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The great debate about whether iOS is safer than Android, myths and realities of ‘Breaking Bad’ and much more in 1×09 crossover

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Can anyone manufacture your own drugs How did it happen in ‘Breaking Bad’? To tell us about the myths and realities of that series and many other things, he has accompanied us In this 1×09 crossover A very special guest: Breaking Vlad. This well -known scientific disseminator is also an original content creator because of his way of talking about chemical experiments, and in the interview we have been able to do, he answers striking questions about the radiation of phones or about the future of hydrogen cars. Presented as sowing by Jaume Lahoz and Carlos Santa Engracia, in this episode the collaboration of Xataka serves to reactivate an old and controversial debate: If iOS is safer than Android. Both platforms have been really reliable for a long time, and perhaps the problem, as the interview reveals, is another. It is also necessary to separate that debate from another in which Apple does take advantage of Google. One thing is security – things are balanced – and another very different privacy, where Apple’s business model – which is not focused on advertising – allows the company to give more guarantees. In 1×09 crossover there is also a place to make a fun debate about false news that we have seen these days – a Chromecast with integrated Tinder? -, and as we always expect your comments and ideas to improve in upcoming episodes. Enjoy it! On YouTube | Crossover

We promised them happy with the 7,000mah batteries. But Android is still Android

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I have been able to try the Realme GT 7one of the first phones in the market (generalist, no gaming) with 7,000mAh battery. A full -fledged mobile with a battery whose duration is good, but not superlative. The point is that this is not the first time something like that happens to me. I have tried mobiles with 4,500mAh batteries that lasted a lot more than others with 5,000Mah. Mobile with 5,000MAH with completely disparate durations, and then we have Apple with a 4,600mAh battery that lasts more than some much larger. Not everything is the ability. Welcome is the ability. Between 7,000mah and 5,000mah I have it clear: big horse. A battery with greater nominal capacity, to equal optimization and consumption of the components, is a battery aimed at having a longer duration. A clear example is the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge With its 3,900mah battery. Miracles do not exist and, with that capacity and the screen of a Galaxy S25+I was destined to have a battery that lasts little. Android is very Android. Android is a relatively free system, and this has as many advantages as inconvenience. There is nothing more efficient at an energy level than an AOSP ROM, based on “Pure Android” and with hardly any background processes. The issue is that manufacturers want to put their icing: customization layers. Although they provide added value, starting to build on Android is not simple, and adding both applications and extra processes, sometimes, does not work out. If a version is not optimized, it will devour resources, have the physical battery that the device has. There are even more elements. To the optimization that each manufacturer has to do in the system if you want the ROM to work well, you have to add that each phone element (screen, modem, Bluetooth, Wifi), has its associated controllers. A bad optimization or adjustment in the software that manages basic hardware elements can translate into triggered consumption. And, beyond optimization, hardware elements themselves can consume more or less. There are more or less efficient screens, there are more or less efficient processors, thermal management … The cocktail to create a mobile with a battery that lasts what must last is complex. The solutions. Sometimes, it is best to admit that there is no solution. If your mobile lasts little because milliamps are missing, there is no way out. In the opposite case, there is hope. If a telephone has a brutal battery, but it does not last enough, it is necessary to know the manufacturer to work in an update that solves it. It is not something, unfortunately, too common. But it is neither the first nor the last time that a phone does not work as fine in launch and, within a few weeks, it all starts stabilizing. In fact, this is not just an Android problem, although the system is more prone to these instabilities in the battery. I still remember The terrible battery of the iPhone 12 Pro. Yes, he had “only 2.815mah”, but the iPhone 13 pro lasted much more with 300mAh more. Super -healing problems, a total (health) capacity that touched 80% in just one year of use … Image | Xataka In Xataka | Save battery on your mobile: 28 things that increase their consumption on Android or iPhone and you can avoid

How to manually update Android Auto so as not to have to wait to have your latest version

