Deal: 128GB Google Pixel 2 XL down to $900

There's a face we didn't expect to see this Black Friday - the Google Pixel 2 XL. The phone is so hard to find that eBay units usually cost more than the original asking price rather than being offered at a discount. And yet here we have a deal that lets you have the 128GB Pixel 2 XL for $899.99 with sales taxes charged only to those living in Florida,...

Analyst: iPhone X availability improved due to increased production, demand still strong

Apple iPhone X is a hard device to manufacture. It took more than a month longer than the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus to arrive to the shelves and even so initial stock was pretty limited and shipping estimates increased to 5-6 weeks. Yet stock quickly started to improve after the launch and currently waiting times are down to 1-2 weeks. Even the...

New Samsung Gear S2 update brings battery life-related optimizations

Samsung has started pushing out a new update to its Gear S2 smartwatch. Arriving as build number XXU2EQJ2 and weighing in at 22MB, it's not a big update, but does bring along some optimizations aimed at increasing the battery life. In addition, the update also includes some security enhancements. Currently, units in Europe (the Netherlands to be...

Oppo F5 Youth goes official with 16MP selfie camera

Oppo has launched a more affordable version of its F5 mid-ranger. Dubbed Oppo F5 Youth, it retains the 6" 18:9 display with minimal bezels and FHD+ resolution (2160x1080 pixels), but comes with a downgraded camera setup. The Oppo F5 Youth is powered by the same MediaTek Helio P23 chipset as the regular F5, featuring an octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU and...

Oreo beta program for Nokia 6 and Nokia 5 to kick off soon

HMD Global has confirmed that Oreo beta testing for the company's Nokia 6 and Nokia 5 smartphones will begin soon. The company's CPO Juho Sarvikas took to Twitter to announce this. Yes, Nokia 6 and Nokia 5 next. Just reviewed today, we will open Beta Labs for those models soon— Juho Sarvikas (@sarvikas) November 24, 2017 This comes shortly after...

Google Home Mini deal will last through end of the year

One of the most popular products this holiday season without a doubt will be the Google Home Mini. It offers full Google Assistant functionality without braking the bank at its low $50 price point. This Black Friday week, a number of retailers offered a discount of $20 plus a $10 gift card. Walmart also has a deal that offers those who buy a Home...

vivo V7+ review

Vivo and selfie are inseparable and that's been the case for a while. With the V7+ the maker keeps the focus on the selfie photography and offers yet another impressive shooter with bokeh effects. But that won't be enough to beat the V5+ bokeh king. Not even the honor of being chosen as the official smartphone for World Cup 2018 in Russia. But a...

Sony Xperia XZ and XZs are now receiving Android 8.0 Oreo too

The Xperia XZ Premium has been enjoying a tasty Oreo treat since last month, and now two more Sony smartphones are finally ready to join in the fun. The Japanese company has started sending out the update to Android 8.0 to the Xperia XZ and the Xperia XZs. In both cases, the new software arrives with the build number 41.3.A.0.401. You're looking...

EE to launch own-branded phone to offer fingerprint reader and dual Gorilla Glass for £100

EE UK is reportedly working on a new own-brand phone that will start selling just in time for the holidays. The yet unnamed phone is rumored to feature Gorilla Glass on both sides, a 5-inch screen likely of 720p resolution and a MediaTek 6755 chipset with octa-core CPU. 13MP back and 8MP front cameras and stock Android complete the highlights list....

Nokia 8 starts getting Android Oreo

The Nokia 8 Oreo beta-testing program wrapped up two weeks ago and today the OS update started arriving to users in Finland and Poland. According to XDA Developers fan forum users, devices with model numbers TA-1004 and TA-1012 are among the lucky that get Android Oreo. HMD executive Juho Sarvikas confirmed the update. The software upgrade brings...

Apple iPhone X now on sale in 14 new countries

As promised the iPhone X is now available for purchase in 14 more countries. Yesterday it started selling in Israel and as of today another 13 markets join the list - Albania, Bosnia, Cambodia, Kosovo, Macau, Macedonia, Malaysia, Montenegro, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand and Turkey. Lately, Apple ramped up production and the delivery...

Counterclockwise: the fingerprint reader goes back, front, back and side to side

The first phone with a fingerprint reader was the Pantech GI100 from 2004. It had a reader at the center of its D-Pad, one of those early readers that required you to swipe your finger across them. This was a flip phone so the distinction between front and back is a bit iffy, but we're calling this one front-mounted (based on when the phone is flipped...

