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It’s been quite some time since we’ve seen a OnePlus Open Beta worth writing about. That’s not to say that the last few haven’t been important, mind you, but they mostly addressed some bugs and optimizations. However, the 6/6T and 5/5T both got a new update that, while not major, have some interesting elements. The […]

Love it or hate it (I hate it), Google AMP is expanding faster than ever. It’s no longer just an optimized way to make mobile web pages, as it now powers interactive content in Gmail. ‘AMP Stories,’ a way of creating interactive news stories, was announced over a year ago — and it’s about to […]

Google had its 2019 ‘AMP Conf’ in Tokyo today, and announced a series of changes and new features coming to the company’s Accelerated Mobile Pages project. The most important announcement was that AMP pages will now show the original URL in the address bar, which should solve the platform’s greatest point of confusion — but […]

Only two months have passed since we reviewed the Soundcore Liberty Air true wireless earbuds and now we’re taking a look at — or listen to — the Liberty Neo. Neither set is to be confused with the Liberty earbud range from another Anker sub-brand called Zolo. Why Soundcore needs two distinct but similarly priced […]

Amazon’s Fire tablets have been commoditized to the point where the average consumer can buy six-packs of them at a bulk discount… and that was 4 years ago. They get the job done and they’re very cheap — both are good things — but they could be even cheaper. Best Buy is proving that point […]

Google I/O is less than a month away, but the schedule is still in flux. The initial list of presentations and sessions was announced late last last month, but now many more sessions have been added to the list, including talks about Android Q and Chrome OS. For Chrome OS, there’s an Adapting Android Games […]

One of the nicer features of the Pixel Launcher is the smart At A Glance widget that shows the date and weather most times, then surfaces important and timely information when you need it. Currently, it’s the place for calendar events, upcoming flights, and traffic conditions, but it’s working on adding two more types of […]

Right now, the dominant trend in flagship smartphone design is one of refinement. Instead of aiming to sell shoppers on the appeal of tricks like modular hardware, or overloading a handset with gimmicky sensors, successful phones are instead trying to achieve the platonic ideal of basically existing as little more than one big screen. That’s […]

The Galaxy S10 is an excellent phone, but it’s not without its faults. In fact, one of the headlining features isn’t so good. Samsung’s ultrasonic in-display sensor is often slow and inaccurate, and it’s attempting to address that with a new firmware patch rolling out to devices. It’s unclear if the sensor is actually any better, […]

ATT has a hankering to get more customers onto its network, so it’s offering a double-data deal on one of its prepaid plans for the next three months. Instead of 8GB of high-speed data, new customers will get 16GB for $40 per month after autopay. Customers will need to activate a phone — you can […]

Google launched the first Pixel phones in 2016, and these are still pretty capable phones to this day. You can use them to test Android Q, and the camera experience is still best-in-class. You can pick up a new Pixel XL for $250 right now on Woot. The Pixel XL sports a Snapdragon 821 SoC, […]

You’ve probably heard of quick charging, adaptive fast charging, rapid charging, USB power delivery charging, and Qualcomm Quick Charge 2.0/3.0/4.0 before – or at least one or two of these things. What you may not know is that all but one of them are actually basically the same thing, based on the same licensed technology […]