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The last month was rich in Oppo launches. First, we saw the A83 pop up, then the Oppo F5 Youth without Google services arrived in China with an Oppo A73 moniker. Now another phone is about to join the A series - Oppo A85. That's seemingly going to...

July marked the arrival of the Samsung Galaxy J7 Nxt with 2 GB RAM and 16 GB storage in a limited set of markets. Now a more powerful version was leaked by the retailer Mahesh Telecom on Twitter and later Samsung India uploaded the phone on its...

Samsung has confirmed the release date for the newly-unveiled Galaxy A8 (2018) and A8+ (2018) smartphones. During a recent event in Vietnam, the South Korean company confirmed the devices will go on sale there January 6 onwards. This is...

Asus has started pushing out a new update to its ZenFone 3 Max (ZC553KL) smartphone. Arriving as version V14.0200.1712.347, the update bumps the system user interface to ZenUI 4.0. The announcement says it'll take around one week for the...

Just like the Snapdragon 835 in 2017, we can expect to see the Snapdragon 845 in many high-end smartphones during 2018. Qualcomm recently announced its Snapdragon 845 CPU at a launch event in Hawaii. At the event, Qualcomm had a lot to say about the...

3GPP is an organization whose purpose is to define the industry standards for technologies that would succeed the 4G LTE standard. Today, 3GPP has set the specifications for 5G equipment in both towers and smartphones alike. This means that 5G...

Amazon has announced that all users of Fire TV devices will now be able to browser the web through Firefox and Amazon Silk browsers. While the Silk browser was made available for download at the end of last month, the addition of Firefox is...

Following Honor’s success in the United States with its high-value X series, the company is announcing its expansion into Latin American markets across Central and South America. Honor will begin to sell smartphones in stores starting next...

At the high-end, Samsung's all about Infinity Displays and small bezels and the 18.5:9 aspect ratio, but the Korean company also churns out quite a few low-end offerings each year. And now we're fast approaching the launch of just such a device: the...

Netflix has rolled out support for HDR on the Windows 10 platform. Users can now finally access Netflix' growing library of HDR content if they are connected to a compatible HDR monitor or television. As with 4K support on Windows 10, the...

One of the biggest patent holders in the mobile space is still Nokia, and this was confirmed once more today. Following similar deals it made in the past with the likes of Apple, Samsung, LG, and Xiaomi, the Finnish company has announced that it has...

Android Oreo is now making its way to more and more devices and it brings with it much smarter security features. It packs clever software that you never knew was protecting your phone and data, such as safer install of apps that come from...

Huawei sub brand Honor has announced that global sales of its X series of smartphones - consisting of devices from the Honor 4X to Honor 7X - has hit the 40 million milestone. The company also revealed some sales figures for the...

The Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ will retain the 18.5:9 aspect ratio of the Galaxy S8 and S8+. That's been confirmed through an HTML browser benchmark, which revealed the screen aspects for both. Sadly the benchmark doesn't have any more spoilers,...

Huawei held an event in China where it announced the Honor 9 Lite - a more affordable variant of the Honor 9. The Honor 9 Lite will arrive with 5.65” 18:9 screen with FullHD+ resolution. It has dual cameras on both sides and comes with the latest...

Last week we saw a report that Apple might be slowing down its iPhones as they batteries age. Rumors suggested Apple intentionally turned down the clock speed in order to prevent the battery life of the phones from decreasing over time. Today the...

If you are a BlackBerry fan in Canada, and are in the market for a new smartphone, you'll be glad to know that the Keyone Black Edition has received a price cut in the country. Walmart has the device listed for CAD 648 (around $505), down from its...

Samsung has started pushing out a new update to its Galaxy S8/S8+ smartphones. It's a security update that brings along Android fixes for the month of December. Units in both South Korea and the US (T-Mobile) are currently getting the...

Essential has announced the roll out of the Oreo beta 2 build for its PH-1 smartphone. The company took to Twitter to announce the update, which arrives as build OPM1.170911.213. We're rolling out Oreo Beta 2 (build OPM1.170911.213) with bug...

Today Niantic Labs and the Pokemon Company, the entities behind the hugely successful Pokemon Go game, have announced a new set of features coming to iPhones. They are collectively called AR+, and are made possible by leveraging Apple's ARKit...