Sony may release MT6752 powered smartphones this year

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Mar 4, 2015

Although Mediatek has been gaining ground recently in the smartphone chip manufacturing industry, well established companies still prefer the chips from Qualcomm for their devices.

Things have changed a bit in the past few months, since a number of new OEMs have decided to go with Mediatek’s low cost yet powerful chips and Sony has been one of them. We recently saw the Sony Xperia E4G, an affordable entry level model running the new Mediatek 64-bit chip. Looks like this will mark a new partnership with Mediatek for its upcoming smartphones.

The first Sony phone to run on a Mediatek SoC was the Xperia C S39h model. However, after that, for some reason, the company decided to stick with Qualcomm for its smartphones. Now, a new report states that after Xperia E4, the Japanese smartphone maker may have many more devices in partnership with Mediatek this year.

The Xperia E4 sports the old MT6582 quad-core SoC. However, in the updated Xperia E4G model, a Mediatek MT6732 64-bit quad-core SoC will be present which clearly shows the company’s willingness to try out other Mediatek chipsets.

Now, Taiwan media reports that the company is in talks to release new smartphone based on Mediatek’s powerful MT6752 octa-core 64-bit chipset. It is said that this powerful chipset will give the company’s products price advantage as compared to other competitors. The same report states that it may even go with the chipmaker’s high-end lineup like MT6795 for its new products.

However, please note that Sony is yet to confirm any additional Mediatek powered phones for 2015 and hence, we cannot be sure of anything unless the company officially confirms the news.

HTC may debut the new HTC E9 in China by March end

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Joel Joseph

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Mar 4, 2015

HTC recently announced the new HTC One M9 flagship at MWC 2015. While the device is all set to hit the Chinese markets soon, a new report says that the company may have more than one device to release in the domestic market.

Three new variants of the new HTC E9 smartphone was recently spotted online, namely the HTC E9t, E9pt and E9pw. There are not many differences between the three models except for the network connectivity options. So, it looks like each model is targeted at a specific carrier in the country. The first two models, the E9t and E9pt support GSM / TD-SCDMA / TD-LTE networks. On the other hand, the E9pw has additional network connectivity options namely GSM / TD-SCDMA / WCDMA / TD-LTE / LTE FDD network.

Although the specs are targeted at the high end market, the design may differ from the recently announced all metal HTC One M9. The last year’s HTC E8 stripped down the metal body in favor of a cheaper polycarbonate body. So, this year’s E9 too is expected to come with the same material.

Tech specs wise, the E9 will feature a 5.5-inch 2K display and will be powered by the new Mediatek MT6795 octa-core 64-bit processor clocked at 2.0 GHz. There will be 3GB RAM onboard and it will come with Android 5.0 Lollipop version out of the box. It looks like HTC has incorporated the same 20MP Toshiba camera at the back along with a 4MP ultrapixel unit up front.

The company is expected to announce the device by the end of this month, or at least by early April. Pricing and availability details are still not available but expect it to be much cheaper than the HTC One M9.

Tencent to launch a new drone?

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Joel Joseph

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Mar 4, 2015

New reports have emerged saying that Tencent, the parent company of the popular messenger QQ has set its eye on the growing drone market. The source reveals that the company will launch a new four rotor drone in partnership with Shenzen Jiuxing Smart Aviation Technology Co. Ltd. sometime later in May. The price tag of the device is expected to be 5999 Yuan which comes to around $957. This is a pretty steep price even for a drone, however, expect some high end hardware on this four rotor device.

It is said that Tencent will be primarily responsible for promoting the device. Jiuxing has been testing this military grade drone and perfecting it for some time now. So, its basically a partnership wherein Jiuxing will provide the technology and Tencent will take care of promoting and selling it.

At the moment, the company is looking to launch the new F350 drone. Jiuxing has a number of drones in the market, like the F350, F450 and F550, but the company is initially focused on the F350 model. If the response is good, it may even expand its lineup later.

The F350 drone is a four rotor device with integrated design. The UAV features integrated remote control, GPS, and power transfer. The rotors are high performance, brushless and produces very little noise. The F350 has even an automatic hover function.

The drone has an inbuilt camera, with the option of adding a more advanced PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) cam on the device. The propellers are made of carbon fiber and are built to last. Installing and starting up the drone is pretty easy.

