Google Keep for iOS gets Notification Center widget and share sheet support

Google has pushed a small update for the Google Keep app on iOS, that adds a couple of useful features. The app now has a Notification Center widget, which lets you quickly create notes from the notifications itself without first opening the app, and even access recently created notes. The app also has support for share sheet, which means you can...

Rumored HTC One X9 sporting 23MP camera and QHD display leaks out

Less than a month after HTC launched the highly anticipated One A9 smartphone, a new handset from the company has been leaked online. Dubbed One X9, the rumored device reportedly carries a model number of E56 and will cost RMB 2,999 (around $470). Specs-wise, from what the leak suggests, the smartphone will be either powered by Qualcomm's upcoming...

18.4-inch Samsung Galaxy View tablet now available in the US

Samsung Galaxy View, the company's odd 18.4-inch device to bridge the gap between your regular-sized tablet and your TV, is now available for purchase in the US. It can be ordered from several outlets, including Samsung's own official website, though some differences in shipping dates are observed. If you buy it from the manufacturer, it'll take...

Apple Watch now available in India

The Apple Watch is finally available in the Indian market, just in time for the Indian festival Diwali when sales are high. All three variants of the Apple Watch will be available in India. The base Apple Watch Sports starts at INR 30,900 ($467) for the 38mm model and INR 34,900 ($529) for the 48MM model. The standard 38mm Apple Watch with Sport...

Shipments for some HTC One A9 color variants are getting delayed in the US

HTC was supposed to begin One A9 shipments in the first week of this month. However, a quick look at the device's official online listing reveals that some color variants will be delayed. As you can see in the screenshot above, HTC says that T-Mobile & ATT orders for Gray & Silver unlocked variants will ship on November 10, while Sprint orders...

OPPO R7s goes on pre-order in Malaysia; Rose Gold variant also on offer

The Oppo R7s, the latest member in the company's R7 family of smartphones which was made official last month during GITEX in Dubai, is now up for pre-order in Malaysia. The device is now listed on Oppo's official Malaysia website carrying a RM 1,898 (around $435) price tag, and you can pre-order it without paying anything upfront. The pre-order period...

3RDi is a headband that puts a camera on your forehead

Capturing your action-packed life with a GoPro strapped to your head is neither the most comfortable experience, nor is it exactly high fashion. Well, aiming to address two two issues (and sort of succeeding with the first), a company called 3RDiTEK has come up with the 3RDi camera. The device is a headband with a built-in camera module on the front....

LG Class arrives in Europe as LG Zero with $320 price tag

Back in September this year, LG launched its first metal-clad smartphone Class in its home country of South Korea. The device has now landed in Europe, although with a different name: LG Zero. The handset is, however, currently only available in Italy, where it is being offered in gold and silver color options, and carries a price tag of €299 (around...

Xiaomi Mi Band 1S unveiled with a heart-rate sensor for less than $16

Xiaomi's long-awaited and oft-leaked update to the popular Mi Band has been officially revealed. The new Mi Band 1S adds an important feature, missing in the predecessor, and that's a heart-rate monitor. Making for a more complete activity tracker, the optical heart-rate sensor adds to the already available step counter and sleep monitor. Existing...

Rumored HTC One X9 sporting 23MP camera and 2K display leaks out

Less than a month after HTC launched the highly anticipated One A9 smartphone, a new handset from the company has been leaked online. Dubbed One X9, the rumored device reportedly carries a model number of E56 and will cost RMB 2,999 (around $470). Specs-wise, from what the leak suggests, the smartphone will be either powered by Qualcomm's upcoming...

Trade-in an iPhone 5/5s and get big discounts on Samsung flagships in Russia

Samsung is reportedly offering big discounts on the 32GB and 64GB variants of its Galaxy S6 edge+ and Galaxy Note5 flagships, respectively, in Russia - all you have to do is to trade-in an iPhone 5/5s. While the discount offered on the former is RUB 10,000 (around $155), the price of the latter gets reduced by RUB 15,000 (around $235). Those who...

HTC A9w with octa-core CPU and 5-inch display certified by TENAA

A new HTC smartphone has been spotted listed on the website of Chinese certification and regulatory authority TENAA. Dubbed A9w, the handset is quite similar to the newly-launched One A9 in both looks as well as specifications. The listing reveals that the device is powered by an octa-core 1.5GHz processor (should be Snapdragon 617), and sports a...

