Lenovo has reported $10.7 billion in revenue for Q1 ended June 30, 2015 for FY 2015-16, a mere three percent increase year-over-year. The company’s net income declined 51% year-over-year to US$105 million.
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Xiaomi just announced the Redmi Note 2 smartphone at its MIUI 7 event, as expected. It packs a 5.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) display, is powered by a octa-core MediaTek Helio X10 processor and runs on MIUI 7 based on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). It has a 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and phase-detection auto-focus (PDAF), resulting in a quick focus of just 0.1 second. It also has a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. It has a Magnesium alloy frame and is 8.25mm thick.
A new smartphone from Huawei with model number CRR-UL00 has received certification at TENAA in China. The device in the question could possibly be Mate7 Plus, Mate8 or Mate (7)S.
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LG has announced that it will expand its high-fidelity (Hi-Fi) music service globally starting from this month for its customers who uses premium smartphones. This service was first introduced in Korea back in March 2014, where the cumulative downloads has topped 25 million. This will offer 24 bit/192kHz Hi-Fi studio-like audio experience, about 6 times the sound quality of a typical CD (16bit/44.1kHz). Continue reading “LG to expand its Hi-Fi Music Service for premium smartphones globally”
Long rumored and long awaited, the Snapdragon 820 processor is finally official. The current top end chipset, the Snapdragon 810, has been widely panned for the problems that accompanied it and this has directly resulted in a drop off in sales. With the Snapdragon 820 and the mid-range 618, 620 chipsets the company aims to change that. Continue reading “Snapdragon 820 processor goes official, Adreno 530 GPU onboard”
Xiaomi launched the Redmi 2 Prime, the company’s first smartphone that is Made in India. It is the enhanced version of the Redmi 2 that was launched in the country earlier this year. It is priced at Rs. 6,999 in the India and is currently on sale on Mi.com and across all Mi India partners including Flipkart, Amazon and Snapdeal.
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Philips has launched Xenium I908, a mid-range smartphone and the S309, a budget smartphone in India. The Philips I908 appeared on the official Philips India website last year and packs a 5-inch 1080p screen, 1.7GHz Octa-Core MediaTek MT6592 processor, 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. The Philips S309 has a 4-inch WVGA screen, 1GHz dual-core processor, 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and a VGA front-facing camera.
We reviewed the OnePlus 2 smartphone earlier this week, and here are the battery test results of the smartphone. The OnePlus 2 packs a 3,300 mAh built-in Li-Po battery, slightly bigger than the OnePlus One’s 3,100 mAh battery. Even though it has the same 5.5-inch 1080p display seen in the OnePlus One, this has 1500:1 contrast ratio and has a powerful Snapdragon 810 SoC, which might affect the battery life. Check out the results. Continue reading “OnePlus 2 Battery Life Test”
XOLO Black is the first smartphone from XOLO that is part of the Black series of smartphones that are aimed at online retail markets. Calling the series Black and the smartphone Black as well makes it quite confusing for the customer and it will become more so when it is time to launch the next phone in the Black series. That is expected to be sometime soon as the company did state that it has plans to launch around 4 devices per year. We aren’t sure what naming scheme the company plans for the upcoming devices but what we do know is what the XOLO Black offers and it seems to offer plenty judging by its specifications sheet. Let’s dive into the review and see if it actually does live upto expectations in real life. Continue reading “XOLO Black Review”
Micromax launched the Canvas Xpress 2, the company’s latest budget smartphone last month at a price tag of Rs. 5999. We already brought you the hands-on impressions, unboxing and the photo gallery of the smartphone, here we have its benchmarks. It is powered by an Octa-Core MediaTek MT6592M processor with 8 ARM Cortex-A7 CPUs clocked at 1.36 GHz per core and Mali 450-MP4 GPU. It has 1GB RAM, comes with a 5-inch HD display and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat). Check out the synthetic benchmark results below.
Hello readers! We are back with the second Qualcomm giveaway just for you. Last month’s Qualcomm Snapdragon Giveaway ended last week. We know that you guys are early waiting for the results. We are currently sorting out the entries, and the winners will be announced by the end of this week. Coming to the latest giveaway, this time we are giving away Qualcomm-certified Power Banks and Chargers with Quick Charge 2.0. Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 2.0 technology enables 0% to 60% charge in under 30 minutes. These Qualcomm Certified chargers and power banks can charge devices up to 75% faster than a conventional charger.
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Samsung France has accidentally made the pre-order page for the Galaxy S6 Edge+ live before it was pulled. This shows that pre-orders for the smartphone begins on August 21st in Europe. It also says that customers who pre-order the device between August 21st and September 3rd will get a free Level On Bluetooth headset, so the Galaxy S6 edge+ is expected to hit the retail shelves on September 4th. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge+ pre-order page revealed accidentally”
Asus Zenfone Go surfaced back in July and it was expected to launch at the Asus ZenFestival in India last week, but the company did not launch the smartphone at the event. Now it has appeared on the official Asus India website and Flipkart. As we already know, the Zenfone Go packs a 5-inch HD display, is powered by a quad-core MediaTek MT6580 SoC and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop). Continue reading “Asus Zenfone Go with 5-inch HD display, 2GB RAM, Android 5.1 launching in India soon”
ZUK Z1, the first smartphone from Lenovo-backed startup ZUK has been introduced in China. It packs a 5.5-inch 1080p display, is powered by a 2.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 SoC and runs on Android 5.1 (Lollipop) with ZUI. It has aircraft-grade aluminum metal frame. The main highlight is the reversible USB 3.0 Type-C port that would offer up to 10 times faster data transfer compared to USB 2.0. Continue reading “ZUK Z1 with 5.5-inch 1080p display, USB 3.0 Type-C, 4100mAh battery announced”
