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OnePlus 2 will have a fingerprint sensor

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OnePlus seemingly can't let go of its past marketing ways. Last year the Chinese company introduced its first handset by drip feeding people information about it in a continuous teaser campaign that lasted for weeks, and now it's doing the exact same thing for the OnePlus 2. That said, this time around we get one teaser every few days about one specific feature of the upcoming phone.

So we've already found out that it will employ the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 chipset, overheating issues be damned, and that it will be finally made official on July 27 through a VR presentation.

Now it's time to talk about security, it seems. The OnePlus 2 will sport a fingerprint sensor, something that's been featured more and more on high-end Android devices lately. So this isn't a big surprise, but nice to see nevertheless.

OnePlus promises that the part in its next flagship will be "one of the latest and most advanced fingerprint sensors out there". It also claims it will work faster than Apple's Touch ID, which is a bold statement to make.

The company also explains that last year while designing the One, it chose not to use a fingerprint scanner because the technology simply wasn't good enough at the time. Sensors were inaccurate and using one sometimes took more than simply entering a password.

Now though it's found a refined and "lightning quick" part, and it's going to use it in the OnePlus 2. This sensor will let you store up to five fingerprint profiles.

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Motorola Droid Kinzie for Verizon is detailed too

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The Motorola device with the model number XT1585, which is apparently codenamed Kinzie, has been leaked about a month ago when it was said to be on its way to Verizon. Hence, it's definitely going to use Droid branding. Some of its specs were outed back then, but now we have a complete picture thanks to yet another benchmark listing.

This tells us that the phone will feature a 5.5-inch QHD (2,560×1,440) touchscreen, a 20 MP rear camera with 4K video capture, a 5 MP front-facing unit, 3GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage.

It will be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 chipset, which comes with an octa-core CPU in the big.LITTLE configuration – with four high-performance Cortex-A57 cores, and four battery-friendly Cortex-A53 ones. Most of these things were mentioned before, but the screen size is different than the 4.6" previously rumored.

The prototype which was tested ran Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. The phone also has support for NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS. If history repeats itself, expect to see this in stores around October. Based on its specs, it should be the successor to the Droid Turbo from 2014.

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Microsoft Lumia 940 XL gets benchmarked, has specs outed

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The upcoming Microsoft Lumia 940 XL has been rumored for a few months at this point, as the phablet half of the company's two Windows 10-running flagships for the latter part of the year. Complementing it in the software giant's roster will be the smaller Lumia 940.

Today we get a very good idea about what to expect from the Lumia 940 XL in terms of specs, because it's been put through the paces of a benchmark that thankfully lists the most important hardware information in its online database.

And it mostly confirms past mumblings about the device. So, the Lumia 940 XL (model number RM-1100) will sport a 5.7-inch QHD (2,560×1,440) touchscreen, as well as a rear camera featuring a resolution of at least 17 MP – but certainly more, since this benchmark always underrepresents these values. So we assume there will at least be a 20 MP lens in there. It will shoot 4K video.

Moving on, we've got a 5 MP selfie snapper, 16GB of built-in storage, and at least 1.5GB of RAM (but more likely 2GB, again because the benchmark under reports such values). Running the show will be Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 SoC, which is confirmed by the presence of the Adreno 430 GPU. This will have an octa-core CPU in ARM's big.LITTLE configuration as always.

The Lumia 940 XL is going to be introduced as the first top of the line phablet to run the new mobile version of Windows 10, and it's expected to become official in the next few months. It might have a USB Type-C connector, and even some iris scanning tech on board. Its battery capacity has been rumored to be 3,300 mAh.

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Huawei Honor 7 variants rumored to differ in design

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The Huawei Honor 7 – which has already been the subject of several leaks – will come in two variants differing in both design and specifications, according to the latest report out of China.

As per the report, the low-end version will sport round corners and a metal frame, while the high-end version will have an all metal body. On the specifications front, the former is said to come with 3GB RAM and 16GB internal storage, while the latter will have 4GB RAM and 128GB storage.

The report also notes that both variants will be powered by the latest Kirin chipset (possibly Kirin 940), which is said to come with eight cores: four Cortex A-53 cores, two Cortex A-72 cores, and two Cortex A-57 cores. The devices will sport a 5.2-inch 1080p display, 16MP OIS camera, pack in a 3280mAh battery, and feature fingerprint recognition technology.

As for the pricing, the base model is expected to carry a tag of CNY1,999 or $322. Needless to say, none of this has been officially confirmed by Huawei.

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