Apple’s Health app features a Summary tab where you can find an overview of your health data, but unfortunately, Apple doesn’t provide any home screen widgets for Health users. With this in mind, developer Marcel Schmitz created Hidgets — an app that brings your health data to your iPhone’s home screen.
The Hidgets app currently focuses on four different categories of health data: Body…
Quick Charge Podcast: October 8, 2020
October 9, 2020
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
Microsoft is bringing xCloud to iOS via the web
October 9, 2020
Microsoft is working on a “direct browser-based solution” to bring xCloud to iOS early next year. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the company has been developing a web version of xCloud to run on iOS and iPadOS devices, alongside continuing…
Tesla is doing a Model 3 refresh and we’ve seen it
October 9, 2020
Tesla is making an update to Model 3, which is significant enough that people other than Elon Musk would call it a refresh, and we’ve seen it.
Electrek can confirm some of the new features.
Over the last few months, we have heard a lot of rumors about a Model 3 update.
It started when Tesla updated the Model 3’s frunk and then submitted an application to produce the Model 3 with a chrome…
Android phones can now notify you when they detect certain sounds, which could notify people who are deaf or hard of hearing about important sounds nearby.
If you turn on the feature, called Sound Notifications, you can have your Android phone inform you about some sounds…
Google offers “Go” variants of its most popular apps for lower-power devices. This week, Gmail Go was quietly made available for all users to download, regardless of device, on the Play Store.
The Play Store listings for the applications are nearly identical, but…
The new Samsung Galaxy S20 FE is the fourth phone in the S line this year. That’s a lot of variants, and it doesn’t include the two Note 20 phones and seemingly innumerable A-series phones Samsung also released this year. Trying to figure out which one has the right mix of features and price for you can feel like you need a spreadsheet, an accountant, and an actuary standing by.
Luckily, most…
Samsung Galaxy Note 20 review: stylus tax
October 9, 2020
The Samsung Galaxy Note 20 is a good phone, but don’t buy it at its advertised retail price of $999.99. It’s a fine phone if you can find it for less, and hopefully you can because the only other phone with a stylus that matters is the very expensive Galaxy Note 20…
Audi teases electric e-tron GT production version, releases ‘progressive’ sound of the supercar
October 9, 2020
Audi is teasing the production version of its e-tron GT electric supercar and unveiling the ‘progressive’ sound of the vehicle.
The vehicle is an exciting entry in the EV space and a collaboration with Porsche leveraging their expertise with the Taycan.
Audi unveiled…
How much is your iPhone 11/Pro worth right now?
October 9, 2020
As of this writing, the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro are still the latest and greatest iPhones. But that’s going to change soon — namely next week when Apple announces their successors. Whether you’re looking to sell your iPhone 11 to upgrade to the iPhone 12 mini or even the iPhone 12 Pro Max, you’ve come to the right place. First, let’s find out how much it’s worth and how to get the most…