Tencent and Jiuxing not only plans to sell the F350 but also provide ancillary services such as training and other outreach activities. Tencent could benefit a lot from its new drones equipped with cameras as they would be ideal for shooting and sharing videos on its video platform.

The company will reportedly sell the device this May, so expect more information in the next few weeks.

HTC Desire 826 Unboxing

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Joel Joseph

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Mar 4, 2015

HTC expanded its Desire family around a month back with the new HTC Desire 826. The phone continues with the same design profile as its predecessors with curved edges and a dual tone color design.

Before we look at the HTC Desire 826 Unboxing, lets take a look at the phone’s hardware.

As for the tech specs, the Desire 826 features a Snapdragon 615 octa-core processor with 2GB RAM and 16GB / 32GB internal storage options. At the front, there will be a large 5.5-inch display with Full HD 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution. The rear camera will of 13MP with LED flash while the front shooter will be 4MP Ultrapixel sensor unit. The phone supports 4G LTE networks along with other standard connectivity features such as Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth. It runs on the latest Android 5.0.2 OS. Finally at the back, there will be a 2600 mAh battery to power all these specs.

Here’s the Desire 826 unboxing.

Xiaomi may not survive the next 3-5 years: Huawei CEO

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Joel Joseph

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Mar 4, 2015

As expected, Huawei as also present at MWC 2015 held in Barcelona, Spain. The Chinese giant announced its first ever smartwatch at the event and it is one of the best smartwatches that we have seen till date.

Huawei CEO, Yu Chengdong was present at the event and in an interview, he said that the smartphone industry will reshuffle in the next three to five years. Only three major smartphone manufacturers will survive in the market by that time. Naturally, he considers Huawei to make it to the top three, however, the rest of companies, even some from the top will soon be forgotten.

Chengdong added that Huawei makes sure it stays ahead of the competitors by investing significantly in R&D. In fact, according to him, only few companies in the industry can match Huawei’s R&D team. Although Huawei is considered in the class of Xiaomi, OnePlus ones and Lenovo, he believes that the company is good enough to compete with giants such as Apple and other silicon valley tech companies.

He says that their true competitors are not these Chinese companies but giants from the western world. In fact, he says that most Chinese smartphone makers will soon perish giving way for Huawei to become the market leader.

IDC reports show that Huawei is indeed growing rapidly. Last year, the company generated sales of over $74 million, growing by more than 54% as compared to 2013. The market share of the company rose from 4.8% in 2013 to 5.7% last year.

Although the company failed to get to the $80 million sales target, Chengdong adds that it was due to the increased focus on high end devices. The company now aims to sell about 90 million to 100 million smartphones this year.

Given the timing of the launch, the Huawei watch will directly compete with Apple Watch. However, he says that his company’s watch is much better than Apple.

Huawei is yet to expand aggressively in developed markets like US, and there have been several allegations about national security threat by using Huawei’s equipments. However, he dismisses all these allegations by saying that one of the main reasons Hauwei decided to adopt Google’s Android platform for its phones and tablets is because of the vast variety of third party apps and features on the Android OS. Moreover, a third party OS will definitely help the company fight such allegations.

When talking about Xiaomi, he said that most people refer to the company’s marketing and sales when it comes to measuring success, and Xiaomi has managed to work on them. However, in the long run, technological innovation will drive the growth of the company and hence, the companies that look quite successful right now may not survive in the long run.

Huawei still cannot be regarded as one of the top smartphone makers, but it shows promise and we will have to wait and watch how the company evolves in the next few years as a consumer products manufacturer.

Nokia coming with a new Android Phone – Nokia 1100

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Nishant

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Mar 4, 2015

After Nokia launched Android tablet , Finland’s Nokia is making Android phone again seeing the competition, It will be it its first Android5.0 Phone from Nokia, the Nokia 1100 , the current machine running points lead coming out .

