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Sony and Toshiba officially announced the deal that has been in the works for months now – Toshiba's chip 48,800 sq m manufacturing plant in Oita City and some 1,100 employees will transfer to Sony. The deal will be carried out to the tune of JPY 19...

Samsung has slipped out of the top five wearable vendors in the world, according to the Q3, 2015 numbers released by market research firm IDC. The South Korean company - which was at the number five spot in the firm's Q2 rankings - lost to Chinese...

The Android 6.0 update for the Mi 4 and Mi Note smartphones will be rolled out soon, according to Xiaomi's MIUI operations manager, who made the revelation in a Weibo post today. This would make both these handsets the first Xiaomi devices to...

Telltale Games has revealed that it is working on a Batman game with Warner Bros. and DC Comics. The game will be released on consoles, PC, Mac, and mobile devices. It will be in the same episodic format that Telltale games are known for. The...

Market research firm IDC is forecasting a single-digit growth for worldwide smartphone market this year, something which would happen for the firm time. The firm is predicting a growth of 9.8% in 2015 to a total of 1.43 billion units. As for the...

Google's Chromebooks now constitute over 50% of all devices in US classrooms, up from under 1% just three years ago, according to a new CNBC report which cited latest data from Futuresource Consulting. Of the 8.9 million devices bought by the...

Amazon has announced that its latest Fire tablet is now available for purchase in China, where it carries a price tag of RMB 499 ($78), and includes access to "hundreds of thousands" of Kindle books as well as English language learning features like...

When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note5 back in August this year, it was announced that the device won't be available in Europe, at least not this year. Now, the year is about to end, and a couple of new reports are claiming that the handset is all...

Less than a month after the usually reliable leakster @evleaks confirmed its existence, details on the entry-level LG K7 have surfaced. According to a new report, the device - which currently carries a code name of M1 - will be launched next year,...

In Seattle, Uber is testing a new way to spot your driver’s vehicle. The ride sharing company has outfitted some drivers’ vehicles with a colored bar called SPOT that illuminates different colors to let passengers easily identify their ride. The...

Today ZTE has added a new member to its Blade family of affordably priced smartphones. At an event in China the Blade A1 became official. This is a small handset that comes packing a fingerprint scanner on its back. It also has a design slightly...

The LG Nexus 5X may be the first ever Nexus device to have a dual-SIM version. That is, if the information listed by one Kuwaiti retailer is correct. Xcite is the company that claims to have the dual-SIM Nexus 5X already in stock, ready to be...

After a period of indecisiveness on the matter, LG seems to have finally come to a decision regarding the V10's availability in the UK. And it's good news if you live in the UK and wanted to purchase the Korean company's latest flagship...

OnePlus took to its forums and announced it was no longer going to require invites to purchase a OnePlus 2. The open sale begins on December 5 at midnight with both the OnePlus 2 and the OnePlus X up for grabs. The OnePlus X, however, will only be...

Huawei is hard at work on an Android 6.0 Marshmallow update for its lineup and it seems it is now entering the home stretch. This is all but natural, considering the OEM's latest flagship – the Mate 8 does come with Marshmallow out-of-the-box, so,...

Waterproof phones are nice for hygiene since you can always give them a light wash. KDDI and Kyocera went a step further and introduced the Digno Rafre – the world's first soap-proof phone. That's right, you can use soap to make sure the phone is as...

As promised, Microsoft has released the Windows 10 ROM for the LTE variant of the Xiaomi Mi 4. The ROM is part of Microsoft's Windows Insider program and although stable enough to be installed could have some bugs still. The ROM currently is...

FCC has spilled the beans on the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Tab E 8.0 tablet. The slate will have an 8" 1280x800 pixel display and will utilize a Snapdragon 410 chipset with a quad-core 1.2GHz CPU. Further specs include 1.5GB of RAM with 16GB of...

In line with a recent teaser, the Huawei Enjoy 5S has been made official - the device is now listed on the company's official online store VMall. It is a variant of the Enjoy 5 smartphone which was launched back in October this year. The...

Window 10 Mobile is now making its debut on user devices, with the Lumia 950 and 950XL leading the show. And, judging be a freshly uncovered Microsoft support schedule, it might stick around until the beginning of 2019. The document details...