One of Android M‘s cool new features is meant to improve the overall user experience concerns battery life. Announced on stage last week during the opening keynote of Google I/O 2015, Doze will put apps in a deep sleep status and will supposedly have a significant impact on battery life. Now, a first round of early testing shows that the feature already works, even though Android M is only available in an early beta version of Google’s latest mobile software.
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Remember Matt Damon’s surprising cameo in Interstellar last year? In that film, Damon’s character has been stranded on a frozen planet for years, waiting for someone to come and see whether or not he had found a habitable environment for the human race. We only hear stories about his time alone on the planet, but what if there was an entire film about that experience?
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Researchers from the University of Washington have found a way to use a Wi-Fi router to wirelessly charge batteries for a variety of devices, while simultaneously offering users unhindered access to wireless Internet. The best part about it is that the new tech is compatible with existing wireless routers, which could be upgraded via a simple firmware update to support it.
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Every year, without fail, the iPhone gets thinner and thinner. And every year, without fail, iPhone owners routinely exclaim that they’d rather have better battery life than an even thinner form factor.
Well, today Apple introduced a new iOS 9 feature that may cure some of your iPhone related battery woes. Dubbed ‘Low Power’ mode, the new iOS 9 feature was quickly glossed over during today’s jam-packed WWDC keynote but is worth highlighting.
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Apple revealed several great new features with iOS 9, but as ever there’s something for users to gripe about. In particular, there were many glaring issues with iOS that still won’t be fixed with the release of iOS 9. We’ve listed all the big ones below.
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Apple on Monday unveiled iOS 9, OS X El Capitan, WatchOS 2 and Apple Music during a lengthy WWDC 2015 keynote. As long as the keynote was, however, the company wasn’t able to introduce and demo tons of new features for each operating system, including iOS 9, leaving many of them to be discovered by developers.
Though they were missing from Apple’s presentation, the company did reveal more than 30 hidden iOS 9 features that’ll be available to users and developers later this year.
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During the WWDC 2015 keynote on Monday, Apple unveiled its long-awaited music streaming service, Apple Music. It wasn’t much of a surprise after weeks worth of leaks spoiled most of the service’s features, but it was still exciting to see the original king of digital music enter the latest (and most competitive) arena.
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David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are remarkably bad at their jobs.
In case you weren’t aware, Benioff and Weiss are the showrunners on HBO’s astoundingly expensive and outrageously successful fantasy series Game of Thrones. They have arguably the most difficult job of any showrunners in the business, with dozens of actors to work with, several world-spanning storylines to coordinate and a budget that would intimidate the Iron Bank.
But last night, they proved once and for all that they don’t know how to keep an audience invested in their show.
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Sure, a bulky, noisy keyring in our pockets is one of life’s smaller problems…but that doesn’t mean we have to deal with it. One great solution is this deal on the KeySmart 2.0 organizer. The KeySmart 2.0 and included expansion pack are designed to hold two times the keys in half the space, so you can store and easily access up to 10 keys. Most types and sizes will fit, and the study aluminum and stainless steel design will hold up whether it’s in your pocket or at the bottom of your bag. Problem solved.
At $16.99 and free shipping, the KeySmart 2.0 is a steal—get yours at the BGR Store today.
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Ok Apple fans, take a deep breath. Now take another one. Apple’s huge WWDC 2015 keynote is over and done with, and you can finally take a moment to gather yourself and collect your thoughts. There were plenty of rumors heading into this year’s event and as always, they nailed just about everything Apple announced on stage during its presentation. The real fun is in the details though, and we can take some time to digest them all now that everything has been flushed out.
In this post, you’ll find links to our coverage containing everything you need to know about all the announcements Apple made during its big WWDC 2015 keynote.
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