Samsung announced the Galaxy TabPro S tablet running Windows 10 at CES in January, and we’ve already seen it going on sale throughout Europe at the beginning of this month. And now it’s finally time for it to become available in the US as well. Almost, anyway.

It’s set to be in stock at Best Buy starting tomorrow, priced from $899.99. It will also be offered by Microsoft stores beginning on April 4.

The TabPro S is a 12-inch 2-in-1 detachable tablet with a 1440p AMOLED touchscreen, a sixth generation Intel Core M dual-core processor clocked at 2.26 GHz, 4GB of RAM, two 5 MP cameras…

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A couple of days ago Sony finally announced the official pricing for its upcoming PlayStation VR headset. And, at $399 (or £349 in the UK), it turns out it’s actually cheaper than many have anticipated. It surely is much more so than some rumors have claimed – the $1,500 figure was thrown around a lot at one point, while a retailer leak made us think about $500 as an option too.

So, understandably, many have been worried that Sony will be making a loss for each PlayStation VR unit sold, somewhat akin to what the situation was when the PlayStation 4 console launched. However, the Japanese…

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The big day has finally come, as rumored mere hours ago. It’s not a development version anymore, it’s not a beta, it’s not a test rollout, it’s not meant for Windows Insiders only, it’s the real deal. Microsoft has just announced the start of the rollout of Windows 10 Mobile to older smartphones that are currently on Windows Phone 8.1. Needless to say, this has been many months in the making, and from this point on updates should be hitting phones left and right.

The update is headed to these smartphones, though each one may get it on a different date (and where Microsoft/Nokia isn’t the…

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The Microsoft Lumia 550 has received a price cut in the United States, where it is now being sold for as low as $119.95. Electronics retailer B&H photo is selling the Windows 10 device at that price.

What’s worth mentioning here is that the $120 price is only for the white-colored variant of the handset – the black version is listed on B&H Photo’s website for $129.95, which is still $9 less than the device’s usual price.

A quick look at Microsoft’s US online store reveals that the Redmond, Washington-based company is also selling the device for $139. As for B&H’s promo, the retailer…

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Waiting for the US CDMA version of the Nextbit Robin “cloud phone?” Well, there is some bad news: the variant has been cancelled. This means that those hoping to use the Robin on Verizon or Sprint’s network are now out of luck.

“We are unable to ship a CDMA version,” said Nextbit’s CEO Tom Moss in a post on the San Francisco-based company’s official website. He also explained in detail the reason behind the decision. Here is what he said:

As you can imagine, we were in a rush. The Kickstarter campaign is only 30 days long, and it wasn’t until the second week of the campaign that we…

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Remember the Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016)? If you can’t put a face to that name, maybe these cache of images will help. They appear to be official images for the China Mobile version of the phone.

Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) in Gold
These images give us a great close-up of the corners of the J5, which are very similar to those of the more premium Galaxy A (2016) lineup. A leaked manual already pointed to a metal frame, but here’s more proof if you needed it.

A notch on the back cover (visible in the side shot) suggests the back will be removable. It also has a slight brushed metal…

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You’ve seen Apple’s upcoming 4″ iPhone labeled as either 5se or just “SE,” but an alleged photo of its retail box suggests the Apple-preferred name is “iPhone SE” (yes, with capital letters, despite going lower case with the iPhone 5s).

The box is also marked 16GB, suggesting that this remains the base storage option. Better than the 8GB iPhone 5c, we guess, and supposedly there will be a 64GB option (again, no 32GB middle ground).

The other kind of memory, RAM, will likely go back to 1GB after growing to 2GB with the 6s generation. The iPhone SE will still use the Apple A9 chipset,…

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WhatsApp has always tried to stay ahead of the curve in a lot of ways, but, with an impressively busy beta release schedule, it is often hard to keep track of every novelty and how it found its place inside the app. The following batch of features can be found in version 2.12.535 of the app and appear to be new.

WhatsApp now supports a bit of text formatting. Just like in Google+, if you surround something with asterisks, it becomes bold and using underscores, produces italics. Sadly, that’s about it and even dashes don’t produce the expected strike-through effect. However, it…

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Yesterday a set of leaked photos surfaced online and they claimed to show the upcoming iPhone 7 and its new antenna design. Today, in an odd twist of events, Li Nan, Vice President of Chinese manufacturer Meizu, made a clarification that the device featured in yesterday’s close-up shot is actually the Meizu Pro 6.

The latter, of course, is yet to be unveiled, but in order to back his statement up, Li Nan provided a photo of the back of the device with a visible Meizu logo. We are not quite sure what to call the shot in question, as it is not exactly leaked, considering its…

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Yesterday a set of leaked photos surfaced online and they claimed to show the upcoming iPhone 7 and its new antenna design. Today, in an odd twist of events, Li Nan, Vice President of Chinese manufacturer Meizu, made a clarification that the device featured in yesterday’s close-up shot is actually the Meizu Pro 6.

The latter, of course, is yet to be unveiled, but in order to back his statement up, Li Nan provided a photo of the back of the device with a visible Meizu logo. We are not quite sure what to call the shot in question, as it is not exactly leaked, considering its…

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