If there’s one good thing to come out of  today’s launch of the iPhone 5  is that it seems to have triggered Amazon to majorly slash the price of the Samsung Galaxy S3. This time, the retailer is discounting more variants of the phone, and not just Verizon’s version. A couple of days ago, both the Pebble Blue and Marble White Galaxy S3 were offered on Amazon Wireless for a mere $139.

Arguably the biggest issue with the US trade ban against Huawei is that the firm can’t use Google Mobile Services (GMS) on its new phones and tablets. This has forced the Chinese brand to create its own Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) as an alternative to Google’s services. Now, Android and Google Play vice-president Sameer Samat has told DPA (via Finanzen) that Google has applied to the US government to resume business dealings with Huawei.

TL;DR Google will sell restaurant review company Zagat to The Infatuation for an undisclosed amount. Zagat was purchased by Google in 2011 for $151 million. The Infatuation is a nine-year-old company that plans to uphold and respect the decades-old Zagat brand. Back in 2011, Google bought the nearly-forty-year-old brand Zagat for $151 million. Google intended to use Zagat’s brand name recognition as well as its history of reviews to bolster its own reviews embedded in the Google Maps app.

ZTE is going all in with the Blade V8 Moniker. Following the launch of the Blade V8 Pro back at CES and the regular V8 a few days later, the company has just taken the wraps off of the Mini and Lite versions of the device. As the names suggest, these devices fall at lower-end of the specifications spectrum, but do continue to offer some unique features like their more powerful siblings. We go hand on and give you a quick look at the ZTE Blade V8 Mini and the Blade V8 Lite!

Some say that smaller phones are better because you can use them with just one hand. For everybody else though, having a large screen for consuming media, browsing the web, and being productive is totally worth the occasional feat of finger acrobatics. At 5.7-inch, the Galaxy Note 3 is clearly a device that’s meant for two-hand usage, and while that’s not bad in itself, there are times when you have to operate it with just one.

The research firm recently issued their quarterly market analysis report for India, covering sales and shipment figures for smartphone manufacturers. According to the report, OnePlus managed to capture a 36 percent share of the premium smartphone market in India for Q4 2018. This is the third consecutive quarter where the company has led market shipments. To celebrate their win, OnePlus posted a tweet that invokes Apple’s virtual assistant, Siri, to ask about the best selling premium smartphone in India.

According to industry sources, Samsung Electronics will begin mass production of a new type of storage for smartphones come the end of 2014. The new UFS 2.0 NAND flash memory modules will eventually replace eMMC storage found in current smartphones. The sources also suggest that Samsung may make the switch to UFS come its next flagship smartphone, as the company typically strives to offer some of the best tech in the industry in its flagships.

Well, not technically free of charge. You will have to pay for the device up front, but you’ll get a mail-in rebate up to a $50 value to cover the cost of the device. Yeah, $50: that’s the kind of price-range we’re looking at here for these phones. Still, nothing to sneeze at. If someone walked up and handed you fifty bucks on the street you’d think it was a pretty damn good day.

Greatly popular automotive navigation systems manufacturer TomTom has had an iOS-special nav app available in Apple’s App Store for almost three years. Unfortunately, the app didn’t make its way to Android devices as well, even though we’ve had numerous promises from TomTom over the last couple of years or so. Another promise has just been made by the Dutch-based company’s officials in an exclusive talk with the guys at Pocket-lint. According to TomTom co-founder Peter-Frans Pauwels, an exclusive Android app will be launching “fairly soon”.

Oliver Cragg / Android Authority TL;DR Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to Samsung smart TVs. Gamers will be able to play their favorite games on their TVs without a dedicated console. Microsoft plans to bring the service to additional TV brands in the future. Gamers on Samsung smart TVs are about to gain easier access to Xbox Cloud Gaming, with Microsoft and Samsung partnering to provide the service directly on Samsung’s TVs.