News & Reviews:   Android

It's always exciting to find out there's an addition of new emojis. This time, Unicode Consortium is considering adding 31 new emojis to Emoji 15. Therefore, it might be time to update your current most-used emojis with these new ones!

Advertisements on your phone's lock screen? Yup, that's a real possibility because apparently, a lock screen company, Glance was reported to be meeting up with US carriers to launch ads on some Android phones' lock screens in two months' time.

Motorola may be launching a new Android tablet soon as the manufacturer was spotted having a yet-to-be-released tablet on Google Play Console. Furthermore, the Google Play Supported Devices website even revealed the tablet’s name: Moto Tab G62.

Microsoft has yesterday released a new cybersecurity app across Windows, macOS, iOS and Android using the ‘Defender’ moniker that should be familiar to Windows users. Available for Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscribers, the features of the app will vary by the platform in which it is installed.

Finally, after years of requesting for this feature, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that we will finally be able to transfer all the WhatsApp data from Android to iOS. This includes your chat history, photos, videos, and voice messages while maintaining end-to-end encryption. 

Among all the Android OS, Samsung's One UI is probably one of the better software that provides regular updates over time. Just recently, Sammobile.com managed to dig up some information about One UI 5.0 which is the next iteration.

Google is reportedly working on built-in snore and cough detection features for Android devices so as to provide more in-depth and insightful health data. Currently only available for Google employees under the company’s new digital wellbeing study, both features are part of ‘Sleep Audio Collection’ study which may be embedded in Android OS in the future.

After being open for pre-registration in Malaysia back in March this year, Apex Legends Mobile has finally been released for the masses. In fact, the mobile game is now available for download and play on the Apple App Store as well as the Google Play Store.

Aside from the many announcements of upcoming Google devices such as the Google Pixel 6A, Pixel Watch, Pixel Buds Pro and Pixel Tablet, Google is also introducing its first-ever Google Wallet for Android 13. So how does it work?

The Google I/O 2022 event held earlier today showcased new products that have been in the works by the tech giant, including the Pixel 6a launched during the event and the Pixel Tablet, due for release in 2023. Google also give several updates regarding its software, including a new feature in Android 13 which allows for copy and paste across devices.