Unfortunately, HTC was unable to meet its initial goal of updating the Evo 4G LTE by the end of 2013, leaving many of us disappointed. But, today, Jason Mackenzie, President of HTC America, officially revealed on Twitter that the update will be pushed to Sprint for review in “mid-January” and is expected to reach our devices by way of an over-the-air (OTA) update sometime in February.

Is it your wish to try out Google Glass, and have you missed every opportunity to do so thus far? Well, if so, and you are a Play Music All Access subscriber, it looks like today may be your lucky day. To celebrate the successful launch of Google Music for the new version of Glass, the team at Mountain View is sending out invites to users who have already subscribed to the monthly service on either their Android- or iOS- powered smartphones, giving them the opportunity to “sign up” to the Explorer database, which, in turn, will give them the facility to purchase their very own Google Glass unit.

Huawei’s forthcoming sequel to its popular flagship phablet, the Ascend Mate, is expected to be unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week, on Tuesday, January 7, 2014, in Las Vegas. However, just days before its scheduled announcement, the Ascend Mate 2 has been surreptitiously snapped, and the shots leaked — these images reveal much of the handset’s appearance and specifications.

Smartwatches today are a little bit like PDAs in the early 1990s: that technology that everyone seems sure is the future, but which no one has really got right yet.

Well, add Archos’ name to the list of companies willing to try and rectify that situation.

An unconfirmed Samsung smartphone has passed through the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The information included in the brief filing documentation reveals that we could potentially be looking at the Galaxy Grand Lite — a scaled down variant to the Grand 2 that was introduced to the South Korean company’s lineup of affordable handsets last month.