Google today announced its December 2020 Pixel Feature Drop, which adds several new features to recent Pixel handsets.

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Google today announced its December 2020 Pixel Feature Drop, which adds several new features to recent Pixel handsets.
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The Google Pixel 4a 5G occupies a confusing spot in Google’s confusing 2020 Pixel lineup. It’s boring, bland, and unexceptional. And I love it.
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Google today revealed several new features that it’s bringing to Android in the coming weeks, and outside of its annual OS update schedule.
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Google today announced that it will allow anyone to contribute to the Street View feature in Google Maps using just their smartphone camera.
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Google’s mobile app development suite is moving to a new year-based versioning scheme to better align it with the timing of each release.
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Android Enterprise Essentials is a new Google offering that provides Android-based secure mobile management to smaller businesses.
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Qualcomm today announced its next flagship mobile platform, the Snapdragon 888, which it says offers dramatic performance improvements over its predecessors.
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Multiple reports state that Samsung is killing the Note lineup to make way for folding smartphones at the upper end of its Galaxy product family.
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Microsoft is reportedly looking at allowing Android apps to run natively on Windows again. Is this a solution in search of a problem?
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Smartphone makers sold 360 million units in the third quarter of 2020, a decline of 3.6 percent compared to the 373.7 million sold in the year-ago quarter.
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Google announced today that it has successfully rolled out Rich Communication Services (RCS) support to its Messages app globally.
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Google announced a major redesign of its Google Pay app on Android and iOS that provides better functionality and security.
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Arriving about a month after the Pixel 5, and about three months after the Pixel 4a, the Pixel 4a 5G is the closest we’ll get to an XL Pixel this year.
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Huawei announced today that it is selling its Honor smartphone business to a consortium of 40 companies that will create a new firm.
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Google is making its Pixel 4a available for a limited time in a fun new Barely Blue color if you buy directly from the online giant.
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Last week, Google announced that it was discontinuing free, unlimited photo storage in its Google Photos service, enraging fans.
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The OnePlus 8T offers a great design, a gorgeous display, and excellent performance, but it’s held back by a middling camera system and no wireless charging.
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In the first major scaling back of the U.S. blacklisting of Huawei, the U.S. government is now allowing Qualcomm to sell 4G chipsets to the Chinese firm.
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You may have heard that “perfect is the enemy of good,” and on that note, I’ve come up with a similar phrase for digital photography: Inconsistency is the enemy of reliable.
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In the wake of alarming reports of Pixel 5 build quality issues, Google says that gaps under the display are not a design defect.
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Between a blatant theft at a FedEx warehouse and having to finish my iPhone 12 review first, I’m a bit behind on the OnePlus 8T. So let’s get caught up.
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OnePlus is now selling its Buds Z Wireless Earbuds for $49.99, offering an impressive 20 hours of playback time.
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One month after the announcement, the Google Pixel 5 is now available for purchase and the Pixel 4a (5G) can be preordered.
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Samsung today confirmed that it had delivered record financial results for the quarter ending September 30, with $59 billion in revenues.
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I was hoping and expecting to write this article one week ago, but a FedEx employee stole my review unit at the warehouse. But it's here at last.
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OnePlus this morning announced two new members of its low-cost Nord smartphone family. At least one of them should be coming to the U.S.
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The iPhone 12’s display is gorgeous but it’s also a bit small, especially with that intrusive notch. Is there even a display size sweet spot anymore?