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9to5Google: In the past, the Google Phone app had a dedicated toggle for dark mode within its in-app settings. The toggle would naturally flip depending on your system theme settings. If you wanted to know how consistently dark mode was implemented when it shipped in Android 10 last year, the
Google unveiled the Pixel 4a yesterday, their successor to last year's budget-phone champ, the Pixel 3a. I happened to like that phone very much, and had this to say about it at the time: I think that the Pixel 3a has immediately made it hard for me to
I was going to write a long article about each new thing in iOS 14 and whether each feature has been in Android already, but then I trashed the doc. I was getting bored writing it myself, so I can’t imagine how bored you would have been reading it.
Update: As pointed out by Twitter user @monogon, Google shared some screenshots of what this may look like in the final build, which is pretty darn close to this mockup, which is great. In the interest of doing as little work as possible since Google isn't going to
Any post about Android updates is going to be meet with some snarky folks say "ummmm, Android updates are like a year late if they come at all 🤓" Yes, we get it, iOS is much better at getting updates to more devices faster, but hey, people own Pixels
Ok, maybe 61 seconds, but still, this is basically just a standard reboot time for the phone. I'd love to see Apple match Android when it comes to downtime when doing small updates. This was the equivalant of an update like iOS 13.1.1 to 13.1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbXxMKqhQJ4 This can only go well, right? This was actually a video I made in September but didn’t feel like posting right away. As the description and title cards try to make exceptionally clear, this is not a video bashing Android, it’s
Android tablets just haven’t caught on, and today I dive into some reasons why I think that’s the case. This episode was inspired by this conversation on the Android Authority Podcast. I also used some different theme music today, so let me know on Twitter if you like
https://youtu.be/jNtUXH41XVU As someone who spends time in the iOS and Android worlds, I install a lot of updates. And while these are a pain on iOS, they’re nearly transparent on Android, and I made this video to try and show just how drastic the difference is.
I did one more shoot with Night Sight on a Pixel 3 and an iPhone Xs which lead to this message from my wife: She knows me well… As with the other comparisons, the first photo will always be the iPhone and the second will be the Pixel. https://youtu.
I’ve done quite a few camera comparisons over the past couple years, and they continue to be one of the more popular things on the site. I find them really interesting because they can lead to really surprising results…in certain situations. Let me explain. So whenever I share
It’s dark and snowy here in the Midwest, so it was inevitable that I would do a camera comparison. Here’s what I used: * iPhone Xs * Default camera app * Hydra (low light mode) * OnePlus 6 * Default camera app * Default app’s Night Mode * Google Camera app’s Night Sight
https://youtu.be/d4mdB4YTtMo The OnePlus 6 is a very nice Android phone (and at less than $600 it’s one of the most affordable high end phones of the year), but one thing that was bugging me was touch response time. Animations feel fast and the phone generally works
Android Developers Blog: An Update on Project Treble Thanks to Treble, we expect to see more devices from OEMs running Android 9 Pie at the end of 2018 as compared to the number of devices that were running Android Oreo at the end of 2017. It's worth noting
Much like iOS, Android has an app store that lets people easily download apps for their devices. The differences between the Play Store and App Store are more in execution than concept, and will be how the vast majority of people get apps. But Android also has the ability to