The first Ubuntu tablet is now finally up for pre-order, after having been unveiled in February. The BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Edition is offered in two versions, one with 1,280×800 screen resolution and the other with a 1,920×1,200 panel.

The former is obviously cheaper, going for €249.90. It has a 10.1-inch touchscreen, the MediaTek MT8163A chipset with a 1.5 GHz quad-core CPU and Mali-T720MP2 GPU, 2GB of RAM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, an 8 MP rear camera, a 5 MP front camera, 16GB of expandable storage, and a 7,280 mAh battery.

The full HD model retails for €289.90, and has the exact…

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Facebook is said to be working on deploying even more features into its Messenger apps – as if the money-sending and virtual assistant, for example, weren’t enough.

The big one is that apparently Facebook will use Messenger as its mobile payments play, rivaling Apple Pay and Android Pay and letting you to pay for things in physical stores. This would expand upon the aforementioned existing feature that lets you send money to friends.

The revelations come from a look at comments in the code of the Facebook Messenger app for iOS. Another new thing coming in the future is “secret…

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The iPhone SE, which was unveiled a week ago during a special event, is apparently very popular in China. According to a report from CNBC, the new 4-inch smartphone has managed to grab more than 3.4 million reservations, with a little over one day to go before the reservation window closes.

As always when talking about the Chinese market, you’ll see most news outlets report this number as “pre-orders”, however as a general rule in China these don’t work like they do elsewhere. They’re called reservations and no money changes hands before the actual purchase, unlike a ‘western’ pre-order…

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The Samsung Galaxy S7 can have either an Exynos or a Snapdragon chipset… or MediaTek Helio X20 or X25, wait what? Geekbench scores list a Samsung SM-G930W8, which comes with with one of three different chipsets.

Now, G930 is the Galaxy S7 and W is typically the designation for Canadian versions. Scrolling through the results, you see octa-core processors – the Exynos – or deca-cores – either MT6797 or MT6797T.

Those are better known as MediaTek Helio X20 and X25. So much for the exclusivity of the X25. Both chipsets are mostly the same, but the X25 is an overclocked version and it…

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There were a couple of leaks this past week about an Active variant of Samsung’s Galaxy S7 flagship. Now, the name ‘Galaxy S7 Active’ has been spotted listed in the change-log of Samsung’s Level app, effectively confirming the existence of the device.

For those who missed, the Galaxy S6 Active successor was first spotted in a Zuaba listing carrying a model number of SM-G891A (GS6 Active is G890A). Then, a couple of days later, the usually reliable leakster @evleaks revealed that the device has a code name of Poseidon, and is being tested at AT&T.

As for how the rugged version would…

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If you’re waiting for Oppo to launch its R9 and R9 Plus smartphones outside China, here is some good news: the company has sent out media invites for a phone launch event in India scheduled for April 5.

While the invite itself doesn’t explicitly say which phone(s) will be unveiled, the text ‘Selfie Expert’ is more than enough to conclude that the R9 and R9 Plus will be the star of the event given that they feature 16MP front shooters and have been marketed by the company as camera-centric phones right from the beginning.

Both phones were made official in Oppo’s home country of China…

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The Oculus has come a long way since the early Kickstarter days, but this Saturday it reached an important milestone – the first Rift headset was delivered.

And this wasn’t a regular FedEx delivery either, Palmer Luckey, co-founder and CEO of Oculus himself, handed over the headset to its lucky recipient – Ross Martin, a developer from Alaska.

The whole thing was streamed live on Facebook (the home of Oculus) and you can tell Martin was excited. He says he couldn’t sleep and even showed up at his office (where he usually receives deliveries) during the weekend to receive the…

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The MediaTek Helio X25 was supposed to be exclusive to Meizu, but results spotted in GFXBench show it’s used by the LeTV LeEco Le 2 too (it may seem like a meme-y name, but the LeEco brand is actually pretty big in China).

The phone is a 5.5″ phablet with a 1080p screen, according to the benchmark. It has 3GB of RAM and 32GB storage and runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

The chipset, in case you are not familiar, has a 10-core (‘deca-core’) CPU design – a big Cortex-A72 (2x) cluster, medium A53 cluster (4x) and a small A53 cluster (4x) each at different clock speeds (the A72s top out at…

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Samsung is about to start the construction of a new Research & Development center in Vietnam. The new facility will be in Hanoi and will cost the company $300 million.

The Vietnamese government has agreed to give Samsung the land to build its R&D center without having to pay rent for the next 50 years.

The company is forced to make the investment in a new facility due to restricted space in the one already in operation in Hanoi. The new center will join the ones in the Bac Ninh and Thai Nguyen provinces.

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Samsung has been expanding its lineup all over the Latin alphabet, and the newest addition is apparently going to be a C-series. Evidence of that comes from an import listing on Indian customs database Zauba.

The smartphone in question carries a model number SM-C5000 and features a 5.2-inch display, and this is all that’s been revealed now. Sources say that a C7000 model is also in development, but display size hasn’t been specified.

It’s tough to pinpoint exactly where the new series will be positioned – after all Samsung’s alphabet goes S-A-J-E-Z in descending order of price,…

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