Huawei has just announced that the company will be unveiling its new flagship in the Mate lineup, namely the Huawei Mate 8 on September 2. Like tradition, the unveiling will be at IFA in Berlin this year.
We have seen a number of smartphones from the company in 2015 like the Huawei P8, Honor 7, Honor 4C, 4A, etc. This would be the third major smartphone flagship from the company this year, which clearly shows the amount of investment in the smartphone market.
The company hasn’t officially revealed any details for the Mate 8, but it is said that the phone will feature the new Kirin 950 64-bit chip with 3GB / 4GB RAM versions. Like the previous generation Mate 7, the new model is also expected to come with an all metal design. There should be a 20.7MP camera at the back along with a fingerprint sensor. Other details are scarce, but we can expect to hear a lot more information in the coming days.
Xiaomi has been known not only for its affordable yet great smartphones but also for a lot of different accessories. In addition, many of these accessories are actually independent gadgets and one of them is a super affordable aluminium Bluetooth speaker.
After using this device for a few days I have been really impressed with it and I strongly believe that it is one of the best budget Bluetooth speakers you can purchase on the market today. Check out a video review to find out everything you need in just over 4 mins!
Xiaomi Aluminium Bluetooth Speaker Review: VIDEO
Xiaomi Aluminium Bluetooth Speaker: UNBOXING
The device comes in a plain box and the contents include just the speaker itself and Chinese instruction manual. Keep it mind that there is no USB cable included but I bet you have a spare one.
Xiaomi Aluminium Bluetooth Speaker: DESIGN
The very first impressions you’re gonna get is the speaker is very tiny and lightweight.
It is not entirely made out of aluminium as the speaker grill and the back side spots a plastic material. Still, it does not feel cheap at all.
The sides of the speaker definitely add a bit of a premium look as a metal chassis goes around the entire speaker. In addition, there are a few silicone pads on the bottom side to prevent the speaker from sliding on the table.
The right side is a little control centre where you can find a power on/off switch, Bluetooth LED and micro USB charging port.
Other sides of the speaker are clean except the bottom part where you can find silicone pads, which prevent speaker from sliding. That is a little but neat feature that not every manufacturer understands as a must. I have reviewed a few Bluetooth speakers, which did not have these pads and it was a nightmare to use it. They kept sliding on the table when played at high volumes, so I could not leave them without taking care of. Otherwise, they would simply fall off the table because of low frequency sound.
Overall, this speaker definitely exceeded my expectations. For under $20 you are getting a very well built device, which has some premium materials in the construction. Also, it is very compact and lightweight. In addition, it is just a tad longer than a 5.5” Letv Le 1 Pro smartphone. In fact, you can even fit this little speaker into you back pocket.
Xiaomi Aluminium Bluetooth Speaker: PAIRING
Pairing the Xiaomi bluetooth speaker is very easy as the pairing mode turns on automatically once you power on the device. All you have to do is turn on the bluetooth on your smartphone and select it. All other times the speaker will connect to your smartphone automatically in just a second.
Xiaomi Aluminium Bluetooth Speaker: SOUND QUALITY
For such a compact speaker the sound quality is very good and it even has a little bit of bass in it. In addition, you would not believe how loud it is. Literally, the speaker can’t even keep the balance at the highest volumes when you pump up the bass setting on your smartphone’s music player.
Xiaomi Aluminium Bluetooth Speaker: CONCLUSIONS
Overall, the Xiaomi Aluminium (I prefer saying Aluminum, you may have noticed that in my video). Bluetooth speaker is a wonderful cheap little gadget. I have to tell that I didn’t have any issues with the range as the Bluetooth 4.0 is one of the newest standards. In addition, I got around 8 hours of music playback, which is really amazing considering how tiny it is.
On the other hand, some control buttons would have been a nice addition as right now you can only control it via your smartphone. Also, make sure you reduce the amount of bass in equaliser settings, so you don’t break the speaker.
Finally, the design and build quality are really premium and considering the overall package it’s hard to believe that this device does not even cost $20. Please use a coupon code: GBXMSP and get it for just $18.99!
