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I've grown tired of all the TMo BS. Try to buy a new phone: add a line. Buy two phones. Must have the "right plan". Today was a whole new level of nonsense: Buy an LG V40 with the " right plan". Finance for 36 months. Receive a trade in credit spread out over the 36 months. Because I have "good...

I saw that there is a new port over on XDA forum of the new version of the Pixel 2 camera with portrait mode for Oreo phones. I was successful in loading onto my Oreo Beta 2 Essential and it opened without crashing.

Should say Ookla I was doing a comparison of my Essential against my wife's Galaxy S8. Her phone was consistently much faster using the T-Mobile network. Has anyone else checked their Essential against another phone? I'm wondering if it's a radio issue and if that impacts the speed and/or...

Maybe everyone else knows this but me, but I was playing around with the camera app. I'm in bed in a dark room. I have a clock that projects the digital clock onto the ceiling. I was trying to see if this ultra low light situation would show up in the camera in auto or mono mode. I touched the...

I'm somewhat shocked, but I actually received a September security update this morning. This brought it from May, which came with the Nougat update, to current. That's two updates in the past 3 months! Before that it was Oct 16 to May 17, which was received in June. If they could only fix the...

I've seen threads about phone idle and Nougat. This isn't Gps, message synching or any of the normal stuff. I benchmarked the V10 against a G4 with similar apps and setup, and a Galaxy S8. The V10 consumes at least 5X the battery for the same amount of time being on for that app. The tech...

My phone has an 2016-09-01 security patch. Have they updated this in the past six months? The phone is in their list of receiving the 7.0 update. I think the G4 update is at least through January, which is basically the same hardware. What's not happening here?