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Former Google Plus users to get (a little) money from class action settlement

Google shut down its Google+ social network last year after the company decided that not enough people were using it to justify the trouble of keeping it up and running and… you know, bug free. That last part accelerated Google’s timeline for ending the service, after a major security vulnerability was discovered in late 2018. […]

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Nexus 6P bootloop class action settlement: Huawei and Google to pay $9.75 million

The Google Nexus 6P was an interesting smartphone when it launched in late 2015. It was the most powerful Nexus device released to date, had an excellent camera, and… had a tendency to go into a bootloop, making the device unusable (a fate that its smaller, less powerful cousin, the Nexus 5X also suffered from… […]

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LG settles lawsuit over smartphone bootloops, offers cash or rebate payouts

A handful of LG smartphones released over the past few years have been notoriously prone to “bootloops,” which cause the phone to shut down unexpectedly and then fail to fully boot (often restarting over and over, hence the “loop.” Last year the law firm of Girard Gibbs filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of […]

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Asus Transformer Prime TF201 settlement could net you $17 and a GPS add-on

Once upon a time (around late 2011), the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF201 was one of the best tablets money could buy, thanks to a speedy NVIDA Tegra 3 quad-core processor and an optional keyboard docking station. But it was also a tablet with spotty GPS. Asus eventually responded by removing GPS from the […]