LG brings Stylo 3 Plus to the country

The third-generation LG Stylo is now available in Canada. The Stylo 3 Plus brings with it a precision, fine-tip pen that’ll make it easier to jot down notes, doodle, or select items on the device. With its 1.8mm diameter fiber-tip stylus, it promises to give you the feel and feedback of using an actual pen. For a better note-taking/sketching experience, the smartphone comes with Pen Pop 2.0, Pen Keeper, and Screen-off Memo. Pen Pop 2.0 makes it easy for you to access your notes. Just take out the stylus and your notes will pop on your screen. Pen Keeper helps make sure you don’t lose your stylus as it reminds you when the pen is too far from the phone. And Screen-off Memo lets you take notes on the screen even if the display is turned off.

Other key specs for the LG Stylo 3 Plus is it runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 processor, 2GB of RAM, 32GB internal storage with expansion up to 2TB via microSD, and Android 7.0 Nougat. It has a sizeable 5.7-inch Full HD In-cell touch display, 13-megapixel rear camera, 5-megapixel front camera, and 3,200mAh battery. This LTE-enabled, mid-range phone even comes with a fingerprint scanner. The Stylo 3 Plus is available as early as June 2^nd with the following carriers: Bell, Eastlink, Freedom Mobile, Koodo Mobile, Bell MTS, SaskTel, TELUS, Videotron and Virgin Mobile. It’s also available at WOW! mobile boutique starting June 2^nd.

‘Wonder Woman’ and Google want teen girls to code

You may or may not have heard of Google’s Made with Code initiative, a project that encourages young girls to learn to code. Just in time for the release of Wonder Woman, Google is making use of the badass superheroine to teach young women to code. The project lets teenage girls code three unique scenes from the film with introductory coding principles shown along the way. In Los Angeles, 100 girls were invited to an advance screening of the film before trying out the program. If you’re interested or know someone who might want to try this out, you can take a look at the various Made With Code projects here in this link.

Source: Android Authority

Facebook reportedly developing a teen-centric chat app with parental controls

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Facebook is still adamant to get teens to use its services. And we know Snapchat has managed to capture the younger market. Now, it’s been discovered that Facebook might be developing a new chat app to attract the teenagers in your life. A report from The Information found code inside the main Facebook app that shows a new, unreleased app called Talk. One of the comments in the code says “Kids love using the creative tools in ‘Talk’ to play games and share fun masks with family and friends.” The app would most likely be restricted to users 13 years or older.

And its main differentiator is that it gives the parents of kids control over who they get to talk to. A line of code says, “Talk is a messaging app where you fully control the contacts.” One more line in the code says children will talk to parents in Messenger and it wouldn’t require a Facebook profile to use. But we’re not sure if this is something that will click, especially if parental controls are involved. Facebook declined to comment about this app and whether it is something they will release.

Source: Engadget

Google Photos now suggests pictures to archive

Just over a week since archive feature came to Google Photos, the app will now suggest what photos you might want to archive. Archiving images on the app will just hide certain images you pick from the main view of the app. The update will build on that and have Google Photos do the thinking for you. The suggestions will show up in a card in the Assistant tab within the app. Google began rolling out the feature to its users but it’s not coming to all devices at the same time so if it hasn’t come your way, be a bit patient.

Source: Android Headlines