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Google Maps has added phone battery status to its location sharing for iOS and Android devices, allowing your contacts to see if you’ll be cut off soon. When a location has been shared, you’ll see that there’s now a battery icon between the distance and the time since the location was shared, as first spotted …

Motorola on Thursday announced the Moto Z3, at a small press event at its headquarters in Chicago. This is the latest Motorola phone to have magnetic backings that attach to Moto Mods, or modules, and will be one of the first phones ever to dial in to 5G. Starting in early 2019, Motorola will release a 5G Moto Mod that …

Epic Games confirmed on Friday that it plans to bypass Google’s Play Store for the eagerly awaited Android launch of Fortnite, its galactically popular online shooter. Instead the developer will point visitors to its site to download and install the game.  Installing an app from anywhere but the official app store is known as sideloading, and requires reducing the security …

Sonos makes higher-end speakers. For the past decade, CEO Patrick Spence said, the company tried to let as many people know that as possible. That’s changing. After Sonos went public Thursday morning, Spence said in an interview that his company will do a lot more to focus its message about Sonos, whose gear is well-regarded among audiophiles but not nearly …

If you feel like you hardly use your phone to actually talk to anyone, you’re not alone.  In 2017, for the first time ever, the number of calls on traditional mobile networks fell in the UK, according to a Thursday report by telecommunications regulator Ofcom. The total volume declined by 1.7 percent, the report says. The survey also highlights how dependent …

At a Chicago press event today, Motorola announced the Moto Z3, a premium phone that features a dual 12-megapixel rear camera, 5G support and a splash-resistant design. It joins the Moto Z3 Play, which launched back in June, as part of the company’s high-end line of phones that work with magnetic snap-on accessories called Moto Mods. As Motorola’s flagship phone, the …

Google’s upcoming Android P software has nothing on the humble Motorola Moto Z3 Play, Moto G6 and Motorola’s other phones for 2018, for one simple reason. You can swipe left to go back. Android P, now in its third and final beta, is Google’s vision of the next version of its Android operating system. This is the software that will …

Popsicle? Popcorn? Another P-word treat? Google may be planning to launch the newest version of Android later this month — and finally tell us what that P stands for. On Thursday, serial tipster Evan Blass tweeted an image of a calendar with a P marked on Aug. 20, suggesting Google has plans for the operating system that day. Google revealed …

Huawei overtook Apple in the second quarter of 2018 to become the world’s second largest phone vendor, according to new market research. The embattled Chinese phone maker shipped 54 million handsets in the quarter, an increase of 41 percent over last year, researcher Canalys reported Tuesday. Huawei’s success was due in part to strong demand for its flagship P20 handset …

Facebook’s and Instagram’s newest features? Tools to help you spend less time on Facebook and Instagram. Social networking giant Facebook, which owns Instagram, unveiled new additions Wednesday aimed at letting people better manage their time on the apps. One new feature will let you see a dashboard that tells you how much time you’ve spent on Facebook or Instagram that …