Alphabet Scoop 003: Pixel 3 chatter, Chromebooks vs. iPad, and Wear OS focuses on battery life

-

This week, we talk about our homescreens, wearables, and setups, the first Wear OS watch, a slew of ARCore announcements, and all of the week's most important app updates.

Alphabet Scoop is available on Google Play, iTunes and Apple's Podcasts app, and through our dedicated RSS feed for Pocket Casts and other podcast players.

Everyone can use an Echo Dot: Just $50!

New episodes of Alphabet Scoop are recorded every Friday and published on Saturday mornings. Subscribe to our podcast in Google Play or your favorite podcast player to guarantee new episodes are delivered as soon as they're available.

Hosts:

Links:

Feedback?

Drop us a line at gtips@9to5g.com. You can also soon rate us in Google Play, Apple Podcasts or recommend us in Pocket Casts to help more people discover the show!


#Google #Android #Smartphones #OS #News @ndrdnws #ndrdnws #AndroidNews

Popular Posts:

Here are the winners of the European Google Play Indie Games Contest 2017

-
Image
Google is very much about promoting independent developers, with annual competitions held in both the US and Europe to encourage Indie developers to create great content. The latest contest, which was announced in October last year, has now ended and Google has announced a winner, some runners up and other notable entries. The announcement was …The post Here are the winners of the European Google Play Indie Games Contest 2017 appeared first on Ausdroid.
Continue Reading....

Google Play gets the option for partial refunds on app purchases

-
Image
Getting a refund from the Google Play Store on Android isn't a terribly difficult thing to do, assuming you are trying to get said refund within the time limit. But there have been some limitations to the system, including more difficulty getting refunds on in-app purchases and subscriptions. But, it looks like Google is changing that with the addition of partial refund options.
Developers are starting to see an intro screen to partial refunds popping up in the developers console for Google Play, and the option appears to work just the way it sounds: if a developer ...
#Google #Android #Smartphones #OS #News @ndrdnws #ndrdnws #AndroidNews
Continue Reading....

Samsung Display to likely post an operating loss for Q1 2020

-
Image
Samsung Display, a display panel manufacturing arm of Samsung Electronics, is the leader in the smartphone display business. It also makes displays panels for PC monitors, smartwatches, laptops, and TVs. The company seems to be facing a problem as it will likely post an operating loss for the first quarter of this year.Samsung Display is projected to report an operating loss of KRW 464.2 billion ($378 million) and KRW 6.3 trillion ($5 billion) in revenue for the first quarter of 2020. Analysts say that the reason for the company's operating loss is a sharp fall in demand for smartphones and TVs after the COVID-19 outbreak. Increased fixed costs due to the company's factories being closed and the permanent closure of its LCD panel manufacturing lines have hurt the company's performance.Recently, the company announced that it would suspend the production of all LCD panels by the end of 2020 and upgrade its factories to start manufacturing QLED panels. Around 89 percent of th…
Continue Reading....

War of the AIs: Who is leading the assistant race?

-
Image
Smart assistants were all over CES 2019. As Google, Amazon, and their various partners unveiled new services and technologies, it seemed one AI assistant or another had a role to play in a large proportion of the stuff we saw at the Las Vegas show. It was Google Assistant vs Amazon Alexa and no holds were barred.This makes sense. The still nascent smart speaker market is growing rapidly, having ballooned to nine million devices sold in Q1 2018 versus just 2.3 million in the same period the year before. The stakes are high too: Google has positioned itself as an "AI-first company." That Amazon's Alexa still has a higher install base could be seen as a little embarrassing.The grudge match between the two assistants was in many ways one of the big talking points of the eventThe good news for Google is its ploy seems to be working.In Q1 2018, Google sold over a third of all assistant devices. The same thing happened in Q2 when Google managed to sell 5.43 million smart speake…
Continue Reading....

Mood Messenger - SMS & MMS

-
Image
Mood Messenger - SMS & MMS CaléaCommunicationVERSION/BUILD: 1.67p UPDATED: 19 February 2018 REQUIRES ANDROID: 4.0.3 and up FILE SIZE: 21.91 M Mood Messenger is the most beautiful and powerful SMS messaging app ever made.

Tired of the Android App ? This one will completely change the way you communicate.

Simple, effective and fast, it will replace your default SMS application providing you with unique features and content.


Features:

• YOUR SMS AND MMS WITH MOOD

Emojis with predictive and instinctive writing : Stop looking for an emoji : Just type a word and the matching smiley will show up, the keyboard will be magical !

Feeling Good ? Or maybe not that much ? Mood messenger is here for you ! Share « moods » directly without having to type your actual mood, happy, angry, cheerful or even sad ? We have the mood that fits you.

Customization : Colors and shapes of the message bubbles, conversation list's wallpapers, size and style of each font, backgrounds, emoticons, emojis, smileys, n…
Continue Reading....