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Google has long been committed to making phone charging more convenient. It was among the first to offer wireless charging, back before everyone got bored with it the first time around. More recently, it has focused on fast wired charging. The 2016 Pixel XL shipped with speed 18W fast charging, …

Palm was making smartphones before anyone cared about smartphones, but it didn’t survive into the modern era. Its short-lived resurgence with the Pre ended in failure when the firm was acquired and smothered by HP. The Palm name still carries some weight, and manufacturer TCL is planning to launch a …

Fortnite is the biggest mobile game release since Pokemon GO, but unlike Pokemon GO, you can’t download it from the Google Play Store. Epic Games is handling the distribution itself, so searches for Fortnite in the Play Store turn up a lot of junk that isn’t the game. Well, now …

It will come as a surprise to absolutely no one that the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is now official following the company’s Unpacked event. It’s an evolution of the Galaxy Note 8 but one with some notable upgrades. This is still mostly your standard Note phone, though. It’s big, pretty, …

Google is finally rolling Android Pie out to Pixel phones after months of testing. It’ll come to other phones eventually, but some will get the update sooner than others. When you do finally get the OTA notification, you might see a proclamation at the top that says Pie is “powered …

Google announced Android Go in 2017, but we didn’t get our first look at finished devices until 2018. Those first Android Go phones were not great. They were sluggish despite the stripped down software, and the price was still too high. Now, Asus has launched its first Go phone called …

Google has been testing Android P since early this year, and it just released the final developer preview a few weeks ago. Now, the final build of Android 9 is out, and it’s called Pie. Android Pie is currently rolling out to Pixel devices, plus the Essential Phone. It brings …

We’re one step closer to a final launch for Android P today with the release of the fifth and final developer preview. This build of Android should be the last beta before the official update rolls out to phones. The developer preview only runs on a handful of devices and …

Xiaomi is one of the biggest Android device makers on the planet with phones like the Redmi Note selling in unfathomable numbers all across Asia. One of Xiaomi’s most popular phones of last year was created in partnership with Google, though. The Mi A1 led the charge for a revitalized …

Back in the days of Android Jelly Bean, Google focused much of its AI efforts on a feature called Google Now. The idea was Google Now could scrape useful data from your account activity and proactively give you helpful alerts and actionable notifications. Google phased out Now as a brand …