OnePlus is sending invites to buy their cellphones, the OnePlus One. Some devices have already reached to the winners of contest. These lucky winners were able to buy the handset of 16GB model, at the price of $1. The interest of the public was more than expected. This interest of buyers made OnePlus to shift their production to 64GB model first. The enthusiasts are getting their invites in the emails. The campaign has the logo of “it is raning invites”. If you have got one of such invites then you are eligible to buy 64GB model at $349.99.
The invites emails has a unique URL to buy the phone. You need to register a OnePlus account the link of which is also provided in the email, too. It is expected if you have received an invite you may have already registered a OnePlus account. In that case, you don’t have to worry about this step.
The OnePlus has unfortunately received uncalledfor delays in shipment. That is why they have stated in separate email that they can’t say for sure how long the shipment process will take time. The email also states that they buyers can put their orders and once the mobile is ready they will be shipped to them. Similarly, another option has been given that states that buyers may have to wait until they will be confirmed when their handsets are ready for shipment through email. The shipment delay is such a thing which no company or the buyers want, for this reason they have mentioned that as it was the first batch that is why delay happened, and this will not be the case in the future.
Huawei is not a popular name in the west, but this notion is changing with the HiSilicon chips churned out by Huawei. These chips have been used in the devices like Ascend P6 and Ascend P7. The processors used have been Cortex-A9 which deliver the performance that we expected years earlier. In fact, this is all to keep the cost low, but now Huawei is ready to change that with their newest chips they announced. The Kirin 920 is the name of chip. The company is making flaunting claims about their latest chip.
The new chip Kirin 920 is a System-on-Chip that is made around 8-core CPU that utilizes LITTLE blue print from ARM. It pairs four low-power Cortex A7 cores that reaches the speed of 1.6Ghz and pairs four high-power cortex A15 cores that reaches the speed up to 2.0 Ghz. Huawei claims these new chips will outclass the Snapdragon 805, which will be confirmed as the chips will be available. The chip named kirin 920 has a Mali-T628 GPU, which is going to give good graphics and gaming experience. It also supports LTE Cat 6 and VoLTE. With all these specs, Huawei has accumulated a lot of respect but we’ll have to wait to see whether it can outsmart the Snapdragon 805 or not.
The Huawei claim is proven right or not, the new followship will help them stand against the likes of HTC and Samsung. The other Chinese manufacturers bank on MediaTek for their devices but the Huawei relies on its own chips which is a laudable thing. MediaTek on the other hand refuses to go beyond Android 4.2.2. The new device will hopefully reach new markets around the world, without old Android version and with good performance overall.
K-Touch the one of Chinese smartphone manufacturer is now ready to develop new manufacturer in Indonesia, since Indonesia has the potential market for Android penetration.
Samsung has recently released the Tizen system’s first machine Samsung Z. Just from looking at the outward appearance, it looks just like one of the Sony Z series. The series is just too similar looking and makes it difficult to create any interest. Tizen was created by “Samsung’s own R&D System” which makes Tizen more unattractive. “Independent research and development system,” such words are almost too standard and not very powerful and this does not mean that the phone is worth a new purchase.
There are many twists and turns created by the Tizen systems with Samsung releasing a major significance. After long research and development, Tizen can be subjected finally have a carrier, which is its upcoming third birthday best gift. Andrews and a bunch just to do a skin on the dare-called “self-developed” systems differ, Tizen is definitely worthy of the “independent research” the words. Although Tizen and Andrews are the same as the Linux kernel, but it’s much more complicated life experience.
Tizen is made up of a combination of MeeGo and LiMo, but also incorporates some of the Bada technology. Nokia Maemo MeeGo and Intel’s Moblin project’s is a perfect fit because of three reasons: the Nokia N9 is quite well known and with Nokia’s decline and slowly dying trend and now with the resurrection Jolla. LiMo is a product of the Open Systems Alliance created in 2008 and many of these are supported by the manufacturers. However, only a few of several products will actually get produced and placed on the market. The Samsung Bada is a true independent research. Between 2010 to 2011 there have been several good phones, but most of the markets reaction has been very bleak and unimpressed.
Can it be said that this is a step toward the Tizen project’s corpse rising from the grave after having the years of accumulated experience of countless failures? Today, Samsung is no longer that brother behind Nokia. Intel today is not simply just in the desktop market, regardless of the mobile field proud giants. Can such combinations be successful?
The obvious answer is no.
Today’s mobile phone industry is no longer the same as that of Nokia which has just fallen from its peak. Such reasons exist for this such as Apple’s iOS and iPhone with its high-end market occupation and Google with Android manufacturers to quickly seize the leadership of the low-end market. Also, with Microsoft’s own Windows Phone taking their own piece of the market there is very little place where Tizen can prove itself and strive.
