LinkedIn pays $6M to settle labour violations

The US Department of Labor said an investigation found LinkedIn Corp in violation of overtime and record-keeping rules that are part of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.

NEW YORK: Professional networking service LinkedIn has agreed to pay nearly $6 million in unpaid wages and damages to 359 current and former employees, the Labor Department said.

The US Department of Labor said an investigation found LinkedIn Corp in violation of overtime and record-keeping rules that are part of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. It said the violations occurred at company branches in California, Illinois, Nebraska and New York.

Mountain View, California-based LinkedIn said in a statement that it was "eager to work closely with the (Labor Department) to quickly and equitably rectify this situation. This was a function of not having the right tools in place for a small subset of our sales force to track hours properly; prior to the (Labor Department) approaching us, we had already begun to remedy this."

The company agreed to pay the back wages once it was notified of the violations and to take steps to prevent them from happening again.

Federal law requires that hourly employees get paid 1.5 times their regular hourly rates for hours they work beyond 40 per week
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Indian IT Inc split over curbs on SEZ tax breaks

A recent 'clarification' by incometax authorities is causing heartburn among many software companies establishing units in special economic zones (SEZs).

A recent 'clarification' by incometax authorities is causing heartburn among many software companies establishing units in special economic zones (SEZs). It has also exposed differences of opinion between the major companies, with Infosys agreeing with the government and others disagreeing on whether or not companies are eligible to claim tax breaks.

Late last month, the Central Board of Direct Taxes came up with its interpretation of what is known as the '8020' rule, leading companies such as Wipro and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to the conclusion that the government is making it "extremely restrictive" for them to claim tax deductions on profits from SEZ units. "Every single IT firm in the past 10 years that has set up an SEZ unit would be impacted," said Dinesh Kanabar, deputy CEO of KPMG in India, adding the financial impact could be "very huge". KPMG said since there is no publicly available data on the number of employees operating out of SEZs, it is difficult to put a number on the impact it will have on a firm or the industry.

Under Section 10AA of the income-tax law, units relocating to SEZs can claim tax deductions on profit only if 80% of plant and machinery is new. Software companies wanted the government to say that in the case of people, moving manpower to the SEZ should not be counted because there is only a limited pool of talent available.

But CBDT instead clarified that technical manpower transferred to SEZs cannot exceed 20% of the total in the first year. "Flexibility (of movement) should be allowed. It is normal in the technology sector, and one cannot penalise people. This will lead to a distortion in hiring practices," said a Nasscom spokeswoman.

Kanabar said he expects almost all IT companies to challenge this circular in court.

India is estimated to have exported software worth $85 billion (Rs 5 lakh crore) in 2013-14.

"All companies would be impacted as they have availed the benefits of operating out of a SEZ," said a Mumbai-based consultant. Moreover, since the circular is silent on the date it comes into effect, there is added confusion.

Rajiv Bansal, the chief financial officer of Infosys, told ET that the CBDT clarification is true to the letter and spirit of the government's intention when it provides tax breaks to companies. Technical manpower must be counted in the '8020' rule because human resources are the backbone of the software industry.

On the other hand, the finance head of MindTree is of the view that the underlying principle of setting up SEZs is to encourage employment and the CBDT clarification will only serve to restrict the mobility of software employees.

"It is a huge disappointment," said Rostow Ravanan.

Wipro CFO Suresh Senapaty, ET learns, has written to the finance ministry asking for the circular to be withdrawn. A Wipro spokesman declined comment on the report.

A KPMG note on July 29 said, "Given the highly technical and competitive nature of software development, some technical persons having prior experience are required to manage the critical functions of software development in a new unit."

Therefore, it argues, the movement of technical manpower from an existing unit to a new SEZ unit should not be a constraint in availing deduction.

Industry executives maintain they are taken by surprise by the circular as an earlier government panel headed by N Rangachary had proposed that only 50% of the billable employees in an SEZ unit in its first year should be new employees
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Hackathons are the new IT career fairs

Hackathons are events where participants have to create an application or solve a software problem in a defined time period.

