The Huawei Honor 5A and Honor 5A Plus have been recently spotted in the TENAA database in China where they have been certified by the regulatory body, signaling that a market release is around the corner. The Huawei Honor 5A was identified by model number “CUN-TL00” and appears to be equipped with a 5-inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 720. The smartphone is powered by a quad-core processor clocked at 1.3 GHz, coupled with 2 GB of RAM and 16 GB of internal memory. It is also equipped with a 13-megapixel main camera along with a 2-megapixel front-facing sensor, it offers 4G LTE and VoLTE support, and draws energy from a 2,200 mAh battery. Overall, the smartphone measures 143.8 x 72 x 8.9 millimeters, it weighs 138 grams, and runs Android 5.1 Lollipop out of the box.

On the other hand, the Huawei Honor 5A Plus was identified by model numbers “CAM-AL00” and “CAM-CL00”. According to TENAA, the smartphone flaunts a 5.5-inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 720, and is equipped with a more powerful (yet unspecified) octa-core CPU clocked at frequencies of up to 1.8 GHz per core. The CPU is accompanied by 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of on-board expandable memory, and draws energy from a larger 3,000 mAh battery. The Huawei Honor 5A Plus, too, features a 13-megapixel main camera but ups the front-facing camera setup with an 8-megapixel sensor. China’s regulatory agency reveals that the Honor 5A Plus measures 154.3 x 77.1 x 8.45 mm, and weighs 168 grams.

Both the Huawei Honor 5A and Honor 5A Plus will, reportedly, be launched in three color options, black, white, and gold. Huawei has yet to reveal any official details regarding the release of the duo in or outside of China so take the information with a grain of salt, but seeing how the smartphones have now been certified by TENAA, a market launch is likely to take place in the next couple of weeks.

LeEco, the Chinese smartphone brand, has grossed sale of over 10 million units in its home country of China. The total sales have been achieved in a space of one year, between May 19, 2015 and May 25, 2016. 

LeEco's push for increasing its sales include presenting an entire ecosystem of content alongside presenting devices. The company has recently introduced its 'Supertainment' package in India, presenting bundled exclusive content to its buyers along with its devices.

During the company’s one-year anniversary ceremony release celebration of the Superphone, Mr. Feng Xing, Senior Vice President of LeMobile stated that “This is an important milestone for the direction of the mobile industry, it represents the shift from the smartphone era into the ecosystem phone era.”

Since entering the industry a year ago, sales of LeEco’s Superphones continued to break records at every step, hitting the 4 million mark in a mere eight months, and the 5 million mark in January, which made it the fastest brand to achieve that. With the advent of second generation Superphones, the total sales number has crossed 10 million.

With a commitment to providing optimal experience at the most disruptive prices, LeEco termed the new industry concept as a powerful and comprehensive ‘ecosystem phone’, where rather than hardware, offers of high-quality content sits at the core. 

The second generation of Superphones are the world’s first to have innovatively replaced 3.5mm earphone jack with USB Type-C port backed by Continual Digital Lossless Audio (CDLA) standard. LeEco also released its latest EUI 5.8 OS which achieves historically nine-camera live video streaming, representing a giant step forward from the 3-camera live video streaming.

Mr. Feng added that “the ecosystem phone model is re-directing the mobile industry, and LeEco is leading the ecosystem revolution in the industry”.

Besides China, LeEco has seen record-breaking sales in India as well. With the release of the Le 1s and Le Max earlier this year, followed by the launch of the first “Made for India” Le 1s Eco in early May with tailor-made Supertainment membership program including more than 2,000 movies, 100 TV channels and 3.5 million songs in 10 languages, LeEco Superphones have sold a jaw-dropping 500,000 units within just 100 days, once again proving the success of the company’s highly-replicable business model globally.

NEW DELHI: Chinese internet conglomerate LeEco said it received 23 million registrations for its second generation of superphones on LeMall.com, eventually selling over 7,50,000 units in just 2 hrs. and 1.61 million in a single day.  

The company said Le Max2 got sold out in just 57 seconds whereas Le 2 was sold out in 8.26 minutes garnering $140 million on LeMall.com and other selling platforms in Beijing.

