Lenovo is trying to be a forerunner. With IFA round the corners the event invite has been sent from most companies that are participating in the event already. Latest inclusion is Lenovo, it has sent an invite hinting Vibe X2 may be loaded with Android L.
Invitation from Lenovo
The invite even indicates that Vibe X2 will be center of attraction among Lenovo products that are planned to release on September 4th in IFA . As said earlier the invite also insinuate a picture of lolipop with Vibe X2 wordings inside it. It have even poked Apple indirectly with tag line “we can’t say anything either”, as Apple claimed wished it could say more.
The Lenovo Vibe X2 rumored to have a 2.2 GHz octa-core CPU, a 5-inch FHD display, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of built-in storage, a 13 MP rear camera with LED flash, and a 5 MP front cam from recent leaks.
Let us wait and mystery unfolds in this years IFA event.
Gionee is ready to launch some miraculous range of products this year. Earlier, it was World’s slimmest phone and this time it is Gionee Gpad G5 phablet. Gpad G5 is the descendant of Gpad G4 phablet. The most important thing which makes this launch more exciting is the price tag of Gpad G5. This phablet is available at a very user friendly price of Rs 15,000. Gionee avowed that Gpad G5 will be available in the market by next week.
The Gionee Gpad G5 has some exclusive and premium features which make it a strong competitor in the phablet market. Some of the key features are specified below.
Key features:
5.5-inch High Definition IPS display (720×1280 pixels).
Asahi Glass Dragontrail protection of screen.
Android 4.4 KitKat.
Cortex A7 1.5GHz hexa-core processor, ARM Mali-450 MP GPU.
Gionee Gpad G5 is equipped with 8 MP rear and 2 MP front camera.
It has expandable storage upto 32 GB.
2400mAh battery- provides standby time of 288 hours, 15 hours of talk time on 2G and 12 hours of talk time on 3G.
Arvind Vohra, Head of Gionee India, revealed that the basic motto for bringing this phablet in the market is to endow every person with latest and premium features at reasonable price.
Gionee has lot of expectations from this new product. The product is designed by keeping the need of users in mind, so it can be anticipated that it is going to be a smash hit.
The CCTV Quality Inspection Weekly Report disclosed a large amount of disqualified power banks on August 24th, and the 5200mAh Xiaomi power bank is one of them.
Xiaomi quickly responded to that. They said those Xiaomi power banks CCTV tested were not genuine. The State Quality Inspection Administration confirmed that yesterday.
So to help users avoid buying those fakes, Xiaomi has dedicated an instruction page on their official website just for that.
Method one: always buy from the the official website or authorized channels.
Method two: use the anti-counterfeit label to verify.
We have confirmed a lot things about MX4. One of which is that there will only be a MX4 standard edition at the annoucement conference at September 2nd.
Here is a list of all the thing leaked so far:
5.4-inch display ( resolution not confirmed yet)
MT6595 CPU
Not much difference in the font compared to MX3, the circular Home button is still there.
Bezels are thinner.
The material of the back is changed.
It’s running Flyme OS 4.0
What should be noted is that its main camera is gonna be 20.7 megapixels (the highest so far in China).
This afternoon a Weibo user posted some info of a sample picture taken by the font-facing camera of MX4, which says the resolution is 1088×1920 (around 2 megapixels) with aperture f/2.0. It also comes with a beauty mode. Flyme 4.0 is likely gonna add more beauty options.
Besides that, the model number of MX4 is confirmed to be K95V2 which is the same as what the leak said.
Earlier today Li nan, the vice CEO of Meizu, confirmed on Weibo that there will only be one phone announced on September, 2nd. He also denied the existence of a Meizu tablet during the Q&A with his followers. He also said their developers are still working on the fingerprint recognition function on the MX4 Pro, so we won’t see the Pro edition at the announcement conference.
So without MX4 Pro, then the only phone that’ll be released that day certainly is MX4, the so called standard edition. There are a lot of rumors going on right now. To name a few: the display will be 2K, namely a resolution of 2560 x 1536. and a MTK octa-core CPU (MT6595) on the MX4 standard edition. MX Pro is said run on a Samsung Exynos octa-core CPU. But is the 2K display available for all regular editions? Will all these be true? Guess we’ll have to wait and see what the announcement conference brings us.
