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Carphone Warehouse is running a nice promotion on the Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. You can get the SIM-free 128GB Pixel 2 for £559. The Kinda Blue model is only 64GB, though, so you'll have to choose between the Just Black or Clearly White....

HTC may not announce the U12 but rather go straight to the U12+. Earlier it was rumored that HTC will be ready to announce the phone in April, but sources close to the phone's production claim it's going to arrive in May. The specs that...

Xiaomi has launched the Mi Body Composition Scale in India. The device is designed to track various body stats when paired with the Mi Fit app. The Mi Body Composition Scale looks like a standard weighing scale at first glance. The...

Back in December Apple struck a deal to acquire music recognizing service Shazam for $400m but the deal was put on hold by the European Commission, pending an investigation. The concern is that Apple will acquire a lot of user data with Shazam,...

The Galaxy S9 is a fine phone, but it just launched and its price hasn't had time to cool off. The Galaxy S8 is a different story. It's price in the UK is under £500, compared to £740 for the S9. You can find a new unit from Amazon for £475 or...

Huawei has some good news for the Philippines – the Oreo update for the Huawei P10 and P10 Plus is ready for download. Chances are that it’s a staged rollout and other regions are getting it now or will get it soon. Leave a comment with your region...

Samsung’s A-series spans the range of smartphone sizes from big to small, but it has gaps – there’s an A5 and an A7, but no A6. Or is there? A Samsung SM-A600FN and an SM-A605G showed up on Geekbench. If they follow Samsung’s typical naming...

TP-Link is famous for its network solutions, but the Chinese company also has a portfolio of Neffos smartphones and it just added a new device to it. The company announced the Neffos N1 in Malaysia - its first dual-camera smartphone that packs a...

The Android One edition of the Motorola Moto X4 is getting updated to Android 8.1 Oreo as we speak. The firmware is labeled OPW28.46-3 and brings along the March 1 security patch. The standard version of the phone will likely get the 8.1 update...

Samsung said a fingerprint scanner could not be incorporated in its Galaxy S8 and Apple had no better luck so it had to ditch the authentication option completely with the iPhone X. All we have left is the Chinese giants to propel this trend...

Xiaomi has announced a new color variant of its Redmi 5A will go on sale in India this month - Lake Blue. The color joins the Rose Gold which was announced in February and the Grey in which the Redmi 5A was originally announced back in...

Last month Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 5 Pro, also known as Redmi Note 5 in China. After its debut in India, the phone is set to arrive in Europe, according to popular Twitter tipster Roland Quand. He revealed the dual-cam midranger is being...

Google Home is getting yet another useful feature: location-based reminders. Yes, now you can ask your Home unit to remind you about something at, let's say, the supermarket you frequent, and it will make sure the Google Assistant on your phone does...

The Oreo Beta program for the Honor 7X was announced by the company earlier this month, and now it's time for the update to arrive. Those who enrolled in the program are getting emails that update will start rolling out today. The email also...

During CES 2018, a few OEMs announced their own Google Assistant-powered smart displays that would arrive later in the year to compete against Amazon’s Echo Show and Echo Spot, two Amazon Alexa devices that offer visual feedback rather than...

Spotify has been testing a new feature on a small number of users – a new voice interface. This voice interface would allow you to open the Spotify app and hit a mic button which would prompt you to make a voice commant like “Play my discover...

There’s no denying that the Google Pixel 2 has a really great camera. Although the camera UI does not offer manual controls, Google’s HDR+ algorithm is really good at exposing most scenes very evenly. It can even do this fairly well in lower-lit...

Last week Samsung pushed out the first software update to the Galaxy S9 and S9+ units meant for Germany, and this contained the March security patches. Today the US-bound S9 and S9+ are starting to receive their first update as well, but in this...

vivo's upcoming V9 has been the star of a few leaks so far, the biggest of which came yesterday. Now vivo itself apparently wants in on the leaking game, since it's managed to list the V9 on its website for India, complete with new press renders...

vivo is going to unveil the X21 at an event in China on March 19, and now that we're only a few days away from that a prototype has been spotted in the Geekbench database. As usual, this reveals some of the phone's specs. Note that the device...