Google recently announced an update to the Google Fit app. This update essentially allowed the app to turn your smartphone into a fitness tracker and allowed users to track their heart rate by just using the smartphone camera. The feature is currently available only for certain Pixel devices before Google bought the feature to a wider array of smartphones. The purpose of this article is to tell you how to monitor your heart rate using your smartphone. In the process, you will also learn how this entire process works.
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There is a clear picture emerging as far as the software update policy offered by smartphone manufacturers is concerned with Samsung pointing the way forward. But what does this mean for custom ROMs which have long been hailed as the only way we could prolong the life of older devices? Could this be the beginning of the end for custom ROM distributions? That’s our point of discussion in today’s article.
Samsung promises four years of security updates for their new smartphones
How does the Oppo Find X3 Pro perform when compared to other flagship smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra, Xiaomi Mi 11, or OnePlus 9 Pro? In this review, I have summarized my impressions after spending close to a fortnight with it as my daily driver.
I have taken Oppo’s latest pair of true wireless earbuds out for a spin, the Enco X. I did wonder whether my favorite album works with Oppo’s offering this time around? Find out in the review!
Aiming for the moon seems to be OnePlus’ motto with the OnePlus 9 Pro. Launched earlier today, on March 23, 2021, this phone is clearly positioned as the no-compromise flagship that aims to further close the gap with other high-end Android competitors. This ‘gap’ was mainly in the camera performance of OnePlus flagships. And that is exactly what Oneplus aims to fix with the OnePlus 9 Pro. Does the company’s newfound partnership with the camera experts at Hasselblad help its cause? Let’s find out!
For our poll of the week, you were asked to let us know what you think of the entire flat screen vs curved screen debate. The results were, well, quite interesting. Turns out, the majority of NextPit readers around the world have spoken loud and clear about their disenchantment with curved screens! Who would have thought!?
The Xiaomi Mi 11 is the first Android smartphone with Snapdragon 888 to be released in Europe. With its fairly conservative price of €799 for a flagship, this places as a direct competitor to the Samsung Galaxy S21. Is the Xiaomi Mi 11 a Galaxy S killer? The verdict is at the end of my full review of the Xiaomi Mi 11 on NextPit.
One of the highlights of the Oppo Find X3 Pro is a microscope camera claims to depict details up to 60x magnification. The question is: How is that even possible and how good is the image quality? Well, it’s time to find out! Consider this a small primer before we post ou detailed Oppo Find X3 Pro review.
There are phrases I would never have dreamt of saying. “Hey, I’m speaking to you through my sunglasses” happens to be one of them, but with the Fauna Audio Glasses, this dream has come true. This Bluetooth-enabled speaker-sunglasses certainly changed my mind through this review with an ingenious concept. However, there is still some work that needs to be done in terms of fine-tuning its software.
We have already reviewed a couple of Galaxy S21 smartphones here on NextPit, but the vanilla Galaxy S21 recently arrived in our editorial office several weeks after its release. We no longer want to withhold our review from you. Is your current smartphone too big for your hands? Well, the standard Galaxy S21 model could be your next best friend!
Our review of Samsung’s latest flagship, the Galaxy S22