Only the 5-inch iPhone 8 to have a glass back, wireless charging

Another day, another contradicting iPhone rumor - when will it end? Well, next September is a pretty safe assumption. Anyway, in today's batch of supposed specs for the future iPhone we have a 5-inch model that will be fitted with wireless (or rather, inductive) charging capability. Based on 'reliable sources' from Taiwan, Japanese blog Macotacara...

Google App v6.13 to bring Google Assistant to non-Pixels, or at least maybe

Google's personal assistant, quite creatively called Google Assistant, is so far only officially available on the Pixel and Pixel XL, as smartphones go. However, a new alpha release of the Google app (v6.13) for users signed up to the beta channel suggest that might be changing in the near future. The folks over at Android Police report that the...

[Flames] Red Meizu Pro 6 Plus shows up in live images

Meizu is no stranger to unorthodox paint jobs and last summer we saw the Pro 6 in what was dubbed the Flames Red color scheme. Well, the Pro 6 Plus has now shown up on Weibo in a new color outside of the usual Pink-Rose-Gold spectrum. Meizu Pro 6 Plus in red It's an even brighter and more striking hue than the Pro 6 before it, and if a color deserves...

Sony Xperia X Performance and HTC One M9 on Rogers getting Nougat update

Canadian carrier Rogers has started rolling out the Nougat update to Sony Xperia X Performance and HTC One M9 units on its network. The update brings along Android version 7.0 to both devices - for the X Performance, the update also includes support for VoLTE. The carrier's OS upgrade schedule also reveals that Nougat for the Samsung Galaxy S7/S7...

Weekly poll: What is your ideal screen resolution?

Doesn't everybody love a good pixel war? Just a decade ago QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) screens were considered high-res and now you can even find 1080p displays on phones under $200. We even saw a 4K screen in the meantime - the Xperia Z5 Premium seemed like a VR fan's dream only Sony forgot to deliver a VR headset with it. Or was there more to the company's...

Samsung offering several Valentine's Day offers in India

If you are a Samsung fan in India, and are planning to purchase a new smartphone, you'll be glad to know that Samsung is offering several offers, which are part of the company's Bundle of Love promo that's been launched keeping the Valentine's Day in mind. As part of the promo, the company is offering Samsung EVO memory cards at discounted rates...

Honor 8 Nougat update will start rolling out in US on February 11

While it was earlier announced to be coming on February 10, Huawei has now confirmed that the Nougat update for the Honor 8 smartphone will actually start rolling out a day later, i.e, on February 11. The announcement came in the form of a tweet from the US subsidiary of the Chinese company: EMUI 5.0 is coming to Honor 8 from Feb 11th! Check out...

New OneDrive for iOS update brings support for animated GIF files

Microsoft has pushed out a new update to the iOS client of its OneDrive app. The update, which bumps the app to version 8.8.9, brings along several changes, including support for animated GIF files. Aside from animated GIF support, the updated app now also lets you instantly switch accounts by tapping and holding on the Me tab. Those with work or...

Motorola Moto G5 European pricing tipped; starts at €189

The European pricing of the upcoming Motorola Moto G5 smartphone has been leaked. The leak comes courtesy of popular tipster Roland Quandt, who revealed in a tweet that the device will start at €189. Looks like Moto G5 will launch at much lower prices than G4 in Euroland: 2/16GB for ~189 Euro, 3/16GB for ~209 Euro. (was 249 for G4)— Roland Quandt...

Samsung Gear VR (2016) drops further, currently going for around $45

Planning to purchase a Samsung Gear VR? You might want to check out the discount Amazon is offering on the device. The retailer currently has the headset (international variant) listed on its website for just $45.98, which is further down from the $52.51 tag the device was carrying a few weeks ago. A quick look at the South Korean company's website...

OnePlus 3T 128 GB is available for pre-order

The OnePlus 3T has been facing supply shortages ever since its announcement, but things have been picking up lately. After OnePlus finally made the 64GB 3T available for immediate dispatch in EU and North America the company is finally ready to bring the large storage version to its online store. OnePlus 3T in 128GB Gunmetal flavor is up for pre-order....

Samsung Galaxy C7 Pro to soon be available outside of China

Samsung officially unveiled the Galaxy C7 Pro last month, and the device is currently only available in China. While there has been no information so far on whether or not the handset will be available outside of China, that's changing now as support page for the phone is live on Samsung's Hong Kong website. An exact launch date isn't yet known,...

