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Honor 6X With Dual Cameras & Kirin 655 Official, Starts At Just $149

Joel Joseph — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 09:53:47 +0000

Huawei released the brand new Honor 6X mid-range smartphone at an official event a few hours ago. We have been hearing about the phone for the past few weeks and a recent TENAA listing confirmed its specs as well. But now, everything is officially out, revealing the full details about the product.

The Honor 6X comes with an all metallic built, with 2.5D glass on the front. The corners of the phone are smooth and for its cheap pricing, the phone looks premium. It’s compact with the following dimensions: 150.9 x 72.6 x 8.2mm and weighs 162 grams. The company is offering five different colors for the phone namely gold, rose gold, silver, gray, and navy.

As for the specs, the Honor 6X is powered by the Kirin 655 octa-core chipset clocked at 2.1GHz with Mali-T830 MP2 GPU. This is definitely very good enough for a budget smartphone. The display is of 5.5-inches with 1080p resolution. There are 3GB / 4GB RAM and 32GB / 64GB ROM options available. At the back, the phone features a dual camera setup consisting of one 12MP primary sensor and another 2MP secondary sensor. Up front, there is an 8MP camera. Inside, the phone features a decent 3340mAh battery. As for the software, the device runs on Android 6 Marshmallow with Emotion UI 4.1 on top. Other features include fingerprint sensor at the back, dual SIM dual standby, 4G LTE, WI-Fi n and GPS.

The 3GB + 32GB version starts at just 999 Yuan ($149), 4GB + 32GB at 1299 Yuan ($193) and 4GB + 64GB at 1599 Yuan ($238). The phone will go on sale on October 25 in China. No details about international release available yet.

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Oxygen 3.1 (Marshmallow) Community Build for OnePlus X Released and Hydrogen OS 2.5 for OnePlus 3 Announced.

Habeeb Onawole — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 09:36:03 +0000

Almost a year after it’s release, OnePlus is breathing new life into the OnePlus X by announcing the release of Oxygen 3.1 Community Build which brings Android 6.0 Marshmallow to the smallest OnePlus phone.

While it may be a little late in coming as Google officially released Android 7.0 Nougat yesterday, the announcement might spur some folks who don’t want something big to pick up the device.

OnePlus community builds are similar to beta releases before the final and official release. As with all beta releases, there are always issues that haven’t been ironed out. OnePlus says users may experience issues like network stability in select regions, third party apps compatibility, and language localisation.

OS 3.1 will bring new features like new icon packs, a new wallpaper picker, new customisation for the alert slider, and changes to Shelf UX, apart from the default marshmallow ones. It will also come with new apps (OnePlus Music and OnePlus Gallery) and August’s security patch.

If you are interested in flashing the community build on your phone, you should check the instructions OnePlus has put together here.

Hydrogen OS 2.5 for OnePlus 3

The OnePlus X isn’t the only phone that will be getting a new update. A Canadian official has announced the upcoming release of Hydrogen OS 2.5 for the OnePlus 3.

If you remember, back when the OnePlus One was released, the company announced that there will be two operating systems for the phone. Hydrogen OS for the Chinese variant and Oxygen OS for the international version.

The new OS is expected to bring in a ton of features and design changes. While some have expected OnePlus to merge both operating systems, this announcement doesn’t seem like they have any plans to do so.

There is still no date on official release, but we will get you updated once we know.

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Vivo X7 Spotted on GFXBench After Leaving TENAA

Habeeb Onawole — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 10:18:30 +0000

Benchmarking website, GFXBench, is the next stop for the Vivo X7 after leaving the certification office. The website gives us more information about the phone’s specifications and confirms the ones already known.

The Vivo X7 has a 5.2″ FHD screen, a Snapdragon 652 processor clocked at 1.8GHz, an Adreno 510 GPU, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of built-in storage, and a front camera with a higher pixel than the rear: 16MP and 13MP respectively. Well, it is a strategy taken from the books of OPPO, whose OPPO R9 features a similar setup.

The sad thing is the fact that the Vivo X7 is going to launch with Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. With Android N almost upon us, it is disappointing that a premium mid-range phone such as this will launch with Lollipop when sub $100 phones are launching with Marshmallow.

