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Google’s Assistant Snapshot is Going Away

Kellen March 3, 2022 18

The year was 2018 and your boy was as excited as can be. Why? Because Google had sort of brought back Google Now in a weird, through-the-Assistant sort of way. Without much effort to make you aware of it or to make it easily accessible, Google has decided to...

Nothing’s Next Product is a Phone Coming Very Soon

Kellen March 2, 2022 13

The next device from Nothing, the small technology device maker started by former OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, is right around the corner. In fact, we are reportedly going to see it this month or next and the chances of it being the company's first phone are...

Google System Update for March Improves a Bunch of Stuff

Kellen March 1, 2022 24

A new month is here and so is yet another Google System update that includes new goodies through Google Play and Google Play Services. The updates should start rolling out as early as today too, so be on the lookout for changes. Google can be vague with the...

Android 13 Brings the Flashlight Control You Dreamed of: Brightness

Kellen March 1, 2022 17

Whoever realized that using the flash on a smartphone camera as a flashlight was a smart secondary use idea is a damn genius. Who doesn't use their phone as their default flashlight now in most situations? I certainly do. In Android 13, Google (and its...

Galaxy S22 Ultra Brought Me Back to the Pixel 6 Pro and It Feels Good

Kellen February 28, 2022 153

At the end of our review of the Pixel 6 Pro, I suggested that it should top your list of potential phones if you were in the market at the moment. There were too many good things going on at a price well below the competition. With a starting price of $899,...

The Next OnePlus Phone Will Do Ridiculous 150W Charging

Kellen February 28, 2022 22

Because 80W charging wasn't fast enough, your next phone might come close to doubling that. OnePlus announced today that an upcoming phone of theirs will be capable of 150W charging that is supposedly still safe. Thanks to work by the OPPO Research Institute,...

OnePlus Decides to Keep OxygenOS Around, Ends Unified OPPO Skin

Kellen February 28, 2022 5

When OnePlus told us last year that they were merging the codebase of OxygenOS and ColorOS from OPPO to create a unified operating system that would run on both phones starting in 2022, we marked our calendars. A new operating system outside of OxygenOS was a...

OnePlus 10 Pro Launches in North America in March

Kellen February 28, 2022 8

OnePlus initially launched their new OnePlus 10 Pro flagship device in China without a firm timeframe for the rest of the world. Almost two months later and the company has now confirmed when we can get our hands on one: March. In a blog post to the OnePlus...