Move over Google Photos, Focus lets you dive deeper

If you’re an Android power user you’re probably familiar with the name Francisco Franco. The franco.Kernel updater app (and associated Franco kernels) have long been a favorite among rooted users – myself included. But what happens when a developer turns their attention and talents away from kernels and governors and optimizing for thermal thresholds? In this case, they turn their attention to your pictures.Not long ago Google updated (or ...

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Ballistic beast: Motorola’s DROID Turbo in pictures (Gallery)

We’re running out of synonyms for “powerful,” “rugged,” and “beastly” around these parts, so to kick off this photo tour we’ll just say that the Motorola DROID Turbo is an absolute monster of a smartphone. Verizon’s flashy new exclusive bears all the smarts of the impressive Moto X, mated to the screaming specs of an absolutely top-of-the-line handheld. From the Snapdragon 805 to the ...

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HTC One M8 for Windows in pictures (Gallery)

“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”That’s a quote that probably didn’t come from the Buddha, one I’ve seen it tossed around the internet since I was a teenager. It always struck me as bad advice: some of the most important lessons I’ve ever learned were a direct result of my own “reason” and “common ...

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Xiaomi Mi4 in pictures (Gallery)

Xiaomi has been turning a lot of heads of late. The four-year-old company recently became the fifth-largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, but not without causing a good bit of controversy first. It’s been the target of constant criticism over taking a lot of inspiration from none other than Apple and even caught flak for stealing copyrighted images on its Mi3 product page.However, the company is maturing and its most recent smartphone lends a ...

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Blackphone in pictures (Gallery)

As studious subscribers of our YouTube Channel already know, we just unboxed a brand-new Blackphone courtesy of the good people at GSM Nation. After breaking cover at MWC in February, the security-centric smartphone is finally hitting US store shelves over the next few weeks, and we’ll be giving it ...

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Amazon Fire Phone in pictures (Gallery)

You might buy a Fire Phone for its sweet Amazon Prime bundle, or for the Firefly feature that makes it even easier to add to your vast piles of material wealth. You might buy it to fiddle with its Dynamic Perspective display or to see just what its optically-stabilized camera can do. You might even buy it just to say that you own Amazon’s first smartphone. Or, you might decide not to buy it at all, preferring to play the everlasting waiting game we talk about on the Pocketnow Weekly podcast.Whichever way you go, ...

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HTC One E8 gallery: “Electric Crimson” in photos

Compared to its One M8 sibling, the HTC One E8 trades an UltraPixel camera for a more conventional 13MP shooter, single-subscriber support for a globetrotter-friendly dual-SIM configuration, and –most visibly– it ditches the aluminum chassis for a polycarbonate unibody that changes the whole look and feel of the device.The other changes are important and will be addressed in our One M8 vs One E8 comparison and our full HTC One E8 review, but admit it: you’re as vain as the rest of us, and you want to know just how good the E8 looks in the hand. HTC offered several flavors of ...

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Android Wear gallery: the LG G Watch and Samsung Gear Live in photos

We’ve unboxed and directly compared the first two official smartwatches from Google (and if you need a refresher, the videos are embedded below for your viewing pleasure). It’s gonna take us a few days to rassle up a full review of each new ...

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