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Tired of overpriced flagships that are slow to get upgrades? The Essential Phone is neither of those things – for one, it already runs Android 9.0 Pie. For another, it’s currently $224 over at Amazon...

The Jovi voice assistant teased an August 20 appearance of vivo X23 and the AI platform did not disappoint. The new phone has just arrived as a teaser on the official company website, revealing the...

Xiaomi is announcing a new smartphone series called Pocophone and the first device from the portfolio will be called F1, according to numerous leaks. It is arriving in India on August 22, but just...

Oppo listed the R17 on its official website last week with a dummy price of CNY99,999. Today the cost was fixed and the company announced on Weibo how much the phone will actually set you back....

The vivo X23 appeared in the wild some time ago, but better-looking images surfaced on Friday, revealing the design of the smartphone. It looks a lot like the vivo V11 Pro that is getting announced...

Week 33 ended up pretty busy with Oppo, Motorola and Xiaomi all announcing new hardware. Three phones and a tablet isn't a bad return, considering it's the middle of the summer. Meanwhile, most...

Fingerprint readers convincingly beat 3D face scanning in a previous poll of ours, now let’s talk about the positioning. In-display readers are available on a few premium devices, but the tech is...

Back in the beginning of the year we started publishing a new series of reviews. Instead of assessing a device’s performance in the most objective way possible, we try to give a personal and more...

The Samsung Galaxy Note9 entered our top 10 last week in second place and it was almost inevitable that it will take the top in its first full week as an official phone. The Xiaomi Mi A2 had to...

About 1 in 5 people who voted in last week’s poll say they have pre-ordered a Samsung Galaxy Note9. Among those who are holding back the most commonly cited reason why is the price. The Galaxy...

James Bond is known for being a suave spy, but he loves his gadgets. Provided by Q, these often include an Aston Martin and a Sony Ericsson phone. It started with the Ericsson JB988, a fictional...

This is the Honor Play - a phone Huawei's sub-brand is selling as gaming-oriented, but which we think is much much more. First - here's our unboxing and key features video. The Honor Play...

The beta for Google's keyboard Gboard v7.5 is now out and it comes with a host of useful features, or at least hints of them. Chief among those is what effectively is a clipboard manager where you'd...

We haven't bothered trying to hide our fondness for the P20 Pro's color schemes, and it appears Huawei's design department will be making it even tougher to pick just the right option. Apparently,...

The Motorola One showed up on GeekBench the other day, and it turns out it's been to other places too. The toned-down version of the yet-unofficial One Power has passed by Chinese regulator TENAA...

A firmware update for the BlackBerry KEY2 is live in North America with users in the US and Canada getting the ABE181 build over the air. The update brings the security patch level up to August...

Samsung has already pushed an update to the Samsung Galaxy Note9. Of course, the majority of folks who have one in possession is the media (present company included). We’ve not yet seen the update...

Huawei's nova 3 and nova 3i smartphones became available in India on August 7. So far, the nova 3 hasn't been offered on open sale, but that's going to change on August 23. The phone will still be...

We all know what happened with ZTE. The United States banned the Chinese phone maker from operating in the United States for breaking sanctions and using American components in countries where the...

Samsung is promoting the Galaxy A8 (2018) and tweeted some selfie pictures, accompanied by a text saying the phone highlights the essential parts of the photo, clearly meaning the people in...