When it announced the new Googlebook laptops yesterday, a few commenters noticed the name seemed familiar, but only one realized just how familiar.
BlueClouds:
There is Google Play Books (to buy ebooks), Google Books (to search books), and now the Googlebook.
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That’s the pitch for the 17 Max, a new phone Xiaomi is teasing on Weibo. It looks exactly like the regular Xiaomi 17, but has a 6.9-inch display — the same size as the 17 Pro Max and Ultra. That’s all we know so far, but it launches in China this month.
In case you missed it, yesterday’s Android Show stream included a brief list of every phone with current and confirmed plans for AirDrop support in Quick Share. Google also told The Verge that Xiaomi is planning support this year, though we don’t yet know to which phones.
Adobe’s updated Premiere video editing app, which launched on iOS last September, will finally arrive on Android “this summer.” It’ll include some Android-exclusive templates and effects designed for YouTube Shorts.
There are also Android-exclusive tools coming to Instagram’s Edits app, including AI upscaling and automatic audio track separation.
[Google Blog]
That’s where DJI will launch the Osmo Pocket 4P on May 14th, during the annual film festival. We’d previously assumed the new dual-camera steadicam would be called the Pocket 4 Pro. The recent Pocket 4 didn’t get a US launch, but a rebranded Pocket 4P for the US may be on the way.
If Palantir can stick its logo on French workwear, why not The Verge? That gets my vote in our new call for Verge merch ideas.
Blernsball:
French chore coat obvs.
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