OnePlus 5 to bring Face Unlock with Oreo update

OnePlus announced Android Oreo for OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 3T in the beginning of the week. Apparently OnePlus 5 is next in line for the new OS. Along with the already expected picture-in-picture and notification dots, arriving at all devices with Oreo OnePlus 5 will also gain Face Unlock. Face Unlock is a familiar feature to OP owners. The latest...

Here are Sony's Black Friday deals

Sony has started its Black Friday deals across its online stores and retail partners. You can save big on smartphones, headphones, smart bands and accessories. The flagship Sony Xperia XZ1 is €100/£100 off in both the German store (where it's the only smartphone currently on offer) and the UK store. The UK Sony store has the biggest selection of...

Oppo R11s Plus is now available

Oppo announced the R11s and R11s Plus in the beginning of the month with the small version going on sale two weeks ago. Now, the Plus variant joins it on the shelves as the company announced the starts of its availability in China. The Oppo R11s Plus shares plenty of hardware with the regular Oppo R11s. The chipset is the same - Snapdragon 660, as...

Samsung Galaxy S6 to get Android Oreo

Samsung is pushing the beta version of its Oreo update to Galaxy S8 users, and has already confirmed that the Galaxy S7 will get the update too. Now we learn that the 2015 flagship Samsung Galaxy S6 will also get to taste Google's latest sweets. Reddit user CyberConCoder got confirmation from four different Samsung representatives, and while support...

Verizon is offering Asus Zenfone V for free

Asus Zenfone V was went official as a Verizon-exclusive in the US in September. The phone carried a launch price tag of $240, while the carrier has also been offering it on monthly plans for $10/month. Now, as a part of the carrier's Black Friday promotions the device is offered for free when purchased on a contract. You need to active a new line...

Gionee M7 to get new color variants at November 26 event

Chinese maker Gionee will announce a bunch of new smartphones during its November 26 event, it has now been revealed that the already official M7 will also have a presence there. A new teaser shared by the company reveals two new color variants for the device will debut - Maple Leaf Red and Amber Gold. It's worth mentioning that the phone already...

Deal: Sony Xperia XZ Premium down to $550

You can currently grab the Snapdragon 835-powered Sony Xperia XZ Premium for $550 in the US, $150 down on its usual price. Both Amazon and Best Buy are offering the deal, but while the latter has black, gray, and pink available, Amazon is only offering the $150 discount on black and pink models. The red model is discounted as well, but by only $100....

OnePlus 5T gets first update, KRACK fix and fingerprint/face unlock optimizations included

Just days after it went on sale, the OnePlus 5T has started receiving its first update. Weighing in at 107MB and arriving as Oxygen OS 4.7.2, the update brings along fix for the Wi-Fi WPA2 security issue (a.k.a the KRACK vulnerability). Multiple other changes are also included, like optimizations related to fingerprint and face unlock and improvements...

Google rolls out changes aimed at making Pixel battery life estimates more accurate

Google has announced that it has rolled out some new changes that are aimed at making battery life estimates more accurate on the company's Pixel phones. A Product Manager at Google explained that until now battery estimates were being made based on simple assumptions - for example, if you've been using 10% battery each hour over past few hours,...

International Galaxy S8 and S8+ models are finally receiving the November security update

The internationally sold versions of Samsung's Galaxy S8 and S8+ are now finally in the process of receiving the November security update. As usual, this includes patches from Google, as well as Samsung-specific fixes. You get 61 general Android vulnerabilities fixed, alongside six exploits found only in Samsung's software. Additionally, the widespread...

Unlocked Samsung Galaxy Note8 is now available from the Microsoft Store too

Microsoft likes to sell Samsung's high-end smartphones in its online store for some reason. Not long ago we saw the Galaxy S8 and S8+ becoming available to purchase from the Microsoft Store, and today the Galaxy Note8 has joined them. Unlike the S-series devices, which can also be bought for use with carrier plans, the Note8 is only being offered...

Mate 10 Pro breaks pre-order records in Western Europe, says Huawei

Huawei's journey West marks a record-breaking success - the Huawei Mate 10 Pro surpassed the pre-order target by over 100%. Huawei says it broke all records for smartphone pre-orders in Western Europe. The Mate 10 Pro was unveiled on October 16 and sales in the UK began a month later at a price of £770 or so, though it has fallen to £700 since. And...

OnePlus takes a stance against Black Friday, discounts 5T by a penny

In times when smartphone companies lower their flagship prices for Black Friday, OnePlus decides to go against the trend and discounts its latest OnePlus 5T by only a penny. OnePlus said that it aims to deliver its products at fair price all-year round so it just can't offer any huge discounts for the occasion. This obviously implies that the competition...