Now that the OnePlus 2 unveiling is less than a week away, not a day goes by without any significant news about the new flagship. And once again, today, we have some very interesting news about the OnePlus 2. The device has just hit TENAA revealing a bunch of pictures. This will be the first time we are going to see the handset’s design.
One of the interesting things revealed by these images is the presence of the physical home button. You can clearly see the oval shaped home button right below the display. It will also harbor the fingerprint ID sensor.
OnePlus 2
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At the back, you can see that the placement of the camera unit is a bit lower than usual. There’s also the laser autofocus below the camera sensor. According to the camera review by MKBHD, this helped focus at tremendous speeds, in most cases less than a second. On the left side, you will also find a new button, which could be a customizable function key.
Unfortunately, the TENAA listing didn’t reveal much about the specifications. But then, we already know so much about the device, that it hardly makes any difference. We expect the OnePlus 2 to come in two variants. Inside, there will be Snapdragon 810 v2.1 on board (check out the recent AnTuTu benchmark!), 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM, 32GB storage, 13MP camera with Laser AF, USB Type-C port, 3300mAh battery and 5.5-inch 2K display. The price is confirmed to be below $450.
Weibo is often a source of new leaks and rumors. The latest rumor that is going around this Chinese social networking site is about a Xiaomi smartwatch. Earlier today, leaksfly, who is known to leak news about gadgets revealed a few details about a new Xiaomi smartwatch. Of course, Leaksfly hasn’t been accurate all the time, so before you get too excited, take the following news with a pinch of salt.
According to Leaksfly, the new Xiaomi smartwatch will come with Qualcomm S410 chip, with 520MB RAM and 4GB of internal storage. It will have heart rate monitor and other such features traditionally found on a smartwatch. There will be a 1.3-inch screen, but we don’t know whether it will be round watch.
The leak further adds that the Xiaomi smartwatch should release sometime in November this year for 600 Yuan ($96).
It makes sense for Xiaomi to expand its wearable line up this year. We have already seen that Xiaomi was the second largest wearable smartband maker in the world, thanks to its best selling Xiaomi Mi Band. So, a logical upgrade would be to expand this popular lineup with smartwatch this year.
However, we are not quite convinced with the specs posted by Leaksfly. So, like we mentioned above, take this news with a pinch of salt and wait for some concrete information before getting excited.
Mini PCs are now becoming a fashionable item at home and they may be around to stay. The competition is not only in design, with Voyo having included an in-built battery in their latest voyo V2 TV box. This makes it much better than the likes of Compute Stick from Intel. The V2 TV Box is made of tempered glass, which is scratch resistant to make the sleek designed device keep a good appearance for longer. It will allow home users to stream videos, movies, music as well as edit video/pictures, browse the internet and share everything with other devices via Wi-Fi, Ethernet and Bluetooth.
The compact system is larger than the average stick PC due to the included in-built battery, but smaller than a traditional PC. Voyo V2 TV Box is offered with two battery options, with one packing a 8,000mAh capacity battery, and the other a battery of 4,500mAh in capacity. The latter compensates with an extra 64GB of storage space. The model fitted with a 8,000mAh battery is a bit cheaper at $123.24 than with one that has a smaller capacity battery – which trades at $134.06. The two batteries are of lithium ion type.
Of course the device is not completely versatile. Even wherever you go with it, a screen will be needful. But let’s talk about the advantage of having an in-built battery on a mini-PC: if you wanted to keep a mini PC for longer in order to enjoy services of this device, you will need to have a UPS if there is no in-built battery. This adds in extra costs. Again, with an in-built battery, you will be purchasing one device than having two separate parts (UPS and mini PC), especially with regard to portability.
Most of systems with in-built battery/power systems come with power management capabilities, meaning you not only save on power consumption, but also do you keep the device for longer than with a UPS.
