Google usually announces a new version of Android at its annual developer conference called I/O. This year, however, we’ve already seen two Android N Developer Preview releases, so the search giant doesn’t have anything new to announce – or does it?

Today the company is pushing out the third big release of the Android N Developer Preview. According to the company, this is the first “beta quality” iteration of the next OS version, so you may even get away with installing it on your main device without any nastiness (then again, “beta” doesn’t mean “bug free”, keep that in…

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The recent rumors were true, as it turns out. At its developer conference today, Google has announced Home, a device that’s basically its response to Amazon’s highly successful Echo line of smart Bluetooth speakers.

Like Amazon’s offerings, Google Home will take voice commands from you (including letting you search, naturally), it will talk back to you, and it’s also a speaker. So you can play some music on it if you want.

Unlike the Echo, Google Home supports the Google Cast protocol, so you can even send stuff to it from your phone, tablet, or laptop. You can also tell it to play…

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The Xperia Z brand was a mark of Methuselah-like battery life, but now fans are a little antsy – the Z-series is no more, the X-series replaces it. Has the battery gene carried over?

The Xperia X has definitely lost some capacity – the Z3 had 3,100mAh, the Z5 had 2,900mAh, the Xperia X has 2,620mAh. Even the Xperia Z5 had 2,700mAh, so it falls to a new chipset and newer components (the screen largely) to cut back on their power use and make up the difference.

Before we use up the battery, we have to charge it first. The Sony Xperia X supports fast charging, but you’ll have to bring your…

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As promised, T-Mobile has started selling the flagship HTC 10 as well as the mid-range Samsung Galaxy J7 and LG K10. The HTC 10 is offered without a downpayment with a 2-year contract for $28.34 per month. By getting the HTC 10 before May 10, T-Mobile will gift you an Ice View case and Rapid Charger.

The HTC 10 is also offered sans a contract for $679.99. Naturally, the Samsung Galaxy J7 is cheaper at $10/month for 2 years or $239.99 full retail. The LG K10 is up for grabs at $6.68 for the same period, while its retail price is $164.99.

The two midrangers are aslo going to be sold…

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Samsung has announced that its mobile payments service Samsung Pay has processed a total of over 1 trillion KRW ($850 million) in transactions in its home country of South Korea. The milestone comes nine months after the service was launched in the country.

“Samsung Pay is changing the way consumers pay and we will continue to add the best services to create a differentiated mobile payment culture,” a company spokesperson said.

The service made its US debut in September last year, and roughly six months after that, Samsung announced that over 5 million users have signed up for the…

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The Huawei MediaPad M2 10.0 is available for purchase in the UK starting today. So far Currys has exclusivity on the tablet, and only the Standard edition is available, listed at £249.99.

Standard in this case means 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage, while the Premium edition has an extra gig of RAM and four times the storage, plus support for the M-Pen stylus. This one will have a retail price of £329.99, but is nowhere to be found on the retailer’s website.

Both versions come with a 10.1-inch IPS display with 1,920 x 1,200 pixel resolution, Kirin 930 chipset with an octa-core…

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Alcatel (owned by TLC) has been very consistent with the Flash brand. The first Alcatel Flash went official back in September 2014 while the Flash 2 was announced a year later in September 2015. The Flash Plus model, an expansion of the original Flash, was introduced in May 2015 and this May we are getting its refresh with the Alcatel Flash Plus 2.

Enough with the history lesson, though. The Alcatel Flash Plus 2 is an all-metal smartphone, which is great news for a mid-ranger. It features a 5.5″ 1080p display and runs on the Helio P10 chipset with an octa-core Cortex-A53 processor (4x…

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Samsung has started rolling out the Marshmallow update to Galaxy Tab A. The update, which brings Android version 6.0.1 and bumps the build number to T550XXU1BPE1, is currently hitting the 9.7-inch Wi-Fi model (SM-T550) in France.

Aside from the usual Marshmallow goodies – including Doze, Google Now on Tap, and redesigned app permissions – it isn’t yet known what else (if at all) the update brings along. It is currently only available via Samsung Smart Switch, although OTA roll out shouldn’t be far off.

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Because Samsung hasn’t run out of letters in the Latin alphabet, it’s getting ready to launch the Galaxy C on May 26 (that’s next Thursday). The event will take place in China, so expect a China-only launch.

So far we’ve seen two devices leak – the Galaxy C5 and the Galaxy C7. They will come with 1080p screens (5.2″ and 5.5″ respectively) Android 6.0 Marshmallow and a generous 4GB of RAM, a Snapdragon 617 chipset (C5) or its replacement, the Snapdragon 625 (C7).

Going by these specs, the new Galaxy C series will be above the E and J, but below the A and S series.

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Nokia is back! The former phone king officially announced its plan to return to the world of phones, smartphones and tablets. And to answer your burning question – yes, it will be Android smartphones and tablets!

This move will include the formation of a new company – HMD global Oy, a newly founded company based in Finland that will be headed Arto Nummela as CEO, who was a senior Nokia exec in the past and currently manages a big chunk of Microsoft’s phone divisions.

Nokia will take a seat on the board of directors of HMD and will set standards for performance and brand requirements so…

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