After ditching Spotify for a week, I now understand why readers love YouTube Music

by dbadmin | Jul 19, 2025 | Features, Music Streaming, Spotify, YouTube Music

A few weeks ago, I ran an Open Thread asking readers why they prefer using YouTube Music over many available alternatives, including my service of choice, Spotify. It would be an understatement to say that it received a flurry of comments and strong opinions from our...

After six years, it’s finally time for me to switch back to a Pixel

by dbadmin | Jul 19, 2025 | Features, Google, Google Pixel 9, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy S24

In my five years working as an Android journalist, I’ve been known as the Samsung guy. That’s been an accurate description, but it may surprise you to learn that I used to be a Nexus/Pixel fanatic, using every Google flagship from the Nexus 6 to the Pixel 3XL. That...

Android 16 is a mess right now

by dbadmin | Jul 19, 2025 | Android 16, Android Canary, Features, Google

If you’re reading this article, chances are you love Android. Or, at the very least, have a fairly high interest in the OS. You probably like staying up-to-date with the latest features, new platform releases, and other happenings with Google’s operating system....

I ditched Google Calendar for paper, and it gave me the mental clarity I needed

by dbadmin | Jul 19, 2025 | Android apps, Features, Google Calendar

I started using a paper calendar as sort of a joke. It was part of my experiment to live as if I were back in 1993. I ditched all modern tech and bought a weekly planner from the dollar store. My busy adult life still needed some kind of planning system. I didn’t...

Garmin’s Morning and Evening Reports are so good that Fitbit should steal them

by dbadmin | Jul 18, 2025 | Features, Garmin, Wearables

I’ve always believed that more is better when it comes to health-tracking metrics. If I’m wearing a GPS watch all day and all night, I want to know what it’s picking up and how I can best use that to my advantage. And when I always have a Garmin on my wrist, I know...

My apologies, Samsung, I was unfamiliar with your Fold game

by dbadmin | Jul 18, 2025 | Features, Foldable Phones, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7

I spent a long time dismissing the Galaxy Z Fold as a ho-hum foldable that didn’t seem like it was interested in innovation. Maybe it’s because I’ve always been more of a fan of flip phones, but I never really felt like I wanted to give Samsung’s original foldable the...