The most characteristic feature of the new Huawei P9 flagship is the Leica-designed dual camera setup. Why two cameras? Well, Huawei draws parallels with human eyes - both of them.The Huawei P9 comes in a number of special finishes and coatings for its six color options. This 1-minute "design story" video quickly covers the key points.This was the short introduction if you crave more info you can watch how Huawei and Leica partnered to reinvent smartphone photography (and don't forget to check out our hands-on for yet more details).The P9 is a global phone and as the...


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Huawei TalkBand 3 brings more styles, better audio
At the Huawei P9 and P9 Plus premiere today, the company also revealed the TalkBand B3 band. Just like on its predecessor, the band is passive and is a holder for the Bluetooth earpiece, which sits on top of it. The earpiece itself is where the major updates are too.For starters, Huawei touts it to be more ergonomic and has a high-grade chipset resulting in better audio performance. The sound volume is up by 25% compared to the B2 and the wind noise cancellation is bumped by 80%. Finally, the glass covering the earpiece is 3D-curved Corning Gorilla Glass (Huawei doesn't specify which...


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Unannounced Huawei P9 Lite debuts in a hands-on preview
Huawei's major P9-series event is under way and in addition to the P9 and P9 Plus, the company is apparently preparing to unveil the P9 Lite. The guys over at Hi-Tech Mail.ru have spent some quality time with Huawei's latest mid-ranger and spilled the phone's main specifications.Just like the regular P9, the Huawei P9 Lite packs a 5.2" display of 1080p resolution resulting in a pixel density of 423ppi. Understandably, the dual Leica camera setup is missing on the P9 Lite and instead the phone packs a conventional 13MP main camera with a single LED flash. At the front, the phone...


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Huawei P9 and P9 Plus hands-on: First look
Huawei's charge towards becoming a global brand continues with the Huawei P9 and P9 Plus. Both are sleek metal phones with a powerful chipset and a unique dual-camera setup, the duo is all set to tackle the global flagships.


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Huawei P9 and P9 Plus announced - dual 12MP cameras by Leica, Kirin 955 SoC
After a buildup lasting several months, with leaks and rumors coming in almost daily, the Huawei P9 is now finally official, announced at a dedicated event in London. And alongside the P9 we're also being treated to a P9 Plus, instead of the previously rumored P9 Max.Huawei P9The Huawei P9 is the regular-sized flagship, though we're inclined to call it the small-sized one - it has pretty much the same footprint as an iPhone 6s. Display diagonal is 5.2 inches, resolution is 1080p, and it's an IPS LCD panel.It's the in-house Kirin 955 chipset powering things, a modified...


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PS4 Remote Play App is available now for Windows & OS X
The PlayStation 4 v3.50 update is out and with it, Sony also launched Remote Play for Windows and OS X. The new feature allows you to stream your PS4 games on your desktop PC for when the TV just can't be accessed.Don't hold your breath for some stunning visuals, as the default quality of the video stream is 540p @ 30fps. Provided your PC is top notch and internet connection rock solid, 720p @ 60fps is the highest you can go. In comparison, optimized PS4 titles can run at 1080p@60fps. Finally, Sony could also be improving its PS4 controllers drivers for the PC in the near...


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Meizu m3 note goes official with aluminum unibody, fingerprint sensor
Meizu held an unveiling event today in Beijing andfinally made the eagerly-anticipated m3 note official. The Chinese manufacturer's "m" lineup has a very distinct reputation for delivering quality budget-friendly offers, like the m1 note and its m2 note successor, both of which delivered outstanding value for money. In a first for the "m" line, the new offer features an 6000 series aluminum unibody. On the hardware side of things, the phone comes with a 5.5-inch, FullHD display, rather typical for the family with a 2.5D front glass. The front comes in black and white colors...


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Huawei P9 leaks one last time, black version shows up
Mere hours before announcement, the Huawei P9 showed up one last time unofficially, in black on this occasion.Unlike early leaks, this new image now features the Leica branding on the dual camera on the back of the device. The collaboration between the two companies was announced a couple of months ago and last week it was confirmed that the P9 will already reap the benefits.The shape of the fingerprint sensor has also been finalized to a rectangle with rounded corners. The circular design we saw earlier may have been an abandoned prototype, or might be used on the P9 Max....


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Vivaldi browser now out of beta
We first heard of Vivaldi back when it was released in beta form early last year. The browser is now finally out of beta, and available for Windows, OS X, and Linux.Vivaldi is a browser by Vivaldi Technologies, an Oslo-based company founded by the former co-founder and CEO of Opera Software, Jon von Tetzchner. Vivaldi tries to build on what made Opera so popular with some people in the first place, a ton of features and customizability, before Opera decided to strip it away of everything and become overly simplistic.Vivaldi includes features such as tab stacking, where you can...


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Deal: $600 for black or gold Factory Unlocked Galaxy S7 at Newegg
There is definitely something special about the Galaxy S7. It isn't often that a phone is sold for discounts and promotions not even a month after its original release. Let's not forget the buy-one-get-one free promotion that all major US Carriers have been participating in.But this is a different promotion, the international factory unlocked version (SM-G930F) of the Galaxy S7 can be purchased directly from Newegg for only $600. This is a phone whose retail price is well above Apple's introductory flagship price of $650 (for 16 measly GB) and a phone of which has only been released last...


