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Update 1: 2018/06/30 10:24am PDT Update 2: 2018/07/04 11:21am PDT Free music seems to be making a comeback on Google Play Music. Once a relic of the past, free albums made a reappearance last week with Ariana Grande’s “My Everything” and an ICON album featuring The Beach Boys. Four more ICON albums with Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Kenny […]

Back in May, Google announced something called ‘Google Duplex’ at I/O. The feature would be able to call businesses using humanlike speech patterns to set up appointments or make reservations. But months before that, the Chrome team had already renamed its experimental ‘Chrome Home’ interface to ‘Chrome Duplex.’ Chrome Duplex is now being renamed again […]

Direct Bluetooth file transfers have been available on Android since time immemorial, but Android P adds a long-overdue related feature. You can finally see a list of all transferred files. The menu is nestled in the connection settings—it’s actually been there for a while, and no one noticed. We’ve traced the “Received file” menu back […]

The original Moto Z Play was released in 2016, and originally shipped with Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow. An update to Android 7.0 started rolling out in March 2017, and a 7.1.1 update came in June. The unlocked US model received 8.0 Oreo in May of this year, but only now is the Verizon model (also known […]

Update 1: 2018/07/04 11:18am PDT Update 2: 2018/07/04 4:04pm PDT OnePlus’ OxygenOS Open Betas give us an illuminating glimpse into the company’s future software plans. Although it’s possible that not every feature that makes it into the Open Betas will be deemed fit for stable release, they give us an advance look at the company’s intentions, if […]

So much of what we do on our smartphone is driven by services, as companies provide us with access to things like cloud storage, social-media publishing, and instant messaging. And while many of us default to accessing these services through their official apps, plenty of third-party alternatives exist. Some of the companies behind these services […]

Update 1: 2018/07/03 4:53am PDT Update 2: 2018/07/03 6:34am PDT Update 3: 2018/07/04 3:02pm PDT With the launch of the second developer preview of Android back in May, Google added a surprising and useful feature to the Overview interface. You could highlight and copy text and also make use of Android’s smart text selection functionality. Optical character recognition (OCR) […]