On today's Pocketnow Daily, we talk about the official announcement of the LG V60 ThinQ 5G, a possible leaked video of iOS 14 and more
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Possible iOS 14 video leak shows new iPhone multitasking
This could probably be the first look at the new multitasking user interface that may come with the new iOS 14 software update
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Folding ZTE Axon M snaps into AT&T lineup
This is the Chinese manufacturer's first flagship device on an American carrier ever. ZTE hopes it will unfold into a butterfly.
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Android O picture-in-picture mode now works with video on Chrome
In our cursory test, Vimeo worked in this mode where you can pop out of Chrome to another app. Going live, though, Twitch didn't work through Chrome.
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Philips triggers ASUS smartphone sales injunction in Germany over patent issues
Taiwanese manufacturer ASUS seems to be fairly popular in Germany, but it doesn’t sell smartphones anymore in the country. Sure, you might find them on retail shelves and other sites, but you can’t buy a ZenFone or a ZenPad tablet direct from the company.The reason why? Patents.Dutch conglomerate Philips has taken issue over a design patent that it believes ASUS is infringing upon, ...
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iPhone 7 Plus multitasking takes advantage of RAM with iOS 10.1 beta
You don’t see the explosion of posts about how the iPhone 7 Plus have had poor multitasking capabilities as you’ve seen with the OnePlus 3. Part of that could be with the optics of numerals — the OnePlus phone had 6GB of RAM while the Apple-optimized iPhone 7 Plus held 3GB.Still, just because you have complete control of hardware and software, that doesn’t mean that the whole ...
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Mac OS X becomes macOS Sierra
When you talk about “OS X,” Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, ribbed his engineers for going on some “inspired” tour around California. Well, now it’s time to say hello to “Sierra,” but bye bye to Mac OS X. It’s “macOS Sierra”.And there’s no shortage of mobile-related features that will be introduced to the Mac for continuity purposes.Auto Unlock allows Apple Watch owners to unlock their Macs just by having their smartwatch nearby if both machines are on the same network. It’s pretty much an ...
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Dock, Activity sharing introduced with watchOS 3
watchOS is getting a bump up to version 3. It will keep favorite apps in memory, speed up launches, and updates information in the background. More importantly, instead of the multiple seconds it takes to load an app and update its front-end data, it’s all instant.The Dock is new to watchOS 3. By pressing the side button, you can fly through recent apps, all of them showing a live screenshot with new data for your quick glance.Control Center makes a migration from iOS. With a swipe from the bottom, you get a quick look at battery and toggles. Quick reply options for messages get ...
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Take up Android N’s Split Screen mode with two Chrome windows
Android developers are starting to get what we want to do on our tablets — read a whole bunch of stuff at once. And in the latest Developer Preview, we can definitely do that on Chrome.Taking advantage of the Split Screen feature that got canonized this week, opening up Chrome and looking at the extended context menu will allow you ...
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How Android can really do split-screen multitasking right
Some of you are too young to remember the early days of computing. Back in the 1980’s most of us ran MS-DOS. In this environment your user interface was a black screen with a flashing white cursor (or some other color combination). From there you’d type a command to launch whatever program you wanted to run. That program might have been a word processor, a spreadsheet, an encyclopedia, a game, or some other “app”. Not only could you only run one program at a time, you had to exit out of it if you wanted to switch to another one. Yeah, try writing a research paper ...
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Split View multitasking for all if you jailbreak your iOS 9 device
Apple introduced native multi-pane app tasking to iOS 9 before Android will. Right now, though, the feature’s availability is just about as limited as what you might see from a couple of OEMs’ Android devices — namely, Samsung,
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Three ways Apple’s multitasking beats the competition
By far one of the biggest announcements of WWDC yesterday was when Craig Federighi demonstrated the new multitasking capabilities of iOS 9 on the iPad. Everything we’ve been lusting over for years is finally here; there’s splitscreen multitasking, column browsing, even picture-in-picture video. Of course, there will always be the buzzkills ...
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