When it comes to smartphone battery, there are two things you need to consider – battery life and battery health.
The health of your battery also determines how much of a charge it can hold. For example, a phone with a 5,500mAh battery with a battery health of 100% means that when the phone is charged to full, it will hold 5,500mAh as promised.
When Nintendo announced their latest Switch upgrade, it wasn’t the 4K beast that many had hoped for. It was mostly the introduction of an OLED screen, but other than that it more or less remained the same internally as the previous model. While some have praised the inclusion of OLED, there are some who did hope that Nintendo would have released a bigger upgrade.
However, it seems that despite the marginal upgrade, Nintendo could have bigger plans for the future of the console. This is according to a report from Bloomberg which cites several developers from at least 11 game studios who claim that they have been working on games on a 4K Nintendo Switch dev kit.
In this day and age where instant messengers are extremely commonplace, one has to wonder if there is still a need for voicemail? After all, using platforms like WhatsApp does almost the same thing where you could leave them a written message or a voice memo for them to check when they’re free.
However, voicemail still has its place. Instant messengers rely on the internet and should you find yourself without a stable internet connection, voicemail can still be accessed as long as you have cell reception, making it a “better” choice since it will work regardless of your internet connection status.
In 2021, Google announced Android 12, its latest operating system. However, for those who own Microsoft’s Surface Duo, it feels almost ancient considering the fact that the phone is actually still running on Android 10. This is despite the fact that it was launched in 2020 when Android 11 was released.
There is some good news though, because speaking to The Verge, Microsoft has confirmed that they will be bringing Android 11 to the Surface Duo by the end of the year.
About a week ago, a sighting at the FCC revealed that Nintendo could be working on new controllers for the Switch console. It looks like we finally know what they are as the company has since announced two brand new gamepads for the Switch in the form of the Nintendo 64 and Sega Genesis.
Given how fiercely Nintendo and Sega competed back in the day, it’s actually a little heartwarming to see that both have kind of made up, although Sega’s exit from the hardware business probably had a role to play in this as well. Both controllers are wireless in nature and are priced at $50 each.
The Nintendo Switch Online subscription is required if you want to be able to play games online with your friends or other people. However, to make the subscription more enticing, Nintendo has also included a library of classic games that gamers can play for free in addition to what they already own.
Now it looks like that library will be expanding as Nintendo has since announced the “Expansion Pack” tier for Switch Online. This will be a new subscription tier for the online service. Pricing is currently unknown but Nintendo said that more details will be revealed later.
One of the privacy related features Google introduced in Android 11 was an auto-reset of permissions for apps that you haven’t used in a long time. This is because sometimes we download apps, grant it permission, use it for a couple of times, and that’s it. We then leave the app sitting in our phones.
With this feature, basically after an extended period of time where the app is no longer being used, Google will revoke those permissions and you’ll have to grant them again if you want to use the app again. However, this was a feature only available in Android 11 and beyond, but the good news is that Google is changing that.
Apple and Google own two of the largest smartphone platforms in existence right now in the form of iOS and Android. Both platforms have their own app stores, which in recent years have come under more scrutiny due to the cuts both companies take and the somewhat restrictive rules that are in place.
Unfortunately for Google, it looks like they have landed themselves in another spot of trouble over in India, where the country’s antitrust body has found that Google “abused” their position to hurt competitors. This is according to a report based on a two-year probe that was seen by Reuters.
The Sony PS5 console comes with a fixed amount of storage. If you’re good at managing storage, then this shouldn’t be an issue, but if you prefer having the freedom and not having to juggle your games, then having more storage would obviously be better. The good news is that now you can.
Sony has recently issued an update to the PS5 where with this update, it unlocks the console’s SSD bay. We don’t mean unlock as in physically, but users can now open the console and add their own SSD if they need extra storage. Previously, Sony had introduced this feature but it was only available to beta testers, but this update means that all console owners should be able to take advantage of it.
There are several official controllers designed for the Nintendo Switch. There are the Joy-Cons that come with the Switch, then there is the Pro controller, and then there are more “fun” controllers like the replica SNES controller. But now it looks like there might be yet another model introduced to the lineup.
According to a report from Vooks, they stumbled across an FCC filing which suggests that Nintendo could be working on a new controller for the Switch. The device in question has the model number HAC-043, making it one number higher than the SNES controllers which had the HAC-042 model number.
Connecting Bluetooth headphones to your phone, tablet, laptop, or consoles is pretty much the standard these days. However, when Nintendo launched the Switch, there was no support for Bluetooth headphones. Instead, Nintendo tried to be clever about it by using an app and some convoluted method to facilitate in-game voice chat.
The company defended its decision back then by claiming that this is because we already have our phones on us all the time, so it makes sense to use it as the medium for communication. It looks like the company could be partially walking back on that because in the latest firmware update, Nintendo has finally allowed Switch owners to pair Bluetooth headphones with the console.
All phones come with preinstalled software. Some of these apps are essential, like messages, the phone dialer, a built-in browser, and so on. However, sometimes to try and differentiate their phones from the competition, Android handset manufacturers usually include their own custom software.
This is meant to make their phones more appealing with exclusive apps and features that other handsets won’t have, but more often than not, these apps come across feeling like bloatware. After all, if you needed it you could probably easily find an alternative as opposed to having it forced upon you.
These days, pretty much all digital cameras can shoot video as well as photos. Back in the day, it was kind of amazing when DSLR cameras could actually shoot video on par with more expensive camera equipment, leading to some studios actually choosing to use a DSLR to film entire TV series or movies over more traditional hardware.
It’s actually amazing how far we’ve come, and now it looks like Nikon is hoping to attract more people towards filmmaking. According to the Nikon Report 2021, it seems that the company has plans to eventually launch an entry-level camera that will have a bigger focus on video.
Whenever you want to buy a new phone, there is the question of what are you going to do with your old one? A practical approach to it would be to trade it in or sell it off, which in turn helps you offset some of the costs of your new phone. According to a recent survey by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners, it seems that iPhone owners are more likely to do that than their Android counterparts.
According to the results of the survey, they found that more than 35% of iPhone owners who have purchased a new or used device in the past 12 months either sold off or traded in their older model. It also found that trade-ins were more popular than outright selling it, where 30% traded-in their iPhones, while only 5% sold.