Xiaomi is now a well established brand name in the smartphone market in India. The flash sale of some of the products of Xiaomi was a big hit in India. “Apple of China” has identified Indian market as a potential place to grow its business. The company is now ready with a new strategy to set up an R&D centre in India. The research and development centre will be established in Bangalore. This centre will have a main focus on the local users and designing and customizing the devices according to them.
Hugo Barra, the Vice President of this China based company has unveiled this plan of the Xiaomi. According to Barra, the company will employ the team of best engineers, designers and managers at the R&D and design centre, Bangalore. He also accepted and agreed to the fact Xiaomi had some issues and concerns in relation to the production of smartphones for Indian market because antenna calibrations and hardware are quite distinctive for the Indian market. So the stocks of other countries like Taiwan or China might not be redirected to India. Indian market is a potential and heterogeneous market with different requirements from network perspective. But now Xiaomi has overcome all the problems and the scenario has changed. The brand is well accepted in Indian market because of its friendly price tags and premium features.
Xiaomi is ready to grab the major share of Indian market with such moves.
Rumours are there about the launch of ‘iWatch’ by the leading innovators in the field of smart gadgets, Apple. The product has already been claimed as a “new wearable” by John Paczkowski. It is anticipated that the ‘iWatch’ will make its debut along with the ‘iPhone 6’. The event where this big launch will occur is the IFA, Berlin, which is going to be held on 9 september 2014.
Earlier in June, John Paczkowski avowed that ‘iWatch’ will be launched in October 2014, but the before time release of ‘iWatch’ is definitely a good news for the Apple lovers. But it is still expected that Apple will conduct an event in October for the launch of iPads. There is no confirmation about the ‘iWatch event from the officials of the Apple. Rumours are there that Apple will only uncover the product and will launch the product at some other event.
It is expected that ‘iWatch’ will have biometric sensors and it will be more focused on health and fitness. The device will be able to measure the heart rate and other feedback depending on the user’s activity. This data could be linked and used with the help of an app of iOS8, Health app. There are no comments from any expert over the specifications and hardware of the device.
This product from the global leaders could be a medical expert for the users in today’s fast moving life.
The closer we’re getting to the announcement conference, the more rumours about MX4 are out there. But it’s confirmed that there will only be MX4 at the announcement, no MX Pro. What about the China Telecom edition? And any other editions?
Zhang Heng, the senior tech manager of Meizu was doing a Q&A on Weibo regarding the announcement conference earlier today. He disclosed a lot of information regarding MX4. He also said himself that he’s gonna resign due to all those misunderstandings caused by his failure to deliver the authentic information regarding the announcement.
Below is a list of all the information we got from Zhang Heng:
Only MX4 (the standard edition) will be released on September 2nd, along with Flyme 4.0.
Both China Mobile edition and China Unicom edition will be available, but there won’t be a Telecom edition this time. We also won’t see it coming in the nearest future.
J.Wong won’t be there.
No mini edition available for MX4, but there will be a pro edition. Also there will be a slightly difference in the appearances of the two. Pro edition won’t be available this year due to the slowness of its R&D. There won’t be any news related to Ubuntu.
There will be two announcement conferences this year.
Flyme 4.0 will be available for MX2 and MX3, the 4th quarter of this year, but not the first generation.
Last night, Li Nan, the vice CEO of Meizu confirmed on Weibo that only the MX4 will be released at the annoucement on September 2nd, which means we’ll have to wait a little bit longer for MX Pro.
He also shared some more info about MX4 today on Weibo at noon.
Li Nan said:”The announcement of MX4 is gonna be huge.” A major overhaul we are talking about here. And MX4 Pro is gonna be a even larger step ahead, so its price is also gonna be on the high end. Don’t be surprised to see a price tag like over 3000RMB ($492).
He also implied that compared to MX3, MX4 is one further step ahead in very aspect, giving users a more pleasant experience overall, but there won’t be a big change with its price.
Let’s wait and see what the announcement brings us.
One Plus One fans have some great news to rejoice, the company has finally announced its plan to shift the method of invite system to normal retail sale and is working on pre-order thing.
Since it’s launch it has created an huge hype for serious buyers and it is also a hot favorite to buyers. It has proved to be a flagship killer and a better pill among others. It do stand to their promises.
It started to sell the phones through unusual invite system, and was a hard task for the customers to get hands on.
In a recent release OPO stated, We are working on a pre-orders system, we were initially aiming for September but it’s been slightly delayed, hopefully we’ll be ready to launch it in October.