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UMi Touch Could Be The First Mediatek Phone To Get CM13 Based On Android 6.0.1

Joel Joseph — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 09:10:23 +0000

We love Mediatek SoCs for their cheap pricing and competitive performance. However, one of the biggest drawbacks of MTK based smartphones is the lack of software support. Even the latest smartphone from UMi, the UMi Touch features a MediaTek MT6753 chipset under the hood. However, that reportedly won’t be a hindrance for the company for developing CM13 for the device.

UMi is said to be working on the Android 6.0.1 based CM13 release for the UMi Touch, which would be welcome news for all Touch users. According to the company, it has finally come to an agreement and has received codes to work on the CyanogenMod OS 13.

The company seems to be focused on software updates for its new device. We have already seen the two updates for the UMi Touch within two weeks of launch via OTA. But don’t expect the CM13 OS to be released for the device very soon. While the company has not given us a time frame for the new release, we’ll probably have to wait for a few weeks at least to hear more about the OS.

So, did you update your Touch with the second OTA update?

To recap, the UMi Touch comes with a 5.5-inch 1080p display with MT6753, 3GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, 13MP Sony IMX328 camera, dual SIM cards and a front facing fingerprint sensor. There’s also a large 4000mAh battery on board the device. You can check out UMi’s other devices from its official website.

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Elephone Four Product Launch 2016 coming on the 15th

shanos — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:57:59 +0000

Elephone Four Product Launch 2016 coming on the 15th

The Elephone Four Product Launch 2016 has now been given an official time and date, at 2.30pm (GMT+8) on January the 15th you will be given full details of four Elephone products.

The P9000 handsets will be shown along with full product details and specifications, hopefully including a chance to see a finalised version of the P9000 Edge, as whilst most of the phones specs are well documented having been covered as part of the recent crowd funding promotion, the P9000 Edge has yet to be seen in the wild, hopefully it can live up to the renders that have been shown previously.

Their will also be coverage of the Elephone W2 watch, from what we have seen and been told so far it will feature a stainless steel case comparable in quality to those produced by high end watch manufacturers such as Longines and Ronda, along with an internal movement used by makers like Cartier, these are certainly very bold statements to make and a lot of people will doubt them, so lets wait and see if the W2 watch lives up to them.

When it comes to features a cool looking illuminated night light, and will support smart functions such as sleep and sports monitoring, sedentary reminders, call reminders and is compatible with both IOS and Android operating systems.

Overall the design looks high end and is visually pleasing, the changeable real leather watch strap should also add to the sense of quality and give it a touch of style.

Elephone will be giving a 50% discount on the watch as part of the Elephone Four Product Launch 2016, but we will need to wait till the 15th to find out exactly what we need to do in order to take advantage of the 50% off offer and if it will be limited to a certain number of applicants.

Another handset that will be covered as part of the Elephone Four Product Launch 2016, is the M3 Business phone, it will come in two different specification levels, with the differences between versions being the camera and memory specifications.

The top of spec M3 includes a 5.5″ LG screen, USB Type-C 3.0, 21MP Sony230 camera, Android 6.0 and fingerprint scanner.

Both versions of the M3 feature Network B allowing them to be used all around the world including America.

The aviation grade aluminium body will come in a range of three colours rose gold, champagne gold and smoky grey.

As mentioned above there will be a mystery product covered at the Elephone Products Conference 2016, what do you think it will be? another handset range? perhaps a Vape unit? possibly a drone? its hard to say with Elephone as they are constantly evolving their range of products, meaning that we will have to wait for the Elephone Products Conference 2016 to find out for sure.

Elephone will be updating their official twitter, Google+, Facebook and VK accounts throughout the day, allowing you to keep up with the updates as they happen.

So will you be tuning in for the Elephone Four Product Launch 2016? are you waiting to find out more about the P9000 Edge? or are you intrigued by the mystery device?

Elephone have recently tried very hard to shake off their image as a provider of good hardware with limited support, their use of higher quality components has helped as has the work they have done with software updates for older handsets.

