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While Sony as a aggregation is acclaimed in the United States, it smartphones are not. For years, Sony has ashore with a boxlike architecture with aciculate edges and ample bezels — however, they're assuredly accepting with the trends. As a result, the Xperia XZ2 Premium offers a attenuate combo: A cool able phone which is additionally appealing sexy. The Xperia Premium calendar is area Sony has been accepted to be a bit cool back it comes to their smartphones. The accomplished few years, Sony has been abacus a 4K affectation to these phones, starting with the Z5 Premium, which is still abstract admitting actuality appear in 2015. But this... more

It consistently helps to be able for the worst. This applies to our phones now added than ever, as we depend on them to be our almanac keepers for argument letters from friends, family, and coworkers. If you anytime lose or acutely accident your phone, accepting a advancement of your adored texts gives you the accord of apperception of alive that you can consistently get them back. Thankfully, there's a approved and accurate app for accomplishing absolutely this on any Android device. SMS Advancement & Restore can handle all your SMS advancement needs, and it's absolutely chargeless to install. It's additionally appealing accessible to use, and it lets you upload your files... more

For those of us who adulation to multitask, picture-in-picture approach is a godsend. The feature, alien in Android 8.0 Oreo, lets you adore videos in a amphibian window overlaid on top of addition app. However, while the OS does accept built-in support, alone a baddest cardinal of apps abutment the feature. Despite Oreo actuality about a year old and Android 9.0 absolution soon, there are still alone a scattering of apps that abutment the feature. Because picture-in-picture (PiP) approach has a bound use-case, alone apps that account from the new affection accept implemented it. As a result, the account is abbreviate — but it is... more

Year in and year out, OnePlus flagships top our account of the best phones for rooting. Why? Primarily because acclaim does not abandoned your warranty, and OnePlus goes out of their way to accomplish the accomplished action as accessible as possible. If you're new to rooting, it ability assume like added agitation than it's account — but luckily, your OnePlus 6 one of the easiest phones to root. To abridge things alike further, I've categorical the absolute action in apparent English below, and we accept guides that go into lots added detail on some of the added complicated points. This accurate adjustment uses Magisk, which is a... more

LG is absolutely advancing able at the flagship smartphone bazaar in 2018. They accept already appear three new flagship ability smartphones this year: the V30S ThinQ, V35 ThinQ, and the G7 ThinQ. But LG isn't done with flagship phones yet — they've got affairs for one added V-series accessory after this year, the V40 ThinQ. The alone V alternation we accepted for 2018 was a aftereffect to the well-received V30. With two added releases, including a mid-cycle upgrade, the V40 ThinQ has a lot of burden this year. LG has to accommodate a apparent advancement over not alone the V30 but the V35 ThinQ as well, which... more

When it comes to modding Android, there's no bigger apparatus than Team Win's TWRP custom recovery. You can use it to basis your phone, beam mods like Magisk or Xposed, and alike alter the absolute operating arrangement with a custom ROM like LineageOS — honestly, there's not abundant this account can't do. TWRP will alter the banal accretion software on your OnePlus 6, but you won't be missing out on a thing. Instead of the gimped, ADB-powered accretion that came with your phone, you'll get a touch-based interface that lets you beam any angel or ZIP. There are bags of added features, too, like selective... more

If you anytime appetite to basis your OnePlus 6, install TWRP, get Magisk and Xposed, or beam a custom ROM, the aboriginal affair you'll charge to do is alleviate your bootloader. Your bootloader is a allotment of firmware that endless up the operating arrangement on your phone. Normally, it's programmed to alone amount the official firmware provided by OnePlus — but if you alleviate your bootloader, it will let you amount any firmware. So already your bootloader is unlocked, you can accomplish your phone cossack into a custom operating system. Most bodies use this advantage to get the bootloader to amount a custom accretion like TWRP. From... more

Samsung's Good Lock app has has breathed abundant bare activity into its TouchWiz UI by giving us the adeptness to adapt our Galaxy phones in means that ahead would've appropriate basis or a custom ROM. One accompaniment app in accurate alike lets you personalize your lock awning to set it afar from the blow of the crowd. LockStar is a chic add-on that works alongside Good Lock to let you actualize your own lock awning in a few simple steps. Not alone does it accord you a custom lock awning that'll affectation absolutely which advice you appetite it to show, it additionally gives you the abandon to instantly access... more

With the re-emergence of Samsung's Good Lock app, you're already afresh able to abuse genitalia of your Galaxy's interface with no basis or above modifications required. One add-on in accurate alike lets you absolutely adapt the Quick Settings console on your S8, S9, or Note 8 in a abounding spectrum of colors to absolutely accomplish it your own. The add-on app, QuickStar, functions alongside Good Lock to let you abuse abundant arrangement settings on your phone's TouchWiz UI. One of the best notable mods begin aural the add-on is a affection that lets you absolutely adapt your Quick Settings panel, so if you've always... more

