Tag: phones
Android Theft Detection Lock is now rolling out – and here’s what it means for your phone
Back in May we heard about a new Theft Detection Lock feature coming to Android phones, and the functionality is now apparently rolling out to users – adding an extra level of protection in case a phone should get swiped. This has been spotted by well-known tipster Mishaal Rahman, and…
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Report: The iPhone 16 Pro might come in a unique shade of “bronze”
Funnily enough, one of the hotly debated topics surrounding the iPhone 16 Pro is what color it’ll come in. Back in late July, notable leaker Sonny Dickson posted an image on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter) displaying dummy units of the smartphone in Natural Titanium (basically silver), White Titanium, and Black…
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I used to think AI was creepy, but these Google AI features are just sad
Google AI will help you “be more productive” by writing thank-you notes, said Google’s VP of Devices and Services, Rick Osterloh, in an interview with Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal ($/£). Osterloh says putting down the pen and switching to digital thank-yous helped him write “10 times more…
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The Pixel 9 Pro Fold doesn’t support a stylus, and that’s a big miss by Google – here’s why
Google has a mixed Pixel hardware track record but one would be hard-pressed to fault the remarkable reimagining of its latest foldable device. The Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold is so different from the first Fold that it is almost unrecognizable as a follow-up. My initial hands-on experience was positive…
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Tired of over-processed iPhone photos? The popular Halide app has a clever fix
All of the best iPhones perform an incredible amount of image processing behind the scenes whenever you take a photo, much of it handled by artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. Yet sometimes that’s not ideal, and you, instead, just want the raw, unfiltered image so that you can edit it as…
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Apple welcomes back PC emulators on iOS – but are they here to stay?
Remember the days of MS-DOS? If you don’t, you can experience classic PC games from that era on your iPhone, thanks to new App Store rules that, once again, allow the distribution of emulators. Which means iDOS 3 – a PC emulator that allows you to run applications made for…
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