Buy an iPhone from T-Mobile, get half off a second one

T-Mobile has a new deal for you if you're a fan of Apple's iPhones. Starting tomorrow, the magenta carrier will give you half off one iPhone when you purchase two of them. So you pay the full price for one iPhone, and half of it for the second one. That's the theory.

In practice, you'll find that the discount will come to you in the form of a prepaid MasterCard. Oh, and you need to add a line for the second device. This line needs to remain active until at least July 15.

The deal works with any iPhone model currently sold by T-Mobile, so you can pick and choose from the iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 5s, and iPhone 5c, or the new iPhone SE. You can take advantage of the promotion even if you've already pre-ordered an iPhone SE.

The second iPhone needs to be cheaper or the same value as the first, as you'd expect. The iPhone SE officially becomes available tomorrow, after a full week of pre-orders.

Sony Xperia Z3 now available for just $250 in US

Sony's flagship smartphone from 2014 - the Xperia Z3 - has received a price cut in the US, where retailer B&H Photo is currently selling the device for $249.95, down from its usual price of $449.95.

That turns out to be a solid $200 discount for a device that is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 801 chipset, sports a 5.2-inch full HD IPS display, and has 3GB RAM and 20.7MP main camera. A quick look at Amazon reveals that the retailer is selling the same model for around $300.

It's worth mentioning that the deal is available for the next few hours only (11 as of writing). So, those interested in taking advantage of it need to act fast.

Apple has signed a deal with MLB to provide iPads to teams

Microsoft struk a lucrative advertising slash professional tool deal to provide Surface tablets to the NFL, and now Apple is after the same kind of exposure. The Cupertino giant has opted for a quite different sport and went after Major League Baseball, but other than that, the premise of the new deal seems to be the same.

In exchange for exposure during games, Apple will provide specially tailored iPad Pro units to each team in the league, to be used as professional tools. The devices in question will be of the bigger 12.9-inch variety (more visible on camera, I guess), bear the team logo and be tailored to its specific needs, like a digital playbook of sorts. Some potential features could include access to historical game statistics and various data analysis on the fly even down to pitcher-batter match simulations.

On the software part of things, the iPad Pro's will be running a specialized iOS app, called MLB Dugout, built in-house by MLB’s Advance Media Division. It is intended as a standalone solution, meaning that each iPad will be fed with only the owner team's specific data, as opposed to a cloud-based solution. This should help protect security and guard sensitive tactical data, although judging by the adoption difficulties Microsoft has been facing with its NFL contract, we can only expect to see the iPads mostly hang around as a banner background for some time to come.

Canonical and Microsoft are working to bring Ubuntu to Windows 10

Yes, that is correct, as per industry sources, Canonical - the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution and Microsoft have partnered up to integrate Ubuntu into Windows 10.

By all accounts, this won't be done through the use of virtual machines, nor containers, which still seem to be in development within project Barcelona. Rather, the idea is to bring over the Bash shell experience, along with all of its powerful console tools, to run on top of Windows libraries and the Linux subsystem, introduced in the new Windows 10 Redstone build.

While running Bash on Windows is in no way a new concept, having it integrated within the OS is a whole different thing, which will surely clear the way for many new powerful Linux tools on the platform.

This might not be all too exciting for regular Windows users, of course, other than some potential UI modding, if desktop environments like Unity, Gnome, KDE and the like become available as well. However, it is a move aimed squarely at increasing the popularity of Windows 10 as a powerful development environment.

Apple updates Maps with Nearby search and Flyover in more countries

Apple has updated its Maps service to expand the Flyover and Traffic support in a number of countries. Now Austria, Denmark, Japan and Switzerland proximity-based Nearby search results on iPhone and iPad..

As for the Flyover - you can now enjoy 3D imagery with photorealistic bird's eye view of Augsburg, Braunshweif, and Hanover in Germany, Newcastle upon Tyne in England and the Japanese prefecture of Niigata.

Finally, in Turkey Maps has been updated to support real-time traffic data. Apple has done a nice job with this one, but has to put in a lot more effort in Maps before it stands a chance against Google Maps.

LG G5 pre-orders in Germany come with free Cam Plus grip

Mainland Europe is getting the LG G5 a bit later than the US and South Korea, but Amazon Germany will start selling the flagship in the middle of the month and will offer a free Cam Plus grip.

The phone - available in Gold, Silver and Titan - costs €700 and the grip alone is €100, but using the LGG5AKTION code, the grip becomes free. The deal is valid for orders until April 16.

The grip helps shooting with an additional 1,200mAh battery and hardware controls - photo shutter and video recorder keys, plus a zoom dial.

