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While Android Pie rolls out to phones from Google and Essential, most OEMs haven’t announced which devices will receive the update. HTC revealed a few days ago which of its phones are being updated, and now it’s Motorola’s turn. Motorola’s long-term software support has deteriorated quite a bit over the past few years, so it […]

The Play Store has long warned about the dangers of downloading large apps and games over mobile data. Just one big download can wreck your capped data plan. Now, the Play Store appears to have sprouted a new menu option to control this. You can now choose network download preferences. Head into your Play Store settings, […]

Elite hackers aren’t the only thing Google has to worry about when it comes to its platforms. Perhaps just as pernicious are simple abuses of its systems and products — often stumbled upon by an average person with too much time on their hands. For instance, finding ways to purchase items from Google without paying, […]

Update 1: 2018/08/14 9:23am PDT Chinese firm Mobvoi — founded by ex-Googlers — has a history of making connected watches that stretches back to its original TicWatch and TicWatch 2 running the proprietary TicWear OS. Around this time last year, the TicWatch S and E were launched with Wear OS (then Android Wear) on board, and […]

If you’ve been a Wear OS user for a while, odds are you’ve noticed that wearable apps in the Play Store are sometimes not very good. Google is looking to change that, and asking nicely didn’t work. Soon, the app quality guidelines that rolled out with Wear 2.0 will become mandatory. According to Google, it […]