LeEco also saw the registrations for the fourth generation Super TVs exceeding 18 million.

It had launched an entire new range of products belonging to distinct industries - mobile, TV, automotive and VR - last week in Beijing.

Weighing 153 grams, 8.5 mm in width and 151 mm long, the Max2 comes with USB Type-C audio port feature CDLA (Continual Digital Lossless Audio) technology.

Available with 6GB internal memory and 64GB extendable memory, it comes with a 5.7-inch QHD display along with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 quad-core processor.

Running on Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS wrapped under LeEco's customised EUI 5.5, the superphone comes equipped with a 3,100mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0 feature and connectivity options such as Wi-Fi 802.11ac, 4G LTE, VoLTE and GPS among others.

Meanwhile, flaunting its 5.5-inch full HD (1080p) display, the LeEco Le 2 is powered by MediaTek's Helio X20 tri-cluster deca-core processor paired with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of onboard storage. The CDLA featre is available in Le 2 and Le 2 Pro as well.

The phone is equipped with a 16 MP f/2 rear camera with PDAF and LED flash and an 8 MP camera up front.

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Xiaomi's most awaited massive screened Xiaomi Max is all set to be launched on May 10th, in Beijing Details of this launch event was shared by Xiaomi on Chinese blogging site Weibo few hrs back. You can also buy ticket of this event with ¥199.

The Xiaomi Max have a massive a 6.4-inch QHD display and device is powered by  Snapdragon 820 chipset. The leaked front panel of the Xiaomi Max is showing capacitive keys and no fingerprint scanner, although the subsequent render leak (shown below) has a physical home button, so there are still a few mysteries remaining. Xiaomi Max also have 3GB of RAM and 16 MP of back camera.And will run on Android OS, v6.0 (Marshmallow)

What we know till Now about Xiaomi Max

According to Leaked features Xiaomi Max have extremely thin side bezels, making the Xiaomi Max a great option for anyone with a love for large screens and immersive media consumption. With just two weeks left to launch, we expect to see more leaks arriving soon.

Xiaomi Max might have three different color variants Black, white and Gold.

Xiaomi Max : Features Summary

Where exactly the Xiaomi Max will fit in Xiaomi’s product portfolio we’ll just have to wait and see but at least we know the price will be right.

What are your expectations with this device, and what do you think will be its price, do let us know in comment section below.

Xiaomi Max : Event Poster

New Delhi: Le Eco unveiled three new phones - the Le 2, Le 2 Pro, and the Le Max 2 - at an event in Beijing. And with the launch of these three phones, the company has ditched the conventional headphone jack.

The highlight of the phones is that instead of the usual headphone jack they come with a USB Type-C audio port featuring CDLA (Continual Digital Lossless Audio) technology, which is claimed to offer high-quality uncompressed audio.

All three newly launched LeEco phones flaunt a metal unibody design, thin bezels on the front and a fingerprint scanner for added security. These phones run on Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS with LeEco's customized EUI 5.5 layer atop.

Le 2, Le 2 Pro, and the Le Max 2 specification and Price

The LeEco Le 2 and Le 2 Pro are priced at 1,099 yuan (roughly translates to Rs 11,250) and 1,499 yuan (Rs 15,360) respectively, while the flagship Le Max 2 carries a price tag of 2,099 yuan (Rs 21,490) for the base model (4 GB RAM and 32 GB storage) and 2,499 yuan (Rs 25,590) for the top-of-the-line version (6 GB RAM and 64 GB storage).

LeEco Le 2 & Le Max 2

The Le 2 has a 5.5-inch full HD (1080p) display and is powered by MediaTek's Helio X20 tri-cluster deca-core processor paired with 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of onboard storage. It sports a 16-megapixel rear camera with f/2.0 aperture, and an 8-megapixel camera on the front.

Armed with a 3,000mAh battery with fast charging support, the Le 2 includes connectivity options such as WiFi 802.11ac, 4G LTE and VoLTE among others.

The Le 2 and Le 2 Pro are very similar in their appearance, with most of the changes under the hood. 

