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TL; DR A YouTuber received photo and video samples from the Pixel 6 Pro. The samples are from a source in Nigeria, but Google has never launched Pixels in Africa. We’ve seen a number of Pixel 6 series details over the past few months, largely due to Google itself. But the upcoming flagships have also…
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL; DR Facebook announced that an incorrect configuration change was behind its failure yesterday. The company added that it did not compromise user data. The social media giant Facebook suffered a major outage yesterday, which also affected Facebook itself, Instagram and WhatsApp. The hour-long outage was eventually resolved, and the…
Android security patch here for Pixels: There’s not much to this update, however. On the Pixel Phone help page, Google didn’t even list the changes, as it usually does. As such, this is just a security patch and nothing more. If you don’t want to wait for the OTA notification on your Pixel phone, you…
TL; DR Oppo announced the availability of Color OS 12 for the Find X3 Pro. However, this is only available in two countries for the time being. Oppo has also announced new guidelines for operating system and security updates. Oppos Color OS has been steadily improving lately and has a lot of features and a…
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority TL; DR The first beta of Oxygen OS 12 is released today and brings Android 12. At least for the time being, the beta is only available for OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro. It’s likely that this first open beta will be pretty buggy, so install it with…
TL; DR Microsoft just made the official Windows 11 downloads available. That is a day earlier than expected. The originally announced start date was October 5, 2021. If you have newer hardware, the update may be available very soon. Older hardware can take a while. Months ago, Microsoft officially announced that the latest version of…
TL; DR OnePlus has confirmed which of its phones will receive the Oxygen OS 12 beta. The oldest phones on the list are the OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro. Interestingly, the OnePlus Nord N200 is not on the list, despite the company having confirmed that it will receive Android 12. Today OnePlus finally gave…
Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority TL; DR The stable start of Android 12 has just reached the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). This is an important milestone in the release cycle. However, it will be at least days or even weeks before we see phones matter. Last year, Google released the stable version of Android…
Samsung’s Galaxy S21 Ultra offered S Pen support for the first time in the mainline Galaxy S series, but the phone doesn’t have an S Pen slot like the Galaxy Note series. However, an alleged Galaxy S22 Ultra rendering posted by veteran leaker Steve Hemmerstoffer actually shows a device with this feature. In other words,…