BlackBerry starts shipping Priv, offering free accessories as a thank you gesture

If you've pre-ordered a BlackBerry Priv directly from the company, you'll be glad to know that the device has started shipping - if not already, you'll be receiving an email from the company notifying the same. This means that you'll be receiving your unit shortly, although BlackBerry hasn't shared a specific timeline. In the email, the company also...

BlackBerry Priv to arrive on Verizon soon, carrier confirms

BlackBerry Priv is now available for purchase in the US, although among carriers, only AT&T is currently selling it. However, for those on Verizon waiting for the handset, here is some good news: the carrier has confirmed that it will be carrying the device "soon." PRIV™ by BlackBerry. The first-ever BlackBerry powered by Android. Coming soon....

Facebook for iOS now previews Apple Music and Spotify songs in News Feed

Facebook wants people to share more music on its social network, it seems. Hence, the company is launching a new feature today, for now only in its iOS app. It's called Music Stories, and it's an enhanced way of showing songs and albums shared from Spotify or Apple Music in the Facebook News Feed. Such tracks and albums will be emphasized in the...

Pebble Time Round becomes available on November 8

Pebble announced its first round smartwatch back in September, yet it's still not out. That's all set to change very soon, as the company has just unveiled the official release date for the wearable. The Pebble Time Round will be available on November 8 at Best Buy, Target, Amazon, as well as through Pebble's own online store. Target and Best Buy...

HTC One A9 full length commercial released

HTC has received a lot of flack for designing its new HTC One A9 to look like an iPhone 6, to which HTC responded that Apple was the one who copied HTC's unibody metal design cues from the One series. Ironically, HTC made an ad that tells its viewers to be different and stand out. The commercial below shows a bunch of people breaking away from conforming...

Marshmallow enters Google's Android distribution chart for the first time

Back in September Lollipop finally went past 20% in Google's monthly Android distribution chart, and now, with the latest iteration of the report, Marshmallow is making its debut. Hopefully you weren't expecting the latest version of the OS to have a big impact already in terms of market share. Because it doesn't. It currently sits at 0.3%, which...

YouTube for Android now supports VR for all videos

YouTube's Android app is getting into the VR thing. Starting with an update that's rolling out from today via Google Play, the app now supports VR videos. There are two layers to this. First off, you can view VR videos - a new type of video that gives you "a sense of depth as you look around in every direction". These are actual VR videos, so to...

Gionee teases the Elife S6 ahead of its November 16 unveiling

Towards the end of last month Gionee first started teasing its upcoming Elife S6 smartphone. At the time we were given little more than the November 16 unveiling date. Today though the Chinese company has decided to continue its teaser campaign. And, thankfully, this time around we are given a few glimpses at the smartphone's design. The announcement...

Xiaomi Mi Band 1S to be released November 7th

The Xiaomi Mi Band turned a lot of heads last year when it matched the functionality of other entry-level fitness trackers at a much lower price tag of CNY79 ($15 dollars when it began selling in the US). Its successor, the Xiaomi Mi Band 1S, is reported to launch on November 7th just in time for China's biggest shopping day of the year, November...

Lenovo planning a September 2016 Marshmallow update for the K3 Note

Lenovo's Android update tracker has just been updated to give a timeframe when specific devices will be receiving Marshmallow, if at all. To quickly clear the air - hugely popular devices like the K3 Note and A7000/A7000 Plus will indeed be graced with an Android M firmware, just not particularly soon. Okay, that might have been an understatement....

Cute video explains the essence of Tizen

The Tizen OS is still very much in its infancy, but in its short 3 year lifespan it has come a long way and shows great promise. Now, you might not think much of the platform and that is perfectly understandable, considering its limited spread and immaturity when compared to the big boys, but Tizen is growing at an impressive rate and with Samsung...

Meizu Pro 5 mini shows up in online store with super-mini specs

The Meizu Pro 5 mini has been flying under the radar for the most part, but to cropped up on a European seller's site with full specs and price. This is a rare entry into the premium mini flagship and while it differs from its Meizu Pro 5 sibling, it makes no sacrifices. It sports a 4.7" AMOLED display with 1080p resolution in what is likely a metal...

The Sony Xperia Z5 Premium on sale in Taiwan, gets first OTA

It appears Sony's current crown jewel - the 4K Xperia Z5 Premium has made it a bit quicker to the Taiwanese market than initially expected. The handset is seeing a limited launch in the region and reportedly only a few retailers have some available units, mainly intended to fulfill pre-orders, meaning that the most eager fans probably already got...

