In this week’s best stories: Renders and specs arrive for the upcoming Motorola Moto G 5G / Plus, true “OnePlus Pods” wireless headphones look like AirPods, Google Photos stops backing up saved photos from social media apps, and more.
Following Samsung and LG’s lead, Motorola appears to be rolling out less iconic affordable 5G phones this year in the form of the Moto G 5G and Moto G 5G Plus. Renowned filter Evan Blass shared new renders and confirmed the specs for the two phones this week.
As for the Moto G 5G Plus, it is simply a larger version of the phone mentioned above. It comes with the same Snapdragon 765G chipset, either 4 or 6 GB of RAM, 64 or 128 GB of internal storage, and the same rear camera setup. The double drill hole notch will house an 8 megapixel sensor and a 2 megapixel depth sensor. This is a bigger phone and will come with a gigantic 4,800 mAh battery that will support 18W fast charge.
While most OnePlus fans focused on the upcoming OnePlus Nord, this week they also announced a new render of the previously leaked “OnePlus Pods”. Now we know they will come in black and can look pretty much like the recent OnePlus Bullets Wireless 2 headphones.
In particular, Oppo recently released a truly wireless pair of headphones that also fit this description. OnePlus designs and components are often similar to Oppo’s, especially for the OnePlus 8 series and Oppo Find X2 series, as both companies share the same manufacturing lines and the same owner. Take it for what it’s worth.
Following the recent redesign of Google Photos, it was discovered that the app no longer automatically backs up apps like Facebook, Instagram, and Google Messages; Please see our Ben Schoon coverage for the full list, at least not by default. If you still want to back up these photos, you can manually back up each folder in Google Photos.
Outside of that, Google is also adding a mute button to Photos. Thanks to a server-side update, Photos will add a mute button every time you start watching a video at the end of the timeline’s debugger. This change is not yet widely available, for example it is not live on my device, but it should be available to everyone sometime in the near future.
2020 is undoubtedly the year of affordable smartphones, with great devices like Samsung’s A-series devices and even the iPhone SE. This week, our Damien Wilde took a look at the lowest priced phone we could recommend, the $ 1.3, Android Go with Nokia 1.3.
Finally, Google is ready to help people save money in this scorching summer. Nest thermostat owners in most of North America should now be able to enable “Seasonal Saving” which aims to modify their programming and settings to reduce energy consumption for heating and cooling.
The changes influence everything Nest knows about your home and your temperature preferences. Another approach is to save energy during peak cost periods over the course of a day.
The goal is not to “compromise your comfort,” with changes generally “just a fraction of a degree each day.”
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