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ChatGPT Is Coming to Android Soon
If you’re an Android user who’s been waiting for a ChatGPT app, OpenAI announced on Friday that the AI chatbot will start rolling out on Google’s mobile OS next week. If you have an Android phone and are interested in downloading the app, you can pre-register for it now, and have it downloaded onto your phone when it arrives. The ChatGPT Android app is free to use and will sync your history across devices. So, if you’re already using ChatGPT on the web or your iPad, your history will sync up. ChatGPT, which was rolled out for iOS in May,…
The Nothing Phone 2 is official, with a US price of $599
The Nothing Phone 2. It lights up. Nothing The front has a screen on it. Nothing The back, unlighted, which is what it will look like most of the time. Nothing The awkwardly named Android manufacturer “Nothing” has finally made its second-generation phone official. The Nothing Phone 2 is $599, and for the first time ever, it will be regularly sold in the US. For the SoC we have Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1. That makes this the first Nothing Phone with a flagship chip, though that is the 2H 2022 model, not the newer 8 Gen 2 chip. Then…
Android phone hits 24GB of RAM, as much as a 13-inch MacBook Pro
The Nubia RedMagic 8S+ Here’s a look at the cooling system. A fan pulls air out of that cooling plate and ejects it out the side. The Snapdragon SoC is on the right side of the fan, and a larger graphite (?) sheet connects the heatsink to the battery. Nubians Sorry this isn’t in English, but the takeaway here is that the clear back panel is totally fake, and you can make out the frame and a lot of cooling layers. I love this image, which calls out exact millimeter measurements for the bezel on each side of the screen.…
Do You Need to Install Updates on Your Android Phone? What Happens When You Skip One?
The operating system update situation in the Android space is a bit of a mess. You might have seen some headlines about how new software updates sometimes wreck people’s phones or change things in ways that they don’t like. This may lead you to wonder whether you should bother installing Android updates in the first place. Are Android updates necessary to install? Is it okay if you skip them? Find out here. MAKEUSEOF VIDEOS OF THE DAYSCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Do You Really Need to Install Android Updates? While it’s recommended to install Android updates, they are not …
Android 14 Beta 1 arrives for Google Pixel smartphones
Google is now offering early adopters the chance to download Android 14 before its public release. To recap, Google introduced Developer Preview builds in February, which laid the groundwork for developers to update their apps and services to this year’s Android OS upgrade. Incidentally, Android 14 Developer Preview 2 also contained references to the Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet ahead of the pair’s anticipated I/O 2023 announcement. As always, Google has kept its new version of Android a Pixel smartphone exclusive for the time being. Specifically, Android 14 Beta 1 is available for the Pixel 4a (5G) onwards; the Pixel…
Fort Solis Gets New Gameplay Trailer, PS5 Version Announced
Publisher Dear Villagers announced that the upcoming sci-fi thriller game Fort Solis will launch this summer for PlayStation 5 alongside the Steam version. A new gameplay trailer was also released. In Fort Solis, players control engineer Jack Leary, “as he spent the longest night of his life on an isolated mining base on Mars.” Fort Solis is a single-player third-person thriller set on the far side of Mars. Engineer Jack Leary responds to a routine alarm. Upon arriving at a dormant Fort Solis he becomes unnerved by the lack of any staff at the base. As the night grows longer…
Columbia GoCoMo bus tracker no longer working for Android phone users
Riders with Android-based phones on Columbia buses now have to use a different way to access route updates and announcements. The GoCoMo application programming interface is no longer compatible with Android phones after a recent base Android system update. The app remains functional on Apple-based phones. The more than 1,000 active app users will have to rely on accessing the GoCoMoTransit website through a web browser on their phones instead of the app. The city is working to explore a replacement application, wrote John Ogan, Columbia Public Works spokesperson in an email to the Tribune. Nearly 2,000 people have downloaded…