OnePlus wants 30 of you to review the OnePlus 3 before anyone else

The Lab is a new initiative by OnePlus through which it wants to receive feedback about its next smartphone from people interested in reviewing a OnePlus 3 before anyone else. Sound interesting to you?

Well then, all you need to do is go to this page and register. Then keep your fingers crossed. OnePlus will select 30 people from those who sign up, and will send them a OnePlus 3 each. This isn’t going to be a random draw however, those 30 people will be carefully selected by the OnePlus team. In the application form, there’s a 500 word field that you can use to explain why you should be…

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Honor 8 reportedly coming soon as the most beautiful smartphone from Huawei’s sub-brand

The latest rumor from China states that a new Honor-branded device is coming soon. This will apparently complement the recently unveiled Honor V8 in Huawei’s portfolio, sporting a smaller screen.

The Honor 8 could thus be the successor to the Honor 7 from last year. It will reportedly come with a 5.2-inch display, Huawei’s Kirin 950 or Kirin 955 chipset, 4GB of RAM, a 12 MP dual camera setup on the rear, and a USB Type-C port. Wireless charging will be supported, and the phone will have an IR blaster and a battery capacity north of 3,000 mAh.

Its back will be covered by 2.5D curved…

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For Teens, Internet Addiction And School Burnout Can Be a Vicious Cycle

Life was stressful for teens even before they had Facebook and video games to distract them. Now a study finds that internet addiction is leaving some students feeling burnt out at school, which causes them to spend more time on the internet, creating a cycle that can leave teens feeling depressed.

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PowerColor DEVIL BOX Brings More Powerful Graphics, Networking, And Storage To Notebooks And SFF PCs

Although it is a holiday here in the U.S., there is a plethora of activity in the tech sector, thanks in no small part to the Computex trade show currently underway in Taipei. In the last few hours alone, NVIDIA has allowed details of its Pascal-based GeForce GTX 1070 to be revealed, ARM has unveiled new CPU and GPU cores, ASUS has launched an array of mobile devices, and the list goes on.

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Galaxy S7 gets the Putinphone do-over, costs up to $27,000

The Russian phone customization experts at Caviar are at it again, revealing the newest Putinphone. This one’s based on Samsung’s Galaxy S7, and like all other Putinphones before it comes with President Putin’s face engraved on the back. And, to give your handset that extra shot of bling it so desperately needed, one version of the S7-based Putinphone features 190 actual rubies around Putin’s face (as seen in the image below).

Everything else on the back is gold, and only three of these “Caviar Samsung Supremo Putin Rubino” models will be made. You can be the lucky owner of one for the…

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