LG Watch Style and Watch Sport now available for purchase in US

The Android Wear 2.0-powered LG Watch Style and Watch Sport, which were announced just a few days ago, are now available for purchase in the United States. The devices can be purchased from Google's online store. As far as third-party retailers are concerned, the Watch Style is also listed on Best Buy's website, while Verizon and AT&T are carrying...

A number of matte black iPhone 7's are chipping

An Apple Community discussion has gained a lot of attention over the past day or so as an increasing number of iPhone 7 users are upset with the anodized coating of the matte black model that is chipping off, resulting in a really off-putting appearance when silver aluminum is exposed behind the chipped coating. The community post started back in...

Leaked logo confirms Samsung will use the name "Galaxy S8+"

Today, Evan Blass tweeted an image of leaked branding for what could be the official logo, font, and colors of the Galaxy S8+. This, in turn, also sort of confirms that the "Plus" name of a larger Galaxy S8 will be indicated with a "+" sign rather than "Plus" like the iPhone does. Why wouldn't it? After all, this is exactly how the Galaxy S6 edge+...

‘Instant Tethering' feature now rolling out to Pixel and Nexus devices

This isn't the first time we've heard of this feature. In fact, Instant Tethering was a feature that began rolling out about three weeks ago on Pixel devices. The way this feature works is the following: Bluetooth is used to talk between two of your Google devices. If a Nexus or Pixel tablet finds itself without a Wi-Fi connection, it can ask your...

Samsung Gear S2 classic 3G is now being sold for just $96 at T-Mobile

If you like what Samsung's been doing with its smartwatches lately but think that the Gear S3 is too big, or simply don't like its design, or just don't mind buying an older device if it's cheaper, read on. T-Mobile is currently selling the Gear S2 classic for the insanely low amount of $96. Note that this is the 3G capable model of the smartwatch,...

HTC starts Valentine's Day sales, offers $150 off the 10, $200 off the A9, and $250 off the M9

HTC has started a seven-day Valentine's Day sale on its official online store for the US. The promotion, called "Seven Days of Sappiness", is all about celebrating love - your love of cut-price smartphones, that is. During this period you can buy an HTC 10 for $549 ($150 off), an HTC One A9 for $299 ($200 off), or an HTC One M9 for $399 ($250 off)....

Meizu M5s pricing revealed prior to its introduction on February 15

Meizu's next affordable smartphone, the M5s, has been leaking a lot lately, which makes sense since we're very close to its official announcement taking place on February 15. We've seen it getting certified by TENAA, doing its thing in a benchmark run, as well as smiling for the camera in some live shots in the wild. Leaked renders have been outed...

iPhone 8 will have an iris scanner, rumor claims

Yesterday a rumor 'confirmed' the fact that the three iPhones launching this year will all have support for wireless charging through their glass backs. Today a new report out of Taiwan reiterates that, along with the fact that one of the three phones will sport an OLED display, which will be provided by Samsung. This model, tentatively called iPhone...

LG G6 confirmed to sport the Snapdragon 821 chipset because otherwise it would have launched in May-June

If you're someone who still held up hope that the LG G6 would rock Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 chipset instead of the SD821, it's time to give up that hope now. Past reports have said that Samsung, who is producing the SD835 for Qualcomm, will be keeping the entire initial production run for its Galaxy S8 smartphone, thus leaving no chips for competitors...

Gionee A1 specs and live images leak ahead of its official unveiling on February 27

This year's Mobile World Congress (MWC) is going to feature quite a few new smartphone introductions, and from this point on you can add Gionee to the (growing) list of companies presenting new products. The Chinese device maker has today sent media invites for its special event that will take place on February 27, day one of MWC. These thankfully...

Samsung's Bixby could be based on S Voice, not Viv Labs

There's been a lot of talk recently about Samsung's upcoming Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus and a key focus of the chatter has been Bixby, Samsung's rumored new endeavor into virtual assistants. We know Samsung filed for a trademark of a Bixby logo and will most likely use Hello as a wake up phrase but we don't know what Bixby will be, in essence....

Alcatel Idol 5S surfaces at Geekbench

TCL is currently owning both Alcatel and BlackBerry and we expect to see many new devices - both the DTEK70 with QWERTY keyboard that we showed you in January and some Alcatel ones. The latest leak from Geekbench confirms the rumor that Alcatel is going to reveal a flagship device of its own and its name is Idol 5S. As we see from the screenshot,...

