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Google services are blocked in mainland China, but there are still millions of Chinese speakers across the world with access to Google Assistant. Support for Traditional Chinese was added to Assistant last year, and now it works with Simplified Chinese too. The official support page for Assistant languages says Simplified Chinese is currently only supported […]

The flagship smartphone space is getting pretty stale in 2019. LG and HTC are floundering, overall sales are declining, Google’s Pixels are an expensive bundle of compromises, Huawei has left the high-end US market, and Samsung is… Samsung. There’s space for disruption, and while we wait for other Chinese OEMs to join the stateside fray, […]

Update 1: 2019/05/13 6:55pm PDT The TicWatch S2 debuted alongside the cheaper E2 early this year. At $179.99, the S2 was already pretty fairly priced, but Mobvoi is now offering a massive 50% discount on its new “Glacier” color. If you’ve been on the hunt for a cheap Wear OS watch that isn’t a million years […]

With Google I/O 2019 in full swing this past week, we sure expected to hear tons about Google’s upcoming projects — and so we very much did — but weren’t exactly anticipating a ton of great tech deals to surface alongside all that news. Call it a happy accident, then, that a bunch of tempting […]

Update 1: 2019/05/12 1:50pm PDT Here’s an interesting Sunday deal — Best Buy is currently selling the unlocked 32GB Moto X4 along with a locked LG Fiesta 2 and $50 of Simple Mobile credit for just $126. While the Moto X4 at $125 is a good price, to sweeten the deal you can add a $1 […]

The Pixel 3a, Google’s new entry-level smartphone starts at an attractive $399, and comes in only two configurations: regular and extra large. The 3a XL is the phone I’ve been using for over a week now, and it costs a bit more, at $479. But that seems eminently reasonable for the larger 6” screen and […]

At I/O, Google announced that Android Q Beta 3 would not only be available on its recent Pixel phones, but also 15 phones from other OEMs. Included among those 15 phones is the Mate 20 Pro, indicating that Huawei isn’t slacking when it comes to the 10th version of Android. The company has just announced […]

Update 1: 2019/05/10 12:39pm PDT Among the many Assistant announcements at Google I/O 2019, perhaps some of the most heart-warming came from the new accessibility features. One of those, built for the many who are deaf or are otherwise hard of hearing, is called Live Caption, a captioning service that displays a transcript of what’s said […]

Last month, an ARCore support update mentioned the Moto One Vision, a device that we had never heard of and knew basically nothing about. Today WinFuture published a comprehensive leak of the One Vision, and its spec sheet is interesting to say the least. It includes an Exynos chipset, a super-tall 21:9 display, and a […]

We’ve covered various connected home security systems from the likes of Nest and Ring, but these systems can cost hundreds of dollars. That’s just for a starter kit, too. You might get north of a grand before all your doors and windows are linked up. Enter Wyze, which has made a name selling ultra-cheap security […]

Xiaomi’s popular Mi Band fitness trackers offer extraordinary bang-for-buck but have been let down by a sub-par app experience that felt rough around the edges. This could change today, as the v4.0 update to Mi Fit brings a brand new UI. The app now adopts a card-based interface with white backgrounds — there’s no dark […]

While Google I/O is on everybody’s mind, there are still plenty of other big things happening. The latest update to the Google Phone app is rolling out now, and like most updates, there’s not much to see outside of a few visual tweaks. However, clues inside the apk reveal that we can look forward to […]