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UK's O2 is planning to start offering the BQ Aquaris X5 this December and it turns out this might very well be the first Cyanogen OS phone that you can buy on contract in the country, perhaps even the EU. And while the phone itself isn't really...

When asked about search engines, most of us have a rather natural tendency to think about Google or Bing, perhaps even Yahoo as primary examples of how we tend to navigate the vast online resources. But what we often tend to forget is that other...

Fallout 4, which came out on November 10 for Xbox One, PS4, and PC, had a record breaking launch. According to publisher Bethesda, a whopping 12 million copies of the game - which the company said represented "sales in excess of $750 million" - were...

The Vivo X6 is coming, no doubt about it. Despite hearing about the handset fairly recently, the alleged flagship has already managed to stir up a lot of commotion, going through the hoops with teasers about 4GB of RAM and an e-payment compatible...

Less than a week after an iFixit teardown for the iPad Pro revealed a USB 3.0 controller, Apple has confirmed that the tablet's Lightning port is compatible with the new USB standard, something which the company didn't advertise...

Ever since the original OnePlus One, the Chinese OEM has been investing heftily in proper customer service. One prominent fruit of all the effort are the extended service plans that, much like Apple Care, offer some piece of mind that most accidents...

Following a similar promotion in the UK and Germany, Microsoft is now offering a free Display Dock with each Lumia 950 XL in the United States and Canada, too. Interestingly, it was initially mentioned that the offer will be valid for the Lumia 950...

OnePlus has announced that it has started rolling out the OxygenOS 2.1.2 update to the OP2. The company says this is an incremental roll out, so if you own a OP2 smartphone and haven't received an OTA update notification yet, you'll have to be...

At the 56th Battery Symposium in Japan, Huawei showed off their new quick charging lithium-ion batteries that the company claims can be charged to half the capacity in just a few minutes. "Using next generation technology, these new batteries have...

The Gionee GN8001 - which along with the Gionee GN5001L and GN5002 was certified by China's 3C earlier this month - has now passed through the country's Telecommunication Equipment Certification Center (TENAA). The listing on TENAA's website...

According to the usually reliable leakster @evleaks, the Samsung Galaxy S7 is already being tested in the US. Specifically, he said that two variants of the handset (SM-G930A and SM-G935A) - which should be the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge - are...

The HTC One X9 smartphone - which has been the subject of some leaks and rumors lately - has now been certified by Chinese certification and regulatory authority TENAA, revealing some of its key specs. The TENAA listing reportedly reveals...

A new vulnerability has been found (and thankfully, contained) by Qihoo 360 developer Guang Gong who had been working on the exploit for three months before demonstrating it at the PacSec conference in Tokyo. The exploit worked by targeting the...

Many changes in the mobile industry have been thanks to T-Mobile (mainly eliminating phone subsidies in the US). If you had told me just two years ago that Verizon was going to let you roam overseas for a reasonable cost, I would have called you a...

A new rumor out of South Korea says that Samsung and Apple are in advanced talks about the former supplying the latter with OLED display panels for future iPhones. A deal hasn't been concluded yet, but apparently that's very close to...

It looks like Apple managed to somehow underestimate demand for the most expensive versions of its latest tablet, the iPad Pro. This is especially true in the United States, where ordering an iPad Pro with 128GB of storage (either in Wi-Fi-only or...

There's been a beta version of Chrome for Android up for grabs in the Google Play Store since 2013, and now it's finally available for iOS as well. As you might expect, the beta brings with it certain new features that aren't yet out in the...

Samsung's newest virtual reality headset (which confusingly is called Gear VR just like its past two models) has gone up for pre-order a few days ago. This 'consumer edition' as the Korean company likes to refer to it is the cheapest Gear VR yet,...

Motorola received a lot of heat when people found out their beloved Moto E from last year was not going to receive any more software updates. Those who had a US carrier branded 2014 Moto X were also upset to learn their phone of just over a year of...

Gionee will announce the Elife S6 at an event on November 16, that much we already know from the Chinese company's own teasers. The S6 is shaping up to be very similar to the Elife S Plus that got official in India recently, except it comes with...