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  • Gionee Marathon M5 lite sales start

    Gionee Marathon M5 lite sales start

    The Gionee Marathon M5 lite, which was made official last month in China, is now available for purchase in India. As the name suggests, it is a low-end variant of the Marathon M5 smartphone which was launched in India back in November. While the selling point of the Marathon M5 was its huge 6,020mAh battery,…

  • Huawei Honor 5X coming to the US at the end of this month for $200

    Huawei Honor 5X coming to the US at the end of this month for $200

    The Huawei Mate 8 was the star of Huawei’s CES event, but the Huawei Honor 5X got an event of its own later on. It’s coming to the US at the end of this month at $200, available from Amazon, Newegg and HiHonor. “Inspired by the shape and design of the famous Guggenheim Museum Bilbao,”…

  • Oppo details upcoming camera-centric F1 smartphone

    Oppo details upcoming camera-centric F1 smartphone

    Oppo’s new F-series aim to put an emphasis on mobile imaging, as the company announced a couple of days ago. The first model in the lineup, the Oppo F1, is said to go official sometime this month, but until then, Oppo is giving us bits of the puzzle, one by one. We’ve now been told…

  • LeTV sold 4 million smartphones this year

    Chinese company LeTV has announced that total sales of its smartphones crossed the 4 million mark this year. The announcement came in the form of an official post on Weibo. It’s worth mentioning that LeTV has effectively achieved the aforementioned 4 million milestone in less than a year given that the company first entered the…

  • Report from iPhone 7 supply chain says no 3.5mm audio jack

    Report from iPhone 7 supply chain says no 3.5mm audio jack

    Prepare to kiss your tangled headphones goodbye – a report allegedly from the iPhone 7 supply chain claims that Apple is indeed dropping the analog 3.5mm audio jack. Instead, wired headphones will connect to the Lightning port and, of course, there’s the wireless Bluetooth option too. A Lightning-to-3.5mm will also exist. Apple’s motives are two-fold…

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