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Let’s explain How to manually update Android Auto On your mobile not to wait to have your latest version. Thus, if when you look at your Android Auto Ves that you go several versions below the last launched, you will have a way to solve it. In Basics we are always telling you the novelties of each new version, but what happens is that then these versions take a long time to arrive, and the mobiles usually go several below. This is normal, but there is a fairly manual way to solve it. Manually update Android Auto To manually install Android Auto, you have to resort to file download Android APK. These files are those that allow you to install applications manually without resorting to the official Google application store, although it has risks in the case of downloading them from unknown pages, because they are often used to install malware. To be able to do this, you have to configure your mobile for allow you to install unknown sources files. This is deactivated by default to avoid malware installation by APK, but in the settings or even when you are going to install it you will have to change the configuration to accept them. There are several pages where you can download these files with the latest version of this operating system, being the most reliable APK Mirror. Specifically, you can enter Android Auto in Apkmirror and lower the latest version available. On this website you will have to choose between the ARM and ARM64 architectures, although if your mobile is currently almost certain that you need is the ARM64. Once the file is downloaded, you have to Install the APK on your Android manually and restart. In Xataka Basics | Delete cache on Android Auto: how is it done and what exactly this trick is for solving problems

Glasses connected with Android XR

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Google wants we all wear glasses. Not to correct a defect of our view, but to turn this accessory into the definitive complement of our smartphone. The advance of Android XR shown during its Google I/O 2025 event, and a future is emerging in which the connected glasses will go far beyond what the headphones or smart watches have gone. Two better than one. The launch of Vision Pro Apple in February last year caused an inevitable “Wow” effect. Months later we discovered that Google and Samsung had Together forces for launch Project Moohanaugmented reality glasses with an approach similar to Apple’s. Now that bet has been unfoldedbecause we will also have Google connected glasses that follow the line of the Meta Ray-Ban and go even further by integrating a small screen into one of the glasses. Android XR to power. The new Google operating system for this family of devices is Android XRa Android variant specifically designed to run in augmented reality glasses and connected glasses such as those mentioned. The interface is based on gestures and especially in the voice, and there seems to be any type of viewing system for the moment, as it happens in the pro vision. Gemini as a differential element. Gemini’s advance, Google’s generative model, is patent. It has been possible for months to talk with Gemini naturally and with each new version those conversations become not only more natural, but more useful. The yesterday demos with Project Astra They demonstrated it, and convert the voice and natural language into a crucial component for the success of the glasses. Here Google seems to go one step ahead of its competitors, both Apple and Meta, at least with the functions of AI included at this time. Experience is a degree. What we are seeing now is the result of more than a decade of Google work. The firm already tried to convince us to wear glasses years ago with The singular Google Glassbut that did not curdle. The ideas were good, but the implementation not so much. They caused as much fascination as disgustperhaps due to a format and design that failed in the essential: for better and for worse it was noticed that you were a user of such glasses. With Android XR the design wants to be totally traditional, as it is in the Ray-Ban Meta. Glasses are more versatile. There is another element that favors glasses as a product: they promise more varied use cases. They replace the headphones thanks to the integrated speakers, and provide more things than smart watches, which focus much more on physical activity and health for years. The glasses are in fact a form of get the motive less out of the pocket When you go down the street, and probably the evolution of technology will make us more and more. Going to a site, sending messages, receiving calls, asking questions about something we are seeing: all that we can do in one way or another with the mobile we can do it more directly, naturally and better with the glasses. Or that is the promise, at least. Goal is in the fight. Google connected glasses will still take time to arrive, but those mentioned Meta Ray-Ban They are currently the great reference in this segment. Mark Zuckerberg firmly believes in this product, and in fact provides that In 2030 we will almost not get the mobile out of the pocket Because we will do everything from the glasses and with the voice. Other great Chinese technology companies as Xiaomi or Baidu They seem to be as clear. And Apple, what? The technological jump proposed by the Apple Vision Pro is remarkable, but the cases of practical use are limited and the price is an obstacle too important for many users. That has made its success limited, but In Apple they seem to have a plan B. It would be to develop an affordable alternative of the pro vision that perhaps adopts the format of the finish line: more modest in benefits, but also much more suitable for using as the almighty complement iPhone. More competition. Google and Google have the front here, but it is clear that other manufacturers, such as the aforementioned Xiaomi and Baidu, will join this market to try to take a piece of that cake. Yesterday we learned that one of the first to offer these glasses connected to Android XR It will be Xrealwhich has long been offering remarkable products in this area. The advantage of the ecosystem. Here the hardware imports, without a doubt, but also the operating system used and of course the functions of AI that allow to interact with this wearable through the voice. Here Google has an advantage again thanks to its ecosystem (Android XR + Gemini), but we will certainly see proposals from other manufacturers. If everything goes as it seems, it is likely that in a few years More people wear glasses down the street. And not because they have vision problems. In Xataka | Musk, Gates, Zuckerberg and Altman believe that our mobiles have the days counted. Tim cook doesn’t have it so clear