– OnePlus One in Reddit
So this can prove even more better for the buyers, but the shift is mostly because of clads from it’s market i.e. phones from Xiaomi, ZTE, IUNI which boasts almost the same specs and price.
Meizu has recently announced that they will hold a launch event on September 2. Among the devices that will be launched is the much-anticipated Meizu MX4. Not only that, Meizu has also decided to release the MX4 online first.
The Flyme 4.0 will also be launched that day. Besides the standard version, Meizu will also launch the MX4 Mini and Pro. They might continue to release more products that use processors from MTK. The MX4 standard edition uses the MT6595 octa-core chipset and sports a 20.7mp camera (Sony IMX147 component) The MX4 Pro will, of course, have greater specs.
Today, open beta tests of the MIUI 6 have finally started but these are only for Mi 4 and Mi 3 (China Unicom and China Telecom Editions) users.
Starting at 5 PM today, owners of the Mi 4 and the Mi 3 open edition (China Unicom/China Telecom) can upgrade their phones to the MIUI 6. Users of the stable editions will be unable to upgrade to the MIUI 6 by OTA at this time but they can use the 4.8.29 open version to experience the MIUI 6.
Take note. After upgrading, please use default theme. Third party themes may be incompatible. News of an upgrade for the Mi 3 China Mobile Edition may come during the mid-autumn season.
As its release date approaches, more news have been coming out about the Nexus 9 tablet. This device is the result of a collaboration between HTC and Google.
Recently, Korean news outlets have released what appeared to be the Nexus 9’s Antutu benchmark test results. According to these results, it uses the Tegra K1 chipset and sports a display screen with 2560 x 1600 resolution. Its OS is the Android 5.0.
As for the Nexus 9’s score, it got 45923. It has already been reported that it has 4GB RAM (Elpida 2GB RAM x2) and its baseband is the Qualcomm MDM9x25. It also sports a 8mp camera.
From the photo leaked yesterday, the Huawei Mate 7 looks like it sports a very narrow frame, probably narrower than the MX4’s. This could probably be the thinnest cellphone frame in the Chinese industry right now. However, a new phone was leaked this morning and it looks like the Mate 7’s frame is not that narrow. As the photo shows, the Mate 7’s screen is surrounded by a round black ring. Outside of that is the frame. So, it turns out that this phone’s frame is not as narrow as we thought. It looks like Huawei has used a pretty good eye trick.
Unfortunately, yesterday, it was revealed that the high-end edition of the Mate 7 will still use a display screen with 1080p, not 2K. However, its RAM and ROM were increased to 3GB and 32GB respectively.
The Doogee DG900 is one of Doogee’s newest releases. Among its features is its rear touch panel which can be used to take photos and a wake gesture function and a 16MP Sony camera. It uses Gorilla Glass 3 glass on both side of the body.
Lenovo’s new high-end phone, the Vibe X2, sports a very trendy design with an excellent four-colored mid-frame.
According to Lenovo, the phone’s mid-frame is composed with gold, yellow, orange, and black (just like the screen). However, Weibo user @老潘PLF leaked a photo where the gold panel looks more like white (it could because of the LED light).
The Vibe X2 sports a nice metal body. According to previous reports, one version (X2-CU) will use the MT6595M octa-core chipset (2.0 GHz A17 + 1.5GHz A7), while another (X2-TO) will use a 2.2GHz dual-core chipset (probably from Intel). Other than their processors, both phones will have the same specs. They will sport a 5-inch 1080p IPS screen, have 2GB RAM, 16GB internal memory space, and a 5mp/13mp dual-camera. It will powered by a 2250mAh battery and its OS is the Android 4.4.2.
After the launch of Mi3 and Redmi 1s in India, Xiaomi has now planned to open 6 exclusive service centres in india. Earlier the company had the plan of having exclusive service centres only in Delhi and Bangalore, but now the plan has expanded, and the new plan includes service centres also in Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Gurgaon.
It is the celebration time for the Xiaomi as their sixth flash sale of Xiaomi Mi 3 was a grand hit in India. Xiaomi is now set to launch Redmi 1S in the Indian market. This smartphone has a friendly price tag of Rs 5999. Flipkart.com will start the registration of the Redmi 1S smartphone on 27 August at 6 on Flipkart and will open the sale on 2 September.
