Motorola is having a sale on its US website, and you can save up to $100.

If you spend $499.99, you can get $100 off, or if you spend $249.99, you can get $35 off. The offer is available on Motorola devices and accessories till February 14.

For the $100 off you'd at least have to purchase the Moto X or the Nexus 6, while you'd have to at least get the Moto 360 to get the $35 off. Unfortunately, phones like the Moto G and Moto E are too inexpensive to fall under either price…

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Android 4.4.4 KitKat is now seeding to Samsung Galaxy S5 for AT&T over-the-air. The new OS build brings a number of features to the SM-G900A headed by support for VoLTE.

Security updates, bug fixes, and other improvements are also part of the update. HD voice capability, AT&T service additions, and preinstalled Uber app round up all the highlights.

Considering that Samsung Galaxy S5 for Verizon Wireless began receiving Android 5.0 Lollipop yesterday, we find it it a tad surprising that its AT&T sibling lags so far behind with the OS updates. Here’s hoping that the SM-G900 won’t stay with Android 4.4.4 for too long.

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ARM announced a trio of high-end components, which are bound to be part of the next generation of mobile chipsets. The brand-new ARM Cortex-A72 CPU, Mali T-880GPU, and the CoreLink CCI-500 interconnect will feature in top-shelf mobile devices in 2016.

The 64-bit ARM Cortex-A72 CPU is going to be the successor of the Cortex-A57. The newcomer is 3.5x faster than the Cortex-A15 generation, yet it consumes the same amount of energy. Cortex-A72 will use 75% less power than 2014 Cortex-A15 devices under similar workload.

In order to ease the implementation of the new chip, ARM has made its compatible with the latest TSMC 16nm FinFET+ process. The CPU will offer extended performance and efficiency when combined with Cortex-A53 CPU in ARM big.LITTLE setup.

The Mali T-880 GPU on the other hand, will offer 1.8x the performance of the currently available Mali T-760, yet it will consume 40% less energy. The GPU is developed with premium 4K content in mind

The CoreLink CCI-500 interconnect will enable power-sipping big.LITTLE processing thanks to an integrated snoop filter. The component will offer twice the peak memory system bandwidth with 30% increase in processor memory performance over the CCI-400 it is bound to replace.

ARM has already teamed up with a number of partners, which will utilize the new components. They include MediaTek, HiSilicon, and Rockchop among others….

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Verizon quietly listed the Motorola Nexus 6 as ‘coming soon’ in its online store. AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint are already selling the Android 5.0 flagship phablet in the United States.

There is no exact timeline on the release of the phablet just yet. However, Verizon has put up a page where overly anxious users can sign up for updates on the Nexus 6 availability.

Nexus 6 will be latest high-end device by Motorola to appear on the shelves of the Big Red. Verizon is already offering the highly capable Motorola Droid Turbo, as well as the 2014 Moto X.

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The Coolpad Ivvi K1 Mini has now become official, and it's the new world's thinnest smartphone. The device was teased once back in January, when we first heard it would dare to take that crown away from the Vivo X5 Max, the previous holder of the "world's slimmest" title.

And now it has. The Ivvi K1 Mini is just 4.7mm thin, which is 0.5mm less than the X5 Max and 1.5mm less than the Oppo R5, which has now become the world's third thinnest handset.

Coolpad Ivvi K1 Mini

The Ivvi K1 Mini won't be a high-end offering, it will instead have midrange specs, paired with a "baby skin" texture on its back, which should not attract any fingerprints.

The phone will sport a 4.7-inch touchscreen (resolution is still unknown), an 8 MP rear camera, a 5 MP front-facing shooter, and a 1,800 mAh battery. It will be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 64-bit SoC (probably with a 1.2 GHz quad-core CPU), aided by 1GB of RAM and 8GB of built-in storage. 4G LTE support will be in too.

