Six months after it was initially announced, Sony has finally released the Xperia Z1 Compact in the United States. The handset will not be available via any carrier but instead users will directly have to shell out $550 to buy it unlocked from Sony’s own US web store.

The leaked import document.

We’re starting to see initial signs suggesting that LG is currently in the process of developing a scaled-down variant of its latest flagship smartphone. Earlier today, the G3 Mini appeared in a leaked document posted on an Indian import and export data logging website. Unfortunately, the paperwork doesn’t reveal too much about the handset’s pricing and availability, but it does shed some light on the specifications that we’re likely to see when the device eventually breaks cover.

There’s not a lot we don’t already know about the Galaxy S5 Active thanks to recent leaks, but the new device has today been made official and available to order by AT&T. It’s essentially an original Galaxy S5 packed into a more robust form factor — but it does boast a couple of new features that its flagship sibling doesn’t offer.

HTC is offering up another awesome deal on its latest flagship by reducing its price to just $99 when you take out a new two-year contract. The offer applies to the Amber Gold One M8, and it’s available for today only.

AT&T has further broadened its horizons by upgrading and expanding its LTE connectivity services to an additional nine new markets. The announcement was made in a sequential series of press releases on the carrier’s website,  where the operator didn’t fail to take the opportunity to remind us that it was named as having the fastest 4G LTE connection in the U.S. throughout the entire year of 2013.