Weekly Recap: Galaxy S9 Coming This Weekend, HTC Lays Off Number of US Employees

We usually close shop for the weekends, but thanks to MWC, we’ll be working hard starting Sunday morning. We’re expecting a good amount of news coming out of Barcelona this weekend, including the announcement of Samsung’s Galaxy S9 and S9+, Sony’s new lineup of devices, plus possibly some more news from Google. Good times inbound.

Here are the goods from this week.

• Watch: Droid Life Show – “Sony, Let’s Do This” [Subscribe]
• The Sony Xperia XZ2 is looking pretty good.
• Android P: Android P could have a native Dark Mode.
• HTC: HTC lays off “large portion” of US workforce.
• Google announces new things for Google Assistant.
• Android manufacturers are really bad software updates.
• Galaxy S9: Galaxy S9 and S9+ might be expensive, but that’s no surprise.
• Opinion: Android One is the new Google Play Edition.
• Developers, you can now start working with ARCore.
• Swype: RIP, Swype.
• #IO2018: Application process for Google I/O 2018 is now open!
• Google is at MWC and here’s what they’ve announced so far.
• Nest Aware price cut to $5/month.
• Google Pay update rolling out to Android Pay.
• AT&T announces first cities in US to get mobile 5G.
• Snapdragon 845 lets you wirelessly stream music to multiple headsets, speakers.

We’ll catch you this weekend, folks!