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A full Chinese video ad starring Oppo R7 and R7 Plus made the rounds on the web. Images of the two smartphones from the short clip first appeared online yesterday. The large-screen Oppo R7 Plus is the more capable device from the duo. The...

Asus has launched its ZenFone 2 smartphone - which was released in its home country of Taiwan back in March this year - in Malaysia, making available all four variants of the device in the country. The top variant, carrying model number...

The Verizon and Sprint variants of the LG G4 smartphone, which was made official late last month, seem to have cleared the FCC hurdle. While the FCC listings doesn't explicitly mention the G4, the confirmation comes from the fact that the...

Just over a month after Firefox OS arrived in South Africa, Mozilla launched a device running its open source mobile OS in other parts of Africa, too. Dubbed Orange Klif, the 3G device runs on Orange's mobile network, and was made available...

Huawei has launched two new Honor devices in India - the Honor 4C and the Honor Bee. Both phones slot in below the current Honor 4X and are the company's second cheapest and cheapest phone, respectively, on the Indian market. The Honor 4C has...

Just days after Samsung Gulf said that the Galaxy Note II won't be getting the Lollipop update, the company's Denmark subsidiary has confirmed that the update is coming, at least in their region. It was also revealed that both the Galaxy...

Starting today, if you own a Samsung Galaxy S4 bought from Sprint, you're due to receive the update to Android 5.0 Lollipop. This is now rolling out for both versions of the Galaxy S4 that have been sold by Sprint - the one with support for the...

If this rumor turns out to be true, then June will be a full month for Meizu. According to a new report out of China, the company is planning to hold two separate events next month, during which it will unveil two new smartphones. The first one...

The upcoming Oppo R7 has been leaked and even teased by the Chinese company a lot lately. However, we've only once heard a mention of the Oppo R7 Plus, a bigger device that may be launched alongside the R7 on May 20. So as the R7 took the...

A couple of months ago, rumors started to show up saying Huawei would be making a Nexus smartphone this year. It may not be the only company doing so (LG will apparently launch a Nexus too), but it will. Today these rumors have seemingly been...

Cyanogen and OnePlus formally parted ways last month after an eventful ride for more than a year. As a result OnePlus released its own Oxygen OS for its One phone. However, this end of partnership between both companies made several Indians believe...

In the era of 4G connectivity it emerging markets, the presence of LTE modems is very crucial in the new generation smartphones. Qualcomm is clearly leading the segment with Intel and MediaTek ramping up their development plans to compete with...

Gionee has quietly introduced the Elife S7 Maldives blue version for CNY 2,499 ($402) in China. The Elife S7 was already introduced in India last month for the same price. The new Maldives blue version is just another color variant of the Elife...

Dell has started pushing out the Android 5.0.2 Lollipop update for the Dell Venue 8 7840. You can check if the update is available for download from the Settings app. Like the KitKat version before it, Lollipop on the Venue 8 seems to be...

One of our European Galaxy S6 units has just received a small software update. The OTA has an Android version 5.0.2, which the device already received last month, but now comes with noticeable improvement to the phone's performance. As some...

Motorola has just started the soak test of the Android 5.1 Lollipop update for the Moto X (2014) 2nd generation smartphones across select countries. Along with the laundry list of bug fixes and tweaks, a couple of interesting features are also...

Earlier this week, we learned from a source that the Oppo R7 will be aiming to compete with the Galaxy A7. However, if a latest report (which cites leaked images from an internal Oppo presentation) is to be believed, the Chinese company is actually...

The BlackBerry Leap smartphone, which was announced at the company's MWC 2015 press conference in Barcelona, has been launched in India. While its price was not revealed, it will be available for purchase in the country starting next...

Research firm ComScore has released its latest numbers for the US smartphone market revealing that Android is still the top smartphone platform in the country, although it witnessed a slight decrease in its market share last quarter. Google's...

Over an year after Blackberry announced that it will not renew the T-Mobile license to sell its products, the two companies are back together, with the Canadian company's Classic smartphone landing on the magenta carrier on May 13. Following...