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Last August, Google announced an enhancement to its Play Store search and discovery algorithms, all in the pursuit of a better consumer experience. This was a natural next step after the company said it began tuning its algorithms “to optimize for user engagement, not just downloads” at its Developer Day at the Game Developers Conference in […]

Update 1: 2018/06/30 11:19am PDT Scaled down versions of apps are nothing new; Google has made plenty of “Go” apps made specifically for emerging markets where internet connections are unreliable, phones are generally less capable, and plans offer less data. Uber is now getting in on the act, too. Uber Lite has been built with India […]

I’ll be the first to admit that the Moto G6 is not the most exciting phone in the world. The days of being wowed by sub-$300 phones simply on the basis of not being terrible are long gone, but Motorola still rolls new budget devices out every year. The new Moto G6 is probably at […]

Affordable phones will always be a compromise, but Google hopes it can make entry-level devices a bit better with something new: Android Go. It’s the same Android platform you know and presumably love, but optimized for sub-1GB RAM environments. That way low-end hardware can have its own low-end version of Android, rather than suffering an OEM […]

Several variants of the Galaxy S7 have already received their Android 8.0 Oreo updates, but definitely not all. ATT, Verizon, and Sprint have pushed the update out in the US, and some international models have gotten Oreo as well. It’s now time for the update to be delivered to the Galaxy S7 Duos (SM-G930O), which […]

T-Mobile has finally gotten around to pushing Oreo to the LG G6. This will be its first major update since launching, but it’s still only landing on 8.0 rather than 8.1. At least it’s an update. Feel free to head to the update menu and mash the button, but you’ll probably have to wait a few […]

We’re big fans of the Android One-powered Xiaomi Mi A1 here at AP. Its combination of a handsome design, top-of-the-line software, great performance, and solid battery life makes it one of the best budget phones out there (even if it’s not officially sold in the US). The phone received Android 8.0 Oreo just before 2018 […]

The Google devs are at it again with another late-night rollout of the Google app. Like most others, this update doesn’t appear to bring any specific live changes, but it does include clues for a lot of the upcoming changes. There’s plenty here to talk about, so let’s just jump into it. Teardown Disclaimer: Teardowns […]

Earlier this month, Samsung announced the 2018 versions of its Galaxy J3 and J7 smartphones. No release date was given, with only “early June” being given as an estimate. It’s very late in June now, but Verizon, Sprint, and Boost Mobile have launched their versions of the J3 and J7. Galaxy J3 As you might […]

Over the past year or two, HMD Global has ushered a revival of the Nokia brand with stock Android software under the hood. But perhaps none of the smartphones it has released has been more reminiscent of the Nokia of yore than this Nokia 1 — a device that looks like it took a time […]