Queue-jumping Oneplus has a British face-palm
What do you mean you expect supply and demand?
Great things were expected when OnePlus 3 announced that it was finally doing away with invitations and abandoning its queuing system. But it turns out that it might have been better for the British to queue.
Huawai building daydream phone
Dream catcher
Huawei has signed up to be one of the first phone makers to build a handset that works with Google’s new VR platform – daydream.
EU hits Google with Android monopoly charges
Do not pass go, to not collect $200
As we expected the EU has finally waded into Google for “abusing” its dominant position in the smartphone market by forcing device makers to adopt certain apps.
Microsoft Surface phone rumours
Arriving by the end of the year
Details of Microsoft's coming Surface phone have started appearing on online and we did a quick shifty amongst them to find out what was the most likely.
Cheap Indian phone might be a Ponzi scheme
There is such a thing as too cheap
An Indian politician has labelled the ‘Freedom 251’ mobile phone which is selling for a $3.60 dollars a Ponzi scam.
Oppo sold 50 million phones last year
Makes it the eighth largest
While lacking the fanfare in the west that its rivals get, the Chinese smartphone maker Oppo has just announced that it sold 50 million smartphones last year.
Charge your phone with your morning coffee
A teenager’s invention
A 18 year-old has come up with the perfect method of charging your phone – using your morning coffee.
Lenovo gets into OEM handset business
Increasing capacity
Lenovo is ramping up the capacity rates of its handset production facilities by stepping into the OEM handset business.
Gigaset First Android Phones With Up To 5GB RAM
Europe's household name now carries smartphones as well.
Multitasking Android beast incoming from Munich. Formerly controlled by the European darling Siemens, Gigaset venturing into high end cellphones under the new Chinese owners.
Samsung wants a bendy flip phone
Copying Apple twice over
Apple might have invented a phone which bends, but Samsung wants to go one better.