Google introduced the Pixel 4a smartphone back in August in Just Black colour variant, now the company has introduced a new ‘Barely Blue’ variant for the phone. Other than the colour, it has the same polycarbonate body with a matte finish and similar specifications. Continue reading “Google Pixel 4a gets a new Barely Blue color variant”
Google already does an excellent job with organizing your Gmail, categorizing them into Primary, Social, Promotion, etc. While the option to turn off this organization feature already exists, Google is adding a new personalization option to control how to process personal data that enables these smart features.
For the past 5 years, Google account users have enjoyed the ability to store their photos and videos in high quality for free in Google Photos. That will not be the case anymore soon as Google has announced a change to their policy – photo and video backup will no longer be free starting June 1, 2021, and instead it will be counted against the 15GB quota that comes free with every Google account.
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The Android Enterprise Recommended program is a list of devices that Google approved for enterprise customers after meeting their standards for hardware, software and updates. The program listed consisted of devices from manufacturers like Lenovo, OnePlus, Oppo, and Xiaomi, and now the latest to join them is Samsung’s family of Galaxy smartphones and tablets.
Google Drive is a great way to store and backup your files online, both on the desktop and mobile. However, it can be argued that the files are not the most secure, as someone who gains access to the account can access all the cloud stored files. That may change soon as an APK teardown has revealed that Google is working on support file encryption and decryption natively in Drive.
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Google is not only fighting anti-trust lawsuits in the USA it seems, but now in India too as the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has launched a new investigation into Google, for allegedly using its Android market dominance to promote its own payment app known as Google Pay.
Google Photos is easily one of the best free ways to view, organize, edit and store photos in the Android ecosystem. Till date, all of its editing suite tools used to be available freely to all users, however that is not the case anymore as Google has now added a premium colour pop filter that is only available with a Google One subscription.
One of the best ways to keep your secure your identity online is to invest in a VPN. There are many options available to choose from, such as Private Internet Access, ExpressVPN, Nord VPN, etc. Joining this list is Google’s own VPN service, which will come as part of their Google One subscription, specifically for the 2TB plans and higher.
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YouTube is rolling out a new update to its mobile app for both iOS and Android, adding multiple new features such as Video Chapters, a better video player with more accessible controls and gestures, and new suggested actions.
Google has been working a lot in the background to improve the user experience of notifications in their Chrome browser. Their latest Chrome 86 update has brought a new change which is an added enforcement for websites that have been detected to send abusive notification content.
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Google is a strong contender when it comes to smartphone photography. Pixel team has taken smartphone camera capability to next level. The current market is crowded by megapixel race, and we can see phones coming equipped with 108MP sensors as well, but the Pixel 4a comes with a 12.2MP rear camera with f/1.7 aperture, LED flash, Dual PD autofocus, OIS, EIS, 4K video recording at 30fps, 1080p at up to 120fps and 720p at up to 240fps. Team pixel is strong in computational photography and it is once again proven via Pixel 4a. On the front Pixel 4a packs 8MP fixed focus camera with 84° ultra-wide lens, f/2.0 aperture Continue reading “Google Pixel 4a Camera Samples”
This week the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a pretty big civil antitrust lawsuit against Google, possibly marking the beginning on a long-drawn-out legal battle against the two. The lawsuit is targeting Google’s unlawful monopolistic behavior which include anticompetitive and exclusionary practices, which Google denies.
Google is releasing a new update to their smart display experience, bringing multiple changes to the UI experience, such as new pages for media, home controls, along with the ability to have separate personal and work accounts signed and other features like a new dark theme, new sounds to relax to, and more.
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During their SearchOn event, Google has announced new updates to the Google Lens experience, improving the visual recognition capabilities of the app such as the ability to understand quadratic equations, identify articles of clothing and they even announced a new showroom AR experience for cars.
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For quite a while now, the Google Search app has supported the ability to identify songs from recordings that are currently being played. Previously, Google only supported this identification from official recorded music, but now, thanks to its improvements in machine learning, the Search app can identify songs with just a hum of the song’s tune.
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