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Vertu changes hands yet again. The luxury phone maker is going to Hong Kong-based called Godin Holdings and private investors, three years after being sold by Nokia to investment fund EQT VI. The deal has received the required approvals. It seems...

Microsoft has started rolling out a new firmware update to the recently-released Surface Book laptop and Surface Pro 4 tablet. The "System Firmware Update – 11/2/2015" brings several improvements and fixes, including the one for screen flickering...

The Motorola Droid Turbo 2 is built like a tank with layers of armor, five in total. It starts off with a hard-coated exterior layer, then the crack and shatter-proof second layer, a dual touch layer (primary and backup), a flexible AMOLED display...

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi will begin selling its handsets in Africa this month, with South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya becoming the first African countries where the company's devices will be available for purchase. The...

Last week, Chinese company LeTV updated its Le series with the new Le 1s smartphone, which is a CNY 1,100 ($173) handset featuring a MediaTek Helio X10 chipset and sporting a 5.5" IPS LCD display of 1080p resolution. Now, exactly a week...

Huawei has launched a promotion where those purchasing the Huawei Watch along with the company's Nexus 6P smartphone will get $50 off on the smartwatch. The offer, however, is available only in the US. The promotion is only valid for...

If you are a heavy user of Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage service, you are not going to love this. Microsoft has announced that it is getting rid of the unlimited storage option for Office 365 Home, Personal, or University subscribers. The...

Less than a couple of months after the Meizu Pro 5 was made official with 5.7-inch screen and Samsung Exynos 7420 chipset, there are reports that the company is following it up with a new handset named Pro 5 Mini. The new handset's highlight...

Looks like Verizon will soon announce a couple of new LG-made, kids-focused wearable devices. According to a tweet sent out by the usually reliable leakster @evleaks, the wearables in question are the LG GizmoPal 2 and GizmoGadget. LG GizmoPal 2...

A couple of weeks after it went on sale in select markets around the world, the LG-made Nexus 5X smartphone is now available for pre-order across Europe. All you have to do is to head to Google Play and place your order. As for the price,...

For whatever reason, Amazon has started celebrating Black Friday today. And this will go on for around seven weeks, believe it or not, with different deals each day. The best offer of today is that for the Moto X (2nd Gen). You can now buy last...

Asus loves confusing people with the names of its products, so today it's launching the Zenfone 2 Laser in the US. Only, this being Asus, of course there's a catch when it comes to the name. See, this isn't the internationally available Zenfone 2...

Last week a controversial report from the Wall Street Journal claimed that Google is working on 'folding' Chrome OS into Android. The new, combined operating system would apparently launch in 2017, although it's said to already have been in the...

The BlackBerry Priv isn't the only device for which AT&T has announced availability details today. The carrier is going to launch two smartwatches this month, and both of them have mobile data connectivity. We're talking about the Samsung Gear S2...

AT&T has just announced that it's going to be the first US carrier to sell the BlackBerry Priv. This, as you may know, is BlackBerry's first smartphone to run Android, and it has a sliding form factor, complete with the trademark BlackBerry physical...

The Huawei Mate 8 has proven quite an elusive device to say the least. Despite frequent visits to the rumor mill in the last few months, we are still not entirely sure what to make of the eagerly-anticipated Ascend Mate 7 successor. All the...

Aiming to improve its customer support and services, Chinese smartphone manufacturer OnePlus has announced a new smartphone warranty program. Launched in collaboration with Simplesurance and B2X in Europe and India, respectively, the service on the...

Nearly five months after it was announced, the Android 5.1 Lollipop-based Cyanogen OS 12.1 update has started rolling out to the Yu Yureka and Yurerka Plus smartphones. The news was announced by the company's CEO Rahul Sharma. "We understand it took...

Windows 10 has been around for three months now and Microsoft hasn't skipped on any opportunities to boast its growing popularity. About a month ago, Executive VP Terry Myerson pointed out that the OS has already reached 110 million devices and by...

Last month, Huawei released a list (although not final) of devices which the company said are scheduled to get the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update, but there was no information on when exactly the update would roll out. The good news is that now the...