If the $799 price tag of Lenovo’s Thinkpad Yoga 2-in-1 touchscreen laptop has kept you away from it all this while, here is some good news: the device has received a whopping $530 price cut in the United States.

The laptop – that can have its screen folded to give you a tablet-like experience – is now selling for $270. Amazon has it listed for that price on its US website, and the deal is said to be available for limited time only.

For $270, you get a 2-in-1 laptop powered by Intel N2940 Quad-Core 1.83GHz processor and featuring an 11.6-inch touchscreen of 1366 x 768 pixel resolution. It has 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD built in storage. The device runs Windows 10…

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Xiaomi announced its latest flagship smartphone – the Mi 5 – at this year’s Mobile World Congress yesterday. While we already know that the SD820-powered device will be available for purchase in China starting March 1, we now have at-least some idea on its international availability, too.

Clearing any doubt whatsoever we’ve had until now, the Mi 5 will indeed be available in markets outside of the company’s home country of China. Xiaomi VP Hugo Barra revealed yesterday that the phone will land in the neighboring country of India soon. This will be followed by a release in “other global markets,” he said.

The handset carries a price tag of around $300 in China. We expect the company to reveal region-specific pricing info once the exact launch markets and dates are…

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If you recall, Android 6.0 Marshmallow brought along the concept of ‘adoptable storage,’ where-in the system adopts a microSD card and makes it behave like internal storage. While both Samsung Galaxy S7 and LG G5 sport expandable storage, it has now come to light that they don’t support the ‘adoptable storage’ feature.

The problem with the feature is that it requires the memory card to be formatted first and then encrypted, before it starts behaving like internal memory. And once the card gets adopted, you can’t remove it (sure, you can do that physically, but that’s not recommended) .

That’s the reason why Samsung isn’t supporting the feature. The company said, “Samsung decided not to use the Android Marshmallow ‘adoptable storage’ model. We believe that our users want a microSD card to transfer files between their phone and other devices (laptop, tablet, etc), especially the photos and videos they shoot with the camera.”

“With adoptable storage, first of all the card may be erased the first time it is inserted into the device. This behavior may be unexpected by many users and we don’t want our users to lose their files. Second, once Marshmallow starts using a card for adoptable storage, it cannot be read by other devices, so it loses this ability to be used for file transfer.”

“Adoptable Storage is also primarily targeted towards emerging markets where devices with only 4-8GB of onboard storage are common. We think that our model of using microSD for mass storage is more in-line with our owner’s desires and expectations for how microSD should behave.”

For those in the US and Europe who like to install lots of apps (especially large gaming apps), this is bad news given that the South Korean company has already confirmed that only the 32GB variants of its newest flagships will be available in these…

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