BANGALORE: As IT companies look for more skilled talent to provide better value to global customers, hackathons are becoming a major recruitment tool, as also a vehicle to evaluate tech employees.

Hackathons are events where participants have to create an application or solve a software problem in a defined time period. Wipro, Amazon, Mindtree, Informatica, Accenture and Cognizant are among those running such coding challenges to hire quality software programmers. "There will come a time when we won't go to campuses to hire. We will ask people to solve a problem statement and then come to our office for interviews. The compensation will be based on the quality of skills," Wipro CEO T K Kurien told TOI.

Wipro also partnered with coding platform HackerEarth to run a week-long coding challenge in June for its employees. The initiative, which involved eight challenges with different levels of complexity, saw over 4,000 employee registrations from across 22 countries. "We intend to do one hackathon every month. You realize people's competency once you go through a hackathon. You find that competency sometimes doesn't reside at the top of the pyramid; it lies right at the bottom," Kurien said.

Gone are the days when companies would advertise for armies of Java or C++ programmers on job portals or newspapers. Employee referrals, too, might take a backseat. As new technologies like cloud, analytics and mobility take centrestage, firms are willing to pay a premium to hire programmers with niche skills like CoffeeScript, Knockout, Responsive Design and Bootstrap, after putting them through a live grind.

Ravi Gururaj, chairman of the Nasscom Product Council, said hackathons can help assessment of a range of attributes - ability to perform under time constraints, an engineer's versatility when pushed into unfamiliar "out-of-the-box" and "on-your-feet" scenarios. "It can also provide good clues on design sensibilities, presentation skills and team collaboration ability of the engineer," he said.





Sanat Rao of the software product think thank iSpirt , noted that in Silicon Valley, the bar for computer science is very high and companies such as Google and Yahoo are focused on testing the fundamentals in their hiring process. "For such companies, hackathons are the new career fairs," he said.

Amazon in India runs a Speed Geeking contest across premier technology institutions like National Institutes of Technology (NITs) where students have to solve five coding cases in 30-45 minutes. The winners get pre-placement interviews with Amazon. Last year, around 2,000 students across six NITs participated in the coding contest, following which Amazon conducted 15 pre-placement interviews and hired five people.

READ ALSO: Microsoft kickstarts global 'one-week hackathon' for employees

Amazon also runs an annual internal hackathon called Srujan that is open to employees across Amazon Web Services, Kindle and Amazon Retail. Employees are given real-life problems to work on and have to come up with solutions. The winners would work on implementing the big idea.

A number of coding platforms like Techgig, HackerEarth and HackerRank run coding challenges to ease the process of talent discovery for companies. Avnish Anand, product head in coding platform Techgig.com, said, "If you want to go in for mass hiring, you can deploy an army of tele-callers to get the job done. But if you want to hire the best coders, hackathons give you a cost-efficient discovery channel to get best-of-breed talent."

Sachin Gupta, co-founder of HackerEarth, said hackathons reduce the time to market and make the initial screening process easy for companies. "In a traditional model, a company will have to screen 90 people to get the top 15 and then shortlist the top five candidates. Hackathons cost half of what HR recruiters charge from companies, which is between 8.5% and 15% of the CTC (cost to company)," he said
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Microsoft may give Windows 9 free to Vista, XP users

According to Foley's sources, Windows 8.1 Update 2 is expected to land on August 12, on the company's monthly Patch Tuesday. 

Could Microsoft go as far as giving Windows 9 away for free to Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 users? This may well be the case as the focus moves away from Windows 8 towards its successor, which is expected to land in spring 2015.

In a blog post, ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley cites rumours that Microsoft could be offering "some kind deal" to users of the three operating systems to entice them to move away from legacy platforms. Such a deal, she writes, could be in the form of a free upgrade.

Microsoft has offered such deals to kickstart transitions from older platforms to newer ones in the past, but given the large contingent of Windows XP users out there, a freebie might lure them to Windows 9 - rather than Google Chrome or Apple's OS X.

