(Reuters) — Alphabet’s Google has shut down a service it provided to wireless carriers globally that showed them weak spots in their network coverage, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, because of Google’s concerns that sharing data from users of its Android phone system might attract the scrutiny of users and regulators. The withdrawal […]
Tag: Android
The best black-and-white photo apps for iOS and Android
The heart, soul, and inspiration for many aspiring photographers are personified by the universally beloved landscape photographer Ansel Adams, the Monochrome King. Despite the ubiquity of color images native to digital cameras, the drama of black-and-white photography never lost its allure, and people always seem to be able to connect with its moody monochrome magic. […]
Google Will Let Android Users in Europe Choose a Search Engine
Let’s block ads! (Why?) PCMag.com Latest Articles
Android Auto’s biggest upgrade ever is finally rolling out
The new Android Auto. The big change is the system bar at the bottom, which can now show tiny app controls. Here are music controls. Google For reference, this is the old Android Auto. Google With the music open, you’ll get turn-by-turn information in the bottom bar. Google This used to be the Android Auto […]
Samsung won’t let Android tablets die, announces the Galaxy Tab S6
The Galaxy Tab S6 with keyboard case. The main tablet part. Samsung The back comes in this blue/gray color… Samsung And pink. Samsung The S-Pen snaps into this groove with magnets. Samsung Both the “Book cover” and “Book Cover Keyboard” have lumps that go over the pen, and you have to pull back the cover […]
How to back up your photos with Google Photos on iOS, Android, or the desktop
For amateur photographers and family memoirists, the most dreaded event is losing track of a photo shoot — or more than one. Memory cards, hard drives, even desktop programs can fail, so a cloud backup plan is always optimal. To make sure your photo collection is always safe, redundancy is the name of the game, […]
The best photo collage apps for iOS and Android
For times when a photo or video by itself is not enough to express the significance of a location or the special quality of an event, there’s always a combination of the two: A collage. Collages, which combine multiple images, and sometimes even videos into a single layout, are great for family albums, social media […]
The best A.I.-based photo apps for iOS and Android
The photo filter craze, which erupted around Instagram in 2010, continues unabated to this day. Not nearly as popular, but certainly more intriguing, are filters based on artificial intelligence, which combine machine learning with neural networks to put an entirely different spin the photo filtering concept. Instead of typical filters, which float on top your image to […]
Check Out the Sloth, Other Emoji Heading to iPhone, Android
Heads up, emoji lovers: In honor of World Emoji Day, which takes place today, Apple and Google have offered a look at the new characters headed to their mobile platforms this year. A sloth, head of garlic, flamingo, skunk, waffle, stick of butter, yawning face, falafel, orangutan, banjo, kite, one-piece swimsuit, and parachute are among […]
Xiaomi’s Mi A3 brings stock Android, OLED display for €249
The Xiaomi Mi A3. Xiaomi It comes in three colors. Xiaomi The front has this very generic notched camera design. Xiaomi There’s a good bit of bezel at the bottom. Xiaomi On the back, you get a triple camera setup. You can also just barely see the headphone jack cutout at the top. Xiaomi The […]
Android Q’s gesture navigation won’t support custom home apps at launch
Enlarge Android We don’t have any Beta 5 pictures yet, but here’s what the gesture navigation system looked like in earlier builds. Ron Amadeo Correctly set-up apps get a transparent nav bar. Ron Amadeo With a transparent bar, Android will continuously sample the background and change the color of the gesture indicator. (The whole rest […]
Android Q: Everything we know so far about Google’s next mobile OS
Android Pie may still be rolling out, but already we’re looking ahead to Android Q — and it could represent some significant changes to Android. While we have absolutely no idea what Android Q will be called, we do have an idea of what it may offer, thanks to the first Android Q beta, and […]
The best video editing apps for iOS and Android
If you have a smartphone, you not only have a camera that you carry with you everywhere — you also have a high-definition video camcorder as well. Late model smartphones can shoot video up to 4K resolution and such footage benefits greatly from a feature-rich mobile video editor with pro-level features that is also easy […]
Android Q(&A): Android Engineers take us on a deep dive of Android Q
Enlarge / Android Development: It can be a messy process. Google As has become tradition for Ars at Google I/O, we recently sat down with some of the people who make Android to learn more about Google’s latest OS. For 2019, the talk was all about Android Q and this year’s big engineering effort, Project […]
Bill Gates calls failure to fight Android his “greatest mistake”
Enlarge / Bill Gates speaks to Village Global. Village Global Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently gave a wide-ranging interview to VC firm Village Global, and at one point, the topic of mobile came up. Gates revealed his biggest regret while at Microsoft was a failure to lead Microsoft into a solid position in the smartphone […]