A mysterious new Windows Phone device, dubbed HP Falcon, was spotted listed on benchmarking site GFXBench. The most interesting piece of information the listing reveals is that the handset is powered by Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 820 SoC.

The listing also reveals that the smartphone sports a 5.8-inch 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution display, although keep in mind that benchmarks have got screen size wrong quite a few times in the past.

The report card also reveals a 20MP rear and a 12MP front camera. The memory configuration (1GB RAM and 43GB storage), however, doesn’t seem to be inline with the aforementioned specs, suggesting that at least some of these numbers aren’t correct.

Coming back to the name, it’s a bit difficult to digest that the handset is from HP, as there have been no news whatsoever on that front – not even rumors. It could instead be a Lumia device from Microsoft given that we’ve already heard some rumors of a smartphone to top the 950XL.

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A mysterious new Windows Phone device, dubbed HP Falcon, was spotted listed on benchmarking site GFXBench. The most interesting piece of information the listing reveals is that the handset is powered by Qualcomm’s upcoming Snapdragon 820 SoC.

The listing also reveals that the smartphone sports a 5.8-inch 2560 x 1440 pixel resolution display, although keep in mind that benchmarks have got screen size wrong quite a few times in the past.

The report card also reveals a 20MP rear and a 12MP front camera. The memory configuration (1GB RAM and 43GB storage), however, doesn’t seem to be inline with the aforementioned specs, suggesting that at least some of these numbers aren’t correct.

Coming back to the name, it’s a bit difficult to digest that the handset is from HP, as there have been no news whatsoever on that front – not even rumors. It could instead be a Lumia device from Microsoft given that we’ve already heard some rumors of a smartphone to top the 950XL.

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After losing to rival Microsoft’s Xbox One in the month of October, Sony’s PlayStation 4 gaming console has reclaimed its top position in the United States last month, according to market research firm NPD.

“PlayStation 4 is the top selling console in the United States during the month of November according to NPD,” said Eric Lempel, SVP Marketing, Sony Computer Entertainment America and Head of PlayStation Network Americas. “We have hit several key milestones over the last few weeks. Prior to Black Friday, we announced we have sold through more than 30.2 million PS4s to consumers around the world and that PS4 continues to exhibit the fastest growth in PlayStation hardware history.”

“In addition, Black Friday sales were the strongest in PlayStation history demonstrating more people game now than ever before. We are also pleased to announce November was the biggest month ever for PlayStation Store indicating a strong digital marketplace complementing healthy retail sales.”

The report also noted that the combined sales for Xbox One and PS4 is way ahead when compared to their predecessors. “After 25 months, the combined sales for the PS4 and the XBO are 47 percent higher than the combined sales for 25 months of PS3 and Xbox 360 hardware sales,” said NPD’s Liam Callahan.

While overall hardware sales were up 11% to $1.12 billion last month, software sales were down 7% to $1.02 billion, something which the report attributed to portable and last-generation platforms. As for games, Call of Duty: Black Ops III topped the charts, followed by Fallout 4 and Star Wars:…

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HTC has confirmed that it will start taking pre-orders for its Vive VR headset in February next year, a couple of months ahead of the device’s commercial release in April.

The confirmation came in a follow up to the earlier statement issued by the Taiwanese company, where-in it was announced that the headset’s launch is being delayed until next year – if you aren’t in the know, HTC had earlier said that the Vive will be launched in limited quantities before the holiday season this year.

In the new statement, HTC also shared why the launch has been delayed. “The reason that we have made the decision to shift consumer availability is because we are committed to delivering the best possible product, the most vivid VR experience, and the most immersive content on the best content distribution platform in the world,” the company said.

“We’re confident that when you experience Vive for yourself in April, you will agree with the decision to deliver the product once it’s…

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Yahoo has announced that users can now access their Gmail and Google Apps account right from within the company’s Yahoo Mail service. The ability to connect to Outlook.com, Hotmail, and AOL Mail accounts was already introduced a couple of months ago.

