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  • OpenKirin brings vanilla Android experience to your Huawei/Honor device

    Liking Huawei’s smartphones but miss the vanilla Android experience? Well, team OpenKirin has you covered. Their AOSP project offers three stock Android ROMs for now – LineageOS, Resurrection Remix OS and CarbonOS. Currently, the project is limited to only 17 devices and all of them need to be running Huawei’s EMUI 8 software on top…

  • BlackBerry security tools are coming to CAT and Land Rover smartphones

    Despite its turbulent past, business pitfalls and spotty mobile device portfolio over the last few years, BlackBerry has managed to remain a major player in the corporate communication and security infrastructure and service realm. The Canadian company’s unique ecosystem is still highly valued in said circles and now it’s coming to CAT and Land Rover…

  • The Meizu 16 will cost less than $615

    After a rather lengthy market absence, prior to the Meizu 15 family release, the Chinese OEM seems to be working overtime to get a proper foothold once again. Only a few short months have passed since that announcement and Jack Wongm, the company’s CEO, is already keeping busy, leaking bits and pieced of information about…

  • Nokia 7 Plus ARCore support is now live

    Looks like Google has added another smartphone to its ARCore supported devices list. We’re talking about HMD’s Nokia 7 Plus, which was released in March this year. The device now appears in the list of supported devices if you try installing the ARCore app from Google Play Store. Curiously, the list of ARCore supported devices…

  • Smartphone World Cup: Round of 16, part 1

    The rabble is going home as the sixteen Smartphone World Cup hopefuls move forward – welcome to the Round of 16. Today we’ll run the first four matches and unveil the results from Groups E and F, the next four matches will be tomorrow (along with the results from G and H). Apple iPhone X…

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