Oswaldo Royett

  The best from Apple, Samsung, Sony,  Beats, and more It’s hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days. The market has come a long way since the early era of true wireless earbuds when we had to deal with mediocre sound quality and unreliable performance, all for the sake of ditching wires. Things are much different now. After several product generations of learned lessons, companies like Sony, Apple, Samsung, and others are releasing their most impressive earbuds yet. You can get phenomenal noise cancellation and sound quality in the premium tier of earbuds if you’re willing to spend big. But those aren’t always the most important criteria for everyone: maybe you’re looking for the perfect fitness earbuds or for a set that works just as well for Zoom calls as for playing your favorite playlists and podcasts. Tech companies are increasingly making their earbuds work best with their own products through exclusive features and functionality, so that’s another thing to...

  Quick settings that are actually quick Android 12 is Google's most significant transformation to its mobile operating system since Material Design first debuted in 2014. Unfortunately, not every change has been for the better. The quick settings menu got a new Internet tile, combining all of Android's various Wi-Fi and mobile data options into a single place. Of course, that requires additional taps not found in previous versions, forcing some users to push ADB commands to their phones to restore the previous layout. If you happen to have one of Sony's recent phones, you'll be glad to know its take on Android 12 undoes this change — though, it seems, not entirely on purpose. The Xperia 1 III and Xperia 5 III started getting their respective software updates a couple of weeks ago, with some eagle-eyed users over at the Xperia subreddit managing to spot a big improvement (via XDA Developers). Unlike Pixel devices, Sony's Android 12 update includes separate toggles f...

  As we spotted in November and following the latest push for RCS support on iPhone earlier this month, Google Messages is starting to roll out iMessage reactions in beta for Android users. Once rolled out to your Android phone, Google Messages will convert iMessage reactions (officially referred to as “Tapbacks“) sent by iPhone users in response to SMS/MMS. Instead of them appearing as an annoying text version (e.g., Loved “Testing”), the response on your device will appear in the bottom-right corner of the message bubble you sent, similar to the iOS-to-iOS experience. That said, Google made some interesting choices in the translation process. The iMessage “Heart” becomes the “Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes” emoji. Similarly, “Haha” is “Face with Tears of Joy.” The “exclamation marks” become “Face with Open Mouth” and the question mark is “Thinking Face.” Thumbs up/down remains faithful to their iMessage counterparts. Google’s decision to use face emojis rather than symbols might se...

Last year Tag Heuer made headlines for releasing the most expensive Android Wear device and this year they’re following that up with another similarly priced. While we were going to have to wait until tomorrow to hear more about the watch, TAG Heuer accidentally released information about the new Connected Modular 45 Watch online early… First spotted by Droid-Life, the Connected Modular 45 Watch will come featuring a 45 mm watchface, Android Wear 2.0, NFC, GPS, will be water-resistant to 50 meters, have an AMOLED display with 4GB of RAM, an ambient light sensor, a battery that should make the watch last more than 24 hours, and will be powered by an Intel CPU. The standout feature for the Connected Modular 45 Watch comes from the “modular” part of the watch’s name. This is because not only will you be able to change out the device’s watchband, lugs, and buckle, but you will also be able to swap out the Connected smartwatch module and replace it with...

Before the release of  android  5.0 Lollipop we saw many  Xperia themes  based on it and now after its official launch various theme makers are coming with  Xperia Android 5.0 Themes , latest one to join  the list  is XDA dev SKA67’s Xperia  Android 5.0 Theme  pack  with material design  wallpapers  in which there are 5 Xperia themes. You need  android 4 .3  to install  the themes. APK   Xperia  Android 5.0 Theme  pack Theme 1 Theme 2 Theme 3 Theme 4 Theme 5

Sony’s  Android  5.0 Lollipop update’s rollout  schedule  is already out and many material design UI  apps  from  android  5.0 are available  for download  and in between all we are sharing today another Xperia  Android  5.0 Lollipop Theme for non rooted as well as rooted Xperia devices running  android 4 .4.2+ ( for no root ) /  android 4 .3 ( rooted device needed ). It works on our non rooted Xperia Z2 running  android 4 .4.4. Xperia  Android  5.0 Lollipop Theme gives you  official  material design wallpaper from  android  5.0 on lock screen and home screen,  android  L style navigation keys, white grey colored status bar, white  system  UI with green as ascent color of the theme. APK   Xperia  Android  5.0 Lollipop Theme

Android: If you thought you had to wait for Lollipop to roll out before you got your hands on Google's new material design releases, you thought wrong. While they might not be available in the Google Play Store just yet, you can download the Maps, Calendar, and Gmail 5.0 APKs now.  Google Maps ,   Calendar , and   Gmail  are all getting big updates, and you can check them out now through these leaked APKs. The best part is that you don't need Lollipop to download them. Gmail requires 4.0, Calendar requires 4.0.3, and to grab Maps you'll need 4.3. From your device, click the download button on each page. When the download is complete you'll be automatically prompted to install the updates with just a couple of taps. APK  Maps 9.0.0 (Android 4.3+) APK  Calendar 5.0-1554015 APK  Gmail 5.0 (1556543)