Samsung may open up its payment service to third-party OEMs at some point

Samsung Pay is one of the more interesting contactless payment solution to come along in a while and probably the most ambitious one as well. If you haven't heard about it yet, it aims to successfully trick almost any traditional swipe payment terminal and transmit a secure version of you card information to it. The whole idea is almost too good...

Strategy Analytics: Tizen overtakes BB OS for fourth place

There are many hopefuls in the smartphone OS race. Windows Phone (now Windows 10 Mobile) is fairly secure in its third spot, while BlackBerry held on to fourth after dropping through the ranks. It seems that the freefall of the Canadians continues and now Tizen occupies the fourth place, according to Strategy Analytics. Tizen has the advantage of...

Huawei Watch arriving at the UK for £290

It's been a long wait, but smartwatch aficionados based in the UK can now look forward to a Huawei Watch from Vmall and Selfridges and soon Google Play Store too. The Selfridges search tool yields no results as of yet, but Vmall has a number of configurations (those aren't available for immediate purchase though). The most affordable version - pairs...

The Kirin 950 SoC goes official, posts a record AnTuTu score

It's November 5 and sure enough, just as promised, Huawei pulled the curtains on its latest mobile chipset - the Kirin 950. The silicon in question has been generating quite a lot of attention with leaked specs and benchmark scores that promise industry-leading performance. It appears that the rumor mill got everything right and there are no real...

Sennheiser announces new € 50,000 Orpheus headphones

At some point you may have come across the name Sennheiser Orpheus. They were a one of a kind pair of headphones from the German manufacturer that you won't normally see on its catalog. That's because only 300 of them were made and, well, they were obscenely expensive. The original Orpheus were made 25 years ago. Now, Sennheiser has come up with...

Vivo X6 teasers confirm 4GB RAM, 4G LTE

Vivo continues its teaser campaign about the Vivo X6, officially confirming the 4GB RAM spec and also 4G connectivity. The teaser animation shows that more apps can fit in 4GB RAM, boosting multitasking, but it says nothing about the most interesting rumored features of the X6. That would be the 1GB of dedicated video RAM, like discrete computer...

Android 5.1.1 rolled out for the Wi-Fi-only Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014)

Samsung has finally started rolling out the long-awaited Lollipop update for the Wi-Fi-only version of its Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014) tablet. The two year-old device carrying a model designation SM-P600 follows its LTE (SM-P605) brother, which started getting Android 5.1 a month earlier. The Exynos 5420 powered device, released two years ago, naturally...

OnePlus X can now be ordered in Europe

As originally promised, the OnePlus X can now be ordered in the EU, straight from the company's website. Starting today, the Onyx glass-backed version is available for purchase at €269. You can also pick up 3 of the 5 announced protective cases for an additional €24.99 a pop. Unfortunately, the fancy Ceramic body option is not yet available, and...

Surface Pro 4 coming to India early 2016

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced at the company's Future Unleashed event in India, that the company will be bringing the fourth generation Surface tablet, the Surface Pro 4, to the Indian market in early 2016. The Surface Pro 4 will be the first device to be launched in India, as Microsoft has so far kept the Surface lineup away from the Indian...

Android 6.0 Marshmallow rolling out to LG G4 in South Korea

LG started rolling out the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update to the G4 smartphone in Poland last month, and now the update has begun hitting the flagship device in the company's home country of South Korea. Poland isn't particularly a major market for the company, so last month's roll out there was essentially a test run. And with Android 6.0 now rolling...

Samsung outs a duo of high-end Ativ Book 9 notebooks with Windows 10

Samsung took the wraps off a duo of hight end Ativ Book 9 notebooks with Windows 10 on board. Dubbed Ativ Book 9 Pro and Ativ Book 9 Spin, the laptops will hit the shelves this month, priced at $1,599 and $1,399 respectively. As its name suggests, Samsung Ativ Book 9 Pro is the more capable member of the duo. Its entry-level configuration features...

Apple releases second public beta of iOS 9.2

Last week Apple made the first public beta of iOS 9.2 available for those who had signed up for its software beta testing program. And today, just six days later, we get the second experimental iteration of the next version of the company's mobile operating system. iOS 9.2 Public Beta 2, as Apple is calling it, is now rolling out as an over-the-air...

