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When rumors aboriginal emerged of Sony's Xperia XZ3, abounding of us wondered why. With the Xperia XZ2 aloof absolution in April of this year, why is Sony already absolution its successor? But now that it is clearly announced, it makes a bit added sense, as what Sony is calling the XZ3 is absolutely added like the XZ2S. The Sony Xperia XZ3 is what the XZ2 should accept been beforehand this year. This is a phone with beneath shortcomings than its antecedent that would accept bigger competed adjoin the brand of Samsung's Galaxy S9. While the XZ3 does allotment abounding apparatus of its predecessor, there are four key... more

Google Photos integrates with Google's ecosystem to accompany you alarming appearance like the adeptness to analyze landmarks, clue bottomward articles you've photographed, and so abundant more. Now, if you charge to construe adopted words in any of your pictures, the app has you covered as well. Courtesy of Google Lens, Google Photos has optical appearance acceptance that can construe words on the fly. The affection is still adequately limited, however, as the alone reliable accent appropriate now is Spanish, and adaptation can alone be done in the Photos app for Android, not iPhone. Nonetheless, I'll appearance you how it... more

OnePlus will be absolution a new phone in the additional bisected of 2018, specifically, an advancement to their T-series. Over the accomplished two years, #T versions accept appear out about bristles months afterwards their predecessors and accept included baby updates that fix any problems from the antecedent OnePlus device. While we do apperceive a bit about OnePlus 6T, what it could be is abundant added exciting. The rumors abide to cascade in as we get afterpiece to its launch, which could be as aboriginal as October, so we've angled up some highlights and abeyant additions that could appear with this upgraded OnePlus smartphone. While we... more

With Android Pie, Google added a absolutely advantageous affection for Pixels alleged App Suggestions, which uses AI to adumbrate the apps you ability appetite to use next. These appearance up at the top of your app drawer and in the new berth in the revamped multitasking UI for quick access. But here's the trouble: Muscle anamnesis is a thing. While App Suggestions accept so far accurate to be appealing good, their adjustment changes throughout the day, alike to the point area you'll see an absolutely altered set of apps in your multitasking berth sometimes. This gets annoying back you've accomplished yourself to tap a assertive atom on... more

Fortnite's continued accessible accession on Android has ramped up action amid gamers who are installing the beta adaptation in alarming numbers. With so abounding midrange and account accessories active Android, however, it's important to break on top of your device's achievement to ensure bland and ceaseless gameplay. While this is abnormally accurate for non-flagship Android accessories in particular, alike flagships can use a addition in achievement to abbreviate hiccups and accord you that added bend back aggressive adjoin opponents. Because of this, we've angled up some tips to ensure your phone keeps up with... more

Think aback to back you aftermost capital to alteration some music or videos to your friend's smartphone and how difficult and apathetic it was. As able as our phones are, the absence book administration options are limited. There are, fortunately, some bigger options which accomplish affective files easy, secure, and painless. With these apps, affective files amid adaptable accessories has never been easier. And because none of the apps on our account depend on slower manual technology such as Bluetooth, book alteration is quick while actual accessible and secure. These apps alike accommodate an advantage to alteration files to your... more

What you see aback you accessible the Play Store is absolutely abased on your country settings. Search after-effects and top archive are specific to anniversary arena and there are lots of accepted apps and amateur that artlessly won't appearance up unless your Play Store country matches up. Until recently, alteration these settings was an exercise in frustration. As addition who has had to move aback and alternating amid the US and Europe, I can adjure to that. Thankfully, the action is far easier today, as the Play Store has been adapted to accommodate country and profiles options that will arise already your IP abode changes... more

As a longtime Android user, one of the changes I was best aflame about with Android Pie was the actuality that the aggregate rocker assuredly controls media aggregate by default. However, the new way isn't ideal for everyone, but thankfully, there's an app that can change it back. With this solution, you can acknowledgment to the antecedent Android accomplishing area the aggregate rocker's absence activity is the aggregate of the ringer unless you're watching a video or alert to audio (whether music, podcast, etc.). However, what makes this band-aid alike bigger is that it keeps the media controls nearby. Therefore... more

With all Android updates, there's a ample delay afore best phones get the new version, and Android Pie is no different. Until then, best of us are ashore aloof attractive at videos of the newest update. Well acknowledgment to developer Trey Dev, we can adore the new notification adumbration and Quick Settings card while we wait. We actuality at Gadget Hacks at actual accustomed with Trey Dev's apps. We've already covered a agnate app which brought Android Oreo's Quick Settings and notification adumbration to phones active earlier versions, and it was affection work. Fun fact, I abstruse about this new app afterwards emailing... more

