If you are on Verizon, and are planning to purchase HTC’s newest flagship smartphone (the 10), here is some good news: the carrier is currently offering a discount of $100 on the device. This was announced by HTC USA on Twitter.

Psst… @Verizon customers, right now you can snag an #HTC10 online for $100 off. Don’t sleep on this one: http://ift.tt/27ThaSM HTC USA (@HTCUSA) May 25, 2016

In case you don’t already know, the Verizon HTC 10 usually costs $648, but with the discount, you grab a unit for $548. Keep in mind, however, that the discount is only available for purchases made…

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OnePlus has been hard at work with the upcoming expected release of the OnePlus 3. Just this week, the first selfie taken with the OnePlus 3’s front facing camera has been released to the interwebs. The same device in question has also received the @evleaks treatment, the phone’s basic specs have already been leaked.

New information from a OnePlus live chat agent revealed that the OnePlus 3 will be launched on June 14 with a VR launch just like the OnePlus 2 was last year. Unlike last year, however, viewers of the launch event using the Loop VR will be able to purchase the phone…

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PayPal has announced its app will no longer work unless it’s installed on Android devices with 4.0.3 or later as well as Apple devices with iOS 9.1 or later. The new 6.0 version of the PayPal app is not going to be supported on Windows Phone, BlackBerry OS, or the Amazon Fire Phone.

PayPal’s new release will come with a new look and feel, PayPal balance, and transaction history. While PayPal continues to look into investing in new ways to make money and new ways to add convenience to the PayPal experience, it regrets that it had to make the decision of discontinuing the app for customers…

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If you don’t know what “fragmentation” is, it’s probably the biggest problem that Google has with Android when it comes to software updates. Because there are so many different manufacturers that produce Android phones, there is no reasonable way for Google to keep track of all the phones that are produced and whether or not they are updated.

This is where Apple has Google beat. Because Apple has control of both software and hardware of its mobile products running iOS, it is able to release updates for all its products at the same time. The only place Google somewhat has control over the…

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Foxconn, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of electronics, including Apple’s biggest money maker: the iPhone, has effectively replaced 60,000 human workers with automated robots who perform repetitive tasks.

This was reported to the South China Morning Post by representative of Foxconn’s manufacturing division, Xu Yulian, saying that the company “reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots.”

60,000 is a staggering number. That’s a hell of a lot of people’s worth of labor that robots are now performing. Keep in mind, these are…

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The Galaxy J5 (2016) is the centerpiece of the company’s mid-range portfolio for year. With its predecessor becoming a huge hit in developing markets, the company really needs the 2016 model to come out good and help keep Chinese makers at bay.

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If you want to use Google Play Music for free for a while and can’t access the Google Cast offer we told you about yesterday (say, because you don’t have a Chromecast), here’s another opportunity for you. Though it has to be said, it does come as an effect of a very odd partnership.

See, the TripAdvisor app for Android has teamed up with Google Play Music in order to provide you with “the soundtrack for your next trip”. This means you’ll see locally-themed music stations based on the destination of your choice right inside the TripAdvisor app.

So you essentially now have access to…

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Back in January, we saw two upcoming Asus devices getting benchmarked using GFXBench, a process which revealed most of their specs, as is always the case with such prototypes. Those are still probably going to be two distinct Zenfone 3 models, and today a third has surfaced in the exact same benchmark’s database.

For now it’s known only as the Asus Z016D. Its screen size is wrongly reported by GFXBench (this happens a lot) – yet if we assume that it meant 13.8 centimeters instead of inches then the phone sports a 5.5″ display, which would make a lot more sense.

Anyway, its…

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OnePlus announced today that it’s slashing the prices of all the devices in its existing smartphone line-up. This means that the OnePlus One, OnePlus 2 as well as the OnePlus X are now all available at discounted rates.

Specifically, the 64GB OPO is now going for $249, while the 64GB OP2 and the OPX (Onyx variant) are now available for $299 and $199, respectively.

If you’ve purchased a OnePlus device within the last 14 days, there’s good news for you too, as you can contact the company’s customer support to request a refund of the price difference. Head to the Source link below for…

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A new report out of Samsung’s native South Korea now claims that the company’s next flagship phablet will not be called Galaxy Note 6, as everyone expected. Instead, Samsung will allegedly go with Galaxy Note 7, skipping the number 6 entirely.

The main reasoning behind this move apparently has to do with consistency. Samsung wants all of its flagships released in the same year to have the same number – so if this pans out, in 2016 we’ll have the S7, S7 edge, and Note 7. That way there’s no chance of some consumers assuming that a Note 6 is a generation older than the S7 edge, for…

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