What can be considered as a holiday miracle, the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for the Droid Razr and the Droid Razr Maxx was pushed out by Verizon on Christmas Eve, only for the carrier to pull it thereafter. Some folks were able to download the whole software package (331.7MB in size) and install Jelly Bean on their phones, while some reported an update failure. If you never saw the update notification, chances are you’ve missed the boat.

ZTE surprised us all last year with the launch of the Axon Pro. A high-end, premium smartphone at a competitive price tag wasn’t necessarily a new concept, but up until then we weren’t used to seeing that from ZTE… especially in the United States. Now the company is back with a successor to last year’s Axon Pro. The all-new ZTE Axon 7 sports many of the same design cues and features as its predecessor, but also comes with a few notable enhancements that you’ll definitely want to check out.

“Don’t you dare swipe through my pictures!” – I have no idea how many times I have heard that, and I am sure you have too. It’s an ongoing problem trying to keep your files private when lending your phone to others, even if for a few seconds. And the picture swiping is just one factor, there is so much more stuff in there we would not trust to even our closest family members.

First introduced at CES as the Projector Hotspot, the ZTE-made LivePro is a crazy contraption that, Sprint hopes, is more than the sum of its parts. And boy, there are a lot of parts to talk about. Sprint describes the LivePro as a “easily pocketable multiuse mini projector and mobile hotspot” and hopes to sell it to professionals who need an all-in-one tool for presentations on the go. LivePro Features:

We are here at CES 2016 with Alcatel OneTouch, where the company has taken the wraps off of their latest series of affordable entry-level smartphones. What do these devices have to offer? We find out, as we go hands on with the Alcatel OneTouch Pixi 4! Like its predecessors, which were launched at the same event last year, the Pixi 4 is available in a variety of sizes, but while the 3.

For many years, the Apple iPhone has served as a benchmark for the design and style that rival Chinese manufacturers have built their handsets by and often, we’ve seen Chinese manufacturers like Huawei create some of the best looking Android handsets on the market. Earlier this week, they announced the Huawei P8 (and the Huawei P8 Max), which this continues the trend of the P-Series and marries incredible design with premium specs at a flagship price point.

The huge Call of Duty game franchise is about to make another stab into the mobile space. King, the developer best known for their Candy Crush series of popular puzzle games, is forming an new team in Stockholm, Sweden dedicated to making a new mobile game based on the military shooter series. King was acquired by Call of Duty publisher Activision in late 2015 for $5.9 billion. 15 best action games for Android

HMD Global is slowly building up its portfolio of stock-Android-running smartphones. In addition to the trio of mid-rangers (Nokia 3, 5, and 6) it launched at MWC, the company bolstered its high-end with the Nokia 8, and now the other side of spectrum is getting some attention. Just leaked by Evan Blass, the Nokia 2 looks… well, like a generic cheap phone. If you have a visceral hate of bezels, you’ll probably want to close this post and move on, but design is hardly the point here.

TL;DR A designer on YouTube going by the name Waqar Khan produced a concept video of a Google Pixel Fold. This is not the “real” foldable phone from Google (which may or may not exist) but just an idea of what it could look like. The designer imagines a hybrid between a Galaxy Z Fold and the confirmed Pixel 6 designs. We’ve heard plenty of rumors surrounding the idea of Google launching a foldable phone this year.

UK carrier EE has officially launched their LTE SIM-only offerings. These plans require the user to already have a compatible device, however that aside, they all come with unlimited calls and messages and the promise of being able to enjoy “super fast 4GEE.” Aside from the inclusion of calls and messages, you just pick the data you want and/or need. EE’s LTE SIM-only plans have arrived with four options ranging from £21 per month up to £36 per month.