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One of the more baffling design choices that Google's made a long time ago in its Play Store for Android has to do with the fact that apps and games are grouped together in one section, under the Apps & games heading. This obviously doesn't make a...

Last month ZUK CEO Chang Chen revealed the fact that the Z2 would receive an update to Android 7.0 Nougat soon, and today the Lenovo-owned brand has confirmed that the tasty treat is headed to a couple of other devices too. The Z2 Pro will...

Just last week, Android Pay made its way to New Zealand, following its rollout to Poland earlier in November. And now we already have another country in which Google's mobile payments service has become available - Ireland. The service is live...

If we were to be playing an 'odd one out' round with rumors about the 2017 Apple smartphones, then this one would definitely qualify as the odd one. That's because it basically contradicts everything we've heard so far about what Apple is preparing...

You may or may not know that if you have an Android device, some of your settings as well as app and game data can be automatically backed up by the system to Google Drive. This makes it easy to switch from one phone to the next, with restore being...

Lenovo has sent out invites to the media for its upcoming launch event in Mumbai, where it would be announcing the Moto M smartphone for the Indian market. The event will take place on December 13. Moto M is the premium variant of the...

Huawei's sub-brand Honor yesterday released a teaser about a Magic smartphone, purported as a Mi Mix competitor. We were promised more information on December 7 and indeed Honor gave us a few more info bits. Honor is now officially inviting...

Samsung has started pushing out a new Nougat beta update to eligible Galaxy S7 and S7 edge units, making it the third build that the South Korean company has rolled out as part of the beta program. Weighing in at around 530MB, the update...

Unlike most people, Sprint apparently hasn't forgotten all about Pokemon Go. Quite the opposite, in fact - the carrier seems to think that associating its brand with the once record breaking mobile game will do something good for its bottom...

Qualcomm sort of announced the Snapdragon 835 last month but without going into specifics - Samsung will manufacture it on a 10nm process and it'll feature QuickCharge 4.0, that's about it. Good thing there's GFXBench to shed some light on the...

Dropbox has introduced the much requested offline folder support. Unfortunately for free users, it is only for premium accounts. With offline folders, you can mark an entire folder to be synced and all files will be downloaded and...

The Samsung Galaxy A7 (2017) - which has already been spotted on various benchmarking websites, and has also received Bluetooth and FCC certifications - has now leaked in images as well. The images, which are claimed to be part of some...

Fitbit has acquired software assets from Pebble. The deal is about Pebble's intellectual property in the form of OS, watch apps, and cloud services. Additionally, Fitbit also hires Pebble's software engineers and testers. As much as 40% of...

It appears the Samsung foldable phone plot is thickening yet again. Another interesting patent has surfaced online, showing a brand new design concept for a foldable handset, with bendable displays and what appears to be a detachable camera...

Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer Asus has started sending out press invites for its upcoming 'Zennovation' event. The event is scheduled for January 4, 2017, which would be the day 2 of next year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las...

Apple has revealed that the adoption rate for its mobile payments service - Apple Pay - in the US has crossed the 35% mark, which translates into 4 million locations. The revelation was made by Apple Pay chief Jennifer Bailey. Bailey noted...

According to a new rumor out of China, the new, glossy black color variant of the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge will be launched this week. Specifically, the color will be called Pearl Black, and will be launched in the company's home country of South...

If you recall, back in October this year, Amazon US was offering a deal on the second-gen Motorola Moto 360 smartwatch where-in the retailer was selling the 42mm, black variant for around $200. In case you missed that deal for some reason, you'll...

Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S series flagship smartphone - the Galaxy S8 - won't feature a 3.5mm headphone jack, according to a new report. There'll be a USB Type-C port instead, meaning you'll have to use a USB-C to 3.5mm audio adapter to make the...

Informed Samsung Galaxy S7 owners have been thrilled about being able to try Nougat on the flagship phone since the program launched just under a month ago. It first launched in the South Korea, then UK, and US carrier versions received the same...