Google has hit an acceleration in the race for AI. That multiplies the Android value

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A pylon hammer. That is what Google seemed yesterday in the opening talk of its Google I/O event. The company left us An avalanche of ads related to advances in their artificial intelligence models and, of course, of the practical applications that these advances will mean. Google’s ambition is clear, and yesterday they took a giant step to become the great winners of the race and AI. Hello, this is the future. Although some of the novelties will not be available immediately, Google’s speech was clear: this can be the future. One in which we will not touch the mobile so much, but we will constantly talk with him. Gemini’s advance – which now has an “Deep Think” mode of reasoning – is clear, and Google has hit an acceleration to apply it everywhere. And especially in one. Ai mode vs traditional search engine. It is likely that searching on the Internet has changed forever. What we already saw with Perplexity now arrives much clearer to the Google search engine thanks to its “ai mode” in which the search engine He no longer delivers results, but talks with us. That will leave the traditional search engine more and more, which at the moment remains the one that is selected by default. For the moment. Advances everywhere. The improvements in PROJECT ASTRA They demonstrated how the AI ​​assistant is already prepared to “infiltrate” in our lives. They have already integrated it with Chrome, but also wins overlaps with Search Live, the mode of operation with which our mobile serves as their eyes, ears and mouth to interact with the world. Advances in image 4 and I see 3 —I Flow– They join others such as real -time translation on Google Meet – which will also reach the connected glasses. A more practical and useful than ever. But the most relevant message was precisely the one that Google found its product demos. The AI ​​that now seems to be limited to very specific tasks demonstrated in these releases how it could help solve everyday problems. Fix a bike with the wizard, try new clothes virtually, that the AI ​​monitor the price of a product and let you know and buy it (with your previous confirmation) or travel to any country and understand you with other people without speaking their language – a old promise, now closer than ever – were some of those demonstrations. And in all of them, Google’s AI showed unstoppable advance. One that, by the way, will boost its other great product. Android with super powers. Google’s mobile platform remains a fundamental pillar of these advances, because the AI ​​that is available through models such as Gemini does not act alone: ​​it is a complement, almost a “plugin” for Android, whose inertia and influence are evident in the mobile market. And its variants, too. Although in many cases the solutions created by Google are used on other platforms (Jules In PCs and laptops, I see/image too) there is an intimate relationship with Android and of course, with its variants. A few days ago Google already made clear its plans to Integrate Gemini in the car, in the clock or on television. All of them make use of Android operating systems, but there is another especially promising. Glasses. In Xataka we have been able Try the new Google glasses with Gemini And experience, even being limited by based on a prototype, is hopeful for this type of product. The integration of AI functions is something that the Ray-Ban Meta had already pointed out, and it is clear that this market promises to be especially important in the coming years. And again, below Android XR, which can end up becoming a true pillar of Google’s strategy. Faced with Google’s ambition, Apple’s indifference. Google’s staging yesterday – and Microsoft in its Build conference The day before – demonstrated the ambition of these companies in the field of AI. They have opted everything to this technology and seem especially prepared to get all the juice to this revolution. Meanwhile, Apple does not stop losing trains and giving disappointing news In this segment. Waiting for wwdc 2025. We can take Apple’s pulse much better in less than a month. On June 9, the opening talk of the WWDC 2025 is celebrated, and it will be then when we know if Apple has something real to show ourselves in the matter of AI or declined even more from the headplay. A priori it does not seem that they can move file soon, and the company’s approach seems to be much more cautious and gradual than that of the competition. Here Apple prefers to wait for their proposals to be much more polished before presenting them, but there is also the other option: that they are really in trouble and this can pass them long -term invoice. In Xataka | Everything we have seen of Apple Intelligence places Apple far behind in Ia. Even their employees believe it

