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Things have been quiet for the Play Store for the last few months, but a pair of updates to v11.5 and v11.6 began rolling out with some interesting clues hidden under the hood. Two new features appear to be in the works. The first is a loyalty program called Play Points that works a bit […]

We always say that benchmarks don’t matter as much as the overall experience of using a phone, but they do still matter enough that device makers sometimes put a thumb on the scale to improve scores. A recent report from Anandtech accused Huawei of configuring phones to produce artificially high benchmarks. Now, the maker of […]

If you are at all into the root/ROM community, then you should probably be familiar with Open GApps, which combines the Google services that most of us need for our Android phones (i.e., the Play Store, Play Services, and other Google apps) into a collection of convenient, recovery-flashable packages. In a milestone, today Open GApps […]

Google has just sent out invitations to an event on October 9th in New York City, confirming a previous report from Bloomberg and discrediting a previous rumor for October 4th. It’s all but confirmed that we’ll be seeing the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL there, but unfortunately not the Pixel Watch due to a […]

We’ve been critical when it comes to Android Go-powered phones in the US, but Asus’ new Zenfone Live L1 is set to change our mind. It’s the first genuinely good experience I’ve had with the platform, and combined with a Snapdragon 425, 3,000mAh battery, and price-defying 5.5″ 720p IPS display, I think it could be […]