However, like is the case with other mini PCs, you will need to buy a keyboard, mouse and have a separate screen. Some of these devices are sold together with the mini PC, which removes additional costs on the side of the buyer. In deed, separate powering for the screen is necessary even if the mini PC is on with its in-built battery.
By releasing its first smartphone UBRO M1yesterday, the company UBRO has set the new standards in the industry. As per the news from the core of the company, this will be the first smartphone that is releasing the BOM i.e Bill of Material.
Bill of Materialcan be interpreted as the total cost of all parts in the manufacturing industry. The purpose of the company is to rise with the technology by providing clear information of the cost of manufacturing hardware to the consumers.
The most attractive part of this launch was to make it worth buying for the customers. So UBRO came up with the most reasonable price of M1.
UBRO facilitates the following three features:
1. Quality, price, performance
2. Create UBRO APP communication system
3. Build the UBRO authorized retail system
In this era, where technology is growing at a very fast rate, the mode “only manufacture” can not promote the industry to deeper development. UBRO prefers to get the feedback in form of suggestions and ideas from its customers regularly and is more interested to work on the features of their needs.
UBRO believes in Art, passion and collaboration. They make customers happy and soon in the month of October, they are going to upload Ubro Apps to Google Play.
UBRO has a plan to develop an UBRO Communication App just to better realize its functions. Also, to better serve the local customers, UBRO authorized retail systemwill co-operate with the local stores in Europe.
As for their first phone, the UBRO M1 comes with a 5-inch HD display with 2GB RAM, 16GB internal memory and 64bit MT6735 chipset on board. They also land to launch an M1 Mini (which oddly enough is still a 5-inch phone) and M1 Pro with larger 5.5-inch FHD display.
Check out ubro’s official website: http://www.ubromobile.com/
I have received a report via their Chinese micro-blog Weibo (like Twitter) that the ZUK team carried out an extensive battery test on their upcoming ZUK Z1 smartphone last week.
From the report what is really impressive is that the result showed the ZUK Z1 drained ONLY 47% of the battery in a 9.25 hour test.
for the test the phone was used on 4G LTE networks with WiFi also on, as well as constantly using all kinds of apps like WeChat ( like WhatsApp) and QQ etc.
From what we already know now the phone will come with a 4000+mAh battery and ZUK are promising software optimisation to further reduce power consumption, all of which is good news for heavy users.
Lets hope that these figures are reflected when the phone arrives to the market, if they are it holds a lot of promise.
The guys over at Elephone have ported flyme 4.5.4 (based on android 5.1.1) to the P7000 there are a few bugs that are still to be ironed out, but the fact they are supporting the phone even though they are working on new models should go some way towards silencing the doubters.
The rom can be downloaded and flashed via pc or using the Ele flash app (this requires root)
Along with the ZTE Axon flagship, the company also unveiled a brand new smartwatch in the Axon family. The watch called simply as the ZTE Axon Watch comes with a 1.4-inch Gorilla Glass display with sapphire coating.
The watch supports both voice and gesture controls and runs on the Tencent OS which is reportedly jointly developed by the two companies. The Axon watch is IP67 certified, so no need to worry about water or dust. Under the hood, there’s a Qualcomm chip with 512MB RAM and 4GB of internal storage. There’s a 300mAh battery on board to power the device.
Axon Watch comes with a host of sensors, all of which have been mentioned below. There’s also a heart rate sensor on board. Thanks to these, you can monitor your fitness and health with the smartwatch. Other features includes support for applications like messaging, phone calls etc.
You can check out the full tech specs of the ZTE Axon Watch from down below.
Today, ZTE officially announced the ZTE Axon and the ZTE Axon Lux at the company’s Beijing event. The Axon phone was already announced a few days back in US, so we knew most of the specifications of the device. However, there is one major difference between the international model and the Chinese version. The latter comes with a three different biometric sensors namely fingerprint, voice control and eye-scan. Other specs are more or less the same.
The ZTE Axon Lux is the higher-end version, and features a WQHD 5.5-inch display with pixel density of over 534 ppi. There will be 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM on board along with 128GB of internal storage which is further expandable. As for the standard Axon model, it comes with a 1080p 5.5-inch display (400ppi) and 3GB + 32GB internal storage (expandable) option.