A suspected Nokia’s new phone appeared in GeekBench database , which the new code Nokin 1100, Almost everyone would be knowing that historic Nokia 1100, but 1100 is emerging following the N1 genuine Android equipment , the phone is equipped with Android 5.0 system ,the memory is relatively small, estimated to be 512MB but it could be that its just for tesing reasons. It is worth noting that Nokia’s new machine uses a MediaTek MT6582 quad-core 1.3GHz processor , the memory on its 512BM form a super low-end configuration , showing the advances of Finland’s Nokia MediaTek cheap hand again entered the low-end market intentions. However, A big question arises that can a phone with 512MB can run android 5.0? Well if we think of past even the phones like Sasumng galaxy y used to have lollipop but now it runs kitkat smoothly on a CUstom kernel. Nokia is trying to enter the budget segment with this phone, It would also be a hit, but 512MB RAM is just too low seeing today world. The phone would arrive early next year. Seeing the Specs, the phone should be around 75$ – 100$ or even less.

Do let us know what you think about this phone in the comment section below.

Huawei is the next Nexus maker confirms Kevin Yang from iSuppli

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Joel Joseph

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Mar 4, 2015

A few days back, we reported that Google might partner up with a Chinese OEM for its next Nexus device. Later, we came to know that that along with this Chinese OEM, Google will also partner with LG for a new Nexus device in 2015.

Now, Kevin Yang, the Director of China Research at iSuppli, a leading market research firm, confirmed on Weibo earlier today that Google has indeed chosen Huawei as the next Nexus maker. This is in line with the previous reports about Huawei entering into a partnership with Google to make this year’s Nexus device.

The major reason why Google went with Huawei could be because its the biggest competitor to Xiaomi at the moment. While everyone would have loved a Xiaomi Nexus device (in fact our recent survey showed that 43% readers would have liked a Xiaomi made Nexus), Huawei too has shown great promise in 2014 with releases like the Ascend Mate 7 and the Honor 6 Plus. Still, its very surprising that Google did not choose Motorola for its new device this year.

Now that we are almost sure that Huawei could be the next Nexus maker, we will have to wait and see whether they go with Huawei’s Kirin processor for the new device or with Qualcomm’s snapdragon range. Both are quite capable but will Google risk putting the new Kirin range in its smartphone/ tablets? Well, only time will tell.

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Meizu to roll out Android Lollipop update later this month

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Joel Joseph

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Mar 4, 2015

While Android Lollipop update have already started rolling out to a number of flagship smartphones this year, Meizu is yet to update its devices like the MX4 Pro and the Meizu MX4 to the new Android version. The company has been developing its Flyme version based on Android lollipop since November last year, but up till now, there were no signs of an official roll out by the company.

Now, Yang Yan, the chief designer of Meizu’s Flyme OS has said that the company will try hard to release the new Flyme version based on Android 5.0 Lollipop by the end of March. However, the exact date of release will depend upon the progress of development. This is definitely good news for the MX4 users who have been patiently waiting for the phones to be updated to the new Android version. The latest OS brings a ton of improvements, including better battery life on Android devices, so its not surprising that everyone wants the update as soon as possible.

We will let you know when the company starts rolling out the new Flyme version with Android lollipop on MX4 and MX4 Pro smartphones.

Alcatel Pixi 3 (5.5) could be the first MT6580 powered smartphone

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Joel Joseph

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Mar 3, 2015

Back in January, we saw a leaked image which showed off the product roadmap of Mediatek this year. According to the image, the company was developing a low cost quad-core processor in the MT65xx lineup which was scheduled to release in Q2 2015. Looks like we just saw the first smartphone powered by this MT6580 processor, namely the Alcatel Pixi 3 (5.5).

Alcatel was pretty busy this year announcing a number of gadgets at MWC 2015. In fact, a number of the company’s devices had the same name which made things a bit confusing. For example, the Alcatel Onetouch Idol 3 has two different version and so does the Alcatel Pixi 3 (5.5). There is a 4G LTE variant of the device as well as a 3G variant of the device.

However, the differences does not end there. The processor is different and so is the battery capacity and a lot of other stuff. While the 3G variant is powered by this new MT6580 processor, the 4G LTE one will come with QCT 8909. There will be 1GB of RAM onboard along with 8GB internal storage on both the devices.. Surprisingly, the 3G variant has a larger 2910 mAh battery as compared to the 2800 mAh battery found on the 4G compatible model.

So it looks like Mediatek is right on schedule when it comes to releasing its SoCs and we still have some exciting new processors coming later this year like the 20nm MT6796.

Don’t expect great performance from the MT6580 processor, since its targeted at the low cost budget segment. But we would like to see how the chip ranks in the benchmark tests to get a fair idea about its capability.

Stay tuned for more information.

