Microsoft reveals Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL UK pricing

Microsoft announced the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL yesterday but only touched upon the US pricing. Now, Microsoft UK now revealed the pricing there as well. The Lumia 950 will retail for £499.99 SIM-free. This gets you a 5.2" AMOLED screen of WQHD resolution, Snapdragon 808 SoC with hexa-core CPU and 3GB of RAM. At the back, there's a 20MP camera with triple LED flash and a 3000mAh battery. As for the Lumia 950 XL, it will go for £549.99 SIM-free. It's a bit larger with a 5.7" WQHD AMOLED screen and has a 3,340mAh battery. The Lumia 950 XL is also a bit more powerful with a Snapdragon 810 chipset and, too, packs 3GB of RAM. The phone also shares the same 20MP camera with ZEISS optics and triple LED flash as the Lumia 950. Expect both phones to launch in the UK some time in November. Meanwhile, you should check out our Lumia 950 hands-on and Lumia 950 XL hands-on. Source • Source...

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New Apple ads remind you what the Watch can do better than the iPhone

All the Apple hype right now might be around the recently announced iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, but the Cupertino company doesn't want you to forget about the Watch. A set of videos have been posted, highlighting a few of the use cases, where the iPhone can't quite do the job as well as the Watch, or at all. Siri is the star of the first one, giving turn-by-turn directions off a biker's wrist. One scenario you may not have thought of, is sending a full-on voice message to your girlfriend to set up a date. It's questionable whether you want to be involved with a person who spells "you" as "u", but that's a whole different matter. Once you are already on a date it's good to know that your toddler is tucked in and sleeping at home, so you can party the night away. The Watch is there to help with Apple Pay too, when you only have the one hand free. It's good then to keep the Watch on one wrist and the phone in the opposite pocket, so you always have a single-handed course of action. And then obviously fitness monitoring, where the iPhone itself can't do all of the work on its own. Source |...

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Google to announce Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X in India on October 13

Google has sent out media invites in India for the launch of the company's latest Nexus 6P and Nexus 5X smartphones. The event will be held in New Delhi on October 13, where the pricing and availability will be officially revealed. So far we have seen the two phones appear on the Google Store India so it is no surprise that the company is launching them shortly after the US announcement. We also saw Flipkart teasing the Nexus 6P in India. We already know the prices of all the variants of both devices, which you can find...

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WhatsApp for iOS updated with the ability to 'star' messages

WhatsApp for iOS has received an update, bumping it to version 2.12.7, and bringing a feature that lets you bookmark messages as favorites for later access. Dubbed Starred Messages, the feature lets you tap and hold on any message - including text, image, and video - in a chat to star it. Once starred, the message can easily be accessed later by heading to the contact or group info for the chat. Starred messages also appear in their own section in search results. The updated app is available for download from the App Store. This comes a couple of months after an update brought along several new features - including the ability to include videos in chat backups and custom notification settings for individual chats - to the app. Source |...

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Samsung profitability growing again, stock surges

Samsung beat analysts' expectations and its shares surged 8.7%, the biggest jump since 2009. The full results are not available yet, but the operating income rose to $6.3 billion - a massive 79.8% jump compared to the year ago quarter. Semiconductors and displays are behind Samsung upswing. External Super AMOLED consumers like Huawei (for the new Nexus 6P) are buying more, helping the display unit (over 30% of display units may head to Chinese makers). Samsung's semiconductor business is enjoying Apple's success (it supplies components for iDevices) and is expected to keep its top position among semiconductor makers, five quarters in a row. There are no hard numbers on the mobile division, but analysts' expectations are for a 24% rise year on year (around $1.9 billion). This will be the first year-on-year rise in sever quarters for the division, which went through a rough patch. Still, Samsung Galaxy phones are feeling the heat from iPhones on the high end and Chinese and Indian devices on the low end. The sub-$200 devices are largely responsible for the sales increase, while Galaxy S6 shipments are dropping "significantly," says an IBK Securities analyst. He calculates the Average Selling Price in September dropped 14%. Source |...

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Existing Lumia phones will start getting Windows 10 in December

While we already know that the newly-announced, Windows 10 Mobile-powered Lumia 950 flagship duo will be available next month, it has now been revealed that existing Lumia owners will start receiving the Windows 10 Mobile update in December. The information was revealed by Microsoft in a comment (see image above) on its official Lumia Facebook page while responding to a query related to Windows 10 Mobile update for the Lumia 640 and Lumia 640XL. "It is our ambition to make an upgrade available for majority of Lumia smartphones running Windows Phone 8.1," the software giant said in a separate comment, adding that 8GB of internal storage will be required for the update, meaning devices like the Lumia 530 will be out of...

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