Android Phones

Google has today announced and released a new Android development tool, ARCore. The announcement details two aspects in particular, the release of the supporting SDK for developers to start using, and what is essentially an imminent release of a preview version of the feature to select smartphones. What is different about ARCore (compared to other […]

Google will start issuing “certified Android devices” with Google Play Protect branding in the form of a badge, the Alphabet-owned company said on Monday. While the expansion of its consumer security programs was announced by the Indian division of the tech giant, the initiative seems to be available worldwide, with all original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) […]

A handful of seemingly official renders depicting what’s believed to be the European variant of the Alcatel Idol 5S appeared online earlier this week, having originally been uncovered by one industry insider on Twitter. The device that can be seen in the gallery below isn’t identical to the supposed U.S. model which has already been […]

Essential is now shipping the PH-1 to buyers after a long wait following the reservation phase (which was basically just the ability to pre-order the device) that came directly after the official announcement. The phone is still up for pre-order both from Essential’s own online shop and from Amazon, though the device isn’t officially available […]

The Alcatel Idol 5 is rumored to appear at IFA with a 5.2-inch screen featuring a resolution of 1080p and using an IPS panel. This is according to the most recent leak of the upcoming device, which is also said to hit the European market at a price of €399, compared to the €250 rumored price of […]

The Alcatel A7 may have dual cameras and a 5.5-inch display at a price of €250 according to a recent leak. While not all of the details of the device have been rumored just yet, there are a handful of other specifications which accompany the information about the screen size and cost. According to the leak, […]

The Essential PH-1 is now available for pre-order directly from the company that made it, Essential. Do keep in mind that Sprint is the only carrier in the US that offers the Essential PH-1, but if you’re looking for an unlocked device, you have three options, Essential, Best Buy and Amazon. The device has been […]

The mobile arm of Italian car maker Lamborghini has just taken the wraps off its latest smartphone, and it happens to be the luxurious Alpha One handset. The company has made phones in the past, but the previous device was released way back in 2014. The Alpha One comes with a black leather back, handmade […]

TCL Communication introduced a new smartphone under the Alcatel brand, more specifically an upgraded version of the Alcatel U5 originally unveiled in February at Mobile World Congress 2017. The upgraded variant is marketed as the Alcatel U5 HD, and unsurprisingly employs a higher-resolution display along with a few other updated components such as a slightly […]

Micromax on Tuesday announced its latest smartphone in the form of the Canvas Infinity which is set to go on sale in India starting September 1. The device will be exclusively available from Amazon India and pre-registrations for the handset are already being accepted by the online retailer. It will only be available in Black […]

The Essential PH-1 is the first smartphone from Andy Rubin’s new smartphone company, Essential and the PH-1 is definitely an interesting device. It sports all of the usual high-end, flagship specs you’d expect in 2017. Including a 5.7-inch Quad HD display, powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of […]

Google on Monday listed 11 hardware partners whose smartphones will be getting Android 8.0 Oreo in the near future, shortly after officially announcing the first stable build of its new operating system. The first partner named by the Alphabet-owned company is Essential, a startup founded by Android co-creator Andy Rubin which just recently launched the […]

Google had introduced the newest version of Android earlier today, Android 8.0 Oreo, and along with the new OS, the company also shared some OS update information for the existing Pixel and Nexus devices. Google said that it will start rolling out Android 8.0 Oreo to the Google Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel C, Nexus 5X, […]

Google has today confirmed the release of the next Android version upgrade, Android 8.0 (aka Android O). In fact, following the US eclipse which took place today, Google unveiled the latest version of Android at a special event designed to coincide with the eclipse by unveiling the latest Android statue. As such, it is now confirmed […]

Andy Rubin’s ultimate goal is to have consumers use their smartphones less, the co-creator of Android and founder of Essential told Bloomberg earlier this month. The first commercially available handset made by the Palo Alto, California-based startup is meant to be the initial step toward fulfilling that vision which largely relies on artificial intelligence (AI) […]

