Later this month, OnePlus will be announcing its two (actually three) new smartphones for the second half of the year. As with its previous strategy, it will be launching Pro, non-Pro, and McLaren Edition models, some of which may not be available for the US market. New leaks now show the OnePlus 7T Pro's front and back and for owners of the OnePlus 7 Pro, it will feel like a case of deja vu.
AI-powered voice assistants are quite useful, especially for hands-free use and control of smart assistant. The catch to all that is, because it's voice-driven, it's even more at the mercy of spoken language, which is admittedly harder to get right when it comes to speech recognition. Complicating matters is that the voices that give feedback might not be to everyone's taste or language for that matter. That's why Google is now rolling out nine new voices, seven of which are not even in English.
Google has actually been at the forefront of the relatively young smartwatch market at the start. Samsung's first-ever Galaxy Gear ran a modified version of Android back in 2013, three years before the Apple Watch launched. Since then, Android for wearables has undergone at least two major branding changes. Despite that, however, a Google-branded smartwatch is still nowhere to be seen and insiders now reveal how a stillborn Google Watch in 2016 is indicative of the company's ambiguity towards that market as a whole.
Another Samsung flagship, another round of "awards" given to the device. Although it isn't true for all new premium phones, Samsung's and Apple's new phones often get top marks from DxOMark and DisplayMate for their cameras and screens, respectively. Thankfully for new and would-be owners, Galaxy Note 10+ 5G does continue the trend as far as DxOmark is concerned and that's true even when the benchmarking site revised its rules to include the latest trends in the smartphone market.
If you've attempted to get on your favorite subreddit at any point over the past hour, you've likely experienced issues ranging from pages only partially loading all the way to full error pages. The issue is widespread based on current reports, with users in many places complaining about an inability to access the website. Reddit has confirmed that it is looking into the matter.
Today we're taking a quick first-impressions sort of look at OPPO Reno 2, a smartphone with a shark fin. This device has a 6.5-inch full-frontal-coverage display with a front-facing camera that pops up sideways on a swivel - like a shark fin. The phone won't likely appear on store shelves at your local mobile data carrier here in the USA, but you COULD potentially buy this phone if you had the will to do so, even if you live well outside the device's intended market - so let's take a peek.
The folks at T-Mobile USA have a series of partnerships in place that aim to to give "perks" to their "Un-carrier" mobile data customers. Just so long as a person is a part of T-Mobile via a monthly payment for mobile data (for their smartphone, most likely), they'll have access to "T-Mobile Tuesdays" and the "free stuff" therein. This month, being a T-Mobile USA customer means a person may have access to a free no-meat burger from Burger King.
Google Family Link, the company's parental control app, has been updated to include a new arguably vital feature for managing a child's phone usage. Going forward, parents can use the parental control offering to set time limits for specific apps installed on their child's phone, ensuring they don't waste too much time playing a particular game, watching videos, or scrolling through social media.
Comcast is making its Flex video streaming platform available to all of its Internet-only customers for free, the company has announced. Comcast Flex was introduced earlier this year as an option for customers who only sign up for Xfinity Internet, giving them an alternative to Comcast's cable service that features a similarly large body of content, including many free options.
There's a Samsung phone launching today with a battery larger than that of the iPhone 11 Pro Max* at a fraction of that phone's price. This is the Samsung Galaxy M10s, and it's not going to be released inside the United States. This phone is also the first at this low a price to launch with a Super AMOLED display.
Today an early teardown of the iPhone 11 Pro Max showed the shape and size of the device's new battery. This new battery is the largest ever released by Apple in an iPhone, and appears to include a slightly new manufacturing configuration. Where previous iPhone models sported multi-cell L-shaped batteries, this new model has one single cell.
Remember the days when third-party virtual keyboards for smartphones were the craze? No? How about the time before TV? Fleksy seemingly wants to take a stroll down memory lane to make the case for its latest Fleksyapp, a.k.a. mini addons that give that Android keyboard a bit more functionality. By partnering with VBoard, that "bit more" becomes searching for and even playing videos while you type out messages to your friends about, what else, those videos playing above your keyboard.