Letv x600 Android phone leaked with MT6795, scores above 50K in AnTuTu

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Joel Joseph

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Mar 3, 2015

A few weeks earlier we reported that LeTV, one of China’s top video content provider was planning to enter the smartphone industry with a new high end device. Although the company is new to the smartphone industry, last year Letv launched its own internet Smart TV and it has received very good response. Now, the company is looking to further diversify its portfolio by entering the already crowded smartphone market and it looks like we may have the first glimpse of the company’s rumored device.

Recently, the benchmark entries as well as an image of the device was leaked online. First of all, they reveal that the phone will be called as the Letv X600. Unlike earlier predictions which said that the phone could run on Snapdragon 810 processor, now latest reports suggests that the phone will run on the new 64-bit Mediatek eight core chipset, MT6795. This particular processor is one of the best in the market right now and it is proved by the 50000+ score on the new AnTuTu v5.6.1 version. The new chip now called as the Helio X10 is definitely powerful and at par with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810.

The MT6795 is an octa-core chipset clocked at 1.9GHz. Along with this powerful SoC, the phone is said to come with 2GB RAM and 5.5-inch full HD 1080p resolution display. Finally, given that LeTV is a video content provider and distributor it is said that the new Letv X600 will feature high end Hi-Fi chips and powerful camera hardware for the best audio and video performance.

As of now, the release date or pricing details have not yet been leaked, however, Letv usually prices its products low as compared to competitors. The company makes up for this loss with its content, and this particular strategy has been quite successful in boosting the sales as well as the revenue of the company last year.

Stay tuned to the website for more updates.

MTK Pump Express Plus to Take on Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 2.0

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Frank Tu

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Mar 3, 2015

Qualcomm Quick Charge 2.0 may be seeing a competitor in it’s midst, with MTK releasing it’s latest “MTK Pump Express Plus” that boasts fast charging as well. It has a charging output voltage of 9V but output voltage of 7V is also provided.

The first mobile phone carrying this technology will be Koobee Halo 3 while MTK has released Pump Express Plus for MT6595, MT6732 and other charging technology platforms. This is a model HF-QC-084 charger and has an MT6732 platform for mounting the first mobile phone, Koobee Halo 3 as mentioned. The charger offers an input of 100-240V and is compatible with the global grid voltage. It offers an output charging voltage of 5V 1.67A(8035W), 7V 1.67A(11.69W), and 9V 1067A(15.3W). It stands at one of the fastest MTK phone charger with it’s capability to charge from 0 to 75% battery in 30 minutes for 2060 mobile battery; charging for five minutes allows call time for up to 2 hours.

In terms of security, MTK and power management chip solution providers offer a range of standard specification dialog. The adapter offers port overload protection, system temperature protection, battery voltage protection, battery fuse protection and a comprehensive approach to cell phone safety.

Pump Express Plus MTK is designed to charge 45% faster than chargers available on the market for smart phones, tablet PCs and other mobile devices. It can delivery power faster to batteries, shortening charging time. There is a big market for charging technology and with that Pump Express Plus is offering, Qualcomm is not the only competitor that should be worried. Mobile and tablet PC users should be looking forward to seeing more fast charging technologies in the market soon!

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Huawei Launches a New Router : Glory Router for 30$

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Nishant

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Mar 3, 2015

Just after glory X2 was announced, Huawei has Launched a new router to compete with Xiaomi Router, Huwaei has Named it Glory Router

Glory Router has a built-in dual antenna routing design (dual-band 2.4G / 5G), body size of 90 × 90 × 90mm, equipped with a dual-core processor Huawei unicorn, clocked at 1GHz, based on ARM’s Cortex-A9 architecture, providing independent Wi -Fi acceleration engine.

In addition, Huawei official also stressed that the algorithms of the Glory Router provide anti-brute, visitors Wi-Fi isolation, Which makes it one of the most secure router while Huawei security official called it a “laboratory verification”. Glory Router will be one of the cheapest Router with this price. It is directly targeting the Xiaomi Router which was a great hit last year. As the Router is dual band, you can have a great speed. Huawei’s Router’s usually have a great build and a great control panel too. The router will come only in White colour. The shape of the Router is not at all common but rather a Cuboid kind of Router. The router’s apperance make it more like a show peice than a Techy Router. The pure flat looks make it very elegant. The specs seems to be a deal breaker but lets see what it does when it gets released.

