Samsung’s budget phone lineup used to be a mess, but it started revamping many of those midrange devices under its A-series brand last year. The Galaxy A70 and A50 were widely praised, and now the successors are official. Markets across the world will start seeing the improved A71 and …
Read More »PornHub Steps in to Expose Android Version Stats That Google Won’t
For most of Android’s history, Google updated its developer dashboards like clockwork every 30 days or so. This data included the proportion of devices running each version of the OS. However, it stopped updating the dashboards about a year ago. The last update came in May during Google I/O, …
Read More »New Android Phones in Turkey May Ship Without Google Apps
When you buy an Android phone, you’d normally expect it to have Gmail, Google Maps, the Play Store, and the rest of Google’s software suite. That may no longer be the case in Turkey, though. Following a dispute with the country’s antitrust regulator, Google has informed its partners that …
Read More »Samsung, Pixel Users No Longer at Risk for Android Camera App Hijacking
Many of today’s front runner Android phones have amazing video cameras, however the video camera application on Google and also Samsung phones supposedly delivered with an unpleasant insect that can have enabled destructive applications to capture photos without your consent. The business really did not learn about the insect till …
Read More »Razr Sharp: Motorola’s Retro-Futuristic Foldable Phone Praised
When Motorola started teasing the idea of a retro foldable phone based on its iconic Razr, it seemed more like a tease than an actual product. Motorola hasn’t been a major competitor in the high-end phone market for years, but the company was going to ship a foldable display …
Read More »Google Ends Regular Updates for 2016 Pixel Phones, Promises One Last OTA in December
One of the primary selling points for Google’s Pixel phones is that they get monthly security updates and new Android versions for three years. The original Pixel phones launched in 2016, and that means they’ve hit their end of life. Google released new monthly patches for its phones yesterday, and …
Read More »Google Says Project Treble Has Massively Accelerated Android Updates
Google built the Android platform on openness and partnerships with device makers, and that has helped make it the most popular computing platform in the world. However, Google has also struggled to get OEMs to update their phones in a timely manner. It’s tried numerous ways to speed up …
Read More »Motorola Unveils Moto G8 Plus and E6 Play
Motorola announced the Moto G7 series earlier this year, and we were expecting another revision of its budget-oriented phones in early 2020. It’s not waiting that long, though. Motorola just unveiled the Moto G8 Plus along with the even cheaper E6 Play in Europe. The G8 plus has more …
Read More »LG G8X Launches Nov. 1 for $700 With Free Dual-Screen Case
LG hasn’t been rolling out completely new smartphones as often as it used to. Instead, it created tweaked versions of past devices with new features and hardware. It hasn’t been completely unsuccessful, but it’s not catching Samsung any time soon. LG’s latest US launch might actually move some units, …
Read More »Huawei Will Launch Its Mate X Foldable Phone Next Month
Huawei demoed its first folding phone, the Mate X earlier this year, but it didn’t promise any specific launch date. Samsung famously had to delay its Galaxy Fold review for months after some early hardware failures. Huawei seemed to hang back and watch the mess unfold, but now it’s …
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