Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Deal: Best Buy 50-hour sales event

Deal: Best Buy 50-hour sales event Best Buy is no stranger to price-slashing events. It is currently hosting a 50-hour long one, which is apparently inspired by the similarly titled shopping spree, the company had . This time, there is no apparent reason...

T-Mobile launches buy one, get one free-ish deal for LG flagships

T-Mobile launches buy one, get one free-ish deal for LG flagships You can potentially save up to $500 with T-Mobile's new summer promotion and end up with a pair of LG flagships. Unfortunately, it's a little bit more complicated that just paying for...

Weekly poll results: camera phones get a pass on humps, everything else better be flat

Weekly poll results: camera phones get a pass on humps, everything else better be flat Most people dont care for humpback phones... unless they are camera phones. on the matter revealed a 2:1 preference for flat phones, but the simple yes or no vote...

Weekly poll: now that the Nokia 8 is official, is Nokia back?

Weekly poll: now that the Nokia 8 is official, is Nokia back? Its back! Or is it? The was unveiled this week, marking both the return of camera-focused Nokia flagships and a new option for a high-end pure Android phone. The phone checks some of the boxes...

Android Wear 2.0 update for Motorola Moto 360 Sport seems imminent

Android Wear 2.0 update for Motorola Moto 360 Sport seems imminent It looks like Motorola will soon start rolling out the Android Wear 2.0 update to its smartwatch (if not already). A support page detailing the update recently popped up on the company's...

Deal: HTC Vive VR headset gets a $200 discount

Deal: HTC Vive VR headset gets a $200 discount VR fans are enjoying the spoils of a price war between Oculus and Vive. The HTC-made headset was just discounted $200 and now costs $600 in the US. In Europe, prices are 600 for the UK, 700 for the mainland....

Huawei Nova Lite+ and Nova Young go on sale in Italy

Huawei Nova Lite+ and Nova Young go on sale in Italy The Italian market has gotten two Huawei smartphones today the Huawei Nova Lite+ and the Nova Young, which we've previously seen as the Huawei Y7 and the Huawei Y6 (2017). The is listed on Huawei's...

Xiaomi working with Google on next Android One smartphone

Xiaomi working with Google on next Android One smartphone Googles project Android One is something that you might not even remember, but it's still alive. After the company , now there are rumors the company is working with Xiaomi to develop a stock...

Four Alcatel phones leak ahead of IFA: Alcatel A7 XL, A3 Plus and U5 HD

Four Alcatel phones leak ahead of IFA: Alcatel A7 XL, A3 Plus and U5 HD TCT loves to bring half a dozen of Alcatel phones to big events like the upcoming IFA. A few of those leaked and though we dont have all the details, we do know these four are aimed...

500 strong Experience Team to test the LG V30 for a month

500 strong Experience Team to test the LG V30 for a month LG is seeking volunteers for the National Experience Team, which will get to try out the upcoming flagship before the retail launch. In total, 500 people from South Korea will be selected between...

Samsung Galaxy A5 with Snapdragon 660 appears on Geekbench [Updated]

Samsung Galaxy A5 with Snapdragon 660 appears on Geekbench [Updated] Meanwhile, of the phone has started getting the August security patch. The update arrives as firmware version A510FXXU4CQH2, and weighs in at around 215MB. It also includes some other...

You can now have an 8GB RAM 128GB storage OnePlus 5 in Slate Gray

You can now have an 8GB RAM 128GB storage OnePlus 5 in Slate Gray OnePlus now offers the with 8GB of RAM in Slate Gray flavor. Up until now the 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage model was a Midnight Black exclusive. The Midnight Black remains available with...

AT&T Primetime Android tablet is all about entertainment, lands on August 25

AT&T Primetime Android tablet is all about entertainment, lands on August 25 To see a new Android tablet announced is pretty rare these days, even more so for devices bearing only a carrier's brand. Yet AT's new Primetime tablet is exactly such a...

Global launch for Samsung's Bixby assistant set for today

Global launch for Samsung's Bixby assistant set for today Samsung looks all set to globally launch its Bixby virtual assistant today. The company shared the following ad on Facebook, confirming August 22 as the roll out date. The following video teaser...

Official Motorola distributor shares Moto X4 images ahead of launch

Official Motorola distributor shares Moto X4 images ahead of launch The upcoming has already been the subject of several , but they've all come from third-party sources. Now, a new leak has surfaced and it comes directly from an official source. HomaTelecom,...

Coolpad Cool Play 6 launched in India

Coolpad Cool Play 6 launched in India Coolpad has launched its flagship in India. The phone is priced at INR 14,999 ($234) and will be available exclusively on Amazon India starting September 4. The Cool Play 6 has a 5.5-inch 1080p IPC LCD covered in...

