ASUS teases it’s Android wear in trailer and image

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Aug 28, 2014

With IFA being held next month, Manufacturers are ready to gain interest with quite number of products in their bag.
IFA is just around the corner and most companies are hinting us an early look at their products that they’re planning to launch during this huge event.
Already LG and Motorola have confirmed their wearables now Taiwanese manufacturer is ready to enter the same ring. ASUS recently uploaded an image and a short clip featuring their new wearable called ZenWatch.

Not much info has been revealed and it is confirmed to be launched on September 3.

Can catch up the teased video from the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvzkwpQbO50

The Intel Haswell E goes on sale in Taobao before being launched

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Aug 28, 2014

Tomorrow, Intel will officially launch its newest platform, the Haswell-E processor, but to everyone’s surprise, it has already gone on sale.

The first online store to sell the Haswell-E is none other than Taobao. Right now, most sellers in Taobao are predetermined right now but one seller claims that it can already ship this processor, even posting a picture of the processor. It seems to be credible.

Regarding the price of the Haswell-E as sold by this manufacturer, the top-knotch edition’s (i7-5960) price is somewhere between 8199 RMB (1334.41 USD) and 8999 RMB (1464.61 USD), while the mid-end version (i7-5930K) costs 4999 RMB (813.60 USD) and the low-end version (i7-5820K) costs between 2999 RMB (488.09 USD) and 3499 RMB (569.47 USD).

The official prices were released by Intel the other day. The Core i7-5960X will cost 999 USD (5136 RMB), while the i7-5930K will cost 583 USD (3580 RMB) and the i7-5820K will cost 389 USD (2390 RMB).

China Telecom 4G, China Mobile 4G, and China Unicom 4G editions of Huawei Mate 7 will be released

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Aug 28, 2014

It was previously reported that Huawei will release a high-end version and low-end version of its newest flagship phone, the Mate 7.

According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, however, there will actually be three versions. Their model numbers are MT7-CL00 (China Telecom 4G version), MT7-TL00 (China Mobile 4G version), and MT7-TL10 (Should be the China Unicom 4G version).

When comparing the first two versions, it looks like some small changes were made for the MT7-TL10. It still sports a 6-inch 1080p display screen, runs on a1.8GHz octa-core processor, and sports a 13mp/5mp dual-camera. The only differences are that its RAM was increased to 3GB and its internal memory space was increased to 32GB (the first two have 2GB RAM and 16GB internal memory space). This should be the Mate 7’s high-end version. Unfortunately, it does not have a 2K screen. Perhaps, they never planned to include one in the first place.

Snapshots of the Huawei Mate 7 revealed, has very thin frame and big screen

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Aug 28, 2014

Today, 3g.cn posted two snapshots of Huawei’s newest flagship device, the Huawei Mate 7. As the photos show, the Mate 7 sports a design with a big screen and narrow frame. The front panel’s edges are very short. It looks like this phone should have a very high screen performance ratio. It seems to have a narrower frame than the recently-revealed MX5, probably measuring about 1mm.

Huawei’s logo is located below the screen which confirms that virtual buttons will be used. On the left side of the Mate 7’s 13mp camera is a single LED light. Below the camera is a fingerprint sensor.

As for the Mate 7’s other specs, it sports a 6-inch 1080p screen, uses an octa-core 1.8GHz processor, has 2GB RAM, and, other than the 13mp rear camera, has a 5mp front camera. Also, some reports say that a high-end version may be released with a 2K screen and 3GB RAM.

6th flash sale of Xiaomi Mi 3 in India : 20,000 phones sold in 2.4 seconds

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Aug 28, 2014

Xiaomi also known as China’s Apple has shown its immense potential outside China, i.e., in the Indian market. Hugo Barra, Vice President of Xiaomi, revealed on a famous social networking site, Twitter that in Flipkart’s sixth flash sale, 20,000 Xiaomi Mi 3 smartphones sold out precisely in 2.4 seconds. The sale started on 26August at 2 PM and it was just a matter of 2.4 seconds that Xiaomi Mi 3 sale took a flight.

