Apple’s announcement of the iPhone 6 Plus is not only significant in that it’s a great deal larger than any smartphone the company has created before, but it also drafts the Cupertino company into the realm of the “phablet.” A term derived from the combination of phone and tablet, these large handsets have taken the smartphone world by storm over the past few years, and while Samsung’s Galaxy Note was the originator of this niche market, it now shares this space with several rivaling vendors. Below, you can take a look at how the iPhone 6 Plus stands up – in terms of size and specs, both – against the also-new Galaxy Note 4, Nokia’s Lumia 1520 and LG’s mammoth G3.

Although Microsoft has a nice, intuitive mobile OS and a decent selection of handsets on which to run it, Windows Phone is missing one major component – customers. As such, we’ve seen a number of promotional, trade-in offers over the past couple of weeks, including a free Lumia 520 / 521 for those willing to pay $100 for an Xbox Music pass. But if you’re in the market for something a little more high-end, the latest offer from the software maker, which will net you a free Lumia 1020 or Lumia 1520 (albeit on contract) in exchange for an old Galaxy S2 / iPhone 4/4s, may just prove too tempting.

Nokia may be no more an individual entity as far as smartphone manufacturing is concerned, but that doesn’t anywhere mean that we’ve seen the last of Lumia devices. As had been hinted several times over the course of past couple of months, the company unveiled two major smartphones today in the Lumia lineup at the Nokia World 2013 event in Abu Dhabi – the Lumia 1520 powerhouse, and its relatively younger sibling, the Lumia 1320. Here’s all you need to know about the new devices.

Twitter has always been a great source for information regarding upcoming technology and related innovations, and a recent tweet from Nokia is just another testament to that fact. The tweet in question features a teaser at a Nokia event on October 22, with the hash tag “innovation reinvented”, alongside the image that shows off something really exotic; desert skiing.