Let’s hope the Galaxy Note 9 doesn’t burn up | #PNWeekly 309 (LIVE at 4p ET)

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Are we finally ready for a bigger battery on a Galaxy Note phone? Do you want a 9-year-old iPhone for kicks? And we have gripes to tell you about!

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Android O dessert not named in Reddit AMA, but here are some highlights!

By the way, some jokey joke suggestions included "Oak Tree Cookie" and "Oobleck." But there's plenty of pertinent stuff to go through.

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Twitter Night Mode shifts to iOS

What Android lost, Twitter has found, picked up and blasted it back not only to Android users, but our friends rocking iOS, too.It’s the dark aesthetics of Night Mode and, yes, a couple months after the Android Twitter app got the  new toggle, we find iOS getting a little roll-out action today.Well, “little” compared to the Nougat update, but whatevs.Rolling out today – ...

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Night Mode on Twitter debuts for Android

Nighttimes call for light measures. In the case of looking at your brightly lit smartphone screen at night, that means easing the work your eyes have to do to balance its vision.Well, if you spend hours digging through your clogged up Twitter feed before bed, make ...

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Why is Google afraid of the dark… theme?

We recently produced a video tour of the newest Android N preview, and viewers were quick to point out an omission. This build of Android lacked a dark theme. This has been a long requested feature in the Nexus community, and we’ve seen glimpses of it pop up in BETA builds, but Developer Preview 3 has cut the ability to go dark.Why go dark?Some might see this as a throwback to the Holo theme days of Android 4, but there are some advantages in making a phone’s interface dark. For folks using phones with AMOLED displays, ...

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Google rumor roundup: Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Android Marshmallow

On a Thursday in New York, we’ll be waiting on Microsoft to introduce some new Lumias and LG to introduce a one-sided cyclops. But this Tuesday on the left coast, we’re chomping at the bit for some new hardware and one big reveal on software from Google. If you haven’t brushed up on the details of what we’ve been talking about, don’t worry!

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Android Marshmallow should be embracing the Dark Theme, not getting rid of it

Android Marshmallow 6.0 is getting close to being released, and we’re starting to see what the final version will – and will not – include once it starts being distributed to devices later this month. One of the things that’s missing: the Dark theme – and that’s a problem.After users started to notice the Dark theme was missing in recent preview builds of Android Marshmallow, the community reached out to Google on an Android Developer Preview forum. The response from a Google representative was disheartening: this feature will not be a part of ...

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