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The roster of Android Oreo Go Edition phones in the US is growing – Best Buy and Asus partnered up to launch the Zenfone Live (L1). The phone is available today exclusively on Best Buy. It costs $110 with no plan, but you can save $50 if you buy...

Xiaomi announced the Mi 8 series on May 31 in three iterations - vanilla Mi 8 with a fingerprint scanner on the back, Mi 8 Explorer with an under-display fingerprint scanner and a transparent back panel, and Mi 8 SE with a fingerprint scanner on the...

Oppo could launch the Oppo A5 in India next week and the rumored price is INR 15,000/€190. The information comes from alleged retail sources. Oppo launched the A5 in China at the beginning of July for CNY 1,500/€190. A few days later the...

LG G7 ThinQ debuted at the beginning of May but had to wait three months until it makes its way to India. The waiting is nearly over after Flipkart listed the device as an exclusive to the retailer with the hashtag #OnlyOnFlipkart. While we have a...

Back in May LG unveiled a trio of Q7 smartphones as a more affordable alternative of the G7 ThinQ. Today the company announced with a press release the unveiling of LG Q8 (2018) as the cheaper solution of the V35 ThinQ. The new Q8 (not to be...

It's not every week that we get to do a run-down of new phone releases. Rarer, still, is the list quite as long and complete with high end offerings, a premium tablet and with a bunch of different brands participating. Samsung introduced its 2018...

Motorola unveiled the Moto Z3 exclusively for Verizon, though we think the exclusivity will be short-lived. And we hope that once the phone breaks free from that one carrier it will keep its price tag - $480. Again, the price is $480. We had to...

As per tradition, rumors started flying in as early as March this year. We were hearing all sorts of crazy stories including in-display fingerprint and a built-in breathalyzer for the S Pen. But as time passed by, the dust settled and we started...

It's been a while since last we had a BlackBerry phone among the 10 most popular in our database, but now we have two at the same time. The newly introduced Evolve and Evolve X make a flying start to take ninth and third, respectively. The Xiaomi...

Is there a case for phone cases? Paul, who's got the hump, and Yordan discuss. Paul: "Cases are like clothes" Over the years my views and uses of phone cases have evolved. Initially, when I started to drop serious amounts of cash on...

With the introduction of the 2017 iPhones, Apple backed itself into a corner regarding its naming convention, so how it will proceed in 2018? After all, it currently has three phones using two different types of numerals, a skipped digit, and a Plus...

The Xiaomi Mi A2 was well received by the voters in last week’s poll. We were surprised to see that most people miss the 3.5mm headphone jack and the microSD slot more than they missed the telephoto camera. It goes to show that simple components...

Last year HTC celebrated its 20th birthday. The company was founded in Taiwan on May 15 1997 as the High Tech Computer Corporation and it initially intended to build laptops. Pretty soon it started building pocketable devices - Pocket PCs as they...

Sony is pushing a small OTA to Xperia XA2 and XA2 Ultra users. It brings the build versions up from 50.1.A.10.40 to version 50.1.A.10.51. The payload seems to consist entirely of a security patch, dated 1 July 2018. As per quite a few...

Mobile gaming is already a huge deal and the latest rumor about Samsung partnering with Epic Games for the Galaxy Note9 launch, comes to only further confirm this. Just the other day, news broke that Samsung and Epic Games are planning to release...

The Oppo R17 appeared on the web just the other week and we already know some of the features and the better part of the design. Now, a new 3C certification surfaced to tell us about two possible variants, but the information remains pretty...

Rumors about Apple's upcoming 2018 iPad line have been rather frequent lately. While not intrinsically bad, the reports of expected design and functionality have also been all over the place, making it hard to pinpoint anything with...

The 'mini' fad came and went, and these days we get quite a few 'Lite' smartphones that want to capitalize on the clout of the high-end devices that bear the same name. Xiaomi felt like doing practically the same thing this year, but using the...

Honor Play is expected to launch in India about two days from now on August 6, but sources claim that the company isn't solely aiming at the Indian market. A new report reads that the handset will launch this month in Pakistan too and if...

HTC was originally rather adamant about keeping the U12+ as the sole release within the family. There is still no word of a vanilla U12 model on the horizon, but the rumor mill has been going on about the “Imagine Life” - aka HTC U12 Life. In a new...