Inline with what HTC’s Senior Global Online Communications Manager Jeff Gordon said last week, the Taiwanese company has started shipping pre-orders for its newest flagship – the HTC 10 – in the United States.

We’ve got good news: if you pre-ordered an #HTC10, they’ve now started shipping. We’re fulfilling orders as they were received.— HTC USA (@HTCUSA) May 4, 2016

Given that this announcement was made directly by HTC, it’d be reasonable to assume that the company is talking about pre-orders placed through its own online store. A quick look at the firm’s official website reveals…

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Nearly a month after it started rolling out in select regions worldwide including the US, the Marshmallow update for Sony’s Xperia Z2, Xperia Z3, and Xperia Z3 Compact smartphones has now started hitting units in India and Canada.

Aside from the usual Marshmallow goodies (including Doze, Google Now on Tap, and redesigned app permissions), the update also includes enhanced privacy settings, new camera interface, as well as Xperia Messaging and Direct Share features.

Given than the update has just started rolling out in these regions, it may take some time before it hits your device….

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When working with the HTC 10, we noticed something peculiar. The time that it took to transfer sample photos from HTC 10 to our PC definitely felt much slower than transferring photos from the LG G5 or the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge. We thought it’d be interesting to measure how these phones perform in reading and writing speeds on the internal memory.

The HTC 10 uses the more conventional Embedded Multi-Media Controller (eMMC) 5.1 NAND memory, which, when compared to Samsung’s Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 2.1 NAND, is significantly lower in read/write performance than the newer UFS 2.1…

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