Xiaomi has repeated the history, as the company has also done the same 2.4 seconds magic during the fourth and the fifth flash sale of Xiaomi.
According to the sources of company, the first batch of Xiaomi Mi 3 sold out in 40 minutes and second batch was sold in just 5 seconds. During the third flash sale, Xiaomi experienced the fastest sold out notification; it was just in 2 seconds that this smartphone was out of stock. This is a big hit not only for Xiaomi but also for the Flipkart.com, which is the sale partner of Xiaomi.

The sale strategy laid down by Flipkart for ordering Xiaomi Mi 3 is a very simplified procedure. You just need to click on the icon of add to cart after the selection of Xiaomi Mi 3 and it is classified as sold. The rest of the formalities are done thereafter in the additional time.

The Indian smartphone market is very much favouring this China based company and its favour can be judged from the numbers of Xioami Mi 3 sale in 3 seconds.

OPPO following Xiaomi’s footsteps – Start Find 7 sales in India on Flipkart

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Aug 28, 2014

Chinese mobile phone manufacturer, OPPO, first made its presence felt in the Indian market in early 2014. It roped in bollywood stars Hrithik Roshan and Sonam Kapoor to make a stronger connection with the Indian public. It currently has nearly 10 handsets available in the Indian market, namely, OPPO N1, OPPO R1, OPPO Find 5 Mini, OPPO Neo, OPPO Yoyo and OPPO Joy.

It has now decided to sell its latest offering, OPPO Find 7, on the e-commerce site Flipkart. The company confirmed that its entire range would be available exclusively on Flipkart from 26^th August. This move was taken to increase its digital presence as an increasing number of consumers are now taking to online shopping. This was confirmed by OPPO Mobiles India Chief Executive Tom Lu who even said that Flipkart was the ideal partner as it has a large and loyal customer base making it easier to reach out to a larger number of buyers. This move will surely improve the pan-India presence of the brand as the company plans to increase the number of service centres across the country in the next year. Mr. Tom Lu even said that their products would give the Indian consumers a chance to best in innovation, as has been experienced by customers all over the world.

OPPO Find 7 is the first 4G device launched by the company and has a Quad HD display. The phone is backed with a great camera and a fast charging technology called VOOC.

OPPO sponsors a popular TV Serial as its Marketing Strategy in India

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Aug 28, 2014

OPPO logo appears with India’s Big Boss

A great symbiotic relationship is one in which both the parties are equally benefitted. Sponsorship of the latest season of Bigg Boss by OPPO India is a precise example of this. OPPO is a Chinese mobile phone manufacturer who launched its handsets in India in early 2014. Since then the company is trying to gain a stronghold in the Indian market. What could be a better opportunity to connect with the Indian public than sponsoring India’s top most reality TV show, Bigg Boss. On the other hand, the show gained an important sponsor as it aims to increase its budget from 120 crores last year to a whopping 150 crores.

OPPO India CEO, Mr Tom Lu said, “It’s been our endeavour to establish a closer connect with the Indian society ever since we became a part of it. A hugely popular show like Bigg Boss on Colors will give us a platform to come closer to the Indian masses. During the show, viewers will get to know more about OPPO’s commitment to designing beautiful technology products with an open attitude and how OPPO’s range of innovative smartphones help create fun memorable moments. We wish the show enormous success.”

Mr Raj Nayak, CEO, Colors, said, “We are happy to announce our association with OPPO India as the ‘Powered By’ sponsor for Bigg Boss Season 8 and are glad that OPPO has chosen Bigg Boss as a platform to launch their newest campaign. We look forward to building a positive relationship with the brand and strengthening our association.”

Here’s hoping that this strategic partnership works in favour of both the companies.

Xiaomi Mi4 or Samsung Galaxy Alpha: Which one is better?

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Frank Tu

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Aug 28, 2014

Samsung and Xiaomi, both the names are not new in the smartphone market. Both have proved and established as the real players of the android smartphones. Samsung is a South Korea based company and has captured the global market. Recently, Samsung took hold of 32.2% share of the global LTE smartphone market in Q2 2014 (April – June) with the help of Samsung Galaxy S5. Reports of the Strategy Analytics suggest that this sale have taken Samsung a step ahead of Apple. Xiaomi is not behind in any way from Samsung and this China based giant has shown its presence in smartphone market by hitting the sale of 20,000 Mi 3 smartphones in just 2.4 seconds in India. Samsung Galaxy Alpha from Samsung and Xiaomi Mi 4 from China’s Apple are ready to face off each other in the android smartphone market.

