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In addition to adding features for pro photographers, the second public beta of Android 16 being released today lets you quickly access Google Wallet by double pressing your device’s power button, as discovered by Android Authority’s Mishaal Rahman.

Yesterday leaker Evan Blass shared renders of Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy A56, and today he’s followed up with the similar looking Galaxy A36. It has the same redesigned camera module and raised power and volume button island.

The Google AI assistant’s Deep Research mode now works on both Android and iPhone, though is still exclusive to paying Gemini Advanced subscribers. The mode, which can produce relatively detailed research reports, launched as a web-only option in December. It expanded to Android last week and iOS yesterday.

Here’s our first look at this year’s Motorola Razr Plus, courtesy of Android Headlines, and it looks an awful lot like last year’s Motorola Razr Plus. The design appears just about identical, so the only thing that’s really new here is the dark green color with a stitched faux leather finish.

Oppo has confirmed a February 20th global launch for its Find N5. The company already teased the phone’s thinness, waterproofing, and nearly invisible display crease, and we only have ten days to wait for the rest. A new trailer shows the phone off in full, but sadly this global ad doesn’t include the purple version China is getting.

Android Authority spotted Android 16 beta code that would add a new “Time zone change” toggle in Android Date and time settings under Notifications. A description below the toggle reads, “Receive a notification when your time zone is automatically updated.”

Oppo hasn’t exactly kept its new foldable a secret, but the leaker has done one better, sharing renders in three colors and a variety of angles. It’s our best look yet at the Hasselblad rear camera, rumored to include three 50 megapixel shooters.

Oppo can’t stop teasing its Find N5 foldable. Chief product officer Pete Lau took to X to show off the phone’s almost invisible display crease — especially compared with Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 6 beside it — and demonstrate its water-resistance.

Along with an image teasing a new button on the side of (presumably) the Phone 3A, Nothing cryptically posted, “Your second memory, one click away.”

Google’s cheaper Pixel A-series phones usually launch in the summer, but the 9A might come early. Android Headlines reports that Google will open preorders on March 19th, with shipping a week later. Previous leaks reported that the phone will once again start at $499, but may break from recent Pixel design philosophy by ditching the camera bar.

A teaser hints that we can expect the 3A series to have Nothing’s first triple-camera along with updated Glyph lighting when it launches on March 4th. Last year’s affordable 2A and 2A Plus never officially released in the US, and we don’t yet know if the 3A will change that. It’s separate from the regular Phone 3, which CEO Carl Pei promised would be “flagship” when it arrives.

The new version of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp -- free of in-app purchases -- debuted last December at $9.99 for a limited time.

Turns out Google’s photo manager wasn’t able to flip photos from left-to-right — until now. The editing feature has just been added, found within the Crop tools, which cover photo rotation too. For now at least, it’s Android only.

Yes, it does look a lot like Apple’s Vision Pro, but that is actually Project Moohan, the Samsung / Google project we tried out last month and saw again recently at Samsung Unpacked.

Carl Pei’s upstart tech brand teases a new launch on March 4th, right in the middle of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) event. The post hints at what might be the company’s first triple camera on a phone. Earlier this month Pei promised “a landmark smartphone launch” in Q1, but will this be the “flagship” Phone 3, or something else entirely?

A Reddit user spotted that the only available Android image for Pixel 4A phones is this month’s mandatory update Google issued to address unspecified battery problems, reports 9to5Google.

The $250 million deal — announced after Samsung’s extended reality headset made its public debut yesterday — includes parts of HTC’s XR headsets and glasses unit, with some of the VIVE engineering team relocating to Google.