LG invited us over to meet its best gadgets yet – the LG V10 flagship and the LG Watch Urbane 2nd edition. Both outshine their predecessors with unique features, like a secondary screen and Android Wear’s first LTE connection.

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Google refreshed the Nexus smartphones two days ago and both the LG Nexus 5X and Huawei Nexus 6P sound very interesting. The previous generation Motorola Nexus 6 is still quite an attractive offer though, especially with its new price.

While the new Nexus 6P is retailing at $500 and is already on sale, we shouldn’t retire yet its predecessor – the Nexus 6. It offers a 6″ Quad HD AMOLED screen, Snapdragon 805 chip with 3GB RAM, and a 13MP OIS camera. And now you can have this for $299.99.

A trusted seller on eBay has already sold more than 850 units of the phone and the quantities are rather limited. Still, the phone is still in stock and you can have it right now.

If this price suits you right, then you should hurry up and check the offer now.

We guess Motorola and Google will be lowering the official price down to a similar number in time for the Black Friday and the upcoming holiday season, so if you miss the offer now, we are sure there will be more opportunities.

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If you want to be able to glance at your BBM messages on your Apple Watch, now you can. BlackBerry has launched a BBM for iPhone update, which brings support for the Apple Watch enabling replying quickly via “Yes”, “No” or “OK”, emoticons or voice input.

On the iPhone side, you can also shoot a quick reply from the notification shade. The update has PayPal integration in tow, as well.

Here’s the complete BBM for iPhone v291.0.0.84:

iOS 9 support with quick reply
Users can now send videos in chats
Apple Watch support
Official BBM Sticker Club subscription in the BBM Shop
PayPal integration for sending money to BBM contacts as an attachment
Enhancements to BBM Voice connectivity
View, like, and comment on group pictures and other events from within BBM feeds.
Bug fixes and performance improvements

Follow the source link to install BBM for your iPhone.

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“Leaks” and “promotion” are starting to blend together as yet more official images of the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL have “leaked” on Microsoft’s own website. The list of images even include one of the actually unofficial leaks from earlier.

Microsoft Lumia 950 XL “leaks”

At this point little about the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL remains a secret, save for the price. They should be unveiled on October 6. The screens are 5.2″ and 5.7″ respectively, both QHD, 20MP Zeiss cameras and Windows 10.

Microsoft Lumia 950

Interestingly both the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL have USB Type-C cables and Microsoft plans to use the combined data-transfer and video out capabilities of the new connector along with the Windows 10 Continuum feature to turn the handsets into portable desktops.

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LG mobile division’s chief anticipates the company’s sales performance to improve in Q4 2015. Cho Juno told Reuters LG will lean on its latest high-end and mid-range phones to boost market share.

Clearly, the LG V10, which was announced today is going to lead the charge for the traditionally profitable holiday season. The LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition would also help with its classy looks.

Chu Juno hasn’t provided specifics on target sales, but the company has to figure out its razor thin margins first. In Q2 2015, the company saw a 99.7% drop in operating profits.

Additionally, the executive mentioned LG is prepping up a mobile payment service of its own, but has given no further…

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Over a year after its initial release and a couple of substantial price cuts later the Huawei Ascend Mate7 is still a pretty tantalizing offer. It just seems that Huawei though well ahead when designing the Mate and coincidentally or not, it now offers a combination of quite a few trendy features, like a metal body, spacious 6.0-inch display and always-on fingerprint reader, all with the added bonus of a dropping price tag.

Better yet, Huawei hasn’t forgotten about the phablet, as evident by the new Android 5.1.1 update that just popped-up on its support website. The new OS brings an array of core Android improvements to the handset, as well as the updated EMUI 3.1.

Currently the software package is available for two of the most popular variants of the Mate7 – the MT7-L09 and MT7-TL10 and can be downloaded from the source link. Both weigh about 1.20GB, so it should be a more or less complete overhaul. Over the air roll out should be under way as well, but you could just as easily use the default updater to get the job done with the downloaded ZIP yourself.

And for anybody interested in purchasing the premium handset here is a quick rundown of the rest of the specs: The already mentioned 6.0-inch display has a resolution of 1080p and is powered by the company’s own octa-core Kirin 925 processor, featuring four 1.8GHz Cortex-A15 cores and four 1.3GHz Cortex-A7 cores alongside a Mali-T628 GPU. Storage options include 16GB and 32GB and memory is set at 2GB or 3GB, respectively. A 13MP/5MP camera due take care of the shooting department and a 4100 mAh battery powers the…

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ASUS has announced that it will start manufacturing smartphones in India in collaboration with Foxconn, to support India’s ‘Make in India’ campaign. The devices will be manufactured in Foxconn’s plant in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh.

