Motorola Moto Z2 ForceThe Moto Z2 Force brings dual cameras, more Moto Mods, a shatterproof screen and availability on all U.S. carriers, but the phone's shortcomings and compromised battery leads to a phone that isn't as compelling as it could have been.
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Last year Lenovo and Motorola introduced two flagship phones with Moto Z and Moto Z Force, but this year they’ve consolidated their lineup. There’s no Moto Z2, and instead we only have the Z2 Force as their main 2017 flagship.
Update (9/30): EA has finally released Need for Speed: No Limits to the Play Store. If you'd like to download the new racing title, follow the Google Play link below to get started! [aa_button text="Download Need for Speed: No Limits from Google Play" url="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ea.game.nfs14_row" size="medium" align="center" nofollow="0" color="0" ]
Original post (9/28): EA’s next big mobile racing game, Need for Speed: No Limits, was first announced way back in November 2014. If you’ve been itching to try out this title on your Android device ever since then, we have some good news.
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Update, May 31, 12:30PM EST: An issue with a very similar description has been reported in Google’s Android issue tracker back in 2018. At the time, Google developers said they were unable to reproduce the issue and closed it out (Hat tip: inverimus on Reddit). We’ve reached out to Google for clarification.
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If you are looking forward to small Android phones, you likely won’t get them any time soon. The iPhone 13 Mini is doing very poorly with US consumers. Apple’s lack of success here likely will push Android OEMs to focus on bigger models. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like this problem will be going away anytime soon. According to Consumer Research Intelligence Partners (CIRP) (via MacRumors), the iPhone 13 Mini isn’t faring well with United States consumers.
Zhiyun Smooth XSThe Zhiyun Smooth XS smartphone gimbal is half the price of the DJI OM 4, the gold standard for smartphone gimbals. That's terrific, but as with most things, you get what you pay for. The Smooth XS is missing a lot of core features and appears to have only one specific audience in mind. Table of contents
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A cursory search through Amazon for smartphone gimbals will bring up over a hundred options.
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That’s a strong accusation from a guy who admittedly questioned the openness of the Chromecast in the same Google+ post in which he notified the world AllCast was no longer working. AllCast was meant to allow streaming of local media, such as videos stored on an Android device. It was also meant to take media from your Dropbox or Google Drive account, and stream it from your Android device.
Metro PCS is now selling its second Huawei LTE network compatible smartphone in stores and online. The new handset is called the Huawei Premia 4G and will set you back a modest sum of $149.99.
Contacts start at $40 a month for unlimited talk, text messages, and 500MB of 4G data, and range up to $60 for a totally unlimited LTE data experience. Metro PCS is also offering the option to purchase on-demand music from Rhapsody for just $5 a month with your package.
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Google has announced an Android features update that is coming soon for most users. They include some features that were previously just on Pixel phones, including Locked Folder in Google Photos. New accessibility features are also rolling out, along with some ways to remote control your Google TV-based television via your phone. Android 12 might be just a few weeks away from launching. However, if your phone isn’t supposed to get the new OS for a while, you can still expect to see some new Android features via updates that will begin to roll out today.
Darwin Bell/Flickr While supplies of clean water might not be something that Westerners worry about, the reality is that in some parts of the world, millions of people die every single year due to contaminated water and unfit sanitation equipment. But what does this have anything to do with the Android OS? Apparently a lot, as a former NASA engineer by the name of John Feighery has developed an Android app that allows health workers from Bangladesh to record water quality test results in real time and map them accordingly.
Huawei revealed this week that its deal with veteran brand Leica had expired, coming a few hours after Leica and Xiaomi announced a camera partnership of its own.
The Huawei/Leica tie-up had been in effect since 2016’s P9 flagship series, but was the partnership actually a success? We posed this question to our readers, and here’s what they said.
Was Huawei and Leica’s partnership a success? Results Just over 1,700 votes were counted after we published this poll inside our news article, and a resounding 72.