Samsung’s Now Bar is one of the big new additions in One UI 7 and it now supports Google Maps integration. Samsung phones running One UI 7 and the latest version of Google Maps will now get updates on navigation, public transit directions and other applicable transport info directly on the lock screen. … Read more
The Xiaomi 15 Ultra is expected to go official in China next month, with the global launch expected during MWC Barcelona, which begins on March 3. While we await more details from Xiaomi about its 2025 flagship, a new report claims the Xiaomi 15 Ultra’s global model will have 16GB RAM and 512GB storage onboard. … Read more
What you need to know An X post by AI analyst claimed that the new DeepSeek AI is being powered by Huawei’s Ascend 910C chip. Although the model was first trained on Nvidia’s H100, the company is now shifting gears to get a more domestic product. The X post also claims that DeepSeek might train … Read more
This review brings back a bit of nostalgia. One of my all-time favorite MP3 players was the iRiver iFP-180T, pre-iPod, circa 2002. The Activo P1 I’ve been using for some time has iRiver roots, both owned by Korean parent company Dreamus. With that pedigree, the Activo P1 looks more like an iRiver project than something … Read more
vivo is working on two new smartphones for the Indian market, the T4x 5G and the Y59 5G. Both of these have been certified for sale in India by BIS, the former with the model number V2437 and the latter with the model number V2443. With the BIS certification in tow, the launch of both … Read more
What you need to know Meta announced its Q4 2024 earnings. The company reported $48 billion in revenue, a 21% YoY increase driven primarily by family of apps ads revenue. Reality Labs reported its highest-ever revenue quarter with $1.08 billion in revenue offset by $4.9 billion in operating costs. Over 3.3 billion people used Meta … Read more
The Google Pixel 9a has long been rumored to arrive earlier in the year than its predecessors, with the launch said to happen around mid-March. Today a new leak gives us the exact release date, along with the date on which Google will start taking pre-orders for its next affordable Pixel smartphone. So, pre-orders will … Read more
What you need to know Samsung Galaxy S25 pre-orders in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and the Middle East are starting to ship early, according to buyers. The shipments not only have barcodes created, but also have been picked up by their couriers, which is a good sign they may deliver earlier. Some users are seeing … Read more
Wear OS Weekly My new weekly column focuses on the state of Wear OS, from new developments and updates to the latest apps and features we want to highlight. Ever since Fossil abandoned Wear OS, the Android smartwatch space has had a distinct lack of style. Fossil had software issues it couldn’t overcome, but its … Read more
What you need to know The Google Pixel 9a will debut on March 26, with pre-orders opening a week prior, according to a report from Android Headlines. This is over a month earlier than the Pixel 8a released last year, but it follows Google’s recent shift toward earlier release windows. The Pixel 9a’s base model … Read more