Garmin has announced a new GPS running watch called Forerunner 25. The watch uses GPS to track the distance you ran, your pace, your steps, heart rate, and use that to tell you how many calories you burned.

The watch also pairs with your phone to transfer all that data to the Garmin app on your phone, where you can keep a track of all of it and even upload it to Garmin Connect, a free online fitness community. The watch will also show you basic notifications from your phone on the screen. The watch has a battery life of 10 hours in training mode with GPS on, and 10 weeks in watch/activity tracking mode. Subtract two from each number if you choose to go with the small watch face version.

The Forerunner 25 comes in two sizes, with black/red and black/blue options available for the large face, and black/purple and white/pink available for the small watch face, although it would have been better if all the colors were available for all the watch sizes. The Forerunner 25 is priced at $169.99 for the standard version and $199.99 for the one with the heart rate sensor and will begin shipping in Q3 of this…

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Not long ago word got out that Samsung would be cutting the prices of the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge, in order to help the two devices sell better across the world. And while we’ve already seen the new pricing in Europe, it’s now time for a US-based carrier to act too.

T-Mobile is the first to drop the prices for the duo in the US. For both the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge, you now have to pay $100 less than before if you go with the 32 or 64GB versions. If you want to buy either phone with 128GB of storage, you’ll benefit from a $200 price cut.

So the 32GB Galaxy S6 now costs $579, while the 128GB model goes for $659. The S6 edge starts at $679 for the 32GB iteration, and goes up to $759 if you need 128GB.

Of course, this being T-Mobile, you don’t necessarily have to pay all of that upfront, since you can use the carrier’s installment plans to nab a handset for $0 upfront followed by 24 interest-free monthly payments.

At this point no other US carriers have announced similar moves, but they may do so in the near future.

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So far the only way to get a Nokia N1 in UK and Ireland was to import it from Asia, but the tablet will soon become available via official channels. The tablet is priced at £219 and you will be able to order it in the upcoming weeks.

NokiaShop UK will be offering the slate, but you can only register your interest for now. Once it becomes available for order, you will be able to purchase one. Until now the Nokia N1 was available exclusively in China in Taiwan since the beginning of 2015.

The company behind NokiaShop isn’t Nokia itself, but a third-party firm called Colourful (2018) Limited. Still, they promise official support and warranty for the Nokia N1. This is hardly surprising and the Nokia N1 slate isn’t made by Nokia either, it’s a Foxconn creation.

Anyway, Nokia N1 is quite an attractive chap even half a year after its launch. It offers a high-res 7.9″ screen, powerful Intel Atom Z3580 chip, reversible USB Type-C connector, 32GB storage and Android Lollipop with Nokia Z launcher. You can learn more about the N1 in our in-depth review.

So, if you live in the UK and Ireland you will be able to get yourself the Nokia N1 very soon. Hopefully other markets will get similar treatment…

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The Snapdragon 820 has been frequently discussed during the past few months. After the major overheating scandal that engulfed the Snapdragon 810 and definitely took its toll on Qualcomm’s standing in the mobile industry as a whole, the company is needs to do some major damage control with its next generation of chips.

A lot is riding on the Snapdragon 820 and its success, which has left the industry anxious to know more about the silicon. A few rather interesting slides have been unearthed form a presentation on the Snapdragon 820, more specifically its MSM8996 version. They are quite thorough in describing the new technologies employed in the high-end Snapdragon. Most of the information aligns with what we have previously heard so it has a high chance of being the real thing.

The Snapdragon 820 will use a 14nm FinFet manufacturing process, to catch up to Samsung’s Exynos 7420. More importantly, Qualcomm has once again ditched the stock ARM cores and designed a custom architecture – we previously believed it would be called Kryo, yet the document at hand refers to it as Hydra. Perhaps the return to custom cores is exactly what the doctor prescribed to the ailing company.

Apparently Qualcomm is so confident in Hydra that it is cutting down the number of cores to four, instead of the eight found in the Snapdragon 810, which it promises will still deliver a whopping 35% performance improvement. This is coupled with a new Adreno 530 GPU, which accounts for an additional 40% improvement in the graphics department, as well as 30% better power efficiency.

The Snapdragon 820 will support dual-channel LPDDR4 memory with speeds of up to 1688 Mhz. Camera capabilities have also been greatly improved. The new chip can handle up to 28MP cameras now with programmable preprocessing and post-processing DSP, which will give manufacturers an even greater level of control.

Naturally, the rapid advancements in multimedia have been reflected in the hardware as well. The MSM8996 will come fully prepared to handle 4K videos at 60fps. Another interesting new addition is a dedicated low-powered sensor for handling “emerging always on cases”.

The timeline says that Snapdragon 820 will see the light of day around the end of 2015. However, this most-likely refers to initial shipments to OEMs, meaning we can realistically expect the first batch of flagship phones and tablets with a Snapdragon 820 SoC to appear in Q1 2016.

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Huawei is already prepping its next Honor device for a proper announcement, just two months after the Honor 7 went official. The company released the first teaser for the new Honor today and it spills the beans on the official premiere – August 8.

According to the teaser picture we should expect an “amazing” new Honor. But that’s all we got, there are no details on the device itself.

Luckily we allegedly saw the new Honor just two days ago, courtesy of a TENAA leak. The device introduces a new pop-up camera module, which offers high resolution snappers on both ends, both accompanied by dual-LED dual-tone flashes.

The pictures also suggest an almost bezel-free display, a new hardware key for popping up the cam module and some reports suggest this key may double as a fingerprint scanner, too.

