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ASUS has been rolling out ZenUI 5.0 to a number of smartphones in the past few weeks, and it’s time for the ASUS Zenfone 4 Max to get it as well. When the Zenfone 4 Max launched at the end of last year, it came out with Android 7.0 Nougat, getting updated to ZenUI 4.0…
The Razer Phone 2 has been officially announced. Razer acquired Nextbit back at the start of 2017 following the release of the Nextbit Robin, and the new smartphone division at Razer then released the first Razer Phone. Deemed a success by the company, a successor to the first generation model was almost a certainty. This was…
LG phones are rarely the most popular of the bunch, but the company is still a veteran in the Android industry. They’re definitely not afraid to innovate with their G and V device lines. The LG V30, in particular, was an outstanding device with certain flaws, carrying top of the line specs as well as…
Shortly after the release of Android Pie for the Google Pixel series, we discovered that Google was testing a newer version of the Pixel Launcher on an unexpected device: the Android Studio emulator. While the Pixel Launcher found in Android P DP5 and the subsequent Android Pie releases lack a voice search shortcut in the…
The Motorola Moto G5, like the rest of the Moto G series devices, is a really popular budget smartphone. Unfortunately, after Lenovo’s acquisition of Motorola, the company hasn’t been as great at rolling out updates to their devices. You can now only expect them to push only one major system update. But, it is what…
The Motorola Moto G5S was launched about a year ago as an upgrade to the Motorola Moto G5 Plus. The Moto G5S Plus featured a larger screen and a dual camera setup, though everything else (including the Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 SoC) was more or less the same. As such, it didn’t seem like too big…
If there’s something the Razer Phone is exceptional at, it’s software. The Nextbit purchase brought the software team on board to Razer too, and as such, the Razer Phone shipped out of the box with nearly stock Android 7.1 Nougat, serving as a compelling experience for enthusiasts. It was further complemented with gamer oriented improvements…
For years, using Xiaomi phones meant facing MIUI out of the box. This changed with the Xiaomi Mi A1, which was the first Xiaomi phone to be powered by the Android One platform. The Mi A1’s hardware was based on the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, but it swapped out MIUI in favor of stock Android…
Depending on the type of Android customer you are, you may or may not judge a smartphone OEM by the speed of its software updates. The process, in general, has become incredibly complex due to how many phones come out each year, the plethora of price points these companies are trying to hit, and the…