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There is plenty going on from Google this week as Google I/O continues through tomorrow. Yesterday, during the I/O keynote, Google announced six new voices for Google Assistant. Today, those voices are now live in the Google Assistant...

ZTE's main business operations have been suspended after the US government restricted all US firms to supply China's giant with tech. The ban was imposed after ZTE was found guilty of violating US export restrictions. As of now, all major...

Today at I/O, Google has released the second Developer Preview of Wear OS. The first release based on the upcoming Android P went out in March. Wear OS by Google is the new name for what was previously known as Android Wear, since the company is...

Good news for fans of smaller smartphones who live in the US and happen to have Verizon as their carrier of choice. The network nicknamed Big Red has just certified the Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact for use on its airwaves. Unfortunately though,...

The Korean media received a tip from LG confirming that the company is planning to release new Wear OS smartwatches. According to an FCC filing, the device was supposed to feature cellular connectivity but this new report begs to differ. It...

This is not the first time we've heard about the Galaxy J4 and Galaxy J6 but there's plenty of stuff we don't know about them. Now quite a few blanks have been filled by their NCC certification pages, which reveal some key specs of the two...

A new Xiaomi handset, using the Cactus codename, just appeared on Geekbench featuring Mediatek's P40 (MT6765). It has its CPU to be clocked at 2.0 GHz and 2GB of RAM. The Cactus runs Android 8.1, presumably with a MIUI 9 on top. We are...

A new Xiaomi store is opening up in Vienna's SCS shopping center. It was expected in March and then April but is now scheduled for this month - coinciding with Xiaomi's official arrival in France and Italy, and possibly with the launch of the...

Walmart, the largest retailer in the world, has struck a deal worth $16B with India's top e-commerce retailer Flipkart. The deal, which is pending regulatory approval in India, gives Walmart a 77% stake in Flipkart, putting the company's total...

As the HTC U12+ inches towards official status, more and more details become available. The most recent tidbit details the color options: Black Red Rose, Violet and Translucent (a semi-transparent back that was introduced with the U11+). Most of...

Canalys released its quarterly report on smartphone shipments in Europe and the numbers do not look good. Overall shipment fell 6.3% between January and March, with British, French, and German markets declining 29.6%, 23.2% and 16.7%, respectively....

Vodafone has agreed to pay €18.4 billion (about $21.8 billion) for the Liberty Global business in Germany, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic that spans cable TV, brodband and mobile. Reuters reports that the deal is part of Vodafone’s...

High-quality renders of the Samsung Galaxy S8 Lite have surfaced, confirming the design of the device as well as at least some of the colors in it will come in. The renders feature the device's back in Burgundy Red and Black. Sadly no pictures of...

Qualcomm's senior director of wearables, Pankaj Kedia, has announced that Qualcomm will unveil a successor to its aging Snapdragon Wear 2100 platform this Fall. While Kedia stopped short of providing specifics, such as die size and actual battery...

Yesterday Google announced Android P alongside a myriad of improvements, updates and new features. And, answering our hopes, Google released the Android P beta right away to a number of supported devices. To help those that want to play around...

Xiaomi Mi 7 is expected to debut on May 23, but live spy shots of the phone already started surfacing on the Chinese social network Weibo. Two different users posted pictures of the upcoming flagship, revealing that it be quite similar to the...

The vivo X21 and X21 UD got their official releases back in March and powered by the Snapdragon 660 - the same chip that drove their predecessors - the vivo X20 and vivo X20 Plus UD. Now a Geekbench listing reveals a new version of the phone...

The successor to last year's BlackBerry Keyone has passed a couple of major milestones in its journey towards officialdom. The device - which is likely to be called Key2 - has received Wi-Fi and Bluetooth certifications. Not much is known...

Huawei is joining the Android Go party, following the likes of Asus, HMD and alcatel. The Zambian division of the company just showcased its first Go device, named Huawei Y3 (2018). Huawei Y3 (2018) official renders Huawei Y3 (2018)...

Yesterday Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg ordered a huge structural change in the company's management staff in order to make room for a new blockchain division. Fortunately for Facebook's staff, no firings were made. With two of WhatsApp's...