by dbadmin | Aug 15, 2025 | Android, Custom ROM, Features, Google, Privacy
Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority A few days ago, my colleague Calvin shared an interesting fact about GrapheneOS: The custom ROM allows him to set a duress PIN that completely erases the phone when he enters it, including encryption keys and the eSIM...
by dbadmin | Aug 15, 2025 | Android apps, Features, Waze
Waze is a great navigation app for city drivers and road trippers. It highlights important road events and traffic backlogs along your route. Powered by its active community, these alerts give the app genuine road-going utility compared to Google Maps. When I drive, I...
by dbadmin | Aug 15, 2025 | Features, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy S26
We’ve heard that Apple is planning to shake up its iPhone lineup this year by dropping the Plus model in favor of a thinner iPhone Air — going from the least-hyped iPhone to what’s sure to be an attention grabber. Samsung, too, introduced the Galaxy S25 Edge to show...
by dbadmin | Aug 14, 2025 | Android TV, Features, Google, Google TV, Sony
For years and years, Apple fans could hold it over Android users’ heads that their platform was the place to get regular, reliable system updates, keeping their devices operating at their best with all the latest new features. That’s arguably still true when we’re...
by dbadmin | Aug 14, 2025 | Features, NotebookLM
NotebookLM is by far the best AI project Google has piloted, and you can’t convince me otherwise. Sure, there are flashier examples, but none match the practical, everyday usefulness of this research and notebook app. Whether it’s for analyzing insurance or legal...
by dbadmin | Aug 14, 2025 | Features, Google, Google Pixel, Google Pixel 10
We are just a week away from Google’s official reveal of the Pixel 10 series. I’ve been using the Pixel 9 Pro as my daily driver since it launched last year, and it’s not just my favorite phone of 2024, but possibly my favorite phone…ever. Now, as the rumor mill...
