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Qualcomm first acknowledged the Snapdragon 820 chipset back in March at MWC, but then it only gave us a couple of vague hints about what it would entail. If a new rumor is to be believed, though, we're now very close to the unveiling of the full...

Today BlackBerry has simultaneously announced and released a new version of its Passport smartphone. This one is called BlackBerry Passport Silver Edition, and it's silver - unlike the model that's been selling so far, which is black. Aside from...

By the end of this year, Microsoft will have launched Windows 10 Mobile and, alongside it, a couple of highly anticipated flagship smartphones. These were expected to be called Lumia 940 and Lumia 940 XL, respectively, but it now seems more likely...

Samsung's grand unveiling of the Galaxy Note 5 will happen next week, on August 13. And as we get closer to that we're seeing it leak left and right, multiple times a day even. It wasn't that long ago when we saw it getting benchmarked, hence...

The Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 edge+ are undoubtedly the hottest topics in our rumor mill right now. The two eagerly anticipated phablets are keeping mobile fans on their toes and have been doing so for quite some time. But now, with...

GSMArena.com is a place to find everything about a phone – its specifications, of course, but also what others think about it. In previous incarnations of our site users got to give 1-10 votes in three categories, but with the latest redesign we...

MediaTek's Helio X10 chip went quite a long way toward pushing the company further up the market. Featuring an octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU (up to 2.2GHz) and PowerVR G6200 GPU, it powers a bunch of premium offerings - the Sony Xperia M5, HTC One ME,...

After an excruciatingly long wait, filled with teasers and speculations, the eagerly-anticipated OnePlus 2 was made official last week. The handset has already gathered a lot of interest and with limited availability, the OnePlus team has put up an...

Motorola has announced a new service in India called Moto Xpress. With this service, customers can get a Motorola representative at their doorstep in case there is any issue with their phone. With Moto Xpress, all the customer has to do is call...

Gionee has announced the new Marathon M4 in India. The phones comes with a 5000mAh that claims to provide 50 hours of talk time and 440 hours of standby time. The M4 has a 5.0-inch 720p AMOLED display, 1.3GHz quad-core processor, 2GB RAM,...

Over a million people requested an invite to buy a OnePlus 2, though supplies are quite limited. The company put a small batch of 30,000 units up for sale and they ran out in just over a minute, 64 seconds to be exact. The sales were done through...

MIUI's current sixth version has been around for about a year now and Xiaomi is already gearing up for the next major release. Today the company teased an upcoming launch event for MIUI 7 with a set of posters and photos of a peculiar...

FCC and TENAA are the usual certification agencies that give us an early peek at upcoming devices, but Malaysia's SIRIM scores a point with a Galaxy Note 5 entry. The model number is listed as SM-N9208 and gives details only about the agency's core...

Oppo is rolling out the new ColorOS 2.1.3i update for the Find 7 and Find 7a. Oppo shared a snapshot of the new features in a preview video. Noteworthy changes in the ColorOS 2.1.3i include the new Air Gestures which allow easy navigation while...

Google has released this month's Android platform distribution numbers, revealing that Lollipop - which is the latest iteration of its mobile operating system - is now powering 18.1% of all active Android devices worldwide. That is up from 12.4% in...

San Jose-based start-up Matchstick has announced that its $25 Firefox OS-powered HDMI dongle, which was announced back in September last year, has been cancelled. The company cited its struggle with the DRM development as the reason behind the...

HTC's One M9 has already received its update to Android 5.1 Lollipop in the US - whether from AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, or even HTC itself for the developer edition of the phone. And thankfully it's now set to become available in Europe, the Middle...

Earlier today Sony announced a press event for September 2 during IFA. It is there where the next flagship Xperia smartphone is expected to be unveiled. This is probably going to be called Xperia Z5, and it could be the first in the line to come...

Huawei is already working on its next Honor-branded smartphone, even though it hasn't been long since it unveiled the Honor 7 (which we recently reviewed). For the next member of the affordable Honor line, Huawei has packed an interesting...

Sprint has started rolling out a new software update for its variation of Samsung's Galaxy Note 4. This will bring you Android 5.1.1 Lollipop, which right now is the latest version of Google's operating system. But it also comes with a very...