The first phone to be manufactured will be the recently launched Zenfone 2 Laser, which will soon be followed by the Zenfone Go. ASUS aims to produce 150,000 smartphones in India per month by the end of the current financial year, which will account for almost 80% of the sales in India.

“India offers us a huge opportunity as smartphone penetration is just 10%. We are excited to announce our local manufacturing facility that will cater to the growing demands of the market”, said Peter Chang, Regional Head – South Asia & Country Manager – System Business Group – ASUS India. “The Indian government’s focus on ‘Make in India’ has opened a plethora of opportunities for international companies. It is an opportune time to make the announcement as it will enable us to bring our cutting edge products to consumers who are looking for features and design sensibilities of a high-end smartphone at an economic price.”

Chang further added, “We are aggressively targeting the Indian market. We aim to achieve 5% market share in the country by next year and empower all our customers with…

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Sharp is the real master of vanishing bezels, unfortunately the best models always seem to stay Japan-only. So, are you ready to see the best compact phones you’ll probably never be able to buy? By the way, the duo is headed to NTT DoCoMo.

Sharp Aquos Compact SH-02H

A phone with a 4.7″ screen – 1080p at that! – measures only 126 x 66 x 9mm. For comparison, Xperia Z5 Compact’s 4.6″ 720p screen fits inside 127 x 65 x 8.9mm. The screen is an IGZO LCD driven at “double-speed”, 120Hz.

The Sharp Aquos Compact has water resistance, IP68 for dunks in water. It has a 13.1MP main camera (the Sony does have the lead here) with an f/1.9 aperture. The selfie cam is a 5MP shooter.

Sharp Aquos Compact SH-02H for DoCoMo

The phone is powered by a Snapdragon 808 chipset with 3GB of RAM and it has 16GB of expandable storage. It’s running Android 5.1 Lollipop. There’s also a 2,810mAh battery, LTE and Wi-Fi a/b/g/n/ac connectivity too.

The Aquos Compact is fairly light at 120g and features “Nuance sheets,” basically various decals you stick to the back.

Sharp Aquos Zeta SH-01H

Bigger, but still small, the Aquos Zeta boasts a 5.3″ screen inside a 139 x 74 x 8mm body. For comparison, a 5.1″ Galaxy S6 is 143.4 x 70.5 x 6.8mm. The screen is a 1080p IGZO unit again.

The rest of the hardware is almost identical too – IP58 water resistance, 13MP camera, Snapdragon 808 chipset with 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage this time and a 3,100mAh battery. The camera on the back has a “proximity sensor,” which may be a Google mistranslation of a laser autofocus system.

Sharp Aquos Zeta SH-01 for DoCoMo

Both phones support a mobile payment system (FeliCa), but the Sharp Aquos Zeta has an additional fingerprint sensor (the swipe, it’s placed on the back).

This one is available in a Disney theme too as the DM-01H, coming in Sparkle Pink and Sparkle Blue.

Disney-themed version of the Aquos Zeta

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Apple has released the final version of OS X El Capitan on the Mac App Store. Those with compatible machines, that would be most Macs sold in recent years, should head over to the store and download the free update, which is just over 6GB in size. The default and simplest method is to just update your existing OS X installation but you could do a fresh install by extracting the installation file, burning it to a USB drive, and booting from it.

OS X El Capitan brings many improvements, such as improved split-screen window management, improved Mission Control, updated Notes, Mail, Maps, and Photos apps, improved Spotlight search, pinned tabs in Safari, improved performance, and a new typeface – San…

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Tumblr has added a new feature that enables you to control who gets to see your blog. The feature is in the form of a new toggle switch which you can use to choose whether or not your blog is viewable on the Web.

Should you decide to switch it off, anyone visiting your blog at its URL will get a 404 error. Of course, your followers will still be able to see your stuff in their dashboards.

“Just a simple layer of privacy to let you better control who gets to see your stuff and who doesn’t,” the company said in a blog post. You can find the new toggle switch in the blog settings of your web dashboard.

This comes a few months after Tumblr introduced a feature dubbed Block that, as the name suggests, lets you prevent users from following/messaging you, like/reblog/reply to your posts, as well as see your posts/blog in search results.

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