July 2, 2018
HTC is gone
Gather around, campers, and hear a tale as old as time. Remember the HTC Dream? The Evo 4G? The Google Nexus One? What about the Touch Diamond? All…
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June 26, 2018
The new Google Maps with personalized recommendations is now live
At its I/O developer conference last month, Google previewed a major update to Google Maps that promised to bring personalized restaurant recommendations and more to the company’s mapping…
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Google Play now makes it easier to manage your subscriptions
Mobile app subscriptions are a big business, but consumers sometimes hesitate to sign up because pausing and cancelling existing subscriptions hasn’t been as easy as opting in. Google…
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Google brings offline neural machine translations for 59 languages to its Translate app
Currently, when the Google Translate apps for iOS and Android has access to the internet, its translations are far superior to those it produces when it’s offline. That’s…
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Android P Beta 2 brings updated system images and 157 new emojis
A month after releasing the first beta version of Android P at I/O (and right in the middle of Apple’s own developers conference), Google has just released Beta…
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The Microsoft Launcher for Android now lets you track your kids’ whereabouts
Microsoft is launching an update to its Android launcher today that gives parents the ability to track their kids’ location. This is one out of a number of…
Read articleMay 24, 2018
Some low-cost Android phones shipped with malware built in
Avast has found that many low-cost, non-Google-certifed Android phones shipped with a strain of malware built in that could send users to download apps they didn’t intend to…
Read articleMay 18, 2018
Fortnite is finally coming to Android this summer
Fortnite is finally coming to Android…in a matter of months. After dominating the iOS gaming charts since March, the wildly popular sandbox survival game will be hitting the…
Read articleMay 8, 2018
Watch Google I/O developer keynote live right here
Google I/O is nowhere near done. While the mainstream keynote just ended, the company is about to unveil the next big things when it comes to APIs, SDKs,…
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Android blatantly copies the iPhone X navigation gestures
Google unveiled some of the new features in the next version of Android at its developer conference. One feature looked particularly familiar. Android P will get new navigation…
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