Category: Mobile

Samsung brings Galaxy Watch Active features to older smartwatches

[ad_1] On the health side, you now have faster, simpler workout tracking through both the Samsung Health app and the widget. It now tracks outdoor swimming, too. You’ll find Apple Watch-style high heart rate alerts and more detailed sleep tracking that compares your average to your age group. And when you launch Samsung Health, you’ll […]

Google reportedly suspends Huawei’s Android support after US ban

[ad_1] The company is still “internally” discussing which services are going away, the source said. Google would cut off all tech support and collaboration for Android and services, however. We’ve asked Google for comment. If accurate, though, the suspension would represent a serious blow to Huawei’s mobile efforts. Although this shouldn’t dent the company’s Chinese […]

US may soften ban on Huawei to help existing users

[ad_1] Huawei would still face severe restrictions. It could buy US goods for maintenance, it couldn’t use those goods to create new products. A softened ban wouldn’t likely ease tensions between China and the US. Huawei has insisted that the de facto ban will create “significant economic harm” for Americans, and China has interpreted it […]

Ask Engadget is going back to school

[ad_1] Last year Ask Engadget put out a call for tech questions from students, parents and teachers, with the goal of helping answer as many of your burning back to school questions as possible. We helped you figure out if you should build your own PC or buy a TV for your dorm room. And […]

US carriers say they’ve stopped selling location data

[ad_1] To no one’s surprise, the carriers maintained that their sales only allowed specific uses. AT&T’s terms required “approved use cases” and deletion of info, while Verizon said it had a “detailed process” for clearing and screening aggregators’ customers. Sprint was less specific, but said it allowed aggregators to hold on to data for long […]

How do you build a foldable screen?

[ad_1] OLEDs themselves are still relatively new technology in consumer devices, and making them foldable adds an extra layer of complexity. We’ll examine how OLEDs themselves are constructed, and the materials and engineering that goes in to making a screen you can fold in half. So what do you think? Are you still excited for […]

Lenovo stole a fan’s video to promote the foldable Motorola RAZR

[ad_1] The clip Lenovo showed to the press yesterday appears to be cut together from a number of renders that was first seen in a video titled “Motorola RAZR 2019 – Introduction & First Look!” that was uploaded to by Khan to YouTube on February 9th of this year. Many of the images in Lenovo’s […]

Android’s Live Transcribe gets sound alerts and transcript saving

[ad_1] The new features will hit Live Transcribe next month, and the app is available on 1.8 billion Android devices. Google is mainly leaning on its cloud-based machine learning and speech recognition tech for the app, so it can easily run on less powerful phones. This is an area where Google is also competing heavily […]

LG’s V50 ThinQ 5G is up for pre-order tomorrow from Sprint

[ad_1] We first saw the HTC 5G Hub — a connectivity hub that lets you link to 5G networks and has a 5-inch Android tablet built in — at MWC 2019. Now, as part of the launch, Sprint is offering an introductory discount. You’ll be able to get the Hub for $12.50 per month — […]

Mackie CR3 computer speakers drop to $67

[ad_1] Vizio P-Series F1 55-Inch 4K TV Street price: $700; deal price: $600 Back down to $600, this is a great opportunity to save on a 55-inch television that offers great value even at full price. While we initially saw this television released at $800, recent pricing has seen it closer to $700 with only […]