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10 Android Stories That Stuck Out in 2024, Plus Some Blunders

Kellen December 31, 2024 5

To take us into 2025, it only seemed right to look back at 2024 in some way. While 2024 was mostly business as usual for the industry, with little to get super excited about, there were some highlights, almost all of which came from Google's end. Sure, Samsung...

Google’s Gemini App Lands on iPhone

Kellen November 14, 2024 2

The iPhone is getting its own Gemini app from Google today. The new AI assistant app is available for free right away. Since Apple limits almost everything that 3rd party apps can do on an iPhone and in iOS, you might be wondering how this could be any sort of...

Google, Please Release a Quick Share App for macOS

Kellen November 1, 2024 2

Google's Quick Share for Android that allows users to quickly share files between devices is a handy tool that has moved beyond just an Android-to-Android file transfer system. Over the past year, it changed names (formerly Nearby Share) and then released with...

Pixel 10 and Pixel 11 Chips Get a Wonderful iPhone 16 Pro Comparison

Kellen October 23, 2024 12

The Pixel 9 series is without a doubt a success from Google even without knowing sales numbers, mostly because they feel like complete packages with meaningful improvements over previous models that took care of several lingering issues on older Pixel phones....

Pebblebee’s New Universal Item Trackers Work on Either Google or Apple Find My Networks

Kellen October 1, 2024 4

When Google launched its new Find My Device network earlier this year, Pebblebee was one of the first companies to launch a series of item trackers that worked with it. There was an issue with them, though - that first batch of trackers only worked with Google...

RCS Encryption Between Android and iPhones is Hopefully Next

Kellen September 18, 2024 11

The big news of the week for Android users who want to send messages to their friends with iPhones involves the big update to iOS 18 that was just released by Apple. With this update, iPhone owners can send RCS messages over to Android users, meaning big...

iOS 18 Now Live, So That Means RCS

Tim September 16, 2024 43

iOS 18 is now available for all supported Apple devices, which is great news for Android users. If you haven't been following, iOS 18 supports RCS (rich communication services), which is what Android users have been using for quite a while on supported apps (...

Google Gets Excited About RCS Coming to the iPhone

Kellen July 31, 2024 35

Apple really has committed to bringing RCS support to its Messages app when iOS 18 releases later this year. For beta testers of iOS, you can already send RCS messages to your Android friends. It's a big deal, for the most part, because it should improve the...