Xiaomi Max debut ready to go for May 10

Lei Jun, founder and CEO of Xiaomi, confirmed on Chinese microblogging site QQ that the Xiaomi Max will officially debut at the company’s summer promotional event on May 10. This comes after some 80,000 viewers gathered to watch an impromptu event featuring Lei on a Chinese livestreaming app to learn more about the device.Lei was more excited about the livestreaming app than the phone in his post, but if you’re here for a

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How long can phablets stay on top?

It wasn’t that long ago that we were making jokes about how small cellphones could get. From Zoolander’s tiny flip phone, to Amy Wong in an early season of Futurama, the mobile tech trends convinced us that future phones would be the size of one of our nostrils.Then smartphones happenedAs mobile devices began tackling more duties than phone calls and texts, the demands on displays grew. Email drove the design of Blackberrys. Multimedia became ...

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Samsung has pulled an iPhone 6 Plus with the Galaxy S6 edge+

Just as Apple has famously overused words like magical, innovative, and revolutionary when describing its own products, Samsung is pretty fond of calling its flagship handsets each year “The Next Big Thing.” While that’s usually a marketing slogan reserved for its tremendously successful Galaxy S series, this year’s Galaxy Unpacked event may have been a better time to break out that boisterous title. Not only did we see the Galaxy Note 5 this Thursday morning, but Samsung also ...

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