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Why OnePlus is launching the 5T only five months after its last flagship phone
“When we launched the OnePlus 5, there was no plan to release the OnePlus 5T,” Kyle Kiang, OnePlus’ head of global marketing, told me a week before the new phone’s splashy launch event in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
It’s a peculiar admission, but it fits…
How the OnePlus 5T was built so quickly
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Is hardware really that hard?
OnePlus pointed to the borderline-cliché catchphrase, “Hardware is hard” at its event on Thursday to launch its latest flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 5T. But the company’s own product release schedule appears to belie the saying, with the 5T coming a mere five months after its predecessor, the OnePlus 5.
However, if you look at OnePlus’ ambitious launch timeline and conclude the opposite — that hardware is easy — you’d be jumping to the wrong conclusion. The China-based company has simply gotten really good at leveraging its natural advantages (for instance, its proximity to prototype facilities in Shenzhen) to fuel its nimbleness. Read more…
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Your smartphone could help power future cancer cures
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In the field of potentially life-saving cancer research, data is more than just a buzzy term deployed by marketers — it’s a fundamental part of the search for answers.
Computing power, says Dr Warren Kaplan, the Chief of Informatics at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, is quickly emerging as a precious resource in the quest to solve cancer and other complex diseases.
DreamLab, a mobile app and initiative dreamed up by The Vodafone Foundation Australia, is just one example of how data can make a difference. Instead of fundraising in the most literal sense, the app collects a different type of donation: your data. Read more…
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The OnePlus 5T is here with a larger screen and even better dual cameras
Scrappy Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus isn’t waiting until next year to unleash its next major Android smartphone.
Less than six months after launching the highly-rated OnePlus 5, the company that’s built its reputation delivering premium phones wi…
The OnePlus 5T delivers a huge screen with slim bezels starting at $499
After weeks of rumors, OnePlus’s latest flagship phone, the OnePlus 5T, is now official.
The young and growing Chinese phone maker’s 5T is a direct jab at Samsung and Google’s flagship Android phones. Why pay $650 for a Pixel 2 or even $1,000 for a N…
Essential offers up an Android Oreo beta for the Essential Phone
Android smartphone maker Essential promised that it would be releasing an update to Android 8.0 Oreo for its devices soon, and now there’s a beta version of the update available through its developer portal. This is just a beta, as mentioned, but it’s broadly available for anyone interested enough in the Oreo update to try out pre-release software. Read More
Samsung’s Galaxy S9 could fix one of the worst things about the Galaxy S8
Samsung’s next flagship phone, tentatively dubbed the Galaxy S9, isn’t expected until early next year, but we may already know a few things about it.
As is often the case, the rumor mill has started to leak out snippets on the phone. And from the sou…
After leak, Google’s new file manager for Android, Files Go, launches into public beta
Google today decided to launch its new Files Go Android app into public beta to reach a wider group of testers. The company had been preparing to announce its new file manager for Android later in December, but those plans were thwarted earlier this week when the app was spotted in the wild during testing. While file management is Files Go’s focus, the app also includes other useful… Read More
The sequel to ‘Words With Friends’ is finally here, 8 years later
Words With Friends 2 is out now and it brings a few new features that set it apart from its Scrabble-inspired predecessor.
Words With Friends 2 takes the head-to-head, word-building competition of 2009’s Words With Friends and adds a solo challenge m…
Google to launch an AirDrop competitor, file manager, and cleanup utility called Files Go
Google is preparing to soon launch a new mobile app called Files Go that will allow Android users to better manage the files on their phone, transfer those files easily – even when offline – as well as free up storage space on their devices as needed. The app will become available to users worldwide in early December. Files Go was first spotted by 9to5Google on the Play Store, where… Read More
Here’s what Android looked like a decade ago
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Feeling old yet?
An entire decade ago, Google released the first public beta of the Android OS, two years after its 2005 acquisition of Android Inc.
In the demo above, you’ll see the beginnings of Android as an OS for basic BlackBerry style devices with keyboards and trackballs, as well as what it can achieve on a full touch screen device.
What’s interesting is that you’ll see Google establish right from the get-go its vision for Android — not to create a single “G Phone” as was rumoured, but to spread the open source OS to hardware makers. Read more…
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