This week, we're talking about a new flagship phone from LG, Xiaomi's bright future, and the uphill for Sprint and T-Mobile.
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A wide range of "innovative connected" Xiaomi products, smartphones included, are coming to stores operated by CK Hutchison-owned Three carrier in the UK, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy and Sweden.
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In addition, another tech blog reached the South African division manager of Sony Mobile and included a quote about the successor to the Xperia XZ Premium.
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The Microsoft Store is selling a gaming phone and people can't get enough of it. Razer is also tapped to hit Singapore with an announcement.
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The standard Honor 9 was made widely available in Europe with 4GB of RAM, but more RAM is on this one and it's in Italy and Switzerland.
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We talk with the man behind TechAltar, Marton Barcza, about the OnePlus 5 hype train that he feels should've been derailed a long time ago on our show!
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The gaming hardware manufacturer has partnered with the telco to open a new RazerStore and provide special mobile services for its fans.
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When it comes to stealing smartphones, the most obvious, riskiest way to do so is to smash into a store and grab as many as possible. Or just walk straight into a store and grab as many as possible. Obviously, there’s a high chance of being caught.
Then, there’s the black hat method — hack into UK carrier Three‘s handset upgrade servers and rewrite shipping addresses.
Three alerted its customers on Facebook to its investigation in association with police and other authorities on the “attempted fraud issue” yesterday.
The National Crime Agency actually made three arrests regarding this issue on Wednesday. Three UK later stated that the suspects, who are free on bail, may have utilized authorized logins into the system in order to manipulate records and intercept “high-end smartphones”.
PCWorld was told by Three that no “customer payment, card information or bank account information” was accessed, though other information like names, addresses, dates of birth could have been tampered with.
But about how many smartphones were stolen through this scheme, it was eight. That’s compared to 400 phones stolen from retail stores in four weeks.
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Project Fi is at it again. And we’re not just talking about the Nexus 5X like we usually do.That phone, as offered Google’s MVNO service, has been discounted once again by $150 to $199 for the base model. But Project Fi is also taking $150 off the Nexus 6P, now starting at $349 with activation. The sale goes on for about a week starting at 1pm Eastern today.But the biggest deal in this story doesn’t just ...
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Do you unconditionally love or merely tolerate your wireless service provider? If the former, have you ever considered taking your devotion to the next level by investing in the company that supports your voice call, texting and on-the-go browsing addictions?Well, if you happen to live in the post-Brexit United Kingdom (or is it the Divided Kingdom now?), you might be offered that option before long by O2. The nation’s second largest carrier, behind EE, is owned by Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica, which forced a sale due to financial trouble.But the European Commission ...
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