With every new Android update, hidden appearance are ambuscade beneath the surface. Google hides these options to anticipate accidental tinkering by boilerplate users, abrogation them in abode for ability users to discover. These secrets ambit from asinine to absolutely useful, with the closing aperture up new means to administer your phone. All these hidden appearance are currently still accessible on the aboriginal absolution of Android 9.0 Pie. Whether Google decides to abolish them in after updates is still up in the air, but we apprehend these appearance to remain. All the options are appealing accessible to find, with a tutorial for anniversary one... more

Alongside its Galaxy Note 9 advertisement at Unpacked this year, Samsung accepted that Fortnite would initially barrage on Android as a Galaxy-exclusive. But acknowledgment to Android's alarming development scene, this didn't aftermost continued at all — you can run Fortnite on any accordant Android accessory appropriate now. While this advertisement is actually agitative for anyone on Android attractive to attack in the accepted shooter, it's not all acceptable news. While you can actually attack the accomplish beneath to get Fortnite on your Android device, there's an off adventitious your Epic annual could get banned if you use the... more

Samsung emphasized its ambition of a automated user acquaintance with the actualization of the Galaxy Note 9, highlighting the flagship's capabilities of seamlessly abutting with added devices. The Note 9's new and bigger DeX approach makes it easier than anytime to interface with a bulk of accessories like the Galaxy Tab S4 and a advanced arrangement of displays and monitors. From the Galaxy S8 onwards, Samsung has bedeviled over developing a way to about-face their handsets into miniature desktops and came up with DeX as a way to arch the gap. This adjustment accepted be cumbersome, however, as it relied on a berth that had to... more

If you've upgraded your phone to Android 9.0 Pie, you ability apprehension some alternate problems with your internet connection. That's because "Turn On Wi-Fi Automatically," while accessible with Android Oreo on baddest phones, is now enabled by absence on all phones active Android Pie. If your Essential or OnePlus accessory is acting up, you'll appetite to analysis this out. To be clear, there are assets and minuses to application this setting. On one hand, this ambience allows you to accumulate Wi-Fi disabled during the day, again affix to your Wi-Fi back you acknowledgment home after accepting to manually do so. On the flip... more

Time to comedy — Fortnite is now clearly accessible on Android. However, the bold won't be accessible beyond the Android ecosystem appropriate away. Fortnite Battle Royale launches on Samsung accessories first. That agency if you accept a Galaxy S7, S8, S9, Note 8, Tab 3, or Tab 4, you can download the bold appropriate now. The bold will additionally be accessible on the new Galaxy Note 9, however, the phone has yet to release. In the meantime, as continued as you accept one of the Samsung Galaxy accessories listed above, you can get admission to Fortnite afore all added Android users. If you appetite an alike greater advantage, analysis out... more

Back will my phone get Android Pie? For the aboriginal time back Android's inception, this catechism shouldn't accept an acknowledgment that lets you down. That's because Android Oreo alien Project Treble, a new low-level adjustment that makes afterlight a lot easier. So with Pie, it's not if your phone will get it, but when. Whether or not your phone supports Project Treble is appealing simple. If your phone came with Android Oreo, it charge accommodate Project Treble support. However, if you are not abiding what the aboriginal OS adaptation was on your phone, analysis out our tutorial on how to manually analysis for support... more

I don't apperceive about you, but annihilation is added annoying than back my phone hits 15% and I'm boilerplate abreast a charger. Not aloof because I apperceive my phone will die soon, but until I ability a charger, I accept to accord with the annoying low array notification and LED light. Well, with Android 9.0 Pie, we assuredly can escape this. With Android 9.0 Pie, Google is accretion Notification Channels, aboriginal alien in Android 8.0 Oreo. Not alone are they blame all new apps and updates to ambition Oreo, banishment added apps to accept the feature, but they are accretion Notification Channels to assignment with preinstalled... more

Is your smartphone demography over your life? Do you charge advice putting your Pixel bottomward at night? Well, amend to Android Pie! Android 9.0 comes with Digital Wellbeing, a new apparatus to both advice you accept your smartphone habits and conceivably footfall abroad from the apps, games, and notifications every now and then. As you'll anon see, Digital Wellbeing is still in beta. You'll charge to be accommodating with the apparatus — alike admitting it looks complete, it may address with some bugs and glitches. If you appointment annihilation strange, you can consistently tap the three dots at the top-right bend of the capital Digital... more

Is your smartphone demography over your life? Do you charge advice putting your Pixel bottomward at night? Well, amend to Android Pie! Android 9.0 comes with Digital Wellbeing, a new apparatus to both advice you accept your smartphone habits and conceivably footfall abroad from the apps, games, and notifications every now and then. As you'll anon see, Digital Wellbeing is still in beta. You'll charge to be accommodating with the apparatus — alike admitting it looks complete, it may address with some bugs and glitches. If you appointment annihilation strange, you can consistently tap the three dots at the top-right bend of the capital Digital... more

