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Microsoft recently dropped the Nokia and Lumia brands for its mobile devices and has begun creating its own smartphones under the Microsoft brand. The first device the company has planned, the RM-1090, has leaked, showing off a Lumia-like design. The new dual-sim handset has arrived at the FCC as well …

Nokia Corp. said late last week that it will make an important announcement about its future on the 17th of November, 2014. The statement re-launched a series of rumours and speculations that the company plans to re-enter the market of smartphones with a device powered by Google Android operating system. …

The Apple Watch will be arriving a bit later than expected, the wearable was originally expected during the first quarter of 2015, possibly even as early as January but it looks like the product launch has slipped a bit. According to a leaked message to Apple Store retail employees, the …

A new UK law could help end mobile black spots as a new legislation is currently being considered that would require network providers to introduce “roaming”, allowing users to switch networks when they have no signal from their normal provider. Sajid Javid, the Culture Secretary, is the one behind the …

While the world will need to wait a while for the actual review, it's fair to say that we have had hands-on with the latest gaming laptop from MSI. At the Beat It 2014 gaming event in Taipei, we managed to convince the guards to remove the protective perspex just …

Apple made it clear that its forthcoming Watch family of timepieces will address various market segments at completely different price-points. What the company did not reveal was how it planned to address the market of fine and expensive watches with an electronic device that typically gets outdated every year. Apparently, …

Gaming laptops are big business to consumers who want to play their titles at more than one specific location. You get the (relative) portability of a laptop and the computing power sufficient to play modern games at high resolutions. They're also a chance for competing companies to show off their …

Notebooks with huge displays designed for gamers and professionals have always been somewhat controversial: while they did provide desktop-class performance, they never offered comfort of desktop PCs and were not truly mobile or upgradeable. As a result, in the recent years the popularity of such PCs significantly decreased. Nonetheless, there …

Even though some of Intel’s confidential roadmaps show that the world’s largest manufacturer of microprocessor plans to start shipments of select central processing units based on the code-named “Skylake” micro-architecture as early as in the second quarter of 2015, a new market rumour indicates that Intel plans to postpone introduction …

Samsung has been a leader in the Android smartphone market for a few years now and today it has announced its “slimmest smartphones to date”, the Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A3. Both devices do away with the traditional plastic build that Samsung is known for, they also come in at …

As MSI prepares to launch a brand new, top of the range gaming laptop, KitGuru took the opportunity to spend time with Alex Lin, the Product Manager for notebooks. We were interested to know what kind of challenges he and his team face when trying to bring a new product …

Smartphones are expensive pieces of kit and to some extent, they should be, they're as powerful as laptops were just a few years ago and yet they fit in your pocket. However, because of that expense, buying them through a contract is often the most affordable way for people to …

If you were planning to pre-order the Nexus 6 from the Google Play store then you'll be left waiting a while as the Motorola made handset sold out in just a handful of minutes last night. Pre-orders for Google's latest flagship went up for the US yesterday and things didn't …

Yesterday Google promised that it would reveal major advancements and changes to the Project Ara modular smartphone project and now we actually have our first look at a working prototype. The video was uploaded to the Phonebloks YouTube channel, in the video you can see the phone running stock Android …

Apple continues to be extremely tight-lipped about its upcoming Watch timepiece, even though the product has been formally introduced and is about three months away from mass availability. Fortunately, the company lets at least some details out. One of the key concerns about wearable electronics in general is battery life. Since …

Leading up to the launch of the iPhone 5c, rumors were circulating that this would be Apple's first cheap alternative to the flagship iPhone. However, the plastic backed device turned out to still be fairly expensive and as a result, it didn't sell very well at all, at least at first. Now …

Project Ara, the modular smartphone, has been an exciting development and according to Google, we can expect to see some major changes and advancements in January. We already know that the base model/skeleton will be fairly cheap, with Google reportedly aiming for a $50 price tag. We also know that …

Although Google’s Chrome OS continues to command a small fraction of the world’s PC market, it still attracts a lot of attention from PC makers who hope to improve their sales with the help of non-Windows-based personal computers. At present Chromebooks – notebooks that run Chrome OS – are offered …

Last month, Apple quietly killed off the iPod Classic, 13 years after the product was initially revealed by Steve Jobs. Now, Apple CEO Tim Cook has finally explained why the iconic MP3 player is no longer available- to put it simply, Apple just couldn't source the parts to keep putting …

Modern gaming laptops can be equipped with very powerful central processing units and graphics processing units. While such notebooks can offer performance on par with leading-edge desktops, they still feature one of the main drawbacks of mobile PCs: they cannot be easily upgraded. Alienware, a boutique PC maker, this week …

Earlier this year Nike disbanded development team that created Nike+ FuelBand smart-band, which naturally caused questions whether the company plans to continue development of wearable computing devices. Officially, the company remains quiet about its plans for the future, but its chief executive officer implied that Nike could team up with …

Earlier this year, Apple acquired Beats Electronics for $3 billion and ever since then, onlookers have been left to wonder what Apple's plans for the company are. However, it looks like the company may finally put its acquisition to use by merging the Beats Music streaming service with iTunes. It …

Google's new flagship smartphone, the Nexus 6, may start shipping soon as the device has finally arrived at the FCC for certification testing. The new device is built by Motorola and will be the first phone on the market to use Android Lollipop. The FCC document confirms that the Nexus …

Sales of Microsoft Corp.’s Lumia smartphones in the first quarter of fiscal 2015 (ended on the 30th of September, 2014) set up a new all-time record for the brand. Unfortunately, shipments of Windows Phone-based Lumia are still well below not only direct rivals, but Nokia’s own smartphones several years ago. …

Google plans to build a special online store that will sell components for modular smartphones that belong to the Project Ara initiative. The intention means that Google will certify modules for smartphones and ensure their quality, which is a rather hard task. Besides, small-volume manufacturing of custom modules will mean …

Microsoft Corp. on Friday published the first images of Lumia smartphones that lack Nokia brand. As it appears, the future handsets from the world’s largest software developer will carry Microsoft trademark. The company also said Friday that the first Microsoft Lumia smartphones will be released shortly. Microsoft does not plan …

Sony Corp. is expected to stop making entry-level and mid-range smartphones in the future, a news-agency reported on Thursday. The company is projected to cut its annual sales target for smartphones for the second time this year. Originally Sony planned to sell 50 million smartphones this fiscal year (which ends …

Asustek Computer has quietly begun to sell the world’s lightest tablet that runs Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 8.1 operating system. Asus VivoTab 8, which weighs only 330 grams, is now available in Japan, but shortly it will make to other markets as well. Surprisingly, the slate is not very expensive. Asus …

A British auction house has managed to sell a rare Apple I computer for $905,000, almost double the $500,000 it was expected to go for. The winning bid came from the Henry Ford Museum, which said that it will put the 1970s era machine on display for the public. Museum …

Microsoft's big purchase of Nokia officially went through a few months ago and since then it's continued to release phones under the brand, but perhaps not for much longer. The rumour is, that within a few days time, the Nokia name will be dropped in its entirety, with the new …