I have tried the new Android design 16. If this is what awaits the Google system … that they have my sword

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Yesterday was one of those days that are marked forever in the technological calendar. We may not be aware of the impact that everything presented yesterday will have, but Google marked a before and after not only in the future of Gemini and Android, but in how we relate to consumer electronics. While showing us how they will work Android XR glassesthe Project Beam holographic callsand the Ai mode in the searchThe company launched one of Android’s greatest resideños to date. The Google Pixel selectable can already enjoy Android 16 With this change in design, and we have tried it. The launcher. He launcher It is one of Android’s most iconic parts and, and Google never dares to change it too much. It remains almost equal to what we had seen so far, with some small aesthetic change in the search, voice and icons Google Lens of the application drawer. The notification bar. Android (at least in Google’s native interpretation) does not give up to the iPhone control center, unlike the rest of customization layers. We continue to have a quick access bar above and, just below, notifications. This panel has completely redesigned: we have new icons, new easier design and access to the notification history and the notification configuration menu. And yes, the mythical battery icon is now horizontal, Android has lost one of its greatest hallmarks and now looks more like iOS. Android 16 does a better job with complementary colors. The color palette. Something that can be seen instantly with Material 3 It is a better integration of automatic issues. From the arrival of Youthe Android color palette adapts to the colors of the wallpaper. With Android 16 this remains so, but integration is even deeper and (to taste a server) more aesthetically. The icons, the transparency of the notification bar … absolutely all the elements of the system mix the colors of the Wallpaper so that everything looks good. The multitasking. At least in this beta, it is much easier to interact with the apps that we have in Multitasa. We continue without having the button to remove all the apps in an accessible way, but there are interesting options. We can quickly select the contents of an app in multitasking without even having it open in the foreground. We go to multitasking, click the image button, and we will have quick access to Google Lens, copy, share and save. We can also capture screen or select some concrete area of ​​the app. In the drop -down, we have the divided screen options, pause the app, the app, capture, select or close. The adjustments. This is, by far, the point that I liked of Android 16 and Material 3. I cross my fingers to be just a matter of beta and that there are changes in the final version. The adjustments are worse about what we had previously, going fast and at the foot. Even having tried this beta in a Pixel 9 Pro, everything is too compacted and small. It is difficult to distinguish between the sub -rush, and it becomes quite tedious to find adjustments that we saw before with the naked eye. Nor does I fall in love with the design too much. Now it is simpler and more minimalist, but there is neither a especially clear order, nor has it taken too careful at aesthetic level. The best is missing, apps. I have stayed with the desire to try one of the reasons for being of the new version of material 3: apps. This redesign makes sense when apps adapt to it, both aesthetic and functionalities. Live activities are not available in this beta, and there is still work to do. Be that as it may, this new version is good news. Android is more consistent than ever at the aesthetic level (waiting to see how they solve the design of the adjustments), and prepares For a revolution by Gemini. It will not be the one who stays outside this ship. Image | Xataka In Xataka | Google has put a price on the future of AI: $ 250 per month

How to try the new material 3 Expressive design of your Android on your pixel mobile

