Meet the LG G5. Photo: Android Authority

LG’s new G5, which will make its official debut at Mobile World Congress next month, has been revealed early in leaked design drawings. The handset looks a lot like its predecessors from the front, but LG has made a number of big hardware changes.

The Xperia Z5’s fingerprint scanner is being removed for the U.S. Photo: PC Advisor

Sony’s new Xperia Z5 lineup is its first to include fingerprint scanners, but the Japanese company has decided to remove them before bringing the Xperia Z5 and Xperia Z5 Compact to the U.S.

Sony’s coming to Barcelona again. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Sony has invited Mobile World Congress attendees to a press event on Monday, February 22. The announcement all but confirms the Japanese company has something up its sleeve for the giant mobile technology convention, but what?

Galaxy Note 5 gets a hardware fix. Photo: Jim Merithew/Cult of Android

Samsung has quietly tweaked the internals of its Galaxy Note 5 to prevent S Pens from getting jammed inside the device when inserted upside down.

Newer logic boards have a redesigned mechanism that looks less likely to become stuck on the S Pen’s eject button.

Is $1 per year too much? Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

WhatsApp will ditch the service’s annual subscription fees, after founder Jan Koum admitted that the $1 per year payment concept “doesn’t work that well.”

As a result of ditching the payment model, Koum explained that WhatsApp will be looking at new ways that businesses can use the service to connect with individual users, although it’s important that this is done without spamming people with ads. He noted that, “We haven’t written a single line of code yet” for the new service.