This router will begin to make an appointment at March 17, priced at 188 yuan/30$. Let us know what you think about the router in the comment Section below.

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First batch of Graphene phones up for grabs in China

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Joel Joseph

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Mar 3, 2015

Graphene is a recently discovered wonder substance which is an extremely good conductor of heat and electricity. Since its discovery, scientists and researchers have been increasingly working on new products based on graphene. The excellent chemical, mechanical and electrical property of the material has opened up several areas where it can be used, one being the smartphone industry.

And it looks like, we have the first batch of graphene phones. The first smartphone made from graphene has unsurprisingly come from China. The country has over 2200 patent applications for the material as of 2014, nearly half of the world.

The phone manufactured and made available for sale by the company Galapad will be called as the SETTLER α. It will feature a 5.5-inch touch screen display made of graphene with full HD 1080p resolution. Graphene touch screens are much more sensitive than regular ones. Inside, there will be a 64-bit quad-core Snapdragon 410 processor along with 2GB RAM and 16GB of internal storage. At the back, will be an 8MP camera and up front, there will be a 5MP shooter. Finally, it will also support 4G LTE networks for super fast internet speeds. Retail price is around $406.

There are a number of advantages of using graphene in smartphones. First of all, as mentioned above, the graphene made touch screens are much more sensitive and produce better colors. These touch screen panels can transmit up to 97.7% light. The use of graphene in batteries help increase the overall battery life and standby time of the device drastically. Finally, the material is a good conductor of heat and it helps reduce the temperature of the device to a maximum of 35 degree Celsius.

Meizu MX5’s home button leaked by Meizu’s CEO

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Nishant

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Mar 2, 2015

MEIZU’s CEO showed mx5’s home button
at his weibo today, it seems that the new phone would be a great upgrade over Mx4.

J.Wong said they can only do something like the home key with fingerprint recognition, but he also stressed that many years ago M8 own Home button on the phone’s shape is similar to that. Lets see what Meizu will bring, It is also rumured that the phone will have a 41MP Primary Shooter.

Last Year Meizu Launched it’s Flagship, Mx4, Mx4 is one of the most popular phone made by Meizu, Meizu has a reputation for making premium devices, and the MX4 is no exception. It caught more attention perhaps when it topped the AnTuTu chart of 2014. A phone with just .2 mm bezels on either side of display and a surprise Mediatek MT6595 octacore processor. It is coupled with 2GB of RAM and PowerVR G6200 GPU. The phone was a big hit.

Mx5 will be available in China in the next Half of the Year.

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Gionee Elife S7 domestic pricing still not confirmed?

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Joel Joseph

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Mar 2, 2015

Gionee announced the new Gionee Elife S7 flagship smartphone back at MWC yesterday. Like predicted, the phone is 5.5-inches thin making it exactly as thin as the older Gionee S5.5. However, the company has smartly focused on other practical aspects of the device like battery life and built quality rather than just slimness of the phone.

The phone features a U shaped skeleton with aviation grade alloy and stainless steel sheet with nano-plastic coating. The company has particularly researched a lot on battery saving methods and has incorporated them on to the new device. For example, the 5.2-inch AMOLED display up front features ACL tech which reduces power consumption by over 25%. A sensor hub directly integrated into the chipset makes sure that the CPU has to wake up 20% less often.

At the time of launch, the company revealed that the phone will be available for sale for 400 Euros which comes to around $447. In the domestic market, Gionee Elife S7 was listed on both JD.com and Suning Tesco retailers. On JD the phone was initially listed at 2699 Yuan which comes to $430, however, now the phone has disappeared altogether. The exact reason of the disappearance is not known, however it could be because the pricing is still not confirmed.

Moreover, the Gionee Elife S7 is listed on Suning Tesco too, but even there the pricing is not yet revealed. It looks like the company has not yet finalized the price tag in the mainland China. Usually, the phone should retail for less than the international price in the home market, so 2699 Yuan seems like a decent price. However, now that the phone has been taken off the website, it may happen that the company may change its price tag.

The phone is expected to go on sale from March 20 starting 10:00 AM. Initially, the Los Angeles Black and North Pole White version will be available for purchase but we expect the midnight blue to start selling a few weeks after the sale opens.