The LG 360 Cam and LG B&O DAC are available too, but you'll have to pay for those - €267 and €150 respectively.

Twitter update brings image description for the visually impaired

Twitter is rolling out an update for its iOS and Android apps that should make using the service a bit easier for the visually impaired.

Starting today, users can now add descriptive or alternative text to images that they attach to their tweets. You get 420 characters, separate from the 140 for the tweet, to describe the image however you want. The text will then be read out by assistive technology or presented in braille on supported hardware, so the visually impaired can not just read the tweet but also get an idea of what the attached image is.

Twitter is also making this available to third party clients, which should be adding it in later updates.

LG G5 sales start tomorrow in Korea, April 1 in the US

The LG G5 officially goes on sale tomorrow, March 31, in its home country of South Korea and then in the US the following day.

The modular flagship has been on pre-order for a week and AT&T has started shipping its units, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile will follow suit soon.

LG says that 200 carriers will offer the LG G5, with availability reaching Europe, Asia and the Middle East soon.

It seems that the UK launch will be a week from now, April 8. There's no word on Canada, but can't be long now.

G5's friends - the CAM Plus grip and B&O hi-fi adapter, along with the 360 CAM, 360 VR and a few others - will be available in select markets either at rollout or soon after.

The LG G5 won 33 awards from GSMA's Glomo Awards, including Best Smartphone. "Modularity has been talked about for years but no one was able to consumerize it until now and we’re happy to take on the mantle," says Juno Cho, president and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile.

Samsung launches the Galaxy A9 Pro in China

After a never ending series of leaks and rumors, the Samsung Galaxy A9 Pro (2016) is finally official in China.

The A9 Pro is a slightly upgraded version of the A9. It has the same 6.0-inch 1080p display and the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 in an identical design.

The differences include 4GB RAM instead of 3GB, 32GB storage instead of 16GB, and a 16 megapixel camera on the back instead of 13.

The battery has been boosted to 5,000mAh and supports fast charging. The phone runs on Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow.

The Galaxy A9 Pro is priced at 3499 yuan ($540).

New Google Photos update brings ability to undo edits

Google has rolled out a new update to its Google Photos app that brings along the ability to undo any edits that you make to images. Previously, this wasn't possible, with the app creating a new copy of the image each time an edit was saved. Thankfully, that won't be the case now.

To take advantage of the feature, first open an image containing edits, then get into the edit mode by tapping the edit icon at the bottom (next to the share icon), and finally select the 'Undo edits' option that appears when you tap the overflow menu in the upper right corner.

"Sometimes it takes multiple edits to get a photo just right – or you change your mind and decide the original was perfect just the way it was," Google Photos team wrote in a Google+ post. "With today’s update for Android, editing is now fully reversible and non-destructive. So you can save your edits or save a new copy of the photo – either way, the original photo will remain untouched."

Watch the ceramic back of the Xiaomi Mi 5 take a lot of abuse in this official stress test

The Xiaomi Mi 5 has a lot going for it. A Snapdragon 820 SoC, up to 4GB of RAM and an impressive 16MP camera with a 4-axis OIS system, to name a few. But the handset is also dressed to impress in the flagship circles it intends to mingle with, especially in its top-tier ceramic back variant.

This material choice is definitely not unheard of, take the OnePlus X for instance, but it still seems to raise some flags with many users, who seem to typically associate ceramic with a brittle dinner plate or perhaps a vase. In an effort to address this, Xiaomi has released a stress test video, putting said back through quite a bit of abuse.

Now, we only have one complaint about the clip and its has to do with quality. If you are going to showcase how well the surface handles, it is generally a good idea to have enough pixels, so we can see the end result. Still, the phone did look quite well and there is no denying that the clip is incredibly amusing. Take a quick look for yourself.

And if you are after some additional info on the Mi 5, check out our in-depth reviewc.

Nintendo's 'Miitomo' app coming to US tomorrow

Nintendo's first mobile app Miitomo will be available for download in the United States tomorrow, a couple of weeks after it was launched in the company's home country of Japan.

This was announced by Nintendo in a press release, where-in the company also noted that the app will simultaneously also be launched in "several other countries." These regions include Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Australia, and New Zealand.

Those interested in knowing when Miitomo is ready to download can pre-register for the app, something which you can do by signing up for a Nintendo Account at a dedicated website (hit the Pre-register link below).

"People that create their Nintendo Account and preregister before March 31 will also receive Platinum Points for the new My Nintendo rewards program, which will simultaneously launch with Miitomo," Nintendo said.

In case you missed, Miitomo became the top social-networking iOS app in Japan the day it was launched. It also crossed the 1 million users milestone in just three days.