“All the features you need and love in Yahoo Mail – powerful search, smart contacts, rich compose features and Yahoo Account Key for password-free sign-in – are now available with Gmail,” the company said in a blog post. “You can now search across your entire history of emails, from day one, for all connected mailboxes! (Not just your most recent emails, which is how it’s done in many apps today).”

You can connect to your Gmail account by heading to your Account Settings in the Yahoo Mail app. The new feature is now live, and is available on Yahoo Mail’s Android, iOS, as well as the Web…

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Four new Samsung Galaxy and LG smartphones, two new Sony Xperia and Microsoft Lumia devices, and a new HTC One phone will be launched in H1 2016, according to a presentation slide from T-Mobile Poland’s recent press conference.

To be precise, the slide shows that two of the four Galaxy devices will be outed in the mid of the first quarter. We’re expecting these to be the Galaxy S7 and S7 Plus, although there’s no confirmation. The remaining two Galaxy phones will be launched towards the end of the Q1.

Microsoft will also launch two new Lumia phones in Q1 – one in the mid and the other towards the end of the quarter. The slide also lists an HTC One device launching towards Q1 end.

Moving on, Q2 2016 will see four new phones from LG, followed by two new Xperia phones from Sony. While we’re not sure about LG, the new Xperia phones could be the part of the rumored Z6…

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With an influx of person-to-person payment apps, Google Wallet has simplified one step of the payment process. The recipient does not need Google Wallet account in order to receive the money and can simply click on a link sent via SMS.

Google Wallet users can now send money to others with just a phone number. Recipients will receive an SMS with a link to a secure form where the recipient can enter his or her debit card number and funds will be debited into their bank account “within minutes”.

Before this, both recipients would be required to have a Google Wallet account to send money back and forth by using an email address.

The new Google Wallet feature is rolling out “over the next few days” and coming to both Android and iOS versions of the app.

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Microsoft’s second attempt at its very own fitness tracker got official in October, and now it’s in the process of receiving a software update that enables some new features.

First off, the Microsoft Band 2 has received music controls, letting you pause or play, skip forward or back and adjust playback volume – all from your wrist. The wearable displays the title of the currently playing song too. This works with any music app on your phone through the magic of Bluetooth.

Next up is the possibility for you to receive notifications telling you to move when you’ve been still for too long. Thankfully this is optional, and you can choose the time intervals and the days in which you want to be nagged to get up. And there’s even a blackout period to be picked, useful for when you’re sleeping or driving.

When you use the Exercise tile you are now able to pick the exercise type. Then when you review your sessions in the Microsoft Health app all the information will be grouped by exercise type. Finally, from now on the What’s New tile will automagically appear on your Microsoft Band when new updates for it are…

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It really is no surprise that GoPro plans on launching its first drone next year, as the company’s CEO first announced this back in May. Yet now that we’re getting closer and closer to 2016, GoPro saw fit to out its first teaser video for the new device.

And with it the drone’s name has been revealed: it will be called Karma. The GoPro Karma still doesn’t have a solid release date attached to it, so the vague mention of “coming 2016” is all we have for now. On the other hand, the teaser is obviously showing footage shot with a GoPro camera attached to the Karma, and it’s the first time we’ve seen something like that.

Hopefully more teasers will come out in the future, along with some actual information about the Karma. While you wait, you can sign up here to receive “the latest news about Karma” straight from GoPro, which will net you a chance to win one of 100 drones the company is giving away at launch (whenever that is).

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Today Samsung has added a new feature to its rapidly growing mobile payments service. From this point on, Samsung Pay supports gift cards. To start off, those from 50 popular merchants can be added to your Samsung Pay wallet.

You can in fact purchase, store, pay with, and share gift cards right from your Samsung phone, if it supports Samsung Pay of course. There’s a new gift card store inside the Samsung Pay app, from where you can easily buy gift cards for you or someone else. These can easily be shared once you have them.

Here are the names of some of the retailers now having gift card support in Samsung Pay: Babies R Us and Toys R Us, Bass Pro Shops, Domino’s, eBay, GameStop, Nike, Regal Entertainment Group, and Staples. More gift card options are going to be added “in the coming…

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