Windows 10 Mobile-powered HP Falcon may actually be Elite x3

We already knew that the Falcon would fly, but it seems that it’s undergoing a change of call letters.The HP Elite hardware lineup has usually featured Windows playing on a fairly large canvas. Our picture above is one from our hands-on of the ElitePad back in 2012.But Evan Blass says that the third time around, it’ll be on a smartphone.Windows 10 Mobile-powered HP Falcon is coming to market as the HP Elite ...

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T-Mobile picks up budget-priced LG K7, ZTE Falcon hotspot

With MWC just over a week away, and new flagship models perched up on the horizon, carriers are about to start seeing a lot of new faces joining their smartphone lineups. But even before all those new players arrive, we’re seeing some fresh handsets joining the ranks at carriers like T-Mobile, which earlier today we learned is picking up the Alcatel OneTouch Fierce XL running Windows 10 Mobile. That’s not the only affordable new phone landing in the ...

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Microsoft spotted on GFXBench fooling around with Snapdragon 820

“We cannot confirm nor deny the existence of a product called Falcon.”Michael Fisher did his best CIA impression on the Pocketnow Weekly when dishing out on HP’s ambiguous answer to the question of whether the company would put up a crazy-looking Windows 10 Mobile phone. And there’s ...

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Bumpy batteries and Star Wars Droids | Pocketnow Weekly 178

Update: BB-8 is overr8’d. See you next week!An Android tablet that doesn’t quite belong. HTC news on both sides of the good/bad divide. An ugly-as-sin Apple accessory. And a Droid Turbo 2 that looks like Star Wars’ own BB-8! Where are you going to find talk like this anywhere else on the internet? If you answered “anywhere I look,” you’re right indeed … but you ended up here so welcome to the party. All of the above – plus your listener mail – awaits on episode 178 of the Pocketnow Weekly!Watch the video broadcast from 1:30pm Eastern on ...

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Could the first Snapdragon 820-powered Windows phone be this ‘HP Falcon’?

A decades-old rule of journalism says never to end a news headline in a question mark. But the latest scoop on Microsoft’s prospective Windows 10 Mobile growth plans is too puzzling to provide any sort of guarantees, yet too juicy to be altogether ignored.What comes after the Lumia 950 and 950 XL? A pair of 960 flagships with Snapdragon 820 processing power seems like the safest bet, though a business-oriented

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