Pebble might have unveiled the next-gen Pebble Time, but if you are in the UK, and are still considering purchasing the original variant, you’ll be happy to know that the smartwatch has received a 50% price cut.

Amazon UK currently has the device listed on its website for just £79, down £70.99 from its official price of £149.99. For those doing the math, this translates into a discount of 47%.

What’s worth mentioning, however, is that the £79 price is only for the black color variant – the red version costs £82.99, while the white model carries a price tag of £81.99. For comparison,…

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If you are an HTC fan, and are in the market for a couple of low-end smartphones, here is a deal for you: Verizon is currently offering a buy one get one free (BOGO) deal on the Taiwanese company’s Desire 526 smartphone. The promo was revealed by HTC itself in a tweet.

Through this weekend, score two #Desire526 phones for the price of one at @Verizon: https://t.co/rzSFs3ZTms http://pic.twitter.com/oEwdc3C55H— HTC USA (@HTCUSA) May 27, 2016

As for price, the device carries a tag of $120 sans contract. Alternatively, you can also make it yours by paying $5 each month for a total of 24 months….

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Has Google’s new Daydream VR platform caught your fancy? Are you waiting to try it on the smartphone you own? Well, sadly, you are out of luck as Google has said that existing smartphones will “most likely” not work with the Android-powered VR platform.

“I can tell you that there will most likely not be any retroactively Daydream-ready phones,” said the Mountain View, Califronia-based company’s VR division head Clay Bavor.

“We want to hold a very high quality bar, and for that to happen all of the components need to be just right. So, to VR fans, I would say, hold off for a few…

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Google’s photo hosting and sharing service has turned a year old, and to celebrate, the Mountain View, California-based company has shared some interesting information related to the service.

“Now 200 million of you are using Google Photos each month,” Google said in a blog post. ‘We’ve delivered more than 1.6 billion animations, collages and movies, among other things.”

“You’ve collectively freed up 13.7 petabytes of storage on your devices – it would take 424 years to swipe through that many photos! We’ve also applied 2 trillion labels, and 24 billion of those have been for ……

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LG has launched a new tablet. Dubbed G Pad III 8.0, the device is powered by an octa-core processor, and sports an 8-inch (1920 x 1200 pixel resolution) display. It offers 16GB of storage (expandable up to 2TB), and features a 5MP rear camera.

Measuring 210.7 x 124.1 x 7.9mm and weighing in at 309g, the tablet runs Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow. The LG G Pad III 8.0 is available for purchase in Canada, where Rogers and Fido are currently offering it for CAD 240, or around $185.

As per Rogers, the tablet is targeted towards “youth and young adults looking for the best value device that…

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A couple of new Huawei Honor devices – allegedly dubbed Honor 5A and 5A Plus – have been certified by Chinese telecommunication authority TENAA. The Honor 5A is powered by a quad-core 1.3GHz processor, and sports a 5-inch HD display.

It comes with 2GB RAM and 16GB of internal memory, and packs in a 2,200mAh battery. In terms of camera, the device features a 13MP rear unit and a 2MP front shooter. Offering 4G LTE support, the handset runs Android 5.1 Lollipop out-of-the-box.

Moving on to the Honor 5A Plus, the device is powered by an octa-core 1.8GHz CPU, and sports a 5.5-inch HD…

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Remember when just a few short years ago, the smartphone industry was shifting from 720p (1280x720px) to 1080p (1920x1080px) displays and we thought: What for? We don’t need so much resolution just to read text and see pictures off the screen, right?

Well, no one would have predicted at that time that we’d be sticking our phones into VR headsets to enjoy an immersive virtual reality experience powered by our everyday smartphones and the displays they power.

The demand for 4K (3840x2160px) has since sky-rocketed. Especially with Google recently announcing its VR platform called Daydream…

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Here’s good news for Nexus Owners that love taking a lot of photos and videos. According to Android Police, an APK breakdown reveals code that suggests Nexus device users can upload an unlimited amount of original quality photos that will not count against their Google Drive storage allotment.

This would be most beneficial to Nexus device owners as they do not have the option of memory expansion for storing pictures, videos and media. It makes sense for Google to provide this nice gesture as 4K TVs and media become more common in consumers’ households.

Remember that Google…

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A report from Tech Insider says that Jawbone has already stopped producing its UP line of fitness bands and has already sold them to a third-party reseller. The same report says Jawbone has been struggling to sell its UP bands and needed to resell the inventory in order to stay afloat.

It has already been more than a year since Jawbone’s newest UP4 band was released and so far there hasn’t been any word of a successor to the UP4. Besides, we don’t know if Jawbone will keep making such fitness bands anymore.

To add insult to injury, the same report also states that Jawbone is…

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This isn’t the first limited time price cut that Microsoft applies for the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book, and it clearly won’t be the last. It is a pretty sweet deal however, so if you’ve been eyeing either of these devices it would be a pity not to take advantage of it while it lasts.

Through Microsoft’s online store, you can now buy select Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book models for $150 less than before. This means that, for example, the Surface Pro 4 with 128GB of storage, Core i5 processor, and 4GB of RAM can be yours for just $849 (was previously $999).

Get the tablet with the…

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