Chinese company Huawei recorded an annual revenue of RMB 395 billion ($61.10 billion) in 2015, which translates into an year-on-year growth of 37%. This is the company’s biggest annual revenue growth in the past seven years.

Huawei’s net profit for the year stood at RMB 36.9 billion, up 32 percent from the RMB 27.9 billion figure it reported the year prior. The company’s handset division played an important role in this with a 44% jump in shipments. In case you don’t already know, Huawei became the first smartphone company in China whose shipments crossed the 100 million mark in a year…

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Google has announced that it will drop support for the physical Wallet Card starting June 30. “You’ll no longer be able to add money to your Wallet Balance after May 1, 2016,” the company said in a blog post. “Any transactions made with your Wallet Card after June 30 will not be processed. Any pending transactions made before June 30 will still post to your account.”

Those looking for alternatives can opt for offerings from American Express or Simple, Google suggests, adding that both offer debit accounts with similar features, including a card. The Mountain View, California-based…

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As scheduled, LG’s newest flagship smartphone – the G5 – is now available for purchase in the United States. AT&T has listed the device on its website, and is selling it for $688 sans contract. Those opting for the carrier’s Next plan can get the phone for as low as $22.97 a month.

As you might already know, the G5 comes with a free battery and charging cradle in the US. On top of that AT&T is offering a $49.99 LG G Pad X 10.1 on a 2-year agreement to those purchasing the phone on the carrier’s Next plan.

You can also get a LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE smartwatch for $99.99 on…

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Are you a Motorola fan? Are you in the market for a smartphone and a smartwatch? If your answer to both these questions is yes, then here’s a deal for you: Motorola is offering a free Moto 360 (1st gen) with every purchase of a Moto X Pure Edition or Droid Turbo 2.

What’s worth keeping in mind here is that the promo is only available on purchase of the 64GB variants of the phones, meaning you’ll have to shell out $499 for the Moto X Pure and $720 for the Droid Turbo 2. The Moto 360 (2014) currently costs $199.99.

After you’ve made up your mind on which phone to buy, just add it as…

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We were recently able to get our hands on Spigen’s Galaxy S7 edge lineup of cases and decided to show you all some of our favorites and no-so-favorites. When the Galaxy Note edge first came out, I had many customers come into the Samsung shop within Best Buy only to become frustrated that Best Buy didn’t carry any cases for such a drastically different form factor.

A couple of years later, and three edge devices later, Samsung’s Galaxy S7 edge is a new generation of unique form factored devices that require a specially designed case. One that would be able to protect your device while…

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Samsung+ is Samsung’s customer support app, that you can find preinstalled on a variety of the company’s smartphones and tablets, including the recently released Galaxy S7 and S7 edge of course. And today Samsung+ has received a huge update, which should make its way to the Google Play Store in the next few hours.

The first new thing is that you can live video chat with a Samsung customer support representative, or you can text or use a plain old voice call if you so wish. Remote assistance is built in too, which means you can grant a support rep permission to remotely operate and…

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Fitbit has announced that it has shipped more than a million units of its Blaze smartwatch in the first month of the device’s availability. The timepiece, which went on sale in the first week of March, has also become an Amazon best-seller both in the smart watch and heart monitor categories.

Fitbit Blaze

In addition, the company also announced that shipments of its Alta fitness tracker have also crossed the one million mark, something which happened in the first three weeks of the device’s retail availability.

Fitbit Alta

“At Fitbit, we continue to focus on developing…

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Here’s yet another deal you can take advantage of if you’re interested in purchasing one of Samsung’s latest flagships from a US carrier. AT&T is, under certain conditions, going to give you a free 48-inch Samsung smart TV if you buy either a Galaxy S7 or S7 edge, starting tomorrow.

You do need to get the phone using AT&T’s Next installment plans, and in order to qualify you must have both AT&T wireless and DIRECTV service (of which at least one must be new). The following table explains in detail what you need in order to be eligible.

So you’re not eligible only if you upgrade an…

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Microsoft’s Build conference has entered its second day today, and the company is busy boasting about the reach of its Office applications. According to Microsoft, there are now 1.2 billion Office users in the world, who spend an average of 3-4 hours per day using the suite.

And before you think that those are all work computers, consider this: the Office mobile apps for Android and iOS have so far been downloaded no less than 340 million times. Things are going pretty well for Microsoft’s Office 365 subscription service too, with more than 50,000 new small business customers opting for…

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iOS 9.3 was released to the public on March 21, the same day as Apple’s big event where it unveiled the iPhone SE and iPad Pro 9.7 (both of which are now available, by the way). Yet here we are just 10 days later and the company has deemed it necessary to already issue an emergency update for its mobile operating system.

iOS 9.3.1 is now rolling out to supported iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch units across the world. Its only function is to fix a very nasty bug that somehow made the cut to the final version of iOS 9.3. This bug will render your Apple device useless after tapping on links in…

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