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For those who have been waiting for the HTC 10, you will not be waiting for long as the company plans to officially unveil it next month on April 12. We have been hearing about this smartphone but HTC never confirmed its launch date until now. All we have known is that the company has plans to drop the ‘One’ branding we have seen on the HTC One M8 and HTC One M9 and that is why this new flagship will be the HTC 10. HTC announced that it will be unveiling the HTC 10 on April through its Twitter…

At the beginning of this year, Samsung made it clear that it had plans to update most of its flagship smartphones launched within the last two years to Android Marshmallow. There was even a leaked roadmap that revealed that all the recent Galaxy S flagships were to get this update by April this year. We even saw the update start rolling out to the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge back in February. With the S6 and S6 Edge out of the way, Samsung has moved to the Galaxy S5. Some people using the Galaxy S5 in Samsung’s home country of…

Cross platform compatibility of smartwatches is not something we are used to. Most smartwatches tend to support one platform and ignore all the rest completely. This was even taken a notch higher when Samsung unveiled its first smartwatch which it said will be able to support a few of its Galaxy Smartphones. The company changed this strategy with its later smartwatches. Back in January Samsung announced that its latest smartwatch, the Gear S2, will be able to support iOS devices. The company had announced that this feature was to be available by the end of January but this never happened.…

Alcatel is currently busy working on its next Windows 10-powered smartphone, the Alcatel Idol 4 Pro. We have been hearing about this smartphone for a while now but nothing has been confirmed by Alcatel so far. When launched, the Idol 4 Pro will be the company’s flagship Windows 10 smartphones this year. The latest information about the Alcatel Idol 4 Pro comes from GFXBench revealing to us some of the specs we should expect from this smartphone when it is launched. The GFXBench listing introduces to us some specs we have not heard before and confirms some of those we…

Yesterday, Apple unveiled its cheapest smartphone of 2016, the iPhone SE. This smartphone is not cheap by normal standards but by Apple’s standards, it is very affordable.  Apple refers to this phone as the most powerful phone with a four-inch display. This is sort of true but then again, are people interested in smartphones with 4 inch displays anymore? Besides the size, the iPhone SE is a very interesting device. Apple has always ignored the mid-range market segment and it is nice to see the company finally cater for this segment. There are many Apple fans out there who want…

Twitter is one of the most popular social networking sites out there. The site celebrated its 10th birthday yesterday and surviving all those years is not a joke in an industry where we see knew companies coming up and falling off before they break even. Twitter was started back in March 21, 2005 by Evan Williams, by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, and Biz Stone. At that time the social networking site was preferred because of its simplicity and this attracted more and more people over the years. Currently Twitter has over 332 million active users worldwide. When it came to…

With Android N just around the corner, we expect to see manufacturers update their existing devices at least to the current Android iteration, Android Marshmallow. We have seen manufacturers such as Samsung, Sony and LG update some of their devices and now HTC is joining the party. HTC has started pushing out the Marshmallow update to the Desire 816 dual SIM in select markets. Users of this device is Saudi Arabia have reported seeing the Android Marshmallow and Sense UI version 7.0 on their devices. Apparently this update is being rolled out in it two parts with the first part…

We have been hearing about Huawei’s next flagship smartphone, the Huawei P9 for the better part of this year. The one thing that we have heard about this smartphone that has been particularly interesting is its dual camera setup. This has been one of the main things surrounding the leaks about the Huawei P9 but the company did not confirm it until now. The company released the first official teaser of the Huawei P9 last week and this is when we got a ‘confirmation’ about the dual camera setup. Of course the company did not reveal this but you can…

Last week, Oppo unveiled two smartphones both of which come with 16MP front facing cameras for selfies and video calls. These smartphones, the Oppo R9 and R9 Plus, were both launched in the company’s home country of China. These two smartphones target the mid and upper market segments as they are retailing for $430 (for the R9) and $510 (for the R9 Plus). The Oppo R9 and R9 Plus have some similarities especially in the design department but they are two totally different devices from the specs perspective. The Oppo R9 The Oppo R9 comes with a 5.5 inch AMOLED…

Last week, we saw the leaked photos of the Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) which gave us a clue as to what to expect from this smartphone this year. If you remember from the 2015 lineup, the J5 came with a bigger brother, the J7 which has slightly better specs. 2016 is not going to be any different as just after the J5 leaked, the Galaxy J7 (2016) also surfaced online showing us what to expect from this smartphone. Just like the J5 (2016), the Galaxy J7 (2016) has already been certified by Chinese regulator TENAA and this means that the…