Google Wants You to Buy Certified Android Devices
Google is making it easier to find certified Android devices. These are devices, both smartphones and tablets, that Google has certified as being worthy of the Android name. And certified Android...
View ArticleGoogle Maps’ picture-in-picture functionality coming soon to all Android Oreo...
A host of new features were discovered in a recent teardown of version 9.60 of Google Maps — including picture-in-picture for navigation, the ability for local guides to publish videos, food reviews,...
View ArticleGoogle Safe Browsing now protects 3 billion devices from dangerous links,...
Over the past year, Google has expanded the number of devices that its Safe Browsing protections can work on. As a result, the company today announced that its service for presenting warnings before...
View ArticleAndroid Oreo appears to be disabling mobile data on some Pixel and Nexus...
As with the release of any major operating system upgrade, there are sure to be bugs that pop up from time to time. With Oreo, we’ve already seen an issue that has enabled mobile data use while on...
View ArticleEssential Phone: Sprint estimated to have sold 5,000 devices since carrier...
While the Essential Phone began shipping to those who pre-ordered directly last month, Andy Rubin’s new device only arrived at Sprint in mid-September. As the exclusive US partner, the Essential Phone...
View ArticleGoogle Home devices can now be assigned to specific rooms, just in time for...
Google has made quite a few moves with smart speaker devices in the past few weeks, and that’s undoubtedly because the company is preparing to bring a lot of new hardware to the table on its own and...
View Article10 Annoying Problems in Your Home Solved by Smart Devices
Home is where we relax after a long day at work. Even when we take off for a fun-filled vacation, there’s nothing quite like the feeling of coming home. Everywhere else is foreign and hostile, but one...
View ArticleGoogle app 7.14 prepares for Assistant on tablets, unlinking devices, more...
The latest beta version of the Google app rolled out this evening and hints at Assistant finally being available on tablets, as well as other features possibly coming to more devices. Version 7.14...
View ArticleHow to watch the MLB World Series on Android, Chrome, and other devices
The MLB World Series kicks off tonight with the entire series airing on Fox’s TV network. If you don’t have a cable or satellite television subscription and still want to watch the games, you’re in...
View Article‘Fast Pair’ adds effortless Bluetooth headphone pairing with Android 6.0+...
When Google announced the Pixel Buds at the beginning of the month, we found out that the company had developed “Fast Pair” to painlessly connect your compatible headphones to your Android device....
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