GPS on Android is incredible for many reasons. You’ve got the obvious uses, such as recovering your device when lost or stolen or navigating your way through hiking trails, and it’s especially nifty because GPS works even when the device isn’t connected to the internet. When navigating, you just need to download maps ahead of […]
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Fingerprint scanners on Android phones are now blazing fast. Just rest your finger on it, and before you know, your fingerprint is scanned, you’re authenticated, and your phone is unlocked. So it makes perfect sense that you’d want to use this level of protection and ease for different things. Many of us have been using app […]
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The Android experience is built around Google’s services. But what if you use a different provider for your email? Outlook (which Hotmail is now a part of) is one of the most popular free email services on the web. If you use an Outlook or Hotmail email address then you’ll need to get them set up […]
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We tend to fret over battery life as if it were the most important aspect of our devices (phones, tablets, laptops, etc), and while battery life is important, we often forget — or take for granted — that these batteries are essentially useless without their respective chargers. I’m not saying we shouldn’t bother extending the […]
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You recently received an unexpected iOS update. Go on, have a look. By now, you should have updated your iPhone to iOS 9.3.5 to patch three zero-day vulnerabilities being actively exploited to allow attackers chance to intercept and steal confidential information from a massive range of apps. The spyware, dubbed Pegasus, was discovered by mobile […]
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Amazon’s naming scheme for its various consumer electronics devices is, at best, confusing. Kindle this, Kindle that. Fire this, Fire that. Echo, Dot, Tap. If it all makes your head spin, don’t worry. You’re not alone. However, once you break through Amazon’s lazy naming scheme, you’ll see that there is a kind of logic to […]
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