Key Points: Enhanced Animation: YouTube for Android TV introduces a sleek new slide-in animation for accessing the sidebar menu, accompanied by updated pill highlights, elevating user interaction. Streamlined Interface: The updated sidebar features a compact design with prominent icons such ...
Key Points: Google’s Find My Device network, initially launched in the US and Canada is gradually expanding to users outside North America. The network allows Android devices to be located even when offline, leveraging billions of Android devices to report ...
Key Points: Bluetooth LE Audio, introduced in 2020, offers enhanced features like improved audio quality and power efficiency. Despite advancements, Google’s Pixel 6 series, including Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, and Pixel 6a, lacks support for Bluetooth LE Audio. This ...
Key Points: The Pixel 8a joins the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro in offering display output via USB-C, a feature previously absent in Google’s Pixel lineup. Display output is currently disabled by default but is expected to be enabled ...
Key Points: OpenAI’s imminent launch of an AI-enhanced search engine is poised to challenge Google’s dominance in search technology. Speculations arise as OpenAI reportedly plans to debut its search engine a day before Google’s highly anticipated I/O developer conference. The ...
Key Points: Gboard 14.2 beta introduces a striking visual update to the “Fix it” Proofread feature, with blue and purple accents reminiscent of Gemini. The Proofread pane simplifies feedback options to thumbs up/down, streamlining the user experience. Alongside these changes, ...
Key Points: Google Pixel’s increasing success, particularly in Japan, threatens Sony’s Xperia smartphone business. Despite once holding a foothold in the Japanese market, Sony’s Xperia sales plummeted by 40% in 2023, with further decline expected. Sony remains resilient, having secured ...
Key Points: Google Chrome is gearing up to incorporate a feature similar to Android’s Circle to Search, enhancing user convenience and functionality. This feature, already present in Google Lens on Chrome, allows users to draw circles around items on the ...
Key Points: End of an Era: Since the introduction of Pixel 5 and 4a 5G, Google maintained a detailed list of countries where 5G support was available, but now it seems to have vanished. Reddit Discovery: A Reddit user (u/the_john19) ...
Key Points: Google has unveiled School Time, a new feature for Wear OS devices, aimed at helping parents regulate their children’s screen time and maintain focus during school hours. Similar to Apple Watch’s School Time feature, it allows parents to ...