Alternative Android OS developer Cyanogen has released the CyanogenMod 13 nightlies for the Samsung Galaxy Note II and the Galaxy Note 10.1. The builds brings Android 6.0 Marshmallow to these four-year-old devices.

An important thing worth mentioning here is that the CM-13 builds are only available for the Verizon version of the Galaxy Note 10.1, and the GSM-LTE, Sprint, as well as Verizon variants of the Galaxy Note II.

While most of you might already know, it’s still worth stressing that nightlies aren’t usually stable – you may encounter bugs. Also, installing them can not only…

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Huawei’s upcoming Honor V8 smartphone – which has already been certified by Chinese telecommunication authority TENAA, and is set for a May 10 unveiling – has now leaked in a couple of live images.

The first image (shown below) focuses on the device’s dual rear-camera setup.

The second image, on the other hand, gives a complete view of the device’s back.

The device’s dual rear camera is also said to support dynamic 360-degree photos. Here’s a sample:

As for the specs, the handset’s TENAA listing revealed two Honor V8 variants, differing in processor, display, and…

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According to a new rumor, the successor to the last year’s Microsoft Surface Book will be launched in June. Incidentally, it is the same month in which Apple could also announce the MacBook Pro 2016.

Microsoft Surface Book

As for specs, the Surface Book 2 is said to sport a 4K display, up from the 3000×2000 pixel resolution its predecessor features. In addition, the device will also feature a USB-C port.

The new Surface Book is also rumored to come with Intel’s next-gen ‘Kaby Lake’ line of processors, although some reports say that the chipset line-up won’t hit the market until…

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The Samsung SM-A430U – which is alleged to be the Galaxy A4, and was first spotted on India’s import/export tracking website Zauba last week – will have a 5.5-inch screen. This was revealed by a new listing on the website.

Sadly, nothing else was revealed by this new listing, except of course the price tag. However, as you might already know, the pricing information revealed by Zauba listings aren’t usually correct, although it may give a broader idea about the segment in which the device in question falls.

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These are some of the best apps and games that came out this week.

Quik

Quik is a video editing app by GoPro. The app lets you combine photos and video clips, add transitions, effects, filters, and text and create videos out of them. Quik does not require a GoPro and can work with any photos and videos on your phone.

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Annotable

Annotable is an excellent annotation app for iOS that should fill the gap left by the demise of Skitch. Annotable does everything Skitch did, and in almost the same way, and also a few things extra. This includes the…

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HTC desperately needs its new flagship to work if it’s to overcome its financial difficulties and according to your feedback the 10 might be just what the doctor ordered. After the review went live 68% of you said they’d be willing to get the HTC 10, which bodes well for its market prospects.

The approval rating has dropped a bit since the announcement – back when it launched 84% of you said that the HTC 10 is a hot piece of hardware. Still a two-out-of-three approval rating is excellent and certainly better than what most other flagships get in these polls.

Hopefully, HTC will…

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It certainly wasn’t the most eventful of weeks, but we still saw an announcement from a major manufacturer and a bunch of interesting rumors. A few nicely made promo videos also made it to the list of our most popular articles.

Understandably, the HTC Desire 830 announcement captured the spotlight – the new mid-range leader of the Taiwanese company was the only actual hardware we got this week. Meanwhile the Sony Xperia X Performance got its EU launch detailed with pricing and July launch confirmed.

The OnePlus 3 specs got detailed, while a glimmer of hope appeared that the next…

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NVIDIA has taken the wraps off its next generation flagship graphics cards, the GTX 1080 and the cheaper GTX 1070.

The main attraction here is that both the cards are based on NVIDIA’s new Pascal architecture and manufactured using 16nm FinFET process, which makes it more efficient, 3x compared to the previous Maxwell architecture, and also smaller, while packing in 7.2 billion transistors.

The GTX 1080 comes with 2560 CUDA cores, up from 2048 on the 980. It is clocked at 1607MHz, with a boost clock of 1733MHz. The card is also overclockable with the new GPU Boost 3.0.

One of…

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The Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 retained its lead as the most popular phone in our database for a second week in a row. The Chinese phablet is clearly on the short list of a lot of people currently, which helped it keep above the Galaxy J7 once more.

The Galaxy J5 and Galaxy J3 (2016) have traded places, but are still here to make it 3 Galaxy J phone in the top 4 of the chart.

The fastest climber is Lenovo K4 Note, which has moved from 8th to 6th place and has managed to split the Galaxy S7 duo.

The best spec’d Galaxy J member – the J7(2016) has slipped a position to 8th, while the…

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Yesterday Verizon started selling the Samsung Galaxy J3 (2016). And today Big Red’s largest competitor has done the exact same thing, right on the schedule it announced back in April.

The phone manages to be $1.99 more expensive if bought from AT&T than if you’d grab one from Verizon, when comparing its full retail price at both carriers. That’s $169.99 if you choose AT&T, and $168 at Big Red. However, Verizon is offering it with a prepaid plan for just $109.99, while AT&T is giving you the device installment plan option to use alongside a service agreement.

If you go this route,…

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