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Bored with your smartphone's homescreen? Here are our top 5 picks for the best Android homescreen widgets, for all of the most essential categories: weather, battery, volume and brightness sliders, clock, and note-taking. Check them out…

Huawei’s smartphone business took a pretty big hit in May following a trade ban imposed on the company by the US Government.…

With everyone rocking a handful of devices these days, portable chargers are practically an essential accessory for all. And, while there are a bazillion companies making portable chargers, that doesn’t mean they’re all created equal. In…

Announced at MWC 2019, the LG G8S ThinQ is the latest high-end smartphone from the South Korean manufacturer. Available in some European markets, the smartphone offers premium technical specs and design that should enable LG to attract…

After years of buildup, 5G is finally here — albeit more as a trickle than a deluge. These things take time, of course. Carriers are adding coverage, city by city, promising dozens by years end. And as for hardware, early adopters have…

Apple may never have been under as much pressure as it was in the months between unveiling the iPhone and shipping it to customers on June 29, 2007, exactly twelve years ago today.Detail from the Apple website…

A new study out of NPD confirms what we already know about the state of the smartphone in 2019. People just aren’t upgrading as frequently. You can see the ramifications of this as companies like Apple and Google scramble to right the ship.…

Earlier this year, Intel announced that it was leaving the smartphone modem business due to profitability concerns. Now, the company is set to auction off its portfolio of patents and IP related to smartphone modem technologies. …

Welcome to this week’s transcribed edition of This is Your Life in Silicon Valley. We’re running an experiment for Extra Crunch members that puts This is Your Life in Silicon Valley in words – so you can read from wherever you are.…

It's no longer a big secret that smartphones in general are not selling as well as they used to, largely because companies have slowed the pace of innovation, failing to give customers compelling reasons to upgrade their devices every one…