The phone features the 64-bit Mediatek MT6752 octa-core processor clocked at 1.7GHz with 2GB RAM and 16GB of storage. There will be a 5.2-inch display up front with an 8MP selfie shooter on top. The 13MP rear camera unit will be one of the thinnest in the market to fit perfectly inside its 5.5mm thin body. The 2750 mAh battery is capable of providing up to two days of usage time, which is pretty impressive considering the slim design profile of the device.

Tencent new ROM with a Flat Design

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Nishant

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Mar 2, 2015

Tencent has now made a new ROM, Tencent OS (TOS) officially open beta today, but before the a statement comes from officials, from the look, this is not Tita project started again, but a new Highly Costumized ROM. lokking at the ROM, you will see its very similar with MIUI, with same type of Navigation Bar, the colour scheme and the UI itself, and there is also no app drawer.

For Tencent, although Tita projects failed, but they will not sit ideal in this area, while Tencent OS can be seen as they want and a new mobile Internet portal preemptive measures by ROM .

Also See: Tencent introducing microblogging gaming platform

From the current release of the interface map view we can depict that Tencent new ROM is using the now popular flat design (seen in iOS, MIUI), built-in software have weather, document management, browser, etc., looks relatively clean, while the official also expressed the hope that the user has more independent right to choose. The ROM will be customizable in a great Sense, from the icons to the Clock widget, even we can change the colour of the whole interface. The choices are however limited but Tencent has said that they will be increasing it and also be allowing user to put up their customized Themes to the store.

At the same time this new ROM wallpaper, colors and fonts with them, I feel good.

Let us know what you think about the New Tencent OS in the comment section below.

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Vivo Released X5Max+ with a Bigger Battery

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Nishant

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Mar 2, 2015

Today at MWC, Vivo launched a better version of Vivo V5 Max with a bigger battery. The phone now has a 2300mAh lithium ion battery, which will help the phone to stand in today’s Standards. The additional battery has unfortunately increased the thickness of the phone from 4.45mm to 5.1mm. With 4.45mm. Vivo X5Max is the thinnest phone but some major problems in the phone like battery capacity and Heating issues made Vivo Release X5Max+, Vivo X5Max+ is powered by a Xiaolong 615 facelift for MT6752 processor chip coupled with 2GB of RAM.

The price of the new models and model vivo X5Max will remain same that is 2998 yuan or 480$. The phone still has the same slim feel. Vivo X5Max+ has a full metal frame. The back is also of metal including the bottons, the camera is bulging outwards and it does not destroy the look of the phone, and without it one can’t get that sick macro shots. Overall the phone is great looking and the phone is a good upgrade from the previous version on the same price.

Specs

5.5 inches OGS full 1920×1080 resolution AMOLED screen
1.7GHz clock speed of 64 eight-core MediaTek MT6752 processor
2GB
16GB (supports up to 128GB MicroSD expansion)
13 megapixel/ 5 megapixels
2300mAh
Android 4.4.4 with Funtouch OS2.0

Do let us know in the comment Section below that what do you feel about the phone.

HiSense interested in buying Sony’s TV business?

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Joel Joseph

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Mar 2, 2015

I am sure almost everyone reading this article would have heard of the big names like Samsung, LG, Panasonic and Sharp when it comes to large screen TVs. However, many may have never heard of a Chinese brand that has been in existence for a long time and is slowly gaining ground. Hisense is the company that we are talking about and according to Display Search data, this particular Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer now holds around 6.4% of the global TV market share, hence ranking fourth just behind Sony.

Back at CES 2015, Kazuo Hirai, the president of Sony had said that the company would be keeping a close eye on its TV and smartphone business. Both these divisions are not doing so well, thanks to the fierce competition . Latest reports suggests that the company is willing to sell the arm off or at least partner up with a suitable company to bring it back to profitability.

If Sony is really looking to sell its TV business, we won’t be surprised given that it had sold off its Viao PC business back in 2014 to a Japanese Investment Fund to focus on its mobile business. Now, since its Bravia TV business isn’t doing so well, the company could be looking for a potential buyer. And latest rumors suggests that China’s Hisense may be interested in the purchase.

Although Sony isn’t making much money with its TV business, it does have a lot of technology patents under its belt and its image processing technology is world renowned. So purchasing Sony would definitely boost the company’s market share and talent pool. Moreover, the take over will enable Hisense to compete with the top two companies namely Samsung and LG who have around 29% and 17% market share respectively. The top four brands Samsung, LG, Sony and Hisense add up to 56.3% of the total global shipment value.

