Samsung’s latest smartphones are already off to a great start, with record pre-orders received for both the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge in the U.K., the company has confirmed today. During the pre-order period for these devices, which began on February 21 and ended on March 10, sales were at least 2.5 times

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Eric Schmidt has been outspoken about his belief that Apple’s smartphones are nothing but a Samsung Galaxy clone, that user data is safer with Google than Apple, and that (slightly oddly) jumping ship from iOS to Android is not dissimilar to switching from PC to Mac. So why wouldn’t Alphabet chairman and former Google CEO

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Nintendo’s first ever smartphone game will finally land on iOS and Android this month — and we now know when and where it will be making its world debut. Called Miitomo — and described by its creators as a “smart-device app that sparks one-of-a-kind conversations between you and your friends” — the game will first

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Google-owned Nest is introducing a new feature today which it claims will make its home automation kit better than ever at knowing when you are home and, as a result, enable it to react to your needs by locking or unlocking doors, turning lights on or off and activating or deactivating Nest’s security cameras. Not

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Google’s new Android N preview isn’t available for the Nexus 5, leading some people to believe that Marshmallow will be its last official update. But there’s hope for the beloved handset yet. Google’s Git repositories show that the company has been testing Android N for the Nexus 5 internally. As you can see in the

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A key to being a successful coder is having as broad a knowledge base as possible — the more you know, the better you code. With all the languages, platforms, and frameworks in the web development world these days it can be hard to know where to start, but with the Pay What You Want

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LG today announced that its flagship phone for the first half of 2016, the LG G5, will be landing in the United States in early April. The handset and “LG Friends” will be available across all the four major carriers in the states, along with retailers like B&H Photo and Best Buy. “LG Friends” are modules

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Huawei Watch, arguably the prettiest and best Android Wear watch money can buy today, has had its price reduced significantly for one day only. Thanks to Amazon, you can pick one up for as little as $269 with a leather strap, and for just $279 with a stainless steel link band. Although Huawei’s smartphones are generally

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Android N’s first developer preview is out with a whole bunch of exciting new features, but if you don’t have a Nexus device, you can’t try it. However, you can get your hands on its sweet new wallpaper — right here! Like many of the stock Android wallpapers that came before it, N’s new background

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Google’s mobile Chrome web browser gets a new update today, which — according to the Chrome team — has “more than a barge full of performance and stability fixes.” We’re not sure how many software fixes a barge would hold, but we feel confident in saying it’s a whole lot. The update should roll out

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