Browsing: Smartphones

Retro Bowl College+ brings old-school college football to the service with its paid features unlocked and no in-app purchases.

Wireless CarPlay uses both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, but not for the same job. Bluetooth helps your iPhone and car find each other, pair and reconnect, while Wi-Fi carries the active CarPlay session. Apple says that includes CarPlay’s audio, video and control data, even the audio from phone calls.

First, we had CPU and GPU. Then came AMD’s Accelerated Processing Unit (APU, if you’re nasty). And with the advent of the AI PC and smartphones, we’ve welcomed the NPU (Neural Processing Unit). But now, thanks to Google, we’re getting yet another chip: the TPU. First internally deployed by Google back in 2015, the TPU, or…

Using a popular postpaid plan with one of the three major phone carriers (AT&T, T-Mobile or Verizon) isn’t cheap. Most of them cost at least $50 per month and can get close to $100/month for a single person. You have to join the priciest plans to take advantage of many “on us” phone deals, and…

After a stressful day at work, it can be nice to unwind and just hit that volume down button until your Android phone is completely silent. No calls, no meetings, no distraction — just you touching grass. Although a silent phone can be comforting, on some Android devices muting calls can unintentionally mute your incoming…

If you have an old Android phone gathering dust in a drawer somewhere, you may already have everything you need to fix the dead zones in your home Wi-Fi network. Instead of buying new hardware, be it an extender, a mesh node or a more powerful router, you could just use an old Android device. 

What are the differences between the two and is the $50 price hike all about RAM?

It’s basically a more affordable version of the S26+ with slightly reduced specs.

Samsung is hosting another Unpacked today, and the company says the fanfare is for the “newest addition to the S26 family.” Given we’ve already seen a trio of Galaxy S26 flagships earlier this year, and being very familiar with Samsung’s device lineup, we can make a highly educated guess that this is likely going to…

Until a few years ago, setting up a new iPhone always meant losing something. Half your settings gone. Some apps needed reinstalling from scratch and you wouldn’t know until you went looking for them. Some people just gave up and started from zero. Years of app data gone. Apple fixed most of that with Quick…