Winners and Losers: Pixel 7 bags two major features while Twitter Blue gets pricier on iPhone - TrustedReviews

Time to tally done the week’s biggest stories, this clip encompassing 1 heck of a payment for Pixel owners and a large downside for anyone who uses Twitter for iPhone.

Unlike astir different weeks, it’s been a genuinely tricky clip to pinpoint which stories should drawback the apical slots successful the latest iteration of Winners and Losers.

On the much affirmative broadside of that equation, owners of the Echo Show 15 got a monolithic astonishment this week arsenic the astute instrumentality can present treble arsenic a Fire TV, and Apple Music got a caller diagnostic that karaoke fans are definite to emotion successful the signifier of Apple Music Sing.

On the flipside, Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision continues to brushwood much hurdles arsenic the US Government is present stepping in, and the days of the Lightning cablegram are present officially numbered with a decease day announced by the EU Commission. In the extremity though it could lone beryllium the Pixel and iPhone stories, some of which person immense ramifications for their users.

That’s what I americium talking about…

Winner: Pixel 7

Google has stayed existent to its connection successful beefing up the Pixel line-up with its alleged ‘Feature Drop’ moments which spot caller and breathtaking skills introduced to the company’s handsets. In each fairness, the contents of this latest Feature Drop were already known good successful advance, but the features it offers are a immense measurement up that enactment the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro up of the competition.

For starters, owners of the latest Pixel smartphones tin present usage Google’s VPN work at perfectly nary other cost. VPNs are already a must-have diagnostic successful the modern age, peculiarly if you similar to enactment astatine your section cafe and you regularly link to nationalist Wi-Fi. Having a VPN to manus tin forestall hackers from stealing your accusation portion you’re connected to the section web by masking your IP address.

As idiosyncratic who presently subscribes to SurfShark VPN, I get a ton of usage retired of it but the thought of being capable to entree a VPN for escaped has maine beauteous jealous implicit present successful campy iPhone. What’s chaotic is that the escaped VPN work is conscionable 1 fractional of this caller Feature Drop, with ‘Clear Calling’ besides included.

As you mightiness beryllium capable to conjecture from the name, Clear Calling uses the caller G2 Tensor spot to amplify a person’s dependable during calls and expel immoderate inheritance sound for a smoother chatting experience. Needless to say, the future’s looking beauteous bully if you’ve precocious invested successful 1 of Google’s caller handsets.

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Loser: Twitter users connected iPhone

I can’t beryllium the lone 1 who’s struggling to support connected apical of each this Twitter drama. With the complaint astatine which features are introduced and past pulled, not to notation each of the precise nationalist spats that Elon has had with the ex-staffers of Twitter, it’s adjacent intolerable to support tabs connected the full happening but occasionally thing large cuts done the sound to drawback everyone’s attention, and this week it was the leak that Twitter Blue whitethorn outgo much for users signing up via iPhone.

In a study published by The Information, it present seems arsenic if interior discussions are taking spot astatine Twitter surrounding an $11 monthly complaint for users who motion up for Twitter Blue via iPhone. The study suggests that this is simply a backlash against the 30% taxation that Apple has installed connected immoderate gross made by an app via the App Store.

Elon Musk precocious met with Apple CEO Tim Cook aft the erstwhile criticised Apple for supposedly pulling its advertizing from Twitter. It remains to beryllium seen if the caller gathering has dispelled immoderate notions of a surcharge for iOS users but if not past it seems arsenic though the feud betwixt these 2 companies is acold from over.