Black Friday and Cyber Monday smartphone deals

Black Friday and Cyber Monday last more than two days - we've been seeing great tech deals for a couple of weeks now. But the discounts have reached a fever pitch and it can be hard to navigate all the offers, so we decided to put the best of them in one place. The table below lists cool tech deals - smartphones mostly, it's what we do. The left...

Here are Three UK's Black Friday deals

If you've heard any two words this week the most, they are Black Friday. Deals week is upon is and it's time for Three UK to share its promos. They include price cuts on contracts and smartphones with savings up to £145 on offers ending on Monday, 27.11. Black Friday Deals: SIM Only - 100GB data, unlimited mins and texts just £20 a month (Was £26)...

Wileyfox Pro quietly unveiled with Windows Phone

Have you seen 28 Days Later? In the opening scene the main character wakes up to find the city abandoned with no living soul in sight. We only bring it up because Amazon put up the Wileyfox Pro on pre-order, a Windows 10 phone. Aside from a few tottering zombies, Windows on phones is dead. Wileyfox Pro runs Windows, wants to be a business phone Not...

Deal: LG G6 for £363 on Amazon

The V30 may be the hottest LG phone these adys, but the LG G6, introduced in February, is still a pretty solid device. And now you can own one for as low as £363.20 on Amazon. This is a 42% discount from the original asking price for a 32 GB unit in either Astro Black or Platinum Ice color. Sure, it's the smaller memory option, but LG G6 has a microSD...

OnePlus 5T wins charging sprint in latest ad

One of the best features on the OnePlus 5T is Dash Charge - it makes other other phones feel painfully slow to charge. The company decided to highlight that in its new add - how much will the phone charge in 30 minutes with the screen on? The 5T phone got from 2% to 57% in that half hour. Which is pretty much in line with our own tests, we got to...

Mysterious Sony Xperia ZG Compact appears again on Geekbench

Back in August, several Sony Xperia ZG Compact listings appeared in the Geekbench database. Now, the phone makes another appearance with slightly different scores. Both scores are a bit lower than the results in August, and a lot lower than the Xperia Z5 Compact results with Snapdragon 810 from 2015. It is highly unlikely Sony is building a phone...

Black Ceramic and Starck Edition Mi Mix 2 go on sale on Nov 28

Xiaomi will start selling the Black Ceramic Edition and the Starck Edition Mi Mix 2 on November 28 with China being the first market to get it. Until now only the White Ceramic was available for purchase. The Starck Edition has the phone's designer, Philippe Starck's name inscribed on the back but is otherwise a Mi Mix 2 with 8GB of RAM and 128GB...

Apple gets in the holiday spirit with latest promo video

Apple has released its new holiday-themed ad, starring the new iPhone X and the AirPods. The video shows a girl, dancing to the sound of "Palace" by Sam Smith around the snowy streets of Prague. The Apple ad reveals the mobility and freedom AirPods give to the listener, or as in the video, even for two listeners, dancing at the same time. The cinematography,...

Nokia 2 to hit India tomorrow

HMD has announced the India launch date for its entry-level Nokia 2 smartphone. The device - which was officially unveiled in the Asian country late last month - will go on sale tomorrow, November 24. The handset will cost INR 6,999 ($108). The phone will be available through offline retailers in Pewter/Black, Pewter/White and Copper/Black color...

Apple tops UK smartphone market in Q3, Samsung close second

According to market research firm Counterpoint, Apple is the top smartphone player in the UK. The stats shared by the firm reveal the Cupertino based company had a market share of 34.4% in the country in Q3. Samsung followed closely with a 34% slice, while Chinese manufacturer Huawei came in third with 13% of the market. Alcatel and Motorola rounded...

Razer Phone arrives in Asia, Singapore gets it first

After the US, UK, and a few other western markets, the Razer Phone is now available in Asia, with Singapore becoming the first market on the continent to get it. Pre-orders for the device are now live in the country through Singtel, with the window closing on November 26. Razer's CEO had the following to say about it : "while we founded Razer in...

Android Oreo Beta 3 for Samsung Galaxy S8 may arrive very soon

Looks like Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+ users who are part of the Oreo beta group may soon get to test the third beta build of the Android 8.0 firmware. The information comes courtesy of a Samsung representative who is part of the company's UK Beta Team. In the rep's own words, the update will be released "very very soon." To quickly refresh, the Oreo beta...

