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Wednesday an event in San Francisco, Google announced its newest phones: the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. The announcement comes after an accidental leak revealing the phones last month. The new Pixel phones are nearly identical in every way aside from the 2 XL being bigger with a larger battery and a higher price. …

After a giant leak, a huge reveal and a full week with Apple’s new iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, you’d think we’d know everything about the company’s latest phones. But new details keep trickling out. (Did you know you can charge faster with a USB-C cable?) Now, we’re seeing the first teardown experts rip apart the iPhone 8 to show us …

These days, there is no shortage of well-made, midrange phones that are affordable. (Here are our favorite cheap phones, to name a few.)  But with Google‘s inclusion of the recently released Motorola Moto X4 into its Android One and Project Fi endeavors, there’s one more compelling bargain phone to consider. Priced at $399, the Moto X4 will be the first …

New reports are quashing rumors that the Pixel 2 will have an all-new, even faster processor than the Galaxy S8 and OnePlus 5. The new chip, speculated to be the Snapdragon 836, was said to be an improved version of the Snapdragon 835, similar to how Qualcomm upped the Snapdragon 820 with the 821. Enlarge Image Could the Pixel 2 look like this? Android Police The latest …

Now playing: Watch this: LG V30 hands-on: Big screen, new cameras, sloooow zoom 1:56 Announced at IFA 2017, the LG V30 is a gorgeous phone that sloughs away unnecessary features and amps up all its best. It gets a better screen, wireless charging and advanced video features you don’t see on a typical phone. Update: Read our full LG V30 …

Google pledged last November that Tango, its 3D-sensing camera technology that can measure objects just by looking at them, would be the hottest thing since GPS. Nikhil Chandhok, Tango’s director of product, insisted it wasn’t just an experiment. “Many, many phone manufacturers” would build Tango phones in 2017, he said. Well, guess what? Turns out it was an experiment, one …

Now playing: Watch this: The Galaxy Note 8 has 4 unique features 3:24 The latest Note 8 is Samsung‘s biggest phone yet, in more ways than one. Not only does it have a generous 6.3-inch display and is packed with top-tier specs, but it faces major scrutiny given the company’s battery fiasco last year with the Note 7. It’s also …

Google will unveil the second generation of its Pixel handsets on Oct. 5, according to a tweet Wednesday by Evan Blass, a blogger with a strong track record of accurate leaks. The new Android phones will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 836 system on chip, Blass wrote, referring to the upgraded chip many people had expected to be inside the …

Qualcomm is pumped up. The San Diego, California-based chipmaker, whose flagship Snapdragon 835 chipset is featured in the likes of the Samsung Galaxy S8, HTC U11 and OnePlus 5, is anticipating 2018 to be a big year for Android phones. Though the company’s main launch for its next chipset (the successor to the 835) is scheduled for later this December, …

A key US agency has officially stepped into the legal battle between Apple and Qualcomm.  The US International Trade Commission, which has the power to ban products from entering the country, confirmed on Tuesday it will investigate Qualcomm’s complaint that Apple was illegally using its cellular technology in iPhones powered by modems made by Intel. Qualcomm is seeking to bar all iPhones …