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Here come the next two groups of our Smartphone World Cup (groups A and B are here. Group C The Apple iPhone X wasn’t the first phone with a notch, but it’s the phone that made all other notched handsets possible – once factories geared up for...

The word “selfie” was the Oxford Dictionary word of the year in 2013, but the practice is much older than that. Much older – many consider the first selfie to be this photo of Robert Cornelius from 1839. Years later, cameras came to phones and...

Last week we asked you what top 3 features in iOS 12 were you looking forward to. Unsurprisingly, Performance garnered twice as many votes as any other iOS 12 feature with 21% of you hoping for increased responsiveness from your iOS devices. It...

The BlackBerry Key2 model with 128GB storage is now available to pre-order in China. Retailer Jingdong is accepting pre-orders for the phone, and has attached a price tag of CNY 4,499 to it, which currently translates to $700. For comparison,...

A couple of new Xiaomi devices have been certified by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US. The FCC ids are 2AFZZ-RMSC3DG and 2AFZZ-RMSC3CG, while model numbers are M1804C3DG and M1804C3CG. The listings further reveal that both...

All Nubia Z18 leaks and teasers so far have pointed to a bezeless design. And now, an event invitation has surfaced to reconfirm a total lack of bezels. The Chinese text in the image translates into "open the future." A schematic for the...

Weekend APPetizers (see what we did there?) is our latest feature where we tell you about some of our favorite apps that reside on our smartphones. Paul's favorite apps Hi, I'm Paul, and my daily driver is an iPhone, so invariably...

AT&T has launched an Apple iPhone X promo for Father's Day. It's basically a Buy One Get One (BOGO) deal that lets those purchasing a new iPhone X on a new line or as an upgrade to get a second iPhone X unit from the carrier at no extra...

A Nokia smartphone carrying a model number of TA-1109 - which already went by CCC in China - has now received Bluetooth certification. While the certification doesn't reveal much about the device, it does show that it's powered by a Mediatek...

Our Smartphone World Cup has begun – starting today the first two groups of four will vie for your attention. Check out the announcement post for more details, but the plan is fairly simple. Each group consists of four phones, you vote for your...

BlackBerry has started pushing out a new update to its Keyone smartphone. The update - rolling out in multiple regions, including Canada and the United States - weighs in at 17MB and arrives as version ABA676. As for changes included, nothing...

It's World Cup season and we though you'd like to join the fun with a smartphone-themed competition – welcome to our Smartphone World Cup. The group stage kicks off tomorrow, but before that we'd like to introduce the participants and detail how...

HMD’s had a plan in place when it resurrected the Nokia brand – start from the middle and expand up and down. The Nokia 8 was its first flagship, but its 5.3” screen felt a little small and the dual camera wasn’t great. But HMD had a do-over. The...

Asus just quietly released the ZenFone Ares in Taiwan without holding an event or even issuing a press release about it. The device emphasizes on AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality) with specs almost identical to last year's ZenFone...

Earlier this year in February, Instagram started testing a feature that would inform the users if someone took a screenshot of their Story posts. The feature was in beta testing and only select users were part of it. The feature was met with...

A few days ago, news broke about Sony discontinuing the development of its own Xperia Home launcher that ships with every Sony smartphone. The firm has also planned to close the Beta program for the launcher. The information seemed odd at the...

Xiaomi launched the Mi A1 smartphone back in September 2017 and was the first device from the OEM to run on Android One's platform, which would ensure timely and continuous OS updates. The Chinese smartphone maker delivered the final Android 8.0...

The Xiaomi Mi 6X was announced back in April in China and we've been expecting its stock Android-powered A2 sibling to grace international markets since. But even though it is yet to go official, a Spanish tech duo was able to get their...

Earlier this week, OnePlus officially acknowledged the OnePlus 6 bootloader vulnerability, and said it will be fixed soon. In line with that promise, the company has released a new update containing the fix. The update arrives as OxygenOS...

The Sunrise Gold edition of the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ was not originally meant to launch in India, but it has. There’s a catch, however. Only the S9+ version is getting the new hue and only in 128 GB. And it’s a limited edition. It...