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The Samsung Galaxy Note7 was off to a great, but a quickly discovered battery defect caused Samsung to issue an unprecedented worldwide recall. We now hear the replacement stock for Portugal is already on the way and should be ready for exchange...

Some call it embarrassing, others praise Samsung for coming clean, still others say that the recall could nave been handled better - either way, the Galaxy Note7's future doesn't look all that grim after all. Certainly not among our readership...

Google rolls out Android 7.0 Nougat over-the-air update for Android One devices. A reader of ours points out that the Cherry Mobile G1 is one of the many Android One phones that has the update on queue. Android 7.0 Nougat is ready to be...

The Sony Xperia X Compact is now available in the Netherlands, as well as in Belgium and Luxembourg. The phone retails for €449 and is available in black, white and light blue. The phone also launched in the UK a couple of days ago for...

The Samsung SM-G5510, which has already received Wi-Fi certification from the WiFi Alliance (WFA) and has also been spotted on GFXBench, has now surfaced on India's import/export tracking website Zauba. The Zauba listing reveals a 5-inch display...

AT&T has finally started pushing out the Marshmallow update to Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note Edge units on its network. Weighing in at 1.3GB in both cases, the update brings along Android 6.0.1 and also includes security patches for the...

Apple's Reserve and Pickup iPhone service is quite useful if you don't want to wait in line. You buy the phone online and then you have a timeframe to get it. Unfortunately, the service is now suspended for customers in the US, UK, and Italy....

After the US FAA, regulators in several other countries - including India, Canada, and Japan - have issued advisories against using the Samsung Galaxy Note7 on board a plane. Following is an official communication from India's Directorate General of...

Shortly after the Samsung Galaxy A7 (2017) was spotted on GFXBench, the Samsung Galaxy A3 (2017) has also surfaced on the benchmarking website, revealing some of its key specifications. As per the listing, the device is powered by an octa-core...

An online retailer in China is selling a modified version of the standard Xiaomi Mi 5 for 1999 Yuan (which comes out to about $300). They call this version of the phone “Extreme” and features and overclocked CPU, GPU, and RAM. Chinese...

Clearly by now you've heard about the whole exploding Galaxy Note7 fiasco. Samsung's thankfully acted incredibly quickly on this one, and a recall has been issued for all units ever sold. In every country (except China, see more below) you'll be...

Wondering what's up with all those crazy Lumia deals popping up everywhere every single week recently? Why Microsoft is continuously dropping the official pricing for its few remaining Lumia-branded smartphones across territories? Well, if you're...

According to a new "exclusive" report from behind the scenes, Samsung is in talks with both AMD and Nvidia for GPU tech. Namely, the Korean company wants to stop using the ARM-developed Mali GPUs in its Exynos chipset designs, and instead use ones...

Yesterday we told you not to expect LG to launch the V20 in (certain parts of) Europe, based on what a company rep in Belgium told an inquiring would-be customer. And now unfortunately the bad news is confirmed, at least for the UK. LG has told...

Samsung has pushed out a new update to its S Health Android app. The update includes several changes, including the ability to save steps challenge records - yes, now you can save records of Steps challenges using your Samsung account. The update...

Following the massive Galaxy Note7 recall estimated to cost $1 billion, Samsung Australia has announced a date for the arrival of the first replacement stock. Note7 owners in Australia will get their new phones starting September 21. The same...

Huawei first introduced the Honor sub-brand to the world 999 days ago and happily states that it sold over 100 million Honor handsets since then. The brand is shaping up to be quite successful in the value-smartphone market share. Today, Honor...

A few days before the announcement, an analyst with KGI Securities stated that the iPhone 7 Plus would have 3GB of RAM, as opposed to the 2GB of the vanilla iPhone 7. Well, you know how Apple likes to keep such details to itself, so despite it's all...

A couple of days ago Apple unveiled the new Watch Series 2, along with the Watch Series 1 - the latter being basically the first Apple Watch with a beefed up processor. The Watch Series 1 will soon replace the original Apple Watch in stores and it...

Xiaomi's upcoming Mi Note 2 smartphone will carry Mi Pro moniker at launch, according to a new rumor out of the company's home country of China. The basis for this rumor is just a newly setup Weibo page by the name of Xiaomi Pro, so it's not exactly...