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When I first heard this rumor regarding the name of the upcoming OnePlus flagship to be released in summer of 2017 I had to check the date to be sure it wasn't an April Fools joke. According to sources OnePlus will be skipping the OnePlus 4 and will jump straight to the OnePlus 5. The reason...

Mobile World Congress has been where Samsung has announced their Galaxy S series flagship devices for the past 3 years. It is looking like Samsung will be delaying the release until April. The reason for this is to give themselves more time to figure out why their batteries are exploding...

Huawei has been killing it in recent years with their Mate series. Last year the Mate 8 was one of the snappiest phones I was able to try out. Performance matched with flagship features and a high quality build made this device a top contender. The Mate 9 looks to be just as great. Yesterday we...

It is official Samsung will not be releasing the Galaxy S8 ahead of schedule. It was an interesting thought that Samsung may once again rush production of the S8 to compensate for the loss that was the Note 7. However it wouldn't be very prudent to rush another device after the most recent...

I remember Blackberry's hay day. For some reason I was never really a fan. When blackberry phones were for the cool kids I was trying to get my hands on the RAZR. My wife went through her share of Blackberry phones. I guess when Apple revolutionized the phone industry with their version of a...

LeEco is one of China's top OEMs, but is not very well known in the US since getting your hands on one of the devices in the US can be a painful process. Today LeEco is changing that. They are launching two new phones and some TVs in the US via their e-commerce store LeMall. The Le Pro3 and LeS3...

The LG V20 was starting to seem like an after thought kind of device, but then the Note 7 debacle happened and it seemed once again like LG was poised for victory with the release of this power user device. Then when AT&T and T-Mobile went live with pre-orders and people saw the price tag many...

Earlier today began the onslaught of embargoed reviews for the Pixel and Pixel XL from Google. We all know what to expect in our boxes and have a bit of an idea of how the camera will perform and even what the new launcher complete with an all new nav bar will look like. By now you have likely...

The best $200 device last year had to be the Honor 5X. It featured a premium build. The device also featured an accurate fingerprint scanner with gestures and performed well with a few minor tweaks. I was floored at how great the phone was at the price point. Huawei will be announcing the next...

Samsung has begun firmware development for the Galaxy S8. This is right on schedule and is not necessarily ahead of schedule. This is about the same time that S7 firmware development started last year. Early on Samsung will focus on Rom development for use in China, France, Germany, Italy...

Finally we have an official release date for the LG V20. This was announced about a month ago, and has left many consumers wondering if the device would simply end up being vapor ware. I have been using my preview V20 for the past few weeks as a daily driver and this device has been the perfect...

Xiaomi has really been on a roll this year. We have already seen two major flagships the Mi 5 and the Redmi Note 4. There have been many rumors that a new phone is coming before the years end. It is expected that we will see the Mi Note 2 by the end of next month. The Mi Note 2 is said to...

With Nougat hitting the full list of current Nexus devices the question remains, "When will my device receive Nougat?". It turns out if your device is part of the Moto Z family you will be receiving the update to Nougat some time in Q4. We won't even see the new lineup of Nexus devices until the...

Here is some off topic news from the world of Applelandia. It looks like the new iPhone 7 has already been jailbroken. Us Android modders can really appreciate that fact for our iOS friends. iOS jailbreak doesn't give you near the control over the iPhone as we get with Root on Android, still you...

If it weren't already pretty obvious Samsung will be bringing the Nougat update to their latest devices including the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge. We now have confirmation that Samsung is working on Nougat for the Galaxy S7 Edge. Nougat has been spotted running on the Galaxy S7 Edge on...

The Xiaomi Mi Note 2 is expected to be the next flagship released by Xiaomi. Of course the phone is loaded with top notch specs. The specs have been leaked by way of a settings screenshot. It looks like the phone will include the Snapdragon 820 CPU from Qualcomm, 64GB of storage, and the phone...

HTC took a bit of heat when they released the HTC One A9 last year. The device made you do a double take. "Is that an iPhone you have there or an HTC One A9? I can't tell?" The dual white out antenna bands across the top and bottom rear of the device and round camera hole gave the device a...

Now that the official source code for Nougat has been released by Google it won't be long until we start to see builds of Nougat for all devices. Cyanogen has already started to merge source code from Android 7.0 under the CyanogenMod 14 umbrella for the Nexus 5X. It won't be long before we...

We have seen a few limited product releases in the US from Xiaomi. A while back they released a series of accessories including a set of headphones, battery bank, and Mi Band fitness tracker. This was pretty exciting as it seemed to signal an entry into the market for their mobile handsets...

When I think of Nokia phones I think of a tank! My first ever cell phone was a Nokia and there just wasn't any destroying it. You can throw it across the room, drop it on concrete, submerge it in water all without having to worry about it dying. The battery held a charge for more than a week...