The Galaxy Note series’ big battery is back and better than ever in the Galaxy Note 9, as iFixit’s teardown of the new phone shows. Yeah, the 4,000-mAh spec tells you that it’s probably pretty large — typical phone batteries run between 2,500 and 3,500 mAh in comparison — but according to iFixit, its 15.4Wh …

Android Go is the closest you can get to the stock version of Google’s operating system on a non-Google phone — it’s Google’s bloatskrieg against the irritating mass of third-party software that ships on many Android phones. It also includes tools to help manage data consumption for areas where your signal isn’t always great or data is too expensive.  Google …

In the section of Apple’s XCode developer software, which provides the information software uses to target the capabilities of specific devices, three unnamed “iPhone xx” models sit among the legion of existing products. (And no, that’s likely not the real name.) One of them has specs that sound remarkably like the current iPhone 7‘s, making it a possible replacement when …

Amazon’s Kindle e-reader family seems to have lost a member along the way, with the disappearance of the Voyage from its Kindle Family listing. The site now lists just three models in its lineup of eight configurations, the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Oasis. Good e-Reader first noticed this a few weeks back, saying the Voyage seems to have vanished in July. …

The rumor mill for Nvidia’s eagerly anticipated Turing-based GeForce announcement at Gamescom next week has gone from 0 to 60 in one day, thanks to a possible leaky wheel at MSI and Palit. Photos of a host of MSI-branded RTX cards and boxes have surfaced, along with a report that they will go on sale the same day as the …

Many of us haven’t even upgraded to 4K yet, but Samsung may be preparing to launch the first 8K QLED model during IFA at the end of August. That’s based on the really big sign the company’s already posted in Berlin, where the show is taking place. Twitter poster @LeogringoD mentioned last week, with a photo of a Samsung sign …

HTC just debuted the brilliantly colored flame-red model of its U12 Plus phone. It’s a bright pinkish-red with yellow- and violet-hued highlights that shift with the light.  It’s slated to ship in September, but you can preorder it now directly from HTC for the standard $800 off-contract price. It’s available in the US and Canada, at least for the moment. …

Here’s Thursday’s development in the seeming last gasps of MoviePass: The menu of movies you can select from daily has shrunk to six for your $10 per month. But you can still see three of them! Unfortunately, that means no Crazy Rich Asians until Sunday — if the beleaguered company can even hold to that promise.  A new limitation in …

Motorola’s new high-end Moto P30 6.2-inch phone has launched in China, looking uncannily like the Apple iPhone X — but with a cool ceramic and glass gradient back that helps it stand out from the notch-filled crowd.  Motorola Top-of-the-line for Motorola, a budget-phone biggie, means something different to Moto than it does to Apple, though — the P30 (English translation) starts at …

When Nvidia posted a teaser video for its Aug. 20 Gamescom event, fans eagerly awaiting the company’s next-generation flagship gaming graphics processor deconstructed it frame-by-frame. They delivered the verdict that the next high-end GeForce GPU will be named the RTX 2080, not the GTX 1180 as rumored. Confirmed the new series is called 2080 pic.twitter.com/hbv0ixkoVL — Shronk (@RblxBoii) August 14, 2018 …