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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...

The Asphalt series will be familiar to anyone who has played mobile games. Started out back in 2004, the original game was launched on the Nokia N-Gage platform, the OG smartphone gaming platform that people often forget about these days while...

Epic Games, creators of the incredibly popular battle royale style game 'Fortnite', have announced that the Android version of the game won't be available through the Google Play Store. Instead, it will be distributed through the developer's own...

Surprise, surprise! Samsung is super fast with the monthly security patch this time around and it's rolling out Google's August security fix for the Galaxy S8 and although the report doesn't say anything about the Galaxy S8+, we are pretty sure the...

Huawei is coming in strong this year with record-breaking market share in China for Q2 2018 according to various analysts. All of this comes amidst falling Chinese market, which is downright impressive. With climbing shipments, Huawei is...

Asus is rolling out a major OTA update for the new ZenFone 5z smartphone. Most of the improvements in it are about the camera and its app. The following is the complete list of changes in this update: Enabled RAW file...

Samsung dominates the OLED market for portable devices with 90% of all sales - LG struggles is a very distant second with just 7.7%. How the entry of a third major player will change this is an interesting question and one Sharp has decided to find...