Awesome Android

The first phone to offer an upgrade path to 5G, which promises speeds up to 10x faster than LTE. In addition to its upcoming 5G Moto Mod, it packs all-day battery life, dual 12mp depth-sensing cameras, fast charging, and a bright 6″ AMOLED display. Drops 8/16/18 at Verizon.

LG’s much-hyped flagship the G7 may have a high resolution display, but it’s LCD. If you want more vibrant colors and deeper blacks, check out the new V35. It has a 6″ 1440×2880 OLED display, the same two 16MP cameras as the G7 and has water and dust resistance.

This mobile app makes learning to draw a lot easier and more fun. It uses your phone’s camera so you can overlay an image that you want to copy or use as a template and then sketch over that in real-time. It’s available for both iOS and Android.

Revive makes braided charge and sync cables that can be worn as bracelets. The cables are available with USB-C, microUSB or Lightning tips. They also come in a variety of lengths. The Lightning cables are available in a variety of colors.

Chinese smartphone maker Oppo is breaking into Europe and North America with a one-of-a-kind Android flagship. The front of the Oppo Find X is taken up almost entirely by its 6.4″ OLED screen, thanks to a pop-up module that houses both the rear and front cameras.

The BlackBerry Key2 has a significantly wider and flatter keyboard compared to the one on its predecessor, making for a better typing experience. It also has a new shortcut key so you can swap between apps much faster, and a battery that lasts up to 2 days per charge.

The ASUS ROG Phone has a 6″ AMOLED 1080 x 2160 screen with HDR, a 90Hz refresh rate, and 1ms response time. It comes with a cooling fan attachment, but you can also get other modules such as a second screen/battery, a gamepad and a desktop dock.

The HTC U12+ carries over the squeeze gestures from the U11 and adds a convenient double tap gesture that can also be remapped. The phone also has a 6″ 1440×2880 screen, IP68 water- and dust-resistance and a 12MP and a 16MP camera at the back.

In a world where high-end smartphones cost almost $1,000, OnePlus sticks to its guns with a flagship that costs less than $600. It has a 6.28″ 1080p nearly bezel-less screen, water resistance, a Snapdragon 845 CPU, 6GB or 8GB of RAM and more.

The LG G7 ThinQ has a 6.1″ 3120 x 1440 IPS display that takes up nearly all of the phone’s front face. It also has two 16MP rear cameras, one with a standard angle and one with a super wide angle. The G7 also has a headphone jack, a microSD slot and a Hi-Fi quad DAC.

The Xperia XZ2 Premium not only has a crazy 5.8″ 4K HDR display, its dual rear cameras – one 19MP RGB and one 12MP black and white – can shoot in 4K HDR as well. The cameras also excel at low light – up to ISO 51200 for stills and ISO 12800 for videos.

Co-developed with Leica, the P20 Pro boasts THREE rear cameras: a 40MP RGB, a 20MP monochrome, and an 8MP RGB sensor with a telephoto lens. It also has a 24MP front-facing camera, a nearly bezel-less 6.1″ AMOLED display, and dust- and water-resistance.

Can’t run Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds on your computer? Perhaps your phone can handle it. The wildly successful and fun online action survival game is now on iOS and Android as a free-to-play game. Go get that chicken dinner.

Caterpillar’s Cat S61 is an Android phone that has an air quality sensor, a FLIR infrared temperature sensor and a laser rangefinder for calculating distance and area. It’s dust-, water- and shock-resistant. It runs Android Oreo and has a USB-C port.

The S9 and S9+ have a camera that can switch between f/1.5 for low light or f/2.4 for daylight, and can capture 960fps slow-mo video. The S9+ also gets the Note 8’s second wide angle camera. They still have the borderless display, headphone jack and microSD slot.

Justin Fincher’s Skyline is an Android app inspired by the Pixel 2’s live wallpaper. Enter the name of a place or a set of coordinates and it will generate a wallpaper using the location’s terrain. The wallpaper moves slightly when you swipe on the screen or rotate your phone.