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AMD's biggest client at the moment is probably Apple. The chip maker supplied the 2016 Macbook Pro 15 refresh with the Radeon Pro 555 and 560 graphics cards and now has a new Radeon Pro 500 series of graphics cards for the freshly upgraded 2017...

The Galaxy J3 (2017) welcomes company - the 5.5” Galaxy J7 (2017) and the 5.2” Galaxy J5 (2017). All of them run Android 7.0 Nougat with Samsung's custom UI on top. Note that Samsung seems to have jumped the gun with this announcement, the J5 and...

BlackBerry keeps its promise for pushing quick security updates for its Android devices. The latest upgrade patches multiple vulnerabilities in all five BlackBerry powered Android smartphones. BlackBerrry Priv screenshots The patch...

Yesterday, Apple announced the new 10.5-inch iPad Pro and 12.9-inch iPad Pro 2nd generation. Among the many new advancements announced on stage, one that struck us as the most prominent was ProMotion. ProMotion is Apple's name for the adaptive...

US deal: the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 and Tab S2 8.0, have dropped in price. The 9.7” model goes for $400, the smaller 8” tablet can be had for $350. The official Samsung site has no-interest payment plans (6 months) for $66.66 and $58.33...

Huawei has another smartband in the works - the Honor Band 3. A press invite entices journalist to attend the June 12 unveiling (this Monday) without giving away too much about the band itself. Some water splash effects hint at what could easily...

Google released the newest Android platform distribution numbers and they show Nougat is at 9.5%, with 0.6% of all Android devices running on the latest 7.1 iteration. The most popular release is Android 6.0 Marshmallow with 31.2%, while...

Samsung could be working on the first Exynos 9xxx series chipset. Rather than a flagship-grade chip, this is a mid-ranger aimed at the Snapdragon 660. Then there’s the Exynos 7872, which is something of a Snapdragon 650 alternative. Exynos...

Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference keynote was busier than usual, bringing new hardware alongside the expected software updates. So let's do a re-hash of the keynote and see what the biggest announcements were. Come September iOS 11 will...

Nubia Z17 was announced last Friday at an event and was on sale today. It is out of stock now as ZTE sold out 10,000 units in just 51 seconds through online retailer JD.com. The nubia Z17 versions up for grabs were the 6 GB RAM + 64 GB...

The Xiaomi Mi Max 2, which was unveiled late last month and has only been limited to China, is now also available in Malaysia. Retailer DirectD has the phone (64GB variant) listed on its website for RM 1,499, which translates into around $350....

A couple of smartphones - the HTC 10 and Motorola Droid Turbo 2 - have started receiving new updates in the US. While for the former, the update brings security fixes for the month of May, the change-log for the latter only says "most up to date...

T-Mobile’s @askdes has confirmed via Twitter that the T-Mobile variants of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge will be receiving their Android Nougat update starting this week. The rollout will begin and assumingly take a week or so to...

Honor 9 was expected to be launched on June 20, but an earlier date was leaked last week. A media invitation suggested June 12 and now Huawei confirms the launch will indeed happen then. The poster roughly says “Beautiful and Colorful” under...

Sony launched its PlayStation VR headset back in 2016, and today the Japanese company 1M units sold. This milestone cements Sony in second place at the VR market - Samsung is first with 5 million Gear VR units sold, while HTC Vive is trailing at...

We won’t lie, we’re partial to the Coral Blue color of the Xiaomi Mi 6, but no units have been available so far. Until now! It’s going on sale tomorrow, June 6, at 10:00 am (Beijing time). You can grab one from Mi.com. Knowing Xiaomi sales, the...

Apple's iPad Pro lineup just got updated and now consists of a new 10.5-inch model, with slimmer bezels and a light 1 pound metal body and a refined 12.9-inch powerhouse. The new and refined unibody shells wrap around redesigned Retina...

Surprising absolutely no one, Apple has also revealed the next iteration of its operating system for computers today at the start of its developer conference. If you were wondering what comes after Sierra, the answer is High Sierra. Seriously,...

We knew it was coming - the new version of iOS is here and we are officially at number 11. There are major changes to Siri, AirPlay, the camera, even the trusty, old App Store. By the way, iOS 10 is on 86% of iDevices with an amazing 96% customer...

At today's WWDC, Apple's "one last thing" announcement had to do with the much-rumored smart speaker. It's finally official now, and it's called HomePod. Like the name implies, Apple's positioning of the HomePod seems to be all about the music, thus...