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Last year, Google introduced an exclusive feature for Pixel devices called “Hold for Me” that can alert you when a business finally picks up your call. However, that function has been temporarily disabled on the Pixel 6 due to a bug in the December update, XDA Developers has reported. Pixel 6 owners may also lose the Call Screening tool that stops robocallers from ringing your phone, Google said in a community post. 

“In light of a bug in the December Android update, we are disabling Hold For Me and Call Screening on Pixel 6 devices running on the Android S December QPR release,” the company wrote. The issue only affects Pixel 6 phones with the latest December 2021 security update, and not any older devices. If you haven’t yet received the update, you should continue to have access to those features. 

Hold for Me started as a US exclusive feature but was recently expanded to Canada, as XDA Developers noted. It uses Google’s Duplex technology AI to detect when a real person comes on the line to take your call, sparing you the pain of listening to looped elevator music or pre-recorded messages. Google’s Call Screening tech also uses Duplex AI tech, which launched with the promise of automatically making restaurant reservations for you. 

With features like a bigger screen and faster charging, Apple’s Watch Series 7 is a great gift idea — but the $399 price tag could be hard to swallow. However, you can now pick up the 41mm model (in green only) at a new all-time low of $339 at Amazon, for a savings of $60 or 15 percent off. 

Buy Apple Watch Series 7 at Amazon – $339

The Watch Series 7 brings a subtle new design with a larger screen that makes a big difference for readability and control. It’s more sporty thanks to new IP6X dust-resistance and improved crack-resistance, and offers faster charging if you tend to use it a lot — even for sleep tracking. As with past models, you get a strong watchOS 8 app ecosystem and solid health features like sleep-tracking and ECG measurements. 

It can also monitor your respiration rate while you sleep, and it comes with exclusive watch faces, larger font sizes/buttons and a Qwerty keyboard. The main drawback is with the sleep tracking. Unlike devices from Fitbit and Samsung, the Watch Series 7 can’t detect what sleep zone you’re in, for one thing. And it won’t detect when you’ve fallen asleep, so you’ll need to make sure you have the Sleep Focus mode to log your slumber. 

Still, Apple’s Watch is the best selling smartwatch by far for good reason, and as the latest model, the Series 7 is the benchmark. With $60 off the price, there’s never been a better time to get one.

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Samsung’s 2022 televisions and monitors will support its recently unveiled HDR10+ Gaming standard, the company announced. That means they’ll deliver a variety of features for gamers like variable refresh rates (VRR) at up to 120Hz and automatic HDR color correction on a game-by-game basis. 

The standard will be used by Samsung’s 2022 Neo QLED lineup with the Q70 TV series and above, along with gaming monitors, the company said. It didn’t mention any models, but it showed a wide-screen gaming display (below) and what could be a 2022 Neo QLED TV with very slim bezels. 

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HDR10+ Gaming slipped under the radar when it was first announced, but it appears to be a move to counter Dolby Vision HDR for gaming found on Xbox Series X/S consoles. It provides a “consistent HDR gaming experience without the need for manual calibration across a variety of display technologies for various input sources, including consoles, PCs and more,” Samsung said.

The idea with HDR10+ Gaming is that you won’t need to use any manual settings, as the game engine itself automatically optimizes color calibration in real-time. It’s designed to deliver details in dark shadows and highlights, while configuring the display to a “true reference mode” so colors are displayed as intended by the developer. It also supports VRR at up to 120Hz along with tone mapping that won’t add any extra latency to the gaming signal.

As with HDR10+, however, the challenge for Samsung is getting developers to adopt the standard for games. Dolby Vision gaming is already available or is coming to over 100 games on Xbox Series X/S, so Samsung has some catching up to do. It did say that “several companies, including Saber Interactive, are expected to showcase their HDR10+ Gaming titles” at CES 2022 (if it takes place). 

Samsung could make some headway with PC gaming, however, as Dolby Vision is only available on a handful of PC titles. To help pave the way for HDR10+ PC games, Samsung said that NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series, RTX 20 Series and GTX 16 Series GPUs will support HDR10+ with drivers “scheduled for release in 2022.”