This week on the Friday News Update:
- Elephone announces the incredible U Pro budget smartphone, with a curved AMOLED Full HD+ screen, dual cameras and facial recognition (coming soon via an update) and more... for just £200-300. Wow.
- Vivo announces the X20 Plus UD, the first ever phone with a fingerprint sensor under the screen. Plus they could be working on a phone with 10GB of RAM and up to 512GB of storage
- Red announces more information about their Hydrogen holographic smartphone
- Google Play has started selling audiobooks
- A Chrome OS tablet by Acer has been spotted at an education event
- Google I/O will take place between the 8th and the 10th of May this year
- An examination of the Google app reveals that you'll soon be able to change the 'OK, Google' wake word
- OnePlus have introduced iPhone X-like gestures in the latest OnePlus 5 and 5T beta
- Nokia have released a 4G version of the 3310
- Samsung will release the Galaxy X this year
- iOS 12 won't introduce many new features, but Apple will introduce support for iPad apps on macOS
- Surface Pro 4 owners are reporting a screen flickering issue that can only be (temporarily) fixed by putting the laptop in a freezer
- Galaxy S9 will get 'Intelligent Scan' unlock method and 'stickers with depth control' are coming to the S9+, plus photos of the phones and camera samples emerge online

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