Deal: Refurbished Apple iPhone SE for 199.99

Deal: Refurbished Apple iPhone SE for 199.99 If you live in the UK and fancy a little then eBay has got a deal for you. The phones are refurbished and come with 1 year warranty and a USB cable and you can choose from an assortment of available colors...

Meizu M6 Note to come with both Snapdragon and MediaTek chipsets

Meizu M6 Note to come with both Snapdragon and MediaTek chipsets The flaunted its chipset in front of Geekbench yesterday, but earlier rumors said it will have a chipset. Well, a new leak suggests that it will have both. The base version uses the MediaTek...

Micromax launches Canvas Infinity with 18:9 full vision display

Micromax launches Canvas Infinity with 18:9 full vision display Micromax has decided to get on the wide screen bandwagon with the new Canvas Infinity. The phone has been launched in India for INR 9999 ($155) and will be available exclusively on Amazon...

Update for the OnePlus 3/3T brings security patch, removes Hangouts

Update for the OnePlus 3/3T brings security patch, removes Hangouts OnePlus has issued an over the air update (OxygenOS 4.1.7) to the and with the August security patch and some fixes and optimizations. By request from Google the update will remove Hangouts...

Google to bring the Chromebook Pixel back

Google to bring the Chromebook Pixel back It looks like Google is working on a successor to the Chromebook Pixel 2 and it could announce it at its event this fall. The information was revealed to by a source close to Google. Google at the beginning of...

WhatsApp adds text-based Status updates

WhatsApp adds text-based Status updates WhatsApp has updated its Status feature to allow users to just post text-based updates for their friends to see. Instead of having a photo or video as your status, you can now just type text or insert a URL. Users...

Samsung Galaxy Note8 Italy launch date revealed

Samsung Galaxy Note8 Italy launch date revealed We know that is set to be today. We when pre-orders will go live in the US, as well as the device's launch date in the country. Now, we have some information on the handset's availability in one of the...

Samsung Galaxy S6 series and Rogers' BlackBerry Keyone getting new updates

Samsung Galaxy S6 series and Rogers' BlackBerry Keyone getting new updates A new update has started hitting Samsung's series smartphones as well as . The update for the former set of devices is hitting units in Europe (the Netherlands, currently), while...

Dual-screen YotaPhone 3 debuts

Dual-screen YotaPhone 3 debuts The founding father of the screen-on-the-back concept Yota announced the YotaPhone 3 today. The phone has a 5.2 E-Ink display its back with three capacitive keys as its most distinctive feature. At the front YotaPhone...

Samsung's next wearable to be smartwatch/fitness tracker hybrid

Samsung's next wearable to be smartwatch/fitness tracker hybrid Samsung has revealed some vital details related to its next wearable device. The revelation was made as part of a survey the company sent out to the members of its SmartLab Plus program....

vivo Xplay 7 to feature triple rear-camera and on-screen fingerprint sensor

vivo Xplay 7 to feature triple rear-camera and on-screen fingerprint sensor Recently, it that vivo is working on two new smartphones: X20 and X20 Plus. And now, some leaked presentation slides have confirmed that the X20 will be called Xplay 7 and have...

Huawei Mate 10 to be announced on October 16 in Munich

Huawei Mate 10 to be announced on October 16 in Munich After the announcement in the beginning of the year and the launch in June, now all Huawei fans' eyes are on the next Mate phablet. Last month and now we have a specific date to look forward to October...

AT&T confirms Galaxy S8 Active is on the way, still won't make it official

AT&T confirms Galaxy S8 Active is on the way, still won't make it official The for AT still isn't official, despite the pouring rain of leaks we've seen about it over the past few weeks. We got and already, but the carrier seems intent on postponing...

You can now send money through PayPal from within Skype's mobile apps

You can now send money through PayPal from within Skype's mobile apps Skype and PayPal have announced the integration of their respective services today. This applies to the Skype mobile apps for Android and iOS, in 22 countries in total. Here's the...

Microsoft is working on an iPad Touch Cover, official document reveals

Microsoft is working on an iPad Touch Cover, official document reveals Here's an interesting idea: how about a Microsoft Touch Cover for that iPad? Does that sound far-fetched to you? Well, it definitely doesn't to Microsoft, because through an official...

OpenSignals Q2 evaluation of US carriers ranks T-Mobile at the top

OpenSignals Q2 evaluation of US carriers ranks T-Mobile at the top Open Signal released a report of the performance of all four major US carriers in the US: Sprint, AT, Verizon, and T-Mobile. T-Mobile takes the cake overall in LTE and 3G speeds and latency,...

The new Samsung flip phone is now official for China Mobile

The new Samsung flip phone is now official for China Mobile Samsung has kept making phones in the clamshell form factor, though the only market that really . Samsung has released the W2017 flip phone late last year and a successor is making its way to...

