OnePlus 2 listed on retailer website, potential specs revealed

We’re ten days away from the unveil of OnePlus’s sequel to its popular One smartphone – and it’s no ordinary unveil, either, being the first to incorporate a virtual reality presentation so anyone can get the experience of being in a press conference from the comfort of their own homes. While the company has steadily been revealing details about the device, it’s not all come out in one information dump quite yet. But if a OnePlus 2 retail listing on OppoMart is accurate, we may have ...

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Huawei will be launching a new Honor phone next week

We’ve been talking a lot about Asian smartphone manufacturers recently. ZTE’s Axon is quite the interesting smartphone, one we’re eager to put through our full review process soon. Another offering that comes to mind is the rumored ZTE Blade D6. Next week marks the beginning of Huawei’s Summer Whirlwind Festival, and what better way to commemorate that than by launching a new smartphone, right? The Huawei Honor 4A ...

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Samsung’s latest Galaxy S6 ad is all about the camera

If you have a Samsung Galaxy S6, you know how good the camera on the latest smartphone from the South Korean manufacturer is. Even if you’ve read reviews of or seen camera samples from the device, you’ve probably got the idea that the shooter this phone packs is one that compete with the best of the best. That’s why it’d make sense for Samsung to focus on a strong point ...

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Here’s how much the Samsung Galaxy A8 will run you

The thinnest Samsung phone in the world would be pretty cool to have, right? Having seen the chassis of what many agree is a beautiful smartphone, you may be wondering how much dough you’re going to have to put down to actually get your hands on this thing. While an official Samsung Galaxy A8 price hasn’t been revealed by Samsung quite yet, a Chinese retailer does have a sales listing for the phone available, in which we’re looking at what seems reasonably enough to be the cost of the ...

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HTC One M8 will be updated to Android M

It may have been announced in March of 2014, but the HTC One M8 is still very much alive and kicking. It’s widely used today and acknowledged as one of the best phones on the market, still, so a natural question to ask is whether its age means that it’s not going to be seeing any more OS revision updates. With Android M on the horizon for a launch this fall, this question is especially pertinent – and according to HTC Product Manager Mo Versi, the HTC One M8 Android M update will indeed be coming.Android M isn’t as much a leap as Android Lollipop was (as compared to its ...

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HTC Desire 626s and two Samsung smartphones are headed to T-Mobile soon

If you’re a customer of T-Mobile US, you have some happy days ahead of you should you be interested in low-to-mid-range smartphones. Some new T-Mobile smartphones are on the way, including HTC’s Desire 626s, the Samsung Galaxy Core Prime, and the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime.The new T-Mobile smartphones will be arriving at the carrier on July 22 – right before the back to school rush when phone purchases see a quick spike thanks to students headed out to school again. At $169, you can find yourself the HTC Desire 626s, HTC’s latest affordable smartphone in the US market. ...

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ZTE announces Blade D6, new aluminum mid-range offering

Is that brand-new Axon not giving you the ZTE smartphone fix you’re looking for? Well, ZTE may have something else you’d find yourself interested in. The company has announced today a new mid-range offering, the ZTE Blade D6.The Blade D6, unlike the Axon, is destined for more than just a US launch. It’ll be positioned as a phone ready to go international, especially since it’s likely going to be a fairly affordable device, too (ZTE Blade devices are usually very mid-range and affordable – ...

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Samsung Z3 makes an appearance running Tizen 3.0

Samsung’s got some interesting smartphone plans lined up for the rest of the year. Along with the expected Galaxy Note 5 launch early this August, rumor has it that a new Tizen phone is on its way, too. Yes, Tizen – that Samsung OS that we all thought was doomed to failure to some extent – is not dead. As a follow-up to the Z1, the company is busy at work creating a Z3 (because nobody liked “Z2″ anyway, right?). And that Samsung Z3 has appeared today in photos, showing the device running Tizen 3.0 build Z300HDDD1BOG1.According to information exclusively obtained ...

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The first details about Huawei’s upcoming Nexus smartphone have leaked

Well, there’s your bombshell: that Huawei Nexus we keep hearing about – the one that everyone’s been skeptical about, given the fact that Huawei isn’t even very well known in Google’s own home country – looks to be real. Prolific leaker Evan Blass took to Twitter today to lend credence to the idea that we’ll be seeing this smartphone launch soon, as well as through more Huawei Nexus details into the mix.So here’s what we have to work with right now, if Blass’s leak is in fact accurate. For one, this Huawei Nexus is on its way; if Google follows ...

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Facebook is testing a virtual assistant of its own, codenamed “Moneypenny”

It seems the space race of tech giants has been to create a virtual assistant of their own. Apple started it off with Siri, Google followed up without much hesitation with Google Now, Microsoft then released Cortana… and now it seems like Facebook is about to get into the game (oh, and let’s not forget SoundHound’s Hound app – which we found to be pretty useful in our testing). According to a report out of The Information today, a virtual assistant codenamed Facebook Moneypenny right ...

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Removing the Google Photos app from your Android device won’t stop auto-uploads

One would think that deleting the Google Photos app from your Android smartphone would be enough to end all of the app’s processes… and that makes sense, right? Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Many are not realizing as they delete the app that the automatic backup of pictures to Google’s servers (if enabled when the app was on the device and in-use) doesn’t actually stop. Because of how the app taps into Play services and the Android operating system itself, Google Photos auto-upload will not stop upon deletion of the application.Though we find Google ...

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Loads of upcoming Motorola smartphones make pit stops at the FCC

It’s almost a summer ritual, at this point. Year after year (at least, the last couple), this season has been dominated for the most part by Apple iPhone, Samsung Galaxy Note, and Motorola phone rumors. This summer is no exception, with the subjects in question this time around being a bunch of upcoming Motorola devices. Let’s break down all these Motorola smartphones making appearances in Federal Communications Commission certification documents.First, let’s talk about what our best guess (and Droid Life‘s, too) has us thinking is the company’s 2015 ...

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Nokia announces plans to get back into making smartphones

Yes, you read that headline correctly. Nokia – at least, the part of Nokia that wasn’t sold into Microsoft’s Devices and Services Group (and then promptly mostly laid off not too long afterward) – is still alive and kicking. You may remember the company’s latest Android effort, the N1 tablet, which we previewed not too long ago. But this company isn’t interested in stopping at ...

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HTC’s latest One M9 commercial is all about its Uh Oh protection plan

One of the coolest features of the HTC One M9 that other phones don’t bring to the table isn’t much of a feature at all. It’s Uh Oh protection – if you don’t remember it off the top of your head, that’s the protection program the company announced that will give you coverage on your One M9 for a whole host of things for a year after purchase. Dunk your phone in a pool? You’re covered; a replacement will be sent your way. Dropped your phone as you got out of the car? A-okay. Want to switch carriers, even? A new device with bands for the new carrier will ...

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Inbox Android app gets two new widgets for setting reminders, composing email

What used to be one of Android’s most defining features (“You’re going to buy the iPhone?! Man, that doesn’t even have, like, widgets on the home screen.”) is now usually something we gloss over, though it’s difficult to deny the convenience they bring to the platform as a whole. Reminding us of that convenience today is Google, which has issued an update to one of its two emailing applications bringing two new Inbox Android widgets – one that will allow you to set reminders, and another that will let you quickly jump into composing an email ...

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