Sony Xperia E4 on pre-order in mainland Europe for €130

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Sony Xperia E4 on pre-order in mainland Europe for €130

Last week the new Sony Xperia E4 went on pre-order in the UK, since then it has expanded to mainland Europe. It's still a bit difficult to find but we managed to find it in a few stores at €130, practically on par with the £100 pre-order price in the UK.

The shipping date is set for 2-3 weeks from now, but nothing more concrete than that.

The Xperia E4 has a 5" IPS screen with qHD resolution (220ppi) and will launch with Android 4.4 KitKat, though it's on the waiting list for 5.0 Lollipop. It's powered by a MediaTek chipset (quad Cortex-A7) with 1GB of RAM. It has a 5MP/1080p main camera and a 2MP/720p selfie camera.

And more importantly, it costs less than the Moto G (2014), which is already on Lollipop and has a sharper, 720p screen. No 1080p video capture though.

Anyway, there's still no sign of the Sony Xperia E4 Dual, so it's price is unknown.

Sony Xperia E4 goes on pre-order in the UK at £100

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Sony Xperia E4 goes on pre-order in the UK at £100

The Sony Xperia E4 quietly sneacked onto the stage yesterday and the announcement was so quick we didn’t even get a launch date and a price. Clove UK has answered both of these questions by putting the new handset on pre-order.

It's priced at £100 and will be available in late March. Clove also cleared up the OS situation – the Xperia E4 will launch with Android 4.4.4 KitKat and get 5.0 Lollipop later. Note that the price is for the single-SIM version, there's another one with two SIM slots but there's no price for it yet.

Expansys is also accepting pre-orders but hasn’t listed a price or a launch date. We couldn’t find it in other stores for now. Three UK has a post about it, which just speculates on price but points to mid-February as the launch window.

Meizu M1 gets 100,000 orders in just one minute

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Meizu M1 gets 100,000 orders in just one minute

The flash sale model is really taking off in the mobile world, at least in Asia. Pioneered by Xiaomi just a few years ago, it's now employed by many more companies. One of them is Meizu, which recently announced the M1 smartphone.

It went up for pre-order in China, with 100,000 units being made available. And people managed to order all of those in only 60 seconds.

Unlike what the term "pre-order" generally means in China, in this case it seems that money has changed hands, and those 100,000 M1 units will be shipped to the people who ordered them, at some point in the future.

It's not surprising that the Meizu M1 has proven to be this successful. After all it costs just CNY 699, which is around $111 or €97 right now. For that amount of cash you get a 5-inch 1,280x768 touchscreen, a 13 MP rear camera with LED flash, as well as a 5 MP front snapper.

At the helm we can find the MediaTek MT6732 chipset, which comes with a 1.5 GHz quad-core CPU, aided by 1GB of RAM. Internal storage is 8GB, expandable via microSD, and a 2,500 mAh battery completes the package.

Oppo R5 is now available for pre-order in the UK

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Oppo R5 is now available for pre-order in the UK

Oppo's brief world record holder for thinnest smartphone has shown up on Amazon's UK site and is now available for pre-order. The precious units are set to start shipping as early as February 20.

The Oppo R5 is a stylish midrange offering, packing a 5.2-inch FullHD display in a slender 4.85mm body. That wasn't thin enough, the competition deemed, and the R5 is now in third place behind theIvvi K1 Mini and the Vivo X5Max. That shouldn't make it any less desireable, though, as the two-tone aluminum body is a true stunner.

The rest of the Oppo R5 specs are not too shabby either. A Snapdragon 615 chipset is on board, featuring an octa-core processor, Adreno 405 GPU and 2GB of RAM. Where the R5 falls short is battery capacity, which at 2000mAh proves barely adequate for the screen size, but that's the trade-off for the super-thin profile.

The SIM-free Oppo R5 is listed at £296.99 but you can also claim a free Oppo powerbank with it to address the battery capacity issue.

Twin microSD-slot Saygus V2 goes on pre-order for $549

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Twin microSD-slot Saygus V2 goes on pre-order for $549

You may not have heard of the Saygus V2 but it's a very powerful Android device. It comes with a Snapdragon 801 chipset, 3GB of RAM, 5" 1080p screen, 21MP and 13MP camera combo, fingerprint scanner, 3,100mAh battery and 64GB of internal storage.

What's more interesting about the Saygus V2 is the inclusion of two 128GB-supporting microSD card slots which end up giving the smartphone an insane maximum storage capacity of 320GB. And now the Saygus V2 can be pre-ordered for $549, down from the usual price of $599.

Saygus is allowing pre-orders for the next 72 hours, ending February 5, and you'll need to create an account from which you can get as many as 10 V2s.

The Saygus V2 is also IP7X-certified and offers a Kevlar-plated back.

Microsoft Lumia 435 pre-order starts in the UK, ships 1st of march

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Microsoft Lumia 435 pre-order starts in the UK, ships 1st of march

Two weeks after its announcement, the Microsoft Lumia 435 is now available for pre-order in the UK. The phone is offered by Amazon and costs £88.49 SIM-free and is offered in Black, Orange and Green. Actual shipping date has also been confirmed - a month from now, March 1.

Microsoft plans to make the phone available throughout February in more countries in Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. The Lumia 435 is a budget-minded handset with a Snapdragon 200 chipset with a dual-core CPU, 1GB of RAM and a 4" LCD display (480 x 800 pixels).

It's also destined to receive Windows 10 once the OS reaches its final status alongside the Lumia 730, Lumia 930 and Lumia 1520.

Additional specifications of the Lumia 435 include a weight of 131.9g and a 1,560mAh battery, good for almost 12 hours of talk time or 21 hours if you're on 2G. The phone boasts 42.2Mbps downlink speeds over 3G, which is about as good as it gets pre-LTE.

GTA V for PC already up for pre-order with bonus game

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GTA V for PC already up for pre-order with bonus game

If you are a GTA fan and you are PC platform based gamer and missed out the news that GTA V is now up for grabs through pre-orders then i am here to inform you that the window is open from 16th , january and you can book yours as 

Rockstar Games has officially opened pre-orders for its upcoming Grand Theft Auto V for PC title, to be released on March 24.

YES you heard it right that's quite a long wait. And here are the perks if you pre-order GTA V for PC before February 1, you'll get $1.3 million in-game currency and a free bonus game too.

The currency  spread is as follows: $500,000 for GTA V, and the rest for GTA Online. The bonus game will be given to you in the form of a digital download, and you’ll receive the code for this immediately after you pre-order GTA V. The titles you can choose from include GTA IV, Max Payne 3, LA Noire, but also much older games such as GTA III and Manhunt.

If you're interested in pre-ordering GTA V for PC, know that when you do you'll be charged a 15% deposit. The remaining amount will be automatically charged when the game gets released, and you'll receive the activation code for it via email when the time comes.