Samsung has changed Galaxy by introducing a metal casing in their new Galaxy Alpha. Samsung Galaxy Alpha has a 4.7-inch super AMOLED screen display with 720 x 1280 pixel resolution, Exynos 5430 chipset, 32GB internal storage, Android 4.4.4 Kitkat, 12 megapixel camera at the back and 2.1 MP front-facing camera. The Galaxy Alpha has some really cool and highly sophisticated features like a fingerprint scanner and S Health and connectivity support for Galaxy Gear.

On the other hand, Xiaomi Mi 4 has all the high end specifications and features and a very user friendly price tag. Xiaomi Mi 4 has a 5-inch Full HD screen, Qualcomm Snapdragon 801, 64GB internal storage, Android 4.4.3 Kitkat, 13-megapixel back camera and 8 MP front camera.

Xiaomi Mi4 surely scores over Samsung Galaxy Alpha in terms of screen size and camera. So which is your next pick???

Is Gionee Elife S5.5 the World’s slimmest phone? Maybe Not!

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Frank Tu

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Aug 28, 2014

Anorexia and zero figures are receiving rave comments and criticism all over the world but here in the mobile world slim is the latest catch word. Gionee boasts of manufacturing the world’s slimmest smartphone, the Elife S5.5, with a thickness of just 5.5 mm. However, the company has decided to challenge its own record and launch a successor to this phone with a thickness of merely 5 mm. The teaser launched by the Chinese smartphone manufacturer shows the slimmest phones over the years – Moto V8 at 11.9mm (2007), iPhone 4 at 9.3mm (2010), Moto XT910 at 7.1mm (2011), and Elife S5.5 (2014). Finally, the latest contender is displayed which will surely beat the thickness of the Elife S5.5.

The current Elife S5.5 has a 5-inch AMOLED display with 1080p full HD resolution and is powered by an octa core processor. A drop in thickness to around 5 mm would surely require significant engineering innovation because of the number of components that are put together in a smartphone. It might strain the battery which occupies most of the space. Moreover, the phone is touted to possess a Corning Gorilla Glass screen which puts up the question of how the thickness has been cut down. Another issue would be that of handling as an extremely thin phone would be prone to accidental falls.

Only time will tell how this smartphone will perform but it is needless to say that a large hype has been created by the teaser. The trend of slim phones is just a temporary fad or a statement that is here to stay will be decided by the users as they will judge this newest entrant.

After Xiaomi, it is ZTE which sells 52,800 phones in under 5 minutes

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Aug 28, 2014

ZTE made best use of the famous ‘flash sale’ business model and sold 52,800 units of their Nubia Z7 Max and Nubia Z7 Mini handsets in less than five minutes. Those who could not get their hands on these phones could reserve them online on the ZTE website or order them from the official online retailer.

The original Nubia Z7 flagship mobile has features like a 5.5-inch Quad HD display with 1440 X 2560 resolution. It is powered by a 2.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor and has 32 GB expandable storage. These features pitch it against the very similar LG G3. The Nubia Z7 Max has similar specifications as the Z7 expect a few tweaks. The resolution in Z7 Max is a conventional Full HD instead of Quad HD and comes with a smaller RAM of 2 GB in place of 3 GB in the flagship model. These features have made many experts and users question the name of the model i.e. ‘Max’. The Nubia Z7 Mini is called so because of the smaller screen size as compared to Z7 Max. However, it sports a 5 inch screen which is definitely not ‘mini’ by any chance.

Both the Z7 Max and Z7 Mini have similar camera configurations with the back and front-facing cameras on being 13 MP and 5 MP, respectively. Also the max has a larger battery of 3100 mAh while the mini possesses a 2300 mAh battery. As of now, these handsets are being sold in the Chinese market and the world awaits their arrival in other countries.

