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Xiaomi unveiled its VR Play headset. It is fairly similar to Google Cardboard, but it's built with sturdier materials - Spandex and Lycra. Phones with screens ranging from 4.7" to 5.7" can be used and are secured in place with a zipper instead of...

Update: Apparently, the rumor is false, as evidenced by a tweet from company co-founder Carl Pei. Original article follows. A mini version of the OnePlus 2 was rumored throughout its existence, and instead the OnePlus X was born, which wasn't...

The Samsung Galaxy Note7 is built on the S7 platform. This means the chipset is either Snapdragon 820 or an Exynos 8890 (which one you get depends on geography) and 4GB of RAM. Yep, there's no upgrade in RAM over the S7, despite the numerous 6GB...

IFA events will kick off at the start of September, but it seems the LG V20 will not be visiting. Instead, LG has a 4-day event planned for San Francisco scheduled for September 6 and an event in Seoul on the following day. The LG V20 will be the...

ZTE is the fourth largest smartphone manufacturer in the US and the second largest in the prepaid market. The Chinese phone maker announced plans for a new type of phone which will involve ZTE’s new online ‘Z-Community’. The company will allow...

A report from DigiTimes outlines the memory chip industry in Asia and how it is currently preparing for an increase in demand for DRAM chips. The top three manufacturers of memory chips: Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology have cut production...

The new Xbox One S went on sale yesterday, as expected, and today the teardown experts at iFixit have done what they do best - take the thing apart. The Xbox One S comes with an improved GPU which supports HDR10, 2TB of storage (500GB and 1TB...

Last month Gionee unveiled two new members of its M-series, which is comprised on smartphones having a huge focus on battery life. The M6 and M6 Plus do this too, the former sporting a 5,000 mAh battery, while the latter has a 6,020 mAh cell. With...

Here's some bad news if you live in Europe or Hong Kong and were thinking of buying the OnePlus 3 soon. OnePlus has just announced that sales of its latest device will be suspended in 23 European countries as well as Hong Kong from August 9 to...

Yesterday Microsoft started rolling out the Windows 10 Anniversary Update to computers running Windows 10. That wasn't surprising, as August 2 was the officially announced date for the update's start. However, in its blog post on the matter, the...

We're gearing up for the full review of the Samsung Galaxy Note7, but we're still pumped up from the event yesterday, so we put together a short video. It begins, of course, with the iris scanner. This unit wasn't set up for us, but you can see...

Xiaomi gathered a big crowd of onlookers when it unveiled the Redmi Pro and those gathered won't have to wait much longer. Initially the launch in China was scheduled for the 8th (next Monday), but it seems that it has been pulled up. Promo...

In a move that clearly won't benefit its smartphone sales numbers, BlackBerry is today making a whole suite of applications available to any device running Android 6.0 Marshmallow. This is called BlackBerry Hub+ and it's comprised of the BlackBerry...

Samsung Galaxy Note7 was announced yesterday and many carriers have already detailed their pricing and availability. And while the new Note won't ignore Europe as it did the last year, it will still go on sale there two weeks post the US...

Polar has just announced its latest M600 Android Wear smartwatch. Meant to appeal to the outdoor types, the Polar M600 has plenty of activity tracking features and will last more than 48 hours on a single charge, Polar claims. The M600 features a...

Xiaomi is partnering with Flipkart to launch the Redmi 3s in India. The phone is split in two versions: 3s and 3s Prime. Note that this has nothing to do with the Redmi 3 Pro and even the 3s isn't quite the same. The Xiaomi Redmi 3s Prime is...

You know how the Samsung Galaxy Note7, announced yesterday, isn't supposed to be available for purchase until August 19 in the US and September 2 in Europe? Well, not so in Dubai, where one customer has already gotten his hands on one - a proper...

Android 6.0 Marshmallow continues to grow and last month it cracked 15%. It's still miles behind KitKat (29.2%) and Lollipop (35.5%), but the gap is closing. All versions prior to 6.0 lost numbers, with pre-KitKat versions still powering one in...

Oppo's camera-centric F series has been growing fast since the original F1 came out in January this year. We were surprised to see Oppo make haste with a successor of the "Selfie Expert" but they seemed to have a point. The Oppo F1 Plus was an...

Great news for owners of the Honor 5X who don’t particularly care for EMUI, Huawei's heavily skinned Android UI. If you are an Android tinkerer and love the world of flashing ROMs on your bootloader-unlocked device through a custom recovery, here’s...