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Video: OnePlus 5T Picks Up iPhone X-Like Gesture Navigation

Kellen January 30, 2018 44

OnePlus pushed a new Oreo Beta build (Beta 3) to the OnePlus 5T today that brings with it a pretty big new feature called Navigation Gestures. As the name suggests, this new feature takes away the standard Android navigation and replaces it with gestures....

Google Took Down 700,000+ Bad Apps in 2017, Booted 100,000 Bad Developers From Google Play

Kellen January 30, 2018 5

The battle over clean, non-malicious apps on Google Play is a never-ending battle that Google is constantly finding new ways to address. For 2017, they not only improved on their ability to detect bad apps, they discovered new techniques that help them...

Google Welcomes HTC Talent It Purchased for $1.1 Billion

Kellen January 30, 2018 22

Hopefully, they use them to build both phones this year. Google announced last night that it had closed its deal with HTC, the deal that will cost them around $1.1 billion to bring on HTC talent to work on their burgeoning hardware business (as well as access...

VLC Beta for Android Adds Chromecast Support

Kellen January 30, 2018 8

VLC, the free and open source multimedia player that so many of you play your legally purchased DVD rips from, received a beta update today on Android that brought with it Chromecast support. While I'm not as up-to-speed on VLC development as I probably should...

Yep, LG is Doubling Down on 2017 Phones for 2018

Kellen January 30, 2018 53

We've talked a lot about the confusing narrative coming out of LG over the past month. Are they going to introduce new phones or wait a while and do so when they see the right opportunity? Will they seriously just re-release their 2017 phones to try and stop...

DEAL: Amazon’s Cloud Cam is Just $89.99 Today ($30 Off)

Kellen January 29, 2018 5

The Amazon Cloud Cam Indoor, which already starts out at a tough-to-beat price of $119.99, has been discounted today to just $89.99. That's a $30 discount for those not into that whole math thing. It's also a heck of a deal for those ready to dive into the...

Trump Admin Considered Building Government-Owned 5G Network, Which the FCC Opposes

Kellen January 29, 2018 67

Last night, Axios uncovered a document from the Trump administration's National Security Council that floated the idea of a government-owned 5G wireless network. Their reasoning for considering such an idea was that they believe China to be evil, that China...

Android Feature Request: It’s Time for Google to Bake-In Screenshot Scroll Capture

Kellen January 29, 2018 46

How many times have you been looking at something on your phone (an article, image, Twitter thread, etc.) and thought, "Man, I'd love to be able to capture that extra little bit that's off the screen." It happens to me all of the time, to be honest. Here's the...