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Mobile application processors achieved another major milestone this year. Both Apple and Huawei have their first 7nm products officially out in the open, and Qualcomm’s set to follow before the year’s end . Smartphone-class chips have been pushing the envelope for the past few years, beating out legacy semiconductor companies like AMD and Intel to smaller cutting-edge processing nodes. The mobile industry has undoubtedly been the driving force behind ubiquitous computing too, producing chips with ever faster processors and integrated modems poised to challenge legacy companies in the low-end laptop space. Not only that, but the market has been quick to adopt cutting-edge machine learning techniques right into silicon, next to traditional CPU and GPU components. Editor's Pick Why everyone is rushing to 7nm Next year our handsets will pack in 7nm smartphone processors. Qualcomm has already confirmed its next-generation Snapdragon SoC will be built at this node, and Huawei

This week’s quiz is a bit different. Instead of answering a bunch of questions, your job is to look at 10 images and name the  smartphones they show. There are four choices available for each question, only one of which is correct. Are you up for the challenge? Press the Start Quiz button to get started — and don’t forget to share your result on social media at the end. This is the tenth quiz in our regular weekly series. You can take the other nine via the links below: Pop quiz: Test your knowledge of this week’s headlines Pop quiz: Google edition Smartphone quiz: True or false? Pop quiz: How much do you really know about Android? Pop quiz: OnePlus edition Pop quiz: Which phone did it first? Pop quiz: How much do you really know about Samsung? Pop quiz: Name that smartphone! Pop quiz: How much do you really know about the smartphone world? Let us know which questions you thought were the hardest and share your result with others in the comment section.

Business apps are a tough subject. There are a variety of variables to consider. That may include team size, business size, how well the app scales to demand, and tons of other stuff. Some apps are great for huge teams while others do better for business people individually. Some businesses are always in the market for better stuff while others opt to make their own solutions. There are some great all-around options, though, and we think we’ve found them. Here are the best business apps for Android! These apps work best for smaller or medium sized businesses. Larger businesses probably need more customized enterprise solutions and that’s an entirely different conversation. Here are some more business apps that you might find useful! 5 best fax apps and fax sending apps for Android 10 best document scanner apps Asana Price: Free / $9.99 per member per month Download on Google Play! Asana is one of those business apps that everyone should try. It's a to-d

The Google Store has opened a ‘Repair Center’ so users can mail in their broken Pixel and Pixel 2 handsets for repairs. The service can take roughly seven to 10 business days, and repairs can cost a decent amount of money. Google also provides a list of various troubleshooting tips to help you fix problems on your own. Since the release of the original Pixel, Google has partnered with uBreakiFix repair shops to fix broken handsets. But starting today, the Google Store opened up its own “ Repair Center ” for customers to mail in their damaged Pixel and Pixel 2 handsets to be fixed. The Google Store’s Repair Center is currently available for all U.S.-based customers who need work done on a Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, or Pixel 2 XL that is out of warranty. The Repair Center will very likely grow to include the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL when they’re announced on October 9 . The process for mailing back your device is pretty straightforward. First, you verify that the broken hands

eBay now offers prepaid plans through Red Pocket Mobile when you buy a smartphone. The plans start at $5 a month and range from 500MB to 5GB of LTE speeds each month. You can pick from five plans using a checkbox on a product page. Already used to selling stuff for less than the competition, online marketplace eBay announced a partnership with prepaid carrier Red Pocket Mobile to offer smartphone buyers plans that start at $5 a month. When you buy a smartphone on eBay, you now see a checkbox underneath the “Add to cart” button. The checkbox nets you 30 days of unlimited talk and text, along with 5GB of LTE data, for $29. Alternatively, you can upgrade your plan to one of four available 360-day plans: Basic, Essentials, Best Value, and Unlimited. The $60 Basic plan includes 100 minutes, 100 text messages, and 500MB of LTE data each month. The $99 Essentials features the same amount of monthly data, but includes 500 minutes and 500 messages. The $199 Best Value plan feature

A team of researchers at  TECH2 conducted private benchmark tests of Oppo and Huawei smartphones using an unbranded app. The team’s results suggest that Oppo and Huawei cheat benchmark scores by huge margins. The team also conducted the same tests on devices from Samsung, OnePlus, Xiaomi, and more, which all matched advertised scores. A few weeks ago, we learned that Huawei installs software onto its smartphones that detect when a benchmark test is conducted. When a benchmark app runs, the smartphone pushes its processing power over the limit in order to make the score go higher than it ever would in real-life scenarios. When Huawei got called out on this practice, the company admitted that the allegations were true . However, rather than agree to remove the software tweaks, it said it would make the overclocking tweaks available to the end user, which would make its previous benchmark scores valid. Editor's Pick Huawei phones delisted from 3DMark (Update: State

One of the first things to do when you get a new Chromebook is to customize it by changing the wallpaper . It’s so easy even your grandma could do it — and it only takes a minute or two. You can either use a custom Chromebook wallpaper or opt for one of the wallpapers already available on the device. Here’s how to do it. See also: Chromebook buyer’s guide Go with a custom Chromebook wallpaper The first step it to make sure the image you want to use as your Chromebook wallpaper is saved on the device. if it’s not, find a great wallpaper online and download it to your Chromebook. Read next: How to take a screenshot on Chromebook Once that’s sorted out, click the circular Launcher icon¹ in the bottom-left corner of your screen and then expand the window by clicking the up arrow² — as shown in the screenshot above. Find and open “Files”, click “Downloads”, and locate the image you want to use as your Chromebook wallpaper. Then just right-click the image, select the “Set wallpape