Deals: Grab T-Mobile Moto Z2 Force for $375, Google Home for under $65

If you are a Motorola fan in the US, and are planning to purchase a high-end smartphone, you'll be glad to know that T-Mobile is currently offering a solid discount on the Snapdragon 835-powered Motorola Moto Z2 Force. The magenta carrier currently has the handset listed for $375, down from the usual $500 price tag the device usually carries there....

iPhone X is now only 1-2 weeks behind delivery in the US

There's no doubt that the iPhone X is a phone with high demand, so much so that Apple had delays as long as 5-6 weeks before you could get one when placing an order online. Thankfully that's no longer the case for those of you trying to snag an iPhone X in time for the holidays. Right now, Apple US and Canada offer the iPhone X with expected deliveries...

Razer Phone will see camera improvements over the next few weeks

Razer's CEO Min-Liang Tan has published a post on Facebook about the future of the Razer Phone's camera app and performance. In our review, we didn't find that the Razer's camera did as well as it could have, and most of the shortcomings that we found were software related. The Facebook post mentions that Razer is focused now on improving the experience...

Casio announces G'z EYE series of rugged action cameras starting with GZE-1

Casio has announced a new series of rugged action cameras, a first for the brand, called the G'z EYE. The first model to be launched in the series is the GZE-1. The GZE-1, which looks remarkably like the company's G-Shock series of watches, is like an armoured version of your typical GoPro camera. The body is dust, shock, water and low temperature...

Samsung Galaxy A5 (2018) shows off its Infinity Display in a case

As this year nears its end, we're getting ever closer to the launch of Samsung's Galaxy A (2018) series, comprised of follow-ups to the Galaxy A (2017) devices of course. Today the upcoming Galaxy A5 (2018) has been leaked once again. This time around we get to see it inside a case, in four different color versions. As rumored extensively before,...

Oppo F5 review

"Trendy" tends to get thrown around on today's mobile scene quite a lot. It is just one of those loose-fitting adjectives that, through overuse, has practically lost all meaning. Still, looking at the Oppo F5, we can't really think of any better way to describe the company's new "flagship expert". Source: https://www.gsmarena.com/oppo_f5-revie...

New leaked image shows the Honor V10 for real

Huawei's online-only sub-brand Honor is getting ready for a big launch event in China on November 28. That's when the Honor V10 is expected to be unveiled. The handset has already been certified by TENAA ahead of its introduction, and earlier today we showed you a weird image claiming to depict it in the wild. If you had your doubts about that picture,...

Samsung to show Galaxy S9 and S9+ at CES in January, bigger model gets more RAM and dual camera

Samsung intends to showcase the upcoming Galaxy S9 and S9+ for the first time at CES in January, according to a new rumor allegedly originating from "someone briefed on the company's plans". It's unclear how much information about the devices will be shared on that occasion, however, since Samsung apparently still plans to hold an official unveiling...

HTC U11+ in for review

Just when we feared they might be on the way out, they are right back in the big fight. Okay, that may be a bit of an overreaction, but make no mistake - HTC has a serious contender in the U11+. The HTC U11+ is everything a 2017 flagship phone should be - it has an 18:9 screen with close to no bezels, a Snapdragon 835 with 6GB of RAM, a Pixel 2/Galaxy...

The iPhone SE sequel tipped to launch in Q1 next year

A portion of Apple fans still believe in the company's original stance - a 4" screen is as big as you'll ever need. They are still clinging to the iPhone SE but that will soon turn 2-years old - right on time for an upgrade? Several reports say "yes". The latest claims that the iPhone SE 2 will launch in the first three months of 2018, agreeing with...

OnePlus system app accused of sending data without asking

OnePlus is apparently still collecting some user and system data through a system app called OPBugReportLite. The app is enabled by default when you power on your smartphone and collects battery stats, kernel panics, your device's crashes and sends that compiled information to a server in Singapore every 6 hours. The app was discovered by a Twitter...

Deal: Fossil smartwatches on sale

Fossil's Android smartwatches are among the most stylish around, but are usually more expensive than average too. Well, now you get a chance to save some of your hard-earned cash thanks to a few nice deals on Amazon. The watch company has a massive variety of discounted watches for both men and women and with all kinds of straps. For example, the...

Android Wear updated to version 2.6 with Recent App complication and more

Android Wear got bumped up to version 2.6 with several helpful improvements. The Recent App complication is handy for multitasking and Google improved touch algorithms to reduce the chances of accidental side-swipe and long-press gestures. Reading text on the tiny watch screens will be a bit easier now. The font size changes depending on message...