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Google has quietly unveiled its new midrange phone for 2021, the Pixel 5a with 5G. As usual for this A series, it takes some of the best stuff from last year’s flagship, like the meaty cameras and battery, and trims the price down.
Apr 12th, 2021 Back in February, Google announced a series of new photo and video editing tools that would be coming to Google Photos. For whatever reason, these features have not been available for everyone as of yet, but that’s all about to change as they are now rolling out to everyone. Well, almost everyone. Originally, these features were only made available for Pixel owners who were also subscribed to Google One for some extra cloud storage and other perks. Now, the features are are rolling out to all Google One subscribers, regardless of which device you are using. The only catch in...
Picked by Techconnect's Editors At a time when version updates are becoming less of an issue and major phone makers are finally beginning to guarantee years of updates, Google might have found a way to end Android fragmentation once and for all: by turning it into a service. The signs are there. On February 11, Google announced that several “Pixel-first” features in Google Photos—Portrait Blur, Portrait Light, and Color Pop—won’t actually be coming to all Android phones as expected. Instead, Google is offering them as a benefit to Google One subscribers, effectively putting them beh...
READ MORE And now new photo editing tools can be added to the list of Google One membership benefits. As reported by Android Police, the Android makers are rolling out formerly Pixel exclusive features Portrait Blur, Colour Pop and Portrait Light. Portrait Blur and Colour Pop can be used to tinker with photos that are lacking depth, while Portrait Light can help you dynamically adjust the lighting in existing pictures. This latter feature only launched with the Pixel 5 and Pixel 4a 5G which were released late last year. Speaking about these new features Google said: "Starting today, we’re b...
This Week in Apps: Bumble’s IPO, Google’s missing privacy labels, a developer crusades against scams Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7 h...