Major manufacturers like Samsung may not have moved to display-based fingerprint sensors but some Chinese manufacturers won’t be waiting for them. We have already seen companies like Oppo bring this technology to market. Oppo has now released a new device which is perhaps the most affordable smartphone on the market with an in-display fingerprint sensor. The Oppo K1 has been announced and it costs roughly $230.

Low-end devices are obviously never a priority for major software releases and that has been the case with the Samsung Galaxy J3. Even though it has been a long time since Samsung first started rolling out the Oreo update for its devices, the Galaxy J3 has just now received it on Verizon. The update arrives as Google and its OEM partners are now busy with sending out the next major […]

OnePlus has been dropping bits and pieces of information concerning its next smartphone over the past few weeks. It’s something that the company has done since the very beginning to drive up hype for the device before it’s launched. OnePlus has now revealed that the OnePlus 6T is going to come with a new user interface and improved navigation gestures.

Google’s Pixel smartphones don’t support external microphones in the default camera app. This omission has irked many users who have picked up a Pixel handset precisely for its camera abilities. Google has heard the voice of its users and confirmed that the Pixel camera app will soon gain support for external microphones.

There are some chat apps that allow you to unsend a message a few moments after it has been sent. The feature comes in very handy when a message is sent to a person that it’s not intended for as it lets the sender quickly unsend is so that no damage is done. Facebook Messenger is a very popular chat app but it doesn’t offer this feature. That might be […]

One of the frustrating things experienced by law enforcement officials and agencies is trying to get into the phone of a suspect. This is because companies such as Apple and Google have made it so that only the users themselves know the passwords to their phones (assuming they use one), so even if they wanted to, they couldn’t unlock devices remotely.

Battery life on Apple’s iPhones have never really been known to be particularly good. While they’re far from terrible, Apple’s iPhones aren’t known to have long-lasting battery life, and if you were hoping the iPhone Xs Max would prove the exception, it doesn’t really seem that way, especially in the video above.

Our phones and tablets are electronic devices which means that there are some instances where we need to be careful about how we handle them. In a post on Reddit by user harritaco, they share an interesting story of how during the installation of an MRI machine at their workplace, an accident occurred when resulted in nearby iOS devices being disabled.

For years we’ve been hearing about Samsung’s plan to launch a foldable smartphone, and last month Samsung pretty much confirmed that we might be able to learn more about the handset later this year. Now according to a report from CNET, additional details about the upcoming handset have been revealed.

For the past few iPhone and iPad generations, TSMC has been pretty much the exclusive manufacturer of Apple’s A-series chips. Before that TSMC and Samsung shared production orders, and even earlier than that Samsung held the exclusivity, although the lawsuit with Apple and also TSMC’s advancement in the manufacturing process eventually edged them out.

lg v40In our review of the LG V40, we found that the camera on the phone was one of the handset’s stronger features. However if you think that the camera is still lacking or could stand to do with some improvements, your wish might have come true as LG has since released an update for the phone.

Fortnite launching on Android was only a matter of time following the release on iOS. However its availability was a bit tricky as Epic had made the game’s initial release an invite-only thing, meaning that users had to be invited to take part in the beta in order to get their hands on it, but the good news is that things have changed since.

Phone cases are pretty straightforward and for the most part they’re meant to protect our phones from getting scratched, and in many cases they’re also used to show off a bit of our own personality based on the style of the case and design that we’ve chosen. However in Japan, Google is trying to make a case more than just a case.

There is a common misconception that cheap phones don’t offer the best user experience. This really depends from manufacturer to manufacturer as we have seen some budget phones that have gone on to become extremely popular. For those who aren’t in the market for a phone that would cost them an arm and a leg, HMD Global is happy to oblige.