This much is certain: Chinese phone maker Xiaomi is coming to the US. But there’s a lot that has to happen before you’ll be able to buy a Xiaomi phone meant for the States, and the pieces won’t come together in 2016. Click to read more of Jessica’s tech stories from Asia. Mark Hobbs/CNET “The …

In the next few weeks, you’ll be able to take a panorama photo on your phone and upload it to Facebook the usual way. Only it might not look like a short, stretched-out panorama shot the way it usually would. Instead, your friends will be able to see your surroundings in a sphere, using their finger to pan around, or …

Oculus’ upcoming improvements to the Samsung Gear VR headset will happen step by step, not in one fell swoop. When you add up the plans, which Oculus shared with press at a small event in San Francisco earlier this week, you start getting a sense of where the company wants to take VR, both on the phone-based Gear VR and …

Now playing: Watch this: Google thinks black links are the new blue 1:03 Google is testing a new way to deliver search results, by turning them black instead of blue, and some users are up in arms about it. Disgruntled searchers have turned to Twitter to express their outrage over the change, which currently only shows up for some users. …

When your toy drone hits a tree and crashes to the ground with a thunk, you laugh (a little). But that mirth will turn to tears if a drone you really care about, like this one delivering medical supplies where they’re needed most, crashes to the ground and busts up its payload. Ruh-roh. That’s why a company like ParaZero made …

Motorola, already the king of phone customization, could be planning a new way to win consumers’ hearts — with colorful back covers you can swap around. “Leaked” images for two new Moto X models — the Vector Thin and Vertex — show off different back covers that are connected by magnetic pins, according to Evan Blass, who, prior to writing …

Are the two Leica lenses of the new P9 phone really boastworthy? My colleague Andrew Hoyle thought so when he tested the phone in London for CNET’s full P9 review. (He should know; he takes excellent photos.) But I’m still on the fence about how well the P9 captured my recent 19-day trip in Asia, where I met with companies …

On the phone screen in front of me, I see “myself” walking down a sunny, cobbled street in Sweden. Only it’s not really me who’s striding along when I swipe at the 360-degree video I’m watching on the LG G5, it’s LG’s design chief Jung-hun Lee. Enlarge Image A tube of lipstick inspired LG’s 360 Cam design. Sarah Tew/CNET I …

What’s cheap, big and lets you write all over it? LG’s new Stylo 2 phone for Cricket, which has a digital pen you can use to navigate around, doodle with or use to jot notes. It’s a lot like the global LG Stylus 2 that the company announced in late February, but with a lower-resolution front-facing camera: 5 megapixels instead …

I’m pretty sure that my afternoon with some Asian elephants of northern Thailand was a highlight of my life — it certainly was an unforgettable part of my 19-day tech tour of Asia. Click to read more of Jessica’s tech travels in Asia! Mark Hobbs/CNET Like most creatures, these elephants are astounding and surprising in their own way, and being …