Kellen, Author at Droid Life

What Do You Use Google Assistant For?

Kellen March 5, 2021 29

Google Assistant is one of those tools in my bag that I don't come close to fully using. That embarrasses me some, since the damn thing is spread around my house in every room on several gadgets and I write about it for a living, but its capabilities are so...

TicWatch Pro 3 Gets First Big Discount at 15% Off, But You Have to Hurry

Kellen March 5, 2021 3

Mobvoi gave us a taste of the discount we've been asking for a week or so ago when they shaved off $15 from their excellent TicWatch Pro 3, the only watch currently running the Snapdragon Wear 4100. Today, they are going bigger in a limited-time deal on Amazon...

OK Samsung, We’ll Take $800 Off the Galaxy S21+

Kellen March 4, 2021 23

Whenever Samsung launches a new Galaxy S or Galaxy Note phone, they run a pre-order period where they ask you to trade-in your current phone to get the new one. They typically offer values for your trade that are higher than usual to convince you to get the...

Pixel Buds Bug Fixes Now Include People Just Turning Off Features

Kellen March 4, 2021 50

When the new Pixel Buds arrived last year, the sales pitch from Google certainly got me. The thought of a pair of true wireless buds with a focus on comfort and appearance in addition to sound and smarts was exactly what I was looking for. In my review, I made...

Chrome Switches Its Release Cycle for First Time in a Decade

Kellen March 4, 2021 6

Google Chrome releases will soon arrive more frequently than ever. In an announcement this morning from the Chromium blog, Google said that they are updating the Chrome release schedule for the first time in over a decade. For a cool 10+ years now, Chrome...

Qualcomm Sound is the Branding Coming Soon to Your Audio Future

Kellen March 4, 2021 4

Qualcomm has taken sound pretty seriously for a number of years now by introducing solutions that improve the entire audio experience from smartphones to headphones and computers. The thing is, there are so many Qualcomm sound products to keep track of that it...

Verizon Galaxy Note 8 Gets a Fresh Update With Improvements

Kellen March 4, 2021 6

There's no need for us to continue to hammer home the fact that Samsung updates phones longer than anyone else in Android, right? You know that. OK, well, if you didn't, this is an example of that level of support. The Galaxy Note 8, an almost-four-year-old...

Is a New Samsung Wear OS Watch Interesting?

Kellen March 4, 2021 29

That's the question I keep asking myself now that we have both rumors and a possible code reference to Samsung working on a Wear OS watch for the first time since the platform launched in 2014. I can't decide if Samsung should make a Wear OS watch again or if...