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How to AirDrop on Android With a Pixel 10

Kellen November 20, 2025 5

We're still processing the fact that Google randomly announced that it had figured out a solution to AirDrop to and from Pixel 10 phones with all of Apple's devices, including the iPhone, iPad, and Mac computers. This really just came out of no where and it...

New Qi2 25W Wireless Charging Coming to “Major” Android Smartphones

Kellen July 23, 2025 6

The initial introduction of Qi2 in 2023 to the world has been mostly a bust. The standard was created as a way for all smartphones and accessories to adopt magnetic alignment wireless charging, basically using Apple's MagSafe technology. Unfortunately, none of...

Why Pick Google’s Pixel Over Samsung and Apple? Here are Some Reasons.

Kellen May 15, 2025 28

Whenever a new phone is released by Samsung or Google or Apple, I often wonder just how many people switch between the different models. Like, do people go from an iPhone to a Pixel or Galaxy to iPhone? I'm sure the data is somewhere, but the more interesting...

Following RCS Landing on the iPhone, More Than a Billion RCS Messages Sent Every Day in US

Kellen May 13, 2025 3

As a part of today's "The Android Show" announcements, Google shared that there are now more than a billion RCS messages sent every day in just the US. That's a massive number that was certainly boosted by Apple's adoption of RCS at the end of last year with...

Google’s Gemini App Lands on iPhone

Kellen November 14, 2024 2

The iPhone is getting its own Gemini app from Google today. The new AI assistant app is available for free right away. Since Apple limits almost everything that 3rd party apps can do on an iPhone and in iOS, you might be wondering how this could be any sort of...

RCS Encryption Between Android and iPhones is Hopefully Next

Kellen September 18, 2024 11

The big news of the week for Android users who want to send messages to their friends with iPhones involves the big update to iOS 18 that was just released by Apple. With this update, iPhone owners can send RCS messages over to Android users, meaning big...

Google Gets Excited About RCS Coming to the iPhone

Kellen July 31, 2024 35

Apple really has committed to bringing RCS support to its Messages app when iOS 18 releases later this year. For beta testers of iOS, you can already send RCS messages to your Android friends. It's a big deal, for the most part, because it should improve the...

Chrome on iOS Lets You Choose Top or Bottom Address Bar

Kellen October 31, 2023 12

There was a brief moment in 2017 when we thought Google had decided to move the address bar in Chrome on Android to the bottom of the app, making it easier to reach on all of the massive phones we had adopted into our lives. The change was referred to as "...