A developer has investigated the update of death that led to the drastic battery downgrade of the Pixel 4a. Here's what he uncovered.

Google recently rolled out a battery update for the Pixel 4a, and it’s been a bit of a disaster. A bunch of users are reporting crazy battery drain since installing it. To add i

G oogle's Pixel 4a was a great phone back when it came out, and it got significantly more praise than its bigger siblings, the Pixel 4 and the Pixel 4 XL. The phone was updated to

Google is giving one of the Samsung Galaxy S25 's new AI tools to its own Pixel 9 phones as well as last year's Galaxy S24 series, allowing more users to try out Gemini's Talk Live shortcut.

Being the more svelte smartphone, I think the Samsung Galaxy S25 generally feels better to handle and use than the Google Pixel 9 Pro. Samsung's phone is smaller than Google's in every dimension and significantly lighter, so naturally, as a small-phone fan, the S25 speaks to me.