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Super popular messaging app WhatsApp is changing it up a bit, moving into a new phase which sees the company working with carriers to provide prepaid SIM cards which provides access to WhatsApp without eating up a customers’ mobile data allotments. WhatsApp is now offering a €10 SIM card from E-Plus which gives customers unlimited…
As I’m sure you all know, HBO Go crashed last night, denying millions of people access to the season four premiere of Game of Thrones. GoT wasn’t the only season premiere last night, though. Mike Judge’s new half-hour show that takes on the tech scene, Silicon Valley debuted right after GoT on HBO. In case…
Motorola (or that’s Lenovo?) is working on the successor to its popular Moto X smartphone, EVleaks is reporting. The upcoming Moto X + 1 device will likely build on top of the current model which we learned to love due to its slick interface and voice commands. That said, we’re not sure what else could…
After many rumors and leaked photos, we’ll finally see the Huawei announcing the Ascend P7 on May 7th. The event will take place in Paris, France, hinting us that outside China, Huawei expects to sell a ton of these in Europe. From what we’ve heard before, the P7 will build on top of the last-year’s…
We can’t say we’re really surprised to see the special, dual-SIM version of the Galaxy S5 being unveiled in China. Samsung did this in the past, though we always hoped such model will eventually hit the Western hemisphere. Alas, as I’m writing this – that hasn’t happened. Anyway, the dual-SIM Galaxy S5 does come with…
China’s VIVO was the first handset maker to launch a smartphone with 2K screen. Their Xplay 3S pretty much opened a new era in mobile computing, with its 6-inch display managing to “cope” with 1440 x 2560 pixels. Like that’s not enough, the company is already working on the next flagship device that will be…
Now that the Xperia Z2 has been officially announced, we expect to see the Z2 Compact following suit. If we can take cues from the last year’s model, the smaller flagship will debut in Japan and only later hit the markets across the Western hemisphere. Well, the Japanese version of the Xperia Z2 Compact has…
Even though the Xiaomi Redmi has been selling in China for more than a year, it’s still a popular device, offering a hard-to-beat value for money. Up until this point it was available with black front though users were able to change its back cover. Now the white version has been announced, helping the handset…
Installing a custom ROM can be a pain for some users. Xiaomi knows this, hence it’s trying to make it easier to run their fancy MIUI software on as many devices as possible. Instead of rooting the phone and then flashing the custom ROM, the Chinese firm now allows some users to simply download an…
Huawei has unveiled another low-end model for the emerging markets. Part of the Ascend Y-series, the Y600 is an everything but exceptional device. It packs a 5-inch FWVGA (854 x 480 pixels) screen, MediaTek’s 1.3GHz dual-core processor, 512MB of RAM, 5-megapixel rear and VGA front-facing cameras, HSPA+ connectivity, and a 2,100 mAh battery. Android 4.2…