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The Oreo Beta program for the Honor 7X was announced by the company earlier this month, and now it’s time for the update to arrive. Those who enrolled in the program are getting emails that update will start rolling out today. The email also notes that it’s a staged roll out, and all eligible units…

During CES 2018, a few OEMs announced their own Google Assistant-powered smart displays that would arrive later in the year to compete against Amazon’s Echo Show and Echo Spot, two Amazon Alexa devices that offer visual feedback rather than audio-only. These smart displays have a homescreen with basic info. The display offers a very basic…

Spotify has been testing a new feature on a small number of users – a new voice interface. This voice interface would allow you to open the Spotify app and hit a mic button which would prompt you to make a voice commant like “Play my discover weekly”, or “listen to my workout playlist”. Sure,…

There’s no denying that the Google Pixel 2 has a really great camera. Although the camera UI does not offer manual controls, Google’s HDR+ algorithm is really good at exposing most scenes very evenly. It can even do this fairly well in lower-lit conditions. HDR+ aside, Google made a Research Blog post about the Google…

Last week Samsung pushed out the first software update to the Galaxy S9 and S9+ units meant for Germany, and this contained the March security patches. Today the US-bound S9 and S9+ are starting to receive their first update as well, but in this case unfortunately the security patch level remains unchanged – February 1,…