OxygenOS 5.1.11 addresses OnePlus 6 screen flickering issue, improves HDR, and brings other fixes
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OxygenOS 5.1.11 addresses OnePlus 6 screen flickering issue, improves HDR, and brings other fixes
OnePlus is pushing out an update to its latest flagship, addressing the screen flickering issue some people had and adding some other improvements, optimiz... by Jordan Palmer in Device Updates, News, OnePlus, OnePlus 6
Google Assistant can now speak Swedish
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Google Assistant can now speak Swedish
Gather 'round, Svenska speakers, we have great news for you this morning. After months of promises and speculation, the Google Assistant can now officially... by Rita El Khoury in Google, Google Assistant, News
Android 9 Pie puts an end to third-party call recording apps
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Android 9 Pie puts an end to third-party call recording apps
Call recording is a bit of a thorny issue when it comes to privacy. There are also different rules in different places, making it hard for Google to implement a standard in Android without falling foul of the law in certain jurisdictions. Android's official…
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Samsung's multi-mode Exynos Modem 5100 offers 5G and 4G LTE in one chip
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Samsung's multi-mode Exynos Modem 5100 offers 5G and 4G LTE in one chip
Samsung's new 5G modem does what Qualcomm's X50 can't -- it offers 5G and 4G LTE in one chip.
26 temporarily free and 25 on-sale apps and games for Wednesday, including Knights of the Old Republic
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26 temporarily free and 25 on-sale apps and games for Wednesday, including Knights of the Old Republic
Wednesday is here, so let's take a break and look through some app sales. Today's list is small, but you'll notice that Star Wars: Knights of the Old Repub... by Jordan Palmer in Applications, Deals, Google, News
T-Mobile is offering free 30-day service trials in Boston, Austin, and Atlanta
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T-Mobile is offering free 30-day service trials in Boston, Austin, and Atlanta
Switching wireless providers only to find that you don't get your new carrier's signal in your living room is the pits. T-Mobile is helping residents of Bo... by Taylor Kerns in News, T-Mobile
Envision AI helps visually impaired people better see and read the world
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Envision AI helps visually impaired people better see and read the world
Smartphones are very powerful computers that we often take for granted and simply use to check Twitter or Reddit and play some games or watch videos of pup... by Rita El Khoury in Applications, News
The Moto P30 announced in China as just the latest in a long line of iPhone X clones
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The Moto P30 announced in China as just the latest in a long line of iPhone X clones
Everyone wants to make an iPhone clone these days. Well, that's not exactly new, but it's harder to clone the iPhone X without screwing it up. That's... by Ryan Whitwam in Motorola, News
Another government ban is targeting Huawei and ZTE hardware
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Another government ban is targeting Huawei and ZTE hardware
The past few months have been difficult for Chinese smartphone OEMs, particularly ZTE and Huawei. ZTE nearly shut down after the U.S. government placed a t... by Corbin Davenport in Huawei, Legal, News, ZTE
Exclusive: Google is developing a wearable health and fitness assistant called 'Google Coach'
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Exclusive: Google is developing a wearable health and fitness assistant called 'Google Coach'
Google has launched numerous products infused with AI technology, and it looks like health and fitness is its next target. Google is working on a health an... by Ryan Whitwam in Exclusives, Google, News
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[Bonus Round] Hot Guns, Train Merger, Fire Egg, Meow Wars, Angel Road, and Gravity Rider
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[Bonus Round] Hot Guns, Train Merger, Fire Egg, Meow Wars, Angel Road, and Gravity Rider
Welcome to the latest entry in our Bonus Round series, wherein we tell you all about the new Android games of the day that we couldn't get to during our re... by Matthew Sholtz in Games, News, Roundups, Videos
Motorola lists all devices getting Android 9 Pie
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Motorola lists all devices getting Android 9 Pie
While Android Pie rolls out to phones from Google and Essential, most OEMs haven't announced which devices will receive the update. HTC revealed a few days... by Corbin Davenport in Device Updates, Moto G6, Moto G6 Play, Moto G6 Plus, Moto X4, Moto Z2 Force…
Android Pie Go Edition is coming this fall
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Android Pie Go Edition is coming this fall
The first release of Android Go Edition, based on 8.1 Oreo, was... not great. On the plus side, that means there's lots of room for improvement. Google... by Corbin Davenport in Android 9 Pie, Android Go
Google One is open to everybody starting today
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Google One is open to everybody starting today
Google One, Google's new cloud storage management and product support service, has had a strangely protracted rollout. It was announced all the way back in... by Taylor Kerns in Google, News
T-Mobile is giving customers a free year of Pandora Plus and access to their own local 'Team of Experts'
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T-Mobile is giving customers a free year of Pandora Plus and access to their own local 'Team of Experts'
T-Mobile is offering Pandora Plus -- usually $4.99 -- for free to customers as of August 28th.
Google is making Wear OS app quality guidelines mandatory
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Google is making Wear OS app quality guidelines mandatory
If you've been a Wear OS user for a while, odds are you've noticed that wearable apps in the Play Store are sometimes not very good. Google is looking to c... by Ryan Whitwam in Applications, Google, News, Smartwatches, Wear OS, Wearables
Project Fi shutting down text forwarding on September 12
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Project Fi shutting down text forwarding on September 12
A sad bit news hit Project Fi users' emails today. Google's MVNO service is shutting down text forwarding on September 12. While I'm sure not everyone on t... by Jordan Palmer in Google, News, Project Fi
The Play Store on phones gains the option to set network download preference
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The Play Store on phones gains the option to set network download preference
The Play Store has long warned about the dangers of downloading large apps and games over mobile data. Just one big download can wreck your capped data pla... by Ryan Whitwam in Google, News
'Lazy loading' feature to speed up browsing now available in Chrome Canary
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'Lazy loading' feature to speed up browsing now available in Chrome Canary
Web pages are becoming more and more complex, but browser vendors have been hard at work trying to offset that with performance and caching improvements. F... by Corbin Davenport in Applications, Chrome, Google, News