Google wants to get Android messaging right.Image: lili sams/mashable By Johnny Lieu2018-04-20 03:55:53 UTC As predicted, Android is stepping up its messaging game to be on the same page as Apple’s iMessage and Facebook Messenger. Google’s launching a new messaging service simply called Chat, and it’s the latest, and hopefully…
Run, if your parents ever buy you this phone.Image: samsung, mashable composite By Raymond Wong2018-04-14 21:45:25 UTC Well, here’s something you don’t see announced often (or ever, for that matter): A smartphone that can’t connect to the Internet. That’s right, Samsung’s new Galaxy J2 Pro (it ain’t a “pro” anything…
Unless you’ve been hiding on an island for 30 years like Luke Skywalker, it should be pretty obvious by now that smartphone design is changing — rapidly moving toward a final form where its front is just a screen and nothing else. The latest phones like the Samsung Galaxy S9…
Apple’s iPhone 7 has a bug.Image: lili sams/mashable By Kerry Flynn2018-02-03 22:03:01 UTC Apple is providing iPhone 7 owners with free repairs if they have one of the “small percentage” of devices that do not properly connect with a cellular network. The affected iPhone 7 devices will show “No Service”…
If you happen to have an old Android device lying around and a reason to worry about people messing with your business, Edward Snowden has an app for that. Haven is an open-source project that Snowden developed in conjunction with Freedom of the Press Foundation and Guardian Project. You can…
It’s barely past the morning of the Apple iPhone 8 launch, and pro photographers have already posted some sweet shots taken with the new handset. As it’s done with the iPhones before this, Apple has continually tweaked and improved its cameras. The iPhone 8 and larger 8 Plus lenses are…
343 Shares Use Instagram’s Archive feature to hide posts for a while.Image: molly sequin/mashable By Molly Sequin2017-09-03 19:13:22 UTC Instagram released its Archive feature in June, but you might not know what it’s for or how to use it. Archive lets you hide photos and videos from your profile without…
Time has not been kind to Sony. While the Japanese electronics company enjoys great success with its PlayStation business, the number of people who’d wait in line to get its new Xperia smartphones has all but evaporated. At IFA 2017 in Berlin, the company announced a new pair of Android…
Incredibly rich people lacking any sense of style let out a collective gasp today, as news broke that luxury smartphone maker Vertu will be liquidated. Despite having a target market of moneyed assholes, of which the world is in no short supply, the UK-based company apparently struggled to find a…
We haven’t touched it, and we’re not even sure how it’ll work, but RED’s Hydrogen One phone is so mysterious that even its patent filing drawings are fascinating. And revealing. The modular phone, which promises to switch between “traditional 2D content, holographic multi-view content, 3D content, and interactive games,” looks…
