Gmail Can Now Also Take Calls Thanks To A New Update

The pandemic gave rise to work-from-home or study-from-home situations. People are making use of multiple workspace platforms to accomplish their tasks from home, while the world is dealing with the pandemic. To fit into the mold, Google wants Gmail to be the hub of all communications for this hybrid work environment. With the addition of the ability to place video and voice calls will allow users to collaborate with one another more easily and through a single application....

February 10, 2023 · 3 min · 442 words · Veronica Miller

Google Calendar Adds Spam Filter To Hide Invites From Unknown People

According to Google, people in the same company domain as you, those in your contact list, and those you’ve interacted with before qualify as known senders. Email event invitations from these senders will automatically appear on your calendar. If you get invites from “unknown senders,” they will not show up until you accept them manually. As you might expect, this is an optional feature. If your work involves regularly receiving calendar event invitations from unknown people, you can always choose to have all invitations appear on your calendar....

February 10, 2023 · 2 min · 356 words · Michelle Vincent

Google Confirms Pixel 6A Pricing For International Markets

The Pixel 6a international pricing confirmed, for 12 countries The Pixel 6a international pricing confirmed, for 12 countries In case you’re wondering whether the Pixel 6a will be available in your country, and how much will it cost, check out the list below. Australia: AU$749Canada: CA$599France: €459Germany: €459Japan: ¥53,900Republic of Ireland: €459Singapore: SGD 749Spain: €459Taiwan: NTD$ 13,990The UK: £399The US: $449 The Pixel 6a is now listed on the Google Store in every single one of those countries, along with its price tag....

February 10, 2023 · 2 min · 296 words · Adam Savage

Google Maps Is Getting A Homescreen Widget With Dynamic Coloring

Google recently released version 11.0 of Google Maps beta in the Play Store. An APK teardown of this app reveals that the company is preparing a new homescreen widget for Maps. While the feature is not live yet for users, Dylan Roussel of 9to5Google could enable it manually on their phone. You can see the Google Maps homescreen widget in action in the screenshot below. As you can see in this screenshot, the upcoming Google Maps widget doesn’t look too different from the recently added Chrome Quick Action Search widget....

February 10, 2023 · 2 min · 389 words · Melissa Bradley

Google Messages Bug Causes Severe Battery Drain

When you’re composing a message, you have the option to attach a photo. Well, when you tap the “add photo” button, you’ll see a photo picker with a tiled view. The first tile is actually a live viewfinder showing what your camera sees. You can quickly snap a photo and add it to your message. After doing that, your camera should shut down. However, that’s not the case. Because of this bug, Google Messages doesn’t close down the camera; it stays on in the background....

February 10, 2023 · 2 min · 399 words · Christian Campbell
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