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Counterclockwise is our weekly trip down memory lane. We recount some great (and some sad) stories of the past. This week smartphone OSes vie for market share while Sony and Motorola fail to capture certain market niches, games and music...

Xiaomi has been on somewhat of a roll lately, expanding its portfolio with new products, bringing it to new markets and now adding new colors. The company has announced that its current Mi 3 flagship will gain a new green version in the very near...

The oft-leaked but not so far announced Moto X+1 now gets a rumored release date. According to some unnamed sources, it should land at Verizon "by September 25". Motorola has previously told us to expect the successor to the original Moto X to...

As we edge closer to the IFA, leaks about one of the expected stars of the show, the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, are bound to intensify. The diminutive flagship has surfaced in a bunch of new live photos today, revealing a few more pieces of the...

The Week In Review is our series meant to recap all the major announcements of the week, which you might have missed. Week 32 saw major phonemakers readying their premium devices for a their upcoming Fall launch. Apple, Samsung and Sony are among...

China is becoming a tougher and tougher market to crack for foreign handset manufacturers that aren’t named Apple. But LG is looking to change that. The G3 will go on sale for $650 (3,999 yuan) in China, which is significantly cheaper than...

It turns out that a previous report that the Chinese Government had banned its employees from using Apple products isn’t entirely correct, says China’s chief procurement center. The confusion was a result of Apple products, including computers...

LG has added another device to its ever-expanding L III series of affordable Android-powered smartphones. The LG L60 follows in the footsteps of the L40, L70, L90 (which got official together back in February), as well as the more recently unveiled...

It was just yesterday when the first two photos showing the upcoming Nokia Lumia 730 got leaked, and today we get to see another color version of the same device. While the original pictures were of a green model, this time you can feast your eyes...

Microsoft has a milestone to celebrate: they have now reached over three hundred thousand applications on the Windows Phone Store. Non-iOS and Android platforms are usually criticized by their lack of applications, and Microsoft, knowing that...

LG's G3 S is already also known by another name - G3 Beat. But do prepare to add a new moniker to the list pretty soon, as Sprint is reportedly going to sell the exact same device as the G3 Vigor. The first page of Sprint's Getting Started guide...

AT&T has more news for us today. Alongside the official announcement of the LG G Vista mid-range Android phablet, the carrier has also decided to out a new color version for the Nokia Lumia 1520. It's called "matte green" and it's already...

After having been launched by Verizon on the last day of July, the LG G Vista is now headed to AT&T. That this carrier would sell it too was in fact something that got leaked last month, so this is hardly surprising. You'll be able to pick up a G...

As we get closer to Sony's IFA 2014 press conference, more and more clues regarding the Xperia Z3 and Xperia Z3 Compact start piling up. The latest one concern alleged AutoCAD drawing of the upcoming phones specifying their dimensions. Starting...

Sony is delivering on its promise to deliver KitKat to the Xperia E1 and Xperia E1 Dual. The update is rolling out now though there might be delays varying by market and carrier. Go to Check for updates in the About screen of the settings on your...

Nvidia has outed its financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal 2015 (the quarter ending in June) and the company is doing amazingly, especially its Tegra processor business. The company's mobile chipset business saw a 200% growth...

The Motorola Moto XT1097, what is thought to be the Moto X+1, has been caught out in the open again. This time it was spotted in the Geekbench database, which reports Android 4.4.4 KitKat and Qualcomm 8974AC Snapdragon 801. The chipset features...

Up until recently, it was suspected that Samsung would release its Galaxy Note 4 smartphone on September 3rd. However, new reports indicate that Samsung is planning to push the date back a little further to September 15th-28th. The info comes...

A successor to the Nokia Lumia 720 released in early 2013 is in the works over at Microsoft's mobile division. It's bound to be called Lumia 730, and it's apparently the handset we've known so far only by its codename - Superman. Today the first...

Sony is apparently about to send out its IFA 2014 invitations and one slipped to the world wide web revealing some snapshots of what Sony is aiming to show off. We see the side of what's hopefully the Xperia Z3, which is heavily rumored to make...