The Le 2 Pro is powered by MediaTek's Helio X25 deca-core chipset paired with 4GB of RAM. It comes in two storage variants - 32GB and 64GB.

The Le 2 Pro comes with a resolution of 21 megapxiel in the rear camera and has an 8 megapixel front-facing shooter. The connectivity options and the battery capacity, however, are similar as the Le 2.

LeEco Le 2 : design

The new flagship Le Max 2 comes with a 5.7-inch QHD display with a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels. At the heart of the smartphone is Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 quad-core processor paired with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of onboard storage.

It also comes equipped with a 3,100 mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0 feature and connectivity options such as WiFi 802.11ac, 4G LTE, VoLTE and GPS among others.

Pre-orders for the phones start on April 20in China. There is, however, we have to wait till 2nd May when these phones will make their way to India.

Do tell us what you think about these devices, stay tuned with us to get detail review of all these units.. Keep reading ....

When Solar Panels were introduced in the previous decade, many scientists and even people asked a very genuine question. Will it work under non-ideal weather conditions ? The answer was simple. No. While many scientists have tried to increase the efficiency there's nothing you can do when its raining or even when there's a cloudy sky.

But mankind is always curious and tries to solve any problem it has faced in the past. The solution came when a group of Chinese scientists found a way to generate electricity from raindrops. The method they used is called Lewis Acid-Base interaction.

The technology is still in testing stage and could well be commercialized for public use in the near future.

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Vivo has announced that its latest device called the Y31L is now available in India for the price of Rs 9,450 ($ 142). The Y31L smartphone is the successor to the older Vivo Y31 model.

Alex Feng, CEO of Vivo India, said in his statement that they are pleased to announce the launch of Y31L smartphone. He elaborated that the phone is another brilliant addition to Vivo's flagship smartphone portfolio in the budget-friendly segment.

Vivo Y31L is a budget smartphone and has decent specifications to match the same. It sports a 4.7-inch qHD IPS display that has a resolution of 960x540 pixels, giving it a pixel density of 234 ppi. It is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 quad-core processor, clocked at 1.2 GHz.

 

Vivo Y31L also has 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage, expandable up to 128GB via MicroSD card. The smartphone runs on FunTouch OS 2.1 out of the box, which is based on Android 5.1 Lollipop.In the camera department, the Vivo Y31L has an 8 Megapixel rear camera sensor with features like LED flash and Autofocus. 

 

The front camera is a 5MP sensor for selfies and video calling support.In terms of connectivity, the Vivo Y31L has 4G LTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS, 3.5 mm audio jack and Micro-USB as the various options.The Vivo Y31L packs in a decent 2,200 mAh battery under the hood and has features like Palm Capture, Voice Capture, FM Radio and Dual-SIM support. It comes in only Black and White color variants and is priced at Rs. 9,450 in India.

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The Chinese technology giant, Xiaomi has unveiled a new smartphone in under the budget segment, the Xiaomi Mi 4s, at an event in Beijing, China. The Xiaomi Mi 4s comes with decent specs for mid-range smartphones.

The Xiaomi Mi 4s has enhanced its hardware specs when compared to its last year’s Mi 4. Xiaomi Mi 4s sports a new processor from snapdragon, more RAM, storage, etc. The Mi 4s comes in between the Mi 4 and the newly launched Mi 5 in terms of hardware specifications, notes N4BB.

Last year was a good year for Xiaomi as it fared well by a whopping sale of 70 million handsets. Although the company did face some trouble achieving goals, as it took two years to launch the new Mi 5, which should help improve sales in 2016.

The Mi 4s bears a 5-inch 1080 display having a pixel density of 441 ppi. A Hexa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor is used to power the smartphone and it is paired it with 3GB RAM. Adreno 418 GPU is used for better graphics as well as 64GB of internal storage is included. The device also supports expandable storage option (via a microSD).

Xiaomi Mi 4s has 13MP rear camera with features like dual-tone LED flash and Phase detection auto-focus are incorporated. While on the front-side 5MP snapper is located. The device is backed by the 3260mAh battery with Quick Charge 2.0 and USB Type-C connector. Following the current trend in the smartphone industry, a Fingerprint scanner is also included with Infrared sensor in the handset.

