Google announces an in-person Pixel hardware event for October 6 at 10am ET in Brooklyn, where the company will detail the Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, and Pixel Watch

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Google confirms the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro will run on a new "Tensor G2" SoC

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Q&A with Chris McKillop, the former director of engineering for Google's Fuchsia project, on the past, present, and future of the OS, Nexus Q failures, and more

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Google launches Cross device SDK to let developers build experiences across Android phones and tablets, coming later to other Android and non-Android devices

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Google brings back the original Google Duo icon and name as a shortcut to Google Meet in Android's app launcher, in an attempt to mitigate user confusion

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 review: an iterative upgrade with excellent performance, improved but not great battery life, and a slightly more useful cover screen

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Google launches Get The Message publicity campaign to pressure Apple to support RCS over SMS/MMS, highlights problems like low-res photos/videos, no e2ee, more

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Oppo and OnePlus have halted sales in Germany after a court found the two companies were using 5G technology without paying for appropriate patents from Nokia

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Fitbit will end desktop syncing for PC and macOS in October, moving file transfers to its smartphone app, and local music and playlists to Deezer and Pandora

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

YouTube is testing pinch to zoom with its Premium subscribers, allowing users to zoom into a video on-screen, even in landscape mode

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Amazon plans to shut down Drive, its cloud storage service launched in March 2011, at the end of 2023 to focus "on photos and video storage with Amazon Photos"

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Google delays the phaseout of third-party cookies in Chrome to H2 2024, after delaying it from 2022 to 2023, citing the need for more Privacy Sandbox tests

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Samsung says it sold nearly 10M Fold3 and Flip3 devices combined over the past year, up 300%+ from 2020; ~70% of foldable customers bought the Flip3

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Android removes much of Fuchsia-related code as Starnix project progresses

  Hacker News   ·   4 months ago

Google announces Google Public Sector, a new division aiming to bring Google Cloud tech to US educational institutions and federal, state, and local governments

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

OSOM, founded by ex-Essential employees, scraps its OV1 phone and partners with Solana for Saga, a $1,000 Web3-focused Android phone, to be launched in Q1 2023

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

Leaked images seem to show a Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 unit with a design similar to the Flip 3's but with a shallower, less noticeable display crease

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

Apple replaces the Dark Sky API with WeatherKit, which will let developers create apps for Android and Apple's operating systems using its weather data

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

Report: Samsung is preparing to cut smartphone production for 2022 and manufacture 280M devices, down from 310M as initially planned

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

Microsoft says 10M+ players have streamed games with Xbox Cloud Gaming; last Sept., Nvidia said GeForce Now had 12M users; Google has been silent about Stadia

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

Xiaomi signs a long-term partnership with Leica and announces a jointly developed smartphone will launch in July 2022, likely with the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

Google confirms that Messages for Android will get end-to-end encryption for RCS group chats, rolling out "later this year" in open beta

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Google Chrome for desktop will let users easily create virtual cards for safer online shopping using Autofill, coming later to Android and iOS

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Google debuts Google Wallet, for storing payment cards, state IDs, event and transit tickets, vaccination records, and more on Android, Wear OS in 40+ countries

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Google confirms that over 500M people are actively using RCS messaging, while imploring all mobile OSes to "upgrade" in a dig at iOS

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Google unveils the $449 Pixel 6a, with its Tensor chip, 6.1" OLED screen, in-display fingerprint sensor, wide-angle and ultra-wide rear cameras, and more

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Google announces the Pixel Buds Pro, with ANC, pass-through, and spatial audio coming later in an OTA, available preorder on July 21 for $199

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Google previews Pixel Watch, with a bulbous, round glass cover that curves all the way to the metal sides, Fitbit integration, clickable crown, coming this fall

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Google Maps brings a new "immersive view", a combination of Street View and aerial shots, for select cities and will let third-party apps use Live View's AR

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Google Translate adds support for 24 additional languages, including regional dialects from India, South America, and Africa, used by 300M people

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Sources: Google's upcoming Pixel Watch will be powered by a 300mAh battery and will support cellular connectivity

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Google launches the Privacy Sandbox Developer Preview for Android 13 to add "safer" ad alternatives, offering an "early look" at the Topics API and SDK Runtime

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Google plans to effectively block third-party call recording apps from the Play Store on May 11 after placing further restrictions to its Accessibility API

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Google quietly launches its Switch to Android app for iOS as an unlisted app

  Techmeme   ·   8 months ago

Google releases "multisearch" for Lens, letting users ask questions about photos and screenshots, in beta for US users in English on Android and iOS

  Techmeme   ·   8 months ago

Google says Steam launched in Alpha "on select Chromebooks for users to try"; code changes showed earlier that it will work only on high-performance Chromebooks

  Techmeme   ·   9 months ago

Google rolls out a rapid Air Raid Alerts system for Android phones in Ukraine

  Techmeme   ·   9 months ago

Google says Play Store users in Russia will not be able to buy apps, games, IAPs, and subscriptions, in the coming days, due to a "payment system disruption"

  Techmeme   ·   9 months ago

Google rolls out Docs updates, including a pageless format announced in May 2021, AI-powered summaries, and Maps embedded previews

  Techmeme   ·   9 months ago

A video and images show the ability to interact with Android apps on a Pixel running Android 13 from a Windows 11 PC and a Chromebook via a special web app

  Techmeme   ·   9 months ago

Samsung has adopted Google Messages as its default messaging app in the US, starting with the Galaxy S22 series

  Techmeme   ·   9 months ago

Samsung says the S22 series, Tab S8 series, S21 series, Z Flip 3, and Z Fold 3 will get four years of Android updates, up from the standard three years

  Techmeme   ·   10 months ago

Report details future of Stadia as a white-label game streaming service called Google Stream, including talks with Capcom, Bungie, and Peloton

  Techmeme   ·   10 months ago

‘G Suite legacy free’ users must start paying

  Hacker News   ·   10 months ago

Following the US ITC's ruling in favor of Sonos, Google changes Assistant device setup and Speaker Groups, which now require adjusting speakers individually

  Techmeme   ·   11 months ago

TCL says it sells 10M+ TVs with Android TV and Google TV each year; in May 2021, Google said 80M+ accounts were using Android TV OS

  Techmeme   ·   11 months ago

Waymo partners with Chinese automotive company Geely to bring a "rider-first" EV with no steering wheel to its US robotaxi Waymo One fleet in the coming years

  Techmeme   ·   11 months ago

TCL pulls its entire Google TV lineup from Best Buy over software and performance issues

  Techmeme   ·   12 months ago

Google confirms a bug preventing some Android users from calling 911 if Microsoft Teams is installed but they are not logged in, says a permanent fix is coming

  Techmeme   ·   12 months ago

Google is rolling out a Messages update that shows iMessage reactions as Emojis

  Techmeme   ·   1 year ago