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Emergency satellite messaging is no longer limited to rugged specialist devices. In Spain, owners of an iPhone 14 or later and a Google Pixel 9 or later—except the Pixel 9a—can send text messages to emergency services over satellite when cellular and Wi-Fi coverage fail. It is not a voice call or a normal chat. It … Read more
A stolen smartphone is an expensive inconvenience. A stolen smartphone that is still unlocked — or whose passcode the thief watched you tap in — is a financial emergency. That is the thinking behind two features Google and Apple have been steadily building into their platforms: Anti-Theft Protection on Android and Stolen Device Protection on … Read more
Samsung’s Galaxy S23 family is one software generation away from retirement, while the Galaxy Watch 5 faces an even tighter horizon. Based on the timelines that follow from Samsung’s own published policy, the phone should receive One UI 9 on top of Android 17 as its final major platform upgrade, with security patches stretching into … Read more
Apple has released iOS 20.1, and tucked into the update notes dated 13 October 2026 is the capability users have requested for years: Siri can now drive Spotify through full natural-language instructions, backed by Apple Intelligence. In practice, a request such as “put on some quiet jazz for working, no saxophone, and nothing that has … Read more
Samsung has published the end-of-support calendar for the Galaxy hardware still inside its update pipeline, drawing a firm line under two of its most widely used product families. The Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+ and Galaxy S23 Ultra will keep receiving software through February 2027, while the Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro — … Read more
Waze has spent months stacking up updates that quietly reshape how the app behaves, and most of them slipped past users unnoticed. The navigation platform now routes drivers straight to a saved contact without typing a single address, clones their own voice for turn-by-turn guidance from just six seconds of audio, and plans journeys using … Read more
Samsung’s Android 17 generation has moved past its flagship debut and into a full fleet-wide rollout. One UI 9, which first shipped on the Galaxy Z Fold 8 family, is now reaching a steadily widening pool of Galaxy phones and tablets — and the gap between devices that make the cut and those that don’t … Read more
Apple has begun rolling out the most substantial redesign of Siri in the assistant’s history, and with iOS 27 the new Siri AI arrives as something closer to a system-wide reasoning layer than a voice command tool. It delivers contextual answers, searches across your installed apps, stitches together information from multiple sources and can act … Read more
Google’s long-awaited answer to motion sickness on Android is now rolling out as part of Android 17, arriving roughly two years after Apple shipped a comparable tool on the iPhone. Motion Assist draws subtle animated shapes along the edges of the screen that move in step with the vehicle, so your eyes receive the same … Read more
Wi-Fi calling — VoWiFi in industry shorthand — quietly reroutes your phone’s calls and text messages over your wireless broadband connection instead of the carrier’s cellular antenna. For anyone wrestling with dead zones at home or in the office, it is one of the most genuinely useful switches buried in a smartphone’s settings menu. It … Read more