
US government can nick your phone if you enter the country
Take a burner if you leave the US
The Land of the Free has come up with a wizard way of violating privacy – according to the New York Times its border staff can just steal your phone when you return to the country.

Lenovo release Windows phone
Four years after the announcement
Lenovo has finally released a Windows phone almost four years after it was announced and two years late.

Queue-jumping Oneplus has a British face-palm
What do you mean you expect supply and demand?
Great things were expected when OnePlus 3 announced that it was finally doing away with invitations and abandoning its queuing system. But it turns out that it might have been better for the British to queue.

Huawai building daydream phone
Dream catcher
Huawei has signed up to be one of the first phone makers to build a handset that works with Google’s new VR platform – daydream.

EU hits Google with Android monopoly charges
Do not pass go, to not collect $200
As we expected the EU has finally waded into Google for “abusing” its dominant position in the smartphone market by forcing device makers to adopt certain apps.

Microsoft Surface phone rumours
Arriving by the end of the year
Details of Microsoft's coming Surface phone have started appearing on online and we did a quick shifty amongst them to find out what was the most likely.

Cheap Indian phone might be a Ponzi scheme
There is such a thing as too cheap
An Indian politician has labelled the ‘Freedom 251’ mobile phone which is selling for a $3.60 dollars a Ponzi scam.

Oppo sold 50 million phones last year
Makes it the eighth largest
While lacking the fanfare in the west that its rivals get, the Chinese smartphone maker Oppo has just announced that it sold 50 million smartphones last year.

Charge your phone with your morning coffee
A teenager’s invention
A 18 year-old has come up with the perfect method of charging your phone – using your morning coffee.

Lenovo gets into OEM handset business
Increasing capacity
Lenovo is ramping up the capacity rates of its handset production facilities by stepping into the OEM handset business.