Looking at the smartphone market, there aren’t many stories as unfortunate as LG’s. Well, aside from HTC. Anyway, LG once pushed the Android market forward in more ways than one, but just a few years later it felt like the company just couldn’t keep up or come up with anything on its own. The LG Velvet is a soft reset of the company’s mainstream smartphone, and it gets a lot right.
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It’s easy to criticize brands that have made their name on aggressively low price to performance when they steadily bump up costs and move away from the “flagship killer” roots. However, the OnePlus Nord feels like a step back and reassessment of what we should expect from future mid-rangers.
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We all love emoji, especially when we get new options to toy with. The full release of Android 11 is bringing with it 117 new emoji, and we’ve gone hands-on for a “proper” closer look.
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The Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10+ are fantastic smartphones that have left an indelible mark on the smartphone industry even 12 months after launch.
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When it was confirmed that the OnePlus Nord would be the first mid-range device from the firm since the OnePlus X, our impressions were suitably shifted ahead of time.
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Amazon is one of a very few select companies still really pushing Android tablets at this stage of 2020 with their Fire HD line — which leads us to the Amazon Fire HD 8 (2020 edition).
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Apple’s influence in the world of smartphone audio accessories is undoubted. There is absolutely no denying where Urbanista took design cues for the recently released London earbuds.
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While US-trade restrictions hamper Huawei’s smartphone aspirations in Western markets, the ace up the sleeve is undoubtedly it’s growing wearable selection — of which the Watch GT 2e is another fantastic addition.
The second phase of an outwardly “usable” version of Android 11 is now here with Beta 2. The second of three scheduled user-facing previews before the fully-fledged release in early September 2020. We’ve done plenty of digging since the preview dropped to find out just what new features you might be interested in.
At GDC 2019, when Google unveiled Stadia to game developers, “State Share” was a very prominent feature touted as only being possible thanks to the cloud gaming platform.
“Nearby Sharing” or “Nearby Share” is the latest attempt to give Android owners and users a proper rival to Apple’s AirDrop.
There are very few smartphones under $100 that we would actually recommend, but the Nokia 1.3 is one of our selected few.
As we await the first in a new line of OnePlus hardware in the form of “Nord” we have quite a few rumors to sift through and sort.
Like many other children of the 90s/00s, I grew up playing the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series, with its fantastic mix of arcade gameplay and rad soundtrack. When we first got a glimpse of Wave Break, a “First on Stadia” timed exclusive title which takes the familiar skateboarding genre and adds guns, “cute” animals, and a heaping helping of 80s retro aesthetic, I was sold. But does it live up to that hype?
Are you in the market for a new laptop? If so, have you considered a Chromebook?
Google is back in the social network game thanks to the Area 120-developed Keen — a Pinterest-like app that utilizes AI to create interest boards.
Alongside the Pixel series, the Android 11 Beta is available for a number of third-party devices, which includes the OnePlus 8 series.
After being in preview for the better part of 2019 and early-2020, Adobe Photoshop Camera has now exited this testing phase and is now available to download on the Google Play Store.
The long wait is over for a “usable” version of Android 11 with the release of the Beta 1 update which we can actually recommend you install on your device. And of course, that means we have been delving in to figure out what the top new features are of the pre-release OS.
The lack of MWC 2020 didn’t dull the release schedule for many manufacturers, including Nokia, as the firm announced the Nokia 5.3 alongside the Nokia 8.3 5G in late March.
Google Play Music is being put out to pasture later this year, which means that you might want to transfer your library over to YouTube Music to keep all of your audio content.
The age of the “flagship killer” may be beginning to fade as OnePlus has essentially abandoned its “budget” pricing. Enter the Nubia RedMagic 5G, an unapologetic gaming phone that really packs a punch for just $579.
Since releasing late last year, we’ve lauded the OnePlus 7T for being arguably the best value smartphone here on the Android side of things.
Affordable smartphones have come a long way, and the TCL 10L is yet another testament to that statement.