The launch of the Redmi was announced by Hugo Barra, global Vice President of Xiaomi at an event in Delhi. Manu Jain, Head of Xiaomi India, was also present at the event with the Hugo Barra to communicate with the media. The main topics of discussion in the event were the exceptional success of Xiaomi Mi3 and the concerns that users have faced.
Barra revealed that the Xiaomi has a great interest in Indian smartphone market and said that, “India as a market has a lot of potential for smartphones, but it will probably take a couple of years for it to reach this potential. It’s like quarter of a size of China’s smartphone market or maybe even a fifth, so obviously there’s a long way to go.”
Xiaomi’s officials have also talked about the concern of the company to open the exclusive service centres in India. So, here it goes.
Just days after launching Redmi 1S in India. Chinese mobile manufacturing giant, Xiaomi has launched its latest offering the Redmi 1S in Indonesia today. The phone will be available for sale on the Indonesian e-commerce site, Lazada. The company is set to utilise the tactic of flash sale to move large stocks of the phone. The first flash sale begins on 4th September at 11 am and will continue till stocks last. Customers have already started registering for this sale and registrations continue till 3rd September.
Xiaomi is selling this phone in Indonesia for IDR 1.5 million or $128 which is on a slightly steep side as compared to the India where it is priced at $99. However, the users still feel that the phone is good value for the money. Redmi 1S has a 4.7-inch HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 p. It is powered by a 1.6 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor and has a 1 GB RAM. It runs on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and supports dual sims. It has an 8 MP rear camera and a 1.6 MP front camera. It also possesses 8 GB internal storage expandable up to 64 GB.
Xiaomi is trying to make its presence felt outside China as it launched Redmi 1S in India at a very competitive price. For Indonesia, the company has already set up 17 service centres to build a stronger and wider customer base.
ZTE has launched the Nubia 5S Mini in the USA and that too unlocked, so that users do not have to seek the help of any specific carrier to enjoy this phone. The handset will be available for preoder online at Amazon.com for an affordable price of $279.99. For a mid range device, the Nubia 5S Mini is pretty well equipped. It sports a sophisticated camera – 13 MP rear and 5 MP front and is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon Quad Core processor. Other features of the phone include 4.7 inch 720p IGZO display, 2GB RAM, 16GB of internal memory and a 2000 mAh battery. It supports connectivity feature like $G LTE, Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS.
Chairman and CEO of ZTE USA, Lixin Cheng talked about the faith that ZTE places in its products and its capability of delivering LTE devices which is proved by the fact that the device is being sold unlocked in the USA.It is currently available on Amazon.com in white colour.The Nubia 5S mini is a slightly different version of the 5S mini launched in China last year and comes with a newer version of android and a different chip set.
The official website, zteusa.com, reports that the 5 megapixel front facing camera delivers perfect selfies. The phone is enabled with softwares that control the camera’s white balance, lighting and focus. This android smartphone is a treat for the click-crazy consumers and provides a budget friendly option for clicking and sharing pictures in the go.
Mozilla, known for the Firefox browser, entered the Indian smartphone market with its ‘super’ low cost smartphone, Cloud FX, priced at a mere $33 ( INR 1999). The company partnered with Indian company Intex, for the manufacture of these handsets which are being sold online at India’s largest e-marketplace, Snapdeal.
The phone runs on Mozilla’s Firefox operating system and users can download games and other content from its own application store, as told Jane Hsu, Mozilla’s Taipei-based Director of product marketing. This would also warm the market up towards the mobile version of their web browser, Firefox.
The Cloud FX has a 3.5-inch with a 320×480-pixel capacitive HVGA display. It is powered by a 1 GHz Spreadtrum processor and sports a 2-megapixel camera. It has a 1250 mAh battery which gives it 4 hours of talk time and 200 hours of standby time. It runs the web apps through HTML5 which consumes lesser memory. The phone comes preloaded with Facebook and Twitter. However, WhatsApp can be obtained through a third-party app source. Experts have considered this to be a case of ‘App-gap’ which translates as the lack of applications on cheaper smartphones as compared to those based on Android systems.
Success of the phone would be tug of war between the low price and low end features. However, Mozilla has aimed to target the first-time smartphone buyers who are intimidated by high costs and advanced features of other smartphones. The Cloud FX aims to be a low cost source of internet in everyone’s pocket, especially those who do not have access to computers.
Let us see if Mozilla partners with some Chinese mobile manufacturer to launch its phones in China. But till now there has been no news of Mozilla OS smartphones coming to China.
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