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At some point, someone decided that smartwatches have to be capable of replacing your phone. While that might work okay-ish on Apple’s platform, it’s a disaster over in the Android world – underpowered but battery-sucking Snapdragon chips meet poorly written software on Wear OS. With Pebble gone, there aren’t many options left for people looking […]

Update 1: 2019/04/24 9:08am PDT Update 2: 2019/04/25 1:32pm PDT Update 3: 2019/05/01 4:13am PDT The Galaxy Tab S4 is Samsung’s flagship tablet, and it’s one of the best Android slabs on the market. International models started receiving their Android 9 Pie updates a couple of weeks ago, and it’s now the US Wi-Fi (SM-T830) version’s turn. This […]

Sony may not be doing so well in the smartphone business, likely due in part to how pricey its devices are. As we typically see with the Xperia line as time goes on, there’s another sale on the XZ2 Premium over on Amazon. You can score yours for $599.99, $300 off the quite high MSRP. […]

It’s been interesting watching all of these Pixel 3a/3a XL leaks happen all over the place – though it’s hard to beat the insanity that led up to the Pixel 3 reveal last year – but it looks like Best Buy has jumped the gun a bit, as you can see in the photo above. […]

At the start of this year, Google announced it was working on Assistant devices for your car. The idea is to bring the same convenience of an always-listening smart speaker into your vehicle of choice, without requiring an expensive Android Auto head unit. The first product in this category is the Anker Roav Bolt, a […]

Selling consumers on smartwatches has proven much more difficult than selling them on smartphones a decade ago, but the market is gaining traction. Counterpoint Research says that smartwatch shipments grew by 48% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2019, but most of that is thanks to Apple, Samsung, and Fitbit. Fossil, and therefore Wear OS, […]

Update 1: 2019/04/30 2:51pm PDT What’s this, another update from OnePlus for the 5/5T? And a decently-sized one at that. This is Open Beta 31 and 29, respectively, which brings some nice improvements to the UX and overall. Here’s the changelog: A new UI for anything always draws my attention, even one as basic as the […]

Instagram has announced new features that are intended to enhance the experiences for the 500 million daily active users of its Stories feature — one of these features is available right now while the other may take some time and adjustment to get used to. The social media platform is also building a new way […]

Not many people require a ton of power and storage with their Chromebooks, but for those who do, Google offers a Pixelbook with a Core i7, 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. With an MSRP of $1,650, it’s no surprise that this spec is frequently discounted. It’s currently down to $1,199 on Amazon and […]

Premium Chromebooks are a niche product category; most Chromebooks in any price range can do pretty much all the same things. The difference comes in how well a particular device handles those tasks — and while HP’s Chromebook x360 14 G1 is unlikely to convert anyone already against high-end Chrome OS devices on principle, it’s […]

Fossil is one of the most active brands when it comes to developing Wear OS smartwatches. Its products are stylish and discreet but still feature advanced hardware, including heart rate sensors and GPS chips on the latest models. The Sport series features the newer Snapdragon Wear 3100 chip, which makes it one of the snappiest […]

Here we are early on this Saturday morning with another OnePlus update, this time for the 5/5T. OxygenOS 9.0.5 will begin rolling out to both phones over the coming days, bringing with it the April security patch and some bug fixes. Here’s the changelog: This update is already off to a better start that the […]