Mere hours before their respective official announcements, both the HTC One M9 and the Samsung Galaxy S6 have seemingly been priced already.

In the first case, that of the HTC One M9, the information seems to be more legit, since it comes straight from a listing on Best Buy's website. That page is still up, by the way, so it's probably the real deal.

As you can see, HTC's new handset is going to cost $649.99 if you want to buy one without a two-year contract. This is the AT&T version of the device, but we have no reason to believe that pricing for other carriers will be different.

Moving on to the Galaxy S6, a user over at the XDA-Developers forum posted a screenshot of what is claimed to be a listing for the smartphone at Samsung's UK website.

The attached price is a whopping £699, which works out at around $1,079 or €963. However, this should probably be taken with a grain of salt, as the page isn't currently online, and the picture supposedly showing the Galaxy S6 is actually of the Galaxy Alpha from last year. So someone may have employed some last minute Photoshop skills on this one.

That said, the Galaxy S6 will surely be expensive anyway, though hopefully not that expensive. We'll find out soon enough.

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"A watch is a watch" says Huawei as it takes a swing at both Motorola and LG with its own round watch. The Huawei Watch is perfectly round like the LG Watch Urbane, but has thin bezels like the Motorola Moto 360.

This is the first Android Wear watch with a sapphire crystal, also beating Apple to the punch. Below it is a 1.4" round AMOLED display, making it among the smallest of the current generation. The screen has 400 x 400 resolution, making it sharper than both the LG and the Moto 286ppi.

The case measures 42mm and is made out of cold-gorged stainless steel. The Huawei Watch has been designed with wristbands for both men and women. They are interchangeable and Huawei will be offering metal and leather bands.

Color options include Gold/Brown Leather, Silver and Black, the last two have a metal mesh band of matching color. There are also a Black leather strap and a traditional Gold colored stainless steel wristband. The bands are standard 18mm, so you can swap them out

The Huawei Watch contains 130 components and it takes 260 manufacturing steps, 160 of which are done by hand.

Anyway, the company is proud that it used traditional watch elements like the crown. In this case it's Android Wear's usual single button, but it's placed off-center for ergonomic reasons.

The Huawei Watch has a built-in heartrate monitor and comes with Huawei-made software for health tracking. The watch also supports Google Fit and Jawbone. There's an accompanying smartphone app which will be able to integrate with third-party…

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Traditionally, Acer is focusing its efforts in the low-end and mid-range sectors of the smartphone industry and at this year’s Mobile World Congress, the company delivered a number of interesting smartphones. But not to stay behind the…

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The Lumia 640 has been popping up in various rumors throughout the past month or so. The Windows Phone handset was rumored to make an appearance at MWC 2015 and even though you never know untill it official, the upcoming unveiling of the smartphone is beyond any doubt now.

The company's official news center jumped the gun earlier today and released an article for the device, confirming its existence. This is a substantial lip up on Microsoft's part, but what makes it particularly juicy is that the article also refers to another, previously unknown phone, dubbed the Lumia 640 XL.

According to a previous leak the Lumia 640 is allegedly a dual SIM smartphone that sports integrated digital television (DTV) and supports 3G and Bluetooth 4.0. Judging from the XL moniker, we can only assume that the other device will be a larger version of the handset, just like the Nokia XL was to the Nokia X.

The article itself was naturally quickly taken down, but thanks to Google's helpful web crawlers a cached version is still available, sowing the article's title and original URL. The leak does not really disclose any info about the two devices, but it does proclaim their existence and definitely elevates expectations for Microsoft's Barcelona event, set for tomorrow, March 2, at 08:00 GTM+1.

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Gionee will be announcing the Elife S7 at MWC tomorrow on March 2. But before that, we have some exclusive images of the upcoming slim smartphone from the Chinese manufacturer.

The phone is said to be 5.5mm thick, which is about the same as the S5.5 but slightly more than the S5.1. It is said to be running on a 64-bit processor, although whether it will be a MediaTek or Qualcomm chipset is not yet known. Also, as you can see from the images, the phone is running on Android 5.0 Lollipop.

Other than that you can expect a 13 megapixel camera and a 5.0-inch display with 720p resolution.

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LG made one of the best-looking smartwatches, the G Watch R, and quickly improved on it. The LG Watch Urbane has classic looks, complete with three hardware buttons, but is actually the most advanced smartwatch to date. It's the first with LTE…

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Acer has just lifted the curtains of its MWC 2015 Android line-up of smartphones. The trio of phones includes a pair of Liquid Z devices and the Liquid Jade Z.

