Samsung kicked off its Developer Conference (SDC) today and made One UI 7 official. However, while One UI's track record had us anticipating a release this month, it will arrive next year - ouch! Still, let's focus on the positives - like this Galaxy S24 Ultra running the upcoming OS. It's a short clip that nonetheless reveals some key details, like the redesigned icons, a new standalone command center you access with a swipe from the right side of the screen - like you get on popular Chinese phones and the iPhone. The notification area should be a swipe from the left. The animations...
Following a lengthy teaser campaign, Lava Mobiles announced its Agni 3 smartphone in India today with several noteworthy features. The main attraction is around the back and it’s not the cameras but a 1.74” secondary AMOLED touchscreen. It serves multiple purposes ranging from displaying notifications and allowing you to manage incoming calls, to acting as a camera control for taking selfies with the main 50MP camera. You can also control media playback and use several first-party apps like the weather, timer and step tracker. The back also features a 50MP main cam with a...
Apple launched the A18 and A18 Pro right in time for the iPhone 16 series, and the Pro was said to have a more powerful GPU for intensive graphical tasks like augmented reality, 3D rendering and ray tracing. Now shots of the actual chips were posted online, showcasing the platforms are quite different despite being built by TSMC on the same 3 nm process technology. Front side of Apple A18 • A18 Pro TSMC utilized the InFO-PoP (Integrated Fan-Out Package-on-Package) method, which stacks DRAM packages directly on top of the SoC die, incorporating high-density RDL (Redistribution...
Google released Android 15 into the Android Open Source Project recently and is expected to start rolling out updates to its Pixel smartphones on October 15. With that in mind, you may have been wondering when Samsung's One UI 7 based on Android 15 would come out, especially considering the fact that the Korean company was among the fastest with issuing previous major updates in recent years. We now know, and it's not good news if you're impatient. According to the keynote at Samsung's ongoing developer conference, One UI 7 will only be released when the Galaxy S25 series is launching...
YouTube Shorts are getting longer. Starting on October 15, you can create Shorts that are up to 3 minutes long. This was apparently a top requested feature, and now it's almost here. The change obviously won't affect any videos uploaded before October 15, and applies to videos that are square or taller in aspect ratio. YouTube says it will also work hard to improve recommendations for longer Shorts "in the coming months". Shorts are also getting templates, which you can try by tapping Remix on a Short and then selecting Use this template. And, "in the coming months", you'll be able...
Samsung smartphones will, from next year, be able to unlock smart locks with just a tap - or not even that, by going hands-free using UWB. The tap to unlock functionality will use NFC instead, as you may have expected. Samsung users will thus become on par with iPhone owners, who have had the ability to unlock smart locks in a fiddle-free way already. Samsung will support the new Aliro smart lock standard and add it to its Wallet's Digital Home Key. When that happens, tap to unlock and hands-free unlocking will become a reality, and both of these can work locally between your phone...
The Pixel 9 family was launched back in August, around two months earlier than Google's previous events took place in past years. But the family still isn't complete - the Pixel 9a is left to join it. And it will do so sooner than you may have expected, according to a new rumor. The Pixel 9a will be available for pre-order in mid-March, multiple sources have allegedly said. This is about - you guessed it - two months early compared to previous a series releases which took place around Google I/O in May. Google Pixel 9a leaked CAD-based render The Pixel 9a is then said to ship and...
Google's Gemini Live conversational AI experience recently became available to everyone for free, and now the company has announced another development for this specific service. Starting today and "rolling out over the coming weeks", the conversational Gemini Live will suport more than 40 languages. Gemini Live supports conversations in up to two languages on the same device, and there are plans to expand this to more languages in the future. Unfortunately, Google hasn't shared a list of the 40+ languages Gemini Live will be available in soon, at least not yet. Before...
Samsung’s September 26 event introduced a new Galaxy S FE phone and two new premium tablets in the Tab S10 line, all of which went on pre-order immediately after the event. Here we are a week later and that’s over with – the new phone and tablets are now widely available around the world. The Samsung Galaxy S24 FE is equipped with the largest display in the series yet, 6.7”, and a slightly dialed back version of the Exynos 2400 chipset dubbed ‘2400e’, which is used globally (no regional variations this time). This chip shows promise in early benchmarks. We spent some hands-on time with the...
Today Spotify is launching what it thinks is a solution to the problem of having forgotten to download your favorite playlist before hopping on a plane with no Wi-Fi. What to do? Well, there's nothing you need to do, as Spotify is taking care of things. If you have Premium, that is. With Offline Backup, the app will automatically create a playlist that's going to be available on your device, so you can listen to it even when you're out of reach. It includes your recently streamed and queued tracks, tracks that are already cached on your device. You can filter and sort songs in the...