News and notes on the latest from Google.
It’s the time of the year again when new flagship devices come out, and you are tempted to grab one. With every new device, you are supposed to get new features, better battery life, better performance, and, overall, more satisfaction. I had the following choices: OnePlus 5 or the Samsung Galaxy S7?
However, not everyone can afford to shell out almost a thousand dollars every year.
Continue reading “Retake: The Samsung Galaxy S7 is still a great phone”
App updates are something that every user wants. However, not all apps can be updated frequently. One such example of these kinds of apps are system apps. Since the system apps reside in the root directory, you need to update the entire OS in the form of an OTA to make sure you get those app updates.
Continue reading “OnePlus brings its popular apps to the Play Store”
The Google-owned company, YouTube, launched YouTube TV in early April of this year, and since then, the platform has seen some welcome growth. However, one of the biggest drawbacks of the service since launch day has been a) its lack of some big channels such as CNN and TNT and b) it’s limited in the devices you can watch on. But today, and in the sometime future, that’s going to change—at least in the devices part.
Continue reading “YouTube confirms a YouTube TV app for Android TV and Roku are in the works”
A little over a week ago, we brought attention to the “infinite scroll” bug on Yahoo Answers where, if using Chrome, answers would fly straight down the page before you could even glance at them. After being a known bug for nearly two years now and Yahoo not bothering to do anything whatsoever about it, I’ve scavenged the internet and finally found a simple solution to this mess.
Love it or hate it, you can’t deny that Yahoo Answers has come in handy at least once in your life. However, the point of this article is not to discuss how we feel about the service in general; rather, it’s to talk about a bug that I’ve noticed in Chrome for quite some time now: “infinite scrolling.”
The company from Silicon Valley has confirmed the deal and its expansion on the hardware business.
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Today was a big day in the tech world as leaks hit the press about Google’s upcoming product line and updates. But not everything purported to be announced on October 4 will give you a warm, fuzzy feeling inside.
With Android 8.0 Oreo only being released about a month ago, unless you’re a Pixel or Nexus user, I don’t expect much of our readers to be on the latest and greatest version of Android just yet. But I still would like to do a quick poll to find out what version of Android your current phone is running.
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Being the Xiaomi aficionado of the site, I was absolutely excited to see Xiaomi partner with Google to announce an Android One branded device. There is so much that is just perfect with Xiaomi hardware—it’s cheap, it’s competitively priced, and lasts long. However, I am very clear on one thing: I absolutely abhor MIUI. The custom take that Xiaomi has on Android is no less than a devil child, and the first thing that I did after buying my current Xiaomi was to flash LineageOS on it.
WhatsApp is one of the most popular messaging apps out there today, and it claims to have over 1.3 billion monthly active users. With many new features in the pipeline, it’s seeing solid development too. But there are still some issues that WhatsApp needs to fix.
