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Hangouts Users May Soon Get Google Chat Beta Access

Kellen February 10, 2021 44

Google Hangouts is still alive and we're in 2021, if you can believe that. Google has yet to kill off the best messaging app it ever made, an app that was a feature tweak or two away from being the king. They will end its life soon, though, possibly by the end...

Galaxy S20 FE Gets One UI 3.1, Just Like the Galaxy S21 Has

Kellen February 10, 2021 5

The Samsung Galaxy S20 FE was the darling of phone buyers in 2020 who were looking for a high-end phone experience with a budget price. It ticked a lot of boxes while saving folks hundreds of dollars over the regular Galaxy S20 line-up. It has also seen plenty...

A New Pixel Buds 2 Update is Here as Build 553

Kellen February 9, 2021 9

The last Pixel Buds update we saw showed up in September to address a weird bug that involved cutouts in audio after specific amounts of time. It was the latest bug fixer for an expensive product that can't seem to find itself on stable ground. Today, another...

Qualcomm’s New X65 5G Modem is Kinda, Super, Really Fast

Kellen February 9, 2021 1

Qualcomm announces 5G stuff all of the time, and so it becomes hard to keep track of where the advancements are or if any of it is important. Today is one of those days where they announced a 5G-related item that matters. The Snapdragon X65 5G modem is now...

Android 12 Looks Hot or Nah?

Kellen February 9, 2021 29

I should be used to the schedule by now and have already been preparing myself for the first build of Android 12 to arrive over the next few weeks. After all, Android 11's first preview showed up in mid-February of last year and brought with it several changes...

Samsung Galaxy Tab S7, S7+ Get a Hot Blue Colorway

Kellen February 9, 2021 11

The world of Android tablets isn't at all like the world of Android smartphones. In the tablet side of this platform, you basically have choices between Samsung's mostly-solid Tab lines and then a bunch of garbage. So if you want a tablet, I wouldn't tell you...

Sling TV Offers $25 Discount on First Month, Free TV to Everyone for 6 Days

Kellen February 9, 2021 6

Sling TV raised prices a couple of weeks ago, so now it's bringing the offers to try and win you all back over. Actually, they are celebrating their 6th anniversary, we just like to remind you as much as possible that the promise of affordable à la carte...

Carl Pei’s Nothing Really is Making Headphones to Start

Kellen February 9, 2021 4

When Carl Pei's new company releases its first product later this year, that product will indeed be a pair of wireless headphones. As headphones might be the least interesting product a new company could make in 2021, don't expect Nothing to stop there,...