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TL; DR Google Lens is coming to the Chrome browser soon. You can find and highlight text, images, and videos within a page. Search results from using Lens open in the same tab so you don’t have to jump around. On your Android smartphone, Google Lens can be a powerful tool. You can use it…

TL; DR Sony has released Sony’s WH-XB910N noise canceling headphones and WF-C500 true wireless earbuds. Both headsets use Sony DSEE to upscale compressed audio files and play back almost the same quality as high resolution audio files. The Sony WH-XB910N and WF-C500 are available for pre-order starting today for $ 249.99 and $ 99.99, respectively….

TL; DR A new regulatory filing seems to indicate that the Samsung Galaxy S22’s battery capacity will be much smaller this time around. A picture showing the alleged battery shows that it could have a predicted capacity of just 3,700 mAh. That’s a lot smaller than the 4,000 mAh battery on this year’s Galaxy S21….

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Luke Pollack / Android Authority Samsung has released the Beta of One UI 4.0 in the past few days, which gives Galaxy owners a taste of the stable update later this year. The beta, which is now available for owners of the Galaxy S21 series, brings with it some Android 12 features as well as…

Amazon’s hardware event this fall was piled with new gadgets and gadgets and marketing hype, as you might expect. It was also pierced by people who built its new robot, who said the just-announced Amazon astro robot is “terrible” and will “throw itself down the stairs” and a “disaster not ready for release”. Ouch. First…

TL; DR Withings has launched the ScanWatch Horizon. The hybrid watch combines the aesthetics of a diver’s watch with the usual smarts for health monitoring from Withings. The price starts at € 499.95 in Europe, a market launch in the USA is expected this year. If you liked the concept of the Withings ScanWatch, but…

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL; DR Samsung’s mobile boss apparently made two trips to the US to secure more chipset volume. It is alleged that an unnamed global chip maker rejected Samsung’s request. Now, The Elec The situation for Samsung reportedly got so bad that cellular chief TM Roh made two trips to the…

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL; DR Samsung is working on a smartwatch with solar charging. One patent describes the use of solar cells mounted in a watch strap. These would allow the wearable to charge the battery with ambient light. Power consumption has always been an issue for smartwatches as fitting a large battery…