The most popular smartphones can cost $700 or more. But for roughly $200, you can have a model that isn’t cutting edge but is plenty capable.
Source: NYT > Technology http://j.mp/2ovGWwS
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
How to Fix the Google Pixel's Most Annoying Quirks, According to Reddit
If you’re looking for an Android smartphone you could do a lot worse than a Google Pixel. The company’s handsets promise cutting-edge hardware and instant updates to all the latest software—but that doesn’t mean they’re perfect.
Source: Gizmodo http://j.mp/2F0V5s3
Asus' Basically Made a More Affordable iPhone X Ripoff with Android
While better known for its various PCs and gaming products, Asus has been making smartphones for quite some time. Over the previous four generations of Zenfones, Asus had always skipped the world’s largest smartphone trade show, MWC in Barcelona. The reason? According to Asus’ head of global marketing Marcel Campos,…
Source: Gizmodo http://j.mp/2HS8O62
The Essential Phone Finally Makes Sense
The Essential Phone was supposed to be the one. Envisioned by Andy Rubin, the father of Android itself, and expertly crafted from a luxurious combo of ceramic, titanium, and Gorilla Glass, the PH-1 had the kind of pedigree you rarely see from a startup, let alone one that was trying to put out its first phone. But…
Source: Gizmodo http://j.mp/2t0XFg6
Here's How to Get Android Apps Running on Your Laptop
It makes more sense than ever to put some Android apps on you laptop. As well as giving you access to apps that have no desktop or web equivalent (like Snapchat), it’s great for playing games on the big screen—we got Alto’s Adventure up and running on the Pixelbook with no problems, and plenty of other games would…
Source: Gizmodo http://j.mp/2HP4ox2
Google’s Flutter app SDK for iOS and Android is now in beta
Flutter is Google’s open source toolkit for helping developers build iOS and Android apps. It’s not necessarily a household name yet, but it’s also less than a year old and, to some degree, it’s going up against frameworks like Facebook’s popular React Native. Google’s framework, which is heavily focused around the company’s Dart programming language,… Read More
Source: TechCrunch http://j.mp/2EZbsVY
Monday, February 26, 2018
The leaked BlackBerry “Ghost” is reportedly a high-end Android phone built for India
The clicky-clacky, full keyboard devices that spring to mind when you hear “BlackBerry” might be a thing of the past… but the brand lives on. Famed gadget-unearther Evan Blass dug up a picture of an upcoming BlackBerry device said to be known as “Ghost”. For those finding themselves saying “Wait, they still make BlackBerries?”, the answer is: yeah, sort of. Read More
Source: TechCrunch http://j.mp/2sTWvCW
Can Nokia's Breezy New Sirocco Phone Stand Up to Samsung's Mighty Devices?
As slick as the designs on the Galaxy S8 and the brand new S9 are, some people just can’t get down with all the changes Samsung makes to Android on the inside. It’s an understandable complaint, especially since just a few year ago, Samsung’s TouchWiz skin (which is now called the Samsung Experience), was often…
Source: Gizmodo http://j.mp/2HMn0h9
Sailfish v3 sets its sights on 4G feature phones
With the smartphone OS market almost entirely sewn up between Google and Apple, what’s an alternative operating system maker to do? Take an interest in feature phones, that’s what. Today Jolla, the Finnish maker of an Android alternative called Sailfish, has announced v3 of its platform. At a press conference at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow in Barcelona it’s… Read More
Source: TechCrunch http://j.mp/2Cnh26Z
Sony Is Getting Serious About Smartphones Again, and It's Great
You wouldn’t know it, because Sony never seems to have brought its phones to the US until well after the fact, but not too long ago, Sony was a force (at least design-wise) in the smartphone world thanks to devices like the OG Xperia Z and the innovative Xperia Play. It was making cool looking phones while also…
Source: Gizmodo http://j.mp/2ETW3KN
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Here's What Is Actually New About the Samsung Galaxy S9
When a delayed launch left an S8-sized hole at Mobile World Congress last year, the start to the spring smartphone season felt a little so-so. Samsung wasn’t going to make the same mistake again, so here it is, the new Galaxy S9 and S9+.
Source: Gizmodo http://j.mp/2EU0Ck7
Nokia unveils its new slate of Android smartphones starting at $85
Nokia — in its newest iteration as a licensed brand of HMD — is a long way off from its glory days, the years when it not only set the pace for innovation in the mobile phone market, but also led it as the world’s biggest handset maker. Today, the company took its latest step in rebuilding itself as it unveiled a slate of Android-powered smartphones — the Nokia 1, the… Read More
Source: TechCrunch http://j.mp/2ETC26Y
HMD/Nokia’s smartphones join Google’s Android One program ‘leading the charge’
Alongside HMD’s big bet on reviving the legendary Nokia brand and business through a licensing deal and a new wave of handsets that it is unveiling today at MWC in Barcelona, the company also announced another interesting piece of news: it has entered a new partnership with Google, where HMD/Nokia is now a leading participant in Google’s Android One — a program where Google… Read More
Source: TechCrunch http://j.mp/2GHZaSe
ZTE will deliver the first Android Oreo (Go Edition) handset for the U.S. market in March
Things have been mostly quiet on the Android Go front since Google announced the low-power mobile operating system back in May — aside, of course, from an unexpected name chance to the decidedly less catchy. Android Oreo (Go Edition). One of the things that’s made the offering unique from the start, however, is that unlike most of these sorts of lite offerings targeted at the… Read More
Source: TechCrunch http://j.mp/2sNMQO8
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