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According to Foley's sources, Windows 8.1 Update 2 is expected to land on August 12, on the company's monthly Patch Tuesday. It's said to be a minor one and won't be mandatory, and its content is expected to include minor design changes, but nothing spectacular.

Instead, the focus will be on Threshold, also referred to as Windows 9, which is expected to place a particular emphasis on getting some crucial features - like a new start menu - baked in
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Samsung dealers threaten boycott over e-pricing

 Samsung dealers across the country have threatened to boycott the company's products over pricing concerns. 

As it grapples with depleting market share, Samsung Electronics — the world's biggest mobile-phone maker by shipments — has got itself in more trouble as hundreds of Samsung dealers across the country have threatened to boycott the company's products over pricing concerns. The dealers said that they would stop stocking Samsung phones unless the South Korean tech giant takes steps to narrow the wide gap in pricing between its phones sold at various multibrand outlets and on ecommerce sites.

"How can the company expect us to meet targets when customers can buy its phones online at huge discounts? Samsung gives us a 5.5% margin, while the same phones are being sold online at 20-30% discount," said Sunil Arora, a Samsung phone dealer in the Capital. Arora said that around 300 dealers have joined the movement, mainly due to drummed-up support through Facebook and WhatsApp, and the number is growing. 

"Samsung executives have requested us not to take any drastic steps and have promised to change things. We have given them time till August 15. If we don't see any positive steps, we will black out Samsung hoardings at our shops," he added. 

Asked about the unrest in the company's distribution network, Asim Warsi, VP (marketing, mobiles and IT), Samsung India, said that dialogue with channel partners is an ongoing process. 

However, the numbers tell a different story. Globally, Samsung has reported its worst quarterly profit in two years due to slowdown in sales of its smartphones and tablets. IDC estimates that Samsung's glob al smartphone shipments saw a year-on-year drop in the second quarter, from around 33% market share to 25%. The company has attributed this to increasing competition from lowand mid-end Chinese phone makers. 

In India, after being hit by manufacturers of lowand mid-end phones, who are now selling online at cheaper prices, Samsung's sales in the high-end category saw stiff competition from Sony and Apple's flagship devices. Its market share in the Rs 30,000and-above category dropped by around 50% -from 72% in 2012 to 34% in 2013, according to IDC figures. In the same period, Sony's market share grew from 1% to 18% and Apple's market share grew from 18% to 22%.

However, Warsi said that Samsung is still the dominant player in the market. "We still have more than 40% market share in terms of value but it's true that due to dynamic market conditions we are losing market share in the Rs 30,000-and-above category ," he said.
Sanjay Sahni, another Samsung phone dealer, said, "Forced by stiff targets set by Samsung, some distributors used to offload their stocks in the wholesale market at big discounts and the same phones used to find their way online. In the last 15 days, after we started our agitation, online price of the S5 has stabilized. It has gone up from Rs 33,000 to Rs 38,000. But that's not enough. Samsung committed the biggest blunder by slashing the price of its flagship device by around 20% after just two months of its launch. We were caught in the lurch with unsold stocks and now loyal Samsung customers don't want to buy them because they are scared that the prices might fall further."
 

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Xiaomi beats Samsung in China smartphone market: Study

According to Canalys, Xiaomi sold 15 million smartphones in China during the second quarter, more than a three-fold surge from a year earlier.

SEOUL: Xiaomi, a Chinese handset maker little known in the West, overtook tech giant Samsung Electronics Co to become China's top-selling smartphone brand in the second quarter, a market research company has said. 

According to Canalys, Xiaomi sold 15 million smartphones in China during the second quarter, more than a three-fold surge from a year earlier. It surpassed Samsung, which had the leading position in China for more than two years, as well as local brands such as Lenovo and Huawei.

During the April-June period, Samsung's China smartphone sales decreased to 13.2 million units from 15.5 million a year earlier. Lenovo trailed Samsung by a margin of 2 million units. 

Xiaomi is little known in Europe or in North America because it sells nearly all of its smartphones in mainland China. But strong growth in China alone was enough to vault Xiaomi to a top five position among the world's smartphone makers from nowhere the previous year. 

