Exactly one year ago, Qualcomm signed a partnership with the Ferrari F1 team, but the chip maker's logo was absent from this year's Ferrari car that was unveiled yesterday. Today the explanation came as Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 unveiled its own 2023 car and confirmed Qualcomm is now one of its partners. The partnership aims to offer unique online and offline experiences. One would hope Qualcomm is cooking some immersive VR or non-VR racing experiences involving the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team. Mercedes-AMG F1 W14 E PERFORMANCE car In addition, the tech company will help...

Many Android apps display web content within themselves – this keeps the user from bouncing back and forth between the app and the browser, for example, when tapping on a link in Gmail. One way to do this is to use the WebView component, but Google believes that Custom Tabs are the better solution and it has now made them even better with a couple of improvements. The first is Partial Custom Tabs. Instead of filling the whole screen, the web content can now only cover half, which improves the multitasking experience since you can still use the app (e.g. continue reading the email). You...

Google’s keyboard app for Android is Gboard, and it has been the staple of messaging and typing on millions if not billions of devices out there. Now Android Police found out the app is being redesigned, and beta testers already got to see where the changes are. The major improvement visually is a revamped toolbar, allowing you to finally customize it with more than four options, and the voice search button can finally be removed. Gboard before and now The current circle with an arrow simply hides or reveals four customizable features. The button will change to include...

During its global rollout of the Find N2 Flip, Oppo revealed its support plans for the foldable. It committed to providing 4 years of major Android updates and 5 years of security updates to the device. That matches Samsung's support for the Galaxy Z Flip4 and is excellent - buyers of the new Find N2 Flip should be well and truly reassured their phone will get updates long after they got bored with it. The Find N2 Flip ships with the latest version of Android under the latest ColorOS 13, so it should receive at least Android 17, before support is terminated.

Right on schedule, the Oppo Find N2 Flip is now a globally-available phone. It's available for pre-order from today. The starting price is £849 in the UK,€1,099 in France and Portugal, and €1,049 in Spain, but some countries and carriers will offer a special early bird discount that sees the price drop to €999. This makes the flip-folding style of foldable the most diverse across the globe with the Find N2 Flip joining the ubiquitous Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4, the Motorola Razr 2022, and Huawei's P50 Pocket. The Oppo Find N2 Flip is bigger than the Galaxy Z Flip4 in more than one...

Realme announced the GT Neo 5 with 240W fast charging earlier this month, and the company also confirmed a Realme GT3 with the same charging rate is on the way. Today, we received an invitation for the official launch, which will take place on February 28 at MWC in Barcelona. The company did not confirm nor deny whether the Realme GT3 will be a Realme GT Neo 5 with a new name for global markets. Currently, the 240W smartphone is sold only in China but we have seen GT Neo devices hit the international scene. Rebranding the GT Neo as a vanilla flagship would be a first for the...

The Oppo Find N2 Flip unveiled last December in China will make its global debut today at an event in London, which will begin at 2:30PM GMT and will be streamed live on Oppo's YouTube channel. You can follow the event live with us by tuning in to the stream below. The Find N2 Flip is Oppo's first foldable smartphone outside China, and if it shares all the specs with the model available in China, we should see a Dimensity 9000+ SoC, Android 13-based ColorOS 13, and up to 16GB RAM and 512GB storage. The Oppo Find N2 Flip's main, foldable AMOLED screen measures 6.8" diagonally and has...