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A curious customer tweeted to Three Ireland, inquiring about the availability of a new Sony Xperia handset. More specifically, Mike was asking about the Xperia XA2. In response, the carrier tweeted back that it would not carry the XA2, but that the...

Back in December last year, it came to light that users with Android Wear 2.0 devices are experiencing short-duration lags and freezes in different scenarios. Turning off the "Ok Google" hotword detection fixed these problems. Well, the latest...

Google has published its monthly analysis of Android market share today, and we have some big news. For the first time in history, the most used version of the OS is now Nougat - which launched in August of 2016, almost 18 months ago. It takes...

Last November Qualcomm received an unsolicited takeover offer from Broadcom. The latter company offered $70 per Qualcomm share, at the time a 33% premium over the stock market value. A few days later, Qualcomm's board promptly rejected the...

Despite its much publicized failure to have it offered by carriers, Huawei is still launching the Mate 10 Pro in the US, albeit only in unlocked form. Starting today you can pre-order the handset from Amazon, Best Buy, Newegg, and B&H. It should...

Google has started rolling out the February update, which enables the Pixel Visual Core on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. This will allow third party developers of applications that access the camera API to tap into the Visual Core hardware and access...

Samsung will make the Galaxy S9 and S9+ official at a special event in Barcelona on February 25, and as we get ever closer to that date leaks about these two handsets are starting to pour in. Right now we can show you leaked press renders of both...

Striking the best balance between "smarts" and traditional usability is kind of a perpetual struggle in the smartwatch realm. Most of us would love to have constant GPS and an LTE connection strapped to our wrist, but one that doesn’t need to be...

From the back of a retail box, we know that the Galaxy S9 duo will bring back the variable aperture – the camera would be able to switch between f/1.5 and f/2.4. Behind that aperture will be a 12MP Dual Pixel image sensor and now we have a...

While far removed from its humble stationary origins, smartphones should still be able to make and take calls. Apple’s iPhone X seems to be making a mess of the latter as multiple people report they can’t answer a call for several seconds. What...

The HTC U12, the maker's next flagship, has just surfaced at a Taiwan 5G industry event showing off its LTE+ prowess. While no hardware details have been specified we can see that the phone has an 18:9 screen on the front with little bezel around...

Lloyds Banking Group which owns Halifax, Bank of Scotland, MBNA and Lloyds will block Bitcoin purchases with their credit cards. The restriction is applied because the financial institutions worry that their customers might borrow cash to invest in...

A new Honor smartphone could be on the horizon, says the latest Chinese TENAA listing. The listing itself reveals only the LND-AL30's design and that it's made under the Huawei Honor sub brand. What we can see is that the phone has a metal back...

The Lava Red edition of the OnePlus 5T breaks up the monotony of black/silver/gold phones out there, but the company is doing a teasingly slow rollout. Well, Europeans and Americans will finally be able to get in on the action tomorrow. This is a...

The X Performance was the first of the original X trio to get Oreo (back in November), but now the Sony Xperia X and Xperia X Compact have caught up. The update – build number 34.4.A.0.364 – brings Android 8.0.0 Oreo and the January 1 security...

KGI Securities released the latest note to Apple investors with an accent over the deliveries of LTE modems in the 2018 iPhones. According to Ming-Chi Kuo, Apple is going to ditch the Qualcomm platforms for the latest Intel XMM 7560 that supports...

Like many other major players, we expect HTC to hold off on major announcements at MWC 2018, more specifically, the U12 flagship. Still that doesn’t mean the Taiwanese manufacturer has put its smartphone efforts on hold altogether. A fresh new batch...

Xiaomi is expected to announce the new Redmi 5 and the Redmi 5 Plus in India on Wednesday, February 14. We received a media invite for the event and the company also posted teasers on social media. The Redmi 5 is the successor to the...

We’ve seen cases by third-party makers leak the design of the upcoming Galaxy S9+, but now we get a chance to look at some of Samsung’s official cases for the upcoming flagship. There’s good news for Alcantara fans, but four flip cases are featured...

Several months ago vivo released the V7+ in Energetic Blue, and today the 6” phone gets another color option - Infinite Red. The phone, designed in collaboration with Manish Malhotra, famous Indian fashion guru, comes just in time for St....