The Coolpad Ivvi K1 Mini will be available in China in white for starters, for an asking price of CNY 1,299, which right now translates into approximately $207 or €180. It's unclear whether it will ever officially be offered in other…

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The Xiaomi Redmi 2 is helping the company cross into the 64-bit era. A catchy enough headline for a sequel that’s not overly generous with the upgrades. On second thought, a new generation chipset (lower-midrange but still), a more recent OS and LTE are not a package to frown on…

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A report in the Korean media suggests that Samsung is preparing to launch a new payment system alongside the Galaxy S6. Samsung has lured in Visa as one of its main partners for the new payment system.

The Apple Pay competitor is going to be based on the LoopPay technology, which enables customers to pay at sale terminals by touching LoopPay-enabled cards. However, Samsung's way of paying with utilize the new Galaxy S6 fingerprint sensor. According to the latest round of rumors, the company's upcoming flagship will sport a non-swipe fingerprint sensor.

The sensor will still offer the extensive TouchWiz functionality, including Private mode, Pay with PayPal, as well as signing into Samsung Account and supported websites.

Furthermore, LoopPay is said to be preparing touch-enabled payment cases for the Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note 4 as part of the Samsung deal. We'll know more about Samsung's new payment system on March 1, when the Galaxy Unpacked event is taking place.

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Yesterday the Wi-Fi Alliance certified the LG H811 for Wi-Fi compliance (a/b/g/n/ac). The phone is based on Android L, that is Android 5.0 Lollipop, and there's speculation that this is the AT&T version of the upcoming LG G4.

A week ago the H810 User Agent profile (H810, close enough to H811?) revealed a QHD screen, that is 1,440 x 2,560px. That doesn’t mesh with another UA profile from a few days ago which points to a 3K display (1,620 x 2,880px). We'd say the higher resolution screen is for an upcoming LG G Pro, but unconfirmed rumors from late last year say that LG axed the G Pro 3 to focus on the LG G4.

It's entirely possible that carrier-specific versions will have different resolutions too. Whether it's because of yield, because AT&T wanted it that way or another reason, the difference between QHD and 3K will be a challenge for your eyesight.

Most likely the LG G4 will not be unveiled at the MWC – May sounds a better bet, since the LG G3 launched at the same point last year. That said, the H811 is already on LG's web site.

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Samsung begun seeding the Android 5.0 Lollipop update for the Galaxy S5 in December. Naturally the update was compatible with the Snapdragon 801-powered model and the first country to taste it was South Korea.

The update continued to roll out in stages through Poland, Spain, UK, among other countries. Verizon's Galaxy S5 users were the most recent to get the anticipated upgrade.

As of today Samsung has started to update the Exynos-powered G900H Galaxy S5 model too. The first market to get Lollipop is Kazakhstan, but we expect more countries to get the new firmware very soon.

In case the Kazakhstani ROM works for your device, you can grab it from the link below.

Android 5.0 brings a host of improvements to Samsung Galaxy S5. The OS is TouchWiz-ed with just a pinch of Material design, so the user experience will not be dramatically different from the one in version 4.4. However, thanks to the brand new ART runtime, you should feel a noticeable improvement in the responsiveness of the…

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Earlier today, when Samsung sent out invites for its Galaxy Unpacked 2015 media event, it didn’t reveal anything, except for a teaser image suggesting a curved screen flagship. However, it’s all but confirmed that the Galaxy S6, as well as its curved screen variant, the Galaxy S Edge, would be unveiled at the event.

Although we’ve had reports detailing information such as specs, features, as well as the price of the flagship, none really touched upon the colors it would be available in. But now, Sammobile is reporting that the Galaxy S6 as well as the Galaxy S Edge will be available in four different colors: dark blue, blue-green, gold, and white (shown in the image below).

While Gold and white are common for Samsung flagships, dark blue too isn’t exactly new. However, blue-green is something we’ve yet to see on any of the company’s flagships. Needless to say, these colors are not officially confirmed, so take the information with a pinch of…

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