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HTC new flagship HTC U to be announced May 16th
May 01, 2017
HTC's next flagship handset is thought to be going under the name of HTC U, previously known as HTC Ocean and it is coming close to its official appearance. HTC is releasing a squeezable smartphone next month, according to an event invite sent out by the Taiwanese electronics firm on Thursday. The technology is said to be called "Edge Sense," according to several reports, with sensors embedded into the frame of the device. The device won't actually bend but will have a feature that allows a ...
OnePlus 5 leak - The new flagship killer
April 26, 2017
This year's "flagship killer" will be called , skipping the number "4" deems inauspicious for Chinese. The supposed leaked image via Inida Today, whose claims to have sources that have worked on the OnePlus 5 . The OnePlus 5 appears set to feature a dual-camera design on the back, keeping the metal construction from the 3 and 3T with a metal frame around the edges. There is no fingerprint sensor on the back, so perhaps OnePlus has managed to incorporate it into the home button, or the display...
Blackberry KeyOne release delayed due to overwhelming response
April 02, 2017
Chinese company TCL announced at the MWC in February that the BlackBerry KEYone will be available globally starting April, though they did not specify when. Disappointingly so, it seems that the release of the smartphone has been moved on further to May. BlackBerry's CEO John Chen confirmed during the company's earning calls that the KEYOne will be in production at the end of April, which means it will not arrive in stores until after May. "We just launched two phones, or we helped our par...
Samsung announces first Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus in US, first to come with Snapdragon 835
March 29, 2017
Samsung officially unveiled the Samsung Galaxy S8 and the Samsung Galaxy S8+ smartphones. The Galaxy S8 has a 5.8-inch display, while the larger S8+ will come in at 6.2-inches. Both phones have edge-to-edge curved displays, something Samsung refers to as "infinity display." Samsung will be the first to launch the Snapdragon 835 phone on the market. The 835 uses a newer 10nm manufacturing process with more powerful Kryo 280 custom CPU cores. This is an octa-core chip, whereas the 821 is quad-...
Essential Products rumoured Bezel-less phone teased by founder Andy Rubin
March 28, 2017
Andy Rubin, as you may know, is a co-founder of Android, and he was in charge of the OS at Google until 2013. Rubin left the search giant a year later, and recently created a new company called Essential Products. Never mind that Softbank reportedly pulled out of planned 100mil investment in Essential. News of the company working on a pressed on and became nearer to reality now that Rubin teased the company's first device, posting an image to Twitter with a note "really excited about h...