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One year since its official US launch, Samsung Pay is now rolling out a few new features, store coupons, and cloud storage backup.

Almost five years after the music store went live in the US, Google finally releases Play Music on the Android dominated Indian market.

This fitness tracker hits now multiple new markets, with more to be added next month, and a Special Edition Series to launch in December.

The new firmware contains the September Security Maintenance Release, but it also delivers the Samsung Cloud features like sync for photos, videos, and other files.

Xiaomi released 26 professionally made pictures showing the low light capabilities of the new Xiaomi Mi 5s smartphone and its internal 12 megapixel Sony IMX 378 camera.

Starting October 11th, BlackBerry could start selling the DTEK60 smartphone for 699 CAD in Canada, a new leak suggests. Once again BlackBerry uses TCL hardware. The Android phone resembles the Alcatel Idol 4S with updated specs.

A Lenovo official has recently unveiled that the Moto Z and the Moto G4 families are scheduled to get Android 7.0 in the fourth quarter of this year.

LG Electronics announced that the new smartphone LG V20 will become available to customers starting this week. The LG V20 will make its public debut in LG's home market of South Korea.

This 5.5-inch handset is expected to hit the market next month, featuring dual cameras and a fingerprint scanner, as well as mid-range specs overall.

These 5.2-inch and 5.7-inch handsets are both powered by the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 chip, and will soon hit the Chinese market.

This 5.5-inch, Exynos 7580-powered handset will go on sale via Flipkart starting October 2 and carries a price tag of roughly $240 USD.

Samsung says it has got back almost 60 percent of recalled Galaxy Note 7 smartphones sold in Europe so far, suggesting Samsung is making progress in its attempts to echange all faulty Galaxy Note 7 smartphones.

This new 5.5-inch handset powered by a Snapdragon 617 processor and a 3,000 mAh battery launches exclusively via LG Uplus on September 29.

This handset has no price and launch date yet, but it is obviously a low-end handset with just 1 GB RAM and 8 GB storage, but features an impressive 5,000 mAh battery.

Although expected to arrive this year, LG Pay is now scheduled to launch in 2017, apparently due to issues encountered during testing in South Korea.

On September 2, Samsung announced a global replacement program for the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone due to an battery cell issue. Since then, the company has been working hard to expedite product shipments for the exchange program.

This 5.5-inch handset launches in China for around $240 USD. It is powered by a Snapdragon 625 processor and comes loaded with Android 7.0 Nougat out-of-the-box.

A set of leaked documents reveals that the next-gen Galaxy S flagship uses a 10 nm Exynos SoC that integrates a Mali-G71 GPU.

After a short pre-order period, Sony's new 4.6-inch Xperia handset is ready to ship, its unlocked version carrying a price tag of $499.99 USD.

Still using Android Marshmallow, this 6-inch handset has been spotted with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 under the hood, next to 6 GB of memory.

September 2016 update. Here you will find the best smartphones under 300 Euros (~$340) reviewed by Notebookcheck over the last few months. Our list of top models is regularly updated, maintained and commented on and should assist in purchasing decisions. April 2016 update.

September 2016 update. Here you will find the latest smartphones reviewed by Notebookcheck. Our Top 10 list is regularly updated, maintained and commented on by our editors. This page is intended to help our readers decide which product to purchase.

The 4th of October could be a more significant date for Google than previously expected. A tweet by Android and Chrome OS VP Hiroshi Lockheimer gives reason to speculate about a merger between Android an Chrome OS once again, 8 years after Android was first announced.

Google is said to unveil a bunch of hardware on October 4th. Apart from the Pixel Phones and Google Home we might also see a new smart home router. Pricing information for some of the hardware was leaked as well.

September 2016 update. Here you will find the best smartphones under 120 Euros (~$135) reviewed by Notebookcheck over the last few months. Our list of top models is regularly updated, maintained and commented on and should assist in purchasing decisions. May 2016 update.

