Author: Jonjo

In addition to the Bluetooth Audio LE support, sleek feats like a new developer toggle, animation tweaks, battery optimization, taskbar and media player enhancements, there’s the Seamless Updates feature present in Android 13. The Seamless Updates debuted in 2016 but it has been tweaked and it’s taking a few changes. However, even though this software has been here since 6 years ago, OEMs still see some downsides to it. The Seamless Updates downsides have been addressed by Google though, and OEMs will have to adopt it to get the Google Mobile Services license. What’s the Seamless Updates feature? This feature…

The older Samsung Galaxy phones have been receiving updates recently. The Samsung Galaxy S8 series got one as well as the Samsung Galaxy S7 series, both of which brought fixes to GPS issues. Well, the Korean tech giant is rolling out a new update to the Samsung Galaxy S6 series. Compared to that rolled out on the Samsung Galaxy S8 which is 428MB of storage space, the update rolling out on the Samsung Galaxy S6 series is just about 13MB. Analysing the changelog of the update, we didn’t notice any particular fix as regards GPS (but it should be), however,…

The impressive piece of tech Apple has put together has been getting a lot of accolades and of course criticisms as well – speaking of the iPhone 14 series, specifically the Pro models with a lot of changes. In addition to the hardware design, there are changes in the software that are attractive, one of which is Dynamic Island. This feature can be replicated on your Android OS, that is, you can get Dynamic Island on an Android phone, courtesy of DynamicSpot.  “Get Dynamic Island on an Android phone?” This is not surprising as we have seen in the past…

The last Android One phone from Xiaomi has now joined the long list of End Of Support devices. Xiaomi Mi A3 moving forward, will not receive security patch updates, but there may be circumstances where the company might roll out an update to the device. Xiaomi launched the Mi A3 under the Android One program in July 2019. Given the A-series policy, the company had to support the device for at least three years. They were also expected to release two Android OS upgrades and monthly security patch updates during that period. Of course, Xiaomi lived up to the billing,…

September 2022 security patch updates; download latest releases below… While the likes of Samsung and Google are yet to release the September 2022 security patch update, Xiaomi is already rolling out the update to eligible users. The Chinese company is currently seeding the update to the Xiaomi 11T, which is exclusive to Global users. Xiaomi, in the past couple of months, has tried to close the gap between them and the top smartphone companies in terms of rolling out security patch updates. That has been a concern for many users because of the slow rollout, but that is gradually changing. …