The upcoming fourth generation of Motorola’s Moto G smartphone has been leaking a lot lately, which could mean it’s getting ever closer to being officially introduced. It turns out that may actually be the case. At the launch of the ZUK Z2 Pro today, Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing said Motorola will be outing a new and exciting device on June 9. Unfortunately he didn’t go into more detail, but given the increasing number of leaks about the Moto G4, we assume it can only be this model that will be announced. That said, do keep in mind that we might see two G-branded models this year – a…

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Amazon is upgrading its most basic Kindle Fire tablet today, if ever so slightly. The 7-inch device now gets three additional color versions you can pick from when buying one. Aside from the existing black model, it’s now also being offered in blue, magenta, and tangerine hues. What’s more, a new iteration with 16GB of built-in storage has been revealed. The 8GB model will stay on sale for $49.99, while the new SKU with double the storage is priced at $69.99. Everything else about the tablet has remained the same. This is still one of the cheapest slates out there, but do keep in…

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So far, the LG V10 has received its update to Android 6.0 Marshmallow internationally, but also for units sold by both Verizon and T-Mobile. And now it’s finally time for those V10 handsets sold by AT&T to taste the latest version of Android too. According to a report, the rollout of the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update for AT&T’s V10 has already commenced. As this is a staged over-the-air outing, it may be a few days before every AT&T V10 out there receives that coveted update notification. If you’re impatient, you can of course manually check for the update by going to the About phone area…

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Gamers haven’t been forgotten at Acer’s event today. Specially for them, the Taiwanese company unveiled two new computers. First off, the Predator 17X laptop, one that can be used with both the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive VR headsets. It comes with a 17.3-inch screen that can go up to 4K resolution. If you go nuts with the configuration options, you can also choose an Intel Core i7-6820HK processor, 64GB of DDR4 RAM, and three SSDs in RAID 0. You get customizable RGB lighting for the keyboard, and the device has the full Nvidia GTX 980 graphics card, and not the 980M as you’d expect to…

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New Windows-powered 2-in-1s and laptops aren’t everything that Acer has announced at its event today. Also present was the new Acer Chromebook 14 for Work, a device which the Taiwanese company claims is the fastest Chromebook on the market. That’s seriously doubtful given the specs of Google’s newest Chromebook Pixel, but Acer seems to believe in what it says. The odd thing is that the company hasn’t actually revealed the detailed spec list for the new Chromebook, so we can’t really assess these claims. All Acer’s willing to disclose about the Chromebook 14 for Work is that it…

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At its grand event today, Acer has announced the Aspire S 13, a new laptop that wants to compete with the 13-inch Apple MacBook Air, but also Dell’s XPS 13. And it wants to do all that while being significantly cheaper than its competitors. The Aspire S 13 will have a 13.3-inch Full HD IPS display, which can optionally be touch-enabled. You can configure it with up to 8GB of RAM as well as up to a 512GB SSD, and an optional battery will make it allegedly last a whopping 13 hours on a charge (the default power pack only nets you 9 hours of usage). Powering the thing are Intel’s 6th…

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Acer is holding a pretty big event today, and one of the things it’s announced is the Switch Alpha 12, a “detachable PC” as the Taiwanese company calls it. It’s a 2-in-1 device that can be used either as a tablet or as a laptop, and it runs Windows 10 as you’d expect. The Switch Alpha 12 has a 12-inch 2,160×1,440 touchscreen, and it’s powered by 6th generation Intel Core processors (a choice of i3, i5, or i7). You can configure it with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, as well as Intel’s RealSense 3D camera. The device is fanless despite using proper i-series chips from Intel, and…

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Acer held a press event today in New York and announced a couple of laptops and a smartphone – the Acer Liquid Zest Plus. Acer shared some of the key specs of the Liquid Zest Plus on stage – a 5.5″ HD display, a 13MP camera with something they call tri-focus, and a massive 5,000 mAh battery capable of quick charging. Tri-focus means the snapper relies on all types of AF used today – laser, contrast and phase detection. We managed to find some more specs of the device – it runs on MediaTek’s MT6735 chip with a quad-core 1.3GHz Cortex-A53, Mali-T720 GPU and 2GB of RAM. There is 16GB…

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Android N is yet to be officially named later this year, but it was already detailed last month. It offers multi-window (split-screen) multitasking, improved Doze mode, better notification handling among others. The Android N Developer Preview was seeded to Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Nexus Player, and Pixel C in early March. The Preview even saw its first firmware update in mid-March. Surprisingly, Sony made the Android N Preview available to the Xperia Z3 model earlier today. If you own the D6603 or D6653 flavors of the Xperia Z3, then you can easily install and run Android…

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JerryRigEverything has come up with somewhat a standardized durability test for smartphones and he does it quite often. He first tests the scratch endurance of the shell, then the flame resistance of the screen, and finally – the bend test. Xiaomi Mi 5 uses two Gorilla Glass 4 pieces on its front and rear side and their scratch resistance is on par with the rest if the flagship crop. Its camera is protected by a sapphire piece, which is resistant to scratches, too. The aluminum is rather easy to scratch – that’s for sure. But as it turns out the Mi 5 lacks a secondary metal chassis to…

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