Here are T-Mobile's Valentine's Day deals - free line of service and deals on accessories

Valentine's Day is next week and T-Mobile is offering a bunch of pretty good deals for you and your significant other or anyone else for that matter. Or you can sell the extra line to a friend and make a few bucks a month. Anyway, T-Mobile is already offering its BOGO for up to 12 of its available smartphones (including the Galaxy S8, LG V30, V30+, and LG G6 with up to $700-off on the second one (or $750 off when you get a Note8, S8+ or S8 Active) the second one via mail-in rebate when one of the new lines was switched from another carrier. This offer can be combined with any of the new...

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Alleged specs of the Snapdragon 670 leak online

Now that we've heard the announcement of the Snapdragon 845 from Qualcomm back in December, we turn our attention to the headlining model of Qualcomm's 600-series chips: the Snapdragon 670. This chip is supposed to succeed the popular Snapdragon 660 CPU and its alleged specs have leaked as WinFuture reports. According to reports, the Snapdragon 670 will be built on the 10nm process, putting it on the same hardware level as the much more efficient higher-end CPUs like the Snapdragon 835 or the Exynos 8895. The SD 670 will have a modified Cortex A55 cluster with six high-efficiency cores...

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Asus Zenfone 5 Lite render leaks with quad-cameras and an 18:9 1080p+ display

There is a lot of smartphone news lined up for Barcelona later this month at the MWC. The latest leak comes from @evleaks and shows a render of the unannounced Asus Zenfone 5 Lite. We are expecting the Asus Zenfone 5 to be the headliner at Asus' press event but a Lite version might be debuting alongside the Zenfone 5. The render shows a smartphone with four cameras. According to Evan Blass, the phone has Dual 16MP main cameras and dual front-facing 20MP cameras for selfies and portrait camera features like (presumably) beauty mode and artificial bokeh. Asus Zenfone 5 Lite - quad cam...

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Best phone cameras for selfie videos

You can imagine we have a ton of phones lying around at the office. You'd think then it would be easy enough to pick up just the right one for any given task at any given time. Ah, but selfie videos? Has anybody looked into which phone is the best for vlogging? We are not quite sure, but we're sure it's not us. Well, about time we fix this.

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Sharp Aquos S3 stars in hands-on photo shoot, shows off its iPhone X-like notch

Sharp's upcoming Aquos S3 smartphone has been doing the rounds in the rumorverse since the beginning of this year, getting certified for sale both by China's TENAA and Taiwan's NCC. Those outings have revealed a few pictures of the handset, but if you want more a source over in China delivers today. This is our first look at hands-on images of the Aquos S3, caught somewhere in the wild with its iPhone X-inspired screen notch and dual rear camera positioning and vertical alignment. Unlike Apple's darling, this model goes with a fingerprint scanner on the back as you can see, since the...

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Qualcomm denies second Broadcom bid

Qualcomm isn't shy of action - it is entangled in lawsuits, signs partnerships and memorandums with smartphone manufacturers and at the same time is being pursued by Broadcom with an aggressive takeover bid. Last week's offer of $82 per share, $121 billion in total was declined today in a statement on the chipset company's website. The Board of Directors believes the second offer is not enough and suggests a meeting with Broadcom "to see if it can address the serious deficiencies in value and certainty in its proposal". The letter also puts two questions on the table - what is the...

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EMUI 8.0 with Android Oreo now rolling out to the Honor 8 Pro in India

Huawei has started rolling out the EMUI 8.0 update for the Honor 8 Pro. The update started rolling out first in UK last week but is now rolling out in India as well. The update is 2.81GB in size and brings with it a bunch of changes, most importantly the jump to Android 8.0 Oreo. Apart from that there are also visual changes to EMUI, a new navigation dock, app shortcuts, smart tips, PrivateSpace for private files and folders, AI-based optimizations to performance, 3D panorama mode, Vodafone VoLTE support, and more. Also included is the January security patch. The update is now...

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LG V30s with 256GB storage to show up at MWC

We heard that LG will bring an upgraded V30 to the MWC, though company officials refuted that this is in lieu of a G7. Anyway, ETNews reports that the upgraded model will be called LG V30s and will focus on AI and something called LG Lens. The V30s model will have 256GB of built in storage, double what the LG V30+ offers and four times the 64GB of the base model. As for LG Lens, it's the company's vision-based assistant. You can snap a photo and the AI will recognize the object and seek out prices. Lens can translate text (like QuickTranslator)as well as give you location-based...

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Xiaomi Mi 7 specs leak, to come with 8GB RAM

Xiaomi said back in December that the Mi 7 will arrive at MWC 2018 with a Snapdragon 845, but according to some rumors, the company is postponing the announcement and bringing the Mi Mix 2s instead. Still, a leaked screenshot of the Mi 7, said to debut in April, suggests 8 GB RAM and 4,480 mAh battery, a massive upgrade over the Mi 6's 4/6 GB RAM and 3,350 mAh power cell. Other specs reveal the already known Snapdragon 845, a dual camera setup (16 MP + 16 MP) and 5.6" tall screen with FullHD+ resolution. The storage is listed as 128 GB. The screenshot says that the user interface...

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Meizu E3 coming March 6, press invites reveal

Meizu has started sharing invites for a March 6 launch event. A couple of invitations have to come light, revealing the names E3 G and E3 P. This indicates there could be two variants of the handset. It's being speculated that G and P signify the models will be aimed at gaming and photography, respectively, although the possibility of a single phone having both these selling points can't be denied as well. The device leaked in live images recently, revealing things like a side-mounted fingerprint scanner, a dual rear camera setup in a vertical orientation, and a screen with...

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