Less than a week after Samsung’s newest flagships – the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge – started getting the March security update in the US, the update has started hitting S7 edge units in the UK.

Weighing in at 74.34MB, the update obviously brings all the latest security fixes in Google’s mobile operating system. However, there’s currently no information on exactly what other changes (if any) are included in the update.

Also not known at the moment is whether or not the standard variant – the Galaxy S7 – has also started receiving the update in the UK, but we’ll let you know as soon as we…

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With the HTC’s next flagship launch just a few weeks away, the Taiwanese company is offering a deal on its last year’s One M9 flagship that nets you a free Nexus 9 (16GB black variant) with every purchase of the smartphone.

It’s a US-only deal that is valid on both unlocked as well as carrier variants of the One M9. Price-wise, the phone carries an official tag of $649.00 in the US, while the tablet on offer usually sets you back $399. Put simply, the deal – which is valid until March 23 (12:00 AM PT) – saves you $399.

Keep in mind that you can purchase a maximum of four One M9s…

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Oppo has revealed that starting this August, it will be manufacturing a million 4G phones/month in India. The revelation was made by Mike Wang, CEO of the Chinese company’s India subsidiary.

Wang also revealed that the units will be designed in China but will be manufactured at the company’s production facility in Noida, a neighboring city of India’s national capital New Delhi. He said that the phones will be manufactured after “local level customization for the India market.”

As for what kind of phones Oppo will be churning out, Wang didn’t reveal any specific models, but did say…

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At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Samsung made it official that iOS support for the Tizen-powered Gear S2 smartwatch (including Gear Manager for iOS) is under development, and will be rolled out later this year. However, the very next day it was revealed that would happen in mid-January itself.

Sadly, as we know, that didn’t happen, and we didn’t hear anything about the roll out for almost a couple of months. Then, towards February-end, there were reports that the support would arrive in March around the Apple’s Feb 21 event.

Now, here we are, a day after the…

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Samsung’s flagship from 2014 – the Galaxy S5 – has finally started getting the Marshmallow update. The update is currently rolling out to S5 variants with model number SM-G900L operating on South Korean carrier LG Uplus.

Bringing Android version 6.0.1, the update also includes stability improvements, speed optimizations, as well as several bug fixes. If you are a S5 (SM-G900L) owner, and haven’t received the OTA notification yet, you can manually check for the update by heading to your device’s Settings menu.

This comes over a month after the update started hitting the South Korean…

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Rejecting Apple’s request to decide otherwise, the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear Samsung’s appeal to re-examine the decisions made in its patent case against Apple so far.

This comes around three months after the South Korean tech giant filed the appeal. In case you don’t already know, Samsung’s decision to move the Supreme Court came in the wake of the company agreeing to pay Apple $548 million to settle their yearslong patent legal case.

At the core, Samsung wants the Supreme Court to review how patent cases, specifically those related to design, are dealt with. It argues…

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Interested in purchasing the Sony PlayStation VR? Well, the time has come as pre-orders for the Launch Bundle begin today (March 22). Carrying a $499.99 price tag, the bundle in question includes a PS VR core bundle, PS Camera, 2 PlayStation Move motion controllers, and PlayStation VR Worlds (disc).

However, if $499 is a bit too much for you, the company has announced that it will also be separately offering the PS VR core bundle which includes a PS VR headset, PS VR cables, Stereo Headphones, and PlayStation VR Demo Disc. Carrying a $399.99 price tag, this bundle will be available for…

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Over a month after announcing it, LG has commenced the global roll out of its X smartphone series. An official announcement in this regard was made by the South Korean company today.

LG said that starting this week, the X screen and X cam smartphones – which were unveiled at this year’s MWC last month – will be available in the company’s home country of South Korea followed by other markets including Europe, Latin America, and Asia. The company defines the X series as “a mass-tier smartphone lineup with premium features until now only available on LG’s flagship models.”

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The first alleged footage of the highly anticipated mobile game with collaboration of the makers of Ingress, Niantic Labs, has appeared on YouTube late last week after SXSW. An attendee of the festival has uploaded a video of what appears to be the actual game.

The CEO of Niantic Labs was giving a short demonstration at a gaming panel. The actual topic of the panel isn’t entirely clear, but whatever it was, it showed us a glimpse of what the new geo-based game is going to offer.

In the panel footage, we can hear that the presenter is talking about the differing regions of where you…

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T-Mobile has been the one carrier who decided to strike back at the other carriers back when AT&T and Verizon were the ones getting rid of unlimited plans by aggressively advertising their Uncarrier movements to turn the mobile industry in the US back into the customers’ hands.

Yeah, Sprint had unlimited plans too but they weren’t necessarily doing so well. They’d lost customers when they decided to make the switch from WiMax to LTE so you could imagine outraged customers who found out their 2 year old phone was not going to have 4G anymore, even after the carrier was promising it was…

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