming service debuted with nearly two dozen games, but they are nearly all premium-priced products that were previously available on other platforms. And few people seem excited to jump into Stadia to buy those games.
Valve's Steam Controller is dead
November 27, 2019
Four years after Valve released its oddball Steam Controller, it’s not making any more. The controller is on sale today for $5 — that’s 90 percent off its list price of $49.99 — and a note in the Steam Store warns that there’s a limited quantity remaining. Once those controllers are gone, Valve doesn’t plan to make more, The Verge reports.
While most…
