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Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Google is rolling out simultaneous Android app downloads on the Play Store.

Only two at a time, though — try a third, and it’ll be pending until one of those finishes. My Pixel 6 can already do this, but Google often stages rollouts, so you may not have it just yet.

According to 9to5Google, this only applies to new downloads — app updates will still come down the internet tubes single file.

A screenshot showing two apps downloading simultaneously while one sits in “Pending...” status.
Can’t wait to play One Punch Man World.
Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge
Alex Cranz
Alex Cranz
The Rabbit R1 was faster than expected at one thing.

One owner apparently plugged his into his car after recieving it at the swanky NYC event a few days back and it promptly bricked itself.

They said that Rabbit was quick to replace it, but not before they snapped a pic of what looks like an Android debugging UI.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Is your phone still too bright at night?

Android expert Mishaal Rahman spotted an “even dimmer” option in Android 15 that allows the display “to go dimmer than normal.” There’s already an “extra dim” option you can manually toggle on, but Rahman suspects this new setting will automatically kick in when you’re in a dark area.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Speaking of turning your phone into a Nintendo emulator:

The best free Game Boy Advance emulator for Android is back now its developer is less scared. Pizza Boy’s Davide Berra:

After a few weeks of consideration and after discussing with several people (both in the field and not), I’ve realized that I can’t set aside a passion and effort of so many years. Experimentally, I am trying to revisit the apps to make them available again on the Google Play Store with some renewals. Let’s start with Pizza Boy A Basic and hopefully continue with the others.

The pro version let me turn my Samsung Z Flip into a GBA SP.

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Allison Johnson
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
This might be Google’s Pixel 9 Pro, complete with 16GB of RAM.

We’ve seen purported renders of the Pixel 9, now 9to5Google points out Rozetked (also a source for Pixel 3 era leaks) photos of a prototype 6.1-inch Pixel 9 Pro.

In a picture of the boot screen, it says the “caiman” device has 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM onboard (up from 12GB on the Pixel 8 Pro), along with 128GB of storage.

Composite photo, showing one picture with a Pixel 9 Ori prototype next to an iPhone 15 Pro, and a nother closer shot of its rear camera setup.
Image: Rozetked
Allison Johnson
Allison Johnson
When they go high, we go low.

Rumors suggest that Google’s midrange Pixel is getting a price bump this year. Samsung, on the other hand, is only bringing its lower priced Galaxy A35 midrange phone to the US this year — not the A55.

The A35 goes on sale in the states today with a hardy IP67 rating, stabilized main camera, and a 120Hz OLED for $399 — sounds like it could be a decent deal.