vivo launched a pair of new devices in Mumbai, India today, adding to its new budget-friendly “V” line of handsets. The V3 and V3Max flaunt metal bodies – slimmer and sturdier than their siblings and both come with a big focus on improved performance.

The smaller (143.6x71x7.5mm) vivo V3 is equipped with a 5-inch, 720p display and powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 616 SoC with 3GB of RAM. It has 32GB of expandable storage and a 2,550 mAh battery.

The V3Max stands at 153.9×77.1×7.58mm, bumps up the display to a 5.5-inch, FullHD one and comes with a 2.5D glass on top. The…

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The rollout of the Oppo F1 Plus has started and the phone is now available in select markets. In Europe, the phone will be on sale online starting May with a price of £299 in the UK and €389 elsewhere.

In India the phone will retail for INR 26990 ($400). The phone will carry a similar price tag in Southeast Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, but exact numbers are yet to be confirmed.

As Oppo clarified last week, the F1 Plus is nothing more than the international version of the Oppo R9. As such, the F1 Plus rocks a 5.5″ 1080p AMOLED screen and has an octa-core MediaTek…

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It’s been 9 months or so now since Apple Pay first launched in the United Kingdom and Barclays is clearly a little tardy to the show. The major bank’s absence from the original list of adopters, like HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Santander, as well as the following second wave came as an unpleasant surprise for the customers hoping to take advantage of it.

Better late than never and today the bank’s customers were happy to discover that they can add their cards to the payment gateway. Barclays customers can finally enjoy Apple Pay, which despite its slow and controversial…

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ZTE’s sub-brand Nubia has announced a press event for April 19, to be held in Beijing. The tagline reads something along the lines of “Small world – big wonders”, Google Translate tells us, but that’s all the poster reveals.

Nubia April 19 event poster (click for full size)

Logic would dictate, however, that a new flagship is to be unveiled, the Nubia Z11, and a Z11 mini alongside it. The Nubia Z9 was announced last year in May, so an announcement a month ahead of schedule isn’t out of the question. Not to mention that the Z11 mini (or what looks like it) was already certified…

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It’s been 9 months or so now since Apple Pay first launched in the United Kingdom and Barclays is clearly a little tardy to the show. The major bank’s absence from the original list of adopters, like HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Santander, as well as the following second wave came as an unpleasant surprise for the customers hoping to take advantage of it.

Better late than never and today the bank’s customers were happy to discover that they can add their cards to the payment gateway. Barclays customers can finally enjoy Apple Pay, which despite its slow and controversial…

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Google has updated the look of all its Google Play series of apps.

Starting today you will start seeing the new icons everywhere. This includes the Play Store, Play Movies & TV, Play Music, Play Games, Play Books, and Play Newsstand icons.

The new icons try to combine the skeuomorphic nature of the previous icons within the Play symbol. The Play Store and Google Play icons are mostly the same but with much brighter colors.

As of now none of these are live online or on the store but should be soon in the coming weeks.

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Panasonic has launched a new compact mirrorless interchangeable lens camera, the LUMIX DMC-GX85.

The GX85 has a 16 megapixel Digital Live MOS sensor without a low pass filter, which improves the detail by 10% over Panasonic’s previous 16 megapixel sensors. The camera also includes in-body 5-axis image stabilization. The shutter mechanism employs a new electromagnetic drive to reduce the shutter shock and sound. The contrast based AF system works with Panasonic’s Depth from Defocus to get autofocus time as low as 0.07 seconds.

The GX85 can also record 4K (UHD) video at 30 or…

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Huawei’s P9 will finally be made official at an event on April 6, which is this Wednesday. The grand unveiling follows leaks upon leaks that we’ve seen of the device over the past few weeks. In fact, its back side got portrayed in all its glory mere hours ago, complete with Leica branding for the camera and new Huawei text-only logo on the lower side.

And now we’ve got a leaked list of specs for the P9, probably the last one before it gets official. It comes courtesy of a benchmark run, though it’s not AnTuTu this time (like last month), but GFXBench.

Interestingly, the specs revealed…

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Love watching torture-test videos of the newest smartphones? Then you’ll definitely enjoy this one. Coming just a few days after the first such video for the iPhone SE is a new one, with a slightly different focus. While last week we’ve shown you how Apple’s latest 4-inch device has managed to withstand scratching, burning, and bending, this time around it faces an almost entirely new set of challenges.

The common thing between the two videos is the bend test, though today’s showing is a lot more scientific. We don’t just get a ‘pass’ or ‘fail’ evaluation, but we find out that the iPhone…

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Earlier today we found out that the upcoming Meizu m3 note is going to cost CNY 1,099 ($169 or €148 at the current exchange rates), and now it’s time for another bit of news regarding a Meizu smartphone.

This one is called the MX5E, and it’s actually a new variation of the MX5 that has been released last year. It’s slightly lower-end and also cheaper by a little, in fact.

Meizu has launched the MX5E in China without an official announcement or anything of the sort. It can be found in stores starting at CNY 1,399, which is about $215 or €189. Apparently that’s CNY 100 ($15, €13)…

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