LG Electronics is looking to recruit 500 people to experience the upcoming V30 ahead of its launch. It is part of the company’s “LG V30 National Experience Team,” whereby each selected member will be given a LG V30 which will have to be returned after a month of usage. However, the program is only open […]

According to a new rumor by Ice Universe, a Weibo (Chinese social network) leakster, Samsung might get the initial supply of the Snapdragon 845 chips next year (for the Galaxy S9), as it did this year (for the Galaxy S8). According to the source, Qualcomm and Samsung already have an agreement in place, which are […]

According to the newest rumor, courtesy of Eldar Murtazin, the Samsung Galaxy S9 might feature modular design. Now, if the source is to be believed, Samsung will use a similar approach to Motorola, so the Galaxy S9 might feature some sort of pins on its body, to which you’ll be able to attach various accessories […]

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 will get announced in two days, on August 23, and the company has just shared two teaser ads for its upcoming flagship. One of these ads actually leaked a couple of days ago, and now Samsung shared that ad via its official YouTube channel, along with another Galaxy Note 8 […]

Renders of several upcoming smartphones from Alcatel has been leaked by Russian tech publication mobiltelefon.ru. Among the leaked smartphones is the Alcatel U5 HD, which is likely a variant of the Alcatel U5. According to the report, the Alcatel U5 HD sports a 5-inch screen with a resolution of 720p. In comparison, the original version […]

The YotaPhone 3 is virtually official although it hasn’t quite launched yet, as the smartphone popped up on the company’s website complete with its pricing details. So far, the third-generation YotaPhone has leaked on several occasions and various reports revealed its purported specifications, but the company did not offer any official information until recently. While […]

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8’s announcement is right around the corner, the company will introduce this flagship phablet on August 23, and the phone’s pricing has just surfaced. This information comes from China, and it seems like these prices will be valid in China, presuming that the info is accurate. Now, if the source is […]

The Midnight Black Honor 9 model is now available in Europe as well, you can purchase it through the company’s official vMall store, though keep in mind that it is now available through every European vMall site. If you open the vmall.eu website (source link down below), you will be able to choose between a […]

Counterpoint, a technology market research firm, has revealed its U.S. mobile market growth analysis for Q2 2017 and the results appear to show a return to form for providers and OEMs in a hyper-competitive market. Postpaid phone adds fell in at 1.25 million, with prepaid markets also contributing to the growth. Year-over-year, growth in the […]

The Essential PH-1 is now available for pre-orders on Amazon, with its listing appearing mere hours after Sprint also started accepting advanced orders on the first smartphone created by the company founded by Android creator Andy Rubin. Consumers who purchase the device on Amazon can expect it to start shipping on September 1, according to […]

The Essential PH-1 will receive two years of Android updates and three years of security patches, the company’s founder Andy Rubin revealed on Thursday. Mr. Rubin — who also co-created and maintained Android until 2014 —promised that the Palo Alto, California-based startup will be launching new accessories for the Essential PH-1 “every few months,” though he didn’t […]

Sprint on Thursday opened pre-orders for the Essential PH-1, the first smartphone from the company founded by the creator of Android Andy Rubin. The Overland Park, Kansas-based firm is Essential’s only wireless carrier partner in the United States, though the smartphone will soon also be available for purchase from Best Buy and can already be […]

Coolpad has just announced a new smartphone, the Cool M7. This is the company’s new mid-range handset, though it’s quite a powerful mid-range offering from this China-based company. The Coolpad Cool M7 is made out of metal, and its home button / fingerprint scanner is reminiscent of the one used by Apple in the iPhone […]

Some additional Galaxy Note 8 spec info surfaced thanks to a leaked marketing leaflet. Truth be told, it’s still not certain whether this info is accurate, but Ausdroid managed to get the pic from an unnamed source. In any case, this brochure reveals some Galaxy Note 8 spec info, including some more camera detail, which […]

Today, August 17, Taiwanese consumer electronics company ASUS officially introduced its latest smartphone series in its homeland, including the ASUS ZenFone 4 and ZenFone 4 Selfie along with two “Pro” counterparts for each model. Prices start at $279 for the ASUS ZenFone 4 Selfie, and can go as high as $599 for the ZenFone 4 […]

