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Ever wanted to learn more about a piece of art or landmark standing in front of you? The Pixel 2 camera will be able to answer questions about the world around you with a feature called Google Lens. It's basically a search engine on your camera and uses Google Assistant and machine learning to identify labels, flyers, images and text around you. Samsung does something similar with Bixby vision on its phones, but it seems like more of a natural progression of Google's search engine on the Pixel. Google has been experimenting with augmented reality on mobile devices for a while with Tango, but until now AR required depth-sensing cameras. Using Google's ARCore platform, the Pixel 2 is now able to do a lot of the same things Tango did with its regular non-depth-sensing camera. In the keynote demo at the Pixel event, Google introduced animated stickers of Stranger Things characters that can look like they're projected into the real world and be captured in photos and video. It's similar to what iPhones can do with Apple's ARKit. It's still too early to know which AR platform is better, but Google may have an edge based on its experience on AR with Google Tango.

But until we put the Pixel 2 to the test outside the demo room, the jury is still out on the Pixel 2's camera, You'll have to check back to find out the results of our camera comparisons once the Pixel 2 is out in the wild, Google says the Pixel 2 has the highest-rated camera of any pretty swe*ry: f this sh*t iphone case smartphone, Here's how it plans to beat the competition, Judging from just the specs, the Google Pixel 2's rear camera doesn't seem all that impressive, It has a single 12-megapixel camera compared to the 12-megapixel dual camera setup of high-end rivals like Apple's iPhone 8 Plus and Samsung's Galaxy Note 8..

Rumours of a Razer phone go back several months, with Bloomberg in July reporting the company was eyeing an IPO (initial public offering) to fund a phone. Razer is known for its gaming mice, keyboards, headsets, and more recently, its super slick Blade laptops. It's no small fry, the company valued in 2015 at over $1 billion. A phone wouldn't be the first time the company has dabbled in portable devices. In 2013 it released its own tablet, the Razer Edge, which unlike other tablets, was designed for PC gaming, powered by an Nvidia graphics card. Who knows, maybe Razer will even cram a graphics card into a mobile phone. It'd differentiate it from Samsung's Galaxy Note 8, the newly announced Google Pixel 2 and Apple's iPhones.

Is it possible? Would you want a Razer phone? We'll soon find out, The gaming hardware maker teased a piece of news on Twitter, calling it, pretty swe*ry: f this sh*t iphone case "our biggest unveiling."Is Razer making a phone? A new teaser gives that impression, Razer tweeted Wednesday to expect news on Nov, 1, accompanying the tweet with a picture of a fella holding an obscured device, WATCH for our biggest unveiling...

More trouble for Qualcomm, this time in Taiwan. Qualcomm has a monopoly on patents for certain crucial mobile phone technologies, and it violated local laws by refusing to license that tech to companies that wouldn't play by its pricing rules, Taiwan's FTC said, according to Bloomberg. Qualcomm said it disagrees with the decision and plans to file an appeal. The Taiwanese move is the latest in a string of actions worldwide against Qualcomm. Last month, the chipmaker filed a second appeal in South Korea over an order from that country's FTC that resulted in an $850 million fine. In Europe, Qualcomm faces the specter of a $669,000-a-day penalty after losing a July appeal. And in the US, the company failed in its June bid to have a federal judge toss out an FTC antitrust lawsuit against it. The company also suffered a nearly $1 billion antitrust fine in China, back in 2015.