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UMi has unveiled its latest smartphone, the UMi Plus E, which features a 5.5-inch FHD screen and will be one of the first available smartphones with Mediatek's Helio P20 octa-core chipset.

Development abandoned

It has been rumored that Dell is working on a PC class x86 Windows smartphone, but it looks like a picture has finally tipped up, just as the project was abandoned.

5.9-incher with Kirin 960 SoC

Huawei has announced its newest flagship Mate 9 5.9-inch phablet which will be powered by Huawei's newest Kirin 960 SoC.

Midrange is a black hole of depression

Sony Mobile has lowered the target of its smartphone shipments for fiscal 2016,to 17 million units from its previous forecast of 19 million units in July.

A 6.4-inch high-end surprise

After officially launching the Mi Note 2 smartphone, Xiaomi has made a big surprise by announcing a new 6.4-inch ceramic-based Mi MIX smartphone designed in cooperation with French designer.

IDC confirms what we have been saying for years

The Tame Apple Press’s efforts at plugging the iWatch for a couple of years have been next to near useless. According to the latest figures no one really wants one.

End of an error

BlackBerry has said it's getting out of the hardware business and will "outsource that function to partners."

Supplemental downlink and uplink bandwidth

LG recently said that its upcoming V20 smartphone is the world’s first “native Android 7 device,” but it appears the company may also have another first-to-market feature for the  device in terms of LTE spectrum support.

More devices

Mobile maker LG is teaming up with Amazon to churn out more intelligent home devices such as the Alexa virtual assistant on some of the electronics maker's devices.

Only been there for two years

The bloke tasked with bringing the Nokia phone division back from the dead has surprised everyone by quitting.