LG teases the V30s 6-inch OLED display

LG teases the V30s 6-inch OLED display LG has put out a press release from its home country of South Korea where it outlines a few of the features we can expect from the companys upcoming flagship smartphone: The . All LG had to show for the display...

Video shows prototypes of Red's $1,200 Hydrogen One smartphone

Video shows prototypes of Red's $1,200 Hydrogen One smartphone Remember that $1,200 smartphone that high-end professional camera maker Red announced last month? Well, some prototypes of the phone have now appeared in a video from popular tech YouTuber...

FC Barcelona Oppo R11 coming next week

FC Barcelona Oppo R11 coming next week Oppo is all set to announce a new variant of the smartphone. The company has started sending out invites for an August 8 event, hinting that the phone's FC Barcelona Edition will be the star of the event. The new...

Deal Alert: Get a refurbished Samsung Galaxy S7 for $340

Deal Alert: Get a refurbished Samsung Galaxy S7 for $340 Amazon's daily deals have a few gems today and among them are a couple of that are going for just $340. Granted, the S7 is no longer a flagship device, but at that price it's a real steal. And...

Android O could come out next week

Android O could come out next week of Android O was released last Monday (July 24), and it was a release candidate. Unless any major bugs are uncovered, the final version will come out soon perhaps as soon as next week. The and are first in line to...

Nokia 8 may run Android 8.0.0 from day one

Nokia 8 may run Android 8.0.0 from day one We've already seen plenty of benchmarks of the upcoming , which will finally become . Some were even of Nokia's first Android-powered flagship, namely whether HMD Global would go for 8 or 9. Now that the Nokia...

The new OnePlus 5 color will be Gold

The new OnePlus 5 color will be Gold OnePlus 5 is about , a teaser suggested yesterday. It was always likely that the third option will be gold, since the color was mentioned in a TENAA listing before the phone was even announced, but today brought...

Facebook Stories are ready to invade your desktop

Facebook Stories are ready to invade your desktop are like , in that Snapchat's inspired them. But unlike Instagram Stories, Facebook Stories haven't been very successful since the launch in March. Almost no one is using Stories on Facebook, which is...

LastPass doubles the price of its Premium tier, reveals how much Families will cost

LastPass doubles the price of its Premium tier, reveals how much Families will cost In July, , detailing the features it would include but staying mum on pricing details. Today those have thankfully been revealed, although the LastPass Families plan...

Google reportedly wanted to buy Snapchat for $30 billion

Google reportedly wanted to buy Snapchat for $30 billion Snapchat, officially called Snap Inc., filed for IPO early on in March of this year. The company went public and would now has the capital of the public to lend financial support. However, a report...

New leak claims to show final design for Motorola Moto X4

New leak claims to show final design for Motorola Moto X4 It was @evleaks who first that the Moto X (2017) will carry moniker at launch. He then went on to share for the device that clearly showed the device's front as well as the back. This was followed...

Huawei BG2-U01 (MediaPad T3 7) 3g-tablet gets TENAA certified

Huawei BG2-U01 (MediaPad T3 7) 3g-tablet gets TENAA certified Looks like Huawei is all set to launch a new variant of tablet (that was launched back in May this year). Carrying a model number of BG2-U01, the tablet is powered by a quad-core 1.3GHz CPU,...

Latest OnePlus 3/3T Open Beta brings 'parallel apps' feature

Latest OnePlus 3/3T Open Beta brings 'parallel apps' feature A new OxygenOS Open Beta update has started hitting and smartphones. Aside from improvements and optimizations, the update brings along an interesting new feature: support for parallel apps....

Lenovo is dropping the Vibe Pure UI for stock Android

Lenovo is dropping the Vibe Pure UI for stock Android In five days will and it will be the first Lenovo smartphone without the Vibe Pure user interface and will ship with stock Android instead. The company is dropping the custom UI for all its future...

ASUS ZenPad 3S 8.0 arrives on Verizon with a new name

ASUS ZenPad 3S 8.0 arrives on Verizon with a new name In the end of the May, ASUS held an event at Computex in Taipei and the . Fast forward two months and the slate arrives in the United States on Verizon with a new name ASUS ZenPad Z8s. The retail...

YouTube Music finally allows offline saving of songs, albums, and playlists

YouTube Music finally allows offline saving of songs, albums, and playlists has added an incredibly useful feature today, one that amazingly hasn't been in all this time. We're talking about proper support for saving stuff offline. Up until this point,...

Netflix adds support for HDR on Sony Xperia XZ Premium

Netflix adds support for HDR on Sony Xperia XZ Premium Netflix has added support for HDR streaming on the . The device has now been listed on Netflix support page for HDR enabled mobile devices, alongside . The Xperia XZ Premium was launched earlier...