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Stickers are a lot of fun to use, but animated stickers can also use a lot of cellular data — especially if you use them all the time. The developers of the popular Telegram messaging app have realized this, and version 5.9 introduces a new format for animated stickers specifically designed to use consume less […]

The second-generation Amazon Echo usually costs $99.99, with occasional drops to $70-80. If you’ve been waiting for a better deal, today might be the day. The latest Echo has now dropped to just $49.99, a 50% discount from the usual price, and what appears to be the lowest price from Amazon yet. If you’re not […]

Amazon has mastered the art of selling cheap Android tablets. The company shipped roughly 11.9 million tablets in 2018, passed only by Apple, Samsung, and Huawei. The combination of decent performance, Alexa integration, and low prices have made the success of the Fire lineup difficult to copy. Walmart is already competing with Amazon on several […]

The ZenFone 6 marks the beginning of a new era for ASUS, as the company switched to an AOSP-inspired ROM for the phone — plus, it’s generally a surprisingly good phone at a decent price with an interesting take on cameras. The device has already got a plethora of updates, and now that it’s starting […]

Two months back, HTC announced its intention to update the U11, U11+, and U12+ phones to Android 9 Pie. Although it has missed its original “late June” estimate for the U12+ (not to mention the issues it’s having with the U11) it would appear that the Pie update for the U12+ is finally rolling out […]

When Asus introduced the Zenfone 5Q (aka Zenfone 5 Lite and Zenfone 5 Selfie Pro) in 2018, the device ran Android 7.1.1 Nougat, which is one of the main reasons we couldn’t recommend it to anyone. But the company has been doing a good job with updates lately, and has now started fulfilling its promise […]

There isn’t too much competition in the smart doorbell market, but Nest’s Hello is one of the best. We reviewed it a year ago and walked away impressed, awarding it a spot on our “Most Wanted” list. Regularly priced at $229, the Hello is currently being discounted by BH to a more palatable $169. In […]

Many of you might not know this, but Xiaomi has a line of action cameras that it officially sells in the US. The Mijia 360 is one of them, and its spec sheet is pretty impressive. This action cam is regularly $299.99, but it’s now available for $199.99 ($100 off) from Amazon. The Mijia 360’s […]

With the introduction of Plus models and decimals, HMD Global’s range of Nokia phones has taken on a somewhat bloated and hard to decipher form, far from the essential selection of handsets across various price points it started out as. With each new release, it gets harder for consumers to decide which budget phone in […]

Update 1: 2019/07/04 2:14am PDT The Galaxy Watch Active only hit the market around three months ago, but Samsung has clearly already been hard at work on the second iteration. SamMobile managed to get its hands on photos and some specs on the Galaxy Watch Active2, giving us an early look at what’s to come. Our […]

Update 1: 2019/07/02 3:43pm PDT Google’s Pixel C, the last first-party Android tablet released all the way back in December of 2015, may have just stopped getting monthly security patches. There has been no official announcement, and device-specific delays have happened before, but the Pixel C wasn’t among those that received today’s July set of updates, […]

Update 1: 2019/07/02 10:25am PDT Samsung’s new “Night” photo setting is rumored to finally compete with Google’s excellent Night Sight, but there’s just one hitch: When the feature first rolled out, it was limited to Exynos-powered Galaxy S10s, which aren’t available in the US. However, the folks at XDA Developers have spotted the feature as live […]