Xiaomi Mi3 5.0 Lollipop update in testing, release imminent

Xiaomi is on a seriously hot streak lately, the company selling smartphones as fast as it can build it. Its attractively priced devices even helped it climb to the third spot globally even though the quality of the Chinese maker's after-sale support has often been questioned. Luckily the Chinese are also looking to address that last concern by providing...

Android 5.0 factory image for Nexus 4 is now available

Android 5.0 Lollipop factory image for LG Nexus 4 is now available for download from Android Developers. The build number of the release is LRX21T. Google took extra two days to release the latest Android build to its 2012 flagship smartphone. Its successor, the LG Nexus 5 got updated to Android 5.0 Lollipop a couple of days ago alongside Nexus 10,...

iPhone 6 is selling three times better than iPhone 6 Plus

Although it's been selling a lot of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus units, Apple doesn't like to break down the numbers by model. So effectively we have no way of telling how many of those millions of units moved are iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus. Not an official way, at least, because now Consumer Intelligence Research Partners has produced a report which...

HTC One Google Play Editions to get Lollipop next week

Now that the Android 5.0 Lollipop updates for older devices have started in earnest, you may be wondering how long you still need to wait for the new bits if you own an HTC One Google Play Edition device. These, of course, are supposed to be on the fast track for OS updates - just like Nexus handsets. If you are wondering that, know that you aren't...

Samsung Galaxy Note Edge review: The other side

Nexus 6 by Motorola marks a shift in market positioning for Google's smartphone lineup. Whereas the duo of LG-made devices that precede it cut back on certain features to stay attractively priced, the Nexus 6 is ready to rub shoulders with...Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_note_edge-review-1165.p...

Jolla to announce something big on November 19

Jolla may not be huge in the smartphone market but does attract a serious amount of attention because it's made up of former Nokia employees and uses Nokia and Intel's old lovechild MeeGo OS in the form of its Sailfish OS. It has just one product so far - the midrange Jolla - but has just teased on Twitter and its website that "Something BIG is about...

Samsung Galaxy Note Edge now available in the US

The Samsung Galaxy Note Edge has curved its way into the stores of three US retailers. You can get it off contract, on-contract and with the carrier's respective upgrade early plan. You might want to sit down before we get to the pricing though. AT&T AT&T has put a $946 price tag on the Galaxy Note Edge for those who don't want a contract....

Windows 10 will be released to all WP8 Lumia phones

We have some wonderful news to all Lumia owners around the world. Today Microsoft announced via its Twitter account that all Windows Phone 8-based Lumia smartphones will be treated to the upcoming Windows 10 OS next year. The next iteration of Windows was announced recently and it will unify the Windows OS and make it compatible to phones, tablets...

Moto G Android 5.0 Lollipop soak test starts in India today

Motorola will commence the Android 5.0 Lollipop soak test for the Moto G today, as revealed by a company's representative. The company already released the official updates for the Moto G (2014) and Moto X(2014). The soak test for the latest Android version will start in India where users who've registered in the Motorola Feedback Network program...

Alleged Xiaomi Mi5 spy photo reveal bezel-free design

Possible Xiaomi Mi5 spy shots have surfaced showing the phone right from the production line. As you can see from the photo, the phone in question is clearly made by Xiaomi and features what looks to be a display that's larger than 5". The bezels are extremely thin, but we can't really tell how thick is the phone itself. Unfortunately, there are no...

Sprint starts selling th Nexus 6 for $299 on a 2-year contract

Sprint is joining AT&T in selling the Nexus 6 today. You can have the phone for $0 down payment if you go with one of the company's Easy Pay plans, which require 24 monthly payments of $29 each. You can also sign a regular two-year contract and get the 32GB Midnight Blue Nexus 6 for $299. The full no-contract retail price of the phone on Sprint's...

Project Tango developer tablet arrives in the Google Play store

Google's Project Tango tablet development kit quietly arrived in the Google Play store. The feature-rich slate in not available to purchase yet - it is listed as "not for sale at this time." The Project Tango tablet is geared towards professional developers interested in 3D sensing. It contains custom hardware and software that allow it to track 3D...

Samsung and BlackBerry announce strategic partnership

Samsung and BlackBerry announced a strategic partnership. The deal will bring the Canadian company's highly praised mobile security solutions to the Korean giant's lineup of Android devices. The end result of the partnership between the two companies will be available in early 2015. It will merge BlackBerry's BES12 cross-platform EMM solution and...

