What phone are you most looking forward to in 2019? (Poll of the Week)

Last week’s poll summary: Last week, we asked you to vote for the biggest blunder that took place in 2018. Out of almost 2,000 total votes, about 30 percent of voters said Facebook’s tone-deaf response to everyone’s privacy concerns was the biggest blunder of the year. Red’s underwhelming Hydrogen One came in at a close second with 25 percent of the votes, while Huawei’s troubles with the U.S. came in third with 13 percent of the votes.


We already know 2018 was a great year for Android phones, but now it’s time to look ahead at all the devices we’re expecting in the year to come.

I’m going to keep this one short and sweet — you already know the standout smartphones that launched this year, so you probably have a good idea of what we’re looking forward to most.

But we want to hear from you — what phone are you most looking forward to in 2019? Samsung’s Galaxy S10, the OnePlus 7, or something else? Cast your vote in the poll and feel free to leave a comment if there’s anything you’d like to add.

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Source: Android Zone

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Google potentially renaming ‘Incognito Mode’ to ‘Private Mode’ in Chrome

Google Chrome on the Pixel 2 XL.

  • A few Chrome users are reporting “Incognito Mode” references are gone, with “Private Mode” in its place.
  • It appears that only a small subset of users can see this change, suggesting a Google server-side test.
  • If Google really is abandoning Incognito Mode, it will bring it in line with other browsers which mostly use Private Mode.

Over at Android Police, a couple of tipsters reported that they surprisingly saw references to “Incognito Mode” missing in their Chrome browser. Instead, the browser used the term “Private Mode” to describe the usual Incognito Mode functions.

We here at Android Authority couldn’t see the change on any of our own Chrome browsers, and Android Police staff couldn’t either. This suggests that Google is doing a small server-side test to see if changing the name works or doesn’t work, and these tipsters just happened to see it.

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If Google does end up changing the Incognito Mode term to Private Mode, it will put it in line with other rival browsers, such as Apple Safari (“Private Window”), Mozilla Firefox (“Private Browsing”), and Microsoft Edge (“InPrivate”).

For what it’s worth, the Google Chrome support page that describes Incognito Mode uses the term “private” much more than it does “incognito.” In fact, the headline of the support page itself is “Browse in private.”

In the past, Chrome’s Incognito Mode has caused confusion for users who think that by using it they are hidden from all online trackers, which is not what Incognito Mode does. It might be that switching the name to Private Mode will better clarify what exactly happens when you use it (i.e., anything you do is not locally saved to your computer).

What do you think? Are you attached to the Incognito Mode moniker, or would you welcome a name change? Let us know in the comments!

Source: Android Zone

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Google Home now has three Spanish dialects, likely coming to Spain and Mexico

  • Google Assistant now speaks three Spanish dialects: España, México, and EE.UU. (Estados Unidos).
  • This likely means that Google Home hardware will go for sale in Spain and Mexico soon.
  • Spain and Mexico were both on the map of Assistant countries Google showed off at Google I/O 2018.

The Spanish language has had Google Assistant support for a long time now, but only in a generic format. Today, Google is rolling out three new Spanish dialects to make the Assistant voice sound more natural to your native ear.

The three new dialects are España, México, and EE.UU. (Estados Unidos). That means Spanish-speaking people in Spain, Mexico, and the United States, will be able to hear Google Assistant in their local dialect.

This also suggests that Google Home hardware will go on sale in both Spain and Mexico soon. Google’s habit is to update Assistant with a new dialect or language and then release Google Home in the respective countries of that dialect a short time later.

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While we have no direct confirmation that that’s the case here, we do know, via Android Police, that European department store El Corte Inglés briefly listed the Google Home and Google Home Mini for sale online. However, the pages were quickly taken down.

As far as we know, a similar leak of information hasn’t come down the pipeline for Mexico yet. But it’s relatively safe to assume that Google Home products are coming to Mexico soon.

At Google I/O 2018, Google showed a map of the countries that will get Google Assistant by the end of the year. Both Spain and Mexico were on the map. However, Google made no mention of which countries will get Google Home hardware sales, but it’s hard to imagine Google launching Assistant in a country and then not eventually giving residents the option to buy a Google Home.

NEXT: What Google I/O tells us about the future of Android

Source: Android Zone

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