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The advent of the smartphone as the personal computing device of choice is still relatively recent — only in the last half-decade or so have people begun to consider smartphones to be their primary computer. That being said, smartphones actually have a long a…

Welcome to the 287th edition of Android Apps Weekly! Here are the big headlines from the last week: Google Play Pass is out, but far from perfect. We took a dive into the app to discover some of its flaws. Most of them are fairly minor and indicative…

A game I mentioned back in September has finally made its way to Google Play, called Grobo, a gravity-centric puzzle platformer. In it, you play as Grobo, a little robot that can control the gravity around it. The game features 48 puzzles, as well as five ch…

Its getting chilly outside (for those of us in the northern hemisphere) and nows the perfect time to fire up this seasons premieres, scary Halloween flicks and classic holiday movies. Ahead of all that fall TV and movie-watching, we worked with YouGov to surv…

Xiaomi makes a lot of stuff these days. Sure, the Chinese manufacturer is known for its phones, but it also sells routers, rice cookers, robot vacuums, scooters, and even towels. Xiaomi's vast selection of devices include keyboards: I have several of the bran…

We're trying to give you a bit of everything with this round up of the best deals. We have lined up a wide range of products from some massive brands, and some you might not recognise. It's all about choice. You can save on speakers, headphones, coffee machi…

It’s been quite a while since the upstarts at Essential released any new hardware. That could change in the very near future, based on a series of tweets from CEO Andy Rubin. Rubin, the former Android head honcho, posted a handful of photos and a short video…

While Greenhouse is going to live under the Foot Locker umbrella, it will operate as a separate unit from the retailer. In the Greenhouse app, you'll rarely come across any Foot Locker branding, and that's by design. The company wants Greenhouse to feel like …

Source: Android Central I've been a big fan of the things Ring is doing since I installed the first video doorbell on my front door. Since then, the company has branched out beyond just doorbells, and while I have tried almost every product, none of them fel…

After his rather unceremonious departure from Google, Andy Rubin founded Essential, a hardware company supposed to manufacture high-end smartphones and other hardware. Thus came the Essential Phone, a device that proved to be not that essential to anyone. So …