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Still resisting the notch fever sweeping phone designs these days? Give it up. Google has. The Android P beta, a build meant for app developers that anyone is free to download and use, supports not one, but three different notch designs. There’s the central Cycloptic notch we find in phones like the iPhone X, Huawei …

Apple promised a revolution with the iPhone X when it was first announced on September 12, 2017. At the time, I was skeptical. What I mainly wanted was a perfect size, nothing too big. I wanted less bezel. I was also excited by the possibilities of not having a home button. And I wanted it to advance AR in some way. …

The reports of ZTE’s death are greatly exaggerated. Well, at least for now. The fate of the Chinese maker of telecommunications gear has been up in the air since ZTE disclosed on Wednesday that it had shut down “the major operating activities of the company.” The closure followed a US Commerce Department denial order, which banned any American businesses from …

The Oneplus 6 has now been officially revealed. Now, it does have a notch, but also image stabilization on its dual rear cameras. We spoke with OnePlus co-founder, Carl Pei about the new phone and the future of OnePlus.  We may be getting our first glimpse of the OnePlus 6 a few days before its official debut, thanks to Amazon. German tech …

If you’re having problems with your MacBook keyboard, you’re not alone. And now the issue may be heading to court. A class-action complaint filed Friday says people who bought a MacBook or MacBook Pro equipped with Apple’s “butterfly” keyboard “face a constant threat of nonresponsive keys and accompanying keyboard failure” and accuses Apple of failing to alert consumers about the …

Snapchat started to roll out its second redesign in six months to iPhone users late on Thursday. It’s hoping to win back the people it alienated with an overhaul introduced earlier this year. The redesign sees the company backtrack on some of the features that failed to resonate with users, including returning Snaps and Chats to chronological order and returning …

Google introduced its new user privacy policy on Friday in advance of a strict, new European data privacy law due to come into effect on May 25. The actual content of the policy hasn’t changed, but Google has updated the language and navigation of the document, and introduced videos and illustrations in order to make it clearer than ever before …

There’s been an awful lot of hacks in the news recently, and it’s always frustrating to see my oh-so-personal phone (in my case, a Motorola Moto Z2 Play) go months without a patch. Google is pretty quick to issue them, but it takes longer for OEMs like Motorola and Samsung to get with the program, and I’ve definitely noticed some major …

A few years ago, you’d be hard-pressed to find an elegant, premium phone that was also waterproof. Aside from Sony’s Xperia phones, most waterproof phones were clunky-looking with midtier specs.  These days though, most high-end flagships come with some level of protection against water. In addition to the LG G7, Samsung, Apple and Google all have waterproof marquee handsets that satisfy …

Google is reportedly preparing its own smart watch that will bear the Pixel brand currently used on Google’s own phones. VentureBeat reporter and noted leaker Evan Blass tweeted this morning that a “reliable source tells me — with high confidence — that Google’s fall hardware event will also introduce a Pixel-branded watch”. Besides the Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, and second-gen …