Author: Alvin Wanjala

Android 11 was released by Google in September, and only a handful of devices have received the update. Samsung started beta testing One UI 3.0 skin based on Android 11 in October and has even rolled out the stable update to a few premium devices in select markets. However, it seems the company is readying itself to update eligible devices to Android 11 based One UI 3.0. The company has detailed its One UI 3.0 stable update schedule for one internal market. According to the timeline shared in the official forum, the company will kick off its Android 11 update…

Samsung’s Bixby is getting a UI overhaul enabling the company to streamline user experiences while using the voice assistant. The company has revamped the Bixby Home app’s design to reflect UI changes brought about in the latest One UI update, version 3.0. Bixby Voice app will now change depending on the display mode (light or dark) in addition to the classic blue background. The cleaner look of One UI is conspicuous when you first lay your eyes on the new app. Apart from the aesthetics, the Bixby Voice app has been given a fresh look to enhance the general user…

Truecaller added three new exciting features in an update shipped last month, allowing users to tell their recipients why they are calling, translate texts within the app, and an option to schedule SMS messages. Google Messages is following suit on the latter, allowing users to start scheduling their SMS messages. Such functionality is handy if you wish to notify someone of something important early in the morning and think you might not remember. Google is adding a message scheduling option in Messages and the feature is already rolling out. The company was spotted testing the feature earlier this month with…

Qualcomm has unveiled its new top-tier Snapdragon chipset, Snapdragon 888, a successor to the Snapdragon 865 series. Given Qualcomm’s dominance in the premium segment, this chip will be packed nearly in all premium smartphones coming in 2021. Thus, it means that the chip should provide a clue on what we can expect to be featured on the next-gen android flagship phones from different OEMs, including Samsung(in the US only), LG, Xiaomi, and the rest. The company’s major focus on the new chip is 5G. For the first time, the company’s top-of-the-line chip features an integrated 5G modem after using a…

The majority of modern-day smartphones ship with multiple cameras, but according to a new report from Omdia, those with four have been the most popular among consumers in 2020. These days, including several cameras, has become a standard. In Q3, 2020 alone, the majority of smartphones (about 60%) had four cameras. Since 2018, when smartphones started shipping with three or more cameras, quad-camera phones picked momentum faster. Single-camera smartphones are becoming less popular as time moves by in favor of those with triple and quad cameras. Of course, with the popularity of quad-camera phones, smartphone companies have extensively exploited this…

WhatsApp is often spotted working on a variety of new features and polishing on some existing ones. The latest feature to make it to the Facebook-owned instant messaging platform is just about some little customization. WhatsApp now lets users set different wallpapers to different chats to give every chat a unique background. And the platform is also adding a rich selection of new wallpapers that you can choose from split into two categories – light and dark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PB6D4jfHCY In addition to the wallpaper customization options, WhatsApp has also added the ability to search for stickers using emojis or text. Sounds…

Running Android apps on Windows 10 isn’t a problem, thanks to the variety of emulators available on the market. Bluestacks is a good example, but there’s a host of others. With an emulator, you can play your favorite android game on your PC and do almost everything you would do on your mobile phone. But in the future, you could be able to run Android apps on Windows 10 natively. According to a report, the company plans to enable Android developers to port their apps to Windows 10. The apps will be listed on the Microsoft Store, and developers will…

Samsung’s Bixby voice assistant is not the most beloved feature on Samsung flagship phones, but the company might put it into more work come next year in the S21 series. A new report suggests that owners of the company’s upcoming Samsung Galaxy S21 series could be able to unlock their phones using their voice courtesy of Bixby Voice. It will be an additional form of unlocking for the upcoming flagship phones on top of the standard face and fingerprint biometric authentication options. According to SamMobile, the feature will be included in Samsung’s One UI 3.1 update, meaning it could also…

Like many other Chinese smartphone makers, Oppo has its own custom skin built on top of Android. Now the company reveals that it has over 370 million active users using its custom skin every month. Just in case you haven’t been following up on this milestone news, the company announced it had surpassed the 300 million mark in June 2019. By April this year, Oppo revealed more than 350 million users were using ColorOS from month-to-month as of March. The Chinese tech company released the first version of the skin in 2013, which has received incremental improvements year after since.…

YouTube’s chapters feature is handy, especially for people like me who spend most of their time on YouTube than Netflix. The Chapters feature has, however, added some extra work on creators since they have to create them manually. But YouTube wants to cut creators some slack on this. The platform is betting on A.I to help generate new video chapters automatically without a creator’s intervention. YouTube’s A.I feature uses a machine-learning algorithm that’ll automatically recognize text to generate video chapters. Tests are currently ongoing, although it’s only on “a small group of videos,” according to the company. It can’t be…