Kellen, Author at Droid Life

Google Pixel XL

Poll: Last Phone Purchase From Your Carrier or Unlocked?

Kellen October 24, 2020 51

Buying a phone in the US has almost always been a process that involves the carrier you pay every month for wireless service. It's an unfortunate connection that has led to greasy long-term contracts disguised as deals, but more importantly, it has limited the...

Google Pixel 5 Review

Google Pixel 5 Review: Simple Kind of Works

Kellen October 24, 2020 123

In the rumor and hype period leading up to the Google Pixel 5 launch, I argued that Google may as well get weird with their next phone because their previous approach was clearly not working. The Pixel 4 was a disaster of a phone that Google killed off only a...

Montblanc Summit

New Montblanc Summit Watch Stops Through FCC Lookin’ “Lite”

Kellen October 23, 2020 2

A new Montblanc smartwatch stopped through the FCC this week as the Montblanc "Summit Lite," giving us hope that Mobvoi and Fossil aren't the only companies still making Wear OS watches. There isn't any evidence that this watch will run the Snapdragon Wear...

Galaxy S20 Ultra Camera

Verizon Updates Another 10 Devices, S20 for 2nd Time in Week

Kellen October 23, 2020 5

To kick off the week, Verizon sent out a bunch of updates to its Samsung phones that added a 5G icon to their status bar, since the carrier now has nationwide 5G coverage. To finish out the week, they are sending another round of updates (a 2nd for the S20...

Google Play Music Shutdown

Google Play Music Starts Shutting Down Like Google Said It Would

Kellen October 22, 2020 53

When Google laid out the timeline for the end of Google Play Music a couple of months back, they told us that users would start to lose access as early as September in select countries. They also told us that once October hit, the general shutdown would begin...

Quibi

Quibi Didn’t Make It (Updated: Yep)

Kellen October 21, 2020 22

We've written three stories about Quibi, a streaming service that somehow took in over $1 billion dollars even though it had no chance of ever succeeding. The first of those three stories went up in April of this year, where I admitted that I had no idea what...

LG Velvet

Verizon’s LG Velvet and V60 Next Up to Get Nationwide 5G Access (Updated)

Kellen October 21, 2020 8

Earlier this week, Verizon and Samsung began pushing updates to a number of devices that enabled access to the carrier's new nationwide 5G network. Today, LG tells us that it'll add support through an update over the "next few days." If you own an LG Velvet or...

New Nest Hub UI

New Nest Hub UI Already Rolling Out!

Kellen October 21, 2020 7

The new smart display UI that Google announced earlier in the week is already rolling out to Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max units. To recap, the new UI introduced a multi-tab approach, where you'll have a main tab that changes throughout the day to get you info you...