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[ad_1] T-Mobile is getting into the smartphone game. The T-Mobile REVVL is the carrier’s first own-brand smartphone in years, and on paper, it’s a good deal. The device costs just $125, and for that, you get a 5.5-inch screen, unnamed quad-core processor, 2GB of RAM, a 13-megapixel camera, and even a fingerprint sensor. The specs […]

[ad_1] Andy Rubin, the creator of Android, holding up the PH-1 smartphone, made by Essential, his startup. Brian Ach/Getty Essential, Andy Rubin’s new electronics startup, is getting ready to reveal more about its anticipated smartphone, even as it announced it had an intriguing new backer: Amazon. In a tweet on Wednesday, Rubin said the company […]

[ad_1] Literally no one asked for this. Lucy Yang/INSIDER The INSIDER Summary: On Wednesday, FaceApp released four new filters, titled “Asian,” “Black,” “Caucasian,” and “Indian.” Ostensibly designed to change the appearance of your ethnicity, the filters are questionable — to say the least. People online have already started to criticize the app for what is […]

[ad_1] Essential founder Andy Rubin at the Wired Business Conference this year. Brian Ach/Getty Images for Wired Andy Rubin said Wednesday that his new startup’s anticipated Essential Phone is now “in full mass production” and he plans to announce next week when the $699 device will become available. The phone’s launch is delayed after Rubin, the creator […]

[ad_1] Earlier this year, Android founder Andy Rubin surprised everyone when he announced the Essential smartphone. It’s not that people were surprised to see Rubin working on a high-end luxury Android device — it’s that he created a brand-new company to make it, without backing from one of the smartphone business’s big names. Despite what […]

[ad_1] Last week, Apple accidentally released an early build of the HomePod firmware. Guilherme Rambo has been digging around a library file to spot strings and references that hint at future products and features. In particular, he just noticed that the next iPhone will be able to detect when you’re looking at the screen so that it […]

[ad_1] Gearbox Software’s next game will be a cross between a competitive first-person shooter and a collectible card game, the developer recently announced. Unveiled on its website, Gearbox revealed it is working on code name 1v1, a “top-secret, in-development, competitive first-person shooter that combines the action of fast-paced 1v1 first-person combat with the metagame strategy […]

[ad_1] Last month, Sony announced that PlayStation 4’s 5.0 system update was on the way and that a beta would take place in August. While it still hasn’t shared official details about the changes and improvements the patch will introduce, the update notes for it have now been leaked. Eurogamer reports that it has obtained […]

[ad_1] After weeks of card reveals and months of anticipation, Hearthstone‘s newest expansion is finally just about here. Knights of the Frozen Throne is the second expansion of 2017, and will add 135 new cards to the game. That includes nine new Hero cards, which transform the basic class heros into powerful Death Knight versions […]

[ad_1] Its’ $199.99 and available from September 15, but doesn’t include a copy of Metroid: Samus Returns. This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Nintendo is once again making it even more difficult to pick which handheld in the 3DS family to buy. We’ve only just had […]