123inkcartridges.ca/ review— BEWARE OF THIS SITE

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Aug 28, 2014

I usually do reviews as a blogger. This involves doing product reviews, websites and reward programs. I write because I think most of my readers should be informed about what I write. Sometimes in rare occasions companies do call me to write for them reviews of what they are selling. When I find what they want me to review is related to this company I usually write. For example I have received a request by a special company promotion and a cell phone company which I have said yes. In my work I will try to do my best by being very fair and accurate in what I am reviewing.

I cannot lie to my readers because of the product or gift card I received from the company. To be honest with you my readers, I sincerely like you. I appreciate the fact you take your time to read what I write which is awesome. Because of this, the only favor I can do you is to give you 100% of my opinion. If this will mean I expose a lie, I will freely do so.

An example is that I received an email from a lady named Tina who is a manager at 123inkcartridges.ca/. She wanted me to write a 123inkcartridges review to review their site in exchange I was to receive a donation. In my response, I told her that their site looked relevant to gizmochina but I was not to review something I have not tried before. I went on to tell her that I need a credit to the website so that I could use the site after which I would write from my experience.

She replied to me telling me that at the moment they were not providing any credit or product. She asked me if I can post an article after they send me the article. She went on to tell me that they have a group of copywriters who have specialized in writing articles on different topics and they were going to write the articles that I was to post on my website. She even assured me that the articles were not going to be used on anywhere else on the internet. After giving all these she asked what my opinion was.

At this point the question I asked was whether the company was hiding something. Why would they not allow me to experience after which I would review the site just like any normal advertiser/blogger? I now know if you google 123inkcartridges scam, some hits will come up. Another thing I know is that I cannot trust any of their reviews that I find in the internet that is positive because most likely it was submitted by their own writers. This is the obvious I won’t do, endorsing a website that chooses such dishonest ways of promoting themselves. I advise anyone to keep off from such companies that cannot be trusted.

Many people usually ask me whether I make money on my blog. I usually tell them I don’t make money. I even give the gifts to my readers in the giveaway articles. I have only received very small monetary payments from google ad words that usually pay pennies on the post. My payment is in terms of happiness, when there is someone commenting on what I had written. When someone offers a gift card or a free product I like to take the project and my reward is the kickback. But honestly I am not a sellout.

I don’t like to be dishonest and I will never be dishonest. I won’t say something that my conscience tells me is untrue. I will not post an article that has been written by a company whose intention is to make more from it. This remains my commitment to you and another commitment is to brainwash you to sending me all the money that you save out of my helpful tips. I am simply being honest.

Xiaomi Mi4 or OnePlus One – Which is better?

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Aug 28, 2014

No doubt that these two great phones are making history in the world of mobile industry. Somehow their influence becomes wider and bigger since they represents the greatness between modernization and technology. But among the two, which of this really matters to you? Let’s check the quick comparison below.

First of all lets see the similarities of both phones and then we’ll move to the points where one scores over the other.

– Both Xiaomi Mi4 and OnePlus One have 3GB Ram.

– Both have a screen resolution of 1920 x 1080.

– Both run on Snapdragon 801 processor.

– Both have the same internal memory.

– Both Xiaomi Mi4 and OnePlus One have a 13 Megapixel rear camera.

OnePlus One has a screen size of 5.5 inch as compared to 5 inch of Xiaomi Mi4.

OnePlus One has a better battery of 3100mAh as compared to 3080mAh of Xiaomi.

However, Xiaomi Mi4 scores good on the front camera as it has got a 8 megapixel camera in comparison to OnePlus One’s 5 megapixel.

Universally the Xiaomi Mi 4 allows you to have a universal remote through an IR blaster. It doesn’t have an NFC, but it has more interesting qualities that will surely suit your taste. It might have a smaller screen size and a smaller battery capacity, but somehow Xiaomi seems to be selling more. The Xiaomi Mi 4 is now considered as one of the highest standard android phone of this generation.

