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Motorola's big 2019 splash so far has been limited to its mid-range Moto G family. It still hasn't announced a high-end flagship from the Moto Z series, the line of smartphones that are promised to be compatible with the extremely few Moto Mods available in the wild. It will probably launch one soon if this lone render of a Moto Z4 is any indication. That said, its appearance and its naming are already causing some confusion, raising questions about Motorola's strategy for this year.

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Epic has been busy squashing various bugs in Fortnite, and amid the work comes a new announcement: voice chat has returned to the game on Android. According to the company, it has resolved the issues that were impacting mobile players on Android, but the feature still isn't available for iOS. The company hasn't clarified what issues were behind the performance trouble.

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Today a set of ROKiT smartphones were launched at the company's online store and at Walmart online. Two phones are feature phones, one is just about as standard a smartphone as you can get, and two work with glasses-free 3D. The first question you should be asking is: Why would I buy a phone, especially a "3D" phone, without first getting to test it out, in-hand?

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Today we're going over a set of leaked Samsung Galaxy Note 10 specifications that might've just spilled the beans. We're still reeling from the release of the Galaxy S10 and S10 Plus, not to mention the Galaxy S10E - but it's time to start talking about the Galaxy Note 10 immediately. If Samsung one-ups its competitors, like Apple's iPhone XS Max and the Huawei P30 Pro, it'll be high time the display size changed in the Galaxy Note 10, and its innards to boot.

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If the Huawei P30 Pro was meant to be a surprise, someone messed up. Huawei's next massive thriller of a smartphone's been leaked today in the form of a couple videos and photos, too. The Huawei P30 Pro looks to confirm rumored specifications like a 6.47-inch display, or for the non-Pro model a 6.1-inch display. Both devices have Android 9 Pie, almost certainly, and HuSilicon Kirin 980 7nm processors with Octa-core (2x2.6 GHz Cortex-A76 & 2x1.92 GHz Cortex-A76 & 4x1.8 GHz Cortex-A55) CPU and Mali-G76 MP10 GPU.

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The Pixel 4 is already generating some discussion thanks to some unofficial renders but Google still has one last hurrah to give before it closes the Pixel 3 chapter. Yes, the Pixel 3a and 3a XL, formerly Pixel 3 Lite and 3 Lite XL, have yet to break cover but that might not be long now. And when they do, there might not be much left in the way of unexpected features thanks to a few key details that have leaked about this mid-range phones.

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While it remains mostly unchallenged in the US, Google has been facing tough opposition in Europe. It has fought and lost not a few legal battles with the European Commission, forcing it to change many of its practices and business strategies just for that region. Those changes aren't done yet and the latest might be more of a nuisance rather than an inconvenience. Without going into much detail, Google says that Android users in Europe will be asked which browse and search app they'd like to use, even if the majority of them will probably answer "Google" anyway.

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If this pre-order page is legit, then the Galaxy A40 might be really close to launching even before the Galaxy A90 debuts next month. That might be for the best as the Galaxy A90, if it indeed has a rotating popup camera, is bound to steal the spotlight. Judging by all the details now available, that might not be hard to do as the Galaxy A40 could be the most forgettable member of Samsung's Galaxy A series.

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The much-hyped foldable phone from Samsung isn't due to launch until late next month but, to the surprise of no one, a Galaxy Fold was already spotted in Vietnam. While we are always advised to exercise caution when it comes to unofficial sightings, the AT&T-bound unit shown in the video leaves little doubt to its authenticity. It is exactly what Samsung showed but also includes the angles that Samsung took great pains not to show.

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If you're looking for a large number of cat photos, in excruciating detail down to individual whiskers, all taken with the Nokia 9 PureView, then you've come to the right place. HMD's reboot of the "PureView" brand was met with a mixture of hope and anxiety back at Mobile World Congress 2019 last month, fond memories of devices like the Nokia 808 PureView nudging up against concerns that the superlative photography capabilities it once referred to might be diluted today.

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With Google Stadia, cloud gaming is about to get a lot more interactive - especially on the streaming front. Users will be able to stream gameplay in the Stadia platform (in a web browser), and can use Crowd Play and State Share to invite viewers in to play, too. With Crowd Play, it's about joining in live, with State Share, it's about a challenge. All of this was announced with the promise that Stadia would work on desktop and mobile platforms alike.

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Inbox is going away. The folks at Google responsible for Inbox by Gmail are likely just as bummed about their work's fate as those that made Google Plus. That's the social network Google made, and the Gmail suite of services - a new interface for the email service - that's proved itself less-than-necessary. Google started notifying users via Gmail and Inbox (inside of which there is Gmail) that Inbox is going away on April 2nd.

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