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Initially expected to be released in October, the HTC Bolt / HTC 10 evo has yet to make an official appearance. However, it looks like the smartphone will finally be announced this month.

This morning, it took just 10 seconds for the Xiaomi Mi MIX to completely sell out during the phone's first flash sale. The full screened concept phone, with a screen-to-body-ratio of 91.3% according to Xiaomi, was a complete sell out in record time. So the Mi MIX now becomes Xiaomi's fastest selling phone. The previous record was set just the other day when all versions of the Xiaomi Mi Note 2 were snatched up in 50 seconds.

Huawei has today launched its latest top-end phablet, the Mate 9. The new device features a large 5.9" LCD IPS display with 1080p resolution and 1500:1 contrast ratio. In the camera department the Mate 9 comes with a new dual-camera that, like its counterpart in the P9, was co-developed with camera manufacturer Leica.

The latest IDC report shows the state of the tablet market in Q3 2016, with Apple still ahead of the pack. It appears that the tablet market continues to drop, as vendors moved 43 million units, a year over year decline of 14.7%.

In a bid to entice photo enthusiasts, camera company Kodak has launched the photo-focused Ektra smartphone. The smartphone has a unique design with a huge camera lens at the back, and it boasts of DSLR-like modes and features. The smartphone has been launched in Europe at €499 (roughly Rs. 36,800).

Yesterday Sony let the lucky people who it picked to enter its latest beta program know that the first Android 7.0 Nougat build for the Xperia X Performance would be rolling out in a matter of hours. And sure enough, today some X Performance devices have already received the first beta release of Nougat, as evidenced by the screenshots you can see below.

Alcatel has officially announced the company’s flagship model running Windows 10 Mobile after yesterday's early leak. The Alcatel IDOL 4S is already available at T-Mobile, but now the carrier will sell a Windows 10 version of the IDOL 4S.

At any rate, we can look forward to some kind of internal hardware refresh, using Coffee Lake processors if Cannonlake doesn’t make it to production in time – and of course there’s also that aforementioned price cut, which with any luck will be a substantial one.

The PlayStation's virtual reality headset is making its way into gamers' homes - the last of this year's three big VR hardware releases.

Starting with the removal of the headphone jack on the iPhone 7, Apple's port situation started getting a little confusing. With the release of the new Macbook Pros, it's gotten a little worse.