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A new Gionee smartphone has been certified by the Chinese telecommunication authority TENAA. The Gionee F5, the TENAA listing reveals, is powered by an octa-core 1.5GHz processor, and sports a 5.3-inch HD display. RAM is 4GB, while internal...

The LG G5 was not exactly the most popular device of the 2016. Its idea of modular hardware as add-ons to a smartphone was there, but sadly the implantation was not. LG’s modular “Friends” and the addition of a second wide-angle camera was not...

If you recall, earlier this month, Huawei officially announced its Nougat update plans, revealing that the Mate 8 and P9 will be the first devices getting the update, something which the company said will happen in Q1, 2017. However, a recent...

The Blue Coral color variant of Samsung's Galaxy S7 edge smartphone - which was made official by the South Korean tech giant early last month, and is already available in a few markets worldwide - is now available for purchase in India as...

As expected, Samsung has officially announced the new, Black Pearl color variant of its Galaxy S7 edge smartphone, making it the seventh color for the device. The new color will be exclusive to 128GB models of the handset, and will be available...

If you are a Fitbit fan in the US and are in the market for a fitness tracking wearable device, here's a deal for you: the Fitbit Alta - which was launched earlier this year - is currently being sold in the country at discounted...

Like it's being done in Australia, unreturned Samsung Galaxy Note7 units in Canada will also be disconnected from mobile networks on December 15, the company said in a press release. A battery charge-limiting update will be rolled out on December...

Qualcomm has teamed up with Windows to provide a way to run Windows 10 x86 (32-bit) on ARM-architecture processors such as those found in smartphones of the past couple of years. With next generation ARM CPUs, Windows would be able to run on...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) first unveiled the Bluetooth 5 spec back in June, when it was still a work in progress. Today, however, the new spec has been finalized by the industry group and it's ready to be put to use by device makers...

One of the more baffling design choices that Google's made a long time ago in its Play Store for Android has to do with the fact that apps and games are grouped together in one section, under the Apps & games heading. This obviously doesn't make a...

Last month ZUK CEO Chang Chen revealed the fact that the Z2 would receive an update to Android 7.0 Nougat soon, and today the Lenovo-owned brand has confirmed that the tasty treat is headed to a couple of other devices too. The Z2 Pro will...

Just last week, Android Pay made its way to New Zealand, following its rollout to Poland earlier in November. And now we already have another country in which Google's mobile payments service has become available - Ireland. The service is live...

If we were to be playing an 'odd one out' round with rumors about the 2017 Apple smartphones, then this one would definitely qualify as the odd one. That's because it basically contradicts everything we've heard so far about what Apple is preparing...

You may or may not know that if you have an Android device, some of your settings as well as app and game data can be automatically backed up by the system to Google Drive. This makes it easy to switch from one phone to the next, with restore being...

Lenovo has sent out invites to the media for its upcoming launch event in Mumbai, where it would be announcing the Moto M smartphone for the Indian market. The event will take place on December 13. Moto M is the premium variant of the...

Huawei's sub-brand Honor yesterday released a teaser about a Magic smartphone, purported as a Mi Mix competitor. We were promised more information on December 7 and indeed Honor gave us a few more info bits. Honor is now officially inviting...

Samsung has started pushing out a new Nougat beta update to eligible Galaxy S7 and S7 edge units, making it the third build that the South Korean company has rolled out as part of the beta program. Weighing in at around 530MB, the update...

Unlike most people, Sprint apparently hasn't forgotten all about Pokemon Go. Quite the opposite, in fact - the carrier seems to think that associating its brand with the once record breaking mobile game will do something good for its bottom...

Qualcomm sort of announced the Snapdragon 835 last month but without going into specifics - Samsung will manufacture it on a 10nm process and it'll feature QuickCharge 4.0, that's about it. Good thing there's GFXBench to shed some light on the...

Dropbox has introduced the much requested offline folder support. Unfortunately for free users, it is only for premium accounts. With offline folders, you can mark an entire folder to be synced and all files will be downloaded and...