News and notes on the latest from Google.
Yes, you read that right. If your Pixel 3 or 3 XL needs a battery replacement, you can get one off of eBay. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right. What’s going on, Google?
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Last week, we reviewed the Nubia Red Magic’s performance and how well it fared as a dedicated gaming device. But, unlike a Nintendo Switch, it can do much more than gaming. Let’s see how it fares as a smartphone.
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Huawei has cleverly implemented a feature called Face Tracking. In short, the phone will keep tracking your face to ensure the phone doesn’t turn off the screen or even dim it as long as you (or any other user) are looking at it. Basically, if it detects a face looking at the phone, the screen remains bright. So if you are reading something like an e-book or a lengthy article, the screen will be lit the whole time overriding the configured screen timeout. Pretty cool. But, it turns out that it might drain more juice than desired under certain conditions.
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Low battery is the bane of an avid smartphone user’s life. We all have had to face it, be it at class or somewhere out hiking, and in all honesty, running out of power midway in your day is quite frustrating. One of the problems that I have continued to notice is that with each passing year, phones are becoming thinner, essential features are being thrown away (RIP headphone jack), and that batteries are becoming smaller in capacity.
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A simple search on the Play Store for battery-saving or speed-boosting apps reveals an endless list of apps with each of them getting around 10 thousand to even a whopping 500 million downloads. But are those apps actually useful?
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