With Tesla test drives scaled back, your options to check out a Model 3 or Model S sedan are limited enough that you may need to turn to virtual reality to see the car before you buy it. Oculus’s new VR headset could become the next best way to check out cars without going to […]
A new Chrome OS stable version is always fun. This is v74, which brings with it, among other things, audio output support for Linux applications (yay) and USB camera support for the Android Camera app. You can find the full changelog below.New Features Send system performance profiling data along with feedback reports Linux apps can […]
Interested in Google Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL now that rumors say they’ll be coming to T-Mobile? There’s more info today on both models ahead of their expected reveal next week. A new leak has revealed the packaging for the Pixel 3a as well as some specs and price info on Google’s upcoming phones. […]
According to a small number of social media reports, Samsung’s new Galaxy Tab S5e is experiencing Wi-Fi disconnections whenever the top left corner of the device (or bottom left corner in landscape mode) is covered by a user’s hand, as reported by SamMobile. One Galaxy Tab S5e user took to Instagram to demonstrate his device’s […]
HMD Global’s Nokia 4.2, which the company announced back in February, is available to pre-order now in the US for $189, and will start shipping in mid-May. Beyond its mid-range specs and Android One software, the Nokia 4.2 features an interesting take on a dedicated voice assistant button. Pressing it once will wake Google Assistant […]
Scarred by a seemingly endless parade of scandals and troubled by an ongoing decline in usage among teens and millennials, Facebook’s leadership seems to be trying to recreate its flatlining social network on Instagram, its younger, hipper, money-making, and still relatively scandal-free arm. Instagram has been growing rapidly, perhaps as people gravitate toward its simpler, […]
Apple and Samsung reported slowing smartphone sales in the first quarter of this year, but Chinese tech giant Huawei is bucking the trend in a big way. Huawei’s smartphone shipments surged 50% in the first quarter compared to the same period last year, while Apple iPhone shipments tumbled 30%, according to new data published Tuesday […]
According to a new patent spotted by Dutch technology site LetsGoDigital, Samsung could be working on a smartphone with a wraparound display that continues over the phone’s edge and onto the rear of the device. The patent, titled ‘Electronic Device Having Plurality of Display and Method for Controlling Same’, suggests a handset with a screen […]
Remember the comically enormous phone that Avenir Telecom showed off under the Energizer brand at this year’s Mobile World Congress? Its subsequent crowdfunding campaign has crashed and burned, as The Verge points out. The P18K Pop, as the name suggests, had an 18,000mAh battery (for reference, a typical smartphone has 3,000mAh) and consequently was about […]
Garmin has been slowly updating its smartwatches and fitness trackers over the past few years, and 2019 appears to be the year of the Forerunner. Today, Garmin announced three new types of Forerunner smartwatches—the Forerunner 45 and 45S, the Forerunner 245 and 245 Music, and the Forerunner 945—that will replace all but one of its […]
More than 100 million users worldwide now pay for Spotify Premium, the company has announced. Spotify reached the milestone by growing paid subscribers by 32-percent year-on-year. Including free subscribers, Spotify now has a total of 217 million monthly active users worldwide. That includes two million Indian users who joined after the company launched its service […]
According to a report from Economic Daily News, iPhone assembly giant is expanding its investments in micro-LED screen manufacturing with an eye to capture orders for future iPhones. micro-LED is generally seen as a superior display panel to OLED displays, the latter is what Apple currently uses in the Apple Watch, iPhone X and iPhone […]
