Making your Android Tablet Homescreen look like the iPad

Are you in love with the Apple look but not with the iPad? You don’t need to be crazy over Apple to admit that iOS has one of the best looks on the market. It’s sleek, it’s catchy, and the way those icons shake when you move them definitely catches anyone’s attention. But, if you’re an Android user who’d just like to adopt the look without actually having to buy the iPad, your prayers have been answered.

Motorola is finally bringing desktop mode to its phones

Eric Zeman / Android Authority TL;DR Motorola has revealed that it’s working on a desktop mode. This mode gives users a computer-like experience when connected to a monitor. Motorola first dabbled with the feature back in 2011. Samsung and Huawei were the first brands to offer the new generation of desktop mode, allowing users to get a PC-like experience when their phone was connected to an external display. But Motorola was arguably the first manufacturer to dabble with the tech in the early 2010s.

OnePlus 9 Pro teardown reveals the phone can be difficult to repair

Eric Zeman / Android Authority TL;DR As per a teardown by iFixit, the OnePlus 9 Pro is not the easiest phone to repair. The device scored a 4 out of 10 on iFixit‘s repairability scale. Its glued-on rear panel, extensive disassembly, and hard-to-remove display are to blame. The OnePlus 9 Pro has received iFixit‘s famous teardown treatment, and things are not looking great as far as its repairability is concerned.

Premium hardware let down by software

Xiaomi Mi 10The Mi 10 is an excellent phone that brings the hardware toe to toe with the premium competition. The high-end imaging experience, good performance, and excellent battery life are as good as, if not better than, anything else in the segment. However, the software is a bit of a letdown. Despite all its polish, the prepackaged bloat and annoying notifications bring down what is otherwise an excellent device. Table of contents

Save or backup apps for offline install with ES File Explorer Pro - Android customization

We know that only a few of you were able to follow along last week with our Google OnbHub Android customization project. For those that did, we hope your guests are now enjoying your network attached resources without compromising your security. This week, let’s look at a tool from a specific app to help with offline usage. There is more than one way to partake in today’s project, we’ll use ES File Explorer Pro (not the free version) to save an app that can then be installed offline at a future date.

This is what the Nothing Phone 1 looks like

TL;DR Nothing and Flipkart have posted an image showing the back of the Phone 1. The image indeed shows that the phone has a transparent back of sorts. We can also make out a dual rear camera system here. Nothing, the new startup by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, has been incessantly teasing its upcoming Nothing Phone 1 smartphone for a while now. We got a few teaser images earlier this week, and now the company and Flipkart have revealed the back design in full.

Wear OS announcements from Google I/O 2022

Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority TL;DR At Google I/O 2022, Google announced a bunch of Wear OS news. Google Assistant, the return of Google Wallet, and some new Wear OS 3 watches were all discussed. A new feature called Emergency SOS is also on the way. For years, Google essentially ignored Wear OS, the wearable operating system powering smartwatches. However, over the past year, the company has ramped up development for the software in tandem with Samsung, which launched its first Wear OS watch in 2021: the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4.

Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S Review: The luster remains

Xiaomi Mi Mix 2SXiaomi’s adds a telephoto lens and a few new features to a ceramic clad phone that hasn’t yet lost its shine. Table of contents Shanghai through the lens of the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S Features Hot off the heels of Xiaomi announcing its IPO, we’re taking a look at the latest version of the company’s most unique smartphone offering. In a world full of notches and similar tweaks to the full screen experience, this mid-year update provides a worthy alternative, now with a dual camera setup.

A Fitbit owner's guide to managing notifications

Most good smartwatches feature some kind of notification mirroring from the phone to your wrist. It’s an important and often overlooked feature that makes wearing a smartwatch so much more useful. For some Fitbit devices, you can even reply to messages from your wrist. But how do you do this, and how do you manage notifications on a Fitbit device? Find out everything you need to know and more below.

All balance changes, patches, and new cards

Welcome to our Clash Royale update hub! We’ll be collecting all the official balance changes and updates for Clash Royale as they’re released by the Finnish giant Supercell. If you’re a hardcore Clasher, be sure to bookmark this page to stay up-to-date on the latest buffs, nerfs, new game modes, and new cards for Clash Royale. Below you’ll find the most recent update, followed by a list of new cards from this season.