A week ago, Xiaomi launched the Redmi Note 4 in India, a device powered by a Snapdragon 625.

The phone comes in three variants: 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage ($146), 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage ($161), and 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage ($190), and it proved to be an instant hit.

Vertu, a British manufacturer, and retailer of luxury mobile phones has announced a new smartphone named Constellation.

The phone has a 5.5-inch QHD AMOLED display, and it is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. The device comes with 4GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage expandable with a microSD card.

The Constellation features a 12MP main camera and 3,220 mAh battery with support for wireless charging.

OnePlus has been a popular brand lately, but the company still struggles with smartphones delivery. If you order their phone, there is a good chance you will have to wait a couple of weeks before finally receiving it.

However, the company just announced their New Year's resolution, as they call it, and this year customers should benefit from their "immediate dispatch." This means that if you order a OnePlus phone, you should receive your device quickly.

OnePlus said in an official statement:

UPDATE: Microsoft has responded to the reports by re-confirming that Project Scorpio will indeed support high-fidelity VR gaming when it becomes available.

"When Project Scorpio ships later this year it will be the most powerful console ever built with a 6 teraflop GPU to deliver true 4K gaming, high-fidelity VR experiences, and greater graphic fidelity. We have nothing additional to share at this time," a Microsoft rep told Gamespot.

Original story is as follows.

It looks like Google will be hosting its upcoming Google I/O 2017 event between May 17-19, returning to the Shoreline Amphitheater - at least according to a cryptic puzzle that some people online have purportedly worked out.

TechCrunch reports: "Last year's event at the Shoreline Amphitheatre marked the first time Google held its biggest developer event outdoors and in its own backyard. There were definitely a few growing pains, but Google will hopefully have a new system in place this year to avoid the long lines for both seeing panels and getting food".

What to expect from Google I/O? We don't know yet - but we should expect some exciting things - maybe a tease of a new Pixel smartphone... Android 8.0... and hopefully lots more.

China has just made The Great Firewall much, much stronger - making the use of VPNs in the country illegal.

The use of VPNs and special cable connections throughout China now need government approval, which will see the use of VPN services illegal. Engadget reports that China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the new rules surrounding VPNs, calling them a "clean-up" of China's internet connections.

The Ministry ad ded that the new rules are live immediately, and will be in place until March 31, 2018. It was only in March 2016 that the country had a large-scale crackdown on VPNs, with The Washington Post adding that China's new VPN and cable regulations are "purposefully vague", adding that "experts on China's Internet said the notice seems to take aim at Chinese companies providing VPN services to individuals in China - and not, say, those helping multinational companies connect with their home office".

NVIDIA launched its super successful GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 graphics cards back in May, announcing they would be building their own 'Founders Edition' variants at the time. I remember thinking when NVIDIA announced the FE version of the cards, that it would begin hurting AIB partners - turning to YouTuber 'JayzTwoCents' and meeting his eyes with the same conclusion.

Taiwanese tech site DigiTimes has reported that due to 'increasing sales and profits earned by NVIDIA from PC-use graphics cards has prompted the company to actively promote sales of the Founders Edition graphics cards'. In other words, Founders Edition cards will be eating into the orders for the GTX 10 series partners' supply, resulting in price hikes and loss of sales for companies like ASUS, MSI, ZOTAC, GIGABYTE, and others.

Throughout 2016, the six largest graphics card suppliers in ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI, Palit, ZOTAC, and Colorful - they made $159.4 million in profits. This saw NVIDIA interested in the growing graphics card market, and wanting to take a slice of that pie - even though the pieces of that pie, are selling NVIDIA pie - and it makes a share of those profits as the GPUs and resulting technology and trademarks are owned by NVIDIA.

As we get closer to the unveiling of the Galaxy S8, we're hearing more positive things about it - like The Guardian reporting that it has new information that seems Samsung keeping the 3.5mm headphone jack on the Galaxy S8, and more.

They add that the Galaxy S8 will have a 3.5mm headphone jack, something they've heard from "multiple sources", and that it does indeed rock that beautiful "all-screen" design that we've been reporting. Inside, we are to expect Qualcomm's powerhouse Snapdragon 835 processor, USB-C connectivity, microSD card support, and more.

