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Last week the mobile realm was truly action-packed. Announcements were plentiful and this naturally stirred up the top ten phones chart. Here is what have after tallying up the results.

The new Moto G took the news by storm and generated an enormous amount of attention. Consequently, the budget-friendly device managed to swoop in and take the lead in our interest chart. Not only is it in first place, it has a substantial lead over the runner up.

That happens to be the OnePlus 2 – the eagerly-anticipated second-gen "flagship killer" was finally revealed last week as well, after a seemingly endless tease campaign.

Going further down the chart, we see some familiar faces, yet still somewhat odd, especially in the case of the Micromax Canvas Sliver 5 and the Lenovo K3 Note. But strange or not, both managed to hold on to the top ten list for yet another week. They occupy the third and fifth spot respectively, with the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime sitting between them. This trio actually had the very same arrangement last week, so not much has changed and the devices were simply pushed down by the Moto G and OnePlus 2.

The Galaxy S6 follows at sixth, which is a bump down in rank from fifth place last week, but considering the two new champions, Samsung's flagship has actually somewhat improved its standing. After that we find another pair of newcomers – two Motorola devices that accompanied the Moto G at the July 28 unveiling. The phablet-sized Moto X Style at seventh place and the mid-range Moto X Play at ninth are both successors to the Moto X, branching the lineup to two different price points.

Last, but not least, the Galaxy A5 has managed to cling on to the top ten and occupies the very last spot. That is still a decent achievement, considering that all the newcomers were enough to push the Galaxy J5 and J7 out of the race and even more-surprisingly, the iPhone 6, which generally holds its ground.

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A truly exciting week is behind us, and we witnessed two of the most eagerly anticipated smartphone launches of the year – the Motorola Moto G (3rd gen) and the OnePlus 2. And as if that wasn't enough, Motorola went out and announced not one, but two Moto X models higher up its lineup.

Now, if you believe the manufacturers, the Moto devices have best-in-class features and price, while the OnePlus 2 is the killer of yet unborn 2016 flagships. That's their marketing departments talking though, and you're certainly entitled to your own opinion, which we'd like to hear.

Motorola Moto X Style – Hot or Not

Motorola's finest of late, the Moto X Style comes with Qualcomm's second best chip inside, and boasts the world's third finest phone camera (or so says DxO). A QHD 5.7-inch display is keeping with the large diagonal high ppi trends, while the front-facing camera/flash/speakers promise plenty of fun. Add to that the $399 price tag and some 126 possible body options, and Motorola looks to have a winner. What do you…

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Love it or hate it, Angry Birds is one of the most successful series of games of all time. Since 2009 when the first game released on iOS, the series has spanned fifteen titles across multiple platforms and become a billion dollar franchise.

Six years since the original game released, Rovio has now released the sequel. While it may seem disingenuous to call it Angry Birds 2 considering how many games have been released since the original, it does make sense if you consider others as more of spin-offs of the original rather than sequels. Also, for the first time Angry Birds 2 brings some major changes to the bird-flinging action to warrant the sequel tag. So let's take a look at it, then.

At its core, Angry Birds 2 still has you flinging birds at pigs inside elaborate but fragile structures. Break the structures and kill all the pigs before you run out of birds and you complete the stage. Depending upon how much destruction you cause and how many birds you use (fewer the better) you get a score that decides how many stars you get for that stage, three being the highest.

That much is common to the original Angry Birds. Now here's the new stuff. Unlike the original, you can now choose which bird to use. The available birds appear at the bottom as cards and you can tap any of them to select whichever bird you think would be more appropriate for the situation instead of being stuck with a preselected bird. As you play more stages, more birds are unlocked.

Along with birds, you also unlock spells that can be used to make finishing the level easier. The duck spell rains ducks everywhere and destroys all the pigs in that level in one move. The freeze spell turns all the structures into ice, making it easy for any bird to destroy them. The chili spell makes one of the pig explode, destroying everything around it. As you progress, you unlock more spells.

As you cause destruction, you fill up a meter at the top right. When the meter fills up, you get an additional random card, which could either be one of the birds or a spell. This is why it's important to cause as much destruction as possible and not just concentrate on killing the pigs.

