2018 and everyone wants a smartphone that takes great pictures. For this reason every manufacturer is racing to try and get to the top of the heap. What heap you may ask? The DxOMark heap, the most respected smartphone camera ranking website. Tonight what may, or most likely may not, …
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Google hasn’t been using wireless charging since the Nexus 6 was launched back in 2014, but with the launch of the Pixel 3 they’re returning to the standard with a new accessory called the Pixel Stand. The stand has been leaking steadily in images, but a press render has now …
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LG, like many manufacturers, usually release two flagships a year and this year will be no different with the V40 ThinQ set to be released in the coming weeks. We have seen it pass through the FCC, CAD renders and blurry renders show up but today we have seen a …
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It seems Dark Mode is so hot right now, with popular task management app Todoist has (finally) added dark mode to their mobile app and web presence this morning, bringing a more comfortable view to users who prefer the darker tones. The update for their Android app, also lists added …
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Google’s ARCore has brought with it some great apps and functionality this year but it is limited by the number of devices it supports. The new ARCore v1.5 apparently brings with it support for a number of new devices expanding the list of approved devices. In an APK teardown Android …
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After announcing the first phone running Android Pie right out of the gate at IFAd, Sony has announced that the Xperia XZ3 will be running a unique set of Google Assistant commands when it goes on-sale. The phone will feature commands that integrate Sony specific features with the Google Assistant, …
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The launch of the Pixel 3 is becoming a more global affair, at least in the northern hemisphere, with Google inviting press to an I <3 LDN event on October 9th joining concurrent events running in New York and France. The I <3 London event will be running at the …
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The impending launch of the Pixel 3 next month will see one of the most leaked phones of 2018 finally made official, and while we know essentially everything about them from a hardware perspective, we’re still getting some new bits of information about the software. A new feature that the …
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The long anticipated launch of the next generation OnePlus phone has apparently been set for October 17th, with press invites for an event in India beginning to circulate. The invite was circulated on Chinese social media site Weibo, with the invite using the tagline ‘Unlock the speed’; combined with the …
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Popular messaging service and collaboration tool Slack, has announced they’ve acquired messaging service Astro, in the process announcing they will be shutting the email service down. The move to acquire Astro appears to be in response to the popularity of the service amongst users. Astro integrated an AI assistant – …
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A couple of days ago we showed the new wallpapers that will be arriving with the Google Pixel 3 phones in a couple of weeks. Tonight the leaker that provided the wallpapers has finally made the APK file available for all. The app makes it easy to install the wallpapers …
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Google has been on a roll lately upgrading some of its core apps to a Material Design look, and the latest to get the treatment is Google Calendar. With version 6.0 – which has been released in the last day or two – the new design is everywhere, and you …
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Virgin Australia released an update to their Android app today and in the changelog was something we’ve been hoping to see rollout here in Australia, Google Pay integration for boarding passes. As announced back in July this year the Google Pay app can now host more than just your payment …
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Hot on the heels of some leaks of new renders this morning, news from a Huawei product briefing shows the company is confident that its new Kirin 980 chipset can run rings around Apple’s A12 Bionic processor. At a briefing attended by TechRadar, Huawei’s executives spoke about their new Kirin 980 …
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Thanks to Google’s lack of ability to provide a working all-in-one messaging solution, we all have many chat apps, and finding a message in those apps is hit or miss. Thankfully finding the right TXT message is about to get easier with a new update to Android Messages. In the …
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