As first spotted by a pair of sites (CX Live and Daring Fireball, via MacRumors), Xiaomi uploaded an Apple ad to its own website — as well as several others — to promote its new Mimoji, which are eerily similar to Apple’s similarly-named Memoji.
Xiaomi claims that the uploading of a competitor’s ad to promote its own product was an accident. The ads have since been removed and Xiaomi’s public relations general manager, Xu Jieyun, explained that Xiaomi staff had “uploaded the wrong content” to the sites.
A weird bug has befallen Pixel smartphones, making app icons disappear from the phones. Pixel devices on Android 10 with the December 2019 security patch seem to be affected.
9to5Google reports that the the bug makes app icons invisible on the Pixel Launcher. Instead of the icon, a blank space appears with the name of the app and the background wallpaper on the phone takes over the empty space. However, users are still able to open the app by tapping its name.
There aren’t enough superlatives to describe the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 – well, maybe we just have to get a new dictionary. But anyway, you’ve seen our hands-on image gallery of the extraordinary phone and its impressive benchmark result. Now we’re sure you’re wondering how soon you can get your hands on one
Samsung has been rather coy about the Galaxy Note 2’s release date and price, though we do know that it’s coming to most markets in October and others before the end of the year.
After months of beta testing, the Vivaldi browser finally sees a stable Android release. It lands at the same time as the latest Vivaldi 3.0 desktop browser, and the Android app is optimized for smartphones, tablets, and even Chromebooks with Android app support.
Not too much has changed between the Vivaldi beta and stable releases, and that’s a good thing. Vivaldi now sports all of the best features we loved about the beta but in a more stable, consumer-ready package.
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Comments in the Chromium Gerrit point to older Chromebooks not getting Android P. Those Chromebooks feature kernel 3.14 or older and include 2015’s Google Chromebook Pixel. Keep in mind that this is not Android P support in the sense that Chromebooks will run a full version of Android. Rather, Android P would be used as the underpinnings for when you download apps from the Play Store, for example.
Picture this: you are having a nice romantic dinner, or it’s time to spend a free day with your loved one, and find yourself mostly talking to a person that has his/her face so sunk into their phones you feel like the Titanic song is about to start playing.
But this one is not a sweet feeling. Instead, you are left wanting to grab that phone, break it in half (like the same ship) and maybe make a close-by puddle its new wreckage site.
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The Asus ROG Phone 3 has been spotted in a TENAA listing. The listing reveals most of its hardware specs. The gaming phone is expected to launch in July. The Asus ROG Phone 2 was one of the most powerful gaming phones in 2019 and it’s successor — the ROG Phone 3 — could once again offer blazing-fast performance. The upcoming device has appeared in a TENAA listing (h/t XDA Developers), revealing a familiar outer design but upgraded insides.
A leaked render purportedly showing the Moto G7. MySmartPrice
Update – February 11: The four phones in Motorola’s Moto 67 series have been officially announced. You can learn more about them by going to our Moto G7 series reveal page.
Original story – January 18: The Moto G7 series has been the subject of several leaks in the past few months, the latest of which gives us more renders and European pricing details.
HTC’s Android rollout roadmap has been leaked on the Internet. The roadmap shows that HTC is continuing to make point releases for some devices and that it is evaluating Android L for several of its handsets.The Google Play Editions of the HTC One (M7 and M8) already have access to Android 4.4.4 and according to the leaked plans HTC will be rolling out Android 4.4.4 with Sense 6.0 for the HTC One sometime in July or August.
Sony’s Xperia Z4 may make a lot of sense for Japan, but the company received a ton of flak over the questionable decision to release a new generation of the Xperia series with just token upgrades compared to the Z3. Some suggested Sony should have pulled an Apple and kept the Z3 name a bit longer, and that’s exactly what the Japanese company is doing with the new Xperia Z3+.