Other specs are same, which include Snapdragon 810 octa-core chip, Hi-Fi AK4961 chip, dual cameras (13MP+2MP) with dual LED flash and a 3000mAh battery with Quick Charge. There are a lot of security features as well on both the devices like Fingerprint Scanner, Visit Mode, TrustZone, Eyeprint ID, and Voice Unlocking. This also makes it the first phone to support three different biometric authentication options.
As for pricing, the Axon Lux costs 3888 Yuan while the standard Axon edition costs 2699 Yuan. There will be two color options, namely Ion Gold and Chromium Silver. Users can order the phone from ZTE’s official website or via JD.com.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSmGSQJySp8
You can check out the full tech specs of both the handsets from down below.
We were present at the ZTE’s Axon event today and we do have some pictures as well as videos of the device (coming soon). We already mentioned the four new products that were going to debut at the event, namely the ZTE Axon, Axon Lux, Axon Watch and SPro2 smart projector. But alongside these new devices, the company also showcased the upcoming ZTE Axon Mini smartphone.
While we don’t focus a lot on the Mini versions of flagships, the Axon Mini will be a bit unique. Gizmochina’s Shine was present at the event and he says that’s the touch screen on the new Axon Mini is amazing. The phone features the world’s first 5.2-inch Super AMOLED display with force touch screen. Yes, it looks like ZTE beat Apple to develop the world’s first smartphone with force touch display. Apple iPhone 6S was rumored to come with this tech, but ZTE will probably launch the device much before that.
ZTE Axon Mini’s Tech Explained During Event
Force Touch screen is quite unique as compared to traditional panels in the sense that users can perform additional gestures just by varying the force with which they press the screen. Its not like your regular long press to open additional dialog which operates by taking into consideration how long your finger is on the screen. Instead, the force touch display can actually measure how hard you are pressing the display. It can differentiate between a light touch and a hard press. So, you can basically assign different functions for varying levels of touch.
It opens up a lot of possibilities, especially in case of apps. For example, he could try out the piano app on the Axon Mini and the sound varies on the basis of the pressure applied. A light touch on the key produced soft sound, while a hard touch produced a much louder tone.
Apart from this amazing feature, we have little details about the new phone. The Axon Mini will come in four different silver, gold, orange and pink. ZTE is expected to release it sometime in September.
Unfortunately, the company didn’t allow attendees to take pictures or videos of the Axon Mini. So, those who were not present at the event will probably have to wait until the phone is announced official.
Although UMI is still a relatively small Chinese smartphone manufacturer, the company is doing everything to expand its presence in the international markets. At midnight today, UMI announced via its official Facebook page that it has added a number of Amazon websites in Europe as the official reseller of its devices, including smartphone and accessories. The company is also offering these devices at discounted prices on the store.
At present, the UMI eMax as well as the Voix Bluetooth headphones have been listed on five different European Amazon websites, including UK, Italy, Spain, France and Germany. The company is currently offering 20% discount on these products when you buy from these stores. What’s more, given that these are European Amazon stores, you will receive your product quite fast. The company claims that it would take only around 3-7 days for the in stock eMax and Voix Bluetooth headphones to get to the customers. That’s way less than the average time it takes for the same product to ship from China warehouse.
Also, in case you are wondering, the coupon code for the discount is located below each link. Its turns out to be a very good offer for those who were planning to buy the UMI eMax or even the Voix Bluetooth headphones. To recap, the eMax is a 5.5-inch octa-core phablet which features a massive 3780mAh battery on board. Its an ideal device for heavy users. You can check out more details from our earlier article. Also, read more about the Voix Bluetooth from here.
So, what do you think about this move from UMI? Would you like to see UMI products listed on Amazon India too?
ZTE has a special event in Beijing later today and our team is already present at the location.
We will be live blogging important updates from the event as and when it happens and it looks like there’s going to be more than one launch today.
