Although Xiaomi crowned the Xiaomi Mi Note and Mi Note Pro its flagship devices for 2015, everyone who’s been following the strongly emerging Chinese brand knows that it has something even better in the works. The company’s Mi series smartphones have traditionally been its hero devices, and are arguably the ones on which the company built its reputation. Thus, the …

The smartphone industry is still evolving pretty quickly and has been doing so for the past couple of years. Given the rapid evolution of hardware and software, it’s often hard to remember the smartphones that first introduced a certain hardware feature. True, most of the pioneers have kept their title for a pretty short time, as the ever- hungry competition …

Nearly six years after the original game that has been downloaded, wait for it, more than 2 billion times, will come the second part of the Angry Birds franchise, dubbed simply Angry Birds 2. For now, the contents of the game are just a teaser that Rovio issued, announcing that the sequel will be announced on July 28th. “Bigger, badder, …

OnePlus is going all out with the unveiling of its second handset. A VR unveiling of the OnePlus 2 will take place on July 27th at 10pm EDT (7pm PDT). Those who request one, are being sent cardboard VR viewers that are costing the company a ton of money. There is plenty of pressure on OnePlus to deliver an amazing …

Back in May, Microsoft confirmed that it would launch a Windows 10 Mobile flagship smartphonesometime later this year. However, we might see more than just one new flagship from Microsoft, as rumors have it that the company is working on a Lumia 940, a Lumia 940 XL, and even a Lumia 1030 (though the 1030 might have been cancelled). The …

Siri, Apple’s voice assistant, is definitely one of the sassier voice assistants around. This was recently proved by Siri’s discovered ability to “burn” users who ask it to divide zero by zero, a fun (and annoying) response discovered by Aaron Paul, the actor who portrayed Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad. Needless to say, there are other queries that will make …

The new ProShot camera app that popped up in the Play Store last week may be a debutant when it comes to Android, but it’s been on Windows Phone for a while, and, given the camera-centric Lumia phones, has been battling the stock camera interface with great success there. After landing on Android, it quickly became clear that ProShot can …

The infamous “flagship killer” of 2014 – the OnePlus One stirred up feelings and pumped the hype, drawing interest and drool from smartphone aficionados worldwide. The device promised flagship specs and hot looks at half the price of a competing high-shelf phone, and for the most part – that’s exactly what it delivered. Unfortunately, OnePlus decided to not sell the …

Summer, at least in the Northern hemisphere, is getting hotter with each and every day, and so is the smartphone scene. The first half of the year treated us to many exciting new phones, but the second one is even quite promising — we are eagerly anticipating a large number of compelling devices to debut by year’s end. Among these …

  A fresh report from Digitimes, quoting the usual unnamed industry insider sources, says that Microsoft has notified its upstream supply chain to start shipping components for the upcoming Surface Pro 4 in September. The report then moves on to note that the tablet should hit the market in October. The same report also claims that Microsoft Surface Pro 3 shipment …