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Xiaomi is undoubtedly one of the biggest smartphone manufacturers out there. last year, the company sold over 70.8 million smartphones and it controls about 5% of the global smartphone market share. This is impressive considering that it has been around for about 6 years. Xiaomi is known for its slightly affordable devices that come with premium specs and this is what has helped it grow so fast. Xiaomi has two main smartphone lineups, the Mi series and the Redmi series. The Mi series is made of its premium devices that costs a fraction of what premium devices from other manufactures…

For the past few months, we have seen high-profile individuals get their different online accounts hacked. Google CEO Sundar Pichai had his Quora profile hacked while Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, saw his LinkedIn, Twitter, and Pinterest breached. The latest high profile individual to have his account breached in Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey. His official Twitter account was hacked briefly over the weekend. He is the CEO of Twitter and no one expected him to be hacked on his own platform. The hackers that hacked Jack Dorsey are going by the name “OurMine”. They are the same ones who hacked Mark…

Two days ago, we told you that Samsung was working on the Galaxy J2 (2016) and that the company was planning to include a smart glow notifications feature on the back camera. If you have been waiting for this smartphone, you may be happy to know that Samsung has finally unveiled this smartphone. The Galaxy J2 (2016) was unveiled today and is currently listed on Samsung’s official website in India and this means that the phone is heading to India first. This is the latest entry level smartphone from Samsung and comes with some decent specs. Starting with the display,…

Physical keyboards are not things we expect to see on smartphones these days. Even with that, BlackBerry seems to be the only company that sees the relevance of physical keyboards and will continue producing smartphones with these keyboards going forward. Even as BlackBerry plans to jump ship into Android, the company will not be ditching its signature look, the physical keyboard. Alex Thurber, Senior Vice President for BlackBerry Global Device Sales confirmed this through Twitter saying, “In response to some recent press reports, I want to be clear that BlackBerry users have nothing to fear – the keyboard is here…

At WWDC last month, Apple announced that it will release the public betas for iOS 10 and macOS Sierra later this month. For those who have been waiting for these, you will be happy to know that the public betas are finally out. Apple announced this yesterday and you are free to update your device if you want to be one of the first people to try it. iOS 10 beta is available for the iPhone and iPad but I do not recommend you download it to your primary device just yet. This is because the OS comes with a…

In march this year, Samsung officially unveiled its 2016 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S7. When unveiled, the Samsung Galaxy S7 was said to be the next generation smartphone and its reception on the market was very good. With the good reception, the Galaxy S7 was expected to do well in terms of sales. When the Galaxy S7 hit retail stores, it did not disappoint as demand was high and this pushed sales above the roof. Samsung even expected sales of the S7 to reach 25 million units by the end of June. This is a huge figure for any manufacturer…

Avast is one of the most popular antivirus solution out there used by millions of people around the world. I have been using Avast for as long as I can remember and I can honestly say that it is one of the best, if not the best antivirus solution on the market. Besides Avast, AVG is also another popular antivirus software that is also used by millions of people. Seeing how fast AVG has grown, Avast wants to buy it out for $1.3 billion, the company made this unexpected announcement yesterday. AVG and Avast target slightly different users and we…

Last month, OnePlus officially launched its latest flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 3. A few days after the launch of the OnePlus 3, the company announced that it will no longer manufacture cheaper devices under the OnePlus X family to concentrate on the high end devices such as the OnePlus 3. When making the announcement, we did not expect the company to stop producing the OnePlus X immediately. I expected to see the OnePlus X around for at least 6 months before the company decided to stop producing it anymore. It looks like I may have been way too optimistic as…

Apple has always made iPhones with 16GB of storage space as the affordable options for those who didn’t want to spend more money on the 64GB models. For some reason, Apple always thought that iPhones with 32GB of storage space did not make sense and therefore users who saw the 16GB models as being too small had no option but to go with the 64GB model which was more expensive. With the iPhone 7, Apple will be ditching the 16GB model as it finally re-introduces the 32GB model. Am sure there are some users who had hoped to have this…

The Samsung Galaxy J2 (2016) is still in production but that has not stopped us from getting some information about the device. The latest leak reveals that the J2 (2016) will come with an alternative to the notification LED that will be an upgrade and something we did not expect to see on a Galaxy J smartphone which is considered a low end smartphone. The new notification feature is referred to as Smart Glow and will be made of an illuminated ring around the back camera. We have seen such notification lights before and as expected, it will light up…