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PSA: Siri-lock screen flaw leaves your contacts and photos vulnerable (iOS 9.3.1)
Siri isn't exactly the most loved feature of the iPhone among many users. She/He sometimes doesn't hear you correctly, and often infuriates users who try to use Siri and end up disabling it altogether.Now here is where 3D Touch comes in. It wasn't included in the iPhone SE, so we still don't know if it's because Apple intends to phase it out in the future, or if the iPhone SE was meant to be an inferior model to the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S+3D touch enables a serious flaw present in iOS 9.3.1 on the iPhones 6S and 6S+ that lets anybody who can get their hands on your iPhone to access...


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Reminders are finally coming to Google Calendar's web version
Last December Google introduced a new Reminders feature in its Calendar apps for both Android and iOS. And now the feature is finally ready to be rolled out to the web version of Google Calendar as well.In a way overdue move, Google will add the functionality at some point later this week. Once you get Reminders in Google Calendar for web, you can fully take advantage of this neat feature. Reminders you create in Inbox for Gmail, Google Keep, or the Google app on your mobile device will also show up in Google Calendar.Obviously, reminders you create in the Google Calendar app for...


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Android Marshmallow doubles its market share in a month
The latest release of Google's mobile operating system has managed to double its market share within the last month. Marshmallow is now installed on 4.6% of all Android devices out there, whereas back in March it was sitting at 2.3%. That's some pretty convincing growth, even if it does come from a low number obviously.In April, Lollipop has grabbed 35.8% of the market, which interestingly is 0.3% less than last month - so perhaps some of Marshmallow's gains have been made at the expense of Lollipop. Moving on, KitKat now has 33.4% market share, down 0.9% from March.The three...


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LG G Pad X 8.0 lands at T-Mobile in mid-May
T-Mobile is getting ready to launch a new LG tablet, according to a leak that's been outed today by none other than Evan Blass (also known as @evleaks). The G Pad X 8.0 will land in the magenta carrier's portfolio at some point in mid-May. It will follow similar G Pad X-branded mid-range slates that have already been launched by both AT&T and Verizon.T-Mobile's G Pad X 8.0 will have an 8-inch 1,920x1,200 touchscreen, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 615 SoC (with a 1.5 GHz octa-core CPU), and a couple of 5 MP cameras - one on the front, one on the back. Keeping things running will be a 4,650 mAh...


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BlackBerry Priv receives permanent price cut in the US and Europe
Good news if you've been eyeing the Android-powered BlackBerry Priv but haven't bought one yet. Starting today the price of a Priv sold by BlackBerry unlocked has just been dropped in the US and Europe. And this is no limited time type of deal - it's a permanent price cut.That said, it's not the biggest of reductions. In the US you'll save $50 compared to the launch price, while in Continental Europe you'll be asked to pay €50 less than before. The £50 price cut from the UK that we reported on last month has been made official on this occasion too.So, from today an unlocked and...


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LG trademarks G5 SE in South Korea
In a move that could easily be categorized as simply copying an idea Apple had first, LG has trademarked the name G5 SE in its native South Korea. So it looks like at least someone in the world views the SE suffix as great branding. Apple should probably be flattered, but we assume it's going to become pretty angry if LG actually launches a smartphone called G5 SE.That's one big "if", naturally, as at this point we have no more information to go on aside from the aforementioned trademark filing itself. Obviously LG could in the end choose not to go the SE route for a new device. Then...


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WhatsApp now offers full end-to-end encryption to all of its 1 billion users
Well, it's happened. As predicted last month, WhatsApp has now finalized its multi-year long effort to bring end-to-end encryption to all aspects of the service, and to all of its users. The number of those, by the way, has grown to over 1 billion. That makes the Facebook-owned app essentially the second most popular social network after Facebook itself, which has around 1.5 billion users.End-to-end encryption has showed up in WhatsApp for Android back in 2014, but from this point on it will work on any of the platforms on which the app is present (iOS, Android, Windows, S60, S40, and...


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The HP Spectre 13.3 is a 10.4mm razor-sharp laptop that you can actually get with a diamond finish
It is not particularly easy to shine at an event like the New York Times International Luxury Conference, but this year HP managed to turn some heads with what it claims to be the thinnest laptop in the world.At this year's event, hel in Versailles, France, HP showcased the Spectre 13.3, which measures the razor-thin 10.4mm! If you can't put that into perspective, imagine the girth of an AAA battery, or better yet, a stack of eight Pennys.By comparison, the new MacBook is about 13.1mm thick and the 14-inch LG gram is about 12.7 mm. Speaking of the latter, the HP Spectre 13.3 is...


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IKEA VR Experience lets you test drive kitchens before you buy them
IKEA has made a VR Experience app to help potential kitchen buyers with their decision. The IKEA VR Experience, which is available on Steam, lets you see the company's kitchen design offerings from different perspective and allows you to change the colors of the cabinets and drawers with literally a click.What's even cooler is the option to modify your height down to 100cm tall and experience the kitchen like a child would. The VR Experience is currently in a pilot program, which will continue until August and is available for the HTC Vive.IKEA also counts on the VR Experience...


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