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Microsoft is going to get a reputation if it keeps doing this – the new Nokia X2 brings a new version of the X platform (2.0) and with it the announcement that the current devices (X, X+ and XL) will not be updated. The same thing happened during...

Huawei unveiled the Honor 6 (aka Glory 6) and aimed it squarely at the Samsung Galaxy S5 and the Apple iPhone 5s. The phone matches the stunning thinness of the Ascend P6 and measures 139.8 x 68.8 x 6.5mm, weighing 135g. The Huawei Honor 6...

The Motorola Moto G 4G became available in the US just over a week ago and now it has crossed the pond over to the UK. Several stores are already accepting pre-orders for the 8GB version at £160 SIM-free or from £19 a month. A regular Motorola...

The 6.5mm Huawei Ascend P7 is one of the best looking and thinnest smartphones on the market, a feature that has helped the company sell some 1 million units since the device's launch. But the Chinese company won't stop there. It has...

LG G3 was announced in May and released at the start of this month in South Korea. Today LG finally announced its plans to expand the availability of the flagship worldwide. The first wave of the expansion includes Hong Kong, Indonesia,...

The Nokia X2 is now official and is a proper evolutionary step from the original Nokia X. There are updates both on the inside and out, but most notably, the Nokia X2 packs a larger 4.3" ClearBlack display. Its resolution, however, is still...

The Imaging and SensorCore software development kits for Nokia Lumia handsets are now available for download. The Imaging SDK supports Windows Phone 8.1 and 8.0, as well as all Windows 8.1 devices, tablets and desktop computers alike. Since the...

There's been a lot of news about iOS 8 as of late, and even though the release of Apple's latest update is imminent, the Jailbreak for OS 7.1.1 has now been made available. If you're thinking about jailbreaking your device, then you're going to...

After having reached the 200,000 mark in December of last year, the Windows Phone store now boasts over 255,000 apps and games, according to a report from Australia. That's neatly more than what Amazon recently reported for its Android app store,...

Sprint has just introduced an exclusive new, previously unheard of variation of Samsung's Galaxy S5. It's called Galaxy S5 Sport and looks like it's halfway between the vanilla S5 and the S5 Active that was announced by AT&T last month. The...

After having already launched it in China a few months ago, HTC is now looking to release the Desire 516 mid-range smartphone in India. This may happen soon, as an Indian import tracking website is already listing thousands of Desire 516 dummy...

At the beginning of this year Jolla made the Nexus 4 a second home for its Sailfish OS and it has been keeping it up to date. The latest is the Saapunki update coming just two weeks after it hit Jolla's own phone. The update brings a number...

Coming by way of @evleaks, an ad showcasing a rubberized holster for the LG Vista has surfaced. While it isn't directly apparent which LG device is peeking out of the case, it's theorized that the Vista is the Verizon variant of the LG G Pro 2...

The upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is said to come in two variants as usual, one running the Snapdragon 805 for the US market and the Exynos 5433 for the international market. But while the Snapdragon variant has traditionally been faster than...

Courtesy of Apple.Club.Tw we gain a new glimpse of Apple's upcoming lineup of flagship devices - namely the iPad Air 2, iPad mini with Retina 2 and, naturally, the iPhone 6. The image doesn't have too much information attached to it although we...

The Nokia Lumia 635 is now available for sale at a fairly attractive price point: $189. So what do you get for your money? For starters, it comes packed with Windows Phone 8.1 and everything that comes with it. This includes Cortana, Microsoft's...

The HTC Butterfly 2 has been spotted at the NCC, the Taiwanese equivalent of the USA's FCC. The phone carries the model number B810x and is set to launch in Asia sooner rather than later. The Butterfly series of phones was considered to be...

Rumors about HTC working with Google on a Nexus tablet have been abundant this year. We've heard quite a few times that an 8-inch or 8.9-inch device would be coming, and that it would be manufactured by HTC, and not Asus - the company responsible...

Welcome to this week's edition of Counterclockwise – our weekly article that looks back in time at what happened in the last few years. We revisit some interesting milestones in the mobile industry – iPhones go on sale, Nokia pushes its last great...

Looking to get a smartphone with a little extra bling? Now you can thanks to a giveaway organized by HTC over its Twitter account. The UK branch of the company will let you win a special limited edition of its former flagship, the One, made of 24...