6,000 mAh Microsoft Portable Power DC-21 can now be had for just $24.99

The Microsoft Portable Power DC-21 is an external battery pack that's so far been sold for $49. It comes with 6,000 mAh of capacity, which means that when full it can charge almost any smartphone out there at least twice. And no, the device you charge doesn't have to run Windows 10 or Windows Phone for this accessory to work. So, the good news now...

LG device rolls through the, looks like a new G4 variant

Documents for a new LG device have appeared on the FCC's website yesterday with the product number "H815PX". The LG G4's product number for the South American and South African variant is "H815P". It is not clear why LG would keep the "815**" code since the US variants use the numbers "H810", and "H811" for AT&T and T-Mobile, respectively, while...

Huawei Y3 launches as the UK's cheapest smartphone

Today Carphone Warehouse launched a new device in the UK, and it's claiming that this is the cheapest smartphone in the country. We're talking about the decidedly low-end Huawei Y3, which you can already grab from the aforementioned retailer. Clearly, the price is the headline feature here. The Huawei Y3 is just £59.99 unlocked and SIM-free. Alternatively,...

Skype now has a share button of its own

If when you see those Facebook and Twitter share buttons across the Web the first thing that comes to your mind is "why doesn't Skype have one?", then you'll be happy to know that Microsoft has obliged. The Skype team has announced its own share button today, one that webmasters can add to their websites (naturally). And when you, a visitor of a...

Samsung Gear S2 review: Shifting gears around

Samsung is definitely a veteran on the smartwatch scene, perhaps even more so than LG. The Korean giant has already done a few experiments in the field, some of which arguably quite successful, but the Gear S2 might just be the biggest one yet. Source: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_gear_s2-review-1334.p...

Upcoming Oppo A53 gets outed by TENAA

At the end of September an Oppo A33 got detailed thanks to the fact that it was certified by TENAA, China's equivalent of the FCC. And now the regulatory agency is at it again, outing yet another unannounced Oppo device - the A53. As their respective model numbers imply, the Oppo A53 is a bit higher-end than the A33, though you shouldn't expect flagship-quality...

BRITECELL is a new Samsung trademark, likely for the 1/2" Galaxy S7 sensor

Now that the word is out that Samsung might be going in a whole new direction for the Galaxy S7's camera, sources have dug up a patent filing that all but confirms the rumor. What could BRITECELL possibly mean, but a rather obvious word play on "bright" indicating a sensor with low light shooting capabilities, just like we'd expect from a 12MP type...

Vivo teases X6 today, instead of the Xplay 3S successor

Vivo was expected to unveil the successor to the Xplay 3S today, instead the company offered a teaser - an image of a gift box with X6 on its lid. There's not much else about this new device, except that it will focus on four things: stability, speed, battery life and durability. This more or less lines up with what we've been hearing about the Xplay...

ZTE Nubia Z9 Max Elite with side-mounted fingerprint sensor receives TENAA certification

Last month, we told you about the existence of the Elite versions of the ZTE Nubia Z9 Max and Nubia Z9 Mini smartphones. Turns out it has just been certified by Chinese certification authority TENAA, adding weight to the expectation that the devices will be launched soon. The listing for the Nubia Z9 Max Elite reveals pretty much what we already...

Analyst: Apple will bring back the 4'' iPhone in next year

There have been "iPhone mini" rumors since before Apple introduced the 5.5" iPhone Plus, but now that the 4" has languished people are starting to miss it. So much so that KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes Apple can move 20-30 million of such a phone. He gives the following prescription for the specs: metal casing (since the 5s far outsold...

Repair shop in China can upgrade the storage on your iPhone, iPad

What if you could take your iPhone to the shop and have more storage added? It's no longer an "if," at least in China where one repair shop has cracked the puzzle of upgrading iPhones and iPads. Apple has software protection in place that verifies that the hardware is the right configuration. That is circumvented through a loophole that may be closed...

180,000 Gear S2 units reportedly sold out in eight hours in China

While we already knew that Samsung's Gear S2 smartwatch has been a hit in the company's home country of South Korea, a new report is indicating that the wearable is creating waves in China, too. As per the report, the demand for the Gear S2 in China is soaring, with the launch sale on popular third-party retailer JD.com seeing 180,000 units of the...

Twitter replaces stars with hearts

If you're on Twitter, you may have noticed a new UI change on the company's website and mobile apps. The longstanding star button for favoriting tweets has now been replaced with a heart button. You can say a lot with a heart. Introducing a new way to show how you feel on Twitter: https://t.co/WKBEmORXNW pic.twitter.com/G4ZGe0rDTP— Twitter (@twitter)...