Tag Archives: Androids

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Right after blowing our minds with the new AI-powered Voice Translate feature on the Pixel 10, Google went and dashed our hopes of seeing a new Pixel Tablet anytime soon. The company told Bloomberg that it has “paused development on a tablet overhaul until it figures out a meaningful future for the category,” which …

Joseph Maldonado and Kerry Wan/ZDNET The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold has finally arrived, and it isn’t taking on the Galaxy Z Fold 7 with a generational design leap. Instead, it competes by adding quality-of-life features — a couple of which are industry-firsts for a foldable phone.  If you are ready to upgrade from a slab phone to a foldable one, …

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google has confirmed it will roll out a new customization setting in Android to let users turn off the background blur effect. Android’s new Material 3 Expressive design makes ample use of blur throughout the UI. The setting is coming in the “near future” for accessibility and could also offer a minor improvement in …

I used to think of Android’s Quick Settings panel as just a place to toggle Wi-Fi or turn on Do Not Disturb. For years, I ignored that row of tiles sitting just above my notifications. However, after one too many swipes through cluttered app drawers and endless home screen widgets, I realized something: the Quick Settings panel was the most …

What you need to know Google is rolling out a fresh new visual for your headphone and earbud battery status on Android. The updated notification shows color-coded rings around the icons for each earbud and the case, giving you a quick, at-a-glance update. Icons will pop up to show if your earbuds are charging and if the case is discharging …

In July, Google finally launched a bottom address bar for Chrome on Android. Are you using it? It’s a “finally” moment, but Google took so long that the fanfare is a bit dampened. Additionally, how Chrome implemented the bottom Omnibox is just okay. I continue to like how minimal (and chrome-less) the Android browser is. To me, it’s a better …

As announced in May, Google has given its default QR code scanner on Android an appreciable redesign. Upon launch (via the Quick Settings Tile or lockscreen shortcut), there’s a nice animation of the rounded square coming together. The primary visual change is how Google has consolidated all the buttons in this interface to a pill near the bottom of the …

Megan Ellis / Android Authority TL;DR For accessibility, Android will soon let you enable a dark theme in apps that don’t have one. A new “Expanded” dark mode option forces apps to go dark, but it may cause visual issues. This feature is live in the second Android Canary build, but its stable release date is unknown. If you tell …

Getting the newest devices in and the latest version of Android on-device go hand-in-hand, but Samsung’s newest Galaxy watch 8 isn’t exactly ready to handle the latest beta version of Android. Update 7/22: With the rollout of Android 16 QPR1 Beta 3, it appears that the previous bug that was blocking the Galaxy Watch Manager plugin from being installed has …

Getting the newest devices in and the latest version of Android on-device go hand-in-hand, but Samsung’s newest Galaxy watch 8 isn’t exactly ready to handle the latest beta version of Android. The Galaxy Watch 8 and Watch 8 Classic are great devices. They seem to feel more comfortable on the wrist and look great, though that opinion might vary between …