It appears as though the OxygenOS Open Beta 3 and Beta 9 updates are now rolling out for the OnePlus 8T and 8 series respectively.
We say “appears” as there has been no official confirmation from OnePlus as yet, but users over on the OnePlus Forums have managed to grab the update for the 8T, 8, and 8 Pro (via XDA). It’s quite a sizeable patch but as with the recent stable update for the…
Samsung has updated these phones to Android 11
April 21, 2021
It usually takes Android OEMs a fair bit to get the latest version of the OS on older devices, but Samsung has been getting better and better at this every year. For Android 11, the official update schedule kicked off in early December and continues to expand. Here’s every…
After pulling the plug on its Shopping app on Android earlier this month to replace it with the web app, Google is bringing one of the app’s useful features to Chrome. Soon, Chrome for Android will have a price-tracking feature.
Live now in the latest Chrome for Android…
OnePlus Watch gets its first update with improved step tracking, app icons for notifications
April 21, 2021
The OnePlus Watch is a mess, but a lot of its flaws can be addressed through software updates. Today, OnePlus is releasing the first post-launch update for the OnePlus Watch, with better step tracking, notification improvements, and more.
Detailed on the OnePlus forums, software version B.40 for the OnePlus Watch is rolling out now in the US and Canada and will expand to other regions soon. The…
Verizon's Samsung Galaxy S10 gets April patch and new camera features with the latest update
April 21, 2021
The Samsung Galaxy S10 locked to Verizon’s network is receiving a new software update, which bumps up the Android security patch level on the smartphone to April 2021 and brings a couple of new camera features.
Here’s the small changelog of the new update:
Pro…
Weekly poll results: the new Nokias fail to excite, but a couple show a glimmer of potential
April 21, 2021
Last week’s poll shows that the six new Nokia models didn’t cause excitement – and maybe they weren’t supposed to, sometimes boring is good. The X-series have a chance chance to position themselves as phones that “just work” for three years, which is exactly what…
Weekly poll: Sony Xperia Mark III tries something different, but is it worth the price of admission?
April 21, 2021
When it comes to phones, Sony follows the beat of a different drummer – months after the first Snapdragon 888 flagships hit the market, the Japanese tech giant announced that it will release its own flagships in early summer.
You can’t rush perfection, they say, and Sony has given up on trying to dominate the smartphone market, anyway. Unlike LG, Sony managed to eke out a small profit off its…
Sony brought its smartphone lineup for an entire year in a single announcement this week and there are things we want to talk about.
So here go a few early thoughts on what we found interesting, what are the key points and what we think about them.
A true band of…
Realme announced the Q3 lineup will arrive this month, and we finally know the date. The series will be introduced on April 22, as confirmed by the company on Weibo.
One of the expected phones will be the Realme Q3 Pro, and it has already appeared on TENAA and Geekbench with…
After numerous rumors, Apple finally introduced AirTag during today’s special event. Apple’s item tracker works based on the ultra-wideband U1 chip and relies on the Find My network to work even offline. However, an interesting detail that wasn’t mentioned during the keynote is that even Android users can identify an AirTag in Lost Mode.
Since AirTag is deeply integrated into Apple’s…
