Samsung’s One UI design is getting stale

by dbadmin | Oct 12, 2022 | Features, Opinions, Samsung, Samsung One UI

Credit: Luke Pollack / Android Authority Opinion post byC. Scott Brown When Google dropped Android 12 in 2021, it drastically overhauled the way the operating system looks and feels. Material You made Android 12 more adaptable to the user’s taste while also making the...

It took six years, but Google finally convinced me to get a Pixel

by dbadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Features, Google, Google Pixel 7, Opinions

Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android Authority Opinion post byC. Scott Brown Around the launch of the Pixel 6 series, I wrote a commentary about how those phones represented a new beginning for Google. Now, one year later, you can officially buy a Google Pixel 7 or Pixel...

Telegram is awesome, but this feature needs to go

by dbadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Features, Messaging Apps, Opinions, Telegram

Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Opinion post byHadlee Simons WhatsApp is the big dog in the mobile messaging app space globally, accounting for over a billion users. However, the company’s privacy flip-flops and its ties to Facebook have opened the door for...

It’s now or never for the Pixel 7, and Google is rightly backing itself

by dbadmin | Oct 10, 2022 | Features, Google, Google Pixel, Google Pixel 7, Opinions

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Opinion post byDhruv Bhutani It’s taken a while for Google to hit peak momentum with the Pixel series, but the relative success of the Pixel 6 proves that Google has found its niche — value and imaging. Playing up the product’s...

The Pixel 7 Pro’s 5x zoom betrays Google’s portrait photography

by dbadmin | Oct 10, 2022 | Features, Google Pixel 6, Google Pixel 7, Opinions, Photography

Credit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Opinion post byRobert Triggs The Google Pixel 7 series is here, and with that comes the tantalizing prospect of getting our hands on the next notch-up in smartphone photography. Excited? I am, but there are some reservations...

Google and Fitbit are denying us the super-watch we all want

by dbadmin | Oct 9, 2022 | Features, Fitbit, Google, Google Pixel Watch, Opinions

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Opinion post byC. Scott Brown We’ve been waiting years to see it and now we finally know everything there is to know about the Google Pixel Watch. Announced this week alongside the Google Pixel 7 series, the Wear OS-powered...