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As we access the additional bisected of 2018, rumors for the additional division of flagships accept started to emerge. On the Android side, this agency the latest iterations of the Google Pixel, Galaxy Note, LG V series, and Huawei Mate. Thanks to FunkyHuawei and XDA, we now accept some solid rumors apropos the Huawei Mate 20. Despite our hopes for the addition of the P alternation in the US, it appears for now we are ashore with alone the Mate series. I use "stuck" loosely, as these are abundant phones to accept that consistently rank aerial on the best sleeper phones list. Based on the contempo leaks, it looks like the... more

There are dozens of apps like Glympse, Family Locator, and Find My Kids that let parents see area their children's phones are, but they all accept one baleful flaw: It's abundantly accessible to bluff locations to accomplish it attending like the phone is about else. Apps can't get absolute admission to a phone's GPS chip. Instead, the phone's operating arrangement monitors the area provided by GPS and added sources, again artlessly passes this advice on to apps that appeal it. This is area bluffing comes into play. You can use addition app to change the system's area data, which will again be appear to the... more

OnePlus pulled out about all the stops with their latest flagship, but there are a few areas area the phone avalanche aloof abbreviate of perfect. The distinct bottom-firing apostle leaves a lot to be desired, for instance, but acknowledgment to the alarming development association for the OnePlus 6, you can already accord your phone accurate stereo speakers with a software mod. First appear by the XDA Portal team, developer acervensky has created a Magisk bore accurately for the OnePlus 6. It routes the audio from any app through both the approved bottom-firing apostle and your earpiece speaker, and it separates... more

Since aboriginal March, iOS users accept been able to adore the best accepted video bold across-the-board the rounds. Android users accept been larboard appetent as they delay for a "few months," the alone ambiguous absolution date accustomed by Epic Games. In the meantime, there are a few means we can still amuse our appetite to play. After the account that the Android adaptation of Fortnite will acceptable be absolute to the Galaxy Note 9 for a month, it's attractive like best of us won't be able to comedy until September at the earliest. Somehow, a few months has angry into bisected a year now. There are a few amateur on the Comedy Store that offer... more

After aboriginal actuality appear at Mobile World Congress 2018, the ASUS ZenFone 5Z will assuredly be advancing to the US. Deemed an iPhone X carbon by some, there is added than meets the eye back it comes to this flasghip. While it is agnate to the iPhone X, in some ways, it improves on the design. The ASUS ZenFone 5Z is a actual altered beastly from the antecedent generation. Starting with its admirable 6.2" display, the new accessory does a abundant job of advantageous accomplished phones' criticism of accepting an airedale design. But this added than aloof a appealing phone. The 5Z is accommodation with accepted flagship specs... more

Will smartphone batteries anytime aftermost as continued as we charge them to? Perhaps not. That's why we await on alien batteries to advice us break affiliated for hours, alike days, best than usual. But in 2018, you don't appetite to use aloof any alien battery. Modern Android phones accept fast charging — so should your carriageable charger. While we're assured our account beneath appearance some abundant alien batteries for your smartphone, it isn't the be-all and end-all. There are a lot of abetting ability options for Android users. If you appear beyond a carriageable charger, whether online or in-store, you should be on... more

While we shouldn't await on it, every so generally we charge to hit the catnap button to get a few added account of adored sleep. Depending on which OEM bark is active on your device, this could be either bristles or ten added account of dozing. However, some of us charge a altered breadth of time. Back in the 1950s aback catnap was aboriginal invented, 10 account was advised too long, as bodies would abatement aback asleep. We now apperceive it's abundant added complicated than that and abased on whether addition is a ablaze or abundant sleeper, so the absence bristles or ten minute catnap breadth may not be appropriate for you... more

Project Fi, Google's MVNO, is active a new advance on the latest and greatest from LG. From July 16 until the 29th, whenever you adjustment and actuate the LG G7 ThinQ or LG V35 ThinQ, you will accept a $300 account credit. When you do the numbers, that equals a minimum of three chargeless months of service. For a distinct line, the best bulk a chump can be answerable is $80 (plus taxes and fees). With the $80 plan, you would accept absolute allocution and argument and "unlimited" data. After 15 GB of data, your abstracts acceleration is throttled to 256 kbps (the agnate of 1G minimum speeds). However, users... more

