It’s no secret: The last few years have been rough for HTC. After paving the way for Android by making the first Android phone years ago, the Taiwanese company lost its groove. While Apple and Samsung have locked in as the premium phone makers and Chinese companies like Xiaomi and OnePlus have become go-to brands …

Move over Angry Birds, you’re not the only mobile game to transition to the silver screen. The first trailer for the live-action film adaptation of Neko Atsume was released this week ahead of the film’s late-2017 release in Japan. But what’s Neko Atsume, you ask? Neko Atsume is in many ways a distillation of the internet. The super-popular Japanese mobile …

Facebook, not content with sucking hours away from your personal life, is hoping to build an equally successful platform for the office, one to compete with Slack. Now, it’s gained a fairly significant customer in the government of Singapore, said Peter Ong, head of the Singapore civil service. The Singaporean government will move all of its public service officers, some …

Huawei, like Apple, is one of the only phone brands that makes its own processors. And its latest one, the Kirin 960, looks to be a winner. Announced at a Shanghai press conference earlier today, a phone powered by the Kirin 960 wa put to the test against an iPhone 7 and a Samsung Galaxy Note 7, Android Central reports. …

One of the Samsung Galaxy Note’s most recognisable features, besides exploding, is its S Pen accessory. The S Pen may look like an ordinary stylus, but the software on the Galaxy Note has made it into a versatile tool that boasts, on the Note 7, 4,096 different pressure sensitivities. It looks like Samsung is adding yet more functionality to the …

The tendency of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 to catch fire has led to the company’s global recall of around 2.5 million of the phones, to be replaced with new, safe units. Samsung could have another problem on its hands, though, as a Chinese man says a brand new Note 7 exploded on him, Bloomberg reported. Samsung had previously said …

Do you know what an earworm is? It’s a type of song that you become inexplicably addicted to, one that you just can’t get out of your head for days. Think Psy’s Gangnam Style. A new song from Japanese singer and comedian Piko Taro, real name Kazuhiko Kosaka, is the latest tune to worm its way into the internet’s collective …

The “it’s a dog’s life” phrase is used to describe people that lead a miserably existence. Whoever coined it, though, has never met Coco, an Alaskan malamute whose owner showered her with not one, not two but eight brand new Apple iPhone 7 devices. The owner, Wang Sicong, is the son of Wang Jianlin, China’s richest man. The elder Wang …

Google’s Pixel C tablet from last year was one of the best Android tablets ever. It looks like it could be Huawei’s job to follow those footsteps. If reputable tipster Evan Blass, aka @evleaks, is to be believed, Google’s next tablet will be made by the Chinese tech giant. Blass said the device will have a 7-inch screen and 4GB …

There’s something different about the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 that Japan got, and it’s not RAM or the processor. Unlike in the west, where the Samsung logo is prominently displayed on the phone, you will find the Japanese edition of the Galaxy Note 7 free from any such branding. And the result is quite stylish. This is not the first …