Jordan writes about all things Apple as Senior Editor of 9to5Mac. He covers Google for 9to5Google.com, the best gadgets and deals on 9to5Toys.com, and delivers a weekly roundup of EV and solar news on Electrek.co. Sometimes he makes weird electronic music as one half of Makamachine.
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In this week’s top stories: Our Google Pixel review, everything new in the Android 7.1 Dev Preview, LG V20 first impressions, Google Camera v4.2, and much more.
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Google is today updating its G Suite of apps, formerly known as Google Apps for work, with a handful of new productivity features. Among them, users will get access to new advanced voice commands, Slack integration for Google Docs and Drive, and a handful of other new features for collaboration with forms, Docs, Sheets and Slides.
As for the new voice commands, G Suite will now offer a number of new commands for formatting text including changing text color, deleting words, inserting links and comments. Google has a full list of newly supported commands here.
Also new for G Suite is Action Items and Suggested Action items to assign tasks for users in any of the G Suite apps:
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In this week’s top stories: The best affordable Android phones for October, more on Pixel, hands-on with Xiaomi Mi Box, new apps and much more.
In this week’s top stories: Google announces its new Pixel smartphones, and we go hands-on with Google Home, Daydream VR, Google WiFi and more from the company’s press event.
Following an announcement from T-Mobile earlier today, AT&T has now confirmed that preorders for LG’s new V20 flagship smartphone will kick off tomorrow Oct. 7 ahead of a launch on Oct. 28. AT&T has also revealed pricing in the process, putting the full retail price of the V20 at $830 in the U.S. through its various AT&T Next installment plan options.
WhatsApp today announced an update for the app that give users new ways to edit photos and videos.
The new camera features include the ability to write and draw directly on a photo or video, as well as add emojis to them.
In this week’s top stories: What to except at Google’s October 4 event next week, the latest official-looking Pixel and Pixel XL renders, Google Home news, and much more.
AOL is launching an Alto mobile app today for Android (and iOS) that aims to offer a new spin on email. AOL’s new app features a single dashboard that intelligently organizes the most important info from your email, calendar and elsewhere.
Alto, which was previously available on the desktop for a limited number of testers, hopes you’ll want to ditch the traditional inbox-format for email, serving up the most important info from emails in card-form in what it refers to as the Dashboard.
In this week’s top stories: Google’s new Allo messaging app arrives, Google teases an upcoming launch for its much anticipated Pixel & Pixel XL smartphones as more details emerge, an LG V20 release date and much more.
In this week’s top stories: Google Pixel renders leak, Galaxy S8 rumors, new apps and updates, and much more.
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In this week’s top stories: Samsung recalls some Galaxy Note 7 units due to exploding batteries, new Android devices are unveiled at IFA in Berlin, and Google prepares to launch its new Nexus devices with “Pixel” branding.
In this week’s top stories: Android 7.0 Nougat, the latest LG V20 leaks, new Android apps & much more.
Sprint’s latest offering unveiled today adds an HD video streaming option with higher caps for other mobile usage to its Unlimited Freedom plans.
Walgreens today announced that its loyalty rewards program is now integrated with Android Pay at checkout, making it the first retail store location to support the feature through Google’s Android-based payments service.
Reuters reports Samsung is currently eyeing early next year to launch a refurbished smartphone service that will allow customers to buy used flagship phones for much cheaper than brand new models. The devices, according to the report, will come from those who finance the company’s smartphones on one year upgrade programs in various markets including Korea and the US:
In this week’s top stories: We go hands-on with the Galaxy Note 7, more 2016 Nexus leaks surface, Google releases its Duo video messaging app, and much more.
In this week’s top stories: LG’s upcoming V20 flagship, more Galaxy Note 7 details, new apps, & much more.
Google’s Inbox by Gmail is receiving an update today that brings Google Drive and Alerts integration, as well as more information from third-party services Trello and GitHub.
In this week’s top stories: Galaxy Note 7 launch details, Nexus (and Nexus Launcher) leaks, the best Android phones for August, and much more.
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Google today launched a preview of Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) in search results, meaning the mobile optimized pages appear in more places than just the “Top stories” section they were previously limited to.
Google today highlighted some notable improvements for video playback in the latest Chrome 52 release for Android now rolling out to Google Play.
In this week’s top stories: We give you new Galaxy Note 7 details ahead of an official launch, go hands-on w/ Moto Z , Moto Z Force, & Moto Mods, and we get a look at early Android Nougat builds running on the Nexus 6P and Huawei P9.
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In this week’s top stories: We go hands-on with the new $99 ZTE ZMax Pro, roundup the latest Galaxy Note 7 leaks and other Android phone news, and give you our picks for the 5 Android apps you should download this month.
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The popular media streaming server Plex is announcing support for Sonos today, meaning you’ll now be able to access your Plex library from within the Sonos app for streaming to your Sonos speaker system.
Plex detailed how the integration works on its blog:
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