Poco surprised us in 2018 with the release of the Poco F1 (or Pocophone F1 in some areas of the world). Although that was an incredibly exciting phone, the company seemed to vanish almost as quickly as it arrived. Now, though, we finally have a second phone from the brand called the Poco X2. While the Poco X2 price is comparable to the Poco F1, these are distinctly very different phones.
Back in 2005, Sonic Jump first debuted as a mobile game for feature phones. Fast-forward to 2012, and the whole effort was rebooted as an Android app under the same “Sonic Jump” name.
For fans of the Doodle Jump-like series, you’ll be happy to know that Sonic Jump (2012) finally has a formal sequel, Sonic Jump Fever. Unlike its predecessor, Fever is no longer a premium app and instead shifts over to the free-to-play gaming model.
Recently, I addressed industry changes promising to “fix” the smart home by the end of 2022, alleviating issues like overloaded Wi-Fi and fractured platform support. Those changes should make the technology more appealing to both veterans and newcomers, but for sales to go through the roof and adoption to be less stressful, there are arguably a number of other long-term improvements companies need to make.
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The Kindle Fire range, now known as Amazon Fire, has been quite the success story in the world of Android tablets. Since the original Kindle Fire made its debut, Amazon’s devices have seen numerous upgrades, with the HD coming in various sizes and offering content for different audiences. Of course, even the most popular products out there have some problems, gathered some of the most common problems with the Amazon Fire HD, and offer potential solutions to fix them!
Hodl (ˈhɒdəl; verb; often written HODL): Slang for holding a cryptocurrency rather than selling it. Can also mean Hold On For Dear Life.
We’ve seen a few weird and wonderful phones this year, but the Finney is probably the most bizarre yet.
The creation of Israel-based Sirin Labs, the Finney is designed for a very specific group of people: crypto fanatics. Company reps openly admit the Finney probably won’t appeal to mainstream users, but they still see a large addressable market for it.
If you’ve ever wanted to change the theme on your SwiftKey keyboard app, you may have had to pay some extra cash in the past. Thankfully, that era is no more. SwiftKey has announced that it’s making all of its themes – over 100 of them – free. Yes, free.
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In addition to themes now being offered for free, the company has added some new themes, too.
It would probably be fair to say that the Android One program hasn’t quite had the impact that Google was hoping for. Despite offering some rather good hardware at a reasonable price, the low-cost local competition ended up offering better value for money, updates seemed delayed and the second wave of phones never really materialized. According to a recent interview with Rajan Anandan, Google’s managing director for India and Southwest Asia, the initiative is scheduled for some necessarly changes, including the possibility of even cheaper handsets.
Update, June 12, 2020 (11:42 AM ET): The article below originally had incorrect information. The amount of RAM in the Verizon Galaxy S20 is 8GB, not 4GB as originally stated. Android Authority regrets the error. All other information remains unchanged.
Although the Samsung Galaxy S20 line came out in February, the Verizon Galaxy S20 only hit store shelves recently. The reason for the delay is that Samsung needed to figure out how to cram mmWave 5G antennas into the vanilla S20 since that’s the only 5G protocol Verizon supports.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is finally official, delivering a comprehensive spec sheet and powerful internals. Then again, many flagship phones are powerful and have plenty of features, so what makes the latest Samsung device stand out from its rivals? We take a look at some of the key Galaxy Note 9 features and tweaks that make the phone tick.
The Note 9 battery will rival Mate 10 ProSamsung has played it safe since the Galaxy Note 7 disaster, sticking to a smaller battery size for the Galaxy Note 8 and Galaxy S9 (although the Active phones still have a large battery).
Exactly one year ago, HMD Global gained the rights to make and sell smartphones under the Nokia brand.
The Finnish company made great progress in its first year of business. It got what was once the most respected brand name in the industry back on the map and released six Android smartphones. It also made many mistakes.
In an interview with Bloomberg last December, former CEO Arto Nummela said that HMD “will be extremely true to the Nokia brand.