News & Reviews:   Android

“It just works,” said Apple’s founder Steve Jobs back then, now the quote was repeated by current CEO Tim Cook during the antitrust lawsuit hearing to the House Judiciary Committee. Besides that, he also said that Google (Android) is the most dominant operating system around the world when asked about Apple’s monopoly in the smartphone industry.

If you've been using an iPhone to back up your photos and videos on Google Drive, we got good news for you. Google just announced on their blog that Google One app is now free for iPhone and iPad users, as well as Android users. That's right, iOS users will have a free automatic phone backup soon (more on that later)!

Now and then, you get companies that do an oopsie and leak info they shouldn't. Whether it's deliberate or not, these leaks are reliable since they're official. Google has already done this with Android 11 earlier this year when it revealed the Android 11 Developer Preview. Now, the company may have accidentally leaked Android 11's official launch date.

The latest iOS 14 has been in beta testing by developers about two weeks ago, bringing a lot of new features and revealing issues like the clipboard snooping. Now, Apple is ready for the second beta phase and has announced that iOS 14 beta 2 can be installed through an over-the-air update.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that dark mode is increasingly getting popular over the months, Instagram has it, so as WhatsApp and Facebook will have its own soon (third-party or lite version doesn't count). Now it seems that Android users will be getting dark mode too on some Google apps, which are the Google Docs, Sheets and Slides.

Often, people don't realise that something they use could be improved until it improves. And it seems that Chrome for Android could be getting a permanent upgrade next year. Sources claim that Google plans to permanently transition to 64-bit apps for Android devices, with the Android version of Chrome one of those that will be improved.

Update - This list has been updated with the global version as the previous one was exclusive to the China market, some of the phones from the old list aren't available outside of China 

Can you believe it? We are already in July and it has been a bizarre year for all of us. Despite that, the smartphone industry still continues to strive for perfection and AnTuTu just posted the Top 10 Best Performing Android Smartphones of June 2020 (globally) so far.

Way back in March, Google confirmed that it's hard at work on the Nearby Sharing feature. As you may know, this is Google's answer to Apple's AirDrop feature. The company has now confirmed that the feature is now in beta and users who are interested can try it out.

Earlier this month rumours that SNK is working on new games for the Metal Slug series appeared. It's said that one of them would be a mobile game with card elements, but there's another Metal Slug mobile game that is still in development. We finally know more about it now that Tencent Games has revealed the trailer for Metal Slug Code: J.

A few weeks ago, it was revealed that Facebook was working on dark mode for Android and iOS. That's not too surprising, considering that we got dark mode for the desktop version in early May, so the mobile version was just a matter of time. Now, sources are claiming that Facebook has already begun testing dark mode for mobile.