Best-value phone for price! Undercuts the premium models! OnePlus once again made magic with the OnePlus 6, a phone whose performance-for-value was good enough to snag a rare CNET Editors’ Choice Award. Here’s the thing, though. The power of OnePlus, a Chinese brand out of Shenzhen, isn’t that it’s crested the pinnacle of mobile design …
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See the leaked Motorola One Power show off an iPhone X
A real-life picture of the rumored Motorola One Power may have just leaked, potentially giving us our first clear look at the phone’s design. The picture was shared by phone blog 91mobiles. It apparently reveals the Motorola One Power has a notched display, just like the iPhone X and several other iPhone X copycats. But unlike the iPhone, the One Power may come with a …
Read More »Mozilla’s Firefox tries closing more privacy holes with new network tech
Browser makers are trying to thwart network snoopers by encrypting your connections to the web servers that host websites, but Mozilla on Friday began a project to go one step further. Firefox Nightly, a rough-around-the-edges test version of Mozilla’s browser, now includes technology called DNS over HTTPS, Mozilla said. DNS is the Domain Name System used to find the numeric addresses needed …
Read More »Google explains why searching ‘the1975..com’ shows you your texts
Google says a “language detection bug” led to that weird feature that shows Android users their recent personal texts when typing “the1975..com” in the Google app. A Reddit user discovered the glitch earlier this week after typing “the1975..com” in the search bar on the default Google Pixel launcher. Owners of other Android devices made by OnePlus, Samsung, LG and Huawei reported seeing the same thing. Some …
Read More »Firefox will stop hiding an important privacy feature: Tracking protection
An obscure but increasingly important browser privacy feature in Firefox is getting a big promotion. Mozilla developers accepted an update to the Firefox Nightly test version on Wednesday that makes tracking protection easier to discover, easier to use and more nuanced. Tracking protection blocks website publishers and advertisers from running software that follows your online behavior — something that’s useful …
Read More »Arm aims to make your Android phone faster with next
Arm, the influential designer of mobile processors, wants your Android phone to run faster — and maybe your ultralight Windows laptop, too. On Thursday, the company announced a new chip generation, the Cortex-A76, that it said will be 35 percent faster than today’s models when it arrives in 2019 phones. That’s a big jump for one year, and perhaps enough …
Read More »Google’s iPhone
Maybe you didn’t catch the news at this year’s Google I/O conference, but Google’s developed a fascinating tool for enabling multiplayer AR on phones called Cloud Anchors, which syncs positions across devices. It even works across iOS and Android. The Just A Line app already existed on Android, and is a doodling app in AR. But the app just went …
Read More »Google takes aim at China’s smartphone market with country
Google is ramping up its efforts to return to the world’s biggest smartphone market. The search giant launched Wednesday a China-specific version of its storage management platform, Files Go. The app can be downloaded from third-party app stores hosted by Chinese tech mammoths, Baidu, Huawei, Tencent and Xiaomi. Called “Google Wen Jian Ji Ke” (roughly translated as “Google Files Geeks”), …
Read More »Google AR Expeditions just arrived on iOS and Android
I remember using a selfie stick to try out Google’s educational vision of AR, and it was impressive. My son tried it in his school one day, and felt the same way. Google’s AR Expeditions initiatives were originally designed to be used in classrooms, and still are, but before now schools had to be part of a pilot program to try …
Read More »Project Fi to carry LG V35 ThinQ, LG G7 and Moto G6
Project Fi is expanding its phone lineup just a tad. The Google phone network announced Wednesday that it’s adding the LG V35 ThinQ, the G7 ThinQ and the Motorola Moto G6 to its services. Announced earlier Wednesday by AT&T, the V35 is a half-step update to February’s V30 ThinQ and features a 6-inch OLED display, the Snapdragon 845 chipset and 6GB of RAM. Similar to …
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