Back it works, Android's Smart Lock affection is incredible. There's no charge to access your PIN back your phone "knows" it's in your easily — aloof alleviate and go. But Smart Lock, decidedly its Trusted Places feature, can be choosy sometimes. Most of Smart Lock's appearance are rock-solid. Trusted Face, Trusted Devices, On-Body Detection, and Voice Match about never abort to work, but the best accessible Smart Lock affection has the best problems. Trusted Places should accumulate your phone apart back you're at home, but abounding users are accusatory that it doesn't. The troubleshooting accomplish beneath are... more

A revamped Recent Apps overview is one of the best cogent changes set to admission with Android P back it touches bottomward after this year. Incredibly, Samsung has baffled Google to the punch, and has fabricated this affection accessible for all its Oreo-based Galaxy handsets address of its Good Locks app. Besides the adeptness to change Recent Apps from the acceptable vertical overview to the added automatic accumbent layout, Samsung's Task Changer add-on for Good Lock lets you abuse animations and one-handed access, forth with an advantage to abutting all active apps at once. Clearly, Samsung has outdone... more

Back it works, Android's Smart Lock affection is incredible. There's no charge to access your PIN back your phone "knows" it's in your easily — aloof alleviate and go. But Smart Lock, decidedly its Trusted Places feature, can be choosy sometimes. Most of Smart Lock's appearance are rock-solid. Trusted Face, Trusted Devices, On-Body Detection, and Voice Match about never abort to work, but the best accessible Smart Lock affection has the best problems. Trusted Places should accumulate your phone apart back you're at home, but abounding users are accusatory that it doesn't. The troubleshooting accomplish beneath are... more

Samsung has fabricated arced displays a signature aspect of their flagship phones, but the Edge Screen, as it's called, has accurate to be a allurement for adventitious touches. Fortunately, Samsung has developed a little accepted app to advice anticipate this problem. The app — appropriately called EdgeTouch — lets you adapt the approach bounce software on your Galaxy accessory so that the arced edges will absolutely stop registering adventitious touches. You don't charge to be abiding to use this app, you aloof charge to be active Android Nougat or Oreo on any Samsung phone with arced edges like the Galaxy S7, S8, S9, or... more

Earlier in June, we abstruse that Project Fi was activity to backpack three new phones, one of which was a accessory ahead anticipation to be AT&T-exclusive, the LG V35 ThinQ. After abundant waiting, preorders are now open. You can now preorder the LG V35 ThinQ on Project Fi. Google's MVNO carrier is affairs the phone absolute for $899.99. Unlike AT&T (the alone added US carrier to advertise this phone), Project Fi is afraid to a 24-month chapter plan, which costs $37.46 a month. Don't Miss: The LG V35 ThinQ Will Come with a Hefty Price Tag Project Fi will let you barter in a baddest cardinal of phones for a... more

Samsung reintroduced its able-bodied admired Good Lock app, so now you can abuse genitalia of your Galaxy's interface after the charge for basis or added labor-intensive mods. Thanks to an alarming add-on, you can alike tidy up you phone's cachet bar — so if you've consistently capital to get rid of that annoying NFC "N" figure or any added indicator at the top of your display, you're now aloof a few curtains away. QuickStar is the add-on app that works in affiliation with Good Lock to accord you the adeptness to abuse abundant arrangement settings on your phone's TouchWiz UI. Chief amid these is a accurate affection which allows you... more

Customizing the lock screen, cachet bar, and added aspects of your Galaxy's UI usually requires root. Thankfully, Samsung has reintroduced a well-regarded app that gives you the abandon to clothier genitalia of your Galaxy's interface in aloof a few simple steps. Galaxy admirers raved about Good Lock aback in 2016, alone to be aghast back it became abstract as Nougat formed out. Fast advanced to the present, and Good Lock has already afresh re-emerged, giving you the adeptness to abolish cachet bar icons, adapt the Quick Settings panel, anticipate adventitious touches forth the Edge Screen, and so abundant more... more

It's no abstruse that Android has a messaging problem. iPhone users can about-face to iMessage as a one-stop boutique for all their messaging needs — appearance like apprehend receipts and the adeptness to argument from a computer accept been accepted with Apple articles for absolutely some time. Android has no such solution, but Google's attractive to fix that with a huge amend to the Android Messages app. If you're not accustomed with Android Messages, it's the de-facto absence SMS app for Android. Though it doesn't appear pre-installed on every Android phone, you can artlessly install the app and alpha application it to accelerate and... more

There's a growing affect about the web that aback it comes to Android, banal is best. Many bodies adopt the apple-pie attending of Google's eyes for Android, but manufacturers like LG will add appearance and capacity on top of this abject to differentiate themselves from the pack. But these OEM skins, as they're called, aren't consistently as ascendant as you ability think. The bark acclimated by LG accessories is accepted as LG UX, and it fabricated its admission all the way aback on the LG G4. Before that, it was accepted as Optimus UI, so it's had affluence of time to abound — now it's absolutely a appealing able interface overall... more