Samsung is expected to launch a new Gear VR headset and Gear 360 alongside the Galaxy S8, but it's the new "DeX" desktop dock that has me interested. This purported DeX desktop dock would turn your Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone into an Android-powered desktop PC. It has been attempted before, but if Samsung can do it right, it could be a game changer for some users.

More details have been leaked on the upcoming Project Scorpio console from Microsoft, with a GPU that is still capable of 6 TFLOPs of performance, providing 4.5x the GPU compute performance of the Xbox One.

Digital Foundry's new report states that Microsoft has removed ESRAM from Project Scorpio, which has been in the center of the Xbox One and Xbox One S consoles, with the site reporting: "ESRAM remains essential to achieving high performance on both Xbox One and Xbox One S. However, Project Scorpio and PC are not provided with ESRAM. Because developers are not allowed to ship a Project Scorpio-only SKU, optimising for ESRAM remains critical to performance on Microsoft platforms".

Furthermore, it looks like Project Scorpio will have a GPU that falls more in line with AMD's current-gen Polaris GPU architecture, rather than Vega. This is something I've said for a while, as I don't see AMD providing Microsoft with a semi-custom APU based on a GPU architecture that's not even available yet. We might see a Polaris-based GPU with Vega features thrown in, but not an entire Vega GPU. Zen CPU cores should be featured, and I'd be surprised if Microsoft didn't tap AMD's revolutionary leap in CPU technology inside of Project Scorpio.

BioWare has yet to reveal Mass Effect: Andromeda's full PC spec requirements, but the studio did give us a piece to the puzzle that allows us to gauge our expectations.

All too often in this industry we're able to glean new info via Tweets and social media posts, and this time is no different.

BioWare producer Mike Gamble recently said that he "thinks" Mass Effect: Andromeda will run on an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 GPU, which could indicate the minimum video card requirements for the game. "If this is your card you should be ok, I think," Gamble replied in a recent Tweet.

The Academy of Motion Picture Science has announced their nominees for the 2016 Oscar season, which has Hollywood musical drama 'La La Land' receiving 14 nominations tying with James Cameron's 'Titanic' and 'All About Eve' for the most in Academy Award history.

African-American drama 'Moonlight' and acclaimed sci-fi hit 'Arrival' were also honored with eight nominations each. But it wouldn't be Oscar season without some controversy, with Amy Adams overlooked for her amazing role for 'Arrival', but mistakenly listed as a nominee on a website managed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as the ABC network. The latter also mistakenly announced Tom Hanks as a Best Actor nominee for 'Sully'.

The 89th Academy Awards will be broadcast on February 26 from Hollywood, and the full list of nominees can be found here.

Microsoft is busily preparing its new "monster" Project Scorpio console, which will be the world's first enthusiast-grade console that continues blurring the line between desktop PCs and traditional consoles. But where is the "beast"? Microsoft still isn't ready to unveil the system just yet, but we should see it showcased at E3 2017 in June.

Based on what we've heard about Project Scorpio's progress, the system should meet its original Holiday 2017 release date. In fact, Xbox division head Phil Spencer says the Xbox design team is making strides on the system. When asked if Project Scorpio will be revealed pre-E3 2017, Spencer said: "Really wish I could, design team is doing their "thing" again, really happy with what they've been able to do."

Besides the actual hardware specifications and onboard SoC power, one of the main mysteries behind Project Scorpio is it's outward appearance. Given the impressive design of the Xbox One S, I think Microsoft should go all out with Project Scorpio; I still contend it needs to have a specific color scheme that differentiates it from its predecessors, but it'd be super neat to have a clear window on the console and maybe some RGB/lime green/white/silver lighting effects to boot.

Although the Nintendo Switch tablet handheld comes with two JoyCon controllers on its side, it's 6.2-inch 1280 x 720 display is actually a fully-fledged touchscreen with 10 points of capacitive touch, and it even has built-in haptic feedback technology. So why is Nintendo being so quiet about it?