A bunch of Google Play games on sale, ready to fill your weekend

The weekend is near and Google Play has some discounted games for all you mobile gamers out there, looking for a new title to check out. There are racing games, adventure games, various Bridge Constructors and even LEGO Harry Potter. Apps that used to be $1.99 are going at half price at $0.99 but there are also offers like Wild Blood which costs...

Strava is now a standalone app on Android Wear 2.0

Strava, the popular running and cycling tracking app, can now track your activities on certain Android Wear smartwatches without the need for a smartphone. Thanks to Android Wear 2.0's standalone functionality the app can use a smartwatch's built-in connectivity and GPS. Strava on Android Wear 2.0 Watches with cellular connectivity and GPS will be...

Motorola announces finalists of the Moto Mod design competition

Lenovo is trying to turn Motorola around and make the brand great again. The latest attempt - the modifiable Moto Z series is an exceptional device that converts to a boombox or Hasselblad camera thanks to its Moto Mods. Since the phone is built for modifications, Motorola decided to launch the campaign "Transform the Smartphone Challenge" where...

Back in Black... Berry: Canadians send out invites to launch China-made phone

Here's a refreshing new take on a press invite - just show the phone, rather than cramming marketing doublespeak down our throats. Other than a simple hashtag, there are no words in this invite because there's no need for BlackBerry to say anything - it's better to just show it. It's a Bold move that didn't throw us for a Curve, this new phone could...

This is the logo of Samsung's Bixby

Samsung has just filed a trademark application with the European Trade Mark and Design Network for what's likely the logo of its upcoming personal assistant Bixby. The logo, which looks just like a B, comes with a description that sounds inline with a virtual assistant - "Smartphones; mobile telephones; portable computers; tablet computers; interactive...

Vulnerabilities found in OnePlus 3 and 3T bootloader

OnePlus devices are the holy grail for fans of unlocked phones, open for tinkering. But apparently OxygenOS versions were more open than they need to be. A security researcher found out that OxygenOS 3.2 through 4.0.1 has a vulnerability that lets anyone with two native fastboot commands to disable the verified boot feature without actually unlocking...

HMD looking to announce Nokia N-series devices at MWC 2017

Nokia 6 is total hit in China and HMD Global can't catch up with the demand. But according to latest leaks there might be much more exciting stuff coming from the reborn brand - the return of the famous N-series. A trademark for "NSERIES" appeared in China's Patent Office, filed by the Finnish company. Then on the social network Baidu appeared a...

New leak shows Motorola Moto G5 Plus rear panel

A new image of the Motorola Moto G5 Plus has leaked, showing the rear panel of the device. The design is inline with earlier leaks although it seems to show just the casing rather than a fully assembled phone. For comparison, here's the image that leaked early last month: The new leak came in the form of a Weibo post, which also contained the following...

Motorola Moto Z with Android 7.1.1 spotted on GFXBench

The Nougat update for the Motorola Moto Z was officially released back in November last year, and it started hitting units in the United States earlier this week. Now, it looks like the company is working on another update for the device as a Moto Z running Android 7.1.1 has been spotted on GFXBench. There currently no information on when exactly...

Samsung Galaxy S5 Plus and S5 Neo getting new security update

Samsung has started pushing out a new update to its Galaxy S5 Plus and S5 Neo smartphones. The update, which is currently hitting units in Europe, brings Android security fixes for the month of January. The Galaxy S5 Plus update is arriving as firmware version XXS1CAQ7. The exact version number for the Galaxy S5 Neo update is yet to be confirmed....

Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro to hit India on February 24

The Samsung Galaxy C9 Pro, which was made official for India last month and was up for pre-order for a couple of weeks now has a delivery date. A quick look at Samsung's India online store reveals the device will ship on February 24. The smartphone will cost you INR 36,900 (around $550). The handset will also be available from the South Korean company's...

New report says Samsung's first foldable smartphone will enter production in Q4

A rumor last month said that Samsung will out a foldable smartphone sometime in the Q3-A4 2017 timeframe. However, if a new report is to go by, launch might not happen until next year as the phone will enter production in Q4. The report, which cites sources from Taiwan's handset supply chain, says that the tech giant will begin a "small production"...

Samsung Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Tab 3 on T-Mobile start getting February security update

T-Mobile has started rolling out a new update to Samsung Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Tab 3 units on its network. Arriving as firmware versions M919UVSFQA1 and T217TUVSBQA1, respectively, the update brings Android security fixes for the month of February. A quick look at the magenta carrier's website reveals that the update to both these devices (which are...

