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Google announced Android Auto at Google I/O 2014, but it didn’t launch on devices until the following year. Getting support in cars, however, took even longer. Slowly but surely, most major automakers have agreed to let Google run its car-friendly Android in their vehicles, but Toyota has famously refused Google’s …

HTC was once the top Android device maker — it was actually the only Android device maker for a while. As Android grew, HTC couldn’t keep up. It has not had much success in launching new Android phones lately, but the company hopes the blockchain can solve its woes. It …

It’s a foregone conclusion that OnePlus is gearing up to launch a new phone, which it has done around this time for the past two years. The rumored OnePlus 6T has been the subject of a handful of leaks, but the basic stats aren’t hard to figure out if you …

Once upon a time, Palm was perhaps the most well-known maker of mobile devices and “smartphones” in the world. However, changes in the smartphone market left Palm in the dust. The brand had a brief resurgence with the Palm Pre, but even that wasn’t enough to carve out a space …

Magic Leap isn’t having a great time of things. The company’s actual tech demos have been panned, its hardware hasn’t reviewed particularly well, and now Palmer Luckey, the onetime founder of Oculus, has weighed in with his own thoughts on the platform, hardware, and capabilities. His conclusion is that the …

Epic Games is riding high on the success of Fortnite, which is available on desktop, game consoles, and even mobile devices. The company took the unusual step of skipping the Play Store for Android distribution, which brings the potential for security issues. Sure enough, the first version of Fortnite on …

We’ve all come to expect a certain degree of fantasy in commercials, but sometimes the make-believe goes too far and ends up a rather blatant lie. That was the case with a recent advertisement for the Huawei Nova 3, which purports to show off the power of its AI camera. …

Google finally started the long-awaited Android 9 Pie rollout earlier this month, but it’s very unlikely that you have the latest version of Android on your device. It’s mostly Google devices that have the update so far, but OEMs are being surprisingly forthcoming with update plans this time around. It …

OnePlus is not yet a household name like LG or Samsung, but it could be on its way there. According to a new report, the company’s fall flagship phone will launch on T-Mobile in the US. The appearance of the OnePlus 6T in carrier stores would mark the first time …

Epic’s Fortnite launch on Android has been nonstandard, to put it politely. Instead of going the usual route of distributing the game via Google Play, Samsung and Epic announced that the game would be distributed via an APK and would initially only be available on certain Samsung models. While this …