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Seven months after the first developer preview, Android 11 is officially rolling out now for selected phones (including the newer Pixels). Among the new features are upgrades to notifications, messaging, security and media playback controls.

Four years after abandoning the realm of smartphones, Microsoft has thrown its hat back into the ring. This time the company is gunning for a piece of that double-screen pie with the Surface Duo, a hinged phone that has a focus on multitasking.

Google has started using the vast number of Android smartphones across the planet to help detect and warn people about seismic events. Your phone will begin transmitting accelerometer data if it detects something similar to an earthquake.

New versions of Android and iOS don't suddenly appear any more – instead, they roll out slowly over the course of several months. Today, Google introduced us to Android 11 for the first time, through a developer preview.

Misadventure in Little Lon is a location-based, augmented reality mobile game that asks players to help solve a century-old crime by walking the real-world streets of Melbourne, Australia, and talking to virtual characters. New Atlas goes hands-on.

Anker has launched on Kickstarter with a new Nebula projection system called the Cosmos. Well, actually there are two projectors on offer – a Full HD model with a pair of speakers and a 4K UHD unit packing four speakers for the promise of 3D audio.

Google has pushed out the first release of Android 10 (previously known as Android Q).

It's been four years since the Fairphone 2, but the quest to build the ultimate ethical phone continues with the new Fairphone 3.

Augmented reality (AR) technology has come a long way since Pokémon Go launched in 2016, and now one of the biggest games of the last decade is joining the ranks. Microsoft has announced Minecraft Earth, an upcoming mobile game that brings the blocky construction set into the real world.

As it does every year, Google has used its I/O developer event to showcase some of the software upgrades coming to its products over the next 12 months – there was a heavy emphasis on artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as news on more features coming to Android Q.

The full launch of Android Q is still a way off, but today Google pushed out the first beta version of the mobile OS, which will work on any Pixel phone – and while the big headline features are still to come, we've got some early pointers about what the next version of Android is going to bring.

​What's old is new. While companies like Samsung and Huawei race to bring modern folding phones to market, UK-based F(x)tec is focusing its efforts on another blast from the past – the slide-out keyboard. The startup's Pro1 smartphone has been launched at Mobile World Congress 2019.​