September 2016 update. Here's a list of the best compact smartphones - with screen sizes of 5-inches or less - we've reviewed in the last few months. Our list of top models is regularly updated, maintained and commented on and should assist in purchase decisions.

September 2016 update. Here you will find the current best tablets reviewed by Notebookcheck in the last few months. Our list of top models is regularly updated, maintained and commented on and should assist in purchasing decisions.

Next week, Xiaomi will unveil their next generation flagship smartphones, the Mi 5S and the Mi 5S Plus. CEO Lei Jun is busy posting camera samples on Weibo to show off the quality of the dual-camera-setup inside the two new models.

How does $450 sound for a 5.7 inch smartphone with QHD-resolution, Snapdragon 821, 6 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage? Too good to be true? Well, we do not have confirmation but leaked presentation slides point to the new Xiaomi Mi 5S-series to be rather cheap.

Internally, Samsung is testing Android 7 Nougat on a bunch of Galaxy Phones already, the S7 and S7 edge are among them. A new report from China suggests that the Grace UX and some of the Note 7 features might make it to the Galaxy S7 with Android 7

Google has made it easier to know which way you are headed by replacing the direction arrow with a blue beam, that will be wider or more narrow depending on you phone's compass calibration status.

Three more days ahead of the Xiaomi launch event next week, the Chinese company is teasing a dual camera for its next flagship phone.

South Korean authorities demand further security tests for each new device and Samsung has to allow more time for customers to claim their money back.

The new Moto E handset managed to break the previous record of first-day smartphone sales via Flipkart.

After moving from KitKat to Lollipop, this two-year-old slate on Verizon finally gets Android Marshmallow, but this update also removes some bloatware as well.

Since the first batch of jet black iPhone 7 handsets sold out very fast, Samsung is on the right path with the black onyx Note 7, to come out in early October.

Xiaomi has put up another Mi 5S teaser recently, promoting an impressive AnTuTu score of 164,119 points for their next flagship phone that will be released September 27th. Meanwhile rumors claim that there might be a smaller 4 inch model and 3D Touch capabilities.

Google is putting lots of money into their MadebyGoogle campaign and it shows, particularly in New York City. According to rumors, the Pixel Phones might not achieve the same level of water resistance as some of their competitors.

A page on BlackBerry.com that was not supposed to go public revealed that DTEK60 is a 5.5-inch handset with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor on board, so now it only remains to get an official confirmation.

Shortly after introducing loyalty card integration and support for Uber, this mobile payment system now gets support for 44 new banks and credit unions.

A leaked screenshot possibly revealed an updated Pro version of the alleged Xiaomi Mi Note 2-series. It might come with up to 8 GB of RAM, up to 256 GB of storage and a faster 2.6 GHz processor. The question is: when will it be released?

Chinese media company LeEco today officially announced the Pro 3 smartphone. They did manage to pack an impressive 4.070 mAh battery into a 7.5 mm metal case but if you are looking for a headphone jack or a Micro-SD-slot look elsewhere.

Samsung announced that over 500,000 safe units arrived in the US, have been shipped to carrier and retail stores, and should be available for exchange starting today.

This Qualcomm Snapdragon 625-powered 5.5-inch Android handset will hit Canada as early as October 18 via Rogers, Virgin Mobile, and Fido.

This 10.1-inch convertible with a Wacom digitizer instead of a keyboard starts at $500 USD, coming with Android or Windows. Shipments are expected to begin next month.

This 5-inch handset runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow and is powered by a MediaTek MT6735P processor, next to 2 GB RAM and 16 GB internal storag, all for around $120 USD.

Apart from new pictures and a leaked video, today's rumors about this year's Google Pixel Phones also mention pricing. Starting at $649 for the smaller Pixel, they might not be your cheapest option.

Now it's official: Google is teasing the arrival of their next generation Pixel Phones that will not be sold as Nexus Phones anymore. The #madebygoogle hashtag and website want to make us believe that these phones were made by Google but we all know who really manufactured them, don't we?