So, Samsung is not sure why we must still fight this fierce battle when there is very low chances of winning? Obviously, the reason is not because is it is not just about winning or losing spirit, but for other intentions. Samsung must find out the problem that they want to solve. What are the core strengths of Samsung mobile phones?
One answer could be the hardware configuration. The answer is probably marketing efforts, but in my opinion these are not the essence, the core strengths of Samsung mobile phones is Samsung’s long-term accumulation. Recalling the development process of the mobile phone industry, it is not difficult to find that as early as the phone market began Nokia and MOTO ‘s domination of the mobile phone market was fairly clear. Samsung has been ranked the top three and has never fallen from that position. After the MOTO error and Nokia’s first error it was the first time to seize the opportunity to take some of market and exploit the error’s mistake.
Not only that, Sony, LG and other manufacturers have paid insufficient attention to the market’s changes. Samsung have long discovered the importance of the market, so the channel development and brand image has been quite successful. The mobile phone industry era has passed a long time, but Samsung nationwide coverage has been very important for the manufacturer. They looked into expanding their market to rural communities as a way to increase sales, which channeled into high profits for Samsung.
It is important to note that as a company that started out by creating hardware Samsung can independently produce four pieces of the smartphone: the CPU, the screen, the memory and the flash memory. This helps to reduce the cost of the Samsung phones and also provides consumers with a very low range which is quite appealing. Naturally, you can expect to see good profits return for the company.
Samsung has had many excellent opportunities in the building and branding out over the market with its strong R & D and manufacturing capabilities. Samsung has been quite successful these past few years. They have accumulated a great number of loyal consumers.
The purpose of Samsung’s Tizen phone has made quite clear. We have mentioned that this is an era of mobile Internet. Internet content and services companies can rely on earnings, (earnings are the key importance for phone companies in this premise), but the hardware does not make money and/or tends to lose money for the company. This is acceptable for phone companies whereas hardware companies have to rely on profits from selling their hardware.
If Samsung wants to go further, they must do some big changes in future competition. However, this change will not be easy to achieve, they must do some accumulation of changes. Samsung sees the Tizen phone as a accumulation of changes. They developed a new system that can help Samsung to interact (a more in-depth understanding of the knowledge UI) and build content ecosystem (so all aspects of software development run smoothly). Samsung also helps to accumulate some patents and cultivate some excellent engineers to help build their necessary projects. These are very useful for the future of Samsung’s transformation, but also fully in line with Samsung’s “technology and talent-based” business philosophy.
Staged leaks are the best type of leaks as we get to know more about the products being leaked. On the other hand, random leaks by a kid roaming in a store doesn’t give much detail about the product (in our case a mobile phone). The recent apparently a stage by Oppo show photos of their new LTE phablet. This phablet is supposedly be announced on 10th June in LTE Conference. As Oppo is busy in rolling out Oppo N1 Mini and R6007 LTE, it is likely they may be working on other phone to fulfill the demand of consumers of large phones. According to the picture the device is of good size, as apparent from the picture, the guy holding the phone with phone near his ear. The phone is wider than the ear. Similarly, the picture tells that the pocket of guy’s jeans is of just the right size.
The most prominent thing in the picture (although the pictures are blurry) is the styling of the phone. It is one such aspect which is not emphasized by Oppo much. The leaked phone has dual tone styling that makes it look like a bigger version of iPhone 5S. Similar is the camera which is placed near the top of the phone in middle. The dual tone styling of white and silver makes it different from its cousins Oppo N1, Find 5 or Find 7, which sport one color designing. The photos shows that the body of the phone is made up of metal, which is in high demand now a day. Guesses about the dimension of the phone shows that it is somewhat 5.5 to 6 inches. It is more probable as the Find 7 has 5.5 inch and N1 is 5.9 inches. We don’t have to wait much as the announcement date is approaching.
One of Chinese tablet manufacturer, Vido is now release new tablet model, while the Vido W11C has been cover before, and now we want oto intriducing the other Vido tablet device.
The tablet features an 8 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display, a 1.33 GHz Intel Atom Z3735G Bay Trail processor, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of solid state storage.
MediaTek has becomeing more popular right now, this mobile processor manufacturer can offers the nice chipset with very affordable price. And now they also has already release the MT8127 processor.
Today, many smartphone manufacturer is trying to offers the nice smartphone to the market, DOOV is one of the domestic smartphone manufacturer is also offers the same strategy.
Oppo Find 7a is a robust phone with high specs. It comes equipped with its operating system based on android. The OnePlus One has a connection with Oppo as the OnePlus One smartphones are manufactured in the same facilities as the Oppo smartphones. The internal hardware is same so does the firmware found on both the phones. They are so similar, as through a little bit of tweaking you can install CyanogenMod OS on Opppo Find 7a. CyanogenMod is OS that runs on OnePlus One. Let’s have a look that how to install CyanogenMod ROM on Oppo Find 7a.
