Sony’s flagship smartphone from 2014 – the Xperia Z3 – has received a price cut in the US, where retailer B&H Photo is currently selling the device for $249.95, down from its usual price of $449.95.

That turns out to be a solid $200 discount for a device that is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 801 chipset, sports a 5.2-inch full HD IPS display, and has 3GB RAM and 20.7MP main camera. A quick look at Amazon reveals that the retailer is selling the same model for around $300.

It’s worth mentioning that the deal is available for the next few hours only (11 as of writing). So, those …

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Apple iPhone SE is pretty much an iPhone 6s within a smaller chassis. It runs on the same Apple A9 chip with 2GB of RAM, has the same 12MP rear camera, but a smaller and lower-resolution screen.

The iPhone SE has passed the AnTuTu 6 benchmark already, and you can check it out how it stacks against its stablemates.

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Microsoft struk a lucrative advertising slash professional tool deal to provide Surface tablets to the NFL, and now Apple is after the same kind of exposure. The Cupertino giant has opted for a quite different sport and went after Major League Baseball, but other than that, the premise of the new deal seems to be the same.

In exchange for exposure during games, Apple will provide specially tailored iPad Pro units to each team in the league, to be used as professional tools. The devices in question will be of the bigger 12.9-inch variety (more visible on camera, I guess), bear the…

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Apple has updated its Maps service to expand the Flyover and Traffic support in a number of countries. Now Austria, Denmark, Japan and Switzerland proximity-based Nearby search results on iPhone and iPad.

As for the Flyover – you can now enjoy 3D imagery with photorealistic bird’s eye view of Augsburg, Braunshweif, and Hanover in Germany, Newcastle upon Tyne in England and the Japanese prefecture of Niigata.

Finally, in Turkey Maps has been updated to support real-time traffic data. Apple has done a nice job with this one, but has to put in a lot more effort in Maps before it…

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There’s now only a week until the Huawei P9’s official launch, scheduled for April 6. Can’t hurt if we get to know a few more bits in advance though, this time courtesy of AnTuTu. The benchmark maker has listed the upcoming Huawei flagship, complete with specs and test results.

Huawei P9 on AnTuTu (click for full size)

The concise specsheet names just the basics, among them a Kirin 955 chipset with Mali-T880 MP4 GPU, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. Display resolution is quoted to be FullHD, and previous info points to a 5.2-inch diagonal.

As you probably know, the P9 will…

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Yes, that is correct, as per industry sources, Canonical – the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution and Microsoft have partnered up to integrate Ubuntu into Windows 10.

By all accounts, this won’t be done through the use of virtual machines, nor containers, which still seem to be in development within project Barcelona. Rather, the idea is to bring over the Bash shell experience, along with all of its powerful console tools, to run on top of Windows libraries and the Linux subsystem, introduced in the new Windows 10 Redstone build.

While running Bash on Windows is in…

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We have been hearing a lot about the Oppo F1 Plus lately and most fans have come to expect it as the next iteration of the Oppo F1 “selfie expert”, with hints of an even better front camera experience and a fingerprint reader. This all sounded exciting, but today Oppo brought an end to that, clarifying that the F1 Plus won’t be a new model, but merely the Oppo R9 for international markets.

That definitely clears the air and puts to rest the various rumors about the handset. As per the recent China announcement of the R9 and R9 Plus, the F1 Plus should be equipped with a 5.5-inch,…

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Mainland Europe is getting the LG G5 a bit later than the US and South Korea, but Amazon Germany will start selling the flagship in the middle of the month and will offer a free Cam Plus grip.

The phone – available in Gold, Silver and Titan – costs €700 and the grip alone is €100, but using the LGG5AKTION code, the grip becomes free. The deal is valid for orders until April 16.

The grip helps shooting with an additional 1,200mAh battery and hardware controls – photo shutter and video recorder keys, plus a zoom dial.

The LG 360 Cam and LG B&O DAC are available too, but you’ll have…

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HTC 10 is going official on April 12 but we know pretty much everything there is to know about company’s next big thing. We know the design is a hybrid between the One M9 and One A9, we know about its Quad HD AMOLED screen and Snapdragon 820 chip, the possibility of a Snapdragon 652 model, its rumored retail price at €740, even the reported April 15 as a lunch date.

HTC has begun a marketing campaign with teasers over the social networks, but the leaks are quite more revealing than HTC’s hints.

Today’s leak show the black flavor of the HTC 10 shot next to its silver sibling. We’ve seen…

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Twitter is rolling out an update for its iOS and Android apps that should make using the service a bit easier for the visually impaired.

Starting today, users can now add descriptive or alternative text to images that they attach to their tweets. You get 420 characters, separate from the 140 for the tweet, to describe the image however you want. The text will then be read out by assistive technology or presented in braille so the visually impaired can not just read the tweet but also get an idea of what the attached image is.

Twitter is also making this available to third party…

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