Black Friday is in full swing and that means one thing: deals. As well as bagging yourself a bargain on a SIM-free phone this Black Friday, you could get yourself a pretty stunning contact deal with plenty of freebies. There’s a particular stonker available if you want to pick up the flagship Samsung Galaxy S23 … [Read more…]
OPINION: Apple this week shocked the tech world by finally conceding in a long-running battle between it and Android giant Google to bring RCS support to iPhones. It’s something Apple has refused to do for the past few years, but it’ll finally be coming to iPhones sometime in 2024. That’s great news for Android and … [Read more…]
Amazon has begun replacing Android on its smart devices with an all-new custom OS. It might not seem like it, but Amazon devices in the Fire HD tablet, Fire TV, and Echo Show lines run on a heavily forked version of Android. You’dthink that Amazon would be keen to purge one of its biggest tech … [Read more…]
If you’re wondering whether your Samsung phone is going to come up trumps in the Android 14 lottery, there’s some good news – more phones are getting the update than previously thought. In a post on the company’s European support site, Samsung revealed there are 35 phones and tablets in total set to served the … [Read more…]
Amazon is reportedly developing its own operating system to power the range of Fire TVs and smart displays. Currently, the ecosystem for devices like the Echo Show and Amazon Fire Stick run upon a forked version of Android, minus access to the Google Play suite of services and Google’s stock apps. $50 off the brand … [Read more…]
Apple seriously considered making its Apple Watch product line compatible with Android phones before scrapping the idea, according to a new report. The reliable Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman’s sources claim some at Apple were on board with the idea, but ultimately the fear it may cannibalise iPhone sales won the day. iPhone 15 with unlimited … [Read more…]
Apple once privately referred to Android as “a massive tracking device”, according to documents recently released by the US Department of Justice. Over in the good old US of A, the Google antitrust trial continues to plod on, and the DOJ has just released a tranche of revealing materials (via Android Authority). One of them … [Read more…]
Generative AI has been the buzzword of 2023 so far, with the tech on show in various apps and services. Google has even built the feature into Android 14, allowing users to generate unique wallpapers by typing in a number of prompts. Tired of the general selection of wallpapers on your Android 14 phone? Then … [Read more…]
Google is rolling out a handy feature in its Chrome web browser that will pick up on typos and suggest web pages when you mis-type a URL. We’ve all been in that annoying situation where we type out a lengthy web address on our phones, only to miss out or insert an incorrect letter. The … [Read more…]
The Sony WF-1000XM5 have been revealed, and we rated them five-stars in our review, describing them as another excellent headphone from Sony. They’re an improvement in a number of areas, whether it’s in terms of how they sound, the precision of their noise-cancellation and the breadth of their feature set, which is even larger than … [Read more…]