Polaroid has introduced a couple of new smartphones as well as a new tablet to the Mexican market in collaboration with wireless telecommunication company Telcel. All three new smart devices share the “Cosmo” moniker and they are all equipped with chipsets provided by MediaTek. They fit in the low to mid-range market and should be […]

Two renders depicting what’s said to be a new bezel-less smartphone from Sharp emerged on the World Wide Web earlier today, having originally been shared on Chinese social media website Weibo. The device shown in the images that can be seen above bears the company’s Aquos branding and sports a nearly bezel-free design, save for […]

Xiaomi’s official ‘Redmi’ Weibo (Chinese social network) page has just confirmed that the Redmi Note 5A will be announced on Monday, August 21. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 5A got certified by TENAA (China’s equivalent to the FCC) quite recently, and images of the device were also shared by the site, so we pretty much know […]

The Sharp AQUOS S2 has gone out of stock in China in just one day after it went up for sale on Chinese online retailer JD.com, which seems to suggest that there was quite a bit of interest in the phone from consumers. The Sharp AQUOS S2 for those in the U.S. is the device […]

Cubot is a China-based company which manufactures affordable smartphones and wearables, and one of the company’s upcoming smartphones has just surfaced, the Cubot X18. This handset, as you can see in the provided images, resembles the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus quite a bit. The device, at least based on these renders, will either […]

The UMIDIGI S2 Pro is UMIDIGI’s upcoming, Galaxy S8-inspired, smartphone which has been teased by the company already, and now UMIDIGI announced that a Mercury Silver variant of this phone will also be available. This smartphone will be extremely glossy, which is something you’ll either love or hate, though thanks to its Silver color, it […]

The Sony Xperia XZ1 renders popped up yesterday in both images and video, and now the device leaked in a couple of real life images, along with its specifications. If you take a look at the provided images, you will be able to see that yesterday’s renders were more or less spot on. This phone […]

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8’s announcement is right around the corner, and yet another seemingly official Galaxy Note 8 render has just surfaced. Evan Blass aka @evleaks has just shared the Deep Sea Blue color variant of the Galaxy Note 8, and we’re seeing the device’s front side in this image, while the device’s S […]

Essential on Wednesday started sending emails to customers to confirm that the Essential PH-1 is to start shipping within the next seven days, several consumers who pre-ordered the device from the company said. The Palo Alto, California-based original equipment manufacturer (OEM) still didn’t provide a firm shipping date to customers but simply promised that more […]

Google has started pushing out Android 7.1.1 Nougat update to the Nexus 6… again. This is not the first time Google is pushing this version of Android to Nexus 6 users, though last time things did not exactly go smoothly. Android 7.1.1 Nougat was a really poor update for the Nexus 6 last time around, […]

The Essential PH-1 will hit Canada in September and it will be available exclusively on TELUS, one of the country’s largest carriers. The news comes from Dave2D over on Twitter, who is also a well-known tech reviewer on YouTube, and although the tweet does not mention a specific launch date for the phone on TELUS’ […]

Sprint is all set to launch the Essential PH-1 this Friday as a recently leaked image found over on Reddit shows the device along with the date that it will be launching. The phone is being displayed in what looks like an internal Sprint web page, which should be tipped off by the label at […]

SaskTel incurred a hefty $184,000 CAD loss in Canada after an employee pocketed hundreds of cell phones of different values. According to recent reports, a SaskTel employee at the Crown’s Regina store stole 22 cell phones in June, prompting the carrier to take a closer look at what was going on at the retail location. […]

Saygus recently took to Twitter to announce that it had put its crowdfunded smartphone, the V2, through the FCC’s certification process. The tweet mentioned that some of the LTE bands are “still in process,” without clarifying on the matter. As of this writing, there are no recent filings from Saygus in the FCC database, but if […]

A new rumor has just surfaced, and it claims that the Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 will arrive on September 12. Now, in addition to that, this new rumor, that comes from China, claims that the Mi MIX 2 will come in two variants, one variant will sport 6GB of RAM and 128GB of native storage, […]

