Lenovo CEO promises “innovative,” “attractive” Moto phone for July

Earlier this month, in the middle of CES, panic swept over long-time Motorola phone fans: was Lenovo killing off the Motorola brand as we knew it? Calmer minds quickly prevailed, and the shape of story subtly shifted: sure, we wouldn’t be seeing “Motorola” splashed prominently across future handsets, but we hadn’t been for some time anyway, and the retention of the “Moto” brand, even if in the form of “Moto by Lenovo” would help upcoming models keep some connection to the past. Still, there’s ...

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Amazon India teases Moto X Force

Life in India is tough. It’s hot, it can get cramped and the days are longer are harsher for more people than in most other parts of the world. And everyone’s getting online with a smartphone. What would it be like if people didn’t have to worry about having their phones smashed to bits? We may find out soon enough as Amazon.in has a splash page up telling how the Moto X Force is “Coming Soon” with the “World’s first shatterproof display.” That’s all we know. Users ...

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PlayStation sells well (again), but mobile is hurting Sony

Sony made money. Again! The company saw in tiny increase (0.5%) in sales compared to the same quarter last to 2,581 billion yen (or $21.5 billion), but income now stands at $1.69 billion. This quarter's financial results was yet more balancing (and canceling) out of Sony's many moving parts -- profitable and not. Gaming and Motion Picture arms saw increases in sales, but these were cancelled out by woes in Mobile and Devices arms. Once a positive part of the company's earnings ...

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AT&T-bound Samsung Galaxy S7 model now benchmarked with Snapdragon 820

With less than a month to go until the presumed announcement of the Galaxy S7, Samsung’s pre-release testing of multiple “next big thing” configurations has to be in full swing. That’s corroborated by several visitspaid to several benchmarking authorities in recent weeks, the latest of which sees the SM-G930A model rated for single and multi-core speed in Geekbench. This is without a doubt the standard, flat Samsung Galaxy S7 designed specifically for AT&T use stateside, ...

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Latest LG G5 rumors return to idea of Magic Slot accessory expansion

If you’ve been keeping an ear to the LG G5 rumors stemming back the past several weeks, it’s easy to come away with the impression that the phone we’re about to see launch is one that may be the G5 in name only, taking some big steps away from the sort of hardware we became familiar with in phones like the G3 and G4. Big changes may include abandoning the classic rear volume controls, to say nothing of the unusual slide-out battery design that’s been teased. One of the more unusual rumors ...

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Apple may finally be ready to go dual-camera with the iPhone 7 Plus

There’s a big temptation in mobile tech for manufacturers to be among the first to identify the next hot technology and give it to their users before the competition’s got time to catch up. Recently we’ve seen features like fingerprint scanners placed front and center, a great example of tech that’s been around for a while, but has only recently matured to the point where it works as well as it needs to – and shoppers are asking for it. Phones that employ multiple camera sensors have similarly ...

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Facebook's growth is apparently unstoppable

Facebook continues its upward trajectory with a very successful fourth quarter last year. Today, the social network reported that it had a revenue of $5.84 billion and had about 1.59 billion monthly active users in last quarter alone. This is a decent increase over the previous quarter, where it had 1.55 billion users, and an impressive 14 percent increase over this time last year. And that $5.84 billion? It's a whopping 52 percent increase year-over-year. Taken as a whole, that ...

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Oscar Nominations 2016

The nominees for the 88th annual Academy Awards are finally here, signaling the height of awards season. Now that the Golden Globes have surprised and confused us, here's a glimpse of who will take home Hollywood's biggest prize on February 28th. It was a big year for aesthetically sophisticated action movies. Alejandro González Iñárritu's gory fur trapper tale The Revenant, which won Best Picture at the Globes, pulled together 12 nominations — the most of any film. George ...

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Get ready for Android app promo codes

Have you ever seen an Android developer give out promo codes before? Most likely not, because Google has only just added the feature. A poster on Android Forums has spotted a page on Google's Developer Console with instructions on how devs can create codes and how they can get their apps ready to use them. Based on the details written on that page, the codes can be used to purchase apps and pay for in-app goodies, but not for in-app subscriptions. Also, developers ...

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These were some of 2015's best selling games

Major franchises like 'Call of Duty,' 'Grand Theft Auto' and 'Madden' sold the most last year. What games sold the most copies in 2015? Exactly the titles you'd expect: the latest entries in long-running franchises like Call of Duty: Black Ops III,Madden NFL 16 and Fallout 4. It's not surprising -- sequels have the springboard advantage of an existing fanbase -- but disappointing: not a single new IP shows up on the NPD's top 10 best selling games list for last ...

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LeTV looking to Le Future in India on January 20

LeTV has been driving high-gear growth of its mobile phones over the past year across Asia and has just made landfall in the US. Qualcomm essentially boasted on behalf of the Chinese manufacturer that the Le Max Pro would be the first to run the Snapdragon 820 chipset. We didn’t get to test final products at CES, but LeTV is ready for some more promotion runs in India. The LeTV event in Delhi that happened on January 5, as far as we can gather, only featured the ...

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