One UI 5.1 update is finally available for the Galaxy M33 5G in India

Samsung released the One UI 5.1 update for the Galaxy M33 5G in South Korea at the beginning of March. Now, the company is pushing the update out to more markets, and India is the latest to join the party. The Galaxy M33 5G is getting One UI 5.1 through firmware version M336BUXXU4CWD3. The update […]

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Galaxy A24 is finally official and available for purchase for under $300

After Samsung tippy-toed around the launch of the Galaxy A24 for a while and teased the phone through store landing pages and renders, the company finally made an official announcement this week. Indeed, after months of dealing with leaks and rumors, the Galaxy A24 is finally official, and it’s coming first to Vietnam. Samsung has […]

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Samsung Galaxy Watch5 skin temperature sensor finally works

The Samsung Galaxy Watch5 and Galaxy Watch5 Pro arrived in August 2022 with an infrared sensor for skin temperature measurement that didn’t work. The company got the feature certified in February, and today, over eight months after the launch has enabled skin temperature measurements. The sensor also allows for skin-temperature-based cycle tracking, which users had […]

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The LG Wing is finally receiving an Android 13 update

Remember the funky LG Wing? We sure do. It’s an incredibly interesting device that came out in 2020 towards the very tail end of the company’s involvement in the smartphone business. It was the first and sadly only device in a new “Explorer series,” which LG intended to use as a soul-searching platform to try […]

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You could soon have a good reason to finally buy a Galaxy tablet!

Samsung’s got a pretty solid hold of the foldable smartphone market. Yes, foldables don’t really sell in high numbers, but that doesn’t mean Samsung’s innovative streak and its position as the top dog in the foldable segment aren’t impressive achievements. Samsung currently offers foldable phones in two form factors – the traditional clamshell design of […]

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WhatsApp to finally get bottom navigation bar on Android

Google suggests app developers use a bottom navigation bar for Android apps to make navigation easier. Since Google issued this guideline a couple of years ago, many apps on Android have implemented the bottom navigation bar. However, WhatsApp isn’t one of them. It still uses tabs at the top for navigation. Although it isn’t that […]

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Samsung finally launches SmartThings in Vietnam

Samsung’s SmartThings home automation platform has been available in a number of countries across the globe for many years now. Unfortunately, Vietnam wasn’t one of them, keeping Samsung users in the country void of one of the best IoT ecosystems around the world. Well, after years of its inception, Samsung has finally made the SmartThings […]

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The new Outlook for Windows app finally gains support for Gmail accounts

What you need to know Microsoft is rolling out new updates to its Outlook for Windows app. The app now supports Gmail accounts, with Yahoo and iCloud coming soon. Microsoft Editor is now also available when writing emails. Microsoft has announced a handful of new features (opens in new tab)and updates that are now rolling […]

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Windows PCs can finally connect with Google’s Nearby Share, Android’s answer to Apple AirDrop

What you need to know Google’s Nearby Share is now available in beta for Windows PCs. The app allows you to share files to nearby devices by utilizing Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Android supports Nearby Share, so support for Windows adds a convenient way to share content between Android phones and Windows PCs. A popular feature […]

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Apple iPhones finally gain Google Fi 5G support

Great news for those of you using Google Fi on Apple iPhones. The Cupertino smartphones finally gained 5G support on the network with the most recent iOS 16.4 version of the software. Up until now, Google Fi subscribers were only able to use T-Mobile’s 4G network. Of course, you need to have an iPhone 12 […]

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Tecno Spark 10 and Spark 10C finally get specs revealed

Tecno announced several Spark 10-series devices earlier this month but did not include detailed spec sheets for the Spark 10 and Spark 10C. Tecno’s official website has now updated the listings for the two phones with detailed specs so let’s examine what these phones bring to the table. Tecno Spark 10 key specs Both phones […]

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Galaxy A03 Core is finally getting a long-awaited OS upgrade

We haven’t heard much about Android 12 lately because, for the most part, Samsung closed that chapter and is now focusing on distributing One UI 5.1 to more Galaxy phones and tablets. But today, the almost endless string of One UI 5.1 news got interrupted by Android 12 because the latter version is now rolling […]

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Google Pixel Watch’s big March update is finally rolling out now

Google usually sends out monthly updates to its devices on the first Monday of each month, but, for whatever reason, that wasn’t the case this time around. The company waited until the third Monday of the month, but the big update for the Pixel Watch is finally going out today. This is the one that […]

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Bing Chat is what finally made me ditch Google search and not look back

Like the iPad became the default term for tablet in common use, so too Google applies to web searches. It’s not necessarily incorrect, and certainly, in a business such as ours on Windows Central, Google Search is an incredibly important tool that we’d struggle without.  However, Google is as close to a monopoly on web […]

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Your Tap Water Is Filthy, but That Could Finally Change

Following years of concern, the US Environmental Protection Agency moved this week to clean up drinking water, announcing the nation’s first standards for six “forever chemicals” found in tap water. It’s a foreboding and informal name for human-made chemicals that coat nonstick pans, food packaging, and waterproof clothes before ending up in the water you drink. […]

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Resident Evil 4 review (Xbox): It feels like next-gen is finally here

The Capcom renaissance continues with yet another resoundingly resplendent Resident Evil Remake.  Resident Evil 4 launched originally on the Nintendo GameCube back in 2005. The game took the horror franchise in a bold new direction, casting off the shambling corpses and foreboding horror atmospherics of the previous three games for something a little more action-oriented. […]

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Microsoft Word is finally adding a shortcut to paste plain text — here’s how to try it

What you need to know Microsoft Word will soon support pasting plain text with a keyboard shortcut. The functionality has been available in Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Word for the web, and several other apps for quite some time. Support for the new keyboard shortcut is available now for Microsoft 365 Insiders in the Beta Channel. […]

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Apple Pay finally makes it to South Korea, eight years after its initial introduction

Apple Pay is finally making it to South Korea, around eight years after it was initially launched. The arrival of the service in Samsung’s home country has been talked about quite a bit recently, and today Apple confirmed the move in the Korean version of its press release announcing the new yellow iPhone 14 and […]

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Garmin Forerunner 965 and 265 finally come with AMOLED screens

Garmin introduced the new Forerunner 965 and Forerunner 265 smartwatches with one major improvement – the screens are now AMOLED, moving away from the transflective memory-in-pixel (MIP) solution. According to the official numbers, the 900-series flagship could live 23 days on a single charge, while the 200-series should offer up to 15 days. [embedded content] […]

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