The unit also supports Dual-SIM feature and runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow with MIUI 7 on top of it. As for the build, the device fuses metal with glass on the back and front.

Xiaomi Mi 4s will hit the market shelves on Mar. 1 with a price tag of CNY 1, 699 ($260). It is available in Gold, Black, Purple, and White and it will be first launched in China.

The company also unveiled the much-awaited 2016 flagship device, the Mi 5, at MWC 2016.

Apple today launched its mobile payments service Apple Pay in China where the electronic payments market is already dominated by an arm of e-commerce giant Alibaba.

Shoppers in China can now use contact-less payment system Apple Pay to make purchases after US tech giant Apple and Chinese bank card association UnionPay launched the service on Thursday. Users of the iPhone 6, iPads and Apple Watches will be able to use these devices, equipped with near field communication (NFC) technology.

The world’s second-largest economy is a crucial market for the Apple Inc. Apple said "Apple Pay" could be used by 19 banks, "numerous merchants" and app developers. Apple's electronic payment system started in the United States in October 2014 and has since spread to Britain, Canada and Australia. Apple Pay is accepted by the merchants include supermarket Carrefour, fast food outlets McDonald's and KFC, and convenience store 7-Eleven and 1700 restaurant too.
The market is dominated by Alipay, an arm of the e-commerce giant Alibaba Group. WeChat Payment, operated by social networking and gaming company Tencent Holdings Ltd, is also popular.

Credit cards and passports are filled with microchips brimming with your personal information—and give off radio waves to any nearby sleazebag that wants to steal your identity. A new generation of those chips stands to stop hackers in their tracks.

MIT and Texas instruments teamed up to develop new RFID chips that block identity theft. MIT just announced that the new chip is “virtually impossible to hack,” a bold claim and possibly a challenge to would be hackers. Regardless, your anxious tinfoil hat types will certainly love the hack-proof promise.

RFID chips that track items from a far aren’t going away anytime soon, so it’s inevitably good that somebody is making them more secure. You’ll can already find these chips on anything from clothes on the sales rack to boxes of DVDs. And since 2007, these chips have been built into US passports for tracking and counterfeit protection. They’re now showing up in credit cards to allow swipe-free payment. But lately, there’s been a lot of concern that crooks with RFID readers could easily steal information like your name, gender, nationality, and more—without laying a finger on your wallet. It’s what’s prompting the sale of RFID-blocking wallets or passport covers.

What this new chip does is guard against “power glitch attacks” which cut password-protected gadgets’ power and allows unlimited password attempts. This grants the hacker thousands of tries to squeeze out the device’s secrets. But the new chip comes with an on-board power, something normal RFID chips lack. That makes the chip’s power “virtually impossible to cut,” the press release says.

Which is good! Again, RFID chips aren’t going anywhere. The technology is even making its way into driver’s licenses, which the ACLU decries as “civil liberties nightmare.” While RFID proponents argue that the risk of a crook using a reader to swipe wirelessly transmitted information is low, we’re not gonna complain over extra safeguards.

Researchers including Anantha Chandrakasan from MIT and scientists from Texas Instruments designed two innovations that allow the chip to thwart power-glitch attacks – one is an on-chip power supply whose connection to the chip circuitry would be virtually impossible to cut, and the other is a set of nonvolatile memory cells that can store whatever data the chip is working on when it begins to lose power.

For both of these features, researchers used a special type of material known as a ferroelectric crystals. As a crystal, a ferroelectric material consists of molecules arranged into a regular three-dimensional lattice. In every cell of the lattice, positive and negative charges naturally separate, producing electrical polarisation. The application of an electric field, however, can align the cells polarisation in either of two directions, which can represent the two possible values of a bit of information. When the electric field is removed, the cells maintain their polarisation.

If such chips were widely adopted, it could mean that an identity thief could not steal credit card numbers or key card information, and high-tech burglars could not swipe expensive goods from a warehouse and replace them with dummy tags.