We expected the Axon phone to debut in China at the event, but the company has teased us with yet another product, a brand new ZTE smartwatch!
In fact, the company has just sent out three cookies, one shaped like the ZTE Axon (there’s fingerprint sensor at the back!!!), one shaped like a smartwatch and there’s one more, which we still have to figure out exactly what it is. Well, you can have a guess by checking out the images down below.
In case you are curious, this is probably what the Chinese variant of Axon would end up looking, according to TENAA.
ZTE has just revealed all the products that will be launched at today’s event.
Here’s a summary of the products and their specs:
ZTE Axon Smartphone:
Yes, like expected, ZTE will be announcing its ZTE Axon flagship in China today. The company has officially revealed the specifications of the device. They are as follow:
There will be another surprise launch at today’s event, the new ZTE Axon Lux flagship. The phone features slightly upgraded specs as compared to the standard Axon version.
Last year, around November, ZTE had unveiled its new V series smartphones namely, ZTE V5S and the ZTE V5 Max. Both devices were aimed to provide the best specs under 1000 Yuan. Now, it looks like the company is all set to unveil a new generation model in the V5 series on July 29.
A new set of alleged images of the new ZTE V5 model were leaked earlier today revealing a much refined design as compared to its previous generation models. Back in November, we had taken a look at both the handsets, and were impressed by the simple plastic design and decent performance. However, this time, it looks like the new ZTE V5 will come in an all metal design as opposed to the plastic one. Also, there seems to be a fingerprint sensor at the back of the device, just below the camera unit.
New ZTE V series model
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So, it looks like at least in the design department the new model will be better than the V5 Max. As for the specs, we have no idea at the moment. But given that the V series phones are targeted at the budget users, don’t expect anything out of the ordinary.
Just yesterday, Coolpad announced its new Dazen Note 3 with a fingerprint sensor on board for 899 Yuan ($144) and we expect the new ZTE V5 to directly compete with this device.
Its good to see, affordable mid-range devices are now coming with fingerprint sensors on board. This does provide a lot of new options for buyers in the market.
ZTE is expected to unveil the device on July 29, which is just around a week away. So, lets wait and see, if we get more information especially about its specs in the coming days before launch.
Yesterday, OnePlus CEO Pete Lau had released a few pictures of the OnePlus 2 which were directly compared with the iPhone 6. The photos specifically focused on the night time camera performance of both the handsets and in most cases, OnePlus 2 did a pretty good job of capturing more light, less noise and clicking better pictures. This was basically done to show off the impressive low light performance of the new OnePlus flagship.
OP2 vs iP6: Night Time Performance
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OP2 (left) & iPhone 6 (right)
Now, a new set of OnePlus 2 camera samples have been posted on the Chinese OnePlus forums. These images been directly compared with the Samsung Galaxy S6. This time, the company has focused on the macro shooting capability of both the devices.
When we compare both the images, you can see that the OnePlus 2 manages to take better macro shots. The colors look a lot brighter and realistic and the images turned out to be less blurry too. In the end, the macro shots of the OnePlus 2 (on the left) come with more detail and sharpness as compared to the S6.
OP2 vs SG6: Macro Shots
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OP2 (left) vs GS6 (right)
So, it looks like the company may have put a lot of efforts in upgrading the camera on the new OnePlus 2. The low light images turned out to be impressive and so did the macro shots that were released today. As for the actual camera specs, we are still not quite sure. Some say that the OP2 comes with a 13MP sensor and PDAF, while others say that there will be a 16MP rear camera. Whatever the case maybe, it looks like the camera performance will be much better than the current generation OnePlus One.
We hope to receive more details pretty soon, so stay tuned to the website.
However, earlier today, we came across another AnTuTu benchmark of the same OnePlus 2 A2001 model. This time it managed to score over 63,700 points! Yes, finally, we can see some powerful scores posted by the octa-core Snapdragon 810 chipset, which is even above the Xiaomi Mi Note Pro top version.