The 5.5 inch screen size of OnePlus One grabs an edge towards this race. It is because the larger the screens are, the more application you can surf. Smaller screens can also do so, but it will require too much load to the battery. Other interesting things about the OnePlus one is that they prioritize their client’s choices including their warranty system. To conclude, majority of the results clearly state that the Xiaomi Mi 4 would be a great choice against the OnePlus One.

Not just because of some special differences, but because the quality of Xiaomi Mi4 will eventually overlap the OnePlus One. Overall they don’t differ too much in price but somehow the quality will always matter. OnePlus One is good but the Xiaomi Mi4 is better.

Huawei’s New Flagship Ascend Mate 7 Leaked: Even Thinner Than MX4

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Frank Tu

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Aug 28, 2014

Two pictures of Huawei Ascend Mate 7 which is supposed to be released on September 14^th at IFA2014 were leaked today. From the pictures we can see it features a big screen with super thin bezels that seems even thinner than the previously leaked MX4. And both the chin parts of the front panel are very short, giving users a lot of screen estate to work with.

The Huawei logo is located in the bottom of the screen, which assures us that Huawei Mate 7 went with on-screen buttons, like any other Huawei premium phones did.

From the back we can see it went with the three-piece design. The middle part should be metal. There’s also a 13-megapixel camera with a single LED flash on the left. Just below the camera, there’s this fingerprint sensor which is slightly dented.

What should be noted is that this phone is already listed on the website of the Ministry for Industry and Information Technology, so its specs are no secret. It comes with a 6-inch 1080p display, a 1.8GHz octa-core CPU, 2G of ram, a 13-megapixels main camera and 5 megapixels for the front-facing one. There also could be a hign-end version, with the display upgraded to 2K and comes with 3G of ram. But it’s all rumors. We’ll see if it’s true.

Prices for Meizu MX4 revealed: 2499 RMB (406.77 USD), 2699 RMB (439.33 USD), 2999 RMB (488.16 USD), and 3099 RMB (504.44 USD)

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Frank Tu

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Aug 28, 2014

As the launch of Meizu’s new dream flagship phone, the MX4, approaches, more photos and information about the phone have been released online. Today, a Weibo user discovered information on the MX4’s prices in its test webpage.

As the photo of the site below shows, Meizu may sell the MX4 at four different prices, 2499 RMB, 2699 RMB, 2999 RMB, and 3099 RMB. The 2499 RMB cost is probably for the 16GB version while the 3099 RMB cost might be for the rumoured MX Pro high-end edition.

It had been previously reported that the 16GB edition would be sold for 2499 RMB like the MX3 which was sold last year.

The Lenovo A320T which only costs 399 RMB (64.95 USD) may be the cheapest 4G phone right now

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Aug 28, 2014

Lenovo recently released what is purportedly the cheapest 4G cellphone in the market right now. The Lenovo A320T only costs 399 RMB and supports China Mobile’s TD-LTE 4G network.

Due to its low price, the A320T’s specs are only about average. It sports a 4-inch 800 x 480 display screen, has 512Mb Ram and 4Gb internal memory space. Its operating system is the Android 4.4.2 and its camera has 2Mp. It is powered by a 1500mAh.

The biggest highlights of the A320T are that it uses the 1.3GHz MT6582 quad-core chipset (its baseband chip is the T6290) and that its rear case is made of artificial leather.

Xiaomi might discontinue MI3 sales in India

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Frank Tu

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Aug 27, 2014

After huge storm created in Indian market with flash sales Xiaomi sold more than 95,000 units of MI3.
The demand is still active and this is still a favorite phone in black market. Most of them who have tried to book failed almost every time as sale would be last for just 2-3 seconds.

Hugo Barra is just expressing red signal for sale of MI3. The main reason is due to more demand it is easy to produce Redmi 1S rather than MI3 to fulfill the needs of buyers and not to disappoint them and they are keen to focus on Redmi 1S and acquire mid range market and top the chart. They are about to take a final call on this.

Xiaomi has planned to release Redmi Note in some time and MI 4 at end of this year.

Xiaomi’s Hong Feng(CEO of MIUI) Says:MIUI has it’s own design language

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Frank Tu

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Aug 27, 2014

With the best Mandarin accent in Xiao Mi co-founders, no wander it was him to make the presentation in the conference press of MIUI 6. However, this conference press brought out lots of discussions. some people thought the MIUI is better than before, and also some people thought Xiao Mi is much more similar to Apple. With these compliments and doubts, 36 Kr had a interview with Hong Feng.