Last week, another market research firm Strategy Analytics said Xiaomi became the world's fifth-largest smartphone vendor for the first time in the second quarter, surpassing LG Electronics Inc. 

Canalys said China was the world's largest smartphone market during the second quarter, with nearly four in every 10 smartphones sold there. 

Jingwen Wang, an analyst at Canalys, said Xiaomi's rise was thanks to its competitive prices and focus on its own mobile software known as MIUI. 

Samsung reported last week its lowest quarterly profit in two years for the second quarter, partly blaming a slowdown of cheap smartphone sales in China. Samsung said it faced higher competition from local brands and weaker demand for its 3G handsets as Chinese consumers shifted to 4G smartphones. 

Samsung and Apple Inc were the only non-Chinese vendors among the top 10 smartphone brands in China. Apple sold 6.8 million iPhones in the second quarter, up 58% from over a year earlier, Canalys said
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Samsung Galaxy Alpha pics leaked online

The images, posted on Chinese micro-blog Weibo, feature the white variant of the alleged Galaxy Alpha phone.

NEW DELHI: A week ahead of its expected launch, Samsung's much talked about metal bodied smartphone, Galaxy Alpha, has appeared in full glory courtesy of a tipster who has posted high quality images of the phone.


The images, posted on Chinese micro-blog Weibo, feature the white variant of the alleged Galaxy Alpha phone. The phone features a metal frame complete with chamfered edges (similar to the iPhone and HTC One (M7)). 

The front of the phone features a checkered pattern houses the display, with a hardware Home key and capacitive back and app switcher keys, placed below it. The right edge features a power button while the left sports a volume rocker key, both also made of metal.



The rear panel has a removable back cover featuring matte finish, a camera lens and a single LED flash accompanied by what looks like a heart rate sensor. The speaker outlet is not at the back. The back does not appear to be made of metal and also features a textured pattern slightly different from the one seen on the Galaxy S5's back. 

The images are similar to the ones published by SamMobile, two weeks ago. 

 

Recently, it was reported that the phone will be unveiled on August 13. 

As per recent screenshots of the phone's AnTuTu benchmark test results, it sports a 4.8-inch 720p display, is powered by Samsung's Exynos Octa 5433 processor and 2GB RAM, has a 12MP rear camera and 2MP front-facing camera, and runs Android 4.4 KitKat. 

Earlier rumours have said that apart from the high-resolution screen, the premium version of Galaxy S5 is said to have a metal body, 20MP rear camera, 2.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon 805 processor and 3GB RAM. The rumour mill also says that Galaxy S5's premium variant will also come with an eight-core processor option in markets where 4G penetration is low. 

In contrast, the original Galaxy S5 has a plastic body, ​5.1-inch Full HD screen, 16MP camera on the back and 2GB RAM; the smartphone comes with Snapdragon 801 as well as eight-core processor options
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BCCI requests ICC to appeal Anderson verdict

New Delhi: The ICC has confirmed that it has received a request from the BCCI to appeal against Gordon Lewis' decision on the Ravindra Jadeja-James Anderson spat. The game's governing body will now consider the written report submitted by Lewis that found both the players not guilty in the hearing.

As per the ICC Code of Conduct, when the person in question has been acquitted of all charges, the right of appeal rests only with the chief executive of the ICC. That decision now falls upon Richardson, who must take a call as to whether to file an appeal or not within five days. Richardson has until August 10 to appeal to the ICC; if he does, a three-member panel will be formed within 48 hours of the said appeal, an ICC statement said.

Anderson had on Friday been ruled not guilty by retired Australian judge Lewis of the Level 3 offence the touring Indian cricket team had charged him with. In his verdict, Lewis stated that a lack of video evidence against Anderson and a biased testimony had forced him to turn down India's claim that the fast bowler had pushed Jadeja during the first Test at Trent Bridgein early July. He had also overturned the 50% match fee fine imposed on Jadeja by David Boon, the match referee, for his role in the confrontation.

BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel confirmed that the board had requested the ICC to file an appeal. "What we have done is we've written a letter to the ICC saying we are not happy with the verdict," he was quoted as saying by Reuters. "We don't have a right to appeal in this case."

