Smartphone cameras have improved a ton over the last couple of years. Sensors have gotten bigger and processing has gotten better. Amid fierce competition, one spec that manufacturers have consistently tried to best each other on is zoom. Earlier this year, Samsung introduced the Galaxy S20 Ultra. It had a huge 5,000mAh battery, an enormous 6.9-inch display, and a beefy 108MP camera sensor. While most of these specs are impressive in their own right, the spec Samsung really wanted to push was the S20 Ultra’s 100x zoom capabilities.

Moko Moko Phone/Tablet StandThis is a functional stand for small and medium devices. Its super thin, small, and light body makes it amazingly portable. And though it's made of cheap plastic, it works and replacing it won't hurt so much. There are much better stands out there, but not at this price. Looking for the right smartphone or tablet stand? A quick Amazon search will present you with an onslaught of options made of different materials, offering varying features, and at a plethora of price points.

Over the last year, LG has introduced a handful of phones that feature dedicated Google Assistant buttons. Google is now working with several smartphone manufacturers to bring the physical Assistant button to more handsets. At MWC 2019, Google announced that the Assistant button is coming to LG’s and Nokia’s entire lineup of upcoming smartphones. This list of devices includes the LG G8 ThinQ, LG K40, LG K50, LG Q60, Nokia 3.2, and Nokia 4.

Eric Zeman / Android Authority TL;DR The Samsung Galaxy S22, S22 Plus, and S22 Ultra are now available on sale everywhere. Samsung says the flagships are its most pre-ordered phones to date. According to the company, the Galaxy S22 Ultra has driven more than 60% of the series’ sales so far. According to Samsung, the Galaxy S22 trio are its most pre-ordered phones to date. The company did not share any numbers but said that pre-orders for the series have more than doubled those of the Galaxy S21 series.

Zynga’s Words With Friends took both the Android Market and the App Store by storm just last year. And now, the gaming giant has brought Scramble With Friends to the Google Play store. The gameplay of Scramble With Friends is very similar to that of Boggle. Simply slide your finger over adjacent letters to form words in all directions. In addition, in the later rounds, Zynga has thrown in word and letter bonuses (Triple Letter, Double Word, etc.

ARM has announced a new mobile GPU, the Mali-G71, based on a whole new GPU architecture called Bifrost. ARM’s mobile GPU products have been through two previous major architectural revisions. First came Utgard, which you find in GPUs like the Mali-400, Mali-470 etc. Utgard supported OpenGl ES 2.0 and was found in devices like the Samsung Galaxy S2. Next came Midgard, a new architecture with support for the unified shader model and OpenGL ES 3.

Hadlee Simons / Android Authority TL;DR A Korean news outlet has claimed that the Galaxy Z Fold 4 will gain an S Pen slot. This would be the first time we see a stylus slot on a foldable. Samsung announced the Galaxy S22 series last week, and the S22 Ultra follows in the Note’s footsteps by offering a dedicated S Pen slot. Now, a Korean news outlet has reported that the upcoming Galaxy Z Fold 4 foldable could follow suit.

Update, July 30, 2019 (8:08AM ET): Following the MediaTek Helio G90 series launch, Xiaomi has revealed that it will launch a smartphone powered by this chipset family. Xiaomi India chief Manu Kumar Jain said the company will launch a phone powered by the Helio G90T rather than the standard G90. We don’t know anything else about this upcoming phone, but Xiaomi already offers the Black Shark gaming phones. These phones traditionally retail for $400 or more, offering flagship Qualcomm silicon, so we’d expect a G90-powered gaming handset to have a much lower price tag.

Phone makers from Apple to ZTE have conjured up all sorts of hardware ideas over the years. Some devices and their features have been breathtaking in design and functionality while others left many people scratching their heads. At the same time, technology has moved forward negating the need for some aspects of phone design that were once vital. Together, changes in design trends and the obsolescence of old (and sometimes plain bad) technologies have driven smartphones to drop many once-popular hardware features over time.

Sometimes you will see games that still launch for iOS weeks, and sometimes months, before they are finally made available for Android. That’s the case for Batman: Arkham Underworld, which launched in the summer of 2016 for Apple’s platform, but is only now making an appearance on Android in the Google Play Store. 15 best action games for Android Apps While this game may have “Batman” in the title, you don’t actually play as the Dark Knight.