Connection

“Xiao Mi is an E-commerce company”, we can feel it directly from the frankness of Hong Feng. The profit from three MIUI mall has been over 100 Million, in which 174 Million was distributed to the developers, and not only we shared the profit with the developers, but also the developer shared their profit with us through browser navigation, and living service.” In Hong Feng’s opinion, the value of MIUI can not be limited as profit, actually what we have done is connection.

After the year of 2013, MIUI launched the internet service, which were focused by Hong Feng and Lei Jun recently. Except for integrating these internet service companies like Thunder and Cheetah, also calendar, address book are internet-oriented. Even the tools App like Compass can be included.

Just like Wechat, in order to get the entrance of Wechat, Dianping has paid 20% of shares. The cooperation between Xiao Mi and the Third parties is wider while lighter, including Shunfeng Express, China Merchants Bank, also Sohu Video and Baidu Music, which formed the local services and content distribution platform of XiaoMi. However, Hong Feng he didn’t like the word “layout”, “just because we have more human resource, and finally we can have a try”.

Something XiaoMi is engaging in can not be done by just one or two person, such as Smart home and Smart hardware. What’s more, Wechat joined in — Tencent published a series of API in August to attract the developers to connect their hardware with Wechat. Heros think similarly, Hong Feng didn’t feel anxiety because of Tencent, “we believe the connection between hardware and hardware shall be purer and more effective”.

Have you ever used Vista?

The similarities of Tencent and Xiao Mi are not only the products, but also the accusation of “copy”. The international style of Xiao Mi can be felt from the massive critics of foreign medias.

“It is recommended to root the development version of MIUI V5, and open the file to check are there any transparency blur effects, if adopting transparency blur was considered as a kind of “copy”, then it should be copied from Windows Vista“, Hong Feng thought the judgment of copy shall be determined from the whole history of computer interaction, “Flattening was began from Metro UI of Microsoft, even Microsoft was not the pioneer, all the original design were flatten”.

“However, MIUI is much similar to iOS in the overall visual effects, so what is Xiao Mi’s design language?”

“We have a guideline of unified design language, including the bi-segment and T type structure as you said “, Hong Feng thought the design style of Xiao Mi is being formed, but it is no need to be limited in one design language, exceptions are permitted, for the tools or contents App, it is unified highly in MIUI.

Even though the design language has been formed, still some people will be unhappy. Google released new Android L of Material Design in the I/O conference. The candy color of MIUI 6 and iOS7 sight visual should be a kind of betrayal for the Android loyal fans.

“Actually Google they don’t care about what you like, they care about the developer’s work can be run in all Android cell phones or not, you need to know the ambition of Google Empire. We have the official cooperative relationship with Google, and we will contact with them on every updates, you can know the situation better from the large number of our staff came from Google”, the contacts and cooperation mentioned by Hong Feng is mainly refer to anti-fragment agreement and CTS compatibility test.

Growing pains of Xiao Mi

The major problems of MIUI are features rather than design. MIUI is considered to be the first choice ROM for fanciers, however, after the number of its users reaches 70 million, they must consider the usability, Hong Feng has ever said that in one time the functions of MIUI were too much, and the solution was to hide many features, and active if needed.

Another result from the users expansion is work quantity increasing. V5 only needs to adopt two models, while V6 needs at least 6. “Now we are still discussing MIUI 6 shall be based on Android 4.4 or 4.1”, Hong Feng felt that it is no doubt that a company want to make all users updating to the latest version. However, the update of XiaoMi tablet and Xiaomi Phone series have to be delayed to the end of this year.

They suffered lots of troubles, in Taiwan, they are accused of leaking the users’ information to the servers at Beijing, in Southeast Asia, they need to look for a local company to offer the O2O service. And just this article to be finished, ustwo announced that XiaoMi has not been authorized to use the Monument Valley as the demostration in the conference press of MIUI 6.