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Let’s explain How to try the new Android designa Material 3 Expressive That you can start trying on Google Pixel mobiles. This is the most important Android redesign of recent years, in which aspects such as typefaces, colors, icons, spaced or buttons styles change. This design is available in the Beta 1 update of Android 16, which is now available for mobiles manufactured by Google from the Pixel 6 family. The previous versions, unfortunately, will not be able to update. Update QPR1 Beta 1 with material 3 To be able to try material 3 on your pixel, you first have to register your mobile in the betas of Android. For that, you have to enter the web Google.com/android/betaand go down to the section of Devices suitable for the program. Once inside, click on the button + Participate of the mobile in which you want to install it. Once you do this, you have to enter the pixel settings that you have registered. Once inside, click on the section of Systemand Enter the section Software updates that you will have almost down at all. Here, now you just have search for operating system updates So that the beta appears. When you update it, the mobile will restart, and when you do it This beta will already have Material 3 Expressivethat is, the changes will be notable. The update may take a long time, even more than an hour, depending on the speed of your connection. It is recommended that you do it at a time that you have time. I also recommend you not to install it on your main mobile, since Beta versions can have many errorsbe unstable and have an excessive battery consumption. In Xataka Basics | 47 Android Applications Free and open source alternatives that respect your privacy to the fullest

How to share your camera or your screen with Google Gemini on iOS and Android

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Let’s explain Share your camera or your screen with Google Gemini Something you can do in iOS and Android. This is an option that is beginning to reach all users, even all those who use the free version of artificial intelligence. This is a function of Gemini Livein which you can ask questions related to things you have on the screen of your mobile. And as you can also share your camera, you can also ask you about things you have in front of them just pointing to them. Share camera or screen with Gemini The first thing you have to do is enter Gemini’s app, and in it go to the Gemini Live section. To do so, you have to click on your icon to the right of the writing field of the application. This icon has a button with three vertical stripes and a star. Once you are inside Gemini Live, below you have two icons to share camera or screen. The camera icon is to share that of your device and that Gemini can see what you are seeing, and the one who has the square with the arrow is to share screen. If you still don’t appear you will have to wait. If you click on the camera buttonyou will open that of your mobile so that in Gemini what you are looking at appears. Now, as you are in the Live function, You can ask questions with your voice That they are related to what you have in front, and Gemini will answer you. If you click on the Chamber Share buttonyou will go to a screen that you can choose if you want to share the entire screen or alone an application. In any of the cases, data such as notifications that arrive will be hidden. When you start, then you will see everything you have on the screen at this time. And how are you in Gemini Live, You can ask questions with your voice That they are related to elements that you have in the app you have open or whatever you want, and Gemini will answer you. In Xataka Basics | How to use Gemini to look at your gmail email: configuration and what can you do

Google has been angry to redesign Android 16 completely. It won’t serve much

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With Android 16Google operating system lovers are congratulations. This version will be one of the biggest changes in design in the history of Android, with the arrival of Material 3 Expressive as New language for UI. As usual, Google showed in the Pixel How the new interface would behave. The problem? The Pixel are the exception, not the rule. Material 3 Expressive. In case you had lost it, earlier this week Google advanced one of the greatest novelties that will arrive with Android 16. It is material 3 Expressive, the greater design update in the operating system in years. It is the natural jump after Youand it is both changes in Google’s native applications and system changes: adjustments, icons, animations … practically everything will be refined with the new design language. Pixel First. As usual, having a pixel will result in being the first to enjoy this design change. The first beta is expected to arrive this month, expressing material 3 expressive and that, As of Junethe stable versions begin to arrive. For the rest of the manufacturers, as usual … everything falls on their roof. Android fragmentation remains an absolute disaster, So we do not expect Android 16 in the high range until the end of this year or early 2025. Hopefully. Magic The usual problem. Beyond the problem with fragmentation, the problem is that Google’s demands so that manufacturers respect their design lines are not too strict. In fact, there are numerous layers that look more like iOS than what Google proposes with the Pixel. With material 3 Expressive two problems arrive. The first is that Google apps will change, and a lot. If manufacturers do not follow these design lines (something they have been doing for years), we will continue to have the huge inconsistencies in interface that Android has been dragging for years. Second, the same thing happens with the system itself. Little or nothing serves that Google works to unify the design of Android, Wearos, Android Auto and even Android XR, if manufacturers do what they want with their layers. No solution at the sight. Android, despite the changes he has suffered in recent years, is still an open source system. The Guidelines They force certain minimums, but not to follow the design guidelines they mark. The manufacturer can use the UI framework that I wanted, something that ends completely with the visual coherence of the system. Android diversity is one of its forts, but there are layers anchored in designs for years (some have practically the same interface in their apps for more than three years) is a symptom of a problem: giving freedom is incompatible with a consistent ecosystem. Image | Xataka In Xataka | How to customize Android 15 to the maximum to give your mobile a personal touch

