Treat yourself to Amazon Prime this weekend. Photo: Torley/Flickr CC

At $99 a year, Amazon Prime is a killer deal — especially if you do a lot of online shopping. But it’s going to get even better tomorrow, January 24, when you’ll be able to bag a one-year subscription for just $72 — more than 25% off — to celebrate the Golden Globe Awards.

HTC One M9 Plus, or poor Photoshop experiment? Photo: Weibo

Questionable photos of an alleged”One M9 Plus” suggest HTC is planning a larger, more exciting version of its next-generation flagship.

Unlike the original model, the Plus is claimed to have a Duo Camera on its back — like last year’s One M8 — and a physical home button with a built-in fingerprint scanner on its front.

Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Unless you have a real thing for shiny bricks, you should avoid WIND Mobile’s latest software update for the 2014 Moto X at all costs. Large numbers of users are reporting that the release is rendering their handset completely unusable, and there doesn’t appear to be an easy fix.

LG says there is no heat issue with Qualcomm’s latest chip. Photo: Qualcomm

Samsung may have dropped Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 810 chip for the Galaxy S6 due to an alleged overheating issue, but rival smartphone maker LG, which is using the chip in its new G Flex 2, has come out to defend it.

Woo Ram-chan, LG vice president for mobile product planning, says the Snapdragon 810’s performance is “quite satisfactory,” and he doesn’t understand why Samsung has an issue with heat.

The Google Play Edition One M8 is no more. Photo: HTC

The day pure Android fans have been dreading is finally here; the last remaining Google Play Edition smartphone — the HTC One M8 — has been removed from the Play Store, almost certainly confirming the end of Google’s program. The only pure Android smartphones you can buy from the search giant now are its own Nexus handsets.