Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri (pictured below) seems to have finally given up on saying that his company will not return to the smartphone market. Following one denial last year and another in April of this year, Suri now says the company is in fact planning on putting its name on new smartphones starting in 2016.

There is a catch, however. Nokia will use the same strategy for its re-entry in the smartphone space as it did for creating the N1 tablet. Namely, while the Finns will design the devices and the company's name will be used, Nokia won't actually be producing the handsets.

That task will be fulfilled by "suitable partners" Suri is hoping to find from this point on. That said, given how much brand recognition Nokia still has, this should not be an issue. Foxconn, which is the licensee for the N1 tablet, could be one interested party.

Nokia can't even do this licensing dance before the second half of next year because of the terms of the deal through which it sold its mobile division to Microsoft in 2013.

Since the N1 tablet runs Android, we assume future Nokia-branded phones will go the same route. While Microsoft hasn't been able to grab any significant smartphone market share after acquiring Nokia's mobile business, maybe Nokia itself will once again rise in that space even without any production capacity of its own.

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Acer probably isn't a name you instantly associate with smartphones, but it's been churning out Android devices left and right for many years now. And it turns out the Taiwanese company is currently working on a new phablet.

It will be called Liquid Z630, and most of its specs have been leaked by a benchmark database. This obviously means someone with a prototype took the time to run said benchmark on it.

So, the Liquid Z630 is unashamedly a midranger. It sports a 5.5-inch 720p touchscreen, an 8 MP rear camera with LED flash, an 8 MP selfie snapper too, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of built-in storage, Bluetooth, a compass, GPS, Wi-Fi, and a gyroscope. It runs Android 5.1 Lollipop.

At the helm we find MediaTek's MT6735 chipset, boasting a 1.3 GHz quad-core Cortex-A53 CPU and ARM Mali-T720 GPU. Since the SoC supports 4G LTE connectivity, we assume the Acer Liquid Z630 will come with that too.

These are all the details we have for now, but we obviously expect this phone to be pretty cheap, considering the specs.

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Yesterday OnePlus revealed the first piece of the puzzle regarding its next device, namely the chipset it will use. Unsurprisingly, the company went with the latest iteration of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 for the OnePlus 2. However, it assured us then that thanks to using an improved version of the SoC, along with some heavy cooling material inside the case, the OnePlus 2 will not suffer any overheating issues.

Today OnePlus feels the need to clarify some of that, apparently because some rumors about its chipset choice have made its staff "mad" for whatever reason.

So, it turns out that while the company may indeed be putting thermal gel and graphite on the SoC, one of the main reasons you'll see less heat generated by the S810 in the OnePlus 2 will have to do with underclocking. Namely, the four high performance Cortex-A57 cores will be limited to 1.8 GHz, which is 200 MHz or 10% less than the CPU can handle.

It's still unclear how much thermal throttling we'll see in this Snapdragon 810 v2.1 employed in the OnePlus 2, and thus how much time the Cortex-A57 cores will actually be able to spend running at 1.8 GHz all at the same time, even in intensive tasks. But perhaps an announcement about this is due for tomorrow, since it seems like every day OnePlus has something new to share in this period.

Moving on, a recent rumor said the OnePlus 2 would be priced from $322 in China. Now though the company is clearly stating that "the price of the 2 will certainly be higher than $322". In the best case scenario, that means its starting price (for the lower internal storage version) might be $349. Then again, we could be looking at a minimum level of $399 or even more.

OnePlus explains this with the cost of the aforementioned Snapdragon 810 chipset, which apparently goes for around 60% more than the Snapdragon 801 used in last year's OnePlus One. If this is true, it's a pretty strange move for Qualcomm to charge so much for a part that's more well known right now for its overheating problems than for its actual…

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