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Last summer, the US-based company RED — known for its cinema cameras widely used on Hollywood films — grabbed attention when it revealed it would be releasing a phone. The Hydrogen One was unusual not only because RED had never made a phone, but also because the $1,595 titanium device (or $1,195 for an aluminium …

Google and Qualcomm are working on a next generation of smartwatches that should be arriving this fall, and more possible details continue to arrive during this year’s Google developer conference. Google is expected to finally make its own watch through its internal hardware division — or its own watches, according to the latest report from German tech site Winfuture.de. The …

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 …

Odds are, the next big wave of Google smartwatches are coming later this year. In the meantime, Google’s updating Wear OS (formerly Android Wear) with a few key upgrades. In addition to a better on-board Google Assistant, Google’s added battery-saving functions to the new developer build of Wear OS, the company announced Wednesday. The key parts of that involve re-enabling …

Update: Check out Here’s how Qualcomm-powered Wear OS watches will take on Apple Watch for a more in-depth, detailed follow-up report on this story. Qualcomm is working on new chips for Wear OS smartwatches, according to a report from Wareable on Tuesday. “You will see this new platform, this new architecture, significantly improve the look and feel of the watch whether …

If a new Apple Watch debuts this fall, Google is likely to have a major new smartwatch (or watches) debuting right alongside it, powered by Qualcomm chips. Pankaj Kedia, senior director and business lead for Qualcomm’s Smart Wearables Segment, said as much yesterday in a story reported by Wareable. But I sat down at Google’s I/O developers conference with Kedia and …

Modern phone chargers come in all shapes, sizes and capacities, so we can afford to be a little picky about the ones we choose. Today, for example, Aukey is offering the PB-T18 10,000mAh portable power bank with Quick Charge 3.0 for $23 shipped. That’s after applying promo code FORMOM18 at checkout. It was $43 back in January and sold for $36 …

We’ve now lived with the pre-production LG G7 ThinQ for five days (that’s pronounced thin-kyoo, not “think,” by the way). We know a little more about how it compares to phones like the Samsung Galaxy S9,  Pixel 2 and the iPhone 8 Plus. The LG G7 is up-to-date on the most crucial specs, like two rear cameras, the newest Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, Android …

Part One: Patrick goes to Google “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” — Orson Welles It’s a sunny day at Google’s campus and I’m serpentining between giant statues of Android mascots. In my hand is a cigarette pack-sized camera with two lenses on it. My phone has two rear cameras so how is this any different? It …

For deal sniffers, one of the best parts of watching a new phone go on sale is the deal you get when previous models go on sale. So you may be wondering just how big a change the new LG G7 ThinQ is from last year’s LG G6 and fall’s LG V30 (there’s also the V30S ThinQ that LG announced …