Nintendo hasn't really talked about the Switch console's touchscreen panel very much. YouTuber GamingWithMe captured footage of the Nintendo Switch's touchscreen in action at the official console reveal in New York. The touchscreen functionality was demonstrated by a Skylanders: Imaginators representative, who showed that the touchscreen could be used to sort through items within the game.

At this year's CES, Faraday Future unveiled their highly anticipated electric vehicle - the FF 91. The FF 91 is their first production vehicle, and the company plans for it to compete directly with Tesla.

Shortly after the launch, the company bragged that they collected 64,124 reservations in less than 36 hours. However, Faraday Future didn't state how many of those reservations came with a deposit.

According to Business Insider, not many. Sources close to the company revealed that only 60 people actually paid the $5,000 deposit for their reservation.

Huawei's P10 should arrive this spring, and there is a possibility that the company will announce their newest phone at this year's MWC in Barcelona.

There have been numerous leaks about the phone, so I will repeat once again what is expected: Huawei's Kirin 960 processor, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of internal storage, curved screen, and dual camera carrying the Leica brand.

The newest leak doesn't concern the specs of the phone, rather its pricing. According to the leaker Ricciolo, who was right on many occasions in the past, the Huawei P10 will be the most expensive device in this series. Although no numbers were mentioned, this means that the P10 will cost more than $640 which is the price of the base P9 model with 32GB of storage.

Huawei's Honor brand has become a popular brand in China and the US. Their current model, the Honor 8, is a decent device that could soon get a successor.

A new Honor device has been discovered on the TENAA website, the Chinese regulatory commission. According to the specs of the device, this could be the Honor 8 successor.

The device that goes by model number DUK-TL30 has an octa-core processor, although there is no mention if it's Kirin 960. The DUK-TL30 also has 6GB or RAM and 128GB of internal storage expandable with a microSD card.

Earlier this month, HMD unveiled their first Nokia-branded Android smartphone, and the device proved to be an instant hit. In the first flash sale for the Nokia 6, the device sold out in just one minute.

And while many are thrilled that the Nokia is back on the market, there are a couple of problems. First, the Nokia 6 is available only in China, and second - the device isn't competitive with the top tier phones since it features Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor.

However, this is just the first Nokia-branded Android smartphone from HMD Global, and we can expect more to come.

UPDATE: Capcom has officially fixed the issues on Windows 10 PCs and has delivered the following statement:

Original story is as follows, but note it's not 100% accurate and was written before the fix was available.

Early builds of Microsoft's "monster" native 4K-ready Project Scorpio console have been fired up, and Xbox division head Phil Spencer got first crack on the system.

Now that AMD's Ryzen CPU and high-end Vega GPU architectures are starting to mature, especially the Raven Ridge APUs that combined both potent technologies in a single scaled chip, Microsoft's Project Scorpio console is starting to take shape. In fact, the team just tested out one of the very first Project Scorpio builds, and Xbox's Phil Spencer took the "beast" for a ride and played some Xbox games on the high-end system for the first time. How was it?

"Great day, Scorpio update w/ team. Played my first games on early Scorpio unit. Games played great, console looked right, proud of the team," Spencer Tweeted a bit ago.

Sony has been doing extremely well with the PS4 so far, with a great software to console attach rate that has beaten the PS2 at the same point in their sales milestone.

So far, Sony has sold 53.4 million PlayStation 4 consoles - a number provided by Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai. During the current Taipei Game Show opening ceremony, Asian general manager of Sony Japan, Hiroyuki Oda, said that have been over 400 million PS4 games sold so far. The number has been confirmed by a Sony Interactive Entertainment Australia spokesperson, who said cumulative sell-through figures for PS4 software has reached 409.1 million.

At these numbers, the attach rate is around 7.51 games for every PS4 sold. This number, according to analyst Daniel Ahmed, is higher than both the PS2 and Nintendo's super-popular Wii consoles - the two all-time best-selling consoles. PS2 sales were at 50 million when the console reached 308 million games sold, while Nintendo reached a 7.1 attach rate at the same milestone.