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For the past few generations, OnePlus’s phones have been heavily based on those from sister company OPPO. The OnePlus 6 was based on the OPPO R15, the OP5T was inspired by the R11s, and so on. OPPO’s R17 debuted last month with an in-display fingerprint sensor and a ‘waterdrop’ notch, and — surprise! — the […]

On August 2, Apple became the first US company to reach a total market capitalization of $1 trillion. Now, just a month and change later, Amazon has done the same — however briefly. The online retail behemoth’s stock hit a new high of $2,049.50 per share around 11:30 a.m., Eastern time this morning, momentarily nudging […]

Project Fi has been selling select devices at steep discounts lately. Last month, the carrier offered hundreds of dollars of service credit with the purchase of certain LG phones, or $200 off a Pixel 2 XL. Now there are two new deals, including a deeper price cut on the Pixel 2 XL and sales on […]

The Android industry as a whole has overhyped the concept of foldable smartphones to the point of near exhaustion, but none is a worse offender than Samsung. It’s been teasing a foldable device for many years now (see 2014 concept below) but the feat of actually producing one that’s durable and functionally innovative enough to commercially […]

Slightly over a year ago, I reviewed Anker’s first Android-powered portable projector, the Nebula Mars. It packed a bright projector and JBL speakers into a small package, and the $599.99 price reflected that. The heavily-modified build of Android 4.4 worked decently well, but app compatibility was limited, since most apps have stopped supporting KitKat. Anker […]

What a way to celebrate Labor Day. The first Open Beta for the OnePlus 6 is now available! Notably, this update brings the phone up to Android 9 Pie and, along with all of the changes in the latest OS version, it adds some new features, too. This being the initial release, there are some […]

Even though a May report suggested that Essential has canned its second-generation phone (an assertion the company didn’t fully contradict), the first Essential Phone remains a cult favorite. In large part, that’s because the company pushes out Android updates in near tandem with Google — and that was no exception with the September 2018 Android Pie […]

The Nexus Player is quite old at this point — after all, it has “Nexus” in its name — but it still has its fans. That’s in spite of a sleeping bug from late last year, no more OS or security updates, and most recently and worryingly, a large batch randomly dying. But the units being offered […]

Those of us that care about our online security probably use some form of two-factor authentication to secure our most important accounts, but even the strongest password and the longest authentication code are still subject to something as simple as a phishing attack, which is why so many have switched to hardware security keys. Google […]

As we’ve learned over the past few years, having a Google service available in your country isn’t enough to use it on all your devices. Google Pay, for example, is supported for in-store payments in twenty countries, but only if you’re using your phone to make the transaction. If you have a Wear OS smartwatch, […]