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Update: It turns out that the Prime Exclusive phones will all incur a $20 price hike following this move, as revealed by Liliputing talking to an Amazon spokesperson. So the change isn't really downside-free for consumers. The original story follows...

Over in the UK, Three has an interesting deal going for people looking to purchase one of Huawei's recent flagship smartphones. Regardless of whether you pick the Mate 10 Pro or the P10, you are set to receive a free tablet. That is the Huawei...

Buying a Samsung Galaxy S8 so close to the S9 unveiling may not be smart, but a great deal is a great deal. The G950U model – US, unlocked – is available for $476 on eBay. This is the Snapdragon 835 model and should work on all carriers (the...

Apple has shipped a record 18 million smartwatches in 2017 and almost half of those came in Q4 - 8 million. Coincidentally, that's also a record for most shipped smart wearables for a single quarter, by any maker. Out of the total 18 million...

A total of three new Huawei phones were unearthed by the Chinese TENAA. All of them look to have 18:9 screens and metal backs with dual cameras. The first two are the FLA-AL00 and FLA-TL10, which could turn out to be the Nova 3 and Nova 3 Plus,...

The sale of the Lava Red OnePlus 5T has begun – it’s launching in Europe and the US, following successful launches in China and India. This is a limited edition model so it won’t be available for long and it only comes with 8GB of RAM and 128GB...

IDC released its Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report for China, and the numbers do not look good. According to the data, the market declined 15.7% in Q4 2017, compared with the same period 12 months ago, and 4.9% for the whole 2017. In absolute...

Romans may have conquered the marketing departments of major phone manufacturers. A new rumor claims that the Galaxy S9 will be the last of the S-line and that its successor will be dubbed Galaxy X. That moniker has been associated with Samsung’s...

A new sketchy Weibo leak has popped up of what is an as-of-yet-unofficial vivo smartphone with very little bezel and no notch. It isn't likely that this is the rumored vivo X30 because it has been linked to a notch on the front. So it's possible...

Last month we learned that Huawei will not unveil its P11 flagship (or P20, the name is not yet confirmed) at MWC 2018. Today the company announced on its Weibo page that it will still hold an event in Barcelona and announce new...

The Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S may be the first phone with Snapdragon 845, which promises to be a true powerhouse. The phone is code named “Polaris” and an early AnTuTu score is massive. There are a few important things to note here. First, the latest...

Samsung only recently adapted dual camera setups and apparently it’s a fan. The company wants to help others develop mid to entry-level phones quickly with an integrated solution – it provides both the dual camera module and the necessary image...

The Honor 9 Lite was already announced for two markets: India, and Honor's home market of China. Today, Honor announces that the quad-camera phone will become available in Western European markets starting today. The Honor 9 Lite is doing very...

Back in April, we saw the arrival of the Meizu E2, and (according to Chinese leaksters) its successor, the Meizu E3, is on its way. Live images of the alleged phone reveal the device will have a side-mounted fingerprint scanner like the Meizu M6s...

Tablets are not selling as well as before - Q4 of 2017 saw 7.9% less tablets shipped compared to Q4 of 2016 while 2017 as a whole saw a decline of 6.5% over 2016. And yet despite this turmoil Apple, Amazon and Huawei managed to see growth in...

Update: OnePlus has just confirmed that they aren't working on a OnePlus X successor. Here's Carl Pei's tweet on the matter: Nope. 🤷‍♂️ https://t.co/hsFBhDFZ8J— Carl Pei (@getpeid) February 6, 2018 So move...

A curious customer tweeted to Three Ireland, inquiring about the availability of a new Sony Xperia handset. More specifically, Mike was asking about the Xperia XA2. In response, the carrier tweeted back that it would not carry the XA2, but that the...

Back in December last year, it came to light that users with Android Wear 2.0 devices are experiencing short-duration lags and freezes in different scenarios. Turning off the "Ok Google" hotword detection fixed these problems. Well, the latest...

Google has published its monthly analysis of Android market share today, and we have some big news. For the first time in history, the most used version of the OS is now Nougat - which launched in August of 2016, almost 18 months ago. It takes...

Last November Qualcomm received an unsolicited takeover offer from Broadcom. The latter company offered $70 per Qualcomm share, at the time a 33% premium over the stock market value. A few days later, Qualcomm's board promptly rejected the...