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Oppo has just officially launched a pair of midrange smartphones, the Neo 5s and Neo 5 (2015), which is not to be confused with the older Neo 5 launched in 2014, hence the year in the designation. Bringing a touch of the R1x' style down the ranks,...

Huawei is expected to start rolling out the Android 5.1 Lollipop update for its existing family of Android devices. And it might happen very soon as a video of Ascend Mate7 running the Emotion 3.1 UI based on Android 5.1 Lollipop surfaced, making a...

The Redmi 2A, which was announced by Xiaomi in China back in March this year and was priced at 599 Chinese Yuan ($97), has received a price cut - it is now available for 499 Chinese Yuan ($80). Specs-wise, the handset is powered by a Leadcore...

The quarter-over-quarter sales of Lumia devices more than tripled in Pakistan in Q1, 2015, according to Patrick Mercanton, head of marketing for Near-East, North Africa, Levant and Emerging Asia for Microsoft Mobile Devices. “Considering our...

Just over a month after there were reports that Microsoft is planning to introduce two high-end Lumia devices - codenamed Talkman and Cityman, popular leakster @evleaks has revealed that the latter (believed to be the Lumia 940XL) will feature an...

A duo of alleged Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 8.0 live photos made the rounds online. The images of the upcoming slate have reportedly been discovered on the website of Taiwan’s telecommunications certification authority. The images of the slate...

The G2 mini, which was announced back in February last year and released a couple of months later, will receive the Android Lollipop update in June, according to LG Greece, which revealed the information in response to a comment on its Facebook...

The Lumia 640XL, which was unveiled by Microsoft back in March at this year's Mobile World Congress (MWC), is now available for purchase in Canada. The device is only available in white, and will set you back around $272. What's worth...

According to a report in The Telegraph, Apple Pay will launch in the United Kingdom this summer. Currently, the Cupertino giant’s payment processing service is only available in the United States. The Cupertino giant is said to announce the...

Counterclockwise lets us spend 15 minutes reminiscing about the past, this time we'll look at Apple's mobile OS. June is the time of year for Apple to reveal the new iOS version at its annual WWDC gathering. Back then it was still called iPhone OS...

One more week down and once again it is time to check on our top ten phoned chart. The past few days have been riddled with announcements, so, as a consequence, we can expect to see some shifts in the poll positions. The Top 10 trending phones...

The past few days were quite busy on the mobile front. Device announcements were quite plentiful and a lot of them entirely out of the blue. There isn't really any spectacular powerhouse on the list, but, the phones do deserve their share of...

HTC released a guidance revision for Q2 2015. The Taiwanese manufacturer is expected to post a net loss between $257 million (NT 7.95 billion) and $291 million (NT 9.05 billion). The company’s loss at the end of the month will interrupt a...

Most people nowadays tend to go for carrier-subsidized deal on smartphones. It just seems logical since you are already paying for a subscription to a certain company and most people would prefer spacing out such a huge expense. This is definitely...

ComScore has finished tallying up the numbers for the first three months of 2015 and it has a few facts to share about the US mobile market. The data shows that over the said period 188.6 million people in the US were identified as owning a...

Mobile payments are well on their way to becoming the next big tech trend, whether we like it or not. Apple Pay has been at the forefront of the technology, investing heftily in the system, despite retailer distrust and numerous technical and legal...

The Android 5.1.1 Lollipop update has started rolling out to Android One smartphones in India. The devices that are receiving the update include the Micromax Canvas A1, Spice Dream UNO Mi-498, and Karbonn Sparkle V. The over-the-air (OTA)...

A vast majority of the top US retailers currently do not accept Apple Pay, according to a report from Reuters, which carried out a survey of the top 100 retailers in the country. As per the report, less than a quarter of the surveyed...

Another week just flew by and things were quit busy in the mobile world. Our news section was buzzing with interesting headlines, so let's have a quick look at the stories that you, out loyal readers, found to be the most interesting this...

Just a few weeks after there were reports that the Android 5.1 update for the Motorola Droid Turbo will arrive in mid-June, it is now being said that the update - bearing build number 23.11.23 - will be released on June 10. The update will be...