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Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Some Nest Audio and Nest Mini users are seeing blue and purple colors on their devices instead of the usual white lights. The change marks the presence of Gemini and seems to be appearing for users enrolled in the Google Home Public Preview program with experimental AI features enabled. … Read more
Credit: Unbox Therapy The iPhone 17 Air is rumored to be just 5.5mm thick, making it even thinner than the Galaxy S25 Edge. A new leak suggests the phone could have a laughable 2,800mAh battery, over 1,000mAh smaller than the Galaxy S25 Edge’s already criticized 3,900mAh cell. Apple is expected to rely on high-density battery … Read more
I’ll admit: long-pressing the home button to trigger a visual search was a genius move by Google. I use Circle to Search more often than I ever thought, whether it’s to identify plants, bugs, or famous landmarks in TV shows. Surprisingly, it also has a hidden talent for identifying colors. Many web pages and apps … Read more
Google appears to be developing an Android equivalent to iOS’s Standby Mode, hinted at by a Google Play Services update and code found in Android 16. This new feature will likely leverage an enhanced Hub Mode, which is being optimized for phones and will integrate lock screen widgets in Android 16 QPR1. The rollout of … Read more
I’ve never been great with on-device AI features. Sure, I have an apartment full of iPhones, Pixels, and Galaxy devices, each with a toolbox of helpful tricks, but that doesn’t mean I know how to use them all. It’s almost like I have so many options that it paralyzes me with indecision rather than making … Read more
It’s hard to feel genuinely excited about Android tablets these days. The market has become homogenized over the years, offering options that all blur together. Samsung’s got tablets for every price bracket, Amazon’s got its Fire lineup of tablets on a budget, and everyone else is just… kind of there. They mostly look the same, … Read more
When Samsung started overhauling Good Lock for One UI 7, Home Up was one of the modules that saw the biggest changes. Most of those changes were good, letting you modify edge panels, the taskbar (on Folds and tablets), the overview screen, and the home screen itself. As welcome as those features are, I found … Read more
Microsoft is enhancing Windows 11 by adding a dedicated Phone Link panel to the start menu for easier Android device management. This new panel provides quick access to your phone’s status, messages, calls, photos, and recent activity directly from the start menu. It also includes a “send files” button for seamless file transfers and shortcuts … Read more
Motorola was nothing if not patient before adding AI features to its Razr and Edge lineups. It sat by, letting Google and Samsung take the lead on things like Circle to Search, image generators, and more, before adding Gemini to the Razr (2024) series and beta testing Moto AI features at the end of last … Read more
Credit: C. Scott Brown / Android Authority On April 10, 2025, Razer announced a new and completely free game-streaming app called PC Remote Play. The app works similarly to the popular Steam Link app: You can stream gameplay from your PC to a secondary device, usually a smartphone. You can do this on the same … Read more
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