If you thought feature phones were a dying industry, think again. Of the 396 million feature phone units that were sold during the course of last year, Nokia's brand was on 35 million of them.
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A second teaser video for Xiaomi's Pinecone lineup has been released. Pinecone is what Xiaomi will be calling their lineup of smartphone SoCs competing against Huawei, Samsung, MediaTek, and Qualcomm.
Most power banks differ little from each other - but this one in particular charges via solar panels and works quite well. Check out our full field-tested review of the 10,000mAh power bank.
Nokia tablet found on GFXBench runs a modified version of Android 7.0 Nougat and sports a 4K 18.4-inch display, Snapdragon 835 and features everything from 4G LTE through to NFC.
ZUK Z2 and ZUK Z2 Pro devices have started to receive the Android 7.0 Nougat update which brings along with it split-screens, custom lock screens and a significantly refined camera.
A photo has leaked which reportedly shows off the "triple bezel-less" Elephone S8. The photo gives a good indication of what to expect from the S8 when it's finally released.
Revenue across both the App Store and Play Store have increased from approximately $5.2 billion to around $8.7 billion. Spotify, Netflix, Tinder, and LINE contributed the most to the figure.
Skype for Linux has received another update with various bug fixes and a couple of new features related to auto-starting the app on boot and controls for the behavior of the app once started.
Three UK has listed the big battery Huawei Mate 9 and Lenovo P2 smartphones on their website and made them available for purchase for £31.00 and £18.00 respectively on a monthly contract.
Huawei is set to rollout Android 7.0 Nougat on the 16th of this month to Japanese Honor 8 users. EMUI 5.0 is included in the 1.97GB update which will be incrementally rolled out over a month.
The NES Classic Edition has now been exploited to let users modify the library and add their own games - even homebrew. The process is a bit complicated but video tutorials have now been published.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp has revealed that 63 billion messages be sent through through their services on New Year's Eve. This number includes 7.9 billion images as well as 2.4 billion videos.
A new advertisement from Apple for the iPhone 7 Plus puts Portrait mode in the spotlight. Portrait mode is a feature that utilizes both cameras on the phone to produce professional-looking photos.
If you're a fan of Material wallpapers, this might be something to check out. Tapet generates an endless amount of wallpapers with different colors and shades based on your preferences.
Samsung's new 2017 Galaxy A devices are to be announced in early January, but details about the devices have been kept under wraps. One thing for certain is that the devices will be IP68 certified.
A report has come out giving several hints about when the Surface Pro 5 will be released, where the device may be manufactured, and which features the next generation device might have.
What can you get for $5? Some McDonald's, maybe a pizza? You might even be able to get yourself a new HDMI cable. But if you're in Australia, you can buy the ZTE Boost Icon Nero smartphone right now.
The next iPhone might be getting a 5.8-inch variation with an AMOLED display supplied by Samsung if the latest rumors about the smartphone turn out to be true. This display may even be curved.
Although BlackBerry once held as much as 20% of the smartphone market share, today it officially bows out as the company announces it has sold manufacturing rights to the BlackBerry brand to TCL.
Google's Best of 2016 list is out and has a few familiar names like Pokémon GO and Game of Thrones, both taking the number one spot in their respective categories. Check out the full list here!
Muviz is a free and pretty customizable Android app that hooks into whatever music or audio you're listening to and overlays a visualization of the audio over your navigation bar.
SwiftKey, a popular third-party replacement keyboard for Android and iOS, has made all of its premium themes free for everyone to download. The company was acquired by Microsoft earlier this year.
MediaTek has announced a refresh of its deca-core Helio X20 and Helio X25 processors that offer higher clockspeeds on both the CPU and GPU. MediaTek says this provides a 20% performance boost.
If you're after a dual-camera phone but not happy with what's currently on offer, we've put together a list of phones that are already out or on their way and some might even be priced under $200.
Bluboo, a Chinese smartphone manufacturer, has put the battery of one of their smartphones through a series of "battery safety tests" all to show that their phones don't explode like the Galaxy Note7.
Skype for Linux has received another update, marking the 13th since its July release. This update introduces the ability to send SMS messages and includes a number of performance improvements.
Cortana, Microsoft's digital personal assistant, has received another update for Android which includes a number of bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as a birthday reminder feature.
The ZUK Z2 packs a whole lot of flagships specs into its 5-inch frame. But is it worth the asking price? What flaws does the phone have? Find out here in our full review of the smartphone!
If you're someone who uses a lot of emojis or someone who doesn't use them enough, Dango can make the process of use and discovery easier thanks to some interesting machine learning mechanisms.
The dual-screen YotaPhone 2 was an extremely hot piece of engineering when it was first released and reimagined the smartphone. Although the phone once cost $859, you can pick it up today for $120.
Elephone has two smartphones on their way: the Elephone S7 and the R9. The phones have some pretty great specs and are well priced... but they're also clones of the Samsung Galaxy S7 and Oppo R9.
The spotlight is on Navbar Apps: an app that allows Android users to skin their navigation bar in a number of different ways. We take a look at everything good - and everything bad - around the app.
The Huawei Mate 9 Pro, a variation on the Huawei Mate 9, will be sporting a dual-curved 5.9" QHD display with a pixel density of 497 PPI. The device is expected to be announced early next month.
Oukitel is planning to release an updated version of the K10000 - as yet dubbed the K10000S - which is intended to be faster, thinner and as durable as the original 10,000 mAh phone they released.
We caught up with Ali Miracle - a visually impaired software developer and FOSS activist from Baghdad, Iraq. We spoke about his life, his background and his thoughts on Free and Open Source Software.
Vernee's Apollo Lite has 4 GB of RAM and a deca-core SoC driving the 5.5" handset. But does the phone deliver beyond just having specs on paper? Find out in our full review here!
Microsoft's Skype for Linux alpha app has gotten a few bug fixes with the latest release, marked version 1.7. The update includes a new layout for group calls and bug fixes for connectivity issues.
The Elementary OS team have released a stable version of Loki which previously went through two betas. Loki is built on top of Ubuntu 16.04 and provides a number of improvements over Freya.
Google announced the controversial decision to kill Chrome apps on every platform other than ChromeOS, but your hard work might be saved with a package that turns Chrome apps into Electron apps.
Xiaomi may be gearing up to announce a smartwatch if the latest rumors are to be believed. Not much is known about the watch, but those who claim to have insider knowledge say it won't be cheap.
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