Welcome to the bloat!

Samsung phones have been bogged-down with bloatware for as long as they’ve been around, but a Chinese consumer protection group is doing more than just complain about it — by suing Samsung and another Chinese vendor, Oppo, for loading their phones with literally dozens of pre-installed apps which are impossible to delete.

The consumer protection group wants to make it illegal for the smartphone industry to include bloatware on devices since it fills us phones’ internal memory and gives customers no choice in the matter.

The beautiful BlackBerry Venice. Photo: @evleaks

BlackBerry first Android smartphone is on its way to AT&T, according to recent reports, and based on the leaked photo above, it’s going to be an absolute stunner. In fact, it almost looks too good to be true, but it comes from a very reliable source.

The Dolphin emulator for Android is coming along nicely. Photo: Cult of Android

The wonderful Dolphin emulator that lets you (illegally) play classic Nintendo games for GameCube and Wii has long been available on Android, but not even today’s most expensive flagships are powerful enough to play them.

NVIDIA’s Shield TV is, however, and as you’ll see in the video below, titles like Phantasy Star Online, Luigi’s Mansion, and Animal Crossing are almost perfectly playable.

BlackBerry’s Android powered smartphone is coming exclusively on AT&T. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

A report from last month had claimed that BlackBerry is working on releasing its own Android running smartphone. Now, according to leak-guru @evleaks, the upcoming handset from BlackBerry will be launching exclusively on AT&T in the United States.

Plex, the popular media streaming service that makes it easy to access your entire video, music, and photo catalogs from pretty much anywhere, has been hacked.

A server breach this week allowed hackers to gain access to user data — including email addresses, private messages, and forum passwords — but Plex assures us our credit card details are safe.