Anderson and Jadeja were involved in a heated confrontation during the lunch interval of the second day's play at Trent Bridge, which led to accusations of the England bowler physically and verbally assaulting the Indian allrounder. Anderson exchanged words with both Jadeja and India captain MS Dhoni as they left the field and then the row escalated in the pavilion corridor. The touring Indian team has alleged that Anderson pushed and abused Jadeja, while England have also counter-charged the latter. India are adamant that Anderson instigated the physical clash but the home team counters that Jadeja was just as aggressive and had to be pulled away by his captain.

Although there was no official confirmation from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), the Indian team management is unhappy with unconfirmed reports that there is no video evidence available of the alleged altercation between Anderson and Jadeja despite the fact that a camera had been installed outside the dressing rooms at Trent Bridge.



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Facebook Extends Closing of WhatsApp Acquisition by a Year

Social networking giant Facebook has extended by a year the closing of its landmark $ 19 billion deal to acquire instant messaging app WhatsApp.

The California-based firm will have to pay WhatsApp $ 1 billion in cash and $ 1 billion in stock options in case it fails to close the deal in the stipulated time.

Facebook said the acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, and is expected to close in the second half of 2014.

"This date may be extended by us to August 19, 2015, if as of August 19, 2014 certain closing conditions applicable to Facebook (other than the receipt of certain regulatory approvals) have been satisfied," Facebook said in a US SEC filing last week.

The firm added that at present it expects that these conditions will be satisfied and that "we will extend the date to August 19, 2015."

"We have agreed to pay a termination fee to WhatsApp of $ 1 billion in cash and issue a number of shares of our Class A common stock equal to $ 1 billion, based on average closing price of the ten trading days preceding such termination, if the closing of this acquisition has not occurred by August 19, 2014," it said in the filing.

The filing further said: ". We currently expect these conditions will be satisfied and that we will extend the date to August 19, 2015."

The Mark Zuckerberg-led firm, which raised $ 16 billion in the richest tech sector public stock offering in 2012, said its biggest acquisition (of WhatsApp) so far, will not impact WhatsApp's brand.

The hefty transaction which includes $ 12 billion worth of Facebook shares, $ 4 billion in cash and $ 3 billion in restricted stock units will boost the world's biggest social network presence by adding 450 million users of WhatsApp, including a significant number of youth.

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JD.com to Sell Microsoft's Xbox One in China

JD.com Inc, China's second-biggest e-commerce company by market share, will accept pre-orders for Microsoft Corp's Xbox One games console in China from July 28 to July 30, the firm said on Monday.

The pre-orders will be taken via Tencent Holdings' mobile social networks Mobile QQ and WeChat, known as Weixin in China, JD.com said in a statement. Tencent holds a 17.6 percent stake in JD.com.

The Xbox One will be the first gaming console to be released in mainland China since the government banned console sales in 2000, citing games' effects on mental health.

(Also see: PlayStation, Xbox could come to China after ban on foreign consoles is lifted)

On Friday, China Telecom, the country's smallest wireless carrier, said it would sell the Xbox Onewhen released in September.

In September last year, Microsoft reached a deal with Chinese Internet TV set-top box maker BesTV New Media Co Ltd to form a joint venture to manufacture the consoles in Shanghai's Free Trade Zone.

Released in November, the Xbox One has trailed in sales to Sony Corp's PlayStation 4, launched around the same time.

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Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 Could Bring Support for Folders and Smart Cases

It seems Microsoft will soon roll out the first update for Windows Phone 8.1 devices, as the Redmond giant has already shipped it to manufacturers. A report quoting sources has claimed the update will bring support for app folders and smart flip cases, amongst other new features.

According to Nokiapoweruser, the Windows Phone 8.1 GDR1 - as the first update to Windows Phone 8.1 is called - is being tested by manufactures, the first 'public' step in the lifecycle of an update. The report claims the update brings Android and iOS-like feature to create folders for simpler management of apps. Users will be able to drag and drop tiles on top of other tiles to create a folder. This is not completely unexpected, since last month the company accidentally made live one of the webpagesdetailing steps for creating a folder on Windows Phone 8.1.

