Yes yes, a thousand times yes.
Earlier in the week, some Google Maps users began seeing speed trap warnings pop up in the app to alert them of areas where speed cameras were being used to watch drivers going faster than they should. Now, just a couple days later, users are now reporting that Google Maps is getting a new speed limit feature.
Speed limits in Google Maps aren’t technically new seeing as how they kind [Read More…]
This October, Google Photos brought in Live Albums, a feature that automatically adds photos of specific people or pets to an album. The cap on Live Albums, however, was set at 10,000 photos and videos, with Live Albums refusing to accept new photos once the limit was reached. Within a short time, it became clear that the cap was set way too low for many users. Now, Google has increased the cap to 20,000 photos and videos.
While it was [Read More…]
After 14 days, you’ll be reverted back to the default theme.
User customization is one of the main reasons so many of us call Android home, and for years now, Samsung’s been one of the leaders in these regards with its great Samsung Themes platform. Samsung Themes allow you to change the look of your settings, notification area, system apps, and much more, but as part of the update to Android Pie, they’re going to [Read More…]
With Fortnite on Android avoiding Google Play, here’s how to limit child purchases on the platform.
Fortnite is skipping Google Play on Android and the beta is already in full-swing. If you have a child eager to play Fortnite on their Android device, its imminent full release is great news. But as a parent, you’ll be missing out on the parental controls that come with Google Play.
Children might be inclined to make unauthorized purchases in Fortnite, [Read More…]
Now, If I could just win a game.
Like a lot of my fellow HQuties reading this, I’ve still yet to win a match of HQ Trivia. The closest I’ve gotten so far is Question 6, but even so, I continue to press on until I can go from Qumero Numero Uno all the way to Question 12. However, there’s been one thing troubling me if/when I ever reach that day of nirvana – HQ Trivia’s minimum payout.
Twitter has become a thriving social media platform for brevity, with the company making changes all the time (such as the introduction of Twitter Lite earlier this year for less-than-stellar cellular data networks) to encourage growing participation by its growing user base. While the company is famous for its 140-character limit, its brevity has proven […]
Twitter is planning to double its 140 character limit.
Twitter announced it’s testing out a new feature with a “small group” of people: a doubled character limit.
Can’t fit your Tweet into 140 characters? 🤔
We’re trying something new with a small group, and increasing the character limit to 280! Excited about the possibilities? Read our blog to find out how it all adds up. 👇https://t.co/C6hjsB9nbL
— Twitter (@Twitter) September 26, 2017
The company says 140 [Read More…]
In its latest move to make itself more attractive to customers, T-Mobile will soon be upgrading the throttling limit for subscribers of its unlimited plan from 32GB to 50GB. This piece of info which was first revealed by Android Central was confirmed by the “Uncarrier” itself via Twitter. T-Mobile will start implementing the change on […]
T-Mobile is set to make its unlimited plan a bit more attractive.
After introducing free Netflix to all customers on its T-Mobile ONE unlimited family plan, the carrier is set to take another action that is sure to impress its user base while enticing customers from other carriers.
Starting September 20, T-Mobile is set to raise its “fair usage threshold,” also known as its data prioritization limit, to 50GB from 32GB. The company had already raised its [Read More…]
Twitter is making conversations better — and potentially more confusing.
We’ll keep this brief: Twitter is a UX disaster. It’s been that way for a long time, but the company, which is now public and not growing nearly fast enough to appease its shareholders, is aware of the problem.
To that end, it’s done a number of things in the past year to improve the way conversations flow in the timeline. First it allowed users to retweet [Read More…]