What is, novelties of this design language and when it will arrive in Android

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Let’s explain What is Material 3 Expressiveand what are the keys to this design language. This is a great novelty presented by Google on May 13, and which seeks to completely renew the Android design. We are going to try to explain this so that you understand it, both what a design language is and the particularities of this in particular. Then, we will also tell you the main novelties and when it will begin to reach the Android mobiles. What is Material 3 Expressive Material 3 Expressive is the new visual or design language that will reach Android from Android 16. A design language is A set of visual rules which are used for the appearance of an operating system or application to be consistent and recognizable. Types, colors, icons, spaced or buttons styles and menus are established so that everyone uses them, and thus have a cohesive appearance. Come on, that the operating system will be seen with all the elements using the same design, but also many applications will adopt it so that they look more integrated, such as forming more part of the whole set. Google launched Material Design in 2014 as a visual language with which to unify all its platforms on all screens: both mobiles and tablets, PCs with chrome OS, watches and others would have a unified appearance. Google apps also adopted it, as well as many third parties, so that everything looks the same. Then came You in 2022, and Material 3 Expressive is the third step In this journey. He will first arrive at the Pixel, and then he will see to what extent other manufacturers are adopted In your customization layers. This remains to be seen because when Xiaomi or Samsung use a layer of their own customization on Android, they want it to be recognizable, so they modify the design language to use their own. This can be close or remote to the one who uses Android by default depending on each manufacturer. MATERIAL CHARACTERISTICS 3 EXPRESSIVE Android currently has an interface with a careful and elegant design, and many applications have been adopting. But I was already playing a change that renews it completely, and Material 3 Expressive arrives to have its own identity and differentiated from what we had so far. It is a radical change, a completely notable change. This new design language is even more casual than the previous one, more rounded and visual, playful, and is also customizable and complete. You will still More colored palettes and a redesign in key aspects such as the notification panel or the status bar. The Android pitcher is the one that will almost have no modifications, with the search bar below and total freedom to place the icons where always. Yes indeed, The widgets have been redesignedso when you want to start putting some you will see the differences. Where are you going to see more changes is in animations, interactions with quick buttons or adjustmentsand even in transparencies or colors, which now adapt to dynamic color. They are also added thematized icons such as the ones we have been watching in the Pixel for a while, and the APRA space is used to be better better than the information is clearer. Another novelty is the arrival of live activities, the same as those of the iPhone, and that reach Android with this customization layer so that apps can show information in real time. This will make when you do something like asking for food at home, you can see a window where you can see live how this task is and where the delivery man is. And so with other applications such as flights or even Google Maps. Android native applications have also been redesigned to adopt this design in their menus and its appearance. But the main change is in the menus, with improved fluency, new buttons and largest and larger colors. Anyway, you can see it in the video above. Material 3 It will also get to Wearosthe operating system for smart watches in Google, in order to have a cohesive ecosystem. It will also reach Android XR and partially to Android Auto. The idea is that All Android -based products have itand so that an ecosystem can be achieved with this new design. When Material 3 Expressive arrives This new design will arrive next to Android 16the new version of the operating system that will begin to deploy in the second half of theño. Therefore, when this new version of Android arrives, the new design language will be one of its main novelties. But when the time comes, the time it takes to have Android 16 It will depend on each manufacturer and of your mobile model. Google Pixel mobiles will be the first to receive it, and then it will gradually reach others. And here, each manufacturer will decide if he adopts this design style or if he maintains the own he is using now.

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