I have personally been using my Elephone P8000 again from the 1st of January (having lost my Samsung S5) the handset has come on leaps and bounds with recent OS updates making it into the phone it should have been at launch.

If they can bring out the P9000 and M3 phones with a great rom and the attention to detail they deserve this could be the year that Elephone return to favour, if they get the software wrong however it could be hard to come back from.

Please feel free to leave comments or questions below

Regards Shane

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Original K4000 vs forthcoming K4000 Pro, whats improved?

shanos — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 17:18:05 +0000

Original K4000 vs forthcoming K4000 Pro, lets see what Oukitel have improved.

Oukitel are all set to release the new improved K4000 Pro, lets have a look at the specs of both phones and see what improvements Oukitel have managed to make to the new handset.

The new K4000 Pro will be seen by many as more of a K4000+ the newer handset sees some styling tweaks and some under the hood enhancements that should make the original K4000 even better.

So whats not been changed?

Both the original K4000 and the newer K4000 Pro feature 5-inch HD displays (1280 x 720p resolution) and are powered by 1ghz Quad-Core 64bit Cortex-A53 Mediatek MT6735P processors, these are not the most powerful CPU’s but should do an ok job for most everyday needs.

Ram and Rom configurations are the same between both handsets with 16GB ROM and 2GB RAM and both feature the same camera pairing of 8.0 mega pixel (13 Mega Pixel interpolated) rear facing camera and 2.0 Mega Pixel (5 Mega Pixel interpolated) front facing camera.

Like the original K4000 the newer K4000 Pro will come with Android Lollipop 5.1, with a confirmed upgrade path to Android Lollipop 6.0 on the K4000 Pro.

Given that both handsets share a lot of components in common, it would be a fairly safe bet that the original K4000 will also see the upgrade to 6.0

USB OTG functions like reverse charging will also make a return on the K4000 pro, when used with an OTG cable.

So whats changed?

The original OUKITEL K4000 featured a large removable 4000mAh battery, whilst the K4000 Pro sees an increased to 4600mAh whilst still remaining removable.

In order to make maximum use of the battery without making charge times to long, Oukitel have increased the original K4000 charging from 5V/1.0A to 5V/1.5A this is a 0.5A increase in charging power and should see both the K4000 Pro and the K4000 fully charged within 3-3.5 hours.

Oukitel have also improved network coverage on the K4000 Pro, both handsets support the following bands, 2G(GSM850/900/1800/1900MH) and 3G(WCDMA 900/2100MHz) 4G FDD LTE B1/3/7/20 (2100/1800/2600/800MHz). the newer K4000 Pro adds one more band: B8 (900MHz).

There have also been a few structural changes K4000 pro, the screen is now 1.1mm thick, making the glass more durable and up to three times stronger, the K4000 Pro also has an improved corner design to its 2.5D CNC ARC craft metal design, that should help the phone to further resist damage when dropped.

Another improvement to the phone comes in the styling department, the Oukitel K4000 Pro now has a crocodile leather textured back cover, this should hopefully make the phone comfortable in the hand whilst also helping to reduce the chances of dropping the phone.

As soon as a review sample finds its way to me, I will do a full handset review.

So what do you guys think? does the Oukitel K4000 Pro have enough extras for you? are you a K4000 owner? would you consider purchasing the new model for its improved battery? or will you wait for the K6000 Pro? or perhaps one of the other great phones that are due this year.

Hopefully Oukitel will continue the strong push they had at the end of 2015 and will start to bring out more 2016 phones with processing power to match their impressive batteries.

For now please leave comments and questions below.

Regards Shanos

The original K4000 can be purchased here

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Details of upcoming Elephone M3 Pro released

shanos — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 11:31:57 +0000

Elephone M3 Pro details of upcoming handset released

Elephone will be releasing not one but two versions of their latest M3 Business handset, a standard M3 and more feature ladened Elephone M3 PRO.

Both the M3 and Elephone M3 Pro will be built from High-tech aircraft-grade aluminium and both will also be rocking the Octa Core Mediatek MT6755 Helio P10 CPU along with support for USB type-c (3.0) and a 5.5” LG screens.

