Google has posted a cheeky teaser for its upcoming Pixel 6 smartphones on its @madebygoogle handle. The image shows the Pixel 6 in a grid of 4 x 3, all showing different color backgrounds to showcase Android 12’s Material You, which pulls colors out of your wallpaper and applies them throughout the UI. This teaser…
Twitter today announced a bunch of features that it will be testing over the coming days. This includes a new UI design, a way to remove your followers, and also the Communities feature that was announced a while back. The new UI change is edge to edge tweets. Instead of having an indentation below the…
During CES at the beginning of the year Motorola demonstrated a new wireless charging technology – unlike typical Qi chargers, it allowed phones to be charged at up 1 meter away (3.3 ft). And it could handle two devices simultaneously. The company has developed the second generation of this technology with much improved capabilities. Phones…
A new investigation ProPublica has cast doubt on Facebook’s privacy practices and the encryption of its WhatsApp messaging platform. The article highlights several key findings that are not explicitly revealed to the 2-billion user base. Even though WhatsApp features end-to-end encryption since 2016, there are some circumstances in which the 1,000 contractors using Facebook’s special…
Today TCL has expanded its 20 family of smartphones even further in the European markets with the TCL 20 R 5G. This device lands in the series with a low price that makes it the cheapest TCL 20 device so far. If you’re wondering what it can offer you, let’s see. It has a 6.52-inch…
As first reported by 9to5Mac, Apple has filed with the FCC about an updated MagSafe charger. This model was added to the FCC’s database on August 13, pretty much one month before Apple’s launch event is scheduled. The new MagSafe charger carries the model number A2548 while the current MagSafe charger for the iPhone 12…
We have had an official Twitter account since 2010 and many of you already follow it. However, we still occasionally get asked “Is this the official account? Why doesn’t it have a blue check mark?” Yes, this is the official account, but the second question is tougher to answer. We tried to get the account…
The Xiaomi 11T Pro was rumored to support 120W fast charging or (as Xiaomi calls it) HyperCharge. The company has officially confirmed that spec with a Twitter teaser building up to the September 15 event. That’s close to double the charge rate of the original Mi 11, which topped out at 67W. The battery capacity…
Realme’s rapidly expanding GT family is soon going to get yet another member, the GT Neo2, already a successor to the original GT Neo that launched back in March/April. Unlike the original, the Neo2 will have a Qualcomm chipset, namely the Snapdragon 870 if all the past rumors and leaks are to be believed. Today…
The German government is lobbying in the EU to require smartphone manufacturers to provide at least 7 years of security updates and spare parts for the same period for all of their handsets. At least according to the German tech news website, Heise Online. Currently, Android phones are getting three years of security updates at…
