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  Asus has been making the occasional Android phone since the early days of the platform, but only recently has the company’s Republic of Gamers (ROG) division gotten into mobile. The third-generation ROG Phone launched this summer internationally, and now it’s officially coming to the US for a hefty $1,000. …

  Huawei became a smartphone heavyweight on the strength of Google’s Android platform, but the day may be coming when Huawei leaves Android behind. As US trade restrictions continue to squeeze the firm, Huawei has announced HarmonyOS 2.0. The latest version of its in-house operating system has support for phones, …

  Samsung lept into what it hopes will be the era of foldable phones last year with the Galaxy Fold, and now there’s a sequel that addresses many of that phone’s shortcomings. The price isn’t one of them, though. The new Galaxy Z Fold2 launches September 18th for a whopping …

  Android’s application ecosystem has proven to be versatile and developer-friendly after a bit of a slow start. You are free to develop an app for Android and publish it to the Play Store with Google’s restrictions, or you can distribute it yourself outside the Play Store. This has led …

  Google teased the upcoming Pixel 5 and 4a 5G a few weeks back when it finally launched the long-delayed Pixel 4a. We only got to see a tiny sliver of the device at the time, but now we have the first reliable leak of the design. The new render …

  BlackBerry used to dominate the “smartphone” market back when those devices were not really very smart. The Canadian company never adapted to a post-iPhone world, and even switching to Android didn’t help. Earlier this year, TCL announced it was ending its agreement to build BlackBerry Android phones. It’s not …

  Microsoft has tried to make smartphones on several occasions — it even purchased Nokia’s Lumia mobile division in 2014. Despite that, Windows Phone succumbed to the market pressures of Android and iOS. Well, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Microsoft’s first Android phone is now available for pre-order, …

Will Come to the US This Year This is the year of 5G whether you want it or not, and you can thank Qualcomm for making the new network technology mandatory in its latest ARM chips. That has led to some extremely big, expensive smartphones in 2020, but HMD plans …

Microsoft Duo Smartphone Hits FCC Ahead of Release Microsoft hasn’t made a phone in several years, ever since it abandoned the mobile version of Windows 10. Now, Microsoft is all-in with Android and plans to release its dual-screen Surface Duo later this year. The launch might be coming sooner than …

  The Pixel 4a has leaked in more ways than we can count at this point, and now even Google is getting in on the fun. The company updated its Canadian online store today, and whoops. It placed an official render of the Pixel 4a on the product page for …