But the Elephone M3 Pro will also feature a much better camera in the form of the Sony IMX230 21mp rear camera,

It also seems that the Elephone M3 Pro will have native support for US based LTE networks ensuring true worldwide usability and cheaper Android handsets for the American market.

On the rear of the Elephone M3 Pro you will also find a finger print reader, something that should help to future proof the handset as support is now built in to Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

For the fashion conscious amongst you Elephone have anounced that the Elephone M3 Pro will be available in a selection of three colours, these are Rose Gold, Champagne Gold and Smoky Grey, the picture below shows the rose gold option.

As yet we have not been made aware of the expected Rom and Ram configurations for the M3 Pro, I would hope that the Elephone M3 Pro will come with at least 3GB of Ram and 32gb Rom but I will have to let you know for certain as more information is released.

Please leave any questions or comments below.

Regards Shane

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Oukitel K4000 Pro with Android Marshmallow

shanos — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 10:08:13 +0000

Oukitel K4000 Pro with Android Marshmallow

It would seem that a lot of China based phone companies are looking to get on to the Marshmallow band waggon at the moment, Oukitel not wanting to be left behind have been working on the Oukitel K4000 Pro with Android Marshmallow.

From the information received today it would appear that this is not the K4000 Pro’s official Rom, but is however the work of some of their technical guys.

It would appear that their curiosity got the better of them and they decided to see if they could endow the Oukitel K4000 Pro with Android Marshmallow via a port of the highly regarded CyanogenMod 13 ROM.

I would love to see it in action and get a list of whats working and more importantly whats not working, but for now will have to make do with the knowledge that Oukitel are at least trying.

Not much more is known about the K4000 Pro, we do know that like its non Pro little brother it will come with a 5000mAh battery, and that the battery works with Flash Charge Technology (5v/1.5a) to give fast charge times.

The K4000 Pro will also feature a 2.5D curved Arc design screen that is 1.1mm thick (as opposed to 0.7mm which is standard for most phones), this should help to make the screen a lot more resistant to drop based cracking.

Whilst not shown in the picture, It has also been confirmed that the rear cover will feature a crocodile skin textured plastic design.

The K4000 Pro comes with support for the following networks

4G LTE FDD Five-Band: 800/ 900/ 1800/ 2100/ 2600

I will keep you informed as and when we get more news and information on the K4000 Pro

For now please feel free to leave any questions or comments below.

Regards Shanos

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Elephone Ivory product page now up

shanos — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 21:17:51 +0000

Elephone Ivory product page now up

Elephone have today published the Elephone Ivory product page, you can now find full details and specifications online.

Coming in at just $99.99 (£66), the Elephone Ivory could turn out to be a real bargain, featuring an Octa-core Mediatek MT6753 CPU clocked at 1.3GHz and an ARM Mali-T720 GPU, the phone should be easily able to push pixels around the Ivory’s 5″ 720p screen.

Elephone have given the Ivory 2GB of Ram and 16GB of ROM, for those of you that want more storage the Elephone Ivory also has support for up to 128GB Micro SD cards.

Elephone have chosen to go with a 13MP rear facing camera (hopefully this will not be an interpolated 8mp sensor) and a 2mp front facing selfie camera.

What could be one of the phones most impressive features upon release, is not a hardware based feature at all.

The Elephone Ivory will be one of the first China phones to come with Android 6.0 Marshmallow out of the box, it will be interesting to see how Elephone get on with optimising the new OS for the phone.

Network support has been confirmed

FDD-LTE:band 1/3/7/20 (2100/1800/2600/800)
WCDMA:band 1/8 (2100/900)
GSM: band 3/5/8 (1800/850/900)
Networks B (coming soon)
FDD-LTE:band 2/4/7/17 (1900/1700/2600/700)
WCDMA:band 1/2/4/5 (2100/1900/1700/850)
GSM:band 2/5/8 (850/900/1900)

Be sure to check out the Elephone Ivory product page and leave comments and questions below, pre order should be available some time around the middle of this month, hopefully making it available to give as a Christmas gift to your family or friends.

Regards Shanos

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