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Google Translate Will Now Work Without the Internet on Your Android Phone

Google Translate for Android will now offer downloadable offline language packs. So now when you’re staring at a weird sign in a country where you don’t speak the language, your phone will actually be able to help you. This solves one of the hugely obvious problems with the translation app. When you’re traveling abroad, you…

The First 6 People Who’ll Get Google Glass

Google’s finally starting to reveal the winners of its #ifihadglass promotion, and surprise! You’re not one of them. Not yet, anyway, unless you happen to be one of the following six golden ticket recipients. https://gizmodo.com/how-google-hacked-our-imaginations-with-ifihadglass-5989915 A quick reminder that being selected for your world-changing #ifihadglass idea doesn’t score you a free pair of Google compuspecs.…

Thanks to Snapseed photo editing, Google+’s updated iOS and Android apps have finally joined the photo filter bandwagon.

How Android’s Multitasking Experience Could Be Even Better

Lately I’ve been thinking about the multitasking experience on Android and I feel like there’s still a lot to improve. I love how the thumbnails come up, but in 4.2.2 they made it so that the current app joined the list of “Recent Apps”. This looks great on phones and small-sized tablets, but it looks…

Evernote 5 for Android is out, finally bringing you a fancy new camera interface to match its iOS counterpart.

Google Shut Down Reader Because It Was Scared of More Screw-Ups

According to a report from AllThingsD, lack of customers wasn’t the only reason Google Reader will meet its untimely end on July 1st. It was also, for Google, a potential source of bungling that it wasn’t worth shoring up. Google has run into so many privacy issues of late—Wi-Fi snooping chief among them, but there…

Sony Xperia Tablet Z Teardown: Painstakingly Packed Parts

From what we’ve seen of the Xperia Tablet Z, it is a skinny little wonder, if not exactly the best Android tablet out there. Where it is the best though, is size, and its guts are packed nice and tight into that svelte frame. Now, we are getting to see that construction thanks to a…

Report: Google Is Making a Smart Watch Too

The Financial Times is reporting that Google is making its own version of a smart watch. What’s interesting is that it’s not Google’s experimental arm X Labs developing the watch but rather Google’s Android unit. According to FT, this smart watch would be completely different from Samsung’s smart watch (which is also reportedly in development).…

6 Reasons Google Keep Can’t Replace Evernote

Since Google launched Keep yesterday, the question on everyone’s mind has been, “how is will this measure up to Evernote?” Well don’t think the newcomer is going to suddenly oust the elephant in the room as the best service for interweb jotting. It’s just way too barebones. https://gizmodo.com/googles-note-taking-service-keep-is-live-and-its-wonde-5991578 Google Keep is lightweight-fast almost to a…

Google continues its CRAZY KILLING SPREE by putting down Frommers, which it bought last summer. Slide over, Reader.

Eric Schmidt Says ChromeOS and Android Aren’t on a Collision Course

When Andy Rubin left Android last week and was replaced by VP of Chrome and Apps Sundar Pichai, it was a departure that launched 1,000 theories. And every single one of those theories that Android and ChromeOS are now just begging to be merged. Well Eric Schmidt has a rebuttal for you: No, mostly. https://gizmodo.com/chrome-and-androids-excellent-collision-course-5990389…

Latest Chrome Experiment Turns Your Favorite Website Into a Playable Marble Madness Maze

If your favorite websites just aren’t as captivating as they used to be, the latest Chrome experiment should breathe some life back into them. Just feed it a website and the World Wide Maze will automatically deconstruct and turn it into a 3D marble maze that can be controlled using your smartphone’s accelerometer. You’ll need…

What the Next Google Play Redesign Is Probably Going to Look Like

If you’ve been itching for a redesigned Google Play on your Android phones, it’s apparently been leaked. Droid Life managed to get their hands on what looks like Google Play 4.0 and everything is brighter with bigger pictures. It’s nice looking! However much of the page layout has stayed the same. The redesign is a…

Google Fiber Finally Reaches Outside of Kansas City

Google has announced the first expansion of its new Fiber service. Its internet provision will now spill out of Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., into the city of Olathe, Kan.—a Kansas City suburb with 125,000 residents. Google first rolled out Fiber to Kansas City homes late last year, and since it’s been widely…

Jawbone Finally Recognizes Android Users As Humans, Releases App for UP

It certainly didn’t happen as quickly as some would have liked but Jawbone is finally releasing an Android app to accompany its UP band. So if you’ve been itching to try the UP activity tracker but don’t have an iOS device to actually use the thing, well, now you can. The following devices are supported…

It Took Five Years To Make a Beautiful Android Phone

Android has become an enormous success in part by appealing to a lot of people who don’t prioritize aesthetics. It’s no wonder it’s been ugly for half a decade. But finally, it’s spawned a truly gorgeous object for everyone: the HTC One. Google’s take on phones was never meant to be pretty—it was just supposed…

Google Is Adding Animated GIF Search

Finding the perfect animated GIF to describe your feelings is about to get easier—Google is adding new filters to image search that let you designate the specific file type you’re looking for. On the results page, there’s a button that says Search Tools. Select that and then under Any Type, you should see an option…

Why Android Updates Are So Slow

If there is one complaint we hear from Android users more than any other, it’s the speed at which software updates arrive. Or don’t arrive. It’s especially tough on tech enthusiasts who read about all the advantages of the new update, but can’t get it on their own devices for six months, if at all.…

The Verizon Galaxy Nexus just got an Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean update—finally.

The HTC One Is Delayed Because Suppliers Think HTC Isn’t a Top Tier Company

The HTC One, the beautiful beast of an Android, is delayed because suppliers no longer consider HTC a “tier one company”. Which basically means that component companies only care about working with Apple and Samsung. Which basically means that we’re going to have to wait a little longer to get our hands on the best…