The Samsung Galaxy S5 was originally revealed to be available in four colors – shimmering white, charcoal black, electric blue and copper gold. And unsurprisingly, the gold variant received the most attention and is a huge part of press materials as well. However, if you’re a resident of the UK, your options might be fairly limited.

HTC’s latest midrange offering, the Desire 816 is believed to have crossed 1 million pre orders in China. While the term “pre order” is very vague these days, this new revelation tells us about the interest for HTC’s latest offering in the world’s largest smartphone market.

The Sony Xperia T2 Ultra was recently rumored to be making its way to T-Mobile as a budget ranged offering. And today, some sample images taken from its camera have surfaced, revealing more than decent performance. Bear in mind that despite the smartphone being low on hardware specifications, Sony has packed a decent and “best in class” 13 megapixel camera, so we expect a lot from this sensor.

Samsung has just posted a new teaser in Malaysia indicating that the smartphone could arrive earlier than the April 11 schedule. The teaser reads – “Be The First” with the date March 27 written right below, indicating that the handset could launch on that day. However, since Samsung hasn’t confirmed this, it’s probably wise to treat this as a pre-order listing.

Asus has been forced to abandon the dual-booting Transformer Book Duet TD300 due to strong opposition from both Google and Microsoft, according to sources for The Wall Street Journal.

Announced at CES back in January, the notebook would have allowed users to run Android and Windows on the same machine, then quickly switch between them. But its fate has looked uncertain since Asus postponed its launch this month.