Best Apps and Games of the Week

Evie Launcher This new launcher has an interesting UI, with a panel on the left that houses all your apps and widgets in a vertically scrolling list. You can also access the settings from that panel. On the homescreen you can swipe down to do a local as well as online search. You can also customize the grid size of the homescreen icons. Android DoubleTwist DoubleTwist is a music player for Android that has been around for a while now but got a major redesign with the latest update. Although not exactly Material UI, it's still an attractive design with its usual...

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Weekly poll: How bad do you want the Xiaomi Mi Mix?

Apple's recent announcements got relatively muted responses - the spirit of innovation is missing. Young Xiaomi did a much better job of launching a device that got everyone talking, the bezel-less Mi Mix. It's almost all screen - 6.4" inches of it - and yet it's only as tall as an 5.5" iPhone 7 Plus and about as wide. Yes, many point to Sharp's Aquos line (and in fact Xiaomi used a Sharp screen), but the latest Aquos Xx3 abandoned the bezel-less design of its predecessors and even the Xx2 isn't as impressive as the Mi Mix. Xiaomi thought this through and used a 17:9 display - enough to...

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Top 10 trending phones of week 43

There are exciting announcements and then there's the Xiaomi Mi Mix. The (near-)bezelless Xiaomi phablet turned from concept phone to reality in the time it took to be fully detailed on stage, and you can actually pre-order one right now. Mostly if you're in China, unfortunately. The enthusiasm is very much the world over though, hence the top spot on our trending chart. Xiaomi's affordable yet powerful Redmi Note 3 keeps its second spot for a third week in a row, with the Galaxy J7 (2016) losing the most this week - the long-time number 1 is now in 3rd, nudging its Prime brother into...

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Weekly poll results: Samsung Galaxy S7 edge is Best Phablet of 2016

Samsung Galaxy S7 edge won the Best Phablet of 2016 vote, a clean sweep for Samsung (the small S7 won the Best Smartphone vote). This was a much more heated debate - the S7 edge still has a wide lead, but it didn't dominate as much as its smaller sibling. People asked about the Galaxy Note7, but that phone has a terrible battery life (the update limited it to 60% charge) and you're not allowed on planes anymore. Anyway, LG performed much better this time - the LG V20 is second! It beat out the iPhone 7 Plus by a healthy margin, showing that LG did the right thing going from the G5...

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Week 43 in review: Xiaomi Mi Mix steals the show

The Xiaomi Mi Mix is the single most interesting smartphone we've seen in a while, no doubt about that. Sure, the iPhone 8 may be rumored to be all display next year, but we can have that now in the Mi Mix, sort of. It does have a chin, and it will only be available in China for the time being, but those are details. A more conventional offering, the Mi Note 2 from Xiaomi is official as well - itself a proper flagship, even with a dual-curved display like a certain Note7 we sadly won't be seeing much of. Xiaomi's high-profile announcements aside, this week also saw the birth of...

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