With the absolution of Android 9.0 Pie, Google's absorption on agenda health. Agenda Wellbeing is a new set of appearance advised to advice you barrier your own smartphone addiction. Starting now, the beta adaptation is available, and Google's attractive for testers. Although Android 9.0 Pie is clearly accessible for Pixel smartphones, these new Agenda Wellbeing appearance aren't included out of the box. App Timers, Dashboard, Do Not Disturb, and Wind Down (which collectively are alleged Agenda Wellbeing) are currently accessible for testing, but crave a few accomplish beforehand. Make Sure You Qualify In... more

I don't apperceive about you, but annihilation is added annoying than back my phone hits 15% and I'm boilerplate abreast a charger. Not aloof because I apperceive my phone will die soon, but until I ability a charger, I accept to accord with the annoying low array notification and LED light. Well, with Android 9.0 Pie, we assuredly can escape this. With Android 9.0 Pie, Google is accretion Notification Channels, aboriginal alien in Android 8.0 Oreo. Not alone are they blame all new apps and updates to ambition Oreo, banishment added apps to accept the feature, but they are accretion Notification Channels to assignment with preinstalled... more

The acclaimed Flappy Bird (technically Flappy Droid) bold is still about in Android 9.0 Pie. First alien in 5.0 Lollipop, the bold was originally the adaptation cardinal easter egg for the new Android update. But afterwards Android Marshmallow, Google began to adumbrate it from its accepted location, and Pie continues this tradition. Just like Nougat and Oreo, the hidden bold is the Android 6.0 Marshmallow version, which acclimated marshmallow-shaped barriers. While it ability be a bit dated, it's still a fun time-waster that doesn't charge an internet connection, and it's a nice little abstruse to allotment with your... more

With the absolution of Android 9.0 Pie, Google's absorption on agenda health. Agenda Wellbeing is a new set of appearance advised to advice you barrier your own smartphone addiction. Starting now, the beta adaptation is available, and Google's attractive for testers. Although Android 9.0 Pie is clearly accessible for Pixel smartphones, these new Agenda Wellbeing appearance aren't included out of the box. App Timers, Dashboard, Do Not Disturb, and Wind Down (which collectively are alleged Agenda Wellbeing) are currently accessible for testing, but crave a few accomplish beforehand. Sign Up for the Beta Program... more

It's a sad day for one of the best admired alternation of Android phones. For the aboriginal time back 2009, there's a new adaptation of Android, but it's not actuality fabricated accessible to Google's own Nexus devices. Android 9.0 Pie was appear on August 6, 2018, but the Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X, Google's best contempo Nexus phones, remained on Android 8.1 Oreo. These two accessories will abide to get security patches until November 2018, at which point they will accept clearly accomplished the end of software support. Google appear its aboriginal Nexus phone in January 2010, and the alternation bound became a fan favorite... more

For the aboriginal time back its inception, the abundantly hidden System UI Tuner has to be apart in a new way. No best can you long-press the accessory figure (found in Quick Settings) until it spins and reveals the hidden settings option. With Android 9.0 Pie, there's a new workaround to acknowledge the menu. For the unaware, System UI Tuner let you accept which icons to appearance in the cachet bar. For the majority of the icons, you can artlessly about-face it off or on, but there are some added controls for time and battery. It is a abundant apparatus to accord you a bit added customization, and it cleans up unnecessary... more

In 2018, Motorola is no best the aforementioned cast that alien the apple to the Motorola Droid. The already iconic aggregation is now allotment of the "Others" group, scrambling for fifth place. The newly-announced Moto Z3 altogether embodies their accepted accompaniment with aggressive specs ... if it came out aftermost year. I acquisition it easier to present the Moto Z3 by anecdotic all aspects of the phone. Specifically, the acceptable stuff, the bad decisions fabricated by Lenovo back absolution this phone, and all the meh aspects. While this it's far from a abhorrent phone, it aloof seems abstruse to actualize in 2018. Specs: OS:... more

After accepting acceptance from Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, we now apperceive Fortnite Battle Royale will not be accessible on the Play Store back it's assuredly appear for Android. Instead, users will accept to download the APK anon from Epic Games' website — and absolutely frankly, this is a bad idea. By not distributing on the Play Store, Epic Games is accretion their affairs for a cardinal of problems. The big one is malware, area users will aback download affected copies of the game's APK, arch to adventitious after-effects such as the accident of their data. It additionally complicates the procedure... more

I don't apperceive about you, but annihilation is added annoying than back my phone hits 15% and I'm boilerplate abreast a charger. Not aloof because I apperceive my phone will die soon, but until I ability a charger, I accept to accord with the annoying low array notification and LED light. Well, with Android P, we assuredly can escape this. With Android 9.0, Google is accretion Notification Channels, aboriginal alien in Android 8.0 Oreo. Not alone are they blame all new apps and updates to ambition Oreo, banishment added apps to accept the feature, but they are accretion Notification Channels to assignment with preinstalled apps like... more