After five long years, Google has finally done what every other major smartwatch maker has already figured out: How to add widgets. The improvements have gone a long way in making Wear OS feel smoother and more useful. Today, Google is announcing another new addition: Tiles. Tiles are glanceable widgets that you can swipe between […]
We’re probably still a few months away from the iPhone 11’s release, but an Apple patent just gave us a hint about one of its features. The Cupertino, California, company is developing fingerprint sensor that’d let you unlock your phone by touching anywhere on the screen, as seen in a patent granted Tuesday and previously […]
Huawei has now taking the position of world’s second-largest smartphone vendor for a while, having taken over from Apple for the first time in 2017, before switching back and forth in 2018. The company’s improvement in 2019, however, appears to set it up with a firmer control of the second spot: Huawei jumped from 39.3 […]
Oculus announced at F8, the new Oculus for Business, an enterprise solution designed to streamline and expand virtual reality in the workplace. Launching this fall, the expanded Oculus for Business will add Oculus Quest to the hardware lineup and provide a suite of tools designed to help companies reshape the way they do business through […]
Following last months accidentally leaking images of the headset last month, Valve has officially announced how much the new Valve Index VR headset will cost and when it’ll go on sale. It will be available in a bundle with the new controllers starting on June 28 for $749 (around £575) with pre-orders opening up tomorrow. […]
A Facebook insiders said the social media titan was working on making messaging work across Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. This now it appears they’re about to be a reality. At F8, Messenger’s head of consumer product Asha Sharma said that in the future, users will soon be able to send messages across Facebook’s three different […]
Facebook announced an overhaul of its main mobile app today that puts more emphasis on two of its most critical features: events and groups. The company says it’s placing groups front and center as a cornerstone of how it wants users to think of the main Facebook app, while events is getting a fresh coat […]
iPhone sales continue to sharply decline, according to Apple’s earnings statement for its fiscal second quarter, though its stock and services business are up today. Apple reported its second quarter financial results, posting quarterly revenue of $58 billion down 5 percent from the same quarter a year ago earnings per share of $2.46. The company […]
Facebook’s F8 developer conference kicked off today. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is that “the future is private.” After a year plagued by controversy over whether Facebook is invading its users’ privacy and encouraging social division, it’s pushing hard on helping people connect with close family and friends. Facebook announced updates to Instagram, Facebook Messenger, […]
Samsung has unveiled “The Sero,” a 43-inch quantum-dot QLED TV with an attention-grabbing gimmick. It can be flipped around 90 degrees, letting you watch Instagram, Snap and other smartphone videos in their native vertical configurations. Samsung said it wanted to diversify its lineup and came up with the idea by studying the tastes of mobile-loving […]
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it would begin using 7GB of user hard drive space for the application of future updates. The advantage of this system is intended to be that it doesn’t break the update process halfway through by a system running out of space. The disadvantage is that it would eliminate virtually […]
The Energizer name figured prominently at Mobile World Congress this year, courtesy of a prototype Android smartphone that was about an inch thick, consisting mostly of a giant battery. The prototype Power Max P18K Pop gained a huge amount of attention. The successor to the Power Max P16K Pro, it upped the battery from an […]
Samsung is confident of a turnaround in the second half of 2019 after, as expected, it posted a 60 per cent drop in operating profit for the first quarter. Samsung Electronics warned investors it was going to make a lot less money this quarter, and sure enough, the company just reported first-quarter earnings that show […]
Last April, T-Mobile and Sprint announced their plans to merge, yet one year later neither the US Federal Communications Commission nor the Justice Department have approved the deal. T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp on Monday extended the deadline for completing their proposed $26 billion deal to July 29 as the U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust […]
Back in November last year, months after US government agencies and contractors had been banned from using certain tech from Huawei and other Chinese companies, the US reportedly advised allied countries not to use Huawei’s 5G equipment. Any that disagreed could see their intelligence sharing with the US limited. A US official has said the […]