MobileNews

Huawei wants Google apps in its ‘AppGallery’ store

March 31, 2020
Due to the US government adding Huawei to the Entity List, the Chinese smartphone maker has been unable to use Google apps on its smartphones. As a result, Huawei has been building out its “AppGallery” store for devices like the P40 Pro, but Huawei still wants Google apps in that store. Speaking to CNBC, Huawei chairman Eric Xu said that the company has seen a pretty huge hit as a result of…
Read more
MobileNews

HTC is selling a standalone Vive Cosmos headset and tracking faceplate

March 31, 2020
The Vive Cosmos had a shaky start, but HTC has made a lot of improvements to its latest VR headset. And those updates (which I’ll cover soon) may make you want to pick one up to play games like Half-Life: Alyx. This is especially true if you already own the original Vive. To encourage those VR enthusiasts to upgrade, HTC plans to sell a standalone version of the Cosmos head-mounted display. The…
Read more
MobileNews

Nokia’s AVA 5G Cognitive Operations offers carriers AI as a service

March 31, 2020
Artificial intelligence is increasingly touted as having a critical role to play in 5G networks, though the specifics of the 5G-AI relationship are often left ambiguous or masked with jargon in corporate announcements. That’s not the case for 5G network hardware maker Nokia, however, which today announced AVA 5G Cognitive Operations, offering AI as a service so mobile carriers can optimize their…
Read more
MobileNews

How to check and track coronavirus symptoms on Android

March 31, 2020
Right now, we’re square in the middle of a pandemic the likes of which our generations have never experienced, which is also inconveniently overlapping with the tail end of the normal cold and flu season and the arrival of allergy season. This has caused a fair bit of…
MobileNews

OnePlus releases colorful wallpaper collection featuring brand-new logo

March 31, 2020
With a brand-new logo and April 14 launch date set for the OnePlus 8 series, the Chinese firm shared a small collection of new wallpapers for you to put on your smartphone. Known for low-poly and more abstract wallpapers, OnePlus has decided that celebrating the new logo and branding is a call for some updated backdrops to freshen up your “flagship killer” — or any other smartphone, for that…
Read more