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OnePlus Announces Launch Events for 7T

OnePlus have announced the launch events for the upcoming OnePlus 7T smartphone. Starting in India and the US on 26 September, it will culminate with the European launch on 10 October in London at 16.00 BST. As usual, OnePlus will be selling tickets to the event, which will be at the brand new Magazine London venue in North Greenwich. The

OnePlus 7 Landing in UK Next Week

While both the OnePlus 7 and 7 Pro were announced earlier in the month, the 7's availability was only listed as "June". Today, OnePlus confirmed that the 7 would be available to buy in the UK from next week - 4 June. The spiritual successor to the 6T, the 7 is still well-specified with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 CPU, UFS

OnePlus Shows Off OnePlus 7 Series

With the usual level of hoopla, OnePlus showed off the new OnePlus 7 Series of phones at three launch events in Bangalore, London and New York. Consisting of the 7, 7 Pro and 7 Pro 5G, it's the first time the company has simultaneously launched multiple models - the closest OnePlus came to this in the past was with the

Android Q has a Live Caption Feature

Google shared details about what is new in Android Q. One of the best new features makes smartphones more accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing. The feature is called Live Caption. We are also seeing many firsts in software driven by on-device machine learning. One of these features is Live Caption. For 466 million deaf and

All microUSB cables are not the same

This is a salutary warning to all geeks out there....even with all the year's of experience, it's still possible to make a rookie mistake and forget that all microUSB cables are not the same. Last week at work, I needed to present an Android tablet screen via a data projector. The tablet only had a microUSB port, so connecting up

OnePlus News Round-Up

With only about a week to go before the launch of 6T, OnePlus have been busy keeping themselves in the news. Here's a quick round-up of the latest tidbits on the smartphone front. First up, OnePlus have brought forward their showcase event by a day to 29th October to avoid being overshadowed by Apple's autumn announcement which was scheduled immediately

Android Phone Apps Used in Ad Fraud Scheme

BuzzFeed reported, in an extremely detailed article, information about their investigation into a fraud scheme that involved more than 125 Android apps and websites, some of which were targeted ads. Google has responded in a blog post on the Google Security Blog, with details about what they have done after BuzzFeed informed them about the ad fraud scheme. In short,