Sometimes we charge to allotment screenshots, but don't appetite to acknowledge the absolute screen. This usually requires some alteration that isn't about accessible to do on a smartphone. BlackBerry accustomed this affair and created a apparatus alleged Redactor that makes it accessible to adumbrate your abstracts afore sharing. Redactor is chargeless to use and preinstalled on the BlackBerry KEY2 and added BlackBerry accessories powered by Android. However, for added Android devices, you can install it from the Play Store for 99 cents a ages (after a 30-day chargeless trial). Redactor makes it accessible to allotment screenshots no amount what's on the... more

In 2018, notches are the hot trend with smartphones. Essential was aboriginal to absolution a phone with a cleft in mid-2017, but Apple kicked off the fad in ardent with the iPhone X. Unfortunately, clashing the iPhone X, every Android phone with a cleft has a apparent basal chin. Let's booty a abysmal dive to acquisition out why. Many Android OEMs accept appear phones with a cleft back Essential appear the PH1 in Summer 2017. Companies like LG, OnePlus, and Huawei accept all jumped on lath with the latest trend. The LG G7 ThinQ, OnePlus 6, and Huawei P20 Pro additionally accept one added architecture affection in common--a... more

Starting August 1, Google Play will crave new app submissions to ambition at atomic Android 8.0 Oreo's API. On November 1, all updates to absolute apps charge additionally ambition the aforementioned API. While at aboriginal glance, this change may beggarly little to you, it will accept a abstruse appulse on Android. Now, your admired apps will be accepting better. When an app is created, the developers accept a ambition API based on the altered adaptation of Android. The adaptation they ambition dictates the accoutrement accessible for creating the app. These accoutrement accommodate improvements to how accomplishments abstracts is managed, how permissions are... more

The Galaxy S9's Super Slow-mo affection comes arranged with accoutrement that advice you abuse your apathetic motion clips like a pro. Among these is the adeptness to catechumen your apathetic motion videos into GIFs with a convenient interface. As a result, it's abundantly accessible to go from recording to GIF about-face and on to administration in a few taps. Until recently, you had the advantage of annexation up from your video blow aural the Gallery app to cull up quick options to instantly accomplish GIF copies of your video. Subsequent software updates accept done abroad with this option, however, with Samsung opting instead to accord you... more

Not all threats to our aloofness appear from hackers bags of afar away. Often, we aloof appetite to accumulate our abstracts safe from those about us, who may busybody in our phones or appeal we acknowledge our secrets. That's area BlackBerry Locker comes in. Starting with the BlackBerry KEYone, every BlackBerry smartphone bogus by TCL (including the new KEY2) comes preinstalled with BlackBerry Locker, a password-protected folder. Integrated into the hardware, BlackBerry Locker is a well-protected binder that can not alone accumulate files bound away, but adumbrate absolute apps. It's with this akin of protection... more

Starting Aug. 1, 2018, Google's accepting a lot tougher with Android app developers. New apps actuality uploaded to the Play Store will accept to ambition Android 8.0 Oreo or higher, again a few months later, every amend to absolute apps will accept to do the same. It may assume like a simple rule, but it will accept some austere repercussions. In layman's terms, back an app "targets" a specific Android version, it's acquisitive your phone has that Android adaptation installed. Notice I said acquisitive and not requiring. The app can still run on earlier or newer Android versions, but it may be missing some functionality... more

Android 9.0 P will be appear to the accessible in August 2018, but beta testers can already install it on Google's own Pixel accessories and a baddest few added phones. In the latest release, there's a adequately hidden ambience that lets you accredit a system-wide aphotic affair that changes the attending of your Quick Settings console and added menus. It's agnate to the automated arrangement affair that was alien in Android 8.1 Oreo, except you no best accept to use a atramentous or aphotic wallpaper to activate it. Instead, you can manually accept a ablaze theme, aphotic theme, or the absolute automated theme. To try it out... more

Mozilla has created yet addition browser for Android. Similar to Firefox Focus, Firefox Rocket was advised to abode specific problems: bound centralized accumulator and low abstracts caps. However, in the action of analytic these problems, they created one of the fastest browsers on the market. Firefox Rocket is basically Firefox Focus for Android Go devices. However, clashing the added browser created by Mozilla, Rocket is ridiculously lightweight. In adjustment to accomplish the app attainable to the bound accumulator accommodation of accessories in Indonesian markets (where this app was clearly released), Mozilla... more

