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Technology always trickles down to less and less important uses over time. Case in point: speech recognition. It was, at one time, futuristic and incredible that computers could understand us, but now it’s just kind of a given. In keeping with its trajectory of increasing mundanity, speech recognition has made its way to perhaps the […]

Last month, Samsung unveiled the Galaxy On6, a rebranded Galaxy J6 sold exclusively online. Perhaps renaming existing phones is working out for Samsung, because the company just did it again. Today it announced the Galaxy On8, a phone identical to the already-released Galaxy J8. The phone sounds okay on paper, but it falls flat when […]

The Nokia 3.1 is one of HMD Global’s newest budget phones, positioned between the Android Go-equipped Nokia 2.1 and the mid-range Nokia 5.1. The phone was announced in May of this year, and went on sale in the United States earlier this month. All the hallmarks of recent Nokia devices are present, including great build […]

Hello, all, and welcome to August. We’ve got our first app sales roundup of the month to get through. It’s a respectable size, so browse through at your leisure to see if anything today catches your eye. Today’s app sales roundup is sponsored by Edge Action Launcher by Edge Action Studio. This launcher brings the […]

Google software and services are inevitably works in progress. Whether we’re talking Gmail or Assistant, we’re constantly seeing features introduced, interfaces tweaked, and products merged together or split off on their own. Earlier this year, Google turned its attention to a big overhaul of its premium YouTube offerings, including a new positioning for YouTube Music […]

There was a time not that many years ago when Sony was trusted implicitly by consumers all over the world. You knew if you bought a Sony product, you were getting the best, and people were willing to pay more for that peace of mind. However, Sony has struggled to find its place in today’s […]

The Android Wear market isn’t what it once was, but one of the few manufacturers that has stuck around is Huawei. The Huawei Watch 2 Sport and Classic didn’t wow us as much as the original Huatch, but given the price drops BH is offering, they might be worth another look. The Sport is offered […]

2016’s LG V20 was basically the last flagship to ship with a removable battery, so it’s no surprise that plenty of people are still using it. Its Android 8.0 Oreo update started rolling out in South Korea last week, and it’s now hitting the Sprint model here in the states. The last time we heard […]

Update 1: 2018/07/31 1:42pm PDT HTC isn’t doing particularly well these days, and the few people out there who purchased a U12+ likely weren’t too pleased with the last bit of news about their devices announced: ‘CryptoKitties.’ Luckily, HTC is releasing an update for the U12+, starting with the Taiwanese dual-SIM model and coming soon to US […]

Update 1: 2018/08/01 2:10pm PDT Plenty of OEMs are happy to let older hardware languish when it comes to updates, but OnePlus has become one of the more prolific manufacturers with keeping its older handsets up to date—barring a few specific missteps. On that note, an OTA for the OnePlus 5 and 5T is currently in […]