There’s really no beating around the bush about what PlanetPron is all about; it’s an app designed to look at adult pictures and videos, plain and simple, but the app is currently undergoing a big update, so it’s certainly worth highlighting. We first talked about this app in our best adult apps roundup, praising the app for being one of the best of its kind. That was mostly down to its content, however, not design.
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Samsung just released 18 new AR Emoji expressions to go with the original 18. The company promises to release 18 more “in the coming months.” To get the new AR Emojis, you’ll need to update your camera app. Eventually, Samsung will triple its AR Emoji offerings with an additional 18 stickers. That new batch is slated to launch “in the coming months.”
You can see some examples of the new AR Emojis in the GIF below:
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Starting in November, Google will alter the system behind Play Store ratings for apps and games. Ratings will be localized, causing some apps to have different ratings for people in different areas of the world. Next year, ratings will become even more specific by taking device form factors into account. Apps and games on the Google Play Store have historically had aggregated review scores.
Google just announced that the company’s Translate app is getting a killer new feature: real-time transcription. This new functionality is rolling out over the next few days, and it should be available to all Android users by the end of the week. At launch, it will support English, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Thai.
Once your Google Translate app receives the update, there will be a new voice transcription option beneath the text entry box, as pictured below.
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The Surface Pro X has received a chipset upgrade in the form of the SQ2 processor. Qualcomm and Microsoft’s new processor promises performance gains and improved battery life. The Surface Pro X is the first Windows on Arm device we’ve seen from Microsoft (we don’t count the Surface RT), running Windows 10 built with power-efficient Arm chips in mind. The two-in-one device packed an SQ1 chip that was billed as a partnership between Microsoft and Qualcomm, and the duo are teaming up once again for another Surface Pro X variant.
Two of the most popular phones of 2012 so far - the Samsung Galaxy S3 on the left and the HTC One X on the right.
There comes a time in every geek’s lives when he or she has to make a difficult decision: choose the best Android smartphone out of two VERY strong contenders. It’s a lot like choosing a life partner, except that it probably won’t last as long.
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Mastodon is a unique social media experience. It’s a series of servers that all work together to bring you the whole experience. Each part of Mastodon is its own instance and entirely separate from other instances, but still part of the whole. It’s definitely something different. The premise is young, but there are some decent apps to get you online. Here are the best Mastodon apps for Android.
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Red, blue, and pink variants of the Galaxy Note 20 have been spotted in South Korea. The colorways may join the Mystic Bronze, Mystic Green, and Mystic Gray options currently available. It’s not clear if these colorways will be offered globally. While the Ultra is available in the fairly unexciting bronze, black, and white shades, the Note 20 can be had in Mystic Green and Mystic Gray colorways too.
I think it’s fair to say the Google Pixel 4 has been a divisive phone.
In our review of the Pixel 4 and its larger twin, the Pixel 4 XL, we talked about the “untapped potential” that both phones represented as a product of Google’s ever-expanding hardware division. We also questioned the value for money of both devices due to the big G’s continued habit of overpricing its marquee smartphones.
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Google Plus is lost forever, but if it were still around, I could dig up a post I put up on May 15, 2013 that read something along the lines of “I love Google!”
It was early in my tech blogging career, and I was definitely a bit less jaded than I am today. I had just watched the opening keynote of Google I/O 2013, and, boy, it was exciting.