First thing you need to do is to flash the ROM. To do this you need to install a custom recovery such as TWRP or ClockworkMod. Install the ROM at the source link you found through recovery. These source links are also available at android forums and sites. Search by installing CyanogenMod ROM on Find 7a and you would find two source links that you have to insert. Then install the OTA found at the second source for fixing sound problems.
Through this you can enjoy the benefits of CyanogenMod on Oppo Find 7a. Although there are some problems that needs to be fixed by the android community. The first issue is that the photos taken from back camera will appear upside down. Voice wake is also not available, similarly NFC would not work. The software shows that only 3GB of storage space is available. These are few issues, if you can put up with these issues than go ahead and install CyanogenMod on Oppo.
We have just found the new benchmark result and the device is known as Xiaomi Leo, this phone has similar specs with the previous rumor thta’s could be the Xiaomi Mi3S.
OnePlus One is the one of Chinese smartphone that running with CyanogenMod ROM, the phone is very unique since the slaes is available through invitation method.
Cube is the one of Chinese electronic manufacturer that always offers the nice tablet device, is now they already release the Cube TALK8 Android phablet.
While we’ve covered the news about the HTC One Mini 2 smartphone, is now we have the comparing the HTC One Mini 2 smartphone with HTC Desire 816.
Both phone is targeting for mid-range phone but the HTC One Mini 2 is look more elegant with metal body cover while the Desire 816 is use plastic body cover.
The software on both phone is look identical, but the Desire 816 has more larger size than HTC One Mini 2. Both the Desire and the mini have 720p screens, but thanks to the smaller size of the mini, it wins out in picture quality: 326ppi compared to the Desire’s 267ppi.
Here is the video to show the different between the two :
Today, Bloomberg released a video where they talked about the quick rise of a Chinese electronics company, Xiaomi. According to video, during the 1st season of 2014, Xiaomi has shipped 10.4 million phones while Apple has only shipped 9 million. This is the first time that Xiaomi has shipped more than Apple in China.
The video described Xiaomi’s strategy where instead of investing on television ads, users can only buy the Mi phone online. Xiaomi began a price war with its competitors.
According to the video, in China, the Mi phone only costs about 200 USD, while the iPhone costs about 700 USD.
One of the top managers in Xiaomi is Hugo Barra, the former vice-CEO of Google’s Android. Xiaomi recently released the Mi Pad which carries a strong resemblance to the iPad mini but its operating system is the Android-based MIUI.
Mogu released its first batch of octa-core cellphones called the M6. The M6 resembles the Galaxy Note 3 and has a physical “Home” button at the bottom.
Everyone may notice the blank space at the back. Mogu can put your name there to personalize it. You can even put someone else’s name there if you are planning to give it to them as a gift.
The phone’s features are pretty standard. It has a 5.7-inch IPS display screen with 1920*1080 resolution, a 5mP/13mP dual-camera, 2GB RAM, and 16GB ROM. It uses the MT6592 octa-core processor with a main frequency of 1.7GHz, and runs on a 2800mhA battery. It uses the Android 4.3 system and supports W+G dual-SIM internet.
It’s currently being sold in official Mogu stores for 1399 RMB (223.82).
Good news for 2G and 3G enthusiasts! ZTE recently lowered the price of its TCL J928 from 699 RMB (111.83 USD) to 599 RMB.
Those familiar with this product should rejoice at the news, but this only applies to the online store JD.com. In other above-the-line stores, it will still cost somewhere between 700 RMB (111.99 USD) and 900 RMB (143.99).
There has been a lot of buzz surrounding the TCL J928. Its biggest selling point is that it supports WCDMA China Unicom 3G/2G, and China Mobile 2G, and can also handle CDMA1x China Telecom 2G internet. It also supports double-SIM internet.
The J928 also features the OTG function and also has sensory features like a digital compass. It has a 5.5-inch qHD display screen, 1GB RAM/4GB ROM of memory, a 5mP dual-camera, and 2500mhA battery. It uses the MT6582M quad-core processor and runs on the Android 4.2. It’s available in brown and white which can be sold for 599 RMB (95.83 USD). It cannot be disassembled.
In conclusion, the J928 is definitely worth consideration.
After releasing the Kirin 920 processor, it does not look like Huawei will be taking a rest anytime soon. According to a reversal film showed by analyst @panjiutang, Huawei will later release a 64-bit processor. The company’s first 64-bit processor should come out in 2015 and is set to face the high-end 64-bit processors of Qualcomm and Mediatek.
There is going to be one big showdown in 2015 and we hope Huawei can catch up, or maybe even beat its rivals.
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