YouTube Music may be new and shiny, but it still has a lot of room for improvement to actually compete with rival apps on Android. It arguably has the best library out there, but that alone can’t satisfy user-convenience that other music streaming app offers. The YouTube team is aware that their app is still imperfect. That’s why they held a Q&A session on September 21 to address user concerns and understand what services are they lacking. The Q&A session talked about the six…
Pattern passwords, PIN codes, and fingerprint sensors may be enough to keep your phone safe. But, you can’t always be 100% share. Lock screen only prevents other people from using your phone, but that’s the only security they have to penetrate to mess with your personal information. Add another layer to your phone’s security by using a two-factor authentication app. This app requires one to verify that you actually logged into whatever account. Hackers will need more than just a…
Xiaomi hopes to bring mid-range phones to showcase quality features at a budget. This is the main purpose of Redmi 6 Pro. At first glance, new Redmi isn’t that attractive. It’s like a generic phone you’ll find on fake stores. But you can never judge anything by its outer look, right? Let’s dig deeper and discover why the Redmi 6 Pro is great mid-range phone despite the tedious look. Design Redmi 6 Pro has a metal unibody with round edges. As I said, it looks boring but most…
Only a little less two weeks to go until we can finally get our hands on the most-awaited Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL. In the meantime, we’ll settle on the small leaks Google has been showing us the past few days. Ladies and gentlemen, here are everything we know so far of this new flagship. It comes in White, Black, and Mint Google released a teaser on October 14 showing three aligned phones with a big “coming soon” above, Google’s “G” logo at the bottom, and a background of…
Several projects aiming to create androids that look, and, to a certain degree, speak or act like a human being have been launched or are underway. Japanese robotics have been leading the field since the 1970s. Waseda University initiated the WABOT project in 1967, and in 1972 completed the WABOT-1, the first android, a full-scale humanoid intelligent robot. Its limb control system allowed it to walk with the lower limbs, and to grip and transport objects with hands, using tactile sensors.…
Before giving your device to a family member or selling it to someone else, be sure to erase all the content and remove your accounts. How do you fully erase all the personal information and stored credit-card numbers on an old Android Wi-Fi tablet before passing it on to a child? Erasing or “resetting” your Android device takes a few steps and some time, but first, make sure you have backed up all your own personal data and photos because the process wipes everything from the tablet. You…
One attractive quality of the Note9 is its exceptional battery life. Over my week of testing the device including using it to shoot photos, send emails and texts, use social media apps and play games it had a longer battery life than any smartphone I’ve used. Often, I still had at least 30 percent of battery remaining by bedtime after a day of use. The vast majority of phones I have tested always needed to be recharged by evening. Yet I was less impressed with this phone’s physical…
Android is one of the most prevalent mobile operating systems, used in 80 percent of the world’s smartphones. Google freely provides the Android operating system to third-party handset makers. As part of the arrangement, Google requires Android phone makers to pre-install Google apps on their phones. That strategy has helped Google’s signature products search, maps, Gmail and the Chrome internet browser among them reach more than one billion people. The European Union ruled that Google…
Singapore Prof Nadia Thalmann, a Nanyang Technological University scientist, directed efforts of the Institute for Media Innovation along with the School of Computer Engineering in the development of a social robot, Nadine. Nadine is powered by software similar to Apple’s Siri or Microsoft’s Cortana. Nadine may become a personal assistant in offices and homes in future, or she may become a companion for the young and the elderly. Assoc Prof Gerald Seet from the School of Mechanical…
WhatsApp is a great app, and it’s just getting better with these cool new updates, at least the confirmed ones. The app’s recent update was on September 15, 2018, with its 2.18.283 version. It added new user-convenience functionality such as the group messaging restrictions. But, what really caught our attention was the news that it’s working on a dark mode. Plus. They’re working on to improve replying to a message with the “swipe to reply”. These are not official yet, but we’ve…
