This week on the Friday News Update:
- Honor announce the 8X and 8X Max, with huge notched screens, powerful processors and big batteries
- Motorola announce the One and One Power, with gigantic notches, dual cameras and Android One
- Google updates Chrome for its 10th birthday with a handy new Omnibox, better autofilling and a Material Design revamp
- The OnePlus 6T's box leaks, showing waterdrop notch and in-screen fingerprint sensor
- Possible Snapdragon 855 benchmark scores leak, with nearly identical scores to the Apple A11 Bionic
- Instagram could be working on a shopping app
- Apple is offering free repairs for iPhone 8s with logic board problems
- The Razer Phone 2 is coming
- Samsung will announce their folding phone this year
- Skype add call recording to their apps
- Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro designs leak ahead of 16th of October announcement
- Google will not announce a Pixel Watch this year, but the Google Pixel 3, plus loads more new Google tech, will be announced on the 9th of October
- Microsoft will announce a new Surface on the 2nd of October

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