Joe Fedewa / How-To Geek One of Android’s best features is the ability to use third-party keyboards, but Google’s own Gboard keyboard might be the best one—and the most popular. There are tons of features hidden inside Gboard to help improve your typing experience. Adjust the Height The great thing about a virtual keyboard is you can customize it to…
Joe Fedewa / How-To Geek There are very few things that are as annoying as trying to type something on a tablet. If you’re holding it with both of your hands, it can be hard to reach the keyboard keys with your thumbs. Luckily, the Gboard keyboard has a solution, which is now rolling out to Android tablets. Split keyboard mode…
Justin Duino / How-To Geek Google revealed the Pixel Tablet in full at this week’s Google I/O event, as the company’s first Android tablet in several years. It’s definitely unique, but for $500, it needs to be something more. The Pixel Tablet is an 11-inch tablet with Google’s own Tensor G2 chipset, Android 13, 128 or 256 GB of storage,…
Justin Duino / How-To Geek After much build-up, Google finally entered the foldable phone market with the Pixel Fold. It’s a similar story to last year’s Pixel Watch, which was Google’s long-awaited Wear OS device. Will the Pixel Fold have the same first-gen issues? A smartwatch and a phone with a folding display don’t have much in common on paper.…
Justin Duino / How-To Geek The Play Store has a wide variety of keyboard apps, but you might be fine with the one that came on your phone. The default Samsung Keyboard on Samsung Galaxy phones is pretty good. Are you using the best features? How to Access Samsung Keyboard Settings In order to use many of the features in…
The latest Google Authenticator update adds account synchronization—essentially, you can now save one-time passwords to your Google account, which may come in handy if lose or upgrade your phone. But, oddly enough, security researchers aren’t happy with this highly-requested feature. In a recent tweet, developer and security researcher Mysk found that Google Authenticator’s sync feature doesn’t use end-to-end encryption. So,…
Google is expected to announce the Pixel Tablet at I/O 2023 this week. But, the details of the new device won’t be a surprise anymore. An eagle-eyed Reddit user stumbled across an early-published Amazon Japan listing for the new product and shared it on the social media platform. According to the now-deleted listing, the Pixel tablet will go on sale…
It’s only a matter of time before artificial intelligence (AI), or at least a form of it, is everywhere. While Microsoft’s Bing already has AI and ChatGPT built-in, now it looks like Google’s Bard AI bot is about to invade our smartphones. Google’s Bard is a generative AI tool launched as a public preview in March, similar to ChatGPT and other…
All signs point to Google launching its new Pixel 7a smartphone and Pixel tablet next week, but that hasn’t stopped the leaks from flowing in. Google has not officially confirmed its new budget phone, but we already see hands-on videos and a full teardown surfacing on YouTube. For whatever reason, Google can’t seem to stop leaks from emerging. That’s likely why…
Google Google has been rumored to be working on a foldable smartphone for years, and a few recent leaks pointed to a launch at next week’s Google I/O event. Surprisingly, Google went ahead and revealed the device today. Google officially announced the Pixel Fold on the Made by Google Twitter account, showing off a render video of the phone opening…