Mobile Phone

Google’s parental control software for mobile devices, Family Link, will now help parents of teenagers, too. The company announced this morning the addition of new features aimed at parents of children over the age of 13. Perhaps the most controversial choice Google has made with this expansion is that teens …

HQ Trivia is aiming to attract more players following a slight decline in downloads with a new, large prize. The company announced today it has bagged Target to sponsor to sponsor a special Emmy-themed game featuring its biggest-ever single winner prize of $100,000. The game will air on Monday, September 17 …

Smartwatch design and features have been stagnant in recent years, and that’s mostly due to the mediocre mobile processors we’ve had available. The Snapdragon Wear 2100 was running on old technology when it launched in 2016, and Qualcomm has been slow to launch a newer wearable chip. The updated Wear …

UL, which owns 3DMark, has issued its own statement on Huawei’s benchmarking practices after the company was discovered to be artificially inflating its benchmark performance by pushing its SoCs out of thermal bounds when benchmarks were added to a whitelist that allowed the SoC to run at clocks that actually …

Twitter is launching a new feature that allows users to create audio-only broadcasts directly from Twitter itself, as well as Twitter’s Periscope. The feature, which Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey confirmed in a tweet this morning, is available from the same interface where you would normally launch live video. It’s currently …

Google has been heavily focused on serving the needs of Indian web users with the recent launch of apps like Tez for payments, Areo for food ordering, Neighbourly for communities, data-friendly versions of apps like Search and YouTube, and others. Now, the company is launching an app to serve the need …

Samsung really wants you to have the option to buy a foldable phone. It’s not clear if anyone actually cares about this goal — at least, not beyond the intrinsic and momentary coolness of owning a foldable screen — but the company is swearing it’ll deliver the product, come hell …

Somewhat lost in its success in the drone market is DJI’s heritage in camera gimbals. It is part of why their drones do such a good job of photography and videography. But they’ve continued to innovate in more-traditional stabilization and gimbal offerings, including their Osmo family of smartphone stabilizers. I’ve …

It’s not just parents who are worrying about their children’s device usage. According to a new study released by Pew Research Center this week, U.S. teens are now taking steps to limit themselves from overuse of their phone and its addictive apps, like social media. A majority, 54% of teens, …

PayPal is revamping its mobile app. Again. In an effort to keep pace with newcomers like the bank-owned Zelle, PayPal says its new app will focus on making it easier to use its core features – that is, sending and requesting money. That means many of the app’s homescreen buttons …