The Huawei Mate 9 was one of the best smartphones of last year, and some new info surfaced regarding its successor, the Huawei Mate 10. According to the source, the Huawei Mate 10 will be fueled by the Kirin 970 64-bit octa-core SoC, which is Huawei’s upcoming flagship processor. In addition to that, the source […]

The Essential PH-1 has just popped up on Telus’ website in Canada, and it is available for pre-order. Telus, for those of you who do not know, is a Canada-based carrier, and it seems like the company is taking pre-orders for the Essential’s first, and only smartphone. Now, the phone is available in only one […]

One of the most anticipated phones of the year, The Essential PH-1, made quite the racket when it was announced a few months ago.  This device promises to offer robust hardware and a fresh take on software, all encapsulated in an ecosystem where everything “plays nicely” with one another. Looking at what the PH-1 has […]

Several images and a user manual associated with the upcoming Alcatel A7 have appeared online, with the device recently receiving certification from Brazil’s telecommunications regulator ANATEL. The images show a unit of the Alcatel A7 that is largely black except for copper-like highlights along its speakers, fingerprint scanner, and the manufacturer’s logo. The front of […]

The Chinese company, Coolpad, may not be the most known OEM globally as it’s a company that primarily manufactures mid-ranged devices, but it has another device in the works which has just passed through TENAA, and it’s a phone sporting a familiar design. This new device, under the name “Cool,” with a model number THD-M0, […]

Essential has another First Look event coming, now on August 21st, following the initial discovery that the company would be holding an event on August 25th to give consumers the chance to see the Essential PH-1 phone in person. That being said, it’s now possible that Essential plans to hold more First Look events in […]

Essential – like any other smartphone manufacturer ahead of a launch – is hyping up its first smartphone the PH-1. This smartphone was supposed to be available back in late June or early July but it still has not launched. Essential’s founder, Andy Rubin had announced that availability and retail partners would be announced next […]

HP’s Windows 10 Mobile-powered Elite X3 didn’t do well in the market for a number of reasons, and rumor has it that HP is looking to fix at least one of the things that made the phone unpopular by making a sequel to it that runs on Android. The premium handset was marketed mainly to […]

The Coolpad Cool Play 6 originally launched in China back in May, and it seems like it will arrive to India on August 20. The company has hinted, on its Facebook page, that the Cool Play 6 will launch on August 20, while the company is also running some contests, and if you’re interested, follow […]

A new handset from Chinese OEM, ZTE, has just had its specs spilled over at GFXBench. The device is named the ZTE Z982 on the sheet, but an official name should be released soon. Looking at the screen size, it may be another iteration in ZTE’s “Max” line of phones. This line has become popular […]

In a strange turn of events, a number of Vertu’s expensive smartphones are now being auctioned off at what is comparatively speaking, a bargain price. This follows on from the news back in July that Vertu was no more, having failed to be able to clear the debts it has accrued during its tenure as […]

Panasonic has just announced the Eluga A3 and Eluga A3 Pro smartphones in India. Both of these devices are made out of metal, and ship with Android 7.0 Nougat. These two phones are almost identical, the only differences can be found in the SoC and storage departments, the Panasonic Eluga A3 is fueled by the […]

Hyperkin’s SmartBoy phone accessory has hit Amazon at a price of $50 (specifically $49.99) although at the moment it is only available to pre-order with the device set to be launched officially on August 21st, for those who would rather wait till it actually launches before they decide to buy one. The SmartBoy for those […]

Andy Rubin, godfather of Android and creator of the upcoming Essential PH-1, took to Twitter to let the public know that next week he will be announcing where you can buy the phone. Rubin also announced that the company is ramping up production in preparation for the grand announcement, and included the attached photographs to […]

Amazon invested in Andy Rubin’s consumer electronics startup Essential, the Palo Alto, California-based firm revealed on Wednesday, adding that its business was also recently backed by Chinese tech giant Tencent. The exact financial details of individual investments weren’t disclosed, though the latest funding round held by the company yielded $300 million in total. Amazon will […]