Nougat beta for Huawei Honor 6X begins rolling out

Ahead of the final roll out, which is set to begin sometime next month, Huawei has started pushing out the Nougat beta update to its Honor 6X smartphone. The information was revealed by the Chinese company's Pakistan subsidiary on Twitter. If you have the Huawei Nova Plus or the Honor 6X, you can try out the beta version of the Android Nougat 7.0! #HuaweiPakistan pic.twitter.com/Yvf6OLa0fA— Huawei Mobile PK (@HuaweiMobilePK) February 5, 2017 The tweet, as you can see above, also reveals that the company's nova plus smartphone is also getting the update. The device, in case you...

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Best Apps and Games of the Week

Linea Linea is the newest app from Iconfactory. It's a drawing app that lets you focus on the drawing part with simple but powerful tools that don't get in your way or overwhelm you but at the same time retain all the important functionality. The app is built from the ground-up for the new iPad Pro and especially the Apple Pencil. iOS Inkitt Inkitt is a free reading app that houses thousands of novels from indie authors across different genres. You can download and read them offline and customize the viewing experience to your liking. If you want to read...

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Introducing the GSMArena Q&A

Providing answers to your questions is what we do here at GSMArena, providing as detailed reviews as possible and including all the tests we can think of. But having a tech-savvy audience such as ours there's always more stuff that you want to know. That's why we are launching our new weekly feature - the GSMArena Q&A. Whether you've got a burning question about a phone in our database or just want some more information about a device we've reviewed, this is the place to be. We'll try to answer as many question as possible at the end of each week. Those we feel are relevant to a...

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Samsung Galaxy S7 edge battery life on Android 7.0 Nougat

The Android 7.0 Nougat update for the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge is here and we've covered the software changes at length. We've also promptly retested battery life since the update is a relatively major change. All tests were performed on the international Exynos 8890 version. We observed a significant drop in Wi-Fi browsing longevity, to the tune of 3 full hours. The new result on Nougat (again, on the Exynos version of the handset) is close to what the Snapdragon 820 version could achieve on Marshmallow. Still, what was a truly excellent web browsing endurance before, is now just a ‘good...

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Meizu M5 review: Challenging the odds

The Meizu M5 is shaping to be the more interesting device of the mid-range M5 duo. We already took the M5 Note for a spin and it turned rather uninspiring and had no meaningful upgrades whatsoever. On the other hand, the M5 comes with a bigger screen and battery, the latest mTouch key with biometric security, and newer Android version.

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Top 10 trending phones of week 5

We've seen this movie before - a Xiaomi Redmi Note on top of our weekly Top 10 trending chart for weeks on end. Now it's the Mediatek version of the Redmi Note 4 that's been holding the crown for three weeks in a row. The Snapdragon version is in here too, only in 9th spot. The previous model hasn't fallen off the chart either - the Redmi Note 3 is in 6th this week. Returning to the podium, we see that the Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime has reclaimed its second spot, which the Nokia 6 occupied for a couple of weeks. The 6 itself is in 3rd. We have a couple of new entries this week, both...

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