BlackBerry Classic up for pre-order now, priced at $449

The BlackBerry Classic has been teased by the Canadian smartphone maker for many months now. It's been already semi-announced, so to speak, and starting today you can finally pre-order one if you want. The smartphone stays true to its name, coming with that classic BlackBerry form factor - a candybar styling with a full physical QWERTY keyboard appearing...

Nexus 6 enters DxOMark Top 10 for camera performance

The Nexus 6 has had its camera tested by the folks over at DxOMark, and they've published the results. The first Nexus phablet got a score of 78, which nets it the sixth position in DxOMark's Top 10 for best mobile phone cameras. As we have told you back in September, according to the same source, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus have the best cameras...

Asus may not reach its 2015 sales target because of Xiaomi

Asus is expected to ship around 8 million smartphones this year, according to "Taiwan-based supply chain makers". The company's ZenFone line has proven quite successful in its home country, but also in Southeast Asia. It's now set on doing well in Russia, Brazil, and even the UK with its wares. Asus wants to sell 16 million smartphones in 2015, which...

Meizu MX4 Pro stars in a new set of hands-on pictures

Meizu is expected to finally unveil the MX4 Pro smartphone next week, on November 19 to be precise. Before that happens, though, we've got another batch of leaked photos allegedly showing the device in the wild. There have been many such leaks over the past few weeks, and not all of them have shown the exact same design - so clearly, some are fake....

Vivo teases 3.75mm thick X5 Max, explains how it got so thin

The Oppo R5 currently holds the title of "world's thinnest smartphone" at 3.75mm but that may not last long since the announcement of the Vivo X5 Max is drawing near. Also leaked images show the newcomer has a profile of on 3.75mm. The company is teasing the device by revealing how its impressively slender body was constructed and how it's better...

Vivo teases 3.75mm thick X5 Play, explains how it got so thin

The Oppo R5 currently holds the title of "world's thinnest smartphone" at 4.85mm but that may not last long since the announcement of the Vivo X5 Max is drawing near. Also leaked images show the newcomer has a profile of on 3.75mm. The company is teasing the device by revealing how its impressively slender body was constructed and how it's better...

Meizu MX4, Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Alpha lead AnTuTu chart

AnTuTu has posted a chart with the top 10 best performing smartphones throughout the Q3 this year. The king of the chart is Meizu MX4, while the runner-ups are the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and Samsung Galaxy Alpha. The Galaxy Note 4 and the Galaxy Alpha are just a whisker below the Meizu MX4, while the rest of the devices are noticeably slower. All scores...

Strategy Analytics: LG has record market share in North America

According to the latest report from Strategy Analytics, LG reached a record market share in North America - for Q3 2014, the company had 16.3%. For the same period last year the company had just 7.4%, making its achievement particularly significant. LG also managed to score another quarterly record in terms of sales. For Q3 2014, the company sold...

Vivo teases 4.75mm thick X5 Play, explains how it got so thin

The Oppo R5 currently holds the title of "world's thinnest smartphone" at 4.85mm but that may not last long since the announcement of the Vivo X5 Max is drawing near. It will start a war of decimal points by coming in at 4.75mm thick. The company is teasing the device by revealing how its impressively slender body was constructed and how it's better...

Blue Steel LG G3 now available at BestBuy

The LG G3 is already available in a myriad of colors - Metallic Black, Silk White, Shine Gold, Moon Violet and Burgundy Red - but now we can add a brand new color to that list - Blue Steel. The Blue Steel LG G3 has gone on sale in the US for Sprint, AT&T and Verizon and is sold exclusively from BestBuy on contract starting at $99.99. Blue Steel...

Sharp reveals 4.1" IGZO LCD display with a whopping 736ppi

Sharp took the wraps off a 4.1" IGZO LCD display with a resolution of with a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels. Such high resolution on a display this size results in the barely believable pixel density of 736ppi. The above mentioned pixel density matches that of a 6" 4K display panel. A couple of weeks ago Sharp announced that it will have such unit...

Lollipop rollout for 2014 Moto G, Moto X gets official

Earlier today, a source apparently had information about the update to Android 5.0 Lollipop already rolling out to unlocked Moto G (2014) units. Shortly after, we heard that this was in fact nothing more than a 'soak test', and not an actual widespread rollout. Well, things are different now, as Motorola has just made it official: Lollipop updates...

Motorola Nexus 6 review: Setting the tone

Nexus 6 by Motorola marks a shift in market positioning for Google's smartphone lineup. Whereas the duo of LG-made devices that precede it cut back on certain features to stay attractively priced, the Nexus 6 is ready to rub shoulders with...Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_nexus_6-review-1164.p...

