It is the Chinese-owned quick video-sharing site that you may also no longer have heard of if you are over 30 and if you neither an iPhone or Android user. But on Tech Tent this week we discover why TikTok may want to be the largest threat to Facebook. We learned two vital things about TikTok this week - it is earning a stunning amount of money, and Mark Zuckerberg sees it as a serious rival. Figures obtained via the Reuters news organization showed that its proprietor ByteDance…
Earlier this year, Google publicly reported that they have conducted a so-called "field research" for its new face unlock feature for the anticipates Pixel 4 phone. The report stated that the company sends teams out to approach random people and offer them $5 gift cards in exchange for scanning their faces. The tests were done to help Google collect data for the purpose of training algorithms and make the face unlock feature as accurate as possible. It was sad to be carried out by temporary…
This year, foldable phones have started launching. Unfortunately, the hype was not as mind-blowing as expected. What truly blew our mind is the part that these phones are still technologies away from perfection. If you’re looking to buy a foldable phone today, you first need to consider the issues mentioned below: Royole Flexpai is the first foldable phones introduced to the smartphone market. It achieved the main feature a foldable phone needs to be called one – a foldable or…
Platform games are one of the oldest genres in all of the video games and it’s also among the most popular. Most gamers call them classic games or genres which survived the fast-evolving technology. The Mario franchise, for example, is among the most successful franchises of all time in any genre. There are some decent mobile platformers out there. You can play these games on Android today: Blackmoor 2 Blackmoor 2 is a mix of platformer, beat ’em up, and arcade action elements.…
Google Pixel 4 is one of the best smartphones today and it easily competes with the boastful Huawei Mate 30 Pro, or even the new iPhone 11. The flagship consists of many new features a smartphone can have, and the brand does not stop improving the phone from the launch. Recently, Google announces new updates and apps exclusive for Google Pixel 4 that should put a big smile on Pixel 4 users. Here’s everything you need to know: Pixel 4 Motion Sense will work in 38 markets It was first…
The mobile world is evolving every year. First, we only have black and white cellular phones which only have call and text functions. Now, we have overpowered phones and even foldable ones. The innovation continues to grow, and the industry has not failed to surprise us many times, both good and bad, though. Here are the latest news you need to know. Over-charge users using a Play Store loophole You don’t have to pay to get basic apps such as calculators and QR code scanners on the…
Google recently announced that Android 10 is complete. In fact, the beta series is finally over and we finally got a glimpse of the final version of Android 10. In case you didn’t know, Android 10 is supposedly Android Q, but Google changed it to numerical to make Android versions easier to remember. Android 10 came with a lot of new and great features. Apparently, Google is kind enough to ensure that not only premium phones will get to experience these features, but budget phones as…
We know this is an Android-focused platform, but the rise of the mobile gaming industry just can’t be ignored especially now that our dream to play PC games on mobile will soon come true – thanks to Microsoft’s xCloud. Mobile gaming, to be fair, is already great in graphics and animations. However, hardcore gamers still wish that they could carry that open-word, realistic-animations, and 100GB-size game on their pockets, so that they don’t have to wait to arrive home before they can…
Huawei Mate 30 launched last week and its one of the fastest smartphones in the market today. It’s powered by of the fastest processors a smartphone can have with the latest specs you can imagine. Although the Huawei Mate 30 is powered with the Android 10 with a custom EMUI 10 skin, it does not ship with Google Apps on board. That means no default Google apps like Gmail, Messages, Photos, etc. It’s sad, but luckily, there’s a simple workaround leaked on Reddit which allows users…
Call of Duty is one of the most praised military, first person shooting game on PC for many years. Finally, we get to see the action of this amazing game on mobile. Here’s everything you need to know about Call of Duty: Mobile. Gameplay Call of Duty: Mobile is a multiplayer shooter just like the rest of the franchise and its free-to-play. It’s almost identical to Call of Duty: Legends of War, a Tencent-developed game that soft-launched in alpha late last year. But it was been dropped…
