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The OnePlus 2 owners are getting a nice Christmas present right now, as OnePlus has started rolling out a new Oxygen OS update - version 2.2.0. It brings quite a few bug fixes and security patches, among some new features. This is the complete...

Gionee's Marathon series of big-battery-packing smartphones was just expanded with the addition of the Marathon M5 Plus and the Marathon M5 Enjoy. Launched today in China, the two smartphones address one notable omission from the original Marathon...

Motorola's Nexus 6 is now on sale at Amazon USA and costs $100 below manufacturer's official price. Now you get the 32GB Nexus 6 for $249.99 or the 64GB one for $299.99. Those are exactly $100 down Moto's official (and already discounted) listings...

China's leading carrier China Mobile has seemingly confirmed that Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S7 flagship smartphone, which has already been the subject of lots of rumors lately, will be launched in March next year. The confirmation came during a...

Star Wars: The Force Awakens a.k.a. Episode VII, has been up on the big screen in most markets the past weekend. And as expected the movie managed to break the opening weekend record (both in USA and worldwide), making the beefy $517 million. Of...

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Meizu has revealed that it sold over 20 million smartphones this year. That's a whopping 350% increase over last year, when the company managed to sell just 4.4 million units. Given the increase this year, one...

The year-long court battle between Ericsson and Apple over LTE patents has been settled, Ericsson announced today. The two companies have signed a global patent license agreement, though the specific terms remain confidential. The contract covers...

The budget-friendly Microsoft Lumia 550 smartphone will go on sale in India starting Wednesday (December 23) this week. The device, which is still listed as 'coming soon' on the Microsoft India website, will carry a price tag of INR 9,399 (around...

Motorola is bringing in the Christmas spirit with discounts on select handsets in India. This includes the Moto X Style, the Moto X Play, Moto G, and the Moto E 3G and 4G models. Other than the discounts mentioned above, Motorola is also...

Samsung has started rolling a new update to its mobile payments service - Samsung Pay - that brings a new Gift Card UI as well as improvements to notifications. Support for gift cards was recently added to the service. The update, which also...

Alternative Android OS developer Cyanogen has expanded the Cyanogenmod (CM) device family with the addition of some LG handsets, including the G3 S, G3 Beat, G2 Mini, and Optimus L70. All the aforementioned LG devices have been enabled to...

If you're in the US, and are planning to purchase the Lumia 950, here is some good news: Microsoft is currently selling the AT&T variant of the Windows 10 device at discounted rates in the country. A quick look at the Microsoft Store website...

Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy has started selling the Huawei-made Google Nexus 6P in the US through both its online as well as physical stores. As of now, only the 64GB aluminum variant is listed on the retailer's website, carrying a price...

Before I start with this week's list, I want to address the common complaint in the comments section. The complaint is that we only include iOS apps most of the time, with not enough Android or Windows Phone apps. So this is the reality: More...

Barring any surprises, there won't be any new phones to hit the market before the year is out, so it's time to determine which of the phones announced this year was best-received by our readers. We've selected some of the most deserving phones for...

As the New Year draws closer, we are all occupied gathering information and exploring leaks and rumors to get a glimpse of what 2016 has in store. But amidst all the digging and snooping around, a few new last-minute device announcements did manage...

It is often times hard to escape from the shadow of your sibling - this is especially true for a lot of budget-friendly handsets nowadays that are specifically intended to be a more-affordable substitute for their bigger brothers. The Huawei G8 that...

It's been yet another busy week in the mobile realm and as has become tradition, it's time to look back once again and see what news captivated our collective attention in the past few days. We start off with Xiaomi – the Chinese OEM that seems to...

Business seems to be going well for BlackBerry over the last quarter (well, by the company's recent standards) and it's in no small part thanks to the Priv. A smartphone with its share of flaws as we established while doing our in-depth review, the...

In a curious turn of events this week, the iPhone 5s has entered our Top 10 trending chart. Two generations old, Apple's aging 4-incher hasn't enjoyed such interest in all of this year, which is as long as we've been keeping tabs. Now, it's all...