TL;DR Google has outlined the full schedule for its virtual I/O 2021 event. The calendar hints at news for Android, Chrome OS, Google Assistant, and smart homes. Wear OS doesn’t have much of a presence, however. Google has posted the full schedule for I/O 2021, and it’s clear the all-virtual event will be chock full of news — for certain users and developers, at least. I/O 2021 will start with a lengthy two-hour keynote on May 18 at 1 PM Eastern (10 AM Pacific), followed by a developer-focused 45-minute keynote at 3:15 PM.

Joe Hindy / Android Authority TL;DR Google Play system update for May 2022 adds a new self share option to Nearby Share. It also redesigns the Google Help app. Google has released the changelog for its May 2022 system update, and it adds a much-awaited feature to Nearby Share. Google’s system updates target the Android operating system, Google Play Store, and Google Play Services. They affect all things Android, including phones, tablets, Android TV devices, wearables, and more.

Google officially launched its Podcasts app for Android back in June 2018, but desktop users were left in the lurch at the time. Fortunately, it looks like Google has silently enabled a desktop website of sorts, although it’s clearly a work-in-progress version. The Google Podcasts app allows users to share a web link to a particular podcast or episode, but opening this link on desktop usually shows the podcast’s cover art and a prompt to download the Android app.

The Honor 8 brings what many have wanted from an affordable flagship for a while now: a gorgeous design, a smaller size, and a great camera. However, you'll still want to consider what you value most in a smartphone would be and base your final decision off of that. Table of contents Earlier this year, Honor released the Honor 5X, which we proclaimed to be one of the best sub-$200 smartphones available in the United States.

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds — or PUBG as it’s known by fans — is finally available on mobile. The PC, Xbox One, and now Android and iOS smash hit may have lost some ground to Epic Games’ Fortnite in the ‘great battle royale war’, but the sandbox kill-fest reigns supreme on Android sitting in the Play Store top games with millions of downloads. For those new to the game, the first thing you should know is that PUBG is all about surviving until the bitter end in a 100-person free-for-all or as a team by any means necessary.

TL;DR OnePlus has announced Hydrogen OS 11 based on Android 11. The China-specific skin comes with a ton of new features. All these features could also land on Oxygen OS 11. OnePlus has officially unveiled its Android 11-based Hydrogen OS 11 software. Hydrogen OS is OnePlus’ China-specific Android skin without Google Play services and pre-installed Google apps. In the rest of the world, the company equips its phones with Oxygen OS.

TL;DR The new Plex Super Sonic feature ditches metadata-based playlist creation. Instead, the new system “listens” to your music and crafts appropriate playlists from that knowledge. The new feature is only available to Plex Pass customers. When you create an automatic playlist on your music streaming platform of choice, it is almost certainly based on metadata. In other words, a track by Radiohead will get paired with tracks by artists in similar genres, as well as other Radiohead tracks.

Samsung is said to have created a service that collects data like the text you type and the apps you use and shares it with other applications. The report comes from The Information’s Jessica Lessin and is rather light on details. Moreover, the service might not even make it to a product, as Samsung is said to be debating internally its potential benefits and drawbacks. Dubbed Context, the service monitors everything the user does on the mobile device, including text input, app usage, and even information from the phone’s sensors.

The Samsung Galaxy S10 has arrived in not two, not three, but four models this year. While the S10e makes the phone more affordable and the 5G model remains a way off, a good chunk of this year’s smartphone purchases will probably go to the flagship Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10 Plus models. To help figure out whether these premium models are worth your money, we’re running down the specs against some of the best flagship smartphones on the market right now.

Magic is a niche hobby. However, it saw a bit of a revival over the last few years. The success of TV shows like Penn & Teller’s Fool Us along with shows like America’s Got Talent and its British counterpart. Magic is a hands-on hobby so there isn’t a lot of material out there for mobile devices. A lot of the stuff you can find are just modernized versions of old learning methods.