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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Lenovo agrees to pay $3.5 million fine for Superfish, promises not to do it again
A few years after Lenovo was caught pre-installing adware on computers without informing customers, the company has reached a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission and 32 state attorneys general from across the United States. Among other things, Lenovo will pay $3.5 million, get consent from customers before installing any similar software in the […]
HP to pay $57 million in WebOS-related class-action settlement
Remember when HP bought Palm for over $1.2 billion, decided to push a new line of phones and tablets based on Palm’s webOS software… and then gave up less than two months after launching the first tablet? The $99 HP TouchPad fire sale certainly made bargain hunters happy. But it was bad news for webOS […]
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 […]