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Back at CES, Asus showed off a follow-up to the not-so-old Zenfone 4 Max, which was a phone that ultimately disappointed me. Attempting to capitalize on the love for big batteries, the Taiwanese company decided to spin off the Zenfone Max line into its own device family. These phones will offer large batteries and many […]

It has been about a year since Lenovo released its Android version of the Yoga Tablet 2, so it was only a short matter of time before we would hear about an update if they plan on continuing the mid- to upper-range line of tablets. Twitter-based @upleaks has posted two images that appear to be […]

Fitbit has shown a commitment to smartwatches that few other companies have. It launched the Ionic late last year and pushed a number of major software updates to it. Now, the Fitbit Versa is available for purchase. It’s Fitbit’s second true smartwatch, and I like it better than the first one. It’s also cheaper than […]

Welcome a fresh update of Google Maps to the world. Version 9.78 began rolling out to the beta channel last night, and with it comes a few visual tweaks and a cool new feature for custom lists that shows the places you’ve visited. Turning to the teardown, it looks like Google will be giving contributors […]

No, it’s not just you – YouTube TV is currently having a major outage, primarily on the East Coast. It doesn’t seem to be affecting everyone (our own Ryan is having no problems over in Minnesota), but it does seem pretty widespread, with lots of reports on Twitter, DownDetector, and Outage Report. Well my #youtubetv […]

My new apartment is laid out in a longitudinal way with the master bedroom on an opposite end of the living room/balcony. This makes the terrible internet situation in Lebanon even more challenging because finding a router system that reaches both ends is tricky. After a lot of research, I opted for a TP-Link Archer […]

Earlier this week, photos of Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy View tablet – a word I use primarily because there isn’t a better one for a product like this – leaked. Extensively. It’s an 18.4″ touchscreen with a huge stand/handle attachment, and as far as we can tell, it has basically zero productive aspirations. It’s a media […]

Update 1: 2018/05/14 2:57am PDT Despite frequent updates, Wear OS (formerly Android Wear) is definitely stagnating from a hardware perspective. Most watches use Qualcomm’s Wear 2100 processor, which is over two years old at this point. At long last, the company is working on a brand new mobile chipset for wearables, which will arrive this fall. […]

Update 1: 2018/04/30 9:26am PDT After a brief one-month beta period, OnePlus has now begun rolling out the latest stable version of OxygenOS 5.1.0 to OnePlus 5 and 5T devices. The version is based on Android 8.1 Oreo and includes April’s updated security patch. The complete changelog from OnePlus is shown below. System Updated system to […]

Galaxy Tab S3 owners, prepare your fingers to start mashing that check for updates button. Users in the UK are reporting that their tablets are getting the OTA to Android 8.0 Oreo. Along with it come all the goodies you expect from Oreo such as system-level PIP support, Autofill API, notification snooze and channels, and […]

OnePlus is good enough to provide a beta channel for its phones, so you can stay on the bleeding edge. You’ll also probably encounter more bugs, but such is life. There are new Oreo-based Open Betas live today for OnePlus’ recent phones. They include some functional updates as well as security patches. All devices appear […]

YouTube TV isn’t the only video service that seems to be running into problems today. According to widespread recent reports, many people are having trouble accessing specific Channels on their Roku set-top devices. The affected services, which includes YouTube and Netflix, are allegedly showing an FBI anti-piracy warning message.  The FBI and @RokuPlayer say that […]