As part of the company’s Q4 2015 earnings report, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the company’s massively popular email service Gmail has passed the 1 billion user mark. This is active, monthly users, not just downloads or sporadic users. This means that if you’re a human being reading this news article, then there’s at least a 14 percent chance you’re a Gmail user. This isn’t the first time a Google service has netted over a billion users.

At CES 2014 Parrot is bringing us two brand new phone-controlled robotic devices, the MiniDrone and the two-wheeled Jumping Sumo robot. The first of these is essentially a miniaturized version of the popular AR Drone quadrocopter, albeit lacking when it comes to the recording/viewfinder camera found on the larger version. One major difference between the AR Drone and the MiniDrone is the later’s removable set of wheels, allowing you to roll along the ground and even on the walls and ceilings.

Pokémon Go fans can now download the latest version of the augmented reality game from the Google Play Store. It adds a few small but interesting features and improvements to the monster catching and battling title, including some new indicators for hatching eggs. How to hatch eggs in Pokemon Go Apps The new version number for the Android port is 0.43.3. The biggest new feature is that eggs in the game appear in different colors, depending on the distance required to hatch them.

Eric Zeman / Android Authority As with any new premium Samsung phone, the arrival of the Galaxy Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra inevitably leads to talk about the US vs global variants, as well as their differences. Of course, the most controversial difference is the Snapdragon vs Exynos debate, or to be more specific in this case: the capabilities of the Snapdragon 865 Plus versus the Exynos 990. Samsung likes to avoid comparisons between its handset variants, and increasingly with good reason.

GooPhone’s done it again. What do you mean, what? Have you already forgotten about the I5, the incredibly accurate iPhone 5 copycat unveiled before Apple’s latest? We haven’t, which is why we couldn’t help but chuckle when spotting the newest GooPhone clone. Chuckle and then bring it to your attention, naturally. Meet the GooPhone One, an exact replica (we think) of the still unreleased HTC One, previously known as the M7.

With the fanfare of MWC 2019 behind us, we can now take a step back and look at this year’s hot topic at the show — the race to 5G. As far as smartphones are concerned, Qualcomm appears to be well ahead of the curve. The company had a number of 5G partner devices on display at the Barcelona event and will be powering the first wave of 5G handsets scheduled to appear in the coming months.

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Photography prowess sells smartphones. In fact, it’s probably the biggest product differentiator in the market right now and has been for some years. Experimenting with different camera setups has produced the most robust and gimmicky photography packages in equal quantities, but the next smartphone photography war looks set to be fought on the image processing front. Chinese brands Vivo and Xiaomi are pushing into the market with in-house image signal processing (ISP) technology to augment the pre-bundled component you’ll find inside a phone’s system on a chip (SoC).

The Essential Phone started with a list price of $699, but Essential dropped the price permanently by $200 a short time later. So really, buying an Essential Phone at its current list price is already kind of a deal. But hey, who’s going to complain if the price gets dropped even further? Today, you can get an unlocked Essential Phone in Black Moon color for only $449 — a cool $50 off the current list price.

If you thought Asus’ original gamer-centric ROG Phone was a one-and-done deal, think again. Today, the company officially took the wraps off of the ROG Phone 2, which gives a new definition to the word “overkill.” The ROG Phone 2 is the first Android phone to feature a 120Hz AMOLED panel, which stretches to 6.59 inches on the diagonal. The higher refresh rate allows for incredibly smooth animations in theory, but it can be a battery hog.

Alongside its new Cortex-A77 CPU core, Arm has unveiled a next-generation GPU destined for next-generation smartphone SoCs. The Mali-G77, not to be confused with the new Mali-D77 display processor, marks the departure of Arm’s Bifrost architecture and the move over to Valhall. We’ll get into the fine details of the new architecture in a moment. First, we’ll leap right into what users should expect in terms of performance gains. Mali-G77 performance overview Arm boasts up to a 40 percent graphics performance boost with next-gen Mali-G77 devices compared with today’s Mali-G76 models.