In Angry Birds 2, each stage has multiple levels within and finishing one level lets you progress to the next with the remaining birds (similar to Angry Birds Epic). When you finish all the levels within a stage (usually 2-4) you move on to the next one. It's important not to use up all your birds at the first level so you have some left for the remaining levels in that stage. If you use up all your birds before that then the game is over.

When game is over, you can either choose to continue by paying in gems, or restart that stage. Restarting uses one of the lives you have, and you only have five lives. If you use up all the lives you have to wait for them to refresh (a la Candy Crush Saga), or spend gems to get more lives. As you can tell, gems are important in the game if you're impatient and although you do get them every once in a while as you keep playing if you want more you have to spend real money, which is where the game's IAP component comes in.

The birds are more or less identical to the original. There are seven of them, with most of them returning from the original but the weird green one is replaced with a silver one, who instead of flying back like a boomerang flies up and then straight down. All the birds have secondary attacks, even the otherwise useless red one, where you can tap on the screen just before they hit something to activate their ability, such as sending a shock wave for the small red bird, splitting into three for the blue one, shooting in a straight line for the yellow one, dropping an egg bomb for the white one, etc. This does make the game bit more interesting than simply lobbing the birds at the structures and with some planning and clever use of their abilities you can cause far more destruction.

Angry Birds 2 has around 240 stages in the current game, with each stage having multiple levels within, so you could be playing this for days. They are split into multiple sections that unlock as you play, and more will be added later. The thing about the stages this time is that they are randomly generated every time. If you restart a stage, the structures get randomly rearranged, which never happened before in any Angry…

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The long overdue Microsoft Lumia flagships are coming and, contrary to what some insiders suggested, they won't be named Lumia 950 and 950XL, a NokiaPowerUser trusted source reports. The high-end models will be named Lumia 940 and 940XL instead, without breaking the sequence from the existing Lumia 930.

Additionally, a Lumia 840 is indeed in the works, as was previously indicated, and it will be launched before the end of the year, though we'll need to wait for the flagships' release first. And if the flagships do come out in November, we're in for a pretty Microsoft-packed holiday season. Again, the device is said to be named Lumia 840 and not 850 like another source claimed.

Perhaps the most interesting bit, outed today, is Microsoft's move towards on-screen buttons. So far, Lumias have firmly relied on capacitive buttons in the bottom bezel, and an NPU poll showed that 44% of users are opposed to the concept of on-screen buttons on a flagship Windows Phone device. Despite that, all three of the above devices are most likely going to feature on-screen buttons.

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The Lenovo Vibe P1 Pro was part of an extensive leak of Lenovo smartphones, which appeared all the way back in February, and were tipped to be announced at MWC in March. However, only the Vibe Shot materialized in Barcelona, while the rest remained in obscurity until a few weeks ago, when the Vibe S1 passed TENAA certification, followed by the Vibe P1.

It was now the Vibe P1 Pro's turn to visit the Chinese telecom regulator, revealing plenty of details about its hardware in the process. You should keep in mind that we are relying on that initial February leak for the naming of the smartphone, while the TENAA entry lists the device with a P1c72 model number.

Either way, the device comes with a 5.5-inch 1080p display, 1.5GHz octa-core processor (could be inside a Mediatek MT6752 or Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 chipset, it's not stated), generous 3GB of RAM, and less exciting 16GB of built-in storage, expandable nonetheless. The primary camera is a 13MP unit, while on the front you get a 5MP selfie snapper.

Lenovo Vibe P1 Pro at TENAA

It starts getting more interesting from here on, as there's what appears to be a home button on the front – not something we're used to seeing on Lenovo smartphones. Whether it's an actual physical button, or just a dedicated fingerprint sensor like on the new OnePlus 2, we can't tell. What we know is there's little point in abandoning the company's established design with capacitive buttons only, if not for implementing fingerprint recognition.

However, the headline feature of the Lenovo Vibe P1 Pro has to be battery life. The smartphone comes with a 4,900mAh cell inside, which promises some serious endurance, though it may be a close call with the 4,000mAh regular Vibe P1 with its smaller screen and lesser hardware.

The Vibe P1 Pro measures 152.9 x 75.6 x 9.9 mm which is reasonably compact for the screen size, though the huge battery has had its say on the thickness. At 189g, it's not exactly light either, but there might be another culprit for that – the device appears to feature an all-metal unibody, though we could be extrapolating from the overall HTC One-inspired looks.

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