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HTC has officially announced the slightly larger version of the M9 with fingerprint sensor and MediaTek soc. The One M9 Plus has a fingerprint scanner on the front and a slightly larger screen than the regular One M9.The One M9 + has a…

HTC is going to release the One E9+ in China, a smartphone with a 5.5" screen with a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels. A MediaTek soc is built into the housing, where HTC usually opts for Qualcomm. It is not yet known whether the smartphone…

Cyanogen, the company behind Cyanogenmod and the commercial variant CyanogenOS, has received an investment of 80 million dollars - 73 million euros. With that money, Cyanogen has to compete with Google.Companies putting money into…

According to Korean media, Samsung will expand its foundry plans and gradually, on behalf of others, also produce GPUs and CPUs for PCs, as TSMC is already doing. In addition, Samsung's own core for smartphone socs would be available…

In itself, the Galaxy A5 is a great phone. It feels solid, doesn't look bad, has a nice screen and works smoothly. It's certainly not a speed monster and the camera quickly fails in low light, but you can't expect a perfect phone in the…

Apple is reportedly in the process of making a switch from Qualcomm to Intel in LTE modems for its iPhones. Intel's XMM 7360 lte modem would appear in iPhones intended for emerging markets. This should happen in 2016.Apple technicians…

How many people with an iPhone 5s or iPhone 6 use the Touch ID fingerprint scanner in the Home button? Probably a high percentage. That has good reasons; it is an easy and fast way of security. Nevertheless, there are areas for…

The time when a large smartphone was invariably expensive is now behind us. Microsoft already released the 5" Lumia 535 for 109 euros and now it takes it a step further with the Lumia 640 XL, a 5.7" smartphone that costs 189 euros in the…

It was one of the surprises of this Mobile World Congress. Huawei showed its first Android Wear watch and that immediately made a big impression. That is mainly due to the design; it looks a lot like a normal watch. That is something more…

It appears that Google has dropped the requirement to enable storage encryption on Android versions 5.0 and above by default. Securing the file storage causes performance degradation, which is probably what prompted this…