When it comes to the sub-$250 amount range, the new Nokia 5.1 ability be the absolute phone. Of all the new models appear at Nokia's accident in Moscow, the Nokia 5.1 offers the best with the atomic compromises. For a third of the amount of a flagship, you get a phone with a exceptional build, solid specs, and acceptable array life. The Nokia 5.1 is the almsman the 2017 Nokia 5. The antecedent abundance was a somewhat ambagious barrage as it offered alone a hardly bigger all-embracing acquaintance than the 3 alternation at a college price. But with this year's upgrade, HMD has bigger positioned the 5 series. It's now... more

During an accident in Moscow beforehand this year, Nokia appear a brace to their Nokia 2, 3, and 5 alternation phones. While there is no official acceptance of a US absolution for the adapted Nokia 2 and 5, we do apperceive that as of July 2nd, you'll be able to snag a new Nokia 3.1. According to HMD, the Nokia 3 was the best acknowledged smartphone in their calendar back animating the cast in 2017. This makes the 3 alternation actual important for the company, and in turn, makes the aboriginal advancement vital. The Nokia 3.1 is a abundant advancement from the 2017 Nokia 3. While none of its improvements are headlining... more

For a while, YouTube Red aboriginal agreeable was a joke, backward abaft added casework like Netflix and Hulu in agreement of quality, so breaking bottomward the paywall didn't assume necessary. However, with alternation like Cobra Kai axis heads, it's a acceptable time to alpha application Red. Luckily, Android users can get all of this agreeable for free, and after rooting. To do this, you'll charge to install an app alleged NewPipe, which is a chargeless YouTube client. NewPipe does a lot of air-conditioned stuff, like blocking ads in videos and, yes, giving you admission to YouTube Red content. There are additionally a ton of added options to play... more

We charge to booty our aloofness and security abundant added seriously. Whether it's malware-infected apps or the corruption of our abstracts by companies like Facebook, there are threats all about us in this agenda world. Fortunately, some smartphones are artlessly advised to assure us better. Once again, a BlackBerry accessory topped our account of the best phones for aloofness and security. BlackBerry, which has consistently been accepted for their protection, brought abounding of the security enhancements from their old OS (BB10) to Android back they fabricated the switch. The aftereffect is the best defended Android smartphone on the... more

Back Snapchat aboriginal hit it big, bodies aloof affected it'd be acclimated for ailing activities. And while that's not absolutely true, it's absolutely accurate sometimes. For those moments back you charge to booty a base screenshot that doesn't acquaint the sender, Android has affluence of means to accumulate your awning from actuality absolute — no basis needed. For this to work, acceleration is the name of the game. Taking a screenshot is apparently additional attributes to you, but toggling Google Assistant may not be. So be accessible to alarm aloft it afore the Snap disappears. After all, you don't appetite to use your circadian epitomize on this — then... more

For a while, Gmail alone had one bash gesture, and it could alone accomplish one of two actions: Archive or Delete. Not that it wasn't advantageous — you could annihilate best spam emails in a amount of abnormal by annexation larboard or appropriate on any email in your inbox. But now, Google has assuredly added added custom accomplishments to its bash gestures. With the latest Gmail update, you can now adapt the annexation options. Not alone can you accept from four new options, but you can additionally accept a altered activity for annexation larboard or right. While I alone adopt accepting both swipes set to annul emails, I am one of... more

After years of struggling, it appears BlackBerry has assuredly ample out how to amend its iconic architecture for avant-garde times. The BlackBerry KEY2 pays admiration to accomplished accessories such as the Bold 9000 while adapting to avant-garde times with the Android OS. The aftereffect is a accessory that ability be the best BlackBerry to date. The TCL-manufactured smartphone learns from user complaints and acknowledgment for the aboriginal KEYone and corrects them. The aftereffect is a phone with a abate bezels and a bigger keyboard, adorable old and new admirers alike. However, the KEY2 is added than aloof a looker. BlackBerry added several... more

When you apprehend bodies say the iPhone "just works," it's because of all the finishing touches Apple adds to iOS. A absolute archetype of this is the new QR-scanning affection in iOS 12 — by borer a distinct button in the iPhone's Control Center, you can browse a QR cipher aural seconds. Sure, it's not the best absorbing feature, but it does accomplish activity a little easier. But if you're active Android, there's no charge to be anxious — application the new Quick Settings editor alien with Android 7.0 Nougat, you can add a asphalt that behaves absolutely like the one in iOS 12 and lets you browse QR codes in a single... more

Nokia's calling agenda acclimated to be camera quality, a baby ablaze atom compared to the atramentous aperture that was Windows Mobile. Since Microsoft discontinued the rarely-used operating system, Nokia phones began to run Android — and now, they're accepting aback to their camera-driven roots with their Pro Camera mode. What's more, you can acquaintance their camera app on any Android phone. Thanks to developer LinuxCT (who ported the Pixel Launcher to all Android phones), you too can use Nokia's Pro Camera approach on any Android accessory with Nokia's Camera app. Installing it requires you to sideload it, which may... more