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The merger of Android and Chrome OS has long been discussed, but now we’re seeing the first real step towards that goal - Google announced that any and all Chromebooks sold from 2017 onwards will supports the Google Play Store. That means you can...

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo has announced that sales of its R9 series of smartphones has crossed the 20 million mark. The selfie-focused series, which consists of the R9, R9 Plus, R9s, and R9s Plus, was launched last year, with the...

HTC announced the U Ultra smartphone a couple of weeks ago and the best bit about it was that it had a Sapphire crystal display glass, only you couldn't have one. It was a limited Sapphire edition that would get the special treatment, some time...

Vivo has launched its latest smartphone in India — the Vivo V5 Plus. The phone is priced at INR 27,980, which is about $410. The V5 Plus has a unibody aluminum body with Corning Gorilla Glass 5. On the front is a 5.5-inch 1080p IPS LCD....

Raspberry Pi clones have cropped up from various sources but few come from established PC makers - that makes the Asus Tinker Board special. The board has essentially the same layout as the Pi, but uses the Rockchip 3288 chipset - the same as the...

Koh Dong-jin, chief of Samsung Mobile held a press conference regarding the Galaxy Note7 battery issues. We already told you what was the problem and what happened when units were replaced. He said the faulty batteries wiped $5.3B off Samsung’s...

Hugo Barra — Vice President, Xiaomi Global — announced today in a Facebook post that he will be leaving the company in February after Chinese New Year. He will be replaced by current IP & Partnerships chief Xiang Wang. Barra clarified in...

The last S835-powererd Nokia rumor proved to be a red herring, but now Nokia’s official Weibo account is suggesting that it’s just a matter of time as a flagship with a Snapdragon 835 chipset is the works. Now, we’re relying on Google...

When Xiaomi officially announced the white-colored variant of the Mi Mix at CES, it only said that the device will be a China-exclusive. However, an actual release date wasn't mentioned. While Xiaomi is yet to announce an exact launch date,...

We already know that the Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 has received WiFi as well as Bluetooth certifications. We also know that the tablet is said to be coming sometime in the ongoing quarter. What, however, we didn't know so far was its specifications....

The ZTE Blade A520, which has already passed the FCC in the US, has now received Wi-Fi certification from the WiFi Alliance (WFA). The listing reveals the phone runs Android 7.0 out of the box. Not only this, support page for the Blade A520...

If you are a Motorola fan in the US, and are in the market for an Android Wear smartwatch, you may want to check out the deal Amazon is offering on the Moto 360 Sport. The retailer has the watch listed on its website for as low as...

Samsung has finally announced the outcome of its Note7 investigation, revealing not one but two reasons that caused some of the units to overheat (and catch fire in some cases). While the problem was no doubt battery-related, the South Korean...

We received schematics for the Galaxy S8 duo with dimensions and discovered something amazing - the upcoming S8 will be about as big as the S7 it replaces, but its screen will be as big as that of the S7 edge! Similarly, the Galaxy S8 Plus will have...

On Thursday Xiaomi launched a new version of Redmi Note 4 this week, but it's the old one that leads this week's chart. It edged out the Nokia 6, which just went on sale in China. The Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime and J7 (2016) drop a position each...

It’s no secret that the Nokia 6 is a fan favorite. We polled our readers and nearly a third of them said they will buy it in a heartbeat if it becomes available in their region. Still, this model has one fatal flaw - surprisingly, it’s the...

With the Galaxy S8 announcement drawing ever closer it is no wonder that we are seeing an influx of leaks and rumors, regarding the flagship. Among these is a pretty detailed blueprint of the handsets we got a few days ago. Besides and almost...

Every time we report on Huawei and its Honor sub-brand, we tend to pay close attention to a given device's affiliation to one or the other, since the two parties have made the case that they are quite independent, on more than one occasion....

Rumors of HTC's dip into the smartwatch realm go all the way back to 2015, when we first heard of a device codenamed "halfbeak". After that initial wave of excitement, little was actually heard of the alleged wearable, until today. Out of the blue,...

A new ZTE smartphone has been spotted on the website of the Chinese telecommunication authority TENAA. Listed as BA602, the device is powered by an SoC with quad-core, 1.25GHz processor, and sports a 5.5-inch HD display. RAM options include...