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Windows Phone isn't really doing that well in Japan, and it never has. The situation is so dire, in fact, that Microsoft's mobile operating system may only have between 0 and 1% market share in that particular country. The software giant would...

Windows Phone 8.1 is a major update and one we found to make a big difference to user experience. Couple it with Nokia’s large set of home-baked goodies and you get a software boost that can markedly improve your relationship with your...

One of the biggest complaints consumers have with wearable devices is that they look like pieces of geek tech; they aren’t beautiful timepieces that you’d want to rock on your wrist 24/7. It looks like Apple is trying to change that with its...

Xolo announced two new smartphones - the budget Q500s IPS with a quad-core processor and the powerful Play 6X-1000 running on a hexa-core chip. Xolo Q500s IPS features a 4" IPS display of WVGA resolution and comes with two SIM slots. It is...

A couple of days ago we showed you the first purported images depicting an upcoming mid-range Nokia smartphone. As this is supposedly going to serve as the successor to the Lumia 820 from 2012, we assume it will be called Lumia 830. Now it's been...

Yesterday Sprint announced it will begin taking pre-orders for the LG G3 starting from July 11 and it will ship the smartphone a week later - on July 18. The carrier didn't specify the model, but various sources now confirm Sprint's upcoming LG G3...

A few days after boasting that it's sold more smartphones in the first half of 2014 than during all of last year, Xiaomi has a new sales number to be proud of. The Chinese company has passed 10 million units sold for the MI-3, the flagship device...

Wherever a Galaxy F goes, a photo of the visit is bound to leak. Yesterday we showed you a live image picturing the Galaxy F metal framing. Our insider source claimed the removable back is made of plastic, while the frame is identical with the...

The Week In Review is our series meant to recap all the major announcements of the week, which you might have missed. Week 27 of 2014 was marked by five new Galaxy smartphones, but also plenty of rumors about the new flagship wave coming in the...

After the news from earlier today about a couple of Nubia-branded devices being certified in China, ZTE is once again in the spotlight. The Chinese company has chosen to keep teasing its upcoming Nubia Z7 smartphone, though it's done so by taking...

If you want to purchase an HTC Desire 816 mid-range phablet but the current color palette doesn't satisfy you, then you'll be happy to know that a pink model has just been spotted in Hong Kong. This comes to complement the five other color...

In a development that's definitely been a very long time coming, Verizon may finally bring 4G LTE connectivity to its prepaid plans. This could happen on July 17, according to certain unnamed sources. On that date, Verizon's Allset prepaid plan...

LG released its QHD display-powered G3 flagship back in May in its home country of Korea, followed by an EMEA version last month. Now, LG Canada has reported that Canadian carriers will begin offering the LG G3 starting August 1. The...

Two ZTE smartphones have been spotted at the Chinese TENAA (an equivalent to the FCC in the USA) carrying the model numbers NX507J and NX505J. Both have undergone the approval process of the Chinese authority a few weeks ago. Neither of the...

As a July 4 special the Home Shopping Network has the Nokia Lumia 635 for the price of $119.95 with a portable battery and car charger as bonus. The offer is good for a device locked to T-Mobile, but doesn't require a long-term...

The LG G3 Beat or LG G3 Mini for AT&T may become official soon as it has just passed the FCC in the US. And while we learn some tidbits about the device having dual band Wi-Fi and LTE it's more important that it is labeled as having a 127.0mm...

Samsung Galaxy F, the more premium version of the Galaxy S5 flagship, has been in the rumorlands since forever. All the rumors have a few things in common - a metal chassis, a QHD display and Snapdragon 805 chipset with 3GB of RAM. The Galaxy F...

It's not everyday you see the BlackBerry CEO talk smack about its competitors but that's what John Chen has been doing since Google announced it will incorporating Samsung's KNOX technology in the next version of Android. Chen wrote a long...

It looks like the tough times at HTC might be coming to an end. The Taiwanese manufacturer posted a net profit before tax of NT$2.76 billion (roughly $92 million) in Q2 which ended on June 30. HTC’s operating profit for the quarter was...

ComScore has gathered some metrics on US smartphone market share, and the company’s research reveals that Apple’s smartphones take up the majority of the US market, while Android is the top smartphone OS in the nation. By comScore’s...