The dawn of the microUSB may be upon us, but it still has a few years before it’s properly phased out. While the USB Type-C allows reversible plugs, it’s yet to be come the most popular, let alone the only standard.

Many new smartphones, among other gadgets, available today on the market still prefer the microUSB plugs either to maintain backwards compatibility or simply because it’s a smaller plug. Just look at the Galaxy S7 series.

And we all know the inconvenience of trying to plug a microUSB cable the wrong way. Best case scenario – it’s annoying. Worst case – you can irreversibly…

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Google is working on adding pressure sensitive touchscreen support in Android N. According to The Verge, who reached out to Google, the company confirmed that this will be baked into the OS due to demand from OEMs who want to implement the feature in their devices. Having an OS-level support means the manufacturers won’t have to do it on their own (as Huawei does right now) and it will also have better support from third party developers.

The latest developer preview of Android N has a hint of this ability in the new “setDynamicShortcuts(List)” feature. With this, shortcuts on your…

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The dawn of the microUSB may be upon us, but it still has a few years before it’s properly phased out. While the USB Type-C allows reversible plugs, it’s yet to be come the most popular, let alone the only standard.

Many new smartphones, among other gadgets, available today on the market still prefer the microUSB plugs either to maintain backwards compatibility or simply because it’s a smaller plug. Just look at the Galaxy S7 series.

And we all know the inconvenience of trying to plug a microUSB cable the wrong way. Best case scenario – it’s annoying. Worst case – you can irreversibly…

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This week saw some quite interesting additions to our smartphone database and most of them boast a flagship status. Here’s a quick recap in case you’ve missed any of them.

HTC 10 and HTC 10 Lifestyle. Meizu finally revealed the highly anticipated PRO 6, while Micromax has the Canvas 6 and Canvas 6 Pro E484 to pride itself with.

Naturally, let’s start with the star of the week – the HTC 10 is the company’s flagship for 2016, while the HTC 10 Lifestyle is a toned down version. Thet both offer a 5.2″ Super LCD 5 of QHD resolution (1,440 x 2,560px) with a curved edge Gorilla Glass. The…

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Samsung’s Galaxy J-series smartphones have asserted their dominance for yet another week, and they’ve grabbed first and second spot. On top we have Galaxy J3 (2016), while last year’s J7 is runner-up. The iPhone SE has reversed its downward trend, which has seen it drop from top to 4th spot in the weeks following its announcement, and joins the J’s on the podium.

It’s come to the wrong neighborhood though, some might say, with yet another Galaxy J phone (the J) right on its heels. At least the J2 has been staying off the chart for a while. The Galaxy S7 has dropped two spots, this…

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The HTC 10 is the last to join this spring’s flagship party, with the LG G5 and Samsung Galaxy S7 announced some two months ago, and already widely available. Even the Huawei P9 beat the HTC 10 to it by a week. So it begs the question is the 10 fashionably late, or just late?

The Koreans will give it a nod for the QHD resolution on its Super LCD 5(who’s counting) – HTC didn’t make the jump from FullHD last year, but 2017 would have been too late. They share the same heart too, at least in some parts of the world – the Snapdragon 820.

The Taiwanese company also takes Samsung’s approach…

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The HTC 10 was announced earlier this week and there’s no way you could have missed it. On the odd chance you have, you can bring yourself up to speed here in our weekly recap, where the 10 is prominently featured.

It didn’t go without a bit of controversy, as HTC also made official a second, lower-specced model – the 10 Lifestyle. Product diversity is all good, but initial signs pointed that some markets may be getting just the Lifestyle and not the proper 10, and said markets protested. A few quiet updates of HTC product pages and some emails later, and the HTC 10 may actually make it to…

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Bright future ahead for the Huawei P9 and P9 Plus if our poll results are any indication. Both phones got an overwhelmingly positive reception with the Plus only a tiny bit ahead of its plain brother.

So, dual-cameras, premium metal build, fingerprint sensor, fast processor vs. no 4K video recording? That’s 4 to 1 in favor, which is exactly what the P9 gets. Well, yes, admittedly we picked arbitrary pros and con for that statement, but the ratio still stands.

In more precise figures, the Huawei P9 gathers 78% of upvotes and we’ll go ahead and count that as a sign of approval for dual…

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The Outlook mail app for Android is now available for Android Wear.

You will now be able to see your notifications, read your emails, reply with preset messages or use voice dictation from your Android Wear device.

The update is now available to download on the Play Store.

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LG has released a whole bunch of 360-degree spherical wallpapers for you to enjoy on your brand new G5 smarphones. “Spherical wallpapers?” you exclaim in confusion, with a firm belief in your head that walls do generally tend to be flat.

Well, these are meant for your phone and your phone can be oriented in any arbitrary direction plus it has a gyroscope. Depending on its orientation you’d be served the respective portion of the spherical image and it will keep panning around as you move.

At this point there are 12 such wallpapers available, shot at exotic locations throughout…

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