The new Honor will most probably run on a Kirin chipset and use Huawei’s EMUI based on Android Lollipop. But there is no point in guessing now, we’ll know all about it in a few…

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Broadwell’s reign was short, especially on the desktop where the fifth-gen Core processor barely launched before getting succeeded by Skylake. The first two new Core i7 and i5 processors were unveiled – the overclock-friendly 6700K and 6600K, along with a new chipset and socket for them to work on.

Intel Core i7 6700K

Intel has significantly updated the microarchitecture for the Skylake processors and has worked to make maximum multi-core performance easier for app developers to extract. This is a quad-core processor running at 4GHz base clock speed, going up to 4.2GHz with Turbo Boost.

That’s 0.2GHz slower than the Core i7 4790K (and also uses 3W more), but the new architecture promises a 10% speed increase. This boost goes up to 20% compared to the 4770K and to 30% against the 3770K. If that’s too slow for you, you can push the chip up to 5.2GHz on air cooling.

The Core i7 6700K also comes with a new graphics core, HD 530, which runs at 350MHz and boost up to 1.15GHz. It supports DirectX 12 so it’s ready for Windows 10. You also get 8MB of L3 cache and support for DDR4-2133MHz and DDR3L-1600MHz.

The 6700K is priced at $350.

Intel Core i5 6600K

Another quad-core, but without the virtual doubling of cores (the i7 is Hyper-Threading enabled, the i5 is not). It’s clocked lower – 3.5GHz base, 3.9GHz Turbo boost – and has less L3 cache, 6MB. It brings the same GPU, which should outperform the HD 4600 Graphics of older generation processors.

The 6600K will set you back $243.

By the way, Skylake pricing has leaked pointing to a number of 65W Core i7 and i5 processors and even low-power 35W ones (clock speeds and price scales down accordingly). The Core i7 6700T, for example, should run at 2.8GHz (3.6GHz Turbo) at 35W. There’s nothing on Skylake Core i3s yet.

Intel Z170 and LGA 1151 socket

The LGA 1150 socket is on its way out, you’ll need an LG 1151 motherboard to accomodate a Skylake processor (not to be confused with LGA 1155, which were from the Sandy/Ivy Bridge era). This comes with a new chipset too – the Z170.

It allows the Skylake-K processors to be overclocked with megahertz precision (instead of the preset steps that Haswell processors allowed). The chipset supports DDR4 overclocking, NVMe Express for fast SSDs, support for PCI-E storage solutions and additional PCI-E and USB 3.0…

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It would seem that the February leak, which mentioned a total of 5 Lenovo smartphones, detailed most of the company’s lineup for the year, instead of being an MWC teaser. The various models gradually crawled out of obscurity over the last few months, the most recent being the Vibe P1 Pro.

Well, next in line is the Lenovo Vibe X3, the midranger in the upper segment, set to replace the multi-layered Vibe X2. Intel on the matter comes from a GFXBench listing, which reveals plenty of key specs.

For starters the smartphone is reported to come with a 4.9-inch FullHD display – a notch below the 5 inches of the Vibe X2. The number may, however, be due to the benchmark’s peculiarities, which for example cause the primary camera to be listed at 20MP, even though the 5,344 x 4,008 pixel resolution clearly amounts to 21.4MP. Now that we’ve mentioned it, the main shooter will be assisted by a dual-LED flash and it will be capable of shooting 2160p video too.

The smartphone will be powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 808 with its dual Cortex-A57 performance cores clocked at 1.8GHz as opposed to the 2.0GHz maximum. The other four cores don’t get a clock rate in the benchmark, and neither does the Adreno 418 GPU. The Vibe X3 will come with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage, but a microSD is said to provide expansion now, a feature missing in the predecessor.

The Vibe X3 will come with the full set of connectivity features, including multi-band LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth v4.0, GPS with A-GPS, the lot. A fingerprint reader on the back completes the host of sensors, and early renders also revealed a set of stereo speakers on the front.

Naturally, the lone benchmark entry sheds no light on the date of announcement, let alone pricing and availability. However, an official launch at IFA in September is a rather safe bet.

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Lately extravagant smartphone shapes have been mostly forgotten, but some manufacturers are yet to give up on them. LG recently released one such device – the Android-powered LG Gentle in Korea and while it was initially thought to remain an exclusive to the market, the company has now changed its mind.

Today, LG confirmed the Gentle will be hitting select international markets (France, Italy, Poland, Spain, Kazakhstan, Japan and the United Kingdom), where it will be called LG Wine Smart.

All the internals remain unchanged and the smartphone is still running the latest Android 5.1.1 on a 3.2″ IPS LCD of HVGA resolution.

Under the hood is a quad-core processor, clocked at 1.1GHz, accompanied by 1GB of RAM and 4GB of storage, expandable via the micro SD card slot. There is also a camera, although quite underwhelming at 3.15 MP. The flip phone measures 117.7 x 58.7 x 16.6mm and weighs in at 143 grams. It comes with support for 4G LTE and Bluetooth 4.1, so at least some bits are up to…

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The Sony Xperia M4 Aqua Dual, which was announced back in March this year and released a couple of months later, has started receiving a new firmware update.

Carrying a build number of 26.1.B.2.102, the update is currently rolling out for the E2312 model in Vietnam and the E2363 model in India. There is no word, however, on the E2333 variant getting it at the moment.

As for what the update brings, it is expected to be a minor, bug-fixing one, particularly aimed at solving the heating issues that some users were…

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