Essential Teases Ocean Depths Colorway of Its Phone for February 15
Kellen
That's what this tweet means. https://twitter.com/essential/status/963522365182234624
Bixby Isn’t Dying Yet, But the Exec Behind It Just Left for Google
Injong Rhee, one of the key figures behind Samsung products like KNOX, Samsung Pay, and Bixby, is now working with Google. Even though executive shifts happen regularly at big companies, this one certainly feels a bit different, since Rhee was such an...
Canary Skill Added for Amazon Alexa, Watch Your Feeds on Echo Spot and Show
Tim
Thanks to a new Canary skill for Amazon Alexa, Canary All-in-One, View, and Flex owners can get important video feeds straight to Amazon Echo devices. With the update to firmware v3.0.0, AIOs and View devices can relay video feeds directly to an Echo Spot or...
Poll: Pick Your Flavor of Android
I probably already know where this poll is headed, but I still want to see the numbers. We're bringing up this subject of Android flavors today, because the folks at OnePlus have asked their OnePlus followers which version of Android they prefer: pure or...
Report: Galaxy S9 Will Have Dual Speakers, Animoji-Like Feature, Bixby 2.0
According to the latest report from overseas, the Galaxy S9 is getting a major hardware improvement, something I think we've all been asking for. As detailed, Samsung will include dual speakers on its 2018 flagships, and with that, I'm officially hyped for...
YouTube TV is Apparently Getting a Huge Channel Boost (Turner!), Price Increase for New Subscribers (Updated: Official!)
According to a since-deleted BuzzFeed story on major changes coming to YouTube TV, the streaming TV service from Google is about to get a lot of the goodies that early adopters (like me and Tim) have been asking for. We're talking about a major upgrade to the...
Yep, LG is Releasing a New V30 Soon and It’ll Have an AI Focus in the Camera
A report from last week suggested that LG would soon debut a new version of the V30 and attempt to spice it up with some "AI" camera tricks. Last night, the company confirmed that to be true. In a press release, LG announced that the "2018 version of the LG...
Verizon Completes 5G Call Using New 3GPP-Compliant 5G Tech
Verizon hasn't announced any mobile 5G plans at this point, but they want you to know that they placed an over-the-air call on a 3GPP-compliant 5G radio using licensed spectrum. That's it. That's the story. And that's the story because Verizon has only...