Staying connected is more important than ever nowadays, which is where the Facebook Portal Plus comes in. If you’re looking for an addition to improve your smart home set-up, now is a great time to upgrade. At just $179 ($100 off), the highly-rated smart display makes high-quality video calling easy, and it’s by far the best price it’s ever seen on Amazon.
With a large 15.6-inch screen, the Portal Plus seeks to improve your video calling as much as possible.
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Messages and the Camera app may be staying open long after use. The bug can result in excess heat and battery drain. The issue may be triggered just by opening Messages. A bug in Google Messages may be causing issues by keeping the Messages and Camera apps running in the background.
First noticed by 9to5Google, a thread on Reddit details an issue in which Messages and the Camera app are staying open for hours, long after being used.
With the HTC U 11 set to be announced in a little over a week, it’s only fitting that we take a look back at its predecessor, the HTC 10, which was easily one of the most underrated flagships of 2016. The device deserved a lot more attention than it received, but now that it’s a year old, let’s see exactly how well it has held up. Here is the HTC 10, revisited.
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Indie studio Coldbrew Games has launched Pocket City for Android and iOS. The game is a city building and management simulation inspired by the classic SimCity. The game costs $4.99, but there is a limited free demo available. Without a doubt, one of the most popular video games ever made was the original SimCity. The idea of creating and managing your own virtual metropolis is something that is truly irresistible for many people.
Google is putting the kibosh on one of its best apps.
Originally available on the Nexus 5 running Android 4.4. KitKat, Google brought the Google Now Launcher to the Play Store way back in February 2014. This was great news for folks who wanted a Google-y software experience on their non-Nexus Android phones.
Now, three years later, the company has decided to part ways with the Now Launcher. Though upsetting for some people, the news isn’t incredibly surprising; Google’s new Pixel and Pixel XL came with an all-new launcher (the aptly-named Pixel Launcher), and it’s even available in the Play Store.
One of the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition’s key differentiators from its regular sibling, other than the $70 price difference, is the introduction of 30W “Warp Charge 30” technology. This speedy bit of tech promises to power up the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition to 50% in just 20 minutes. On paper, it sounds a lot faster than the OnePlus 6T’s standard 20W fast charging.
To find out if this bit of technology is worth the extra cost, we stuck the two phones side by side and charged them up using the chargers and cables provided by OnePlus.
The HTC Bolt is one of the most compromised smartphones that we've recently reviewed. It simply has too many small issues for its $600 price tag for us to make even a conditional recommendation.
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When we reviewed the HTC 10 in early 2016, we dubbed it the comeback we had been waiting for. HTC managed to address many of our complaints with the previous year’s One M9, while also making major refinements to features like BoomSound.
Lenovo Flex 5GThe Lenovo Flex 5G is one of the first machines to run the Snapdragon 8cx and support 5G. These mobile-first components give it super fast internet and insane battery life, but come at a cost. I’m a big proponent of equipping as many mobile computers as possible with cellular connectivity. After all, what’s a laptop or tablet without the internet? While a handful of laptops — mostly enterprise-focused machines — do indeed offer LTE, the number isn’t nearly enough.
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A new report alleges that Samsung could bring the S-Pen to the S30 Ultra. Samsung could also be positioning the Galaxy Z Fold range as an eventual successor to the Note series. The S-Pen has been a fixture on the Samsung Galaxy Note series from the get-go, dating all the way back to 2011. We’ve seen it on every Note flagship since then, but we’ve never seen it on the mainline Galaxy S series.
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Every year, Apple holds an event focused on the developers that keep the company’s ecosystem fresh. Known as the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), it happens like clockwork in early June. For WWDC 2022, Apple launched the event on June 6, 2022.
Although WWDC focuses mostly on developers, software, and services, Apple does sometimes launch hardware at the event. This year saw a little bit of everything.