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When the Pixel 2 XL came out, there was a great deal of consternation about the LG-made OLED panel. I was firmly in the “it’s fine” camp, but my opinion has changed over time. No, I didn’t suddenly decide the blue shift was a deal breaker. The oleophobic coating on the glass is just so bad […]

Supercell’s mobile multiplayer combat game Brawl Stars has apparently found a lot of success on iOS despite its year-long existence as a soft launched title that few can access. The thing is, Android users never heard word one about a release on our platform, so as you can imagine fans on our side of the […]

The Galaxy Note and Tab S lines are both due for a refresh soon. The Note8 is almost a year old, and the Tab S3 is almost a year and a half. Luckily, the successors to those have just passed through the FCC, indicating that they’re probably coming soon. As is typical with these large […]

Xiaomi started rolling out an update to Android Oreo 8.0 to its Mi Box early last month, but that was a limited test with only a few devices receiving the OTA. Now, it seems that the update is being released to all; users around the world have reported seeing the notification and successfully getting their […]

FM radio might be hideously old-fashioned in this age of constantly connected streaming media, but it’s free and sometimes it’s just easier than finding streaming content. Samsung’s phones have hardware support for FM radio reception, but the feature was missing from the unlocked Galaxy S9 and S9+ at launch. With the most recent update, that […]

Firefox 57 ‘Quantum’ launched last year with major performance enhancements on the desktop, but the new Quantum CSS engine only arrived on Android last month. Firefox 61 has now been released across all platforms, and the Android version includes more speed optimizations. Here’s the full changelog for the Android release, courtesy of Mozilla: Firefox 61 […]

Samsung already offers more than a few options for the Always On Display clock, but you can never have too many options to choose from. The company has just introduced an app called ClockFace for all devices running Android 8.0 Oreo and up, adding almost 30 new faces to the lineup. Images via SamMobile. After […]

Back at CES, I had the chance to chat with Optoma about what we could expect from the NuForce brand this year. I was promised that something good was in the works and that it would be worth the wait. So when the BE Sport4 arrived on my doorstep, some six months after I got […]