But what does this mean? One possibility is that the 51K score was posted by a prototype model, which was throttled to a great extent. Even though 51K on AnTuTu is not a bad score, Snapdragon 801 was powerful enough to post the same score. So, a new generation chip like Snapdragon 810 is expected to at least beat this score by a nominal margin.
What we can take from this score is the performance capacity of the new Snapdragon 810 chipset. However, this does bring back the issue about overheating. Given that OnePlus has promised that it won’t happen, we will have to wait and see whether the chip inside OnePlus 2 is throttled to a great extent or not.
UPDATE I have just received a newer version of the rom to install S2_20150704 this is said to improve the stability of the camera.
Once I have got this installed and had a good play I will add more information.
I have been using a pre-production model of the S2 for several weeks, the phone is still undergoing optimisations to both the hardware and software.
The phone comes in a nice box with a slide out tray that contains the phone and accessories.
These include a spare screen protector (plastic not temperd glass), a silicone case, USB lead and 2 pin usb charger block.
The first thing you will notice when taking the phone out of the box is the diamond pattern to the rear, it has a nice deep luster and as Elephone have said when the light hits from different angles it is refracted differently looking like a cut gem stone.
The HD screen is bright and clear with great viewing angles, whilst I would have preferred an FHD display, this screen has more than enough resolution to fill its 5” screen, the front screen is covered with 2.5D glass as is the rear giving a smooth stylish feel.
Speaking of 5” screens, to me this is an optimum size for most users, it feels good and is easy to reach all corners of the screen one handed, but for those of you that prefer a larger phone the S2 Plus will also be available.
The phones Alu-Alloy chassis feels sturdy (without exerting a large amount of force on the phone), and does not bend or flex, the fact that it has 2.5D tempered glass front and back probably helps the phones overall rigidity.
To help keep the overall width of the phone down, Elephone have decided to go with a fixed rear cover, this does mean that the battery is non removable.
Measuring in at just 6.8mm thick and weighing 130g, the phone is pocket friendly and looks very premium.
On the left side of the chassis you will find the sim/sd tray.
The right hand side has the volume up and down rocker as well as the power button, the buttons all appear to be made from the same Alu-alloy as the chassis.
at the top of the phone you will find a 3.5mm headphone jack and a small hole that I assume is for noise cancelation.
The bottom of the phone is where you will find the micro USB port and also the hole for the microphone.
The front glass of the phone has three capacitive buttons, these are not illuminated but I think we all know where to find the home and back buttons etc by now.
At the top of the screen you will find the front facing camera, earpiece and proximity sensor.
On the rear you will find the 13mp camera, led flash as well as the speaker at the bottom of the glass.
The phone is dual sim LTE enabled and takes the sims in a tray that pops out of the phone’s side and is accessed using the ejection tool provided in the box.
The tray can also be used to house a micro SD card, but this will leave you with space for just 1 sim card.
The phone features a 13mp rear camera (actual make and model not known), with an f2.2 aperture, the camera is fairly consistent across colour ranges and works fairly well in low light conditions.
The LED flash unit to the rear is unfortunately not dual tone, but does a fairly good job of lighting a scene.
Hopefully before the phones release there will be further optimisations and tweaks to the software.
The S2 unit that I have received is pre-production and does not have functioning GPS, so I was unable to test it.
But the fact that Mediatek have now picked up their game with GPS on their latest SOC’s leaves me thinking this will not be an issue (Elephone have also confirmed that with the newer production ready S2 units GPS is fully functional).
The phone is powered by the popular (for low to mid range phones) Mediatec MT6735 quad core processor and comes with 2gb ram and a 16gb rom.
This is a combination that gives a fluid feel to the phones operation and will handle most games and apps well.
I have run Antutu on the phone but the results were fairly low (around 22k), this is down to the early non optimised nature of the OS that my phone is running and should increase significantly once the software engineers work their magic.
The phone comes with Android 5.1 installed, this brings lots of advantages and fixes over 5.0 and once optimised should help to keep the phone running smoothly and for longer.