Note-taking apps are a dime a dozen on the Play Store. However, due to their disability to accompany beyond devices, abounding can't attempt with Google Keep. Mozilla absitively to bandy their hat in the arena with Addendum by Firefox, and clashing others, their addendum app syncs calmly with one of the best accepted browsers, additional it's encrypted. Notes by Firefox is a simple app for demography addendum that accompany amid your Android accessories and your computer. Tied to your Firefox account, Addendum by Firefox lives in the browser on your desktop as an extension, so it works on any operating arrangement Firefox supports (Windows... more

Extra accouterments buttons accept become a trend with smartphones lately. Often, these are abiding buttons advised to barrage a articulation assistant. That isn't the case with the BlackBerry KEY2. Making a acknowledgment from the KEYone is the Convenience Key, which additionally accustomed an upgrade. The Convenience Key is customizable accouterments button that can barrage around anything. Any app or adjustment can be mapped to this button, forth with acceleration dialing or messaging a adored contact. But clashing the KEYone, the KEY2's Convenience Key is smarter. You can now set up profiles with altered sets of apps and... more

When you accept a photo or video from a acquaintance in WhatsApp, afterwards you amount it, it's automatically adored to your phone's bounded storage. That agency all accustomed agreeable from WhatsApp is arresting to anyone who assets admission to your absence photo gallery. Luckily, there's a new affection accessible for the Android adaptation of the app that can anticipate this from happening. For now, this new affection is an agreement in the WhatsApp beta for Android, but you can try it out appropriate now by abutting the WhatsApp beta from Google Play. The new affection in the WhatsApp beta for Android will anticipate photos and... more

There's absolutely added to the dialer awning on your OnePlus than meets the eye. Besides its accessible purpose of calling people, there's a all-inclusive arrangement of abstruse codes that you can ascribe to troubleshoot your device, in accession to absolute important information, authoritative bearding phone calls, and so abundant more. OnePlus has coded in abundant abstruse analytic modes that can be accessed from the Phone app's punch pad to aid in assembly band affection ascendancy and after-sales troubleshooting. In accession to these, accepted GSM-based carriers like T-Mobile additionally appear with their actual own abstruse codes to... more

When BlackBerry fabricated the move to Android OS, they were acquainted of the limitations it presented. Unlike with BB10, they didn't actualize the operating arrangement and would accept to accord with the vulnerabilities already included. As a result, they added abundant security enhancements, and at the affection of this is DTEK. DTEK is a dashboard for the avant-garde security arrangement included with every Android-powered BlackBerry. It has a cardinal of software accoutrement that advance the security of Android and ensure that your phone charcoal adequate for the absoluteness of its life. While abounding of the accoutrement operate... more

There's absolutely added to the dialer awning on your OnePlus than meets the eye. Besides its accessible purpose of calling people, there's a all-inclusive arrangement of abstruse codes that you can ascribe to troubleshoot your device, in accession to absolute important information, authoritative bearding phone calls, and so abundant more. OnePlus has coded in abundant abstruse analytic modes that can be accessed from the Phone app's punch pad to aid in assembly band affection ascendancy and after-sales troubleshooting. In accession to these, accepted GSM-based carriers like T-Mobile additionally appear with their actual own abstruse codes to... more

One of the best genitalia of the BlackBerry KEYone and KEY2 is the iconic concrete keyboard. There is one above downside, though: By default, the basic keyboard appears on these accessories alike back accounting on the concrete keyboard. Luckily, there's a way to change that. By removing the on-screen keyboard, you accretion addition advantage of a application a concrete keyboard: added awning absolute estate. No best does the basic keyboard accept to absorb bisected of the affectation whenever you are typing. Instead, you can adore the abounding screen, seeing added advice back you type. Don't Miss: The 4 Best Phones for... more

Android 9.0 P will be appear to the accessible in August 2018, but beta testers can already install it on Google's own Pixel accessories and a baddest few added phones. In the latest release, there's a adequately hidden ambience that lets you accredit a system-wide aphotic affair that changes the attending of your Quick Settings console and added menus. It's agnate to the automated arrangement affair that was alien in Android 8.1 Oreo, except you no best accept to use a atramentous or aphotic wallpaper to activate it. Instead, you can manually accept a ablaze theme, aphotic theme, or the absolute automated theme. To try it out... more