The Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime, which made its debut in the US back in April at Cricket and landed on Sprint earlier this month, is now also available for purchase on T-Mobile. The device carries a price tag of $190.

Specs-wise, the handset is powered by a Snapdragon 410 SoC with quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53 CPU and Adreno 306 GPU, and sports a 5.0 inch display with 540 x 960 pixels resolution. The T-Mobile variant comes with 1.5GB RAM and 8GB expandable internal memory, and packs in a 2600 mAh battery.

In terms of camera, the smartphone features an 8MP rear unit and a 5MP selfie shooter. It runs Android 5.1 Lollipop out-of-the-box.

In addition to the Galaxy Grand Prime, the magenta carrier has also started selling the Galaxy Core Prime, which arrived on Verizon back in February this year and started receiving Android Lollipop update in May. The T-Mobile variant will set you back $140.

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A second public beta of iOS 9 has started rolling out to those who are running the first iteration. The the first iOS 9 public beta arrived earlier this month, on July 9.

The new iOS 9 public beta brings back the Home Sharing for option that allows sharing your iTunes Library over a Wi-Fi network with other mobile devices. The Handoff feature in the app switcher has moved to the bottom of the screen.

Volume buttons can now be used to take photos. Support for the new iPod touch has also been added.

Apple iPad users can multitask using the Picture-in-Picture option. Several bug fixes and improvement tweaks are bundled along as well.

Do note that the public beta is a work-in-progress and not a finished build, so unexpected behavior and bugs are likely to appear. If you still wish to try out the second iOS 9 public beta, head over to the source link and sign up using your Apple ID.

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If you happen to own Lenovo's S60 mid-ranger, here's some good news for you. The Chinese company has just started rolling out the update to Android 5.0 Lollipop for this particular device.

Although it was made official this year, the Lenovo S60 launched in March running Android 4.4 KitKat, many months after Google unveiled Android 5.0 Lollipop.

Now though Lenovo is rectifying that error by releasing this update. The new software version has so far been spotted in Greece.

The rollout is happening over-the-air, so it might take a while for it to reach all devices out there. Rest assured however that your handset will notify you when it's ready to install. The download is a hefty 1.32GB affair, so you should probably make sure you're connected to Wi-Fi before grabbing it. You aren't supposed to lose data during the update process, but it's always safest to create a backup beforehand.

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If you thought that Asus' Zenfone 2 line was confusing so far, get ready for a new member to be added to the roster. This one at least bears a new name. It's called Zenfone 2E, and it was just announced as an AT&T exclusive.

It is offered by the carrier's GoPhone prepaid brand. You can already nab one for just $119.99 sans contract from Walmart and Target stores. AT&T itself will have it in stock from July 24, and it will hit Best Buy on August 2.

For that amount of cash, you get a 5-inch 720p IPS touchscreen, an 8 MP rear camera with LED flash, a 2 MP selfie shooter, and a 2,500 mAh battery. It's powered by a dual-core Intel processor, aided by 1GB of RAM and 8GB of expandable storage.

The Zenfone 2E has 4G LTE support and it runs Android 5.0 Lollipop underneath Asus' own ZenUI. The handset can be bought in either black or white.

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Skype for Android has received an update today, which should already be rolling out through the Google Play Store.

Skype 5.6 for Android brings with it a refreshed design that aims to make the app even easier to use than before.

First off, you can now see more chats at a glance in the Recent tab. And obviously you can still jump back into one of those chats with just a tap.

Round avatars are now present throughout the app, finally making your friends' profile pictures consistent no matter where you may see them in Skype for Android. Additionally, your friends' online status will be shown on top of their avatars everywhere in the app.

Inside each chat, the bubbles now have a new color, which makes the text stand out more. The messages thus become clearer, but you can also easily tell apart what you said from what everyone else did. Apparently those who do group chats with many participants should benefit most from this.

As always, there are also a number of unnamed fixes and improvements in the new version of Skype, all designed to make the app more stable.

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As part of its market expansion strategy ZTE announced three new Axon devices for China – two smartphones and a smartwatch.

ZTE Axon Lux

ZTE Axon Lux is the best spec'd device of the lot – it's has a 5.5" Quad HD display and Snapdragon 810 chipset. The Axon Lux features Antimicrobial Gorilla Glass, 4GB of RAM, 128GB expandable storage, a 3,000 mAh battery and 8MP front camera. On the back of the Axon Lux there is a dual-camera setup with a 13MP and a 2MP sensors.

ZTE Axon Lux bets on the faux-leather design and runs on Lollipop with MiFavor 3.2 UI on top. It features three types of biometric security – fingerprint scanner, voice recognition and eye-scanner. NFC secure payments are supported, of course.

The ZTE Axon Lux will launch at $625 and for now it will be on sale only in China.

ZTE Axon

The regular ZTE Axon, which already debuted in USA and Canada, has now be confirmed it will make it to China as well. It doesn't have a the faux leather back, comes with a lower 1080p resolution 5.5" display, keeps the Antimicrobial Gorilla Glass and the Snapdragon 810 chip but with "just" 3GB RAM, and comes with 32GB expandable storage. The battery is still a 3,000 mAh unit.

ZTE Axon has the same camera setup as Axon Lux 13MP+2MP over the back plus an 8MP sensor at the front. It supports all three types of biometric security, too.

The ZTE Axon costs $435 in the USA and will be released in Canada and China as well.

ZTE Axon Mini

Finally, the ZTE Axon Mini is the mysterious one of the trio. It was announced as the first phone to feature force touchscreen and will rely on a 5.2" Super AMOLED unit. No other specs have been confirmed at this point. Pricing and availability are a mystery too.

ZTE Axon Watch

ZTE also announced the Axon Watch with 1.4" circular display, sapphire glass coating and IP67 certification. The Axon Watch other key specs include 4GB storage, 512MB RAM, Bluetooth 4.1, and a 300 mAh battery.

The Axon Watch will run on the Tencent OS, not Android Wear, and will be sold exclusively in China.

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Today Microsoft has announced a new email app called Send. It's available already for iOS, and will come to Android and Windows Phone too in the future.

Send is very simple, being aimed at "in-and-out email". In other words, it looks like a chat client, but works with your Outlook email account and surfaces your Outlook contacts.

For now Send is working in the US and Canada for people with Office 365 business and school email accounts. It's supposed to become more broadly available at some point "in the coming months".

All of your Send conversations can be seen in Outlook, but inside Send you'll only get those threads you started from the app. Send lets you quickly blast out messages to people without entering a subject or using formal constructs. This is why Microsoft says Send is designed for "in-and-out" interactions. You get in, you quickly type a short message, then you get out.

Send has some built-in quick replies to make things even easier. These are accessed with a simple swipe. And like in the case of popular messaging apps, you also get to see when someone is typing.

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