The phone also works well with gesture controls
In general usage the phone feels smooth, menus can be flicked through without visible lags, apps launch fairly quickly and the phone does not seem to lag down when a few apps are running in the background.
I am looking forward to getting hands on time with a release model soon and have high hopes that this stylish handset will be a winner for the fashion and style conscious buyers out there.
Please feel free to leave comments and questions below
CoolPad’s sub-brand Dazen has just announced an affordable smartphone in the market called as the Dazen Note 3. This will be the first smartphone in the range to feature a fingerprint sensor.
The Coolpad Dazen Note 3 comes with modest specs, but is affordable as well. It features a 5.5-inch 720p display with octa-core 64-bit MT6753 which supports more LTE bands as compared to MT6752. There will be 2GB RAM on board with 16GB of internal storage. At the back, it comes with 13MP camera sensor, while up front, you will find a 5MP shooter. The battery is also pretty decent at 3000mAh capacity and can reportedly last for more than a day. Finally, as for the software, the Dazen Note 3 comes with Android 5.1 out of the box.
As you can see, the specs are nothing out of the ordinary. But the company did focus a bit on the looks. The Note 3 features a plastic body, but looks quite sturdy and well built. The overall design gives it a premium feel, especially due to the slim black bezels on the sides of the display. The back shell is replaceable, with three additional shells colors like blue, yellow and green.
Another important highlight of the Dazen Note 3 is the fingerprint sensor at the back. This sensor, made by FPC supports 360 degree finger rotation capability, fast response time and industry leading 3D image quality. Overall, its an important feature on the device, especially considering its cheap pricing.
The Dazen Note 3 will be available on sale in China for 899 Yuan ($144). This makes it one of the best devices in the market at this price range, especially with a fingerprint sensor on board.
You can check out some of the pictures of the device from down below.
Xiaomi has been been known not only for its affordable yet great smartphones but also for a lot of different accessories. In addition, many of these accessories are actually independent gadgets and one of them is a super affordable aluminium Bluetooth speaker. I have just received it from the post office and wanted to share my first impressions.
Xiaomi Aluminum Bluetooth Speaker: UNBOXING
The device comes in a plain box and the contents include just the speaker itself and Chinese instruction manual.
Xiaomi Aluminum Bluetooth Speaker: DESIGN
There very first impressions you are going to get is how small the speaker is that you can carry it with two fingers. In addition, a high quality aluminum frame goes around the device but the front speaker grill and the back are made out of plastic.
On the right side you can find just a power on/off button, Bluetooth LED light and the micro USB charging port.
Other sides of the speaker are clean except the bottom part where you can find silicone pads, which prevent speaker from sliding. That is a little but neat feature that not every manufacturer understands as a must. I have reviewed a few Bluetooth speakers, which did not have these pads and it was a nightmare to use it. They kept sliding on the table when played at high volumes, so I could not leave them without taking care of. Otherwise, they would simply fall off the table because of low frequency sound.
Xiaomi Aluminum Bluetooth Speaker: FIRST IMPRESSIONS
The first impressions are that Xiaomi Aluminum Bluetooth Speaker is very compact and it should be very convenient for travelling. You may even squeeze it to your pocket unless you wear skinny jeans.
What is more, the device seems to be very well-made and has a great choice of materials. A combo of aluminium and quality plastic makes this device a looker.
Also, I tested a sound quality and it seems that it has quite a lot to offer for a small footprint. The sound is clear and it is loud for such a compact speaker. However, I’m keeping the final judgment for a full review.
Finally, for the price of under $20, the Xiaomi Bluetooth Speaker is an absolute steal! Of course you may find some cheaper knock-offs but I doubt that you would get a great overall combo of build quality, materials used, sound quality and output. These are at least my first impressions. Stay tuned for a full review.
I have this morning received a video showing an engineering sample of the P6000 Pro in action, it still needs some optimisation on the software front, but looks to be fairly stable.
For those of you that have become obsessed with bezels, I can confirm that yes the phone does have them, not that this really should make a great deal of difference but I know some of you care more about this than most.
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