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Motorola’s latest budget phone leaks with 64-megapixel camera and 5,000mAh battery

The Verge

| Image: Orange Slovakia. It looks like Motorola is about to announce a second entry in its budget G9 phone lineup, just weeks after it revealed the Moto G9 Play. The Moto G9 Plus has appeared in a listing on Orange Slovakia’s website that was spotted by WinFuture’s Roland Quandt. courtesy of Orange Slovakia.

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Apping Out Illegal Waste: Free Download to Target Illegal Dumps

Tech Soup

The above is the analysis of Jozef Vodicka, a Slovakian geek and entrepreneur, whose team has developed a multi-mobile-platform (iOS, Android, Windows Phone) application for documenting illegal dumping and, not incidentally, for mobilizing environmental consciousness and fostering citizen engagement. More than 100 illegal dumps were cleaned.

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Back Market raises $335M for its refurbished device marketplace, now valued at $3.2B

TechCrunch

At a time when mobile phone makers are seeing declines in sales due to slower renewal cycles, and incrementally fewer features added into newer models, Back Market provides another alternative to people who don’t want to pay full price for a device that might still be in good condition and new to the user, if not altogether new itself.

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How European startups are aiding Ukrainian refugees

TechCrunch

The company is also incentivizing drivers in Poland and Slovakia to accept rides on the Ukrainian border to help transport refugees. While not a startup, Google is sending air raid alerts to Android phones in Ukraine. What’s still needed?

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Samsung launches EKG support for latest Galaxy Watch devices in 31 more countries

The Verge

SamMobile notes you’ll need the app downloaded and updated to the latest version on both a compatible Galaxy Watch and Samsung phone.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

However, you probably don’t have that already saved to your phone. Now if a user sees a blue check mark and clicks on it, the label reads: “This account is verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number.” Users can switch between them by swiping on their phone screens. We used this one.

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The Pixel 9a launches on April 10 in the US

Engadget

In an update to a Pixel 9a support page (via 9to5Google ) on Friday, Google wrote that the phone will arrive on April 10 in the US, Canada and the UK. Sam Rutherford for Engadget Pre-announcement reports suggested the phone would arrive on March 26, but Google said on the day of its unveiling that it was delayed into April.