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Another year, another CES in the books. Once again, the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center were filled with folding PCs, helpful smart home gadgets, and futuristic AI dreams. But among all the hype that may or may not ship, we found some truly useful and exciting Android-related things at CES this year: 1. Wacom One In the age of tablets, styli, and Bluetooth pencils, a dedicated drawing tablet might seem unnecessary, but Wacom has other ideas. The newest member of its family of computers, displays, and tablets is the Wacom One (£359), which brings the usual Wacom accoutrements: a 13in display, pressure-sensitive stylus, an integrated stand, handwriting recognition. There’s one thing this tablet has that the others don’t, though: Android support. It’s somewhat limited (supported handsets include…

As part of its push to bring Android Messages up to speed, Google has rolled out two new features: Verified SMS and spam protection. Together, they will help make sure your conversations aren’t taken over by people you don’t want to talk to. Like the phone app, Google won’t automatically filter out suspected spam messages, but it will warn you when it suspects one has arrived. You’ll be able to let Google know whether it got it right and also report spam texts, all of which will be used to improve the detection engine. In addition to flagging spam, Google will also verify whether you’re indeed chatting with the brand you think you’re chatting with. If so, Google will add a verification badge alongside the business name and logo in…

Price: £419 (inc VAT) from fave.co/380juvH The Red Magic 3 is the third gaming phone to be released by parent company Nubia in less than 12 months, as it continues its expansion into the European markets. Hot on the heels of May’s Red Magic 3, the 3S offers the minor improvements typical of an ‘S’ update, while maintaining everything that made its predecessor such a success. Design The 3S is instantly recognizable if you’ve seen the Red Magic 3, with the same 6.65in, 2,340x1,080 AMOLED display as its predecessor. Make no mistake, this is a big device, but if you’ve tried some of the latest phones from Apple or Samsung it shouldn’t be a problem. The screen itself, although not the highest resolution, is more than adequate for a mid-range…

Price: £351 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2t4l1Cq It’s been a while since we’ve seen Xiaomi announce a new model in the Mi Note line, but it’s been worth the wait, with the Mi Note 10 garnering column inches as the world’s first penta-lens 108Mp camera phone, rocking Samsung’s ISOCELL Bright HMX sensor. This is a big-screen, big-battery smartphone, the global version of the Mi CC9 Pro. Unveiled in Spain in November 2019 at an attractive price of €549, Xiaomi’s Mi Note 10 has not yet been officially made available in the UK. That doesn’t mean you can’t buy one, however: GearBest has been offering an excellent deal on Mi Note 10 since launch, available in Aurora Green, Glacier White and Midnight Black at the incredible price of £462, and down to…

Price: £119 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2uFG6Dn With Stadia, there are no easy answers. Every compliment I want to pay Google’s game streaming service – and there are quite a few actually – is shackled to a caveat, a complication, or a complaint. Sometimes all three. That’s a problem. The biggest problem, really. Google intended Stadia to simplify the way people consume games. No hardware! Play your games anywhere, at any time! And yet the reality, at least for now, is a labyrinth of potential pitfalls. Does Google Stadia work? Sure, under the right circumstances and with the right game. Will it work for you, though? That’s a harder question, or rather a hundred questions, any one of which could prove fatal to Stadia’s chances. Let’s dig in. The best case…

Android phones didn’t just break the bank in 2019, they also broke speed, photography and display records. Samsung and OnePlus delivered handsets that were as groundbreaking as they were gorgeous; Google pushed the limits of smartphone photography; and LG continued to march to its own drum, crafting some truly unique beats along the way. But for all their strengths, there’s no perfect Android phone. So this year, I decided to build one. Well, on paper. Without further ado, here’s the 2019 Android Frankenphone, built using the best parts of the best phones of the past year. Display: OnePlus 7 Pro You can’t have a great phone without a great display, and the OnePlus 7 Pro had it this year – even better than the Galaxy S10+ and Note10+. Samsung…

In a year that saw the death of Inbox, Google+, and the goo.gl URL shortener, not to mention the loss of free original quality photo storage with every Pixel phone purchase, Google wasn’t finished. Next to go is Google Cloud Print. Cloud Print has been around since 2010, but despite a fancy website and deep Android and Chrome OS integration, it never actually made it out of beta. And now it never will. Google has quietly announced that users have until 31 December 2020, to enjoy Cloud Print. When the calendar changes to 2021, “devices across all operating systems will no longer be able to print using Google Cloud Print.” That’s 12 months away, so it’s giving users lots of time to find something new, but it’s unlikely that they’ll…

Price: £399 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2tQ73E5 Huawei’s flagship Mate 30 series was the company’s first major release without Google Play services. Ongoing tensions with the US government meant none of the Google apps that have become synonymous with Android handsets were available, and this hit the phone’s prospects of global success hard. However, despite having been announced just a couple of weeks earlier, the Nova 5T retains all of Google’s goodness. This mid-range handset is therefore able to deliver a reassuringly familiar experience, complete with a few notable upgrades over June’s Nova 5. But can the first Nova phone to be released in Europe truly compete in the ever-expanding midrange market? Read on to find out. Design The Nova 5T has a gorgeous 6.26in, 2,340x1,080 display, which strikes a good…

Qualcomm’s next-gen Snapdragon 865 smartphone chip will support 5G, certainly. But more practical features will probably affect phone users in more immediate ways, such as 200Mp still photos, 4K HDR/8K video capture with optional portrait mode and Dolby Vision support, dynamic lighting options for mobile gaming, and real-time audio translation. Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 855 a year ago, and unveiled its successors – the Snapdragon 865, the Snapdragon 765, and the Snapdragon 765G – in December at the company’s Snapdragon Technology Summit in Maui, Hawaii. Qualcomm dove deep into what phone makers and end users can expect from its new processors. Improvements to each of its cores – the new Kryo 585 CPU, the Adreno 650 GPU, the Spectra 480 image signal processor, the Sensing Hub, and the X55 5G…

If you follow Killed by Google fave.co/2tSUaJr), it’s been a busy decade. No fewer than 150 apps and services have met their demise over the past 10 years, with some popular ones still extremely fresh in our memories. In 2019 we waved goodbye to Inbox, Google+, and Allo. While technically still open, Hangouts will officially close its digital doors in June. The 2020s might bring even greater carnage. With many of Google’s ancillary apps and services already in the graveyard, it stands to reason that some big-name products will get the axe over the next 10 years, as the landscape shifts away from traditional devices and new trends begin to emerge. Here are five major Google products that might not be around this time next decade. 1. Android TV…