Soft-touch glass is the term that refers to the matte glass back on the Pixel 3 and 4. The overall effect was a subdued look with a certain class. With the Pixel 6 series, Google went with a high-gloss glass, but the company said it planned to bring back soft-touch with the Pixel 7. According to YouTuber Marques Brownlee, Google has now reversed course and said the Pixel 7 glass will remain high-gloss.
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Following the official release of Android 12, the long wait for broader support begins. Oppo is amongst the first to reveal a public timeline for their take on Google’s latest Android version upgrade via its own Color OS skin. We’ve been testing out an alpha release of Color OS 12 over the last week and here are our first impressions.
Oppo is sticking to its guns with Color OS 12 and the Android 12 based skin is an interesting mix of most of the latest features, while still maintaining the Color OS design aesthetic.
Today was the Fall 2021 Amazon event! As with most other hardware launches from the company, we saw many new smart home products. We also saw some updates to Amazon’s various services and a few other interesting surprises.
See also: The best Amazon devices you can buy right now!
Below, we’ve rounded up everything announced at the event. Most of the products are either available for pre-order now or will be before the start of the holiday shopping season, so get your wallets ready!
SteelSeries SteelSeries Arctis Pro + GameDACThe SteelSeries Arctis Pro brings all the features you'd expect from a premium gaming headset, without relying on a clunky app. The cords are a little short, but this is a great PC option.
SteelSeries has been putting out great gaming headsets for years. The company’s Arctis line is a consistently great group of products, and the SteelSeries Arctis Pro and GameDAC offers more features than you can shake a stick at.
Update, November 13, 2019 (09:28 AM ET): You can now finally buy the LG G8X ThinQ unlocked in the United States. As of right now, the device only appears to be available unlocked from B&H Photo, but we expect it will land at other retail outlets — including Amazon and Best Buy — very soon.
In the meantime, you can buy the innovative dual-screen device unlocked from B&H for $700 or buy carrier-locked versions from Sprint and AT&T.
Update, March 6, 2020 (3:05AM ET): After a cameo that lasted for almost a year, Google is pulling the voice of John Legend from the Google Assistant. The company made the announcement through its Twitter handle, saying that the singer’s Assistant voice will not be available after March 23.
You still have a couple of weeks before this happens, so make the most of Legend’s serenading voice, that is, if you’re a fan.
The Vivo Z1x is a first-rate effort that brings enough to the table to be a great option for anyone buying a mid-range smartphone. It might not be the best phone in the segment, but the quality construction, focus on design, and reasonably decent performance mean that you can't go wrong with it. Table of contents
The pace of smartphone innovation is such that we’re seeing apparent successors to newly launched devices within a matter of weeks, rather than months.
Huawei Mate 8Huawei delivers great hardware yet again and the Kirin 950 sets the benchmark for performance in 2016 but a poorly conceived user experience and mediocre camera detract from what could have been a great smartphone
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With a new year comes new changes and we’re changing our review process beginning with this Huawei Mate 8 review. Now, selected handsets will be reviewed by not one, but two people, with the aim of bringing you two different views on that smartphone.
The Samsung Galaxy S10 leaks have turned into a flood ahead of the February 20 unveiling. Now the latest leak has given us a look at the Galaxy S10e in a rather uncommon color scheme.
Renders obtained by tipster Ishan Agarwal and MySmartPrice show the phone in Canary Yellow, echoing the Nokia/Microsoft Lumia series and Apple’s cheaper iPhones.
Don’t care for the color option? Fear not as the Galaxy S10e is said to arrive in green, white, and Prism Black color schemes too.
Update: (03/21): As promised, Madfinger Games has finally launched its sci-fi first-person shooter Shadowgun Legends on Android.
The game was first announced way back in August 2016, followed by a soft launch in the Netherlands in November 2017. The free-to-play shooter features over 200 missions that cover four different alien planets. It also has hundreds of different weapons and armor types to choose from, along with a bunch of cosmetic items, and a “fame” reward system that will make the game world around your player character react differently based on the amount of fame he or she has.