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Waze finally gets an Android Auto version that works on the standalone app. The Android Auto app lets anyone with an Android phone use a hands-free optimized interface for basic communication and music controls when mounted to a...

Because you obviously aren't using Instagram enough, the Facebook-owned service has added a helpful new feature that should make it even harder to ever leave its interface. From now on, a green dot will show up on in the bottom right corner of...

Sony unveiled the flagship Xperia XZ2 Premium in April, and it's expected to become available in the US at the end of this month. While we've seen it on pre-order in some other places, so far it hasn't received anything resembling a global...

Light has been ahead of the curve – it introduced a camera with 16 lenses back in 2015, before LG kicked off the multi-camera craze in the smartphone world with the G5 in 2016 (and most phones are still at 2). Now the company has scored a sizable...

According to a Korean media outlet, Huawei is working on a strange smartphone design that could potentially mean the end of a notch era. But don't get too excited, because what follows might be even worse. The design features a display cutout...

2018 iPhones are coming in September, just like every year, so TSMC is gearing up to mass produce the next chip from the A-series. And it seems that the semiconductor manufacturer is optimistic about this year's lineup. Despite the rather...

The FCC has certified the Samsung Galaxy Watch and while it hasn’t posted any photos, it did provide a detailed schematic of its back. You can see the name of the watch engraved on the bottom and digging through some of the other docs we find some...

OnePlus loves black. It published a detailed story on how the Midnight Black option of the 3T came to be, now it has detailed the development process of Mirror Black for the OnePlus 6. The team took inspiration from functional glass you encounter...

Canalys reports that Samsung and Xiaomi each shipped a record 9.9 million smartphones in India during the second quarter of this year. The total number of phones shipped in the country was just under 33 million. Samsung has bounced back and is...

When the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ launched, they featured a 720p @ 960fps slow-motion mode that could record up to 0.2s of real time. The latest software update for these two enables a 480fps mode, which brings up the recording time to 0.4s...

Vivo has launched its flagship NEX S in India. Simply called NEX for the Indian market, the phone will be available for purchase on Amazon and Vivo online store starting July 21 for INR 44,990 ($651). The NEX S' claim to fame is its...

The Oppo Find X and its amazing slide out mechanism have made their way to Pakistan. The phone will be available throughout the country in brick and mortar stores. The price is PKR 129,999 ($1,000/€870), availability is set for August 4. That’s a...

Honor just sent out invites for its upcoming IFA event scheduled for August 30. The invite promises a new device launch and given the timing we'd expect it to be a major one. Since the Honor 10 flagship is already official and rumors about...

Pete Lau, OnePlus' CEO, sat down and answered some questions from fans. Only the first part of the interview is published, but it gave us some interesting insight about behind the scenes and how the company develops a phone. One thing that...

HMD Global finally announced the Nokia X6 for the rest of the world under a new name - Nokia 6.1 Plus. And it was Hong Kong that got the handset first as reported last week. Nokia 6.1 Plus in Black and White The Nokia 6.1 Plus features...

Taiwanese manufacturer HTC is calling it quits in India, according to a report by Economic Times. Several of the company's top management, including country head Faisal Siddiqui, sales head Vijay Balachandran and product head R Nayyar have put in...

Sharp brought two new phones to Europe – the Aquos C10 and the Aquos B10. The C10 is the better-specced of the two and is a variation on the Aquos S2. Its battery is a bit of a concern, though, while the B10 has no such issues. Sharp Aquos...

VLC just got an update for iOS app, bringing the version to 3.1.0. According to the changelog, VLC for iOS now offers Chromecast support. It means you can finally stream content on VLC at your TV via the Google dongle. The app update also...

Sony just pushed a minor update to a number of its smartphones. Users still on the Xperia X and X Compact should see their build number bumped from 34.4.A.2.85 to 34.4.A.2.97 and have the July security patch now. Screenshots from the...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has written an open letter in response to the European Union's Competition Commission' €4.3b fine from yesterday. In a lengthy address he says that the "decision rejects the business model that supports Android, which has...