CES 2015 Innovation awards: Samsung grabs 36, LG snags 10

Samsung and LG happily announced they've been recognized for their products in the CES 2015 Innovation Awards. Samsung grabbed awards for 36 of its products - 12 more than last year - while LG won 10. Out of the overall 36 CES awards for 2015, Samsung won 2 from the Best of Innovation awards category and 4 from the Eco-Design honors. Part of the company's...

Samsung Galaxy S6 to pack next-gen UFS memory

Korean newspaper ETNews has outed a report citing a Samsung insider, who claims the company is going to use a next-gen NAND flash storage in the upcoming Galaxy S6. The storage technology in question is called UFS 2.0, which stands for Universal Flash Storage. UFS can reach SSD-like transfer speeds, but is cheap to manufacture like eMMC memory chips....

Samsung sues Nvidia overa false benchmark results

Samsung has undertaken court action to sue Nvidia accusing it of false advertising as it presumably faked some benchmark results, which compare the Exynos 5433 to the Tegra K1. The false advertising claim concerns the Galaxy Note 4, which Nvidia compared to the Shield Tablet not too long ago. Nvidia claims the Tegra K1 residing in it is the "world's...

Rumors on Xperia Z4 promise sharper screens, better designs

Some previous rumors may suggest that Sony will be abandoning its two-flagships-per-year strategy, but rumors about the Xperia Z4 family have already started just months after the release of the Xperia Z3 and Z3 Compact. Alleged insider info claims Sony will come out with a full Z4 lineup - the Xperia Z4 flagship, the Z4 Compact, a Z4 Ultra phablet...

Xiaomi releases unofficial AOSP Lollipop build for Mi 2/2S

Xiaomi has released an AOSP build of Android 5.0 Lollipop for the Xiaomi Mi 2/2S. The build lacks all the features of MIUI and is completely stock Android. The ROM does not have any major issues but there are some bugs, which might hamper everyday usage. Also, being an unofficial ROM, you will have to flash it manually and it won't be pushed as an...

Unlocked Moto G 2nd Gen getting the Android Lollipop update

Well, this is surprising. After the developer edition of the Moto X 2nd Generation started receiving the Android 5.0 Lollipop update, it's now turn of the unlocked version of the Moto G 2nd Generation. Motorola's latest budget smartphone is now being treated to the latest and greatest version of Android, well before any of the Nexus or Google Play...

ZTE Nubia Z9 possibly shown in leaked pictures

ZTE's Nubia Z7 line might get at least one successor in the near future. This could be called Nubia Z9, keeping with the Chinese company's way of doing things (it went from Z5 to Z7, after all). And it may have incredibly thin lateral bezels for its screen, as shown in the two images you can see below (click for full-res versions). ZTE Nubia Z9 The...

Nexus 6 pre-orders are go for Nov 18, shipping soon after

The Motorola-made Nexus 6 was delayed in Europe after it went on pre-order in the US at the end of last month. We heard that we might get to pre-order the Nexus 6 by November 18 and now it seems that information turned out correct. A couple of Dutch retailers have the device up with expected pre-orders on November 18 and the latest information suggests...

CyanogenMod introduces Scramble PIN layout

A known weakness of touchscreen PIN entry is that you leave fingerprints, so it's easy for someone holding your phones to tell which numbers you pressed (not their order, but it doesn't take too many tries to guess it). CyanogenMod has provided a solution - scramble the digits on the keyboard! This way the position of your fingerprints doesn't give...

Samsung SM-Z130H pops up with a 480p display, Tizen OS 2.3

The user-agent profile of the yet unannounced Samsung SM-Z130H smartphone has popped up revealing some of the phone's specs. By the looks of it, the phone will sport a 1.2GHz CPU on the ARMv7 architecture (probably quad-core Cortex-A7 on the Snapdragon 400 platform) and will run Tizen OS 2.3. The phone is built around a 4" display with 480p resolution....

OnePlus One second pre-order will go live on November 17

OnePlus is set to begin a second day of pre-orders on November 17 so that users yearning for a OnePlus One can either buy or pre-order one. The one hour window is as follows - PST (Nov 17, 8AM-9AM), EST (Nov 17, 11AM-12AM), GMT (Nov 17, 4PM-5PM), CET (Nov 17, 5PM-6PM) and HKT (Nov 18, 12AM-1AM). Once the pre-orders begin users will get the chance...

