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With our Nest Audio review now in the books, we’ve been talking about smart speakers around the office more than usual. With that being the case, we’ve had to reference Google’s growing array of smart speakers a lot and it should come as no surprise that the naming at this point feels more than clunky: […]
Earlier this month, Lenovo unveiled their new Chromebook geared towards the enterprise in the ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook. It is – as the name implies – a convertible laptop in the ThinkPad family that comes equipped with some standout, unique features for the Chrome OS ecosystem. Just as we saw the first Snapdragon-powered Chromebook in […]
Since Chrome OS 86 began it’s arrival 15 days ago, it’s been quite clear that this update wasn’t going to show up like the last few that preceded it. About a week after the initial update date, we noticed quite a few of the devices we have around the office had yet to update. From […]
Earlier this year, Apple announced iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 and as a part of that general announcement, real widgets support finally showed up on iPhones and iPads. While those of us on Android devices don’t think much of widgets at this point, iPhone users have been asking for them for quite some time and […]
It’s been a bit of time since I last ranted about one of my biggest hangups with YouTube Music’s forceful takeover of Google Play Music, so I figured the time was right to get another complaint out there for Google’s consideration. It is well-documented by now that my biggest frustration with YouTube Music as it […]
We’ve not talked too much about Samsung’s mysterious ‘Nightfury’ Chromebook because, to be frank, we just don’t fully understand what it will be when it shows up. Knowing this device is packing the same basic internals as the nearly-amazing Samsung Galaxy Chromebook, it has felt a bit odd all along knowing that ‘Nightfury’ will eventually […]
In the home speaker segment, Google has really found a solid niche that has served to bring the Google Assistant into millions of homes in a simple, affordable way. Starting with the slightly-odd Google Home that began the Google-made smart speaker effort, Google has continued to hone and perfect its speaker offerings each year since. […]
I can’t be the only person who has wished to be able to send a screenshot of something I’m looking at on TV, right? With standard TV, YouTube, Netflix, and a whole host of video content at our fingertips, the entire setup simply begs for still images from all these sources to be shared at […]
One of Chrome’s newer features on mobile is the addition of the tab grid switcher. Most of the phones I’ve had lately (yeah, I go through quite a few devices) have all had the newer tab grid view that presents your open tabs in a grid versus the older style card stack that Chrome used […]
As we roll into the 4th quarter of 2020, many minds are on very serious issues as we continue battling a pandemic and all the other complexities that this year has brought along. Regardless, we all know that holiday shopping is still going to happen, gifts will be given, and tech devices will be sold. […]
This week on The Chrome Cast, we’re diving into the new ARM-powered Chromebook that Acer just unveiled this week (the Chromebook Spin 513) that just so happens to be running on the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Compute platform. Though this device is still clearly a work in progress, the inclusion of Snapdragon chips in the […]
It’s no secret that we like to take part in a bit of pew-pew action here at the Chrome Unboxed office via games like PUBG Mobile during our daily lunch breaks. We look at it as a sort of team building exercise where strategy, teamwork, and skill all deftly mix to deliver the prized win: […]
