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Everything around Samsung appears to be edges these days and we last told you about the company's Apps Edge initiative. Apparently another branch of the R&D department is working on a different aspect of edge operation, this time for conventional, flat screens.

Making you wonder how no one had thought of it until now, Samsung has filed for a patent for transparent "sensor pads". Those will be placed alongside the edges of a smartphone and will be available as controls in various applications. The chief reasoning is, presumably, not to interfere with the displayed content on the screen.

The most obvious use case, and possibly the inspiration behind the tech, is mobile gaming. For ages now console controllers have had buttons on top, where they can be operated with the index fingers. A quick dry run on a phone at the office suggests that it may be tricky at first, and keeping thumbs out of the way may be an issue, but we're not quick to judge.

Camera controls are the other suggested use of the sensor pads and Samsung may be on to something here. Moving all (or most) of the functionality away from the display, which acts as a viewfinder, will allow for more precise framing, unhindered by all the toggles and shortcuts, while still allowing plenty of control.

Additionally, it should in theory let you customize the placement of the shutter release wherever your fingers fall most naturally, meaning less awkward selfies. Well, in terms of handling, at least.

As with all patents, this may never make it to production, or at least may take a while. At this point though, it does seem like an exciting path to…

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All the way back in February a massive leak revealed a whole bunch of Lenovo smartphones, and timing made everyone think they were headed for an MWC launch. No such thing happened and the company's stand in Barcelona was dominated by the camera-centric Vibe Shot, accompanied by the affordable A7000.

One by one, the other stars of that leak have started surfacing, and after the Vibe S1 from a couple of weeks ago, it's now time for the Vibe P1 to stop by TENAA. As usual the Chinese regulator's listing gives us detailed information, and, as usual, omits two key specs.

Lenovo Vibe P1 at TENAA

Starting off with what we do have, the Lenovo Vibe P1 sports a 5-inch LCD display with 720p resolution. It's powered by a quad-core 1.3GHz CPU, contrary to the previously established octa-core unit, and a quad-core 1.3GHz CPU these days means a Snapdragon 410. That's one of the specifics not explicitly stated in the TENAA entry, though.

Other than that, the smartphone comes with 2GB of RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, an 8MP primary camera and a 5MP front shooter. The handset supports a number of LTE bands and boots Android 5.1.

What is likely going to be the Vibe P1's headline feature is its battery capacity and that's the other area, where TENAA reveals nothing. When we first heard of it, the device was tipped to have a 4,000mAh cell inside, complete with fast charging capability. And while the certification data says nothing on the matter, the 143 x 72 x 9.35mm dimensions and 148g weight of the plastic 5-incher give plenty of credibility to that rumor.

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The PC market has been slowly shrinking over the years, and this year is no different. According to Gartner, the PC shipments in the second quarter of 2015 dropped by 9.5 percent worldwide compared to the same quarter last year.

Lenovo was the top company once again in the PC space but suffered a year-on year decline for the first time since 2013. It was followed by HP and Dell.

Gartner believes there are three reasons for the drop, the first being the rise of US dollar compared to some of the local currencies worldwide, causing increased prices, the second being phasing out of Windows XP last year, which caused a lot of people to upgrade last year and not so much this year, and lastly manufacturers clearing out old stock this year to prepare for the upcoming Windows 10.

Gartner believes, however, that the PC sales will be back up next year in…

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If you've been refusing to believe that the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge Plus are coming soon, this latest offer from AT&T should give you some food for thought. The US carrier has taken $200 off the prices of the Galaxy Note 4 and Note Edge phablets.

Admittedly, we're talking about the 2-year contract prices but if you're after a commitment with AT&T anyway, snatching a Note Edge for $199.99 is a properly good deal. The Note 4 is even listed at half that, $99.99.

Now,that's the price of the device only, and it comes with a monthly plan with 10GB of data, which will set you back $100, plus an additional $40 smartphone access charges, totaling $140 a month. So in essence, the deal saves you as much as a month and half worth of fees.

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Previously if you had to open the directions to a place on your Android phone after viewing it on your computer, you would likely have to open it again. This new addition makes life a little easier.

You might see the 'Send to device' option appear when you click on a place in Google Maps desktop version. This should open the place on your Android phone with the direction to it so you don't have to manually search again while leaving the house.

The option should appear if you have the latest version of Google Maps on your phone (9.11.0). If not it should roll out in some…

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Samsung has been determined to show us that new functionality can be found in the use of curved-edge displays. The pioneering Galaxy Note Edge introduced new ways of interacting with the smartphone, but as a first-gen product the special sibling to the Note 4 was not without its flaws.

The Galaxy S6 edge is a toned-down attempt, where the curves mostly serve to enhance the feel in the hand, though a few nifty extra features do set it apart from the vanilla S6. It would appear that Samsung is not content with that and has set on to take the edge to the next level.

A recent filing with the US patent authority sees Samsung applying for the Apps Edge trademark, though it is distinctly vague on the actual use of the term. Sifting through the text, we can find out that what stands behind the mysterious words is "software for organizing and allowing quick access to frequently used applications" – basically what the edge screen was fundamentally conceived to do.

Registering a dedicated trademark, however, may be an indication of a trend towards a more diverse selection of apps to utilize the present hardware. Additionally, one could see Samsung headed for an expansion of the portfolio of devices that feature a curved edge screen, the alleged Galaxy S6 edge Plus being the next in line.

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The hugely successful original Motorola Moto G was released back in November 2013 and was a value-packed proposition that delivered most of the truly necessary features an Android phone must have without breaking the bank. The second-gen Moto G brought a few minor tweaks, but was no longer as lucrative a deal, as its hardware had gotten a bit outdated. Which brings us to this year's Moto G (2015), or Moto G (3rd gen), if that sounds better to you.

It's not the first time we get to see the upcoming handset, in fact it once surfaced in a video, where a prototype ran the Antutu benchmark, while later a lone alleged press image showed the handset front and back. Well, we're now being treated to another set of renders from multiple angles in higher resolution, detailing the Moto G (2015) design.

Motorola Moto G (2015) alleged press renders

In terms of specs, from what we can gather by now, largely based on that Antutu video, the 5-inch 720p Moto G (2015) will be powered by the newer, 64-bit Snapdragon 410 chipset, as opposed to the S400 in the previous iterations. RAM will apparently remain at 1GB, and the limiting 8GB of storage won't see a change either. The primary camera gets a bump to 13MP though.

The Moto G is typically released in the fall, and there's still plenty of time for any of this to change, so stay tuned.

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