In the smartphone world, HTC’s bread and butter has always been design. The One M7 is widely considered to be one of the most attractive smartphones to date, and the company even managed to improve on that design language with its 2014 flagship, the One M8. Then with the One M9 in 2015, many consumers were torn. With poor battery life, a lackluster camera experience and a design that failed to turn the heads of most, the One M9 was a good phone, but it wasn’t great.

The HTC U11 is a fantastic return to form for a company that failed to make a significant impact in the last few years with its other flagships. With an all new metal and glass construction, superb display, the latest and greatest processing package, a fantastic audio experience with both the external speakers and headphones, an impressive camera, and good battery life, the HTC U11 checks all the right boxes. Despite some tough competition in the flagship space, HTC finally has a worthy contender on offer with the U11.

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. Table of contents 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.

The specifications and features you get with the Realme 3i are similar across the board in this price range. What isn't is the excellent build quality and beautiful build of this phone. Whether this design is enough to justify picking it over slightly more powerful options is up to you. Table of contents Realme has been gunning for Xiaomi after it entered the Indian market and hasn’t taken its foot off the pedal since.

This is a screenshot of the image in question. We didn’t embed the original just to play it safe. 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.

You may know Kyocera for its water-resistant smartphone offering, the Kyocera Hydro. But there’s one more Android trick up the Japanese manufacturer’s sleeve. After it was first showcased at CTIA 2012 back in May – the Kyocera Rise is on its way to two wireless carriers in the US. EVleaks has shared new pictures of the Kyocera Rise in the wild, bringing along with it fresh information of where the phone will be heading to.

It’s launch day for the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, which means plenty of people are going to be firing that shiny new beast up for the very first time. For those on the Verizon network, you’ll also have an update waiting for you when you first boot it up. It’s nothing too exceptional, just the August security patch from Google, but it’s still better than not having it on launch day (ahem!

Eric Zeman / Android Authority TL;DR 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.

TL;DR ZTE finally pushed out the Android Oreo update to the Axon 7, but you can only sideload it. Device owners must also delete their data before they install the update. Reportedly, the process is due to encryption issues from the last closed beta that have not yet been fixed. According to the announcement thread on ZTE’s forums, the only way to install the Axon 7’s Oreo update is to download the update to your microSD card.