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Samsung has big plans for its Tizen platform and is working to ship the upcoming Samsung Z3 smartphone in second half of this year. The new Samsung Z3 will be a successor of the current Z1 as the Korean giant is planning to skip the Z2. As per...

Samsung Galaxy E5 and Galaxy E7 are budget flavors of the A-series, losing the metal frames to plastic. Both phones come with Super AMOLED 720p displays and run on the Snapdragon 410 chipset. The E5 is the smaller 5" model with 8MP camera, while the...

Samsung US mistakenly uploaded all details on the still unannounced Galaxy S6 Active. Its full specs and manual are out, its design is confirmed too - the leaks were right about the Galaxy S5 Active similarities. The Galaxy S6 Active was rumored...

The stream of leaks detailing the Gionee Elife E8 and Marathon M5 was clear indication of their imminent announcement and now we have a date and time. Coming straight from Gionee, we have confirmation of a scheduled launch event, set to take place...

At a press event in New York City, Huawei launched the budget-friendly P8 lite in the United States. Beginning today, the smartphone is available to order for $249.99 unlocked and contract free. As its name suggests, Huawei P8 lite is a...

ZTE's premium Star lineup may be in for an update, if a set of recently leaked renders are to be trusted. The images reveal slender body lines in keeping with the established design aesthetic of the series. The pictured smartphone features...

Parallel to Oppo's headline R7 and R7 Plus models launched a couple of weeks ago, the company had been working on a lower-end device in the face of the Oppo A51. The new midranger is nearing its launch, as evidenced by a certification from TENAA,...

A couple of months after Verizon started shipping Samsung's latest flagships - the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge, the carrier has rolled out the first update to the devices. It bumps the handsets to software version VVRU1AOD5. It's a minor...

In today's high-tech world, feature phones are a dying breed, but Microsoft still hasn't given up on such products. The fact is that they are still essential for a lot of developing markets and novice or non tech-savvy users. Consequently, feature...

LG has couple of smartphones lined up for release in the third and the fourth quarter of this year. That has been revealed as a few of them have been spotted at the Bluetooth Certification listings online. An unannounced LG smartphone with...

Back in November 2013, Motorola announced plans to bring Android 4.4 KitKat to its ATRIX HD smartphone, but the update never came. Now, the company has announced that it will not be upgrading the handset to KitKat, and will be compensating for it by...

The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 has topped the charts in customer satisfaction, leaving behind the Apple iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, according to a latest survey conducted by the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The Note 4 - which was...

T-mobile has announced that it is all set to roll out the Android 5.0 Lollipop update to its version of the Sony Xperia Z3. According to a tweet (see below) sent out by T-Mobile's senior product manager, Des Smith, the OTA update should begin...

Unannounced Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 8.0 made its way through TENAA in China. The successor of Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 sports the model number SM-T715. Specs-wise, the Tab S2 features a 1.9GHz octa-core CPU (the chipset is likely to be an...

Another press photo of the unannounced Samsung Galaxy S6 Active made the rounds on Twitter, once again courtesy of @evleaks. The rugged variant of Samsung Galaxy S6 is expected to debut in the immediate future. This time around, the upcoming...

Well known luxury smartphone maker Gresso has added a new device to its Regal series. It's called Gresso Regal Gold, and, like most of this company's offerings, it's going to be a limited edition. Only 999 units will be made, each one coming with...

It's been so long since the Nokia Lumia 735 was first supposed to arrive at Verizon, that in the meantime the handset even changed its name. Despite being called Nokia Lumia 735 internationally, Verizon will launch it as the Microsoft Lumia...

Spanish phone maker BQ sure likes Ubuntu. Back in February, it became the first company to launch a smartphone running Ubuntu, and today we get word of a second device coming soon too. This will be called BQ Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition. Compared...

LG has announced that it will be providing official bootloader unlock tools for some of its handsets. Such actions are definitely not unheard of, but, it is always a nice touch when a manufacturer shows such love for third party developers. An...

Analysts have been increasing the expectations of the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge, the last one saying the duo will sell a whopping 70 million by the end of the year. Counterpoint Research has looked at actual sales numbers for April and estimates...