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Following its announcement (alongside two other new Nokia phones) late last month, the Nokia 3.1 is now available for pre-order in the US via Amazon. The inexpensive Android One phone will cost $159, and Amazon’s listing says that it’ll be released on July 2nd. As we already knew, the Nokia 3.1 isn’t an especially powerful […]

Sometimes when you’re traveling, it can be tough to come by data. Carriers like Project Fi and T-Mobile provide some when roaming at no extra charge, but even so, you might have to make do with patchy connectivity. It’s a good thing, then, for those of us visiting foreign countries that Google Translate has offline […]

With the Pixel 2 release, Google enabled an automatic dark theme in the Pixel Launcher and quick settings. This was a bit of a half measure seeing as everyone has been begging Google for a dark system theme for years. Annoyingly, if you had a preference for the dark or light theme, you couldn’t manually […]

At Google I/O, it was announced that camera apps from over 10 major manufacturers would be getting Google Lens integration. Since then, Sony’s Xperia XZ2 and XZ2 Compact and some newer Motorola phones have had this functionality added. Now, ASUS phones are being updated to support this as well.   Google Lens appeared in a […]

Update 1: 2018/06/07 7:01pm PDT Update 2: 2018/06/12 3:37am PDT Over a month ago, Verizon toyed with Galaxy S7 and S7 edge owners’ hearts by saying that the Android 8.0 Oreo update was rolling out, when in reality it had simply posted the wrong changelog. However, Verizon has again updated its support pages for the S7 and […]

Update 1: 2018/06/12 12:08pm PDT A new update is rolling out to the OnePlus 6, bringing with it a nice selection of changes and improvements. OxygenOS 5.1.6 adds some notable highlights, such as Portrait Mode for the front camera, support for VoLTE on Idea in India, and several other things. Without further ado, let’s take a […]

Smart wall outlets are an inexpensive but neat way to make your house smarter. But if you needed a little push to grab some, Lightstory smart outlets are currently being discounted by 30% on Amazon. These are some of the cheapest Assistant-compatible plugs we’ve seen, and they’re available in two-, three-, and four-packs. These Lightstory […]

Google has made a few moves to get more people using Google Express, not all of which have been popular. Remember when Assistant’s shopping list moved to Express? The latest change is only temporary, but it comes free of drawbacks. For a limited time, the threshold for free delivery on Express has dropped to $15 […]