Another feature in Windows Phone 8.1 GDR1, as per the report, will be support for smart flip cases for devices. Smart cases have become rather popular these days with the likes of HTC dot case, LGQuick-Circle case, Samsung S-view case, and more; and it seems Windows Phone will get support for them.

(Also see: Windows Phone 8.1 'Cyan' Update Now Rolling Out to Lumia Users) 

Additionally, the Windows Phone 8.1 GDR1 update change log obtained by the website suggests it will include Voice over LTE (VoLTE) support, dual-SIM support for both GSM and CDMA networks, a medium Live Tile for the Store app, a phonebook entry for virtual assistant Cortana to enable integration with car's navigation system, support for 7-inch devices and WXGA 800x1280 pixels resolution devices.

The next logical question is on the timing on the update, and while the original report is silent on the subject, The Verge says Microsoft plans to release Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 to developers within this week, failing which, it will happen next month (August).

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Motorola Working on 5.9-Inch 'Shamu' Nexus Smartphone: Report

There have been several rumours around the next Nexus smartphone, including reports of Google dumping its Nexus programme in favour of a Project Silver (Android Silver), and then the Head ofAndroid Engineering and Nexus Program refuting the claim.

LG, the company who has manufactured Nexus smartphones (Nexus 4 and Nexus 5) for two consecutive years, in the meanwhile revealed it is not working on the Nexus 6.

Now, a new report claims that the next iteration of the Nexus phone will be unveiled later this year, with Motorola is working on the device. The rumour comes from Google's issue tracker, first spotted by Android Police, which shows the 'Shamu' reference for a device.

The report notes that the next Nexus smartphone is set for a November release and will head to major mobile carriers in the US along with other regions. The report claims that the rumoured 'Shamu' will sport a 5.9-inch display and will come with fingerprint sensor.

Further, Android Police after some digging found that the user who filed the bug with 'Shamu' reference in the Google issue tracker was a company named, Spirent Communications, a company that tests devices for errors.

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HTC Reportedly Working on Windows Phone Version of One (M8)

HTC is expected to launch a Windows Phone version of its One (M8) later this year, a report claims.

WMPoweruser reports that the Taiwanese handset maker will re-enter Windows Phone segment with its Windows Phone 8.1-based HTC One (M8). The company launched the HTC 8S and HTC 8X back in 2012.

(Also see: HTC One (M8) Review | Pictures)

Further confirming the claims, Tom Warren from The Verge in a tweet said, "Oh and HTC is working on a Windows Phone version of the One. Should be out later this year." Unfortunately, there is no specified time frame revealed for the launch of Windows Phone 8.1-based One (M8).

It's worth noting that we are yet to hear any official announcement from the company regarding launch of the smartphone.

Initially announced in March, HTC launched the One (M8) flagship smartphone in India at Rs. 49,900.

(Also see: HTC One (M8) vs. Samsung Galaxy S5 vs. Sony Xperia Z2 vs. iPhone 5s)

The report suggests that the One (M8) smartphone's Windows Phone version will come with same specifications as the Android version of the handset.

(Also see: HTC One (M8) vs. HTC One)

The One (M8) includes a dual rear camera setup that puts a 4-UltraPixel camera alongside a 5-megapixel front camera. The phone packs a 2600mAh battery; supports Nano-SIM; 2.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor; 2GB of RAM; 5-inch full-HD display; 16GB and 32GB storage options, and supports expandable storage via microSD card of up to 128GB capacity.

Earlier this month, HTC announced the dual-SIM variant of its flagship, dubbed HTC One (M8) Dual SIM.

HTC One (M8)

Rs. 49990

• REVIEW
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• Design
• Display
• Software
• Performance
• Battery life
• Camera
• Value for money

• Good
• Metal body and good construction quality
• Camera works brilliantly in many conditions
• Good pricing

• Bad
• Clunky software and interface
• Camera tricks are mostly comical
• A bit big and unwieldy

Read detailed HTC One (M8) review

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