You'll soon be able to wake up Amazon Tap with "Alexa" hotword

The Amazon Tap is a Bluetooth speaker that Amazon released back in March of last year, also integrating the company's voice-assistant named Alexa. Up until now, you had to press the physical button on the Amazon Tap speaker to bark a command to Alexa. Given that the Tap runs on a battery, its ability to wake up with the "Alexa" trigger word was not...

Pixel's Google Assistant is now able to control smart home devices

The Google Pixel introduced Google's new Assistant, which Google Now will eventually phase into over the next several months. What was interesting was that Google's Assistant was the same one found on Google's newest ‘smart home' device: the Google Home assistant. If you would have asked your Pixel to "turn on the kitchen lights" just last month,...

Verizon Protection Plan available for open enrollment, offers same day screen replacements

Every once in a while, a carrier may open enrollment for the device protection service plan so that customers who missed out in enrollment upon first buying their shiny new connected device. Today, Verizon has done just that with its highest-level Protection Plan and also announces that it is offering same-day screen replacement for damages devices....

Verizon responds to OpenSignal's Network comparison

Yesterday, we covered a report that OpenSignal released which took data from its crowd-sourced database of speed tests on various carriers across the US and tried to make sense of it all by using the data to comparatively measure carriers against each other. Verizon is definitely not happy about being tied with T-Mobile, and wants to set the record...

Android Nougat update for Honor 8 begins rolling out tomorrow

Honor has made it official that the Honor 8's Android Nougat update will begin rolling out to all users starting tomorrow. Everyone who hasn't received the Nougat update will begin getting those OTA notifications starting tomorrow. The update is expected to last through the end of February, by which time, all Honor 8 devices would have been updated....

New Nougat-based updates are headed to the OnePlus 3 and 3T

Today OnePlus has commenced the rollout of a new software update for its two latest flagships - the OnePlus 3 and 3T. The new version is still based on Android 7.0 Nougat, but OnePlus has added some bug fixes and performance improvements in the form of OxygenOS 4.0.3. This follows the release of OxygenOS 4.0.2 last month. Here's what you can expect...

All three 2017 iPhones are once again said to sport wireless charging

While the sources for the rumors can't seem to agree on their exact screen sizes, most mumblings we've heard over the past few months regarding Apple's plans have mentioned that the company will launch three new phones this year. One of those could be a special anniversary model with an OLED touchscreen - called either iPhone 8 or iPhone X (because...

New LG G6 teaser says its intelligence isn't artificial

LG has outed a new teaser for the G6 today, which you can see in the image below. The Korean company seems to imply, in a not-so-subtle way, that the G6 will come packing a virtual assistant of its own - but it uses the words "artificial" and "intelligence" because "AI" is the buzzword of 2017, even though most things a virtual assistant does don't...

Nvidia's Shield tablets are starting to receive the Android 7.0 Nougat update

In the Android tablet world, Nvidia really stands out when it comes to software updates. It's not that the company pushed updates incredibly quick or anything like that. But think about it - the Nvidia Shield tablet from 2014 is now in the process of receiving the update to Android 7.0 Nougat. Again, this launched in the summer of 2014, it's almost...

LG V20 v. Huawei Mate 9: Camera-derie between rivals

Did you know that once upon a time pineapples were a status symbol? People place great importance on strange things sometimes, but we're sure that having the best flagship matters - we're not just imagining that it's important to have two cameras, a best-in-class display and a beastly chipset caged in a metal unibody. Those are not passing fads like...

Alleged Sony XZ successor caught in live shots

By the looks of things, Sony is gearing up for at least a few interesting announcements at MWC 2017. A few days ago, we caught a glimpse, of what was said to be the Xperia XA2. Now, another source has leaked a few blurry shots of, presumably, the next Xperia XZ flagship. There are a few stills to analyze here and we did have to do a fair amount of...

HMD Global is making the new Nokia devices in Vietnam

When HMD Global bought the Nokia smartphone business from Microsoft, everyone was hopeful for a bright future in front of the brand. In addition to the brand, HMD also bought out the factories that used to make feature phones. But as we see from a Russian source, they still haven't renamed them and Nokia 150 still is technically manufactured by Microsoft...

Apple's 10th anniversary iPhone to cost more than $1000?

2017 is a big year for Apple and its fans, as it marks the 10th anniversary of the first iPhone. Because of this, Apple fanboys and we tech media alike are excited to see what's coming. Some speculate that Apple will release a 4.7" iPhone 7s, a 5.5" iPhone 7s Pus and a 5.8" iPhone 8 (or, wait for it, iPhone X) with an OLED screen and specs straight...