Use the OnePlus Switch application to ditch your old Android phone

OnePlus soon released a new Android app, OnePlus Switch, aimed at making it easier to save all of your important data when switching to 1 of the company's phones. Now Playing: Watch this: OnePlus 5T equals a few key upgradesAs long as your old smartphone is running Android 6.0 or above, the application going to work just fine. To get started, you'll want to set up your new OnePlus phone, and download the OnePlus Switch application on both phones and confirm the several permissions requested with the app. Screenbullets with Jason Cipriani/CNETOn your new OnePlus phone, select New Device, select the device type (OnePlus or Android) and follow the prompts. OnePlus notes which it's working on adding support for older Android devices, further services such as saved application data, and Apple iOS devices.

Amazon adds voice control to its Alexa application for Android

Just like Utilizing an Echo or Echo Dot, you could Utilize ask your phone's Alexa to find nearby restaurants, order gadgets from better purchas or discover what movies are playing in your town. Better yet, the updated Alexa application could display responses on-screen, too, giving you visual specifics about the upcoming weather, sports updates, calendar appointments and more. The upgrade should roll out to Android customers in the coming days; the firm promises an Apple iOS upgrade "soon."

Alexa voice commands are Eventually coming to the Android Alexa app

according to Fittingly enough, support for Amazon's Alexa voice helper is Eventually coming to the Alexa application for Android phones, although it's currently a bit of a gimmick. Rather than being enable to of talk to Alexa at any time much as you would out of Google Assistant, Alexa only works on Android devices if you have the Alexa application open, as Android Police reports. Many voices, many choicesAmazon's Alexa is Apparently a hit, as seen in the way which the Alexa application topped the Apple iOS application Store's toll free charts for many hours after Christmas morning. Understandably, though, Amazon has had a rougher time bringing Alexa to smartphones owing to the dominance of Apple's Siri and Google Assistant. Even if Alexa were further "free" out of the app, it'd still lack the deep smartphone hardware integration enjoyed with Siri and Google Assistant.

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