Starting off with the Liquid Jade Z, which is the higher tier offering from the company. Featuring a 64-bit MediaTek CPU, the phone is built around a 5" 720p display. Acer uses a new Zero Air Gap technology on the unit, too, in addition to a Gorilla Glass 3 layer for protection.

Acer Liquid Jade Z

The Acer Liquid Jade Z is LTE-ready and weighs 110 grams and its body is 7.9mm thin. Visually, the phone is reminiscent of the Liquid Jade S, which isn't a bad thing at all. At the back, there's a 13MP snapper with LED flash, while a 5MP front-facing camera takes care of video chatting and selfies.

The Liquid Z220 and Liquid Z520 are both 4" smartphones with WVGA resolution (233 ppi pixel density) and both feature a Snapdragon 400 with a quad-core CPU and 1GB of RAM.

Acer Liquid Z550

The two differ in the main camera department, as the Liquid Z520 has an 8MP camera with LED flash, while the Z220 has a 5MP shooter, again coupled with an LED flash.

Acer has packed the Liquid Z520 with DTS studio sound speaker at the back.

Acer Liquid Z220

In terms of pricing, the Liquid Z220 and Liquid Z520 will launch in March and April, respectively. The Liquid Z520 will retail for €109, while the Liquid Z220 will be €89. The Acer Liquid Jade Z will be out in March with a €199 price tag.

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Acer announced three Android smartphones and one Windows Phone device at a pre-MWC event today in Barcelona. The Windows Phone 8.1-powred Liquid M220 is an entry-level device with a 4" display and a dual-core processor.

Acer Liquid M220 features a 4" WVGA screen, runs on a 1.2GHz dual-core processor with 512MB RAM, and offers 5MP rear camera, 4GB expandable storage and dual-SIM functionality. It also sports a 2MP front snapper and a 1,300 mAh battery.

Acer Liquid M220

The Liquid M220 runs on Windows Phone 8.1 by default, but it will be updated to Windows 10 once the new OS kicks off later this year.

Acer Liquid M220 will become available in the EMEA markets starting this April at €79. It will come in two flavors – Mystic Black and Pure White.

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The Sony Xperia M4 Aqua slipped out from under the covers once again, this time the white one. The new set of photos shows more angles of the upcoming device, which follows Sony's traditional OmniBalance design.

The handset has front-facing stereo speakers, similar to the Xperia Z3. The handset will be waterproof, most likely IP68, but there doesn’t seem to be a flap protecting microUSB port. Until now exposed USB ports have limited water resistance to IP67, so we'll have to wait until the official announcement to get the real number.

Leaked photos of the incoming Sony Xperia M4 Aqua

The Sony Xperia M4 Aqua builds on the Xperia M2 Aqua from late last year. It's expected to have a 5.2" 720p display, Snapdragon 610 chipset, Android 5.0 Lollipop 13MP and 5MP cameras with 1080p video.

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With less than 24 hours to go before HTC officially takes the wraps off the One (M9), someone mistakenly uploaded a hands-on video of the device to YouTube. Even if it's been taken down in the meantime, countless people have managed to capture it and reupload it, so we can once again see exactly what the One (M9) will look like.

Unsurprisingly, it's identical to what those leaked promotional materials (and videos) showed us a few days ago. In the image below, the One (M9) is on the left, with the One (M8) in the center, and the original One on the right.

The front of the new phone looks incredibly similar to that of the One (M8), with only subtle details having changed. The situation is different on the back, however.

In the picture above, the One (M9) is on the right, with the One (M8) in the center, and the original One on the left. Gone is the Duo Camera in the One (M9), as is the UltraPixel shooter, replaced with a higher-res sensor. The UltraPixel camera is now on the front.

These images are basically screenshots from the aforementioned hands-on video. If you want to see the whole thing, you can do that at the Source link unless it's been taken down.

Interestingly, HTC is said to debut a "dual finish metal unibody" construction for the One (M9). The unit in the video has a silver back, but its edges are gold (as made obvious in the shot above, which has the One (M9) on the right).

The HTC One (M9) is expected to come with a 5-inch 1080p touchscreen, a 20.7MP rear camera, a 4MP front snapper, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 SoC – sporting an octa-core CPU with four 2 GHz Cortex-A57 cores and four 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 ones.

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