With so many rumours appearing online in recent weeks regarding the Xiaomi Mi 5 smartphone, the company's co-founder and now Global VP Hugo Barra and India Head Manu Kumar Jain have officially confirmed the announcement date of their flagship handset.


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ASUS Releases Update ZenFone 2 Deluxe Special Edition Handset

Another variant of the ZenFone 2 smartphone has received small innards update. ASUS ZenFone 2 Deluxe Special Edition was announced back in November and today, ASUS announced a new, refreshed model that pack faster quad-core Intel processor running at 2.5 GHz.


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Microsoft Silently Releases New Firmware Update For Lumia 550

Microsoft has just released a small firmware update for its budget Lumia 550 smartphone. The update has been quietly released by Microsoft and bumps up the firmware version of the handset from 15461.48007 to 15503.21007, while keeping the OS version the same.


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Vivo Xplay 5S Appears On AnTuTu, Features Snapdragon 820 And 4 GB Of RAM

Vivo Xplay 5S has already leaked in live images, revealing its design and confirming that it will be a successor to the Xplay 3S. Today, the same smartphone has appeared in an AnTuTu database, revealing some of its specifications that suggest it will be worth watching.


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Samsung Galaxy Tab E 7.0 and Tab E Lite Coming Soon

Samsung Galaxy Tab E lineup is aimed at budget-oriented customers, and is about to get two new members. The company is working on a 7-inch variant for normal users, alongside Galaxy Tab E Lite version, that will be directed specifically for the kids.


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LG Russia Reveals Entry-Level K4 Handset

LG has recently announced and started selling its K-series of smartphones, but not all models are available. We know there will be five members, including LG K4, K5, K7, K8 and K10, but only the K7 and K10 are available for purchase. Now, the third member has been spotted online.


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Twitter Tests Removing Ads For Popular Users

If you're a heavy user of Twitter with a relatively large following, the social network may no longer show any ads in your timeline. Twitter is currently experimenting with removing ads for top users in order to boost engagement. It has been reducing ads for users for months.


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EFF Wants NSA To Delete Phone Data, Not Destroy Evidence

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has announced it reached out to a secret US court last year in order to find ways for the National Security Agency (NSA) to destroy its phone records. As per the USA Freedom Act, which passed in 2015, the NSA can't bulk collect phone data.


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Uber Monitors Driver Speeds Through Phone Sensors

Uber is beginning to use smartphone sensors in order to check in on its drivers. The company says it will now use a phone's gyrometer and GPS data to figure out if a driver may be speeding, thereby giving drivers another reason to drive safely when they're with passengers.


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Google Wipes Glass From Social Media

Google is getting rid of any final traces of its Glass wearable by removing the consumer product from Twitter, Instagram, and Google+. Those social media pages no longer contain any content and are fully defunct. Google ended its Glass Explorer program a year ago.


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Tesla To Secure Chinese Factory Location By Mid-2016, Launch In Couple Years

Tesla may further commit to the Chinese market by finding and securing a factory in the country by mid-2016, according to Engadget. Some issues existed with Tesla's break into the Chinese market, but it has since done "reasonably well" in mainland China.


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Battery Prototype Capable Of Storing 5x More Energy Than Current Li-Ion Batteries

Researchers have created a battery prototype that is capable of storing far more energy than existing lithium-ion batteries and the prototype was detailed in Nature. The new battery, referred to as "lithium-oxygen," relies on lithium superoxide and it can store more energy.


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LG Confirms Two Flagship Phones Are Coming This Year

At least two flagship smartphones will come out from LG this year, the company has confirmed. Even though LG's phone division has been seeing losses, it wants to hit back at competitors by coming out with more flagships. Devices such as the LG G5 and LG V11 could come out.


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Samsung Could Bring Most Apps To iOS This Year

Samsung may no longer focus as much on Android when it comes to smartphone software, according to a report from SamMobile. The company will reportedly bring most, or perhaps all, of its available software to iOS this year and it will be improving its few currently available apps.


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300,000 Drones Registered With FAA In First Month

Since the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began accepting drone registrations in the United States, more than 300,000 drones have been registered. The FAA says the owners of those drones registered in the first 30 days, allowing them to receive a $5 refund.


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Sprint Firing 2,500 Employees To Cut Costs

Thousands of Sprint employees are being laid off because the company is trying to reduce its expenses. Sprint has announced 2,500 employees were laid off and most of the jobs that have been cut were in customer service. Out of those jobs, 574 came from one office.


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Latest Surface Pro 3 Firmware Causing BSODs And Other Issues

To fix certain bugs and improves performance, Microsoft rolled out a new Surface Pro 3 firmware update last week. Unfortunately, according to posts on Microsoft's Community forums, the company did just the opposite and now users are experiencing various issues.


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HTC Desire T7 Tablet Appears On GFXBench

Apart from working on new smartphones, HTC is eager to expand its Desire brand with new tablets. The first HTC Desire tablet seems to be in the work, and has visited the popular GFXBench database. It carries a model number of HTC IV5001-A, but will be known as the HTC Desire T7.


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OnePlus Releases OxygenOS 2.2.0 For The OnePlus X

OnePlus One owners have recently received their first OxygenOS update, and today the company is releasing an update for the OnePlus X owners. The company is now rolling out OxygenOS 2.2.0, an incremental rollout of the Android-based OS, for OnePlus X owners.


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Live Images Of Xiaomi Mi 5 Emerge Online

Xiaomi is less than a month away from officially announcing a successor to the current flagship Mi 4 handset. Dubbed the Xiaomi Mi 5, the smartphone has leaked numerous times over the past few months and now another set of live images have appeared online.


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