LG unveils the Aka - a smartphone that has an eye on you

Sure, Siri can crack a joke, but can it really look at you? Of course it can't, silly, it doesn't have eyes - not like the LG Aka. Supposedly pronounced "aw-kuh", this Android-powered phone has eyes, which peek out from its case, and tries to establish an emotional connection with you. There are four Akas, which more or less follow the color scheme...

Microsoft Lumia 535 goes official with 5" qHD display

The first Windows Phone smartphone to carry the Microsoft name is now a fact. The already leaked, entry-level Microsoft Lumia 535 will being rolling out to key markets this month in single or dual-SIM variants. Microsoft Lumia 535 features Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 chipset with 1.2GHz quad-core CPU. There's 1GB of RAM and 8GB of built-in memory, which...

Motorola Droid Turbo review: Power robot

Motorola Droid Turbo for Verizon Wireless is the latest product of a long and prolific partnership between the storied manufacturer and the largest wireless carrier in the United States. Over the years, Motorola and Verizon have released a number of groundbreaking...Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_droid_turbo-review-1163.p...

Leak details where the Galaxy Note Edge will be sold

The Samsung Galaxy Note Edge may be a niche device, but it's one that's gotten a lot of people interested in it. On the other hand, Samsung's only confirmed its release in the US, Japan, and its home country of South Korea. Yet if you were wondering where else the Note Edge will be sold, the latest rumor on the matter wants to deliver. We have, in...

OnePlus One pre-orders come back next week for one hour

OnePlus is getting ready for a new round of pre-orders for its One smartphone. The first attempt at a pre-order window took place on October 27, and it wasn't smooth sailing at all. Website errors kept many people from placing a pre-order, so the company promised to create a second window of opportunity in November. The date for that was already known...

LG roadmap promises bending, foldable, rollable screens

For many years now there's been speculation of "flexible displays" coming to smartphones. In 2013 we even saw the first two devices to come with curved screens (though you couldn't bend them yourself): the LG G Flex and the Samsung Galaxy Round. Those served as a showcase of what was then possible in terms of display technology, but as you'd expect...

Alleged Vivo Xplay 5S images leak, promise a glorious phone

Vivo is working on another monster flagship - the Vivo Xplay 5S may be the 3.8mm (or so) thick smartphone that the company has been teasing, perhaps (or perhaps not) the one with Snapdragon 810 too. Keep in mind that the Vivo PR team has a history of playing tricks on eager readers who browse various rumors so these leaked images and indeed specs...

Imagination unveils PowerVR 7XT adn 7XE GPUs

Imagination is the maker behind the PowerVR GPUs best known from Apple's line of iOS devices, but have also been used in Exynos, MediaTek and other chipsets. Today the company unveiled the Series7 GPUs that span two branches aimed at anything from wearables to desktop-class computing. Both branches - 7XT and 7XE - support Android Expansion Pack (AEP),...

More Microsoft Lumia 535 high-res photos emerge

The first non-Nokia Lumia is expected to go official tomorrow, November 11. Microsoft had a really hard time keeping the phone under wraps though, as the Lumia 535 has been leaked numerous times with specs and live pictures. We know the Microsoft Lumia 535 is going to sport a 5" qHD display and run on the Snapdragon 200 chip with a quad-core 1.2GHz...

Xiaomi on track to score $1.5 billion funding, now worth $40B

A report by CNBC suggests Xiaomi managed to raise $1.5 billion in investment capital in its latest round of funding. Facebook, Alibaba, Airbnb and Russian ISP DST are among the companies investing in Xiaomi. This is the largest private financing ever received by a tech company since 2011, when Facebook managed to score roughly the same amount of money....

Apple releases deregister tool to unlink your number from iMessage

If you switched away from an iPhone, you may have issues receiving SMS sent by someone from an iOS device to your number, as those may still be sent to your iMessage account. The solution for this was to switch off the iMessage feature on your old iPhone before you switched but if you no longer have the phone with you, Apple has now released a tool...

A new Lumia phablet leaks, possibly Lumia 1330

A smudgy shot has been making the rounds lately, showing the soon to be announced Lumia 535. Microsoft is expected to announce the entry level Lumia next week - on November 11. Attentive readers however have spotted that next to it on the blurry image there is a yet-unseen Lumia phablet. The size comparison to the Lumia 535 and the Lumia 1520, which...

Lollipop-powered LG H440n leaks via benchmark

It has been a particularly eventful weekend for LG, the Koreans following the Android 5.0 Lollipop leak for their G3 flagship with an official confirmation of its rollout. Now we understand that the company is also busy testing another 5.0 Lollipop device. LG H440n surfaced in a scorecard from the HTML5Test website, which also confirms the great HTML5...