Finally, Hisense has proved that its possible to release quality UHD TVs at a decent price over the past two years. In fact, Q1 2014 data showed that the company ranked second when it came to shipment value of UHD TVs. So, Hisense could bring Sony’s TV business back to profitability.

However, both the companies have not yet announced any plans for such a deal. So, until then these are all just speculations.

Xiaomi Yi Action camera Unboxing!!

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Nishant

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Mar 2, 2015

Xiaomi has again proved that It is not just a smartphone maker company. Today, Xiaomi has Released its new action camera “Xiaomi Yi” very similar to the GoPro Hero 3 but roughly half of the price of GoPro entry level camera. Yi can not shot 4K and neither has image stabilization which you get in GoPro but at this price, this is the Deal Breaker. From the figure the Xiaomi Yi has its appearance and size inspired from GoPro4. It also has a waterproof shell with it, which makes it fully waterproof upto 4 meters (same as GoPro). You can connect it with your phone through a app. It does not have any internal storage, you can insert a memory card upto 64GB. It has got a Sony’s back-illuminated 16-megapixel image sensor and Ambarella A7LS image processor. The maximum Resolution of Footage it can Record is 1080p @ 60fps, 720p @ 120fps and 480p @ 240fps video capture, encoding for H.264, output format is MP4. It has got 2 microphones with 3D noise cancellation. Yi is available in different colours including grey and Lime. Xiaomi Yi is priced at just 60$, with a price like this, this is the most cheap action camera you can get.

Specs

Sony’s back-illuminated 16-megapixel image sensor
Ambarella A7LS Image Processor
Resolution: 1080p @ 60fps and 720p @ 120fps even 480p @ 240fps video capture, encoding for H.264, output format is MP4.
Timelapse is Supported
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0

Unboxing

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MediaTek MT8173 Tablet SoC With ARM Cortex-A72 Cores Launched

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Nishant

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Mar 2, 2015

MediaTek has launched the MT8173 tablet SoC featuring ARM’s latest Cortex-A72 processor, which is said to be the highest-performing mobile CPU till now, It provides the computing power of up to 2.4GHz. The MT8173 uses two Cortex-A72 cores and two Cortex-A53 cores in a big.LITTLE architecture. MediaTek also pulled off the curtains from the 64-bit octa-core MT6753 SoC. The SoC will be the World’s most Powerfull SoC ever made. According to Mediatek, Due to higher computing performance and low power consumption, MT8173 significantly enhance the performance six times higher than in 2013 released the MT8125.

MT8173 supports 120Hz dynamic image display technology, the screen refresh rate of the screen of mobile devices upgraded to 120Hz, 60Hz display provides than double the smooth scroll effect and clearer images, reducing blur or blurring of text and images. MT8173 has begun to send samples to customers. The first tablet with MT8173 will be available later this year. As the power consuption of the SoC is low, We can expect it in some future Onda tablets. The SOC integrated GPU PowerVR GX6250 model , although not the strongest, but in the current tablet processors are also at the middle and upper reaches. Supports up to 2560 × 1600 resolution display and a 20 million pixel camera.

Features

Multi-core computing 64 big.LITTLE architecture,

Equipped with ARM Cortex®-A72 and ARM Cortex®-A53 64-bit processor
Size nucleus (big.LITTLE) can simultaneously run at full speed in order to achieve peak performance up to 2.4GHz

Imagination PowerVR GX6250 image processing

Support for future OpenGL ES 3.1 and OpenCL application. It help in achieving a great picture quality as well as a greeat Performance

Some Multimedia capabilities

120Hz dynamic screen display technology.
Ultra resolve 30fps H.264/ VP9 video playback hardware solution.
TV-grade image quality support WQXGA display
Supports HDMI and Miracast to achieve cross-screen applications.
20 million pixel camera ISP, with dynamic real beauty and LOMO effect.

MediaTek will be demonstrating the MT8173, which is available now for early customers. It’s expected to appear in commercially available tablets in the second half of the year. What do you think of MediaTek opting for a quad core processor, split between a dual core high performance and a dual core, high efficiency design? Are you interested to see the new tablets with this processor onboard? Let us know in the comments below.

Source: MyDrivers