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When HMD took over the Nokia smartphone brand, it started by focusing on Europe and Asia. The company has slowly expanded more into North America with devices like the mid-range Nokia 6.1, and now there’s an even cheaper Nokia phone headed to American shores. The Nokia 3.1 launches on July …

A few years ago, every phone manufacturer was racing to offer the highest megapixel count in its cameras. Now, it’s increasingly about how many cameras you can cram into a phone. It’s common to have two on the back now, but LG is reportedly going a bit crazy with the …

Google has never used the walled-garden approach to app distribution that Apple uses. If you want to make an Android app and hand out APKs on your own website, that’s totally fine by Google. There’s a story floating around the web today that Google has just gotten around to adding …

  Google abandoned its Tango augmented reality platform last year in favor of the simpler ARCore framework in Android. Now, one of the most useful Tango apps has come to ARCore phones — the aptly named Measure app. As long as you’ve got an ARCore device, you can find out …

Oppo is a massive smartphone maker in Europe, but its presence in Europe and North America has been extremely limited. That’s changing with the flashy new Oppo Find X. This phone (apparently named after a math problem) will be the first Oppo phone to launch internationally since the ill-fated N1. …

Ever since the original iPhone proved smartphones with full-body screens are attractive and interesting to consumers, a few companies have been working to demonstrate a device with at least two integrated displays that’s attractive, interesting, and desirable. Some of these products, like the magnificently weird ZTE Axon M, even came …

Google has been releasing its own Android phones since the very early days of the platform, but it took a more hands-on approach with the Pixel phones in 2016 and 2017. These devices offered competent hardware along with fantastic software and camera performance. As we move ever closer to Google’s …

Porsche Design and Huawei have actually launched a highly sophisticated and powerful smart device: the Porsche Style Huawei Mate RS. Introducing the future of innovation through functions such as the world’s very first dual fingerprint design consisting of an ingenious in-screen fingerprint sensing unit, the world’s very first Expert system …

A few weeks ago, Lenovo’s vice president, Chang Cheng, teased images of a device unlike anything else on the market. The new Lenovo Z5 would, according to Cheng, be the company’s new flagship device. It would be based on “four technological breakthroughs” and “18 patented technologies,” and it would be …

Google is still months away from releasing Android P, but the developer preview program offers a taste of what the next version has to offer right now. After launching a second developer preview during the I/O conference in May, Google has just dropped the third preview build of Android P. …