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In late 2014 the UK lost Phones 4U, a well-known phone retailer. Now Dixons Carphone (a merger between Dixons and Carphone Warehouse from 2014) will close 11% of its UK stores, totaling 134 stores. That's not bad news though. The company says it...

It's officially official folks, Xiaomi's second launch for 2016 will be the Xiaomi Mi 5 and that's happening on February 24. This has been confirmed by a Xiaomi co-founder and now by Global VP Hugo Barra and India Head Manu Kumar Jain. Both of...

It is no secret that Sony has been struggling on the mobile market for quite some time. But thankfully for the Japanese giant, its business extends far beyond the mobile realm and there are a lot of other company branches that are actually doing...

Asus has revealed yet another Zenfone 2 variant, this time boasting an updated Intel chipset. The refreshed Asus Zenfone 2 Deluxe Special Edition packs an Intel Z3590 chip with quad-core CPU running at 2.5GHz. There's 4GB of LPDDR3 RAM and 256GB of...

The vivo Xplay5S, which is said to be the successor to the Chinese company's Xplay3S smartphone, will be powered by Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 820 chipset and will have 4GB of RAM. This was revealed in an Antutu listing of the device. If...

Apple released a minor update to the new Apple TV yesterday, which bumps up the version number to 9.1.1. The update primarily focuses on minor bug fixes and performance improvements, except for one major addition, assuming you are really into...

LG Electronics has released its Q4 2015 financial results, revealing that the company sold 15.3 million smartphones in the October-December period. For the full year, the South Korean company sold 59.7 million units, slightly up from the 59.1...

The Android app of popular cloud storage service Dropbox now boasts of over 500 million installs. The app has hit the milestone less than six years after it was launched. Although Dropbox for Android is still halfway when compared to...

A new update for the Windows 10-powered Lumia 550 smartphone has been quietly released by Microsoft. The update bumps the firmware version of the handset from 15461.48007 to 15503.21007, while the OS version remains the same. What's worth...

Inline with its August 2015 commitment of providing monthly security updates, Samsung has now announced the roll-out of this month's Android security patch. As always, the company said the update is for "major flagship models," but didn't...

LG unveiled the K7 and K10 smartphones at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) earlier this month. A week after that the company revealed plans for the entire K-Series, which also includes the K8, K7, K5, and K4. Now, the K4 has been spotted listed on...

If you are in the US, and are planning to purchase the LG-made Google Nexus 5X, here is a deal for you: BuyDig (via eBay) is offering the 16GB model for just $299 and the 32GB model for $349. And that's not it. Those purchasing either of the...

Just a week after the Samsung Galaxy Tab E 8.0 with 4G LTE support launched in Taiwan, there are reports that the South Korean company is also working on a 7-inch variant, which carries a model number of SM-T280. SAMSUNG Galaxy Tab E 7.0 WiFi,...

Microsoft still has the keyboard in early stages and will release it to Beta-testers soon. The Verge was able to get its hands on the Windows Keyboard ahead of the Beta release. Peculiarly, the one-handed mode does not compact to one side like on...

When you hop on a plane, you never know if you’re getting a newer plane with an updated entertainment system or if you’re getting an older plane with no entertainment system and TVs that drop down from above. Jet Blue has been pretty good about...

While there doesn't seem to be a consensus in the rumors about what it will be called, by now it seems pretty clear that Apple is in fact working on a new 4-inch smartphone. There have been many leaks about it lately, and this one could be the...

Huawei's Honor 5X is headed to the US before the end of January, as you may know. But the affordable handset announced in November is also on its way to the UK and Continental Europe as it turns out. The Chinese company has already listed the...

Back in May last year, it was reported that popular music-streaming company Spotify is planning to launch a video service. And now, the company has confirmed that the service will be available on Spotify for Android this week, followed by the iOS...

Samsung launched the new edition of the Gear S2 Classic smartwatch and it also updated the app used to manage all of its smart wearables. The Samsung Gear app is now at version 2.2.16011842. The big addition is that the app now displays the...

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo announced that it sold 50 million smartphones last year. This is inline with what handset supply chains in Taiwan and China were expecting towards the end of 2014. In addition, it was revealed that around...