When we discussed these items, Hong Feng was a little tired until we talked about the future of MIUI. “MIUI 7 and 8 shall be more intelligent, and is capable of acquiring more information you need, and you can see what you need, maybe we have to wait until MIUI 100” .

IUNI U3 Hands-on: Dual-SIM with 4G LTE

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Frank Tu

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Aug 27, 2014

IUNI U3 is announced this afternoon. Let’s take a look at the details.

IUNI U3 is targeting young fellows out there as its potential customers. It’s featuring a metal body, and you can hold it with just one hand, and it feels pretty nice. When it comes to inner structure, it’s partially made of magnesium aluminum alloy. Its back is made of plastic though, but covered with a kind of paint from Japan. It looks great, and has a dirt-resistant effect.

IUNI U3 comes with a 5.5-inch display. It’s the second generation 2K display manufactured by Sharp, which is said to have a higher refresh rate, and also uses less power and has a wider rang of colors than before. To make operations in winter easier, it also supports glove mode.

The out layer of IUNI U3 is made of Corning Gorilla glass 3 which is more scratch-resistant. Plus the out layer features a cambered surface, which makes swiping and scrolling on it more comfortable.

IUNI U3 also comes with a brand new IUNI OS which is based on Android 4.4. Even though it’s a third party ROM, it still gives us a stock Android feeling (no third-party apps pre-installed). It also added some features like security/voice assistant and gesture control.

IUNI U3 costs 2000RMB ($325), but for those of you who wanna buy it, you’re gonna have to wait until September, ’cause they need a little more time to prepare for the stock, so everyone can get the phone if they want to buy. No more stupid invite system.

Meizu’s smartwatch seems to be on its way

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Frank Tu

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Aug 27, 2014

Meizu's smartwatch graphic — Meizu’s smartwatch graphic

“Look at your watch. Do you have this type of habit?” this is the meaning of the Chinese message conveyed by the image which has gone viral on the internet. The image has been released by Meizu’s domestic advertising team on Weibo. There is a hand with a wrist watch design on it. Release of such an ad added a flavour to the rumours that Meizu, a leading electronic company of China is a new player in the smartwatch market. The company has established its name in the global market because of its uniqueness. But the image also has some traces of a Meizu Mx3 smartphone. In this way, this ad could be interpreted as sarcasm from Meizu to the current smartwatch revolution. The message could be that you don’t need a smartwatch, you just need a real smartphone like Meizu Mx3.

Some reports suggest that Meizu will follow the footsteps of Google and will announce its own OS for the smartwatch. The keyplayers which are already there in the market of smartwatch are LG, Motorola, Samsung, etc. Google released a list of companies at the time of the announcement of Android Wear, which can make use of the software. The list included HTC, Asus and many more. But Meizu could be a new entrant in the list.

But nothing could be stated clearly until the higher officials of this Chinese giant, Meizu, are ready to comment about the advertisement. People are curious to know about the original story and concept behind the ad.

Meizu MX4 pictures leaked – experts give mixed reviews

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Frank Tu

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Aug 27, 2014

Pictures of ‘top of the range’, Meizu MX4 called the MX4 Pro, have recently leaked online. The phone is expected to appear at this year’s IFA on 2^nd September at Berlin. Information collected from recent leaked pictures of these phones suggests two versions of the handset will be available. The MX4 Pro is significantly different from the MX4 and looks sleek and more premium. This phone is touted to carry a 5.5 inch glass with 1536 X 2560 pixel resolution. It is also equipped with a 20.7 MP camera accompanied by a LED flash. Photos suggest that the MX4 Pro has an all metal frame. However, the back cover seems to be of plastic and may be replaceable.

The unveiling on 2^nd September, just a week before the launch of the new iPhone, is being seen by many as a stunt to ‘steal Apple’s thunder’. The success of such an activity is still to be seen.

The leaked pictures have received mixed reviews about the new handset. On one hand, there seems to be little hue and cry about the looks of this handset (many have found them to be simple, ordinary and nothing exciting) while on the other the experts find the technical specifications a little hard to believe. As for now, all we can do is wait and watch as MX4 Pro makes its official appearance next week at IFA Berlin.