Jun 28th 2022
All About Android 584
The HTC Footnote
Android 13 easter egg, Metaverse and Blockchain phones, Windows 3D pinball
Although the show is no longer in production, you can enjoy over a decade of Android in our archives.
- Nothing Lives Up to Its Name, Hypes Up Nothing.
- Nothing Phone (1) isn’t coming to the United States at launch.
- Android 13 Beta 3.3 rolls out to Pixel with Wi-Fi and other connectivity fixes, more.
- Google hatches the Android 13 easter egg and it’s literally all the emoji.
- Google I/O 2012 set a high-water mark for innovative hardware that has yet to be approached again.
- OSOM OV1 is dead, now a crypto-focused smartphone called the ‘Solana Saga’.
- HTC’s smartphone division limps on with metaverse-focused Desire 22 Pro.
- Wear OS 3 finally launches on another smartwatch, the Montblanc Summit 3.
- Swatch Group arrives on the smartwatch market.
- Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Insiders phone gets first update in months, breaks Google Pay.
- Google Password Manager starts offering on-device encryption on Android, iOS, and Chrome
- Google Password Manager now h. as an Android home screen shortcut.
- Chrome 103 replaces built-in password list with Android’s default manager.
- Google Hangouts finally gets a shutdown date: November 2022.
- Android port of 3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet.
- A Z Fold3 bites the dust.
- Some Android Auto for phones alternatives.
- Nothing Phone features are good for accessibility.
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