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Asus announced the ZenFone 5Z all the way back in February. It’s very much a 2018 Android device: it’s got a Snapdragon 845, six or eight gigs of RAM, two cameras, and of course, that notch. Months later, the 5Z is now available for pre-order. You can reserve one now for the low price of […]

Google has made countless advertisements for Chromebooks, but none of them have directly pointed out flaws in traditional operating systems like Windows and macOS – until now. The company just released a new Chromebook commercial that calls out its competitors for being annoying, buggy, and slow. The end of the ad highlights numerous applications available […]

After leaks and teardown revelations aplenty, WhatsApp group calls were finally formally revealed at Facebook’s F8 developer conference in early May. By the end of the month, the feature had started showing up for some. Now, WhatsApp has announced that group audio and video calls are rolling out to all users. The functionality is pretty straightforward: […]

T-Mobile has announced that it’s partnered with Nokia to build its 5G mobile network. The carrier will pay Nokia $3.5 billion for “its complete end-to-end 5G technology, software and services portfolio.” T-Mobile called the agreement a multiyear deal, but doesn’t go into specifics, saying only that the two companies will work together “in the critical […]

Update 1: 2018/07/29 6:31pm PDT Even though OnePlus still sells only one phone at a time, pulling the plug on the well-reviewed 5T far too early, the company’s software support for both new and old devices can be pretty impressive. Unless you don’t still own the OnePlus 2 or OnePlus X, in which case we’re sorry. […]

Buckle up, Asus lovers and users, the ZenFone series is starting to get its Android 8.1 update and the first lucky device is the ZenFone 3 Max (ZC553KL). The two-year-old phone had already received Nougat 7.0 a year ago and an update to Zen UI 4.0 last December, but Oreo 8.1 is certainly a nicer milestone […]

Last month, OnePlus formalized its software maintenance schedule. Like Google, the company promised customers two years of Android OS version upgrades, followed by an additional year of security maintenance updates. This new schedule applied to hardware starting immediately, which most of us had assumed meant that the last version of Android the OnePlus 3 and […]

We talk a lot about cord-cutting — “skinny bundles” and the like — but there are still plenty of cable holdouts. Cable boxes are largely terrible, though, so any opportunity to not use them is a boon. To that end, AMC has just released an Android TV app. AMC has had an Android app for […]

LG announced a new range of budget phones back in May – the Q7, Q7+, and Q7α. They all have 5.5-inch 18:9 displays, with a curved glass front and metal back. None of them are available in the United States right now, but it looks like that will change in a few days. Support pages for […]

At MWC, Asus showed off its 2018 Zenfone lineup. Most of the attention fell on the 5Z and 5, with their display notches and fresh designs. Perhaps left to the wayside was the lower-end device of this family, the Zenfone 5Q (or Lite, depending on where you are). It doesn’t resemble its brethren whatsoever, right […]