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Saturday, January 9, 2016

HTC Desire 728 launched in India at Rs 17,990; features dual-SIM, 5.5-inch display, 13MP camera

HTC has launched a new smartphone dubbed Desire 728 at a price of Rs 17,990. The device will be offered in Purple myst and White luxury color variants and will be available with major retailers from coming week onwards.

In terms of specifications, the device features a 5.5-inch HD display with a 720 x 1280 pixels resolution. It is powered by a 1.3GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6753 processor paired with 2GB RAM. It features an internal storage of 16GB which can be further expanded up to 2TB via microSD card. The device runs on Android OS with HTC Sense on top.

The dual SIM device comes equipped with a 13MP rear camera with autofocus and LED flash along with a 5MP front-facing camera. It also features a Motion G Sensor and Compass Sensor along with a Proximity and Ambient Light Sensor.

On the connectivity front, the smartphone includes 4G LTE, Bluetooth 4.1, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n (2.4 GHz), 5 mm stereo audio jack and Micro-USB 2.0 (5-pin) port. It is powered by a 2800 mAh battery and offers a talk time of up to 26 hours on 2G, up to 21 hours on 3G. In addition, it also offers a standby time of up to 496 hours on 2G and up to 485 hours on 3G.

“The new HTC Desire 728 Dual SIM brings distinctive design into a feature-rich smartphone, providing you with a great value smartphone which you can truly make your own. We want to provide a powerful, fully customisable experience to our customers, and the HTC Desire 728 Dual SIM brings this in abundance,” said Faisal Siddiqui, President South Asia HTC.

Unknown Pada 1/09/2016 11:25:00 AM Komentar

Lenovo, Google announce Project Tango smartphone at CES 2016

Google’s Project Tango was first announced two years ago and has been in the experimental phase since. But on 7 January at CES, Lenovo announced that it will release the first consumer smartphone with Google’s Project Tango hardware and software inside it, by June-July this year.

Project Tango lets you map the 3D space around you by using a combination of cameras such as a regular camera, an integrated depth sensing camera and a motion tracking camera. The 3D space mapping is done in real time and can help out with navigating within shopping malls and other internal locations. It also lets you interact with your real surroundings thereby adding a layer of augmented reality to the mix. You can read our complete lowdown on Project Tango.

The phone which will be released by Lenovo will be a consumer facing device and will come under $500 (approx Rs 33,400). The device is expected to come with a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset and will have a display size under 6.5-inches. Lenovo will be using an RGB camera, a depth sensing camera module and a fish eye lens on its Project Tango phone – which will be arranged in a vertical module.

Lenovo and Project Tango also announced an App Incubator Program which will help app developers working with Project Tango with engineering knowhow as well as with funding to see promising ideas achieve completion. Interested app developers can submit proposals to be part of this incubator.

Before the announcement Project Tango lead Johnny Lee showed some demos of what can be done with this project. He used the camera module on the prototype Project Tango tablet to measure the area of a room, find the height of a ceiling, play a game of digital Jenga with a colleague where in the Jenga blocks were visible only on the tablets.

He also demoed real time 3D mapping of not just fixed objects but the crowds as well. After having 3D mapped the stage, he showed how you can virtually fit furniture into the space. He also proceeded to showcase a virtual pet which can actually follow you or interact with the elements in your 3D maps. Clearly the early adopters of Project Tango will be geeks who are working on AR/VR software products.

There wasn’t any physical module on display, but Lenovo shared some pictures of prototypes on which it is working for this phone.

Project Tango is an exploration into giving mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion.
The earlier smartphone announced by Google back in 2014, was an Android-based prototype 5-inch phone and developer kit with advanced 3D sensors. With the sensors, the phone is capable of tracking motion, and can build a visual map of rooms using 3D scanning. Google wants to combine these 3D sensors with advanced computer vision techniques that will help fork out newer innovations for indoor navigations, games and so on. Want to know more? Check out the video below.

post appered on : firstpost.com

Unknown Pada 1/09/2016 11:11:00 AM Komentar

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Xiaomi Mi 5 to Pack Snapdragon 820 SoC, Launch After Spring Festival: Co-Founder

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Shortly after Shortly after Qualcomm announced that LeTV's Le Max Pro is the first smartphone to feature its Snapdragon 820 SoC, Xiaomi revealed that the Mi 5 flagship smartphone will pack the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor as well. The company also alongside confirmed other updates about the handset's development.

The news was confirmed by Xiaomi Co-Founder and Senior VP Liwan Jiang in a Weibo post. He also revealed that the Mi 5 has now entered mass production and the company is making sure that there are enough units available for consumers when the phone finally launches. Jiang also spilled the beans about launch of the much-anticipated Mi 5. He said that the Xiaomi Mi 5 will launch after the Spring Festival, which this year starts on February 8, and lasts 15 days.

Additionally, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun has further fuelled the anticipation for the Mi 5 smartphone saying on Weibo, "I've spent some time" (Bing translation) with the Mi 5. To recall, Jun back in November had revealed that the Mi 5 was "worth the wait" and was "very, very good".

Based on previous leaks, the Mi 5 features a 5.2-inch display with either full-HD or QHD resolution. The handset is said to come in two memory and storage versions - 3GB of RAM with 32GB inbuilt storage, and 4GB of RAM with 64GB storage. On the camera front, the Mi 5 is rumoured to pack a 16-megapixel rear camera and a 13-megapixel front-facing camera. It is also supposed to be backed by a 3600mAh battery with Quick Charge 3.0 tech. The handset is said to run MIUI 7 based on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. For pricing, the 32GB inbuilt storage and 3GB RAM version has been said to be priced at CNY 1,999 (roughly Rs. 20,300), the 64GB inbuilt storage, and 4GB RAM priced at CNY 2,299 (roughly Rs. 23,400).my smart price

Unknown Pada 1/07/2016 11:34:00 AM Komentar

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow Update to Improve Edge Interface on Samsung Phones: Report

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A new video claimed to show the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge running Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow with an overhauled edge panel functionality has been uploaded on YouTube.

As seen in the 2-minute long video, the apps in the Edge Screen v1.0.52 of the Galaxy S6 Edge are divided in to two categories - Edge Feeds and Edge Panels. While the Edge feeds apps are for taking a quick look at the useful information from different apps, the Edge panels add more functionality to the curved display, making more use of it than before.

Some new apps such as My Apps to access recently used apps, Task to access commonly used apps, Quick Tools, S Planner, Weather, Twitter trends, Yahoo, and Sports were also found running on the curved panel of the Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow-based Galaxy S6 Edge. All of them can be seen as user swipes from the right of the smartphone display.

Although Samsung has not yet brought latest Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow to any of its Galaxy smartphones, this video suggests that it might be under testing and may start reaching soon. Do note, the authenticity of the video has not been verified, and so readers are advised to take the information cleaned with a pinch of salt.

Samsung last week announced a beta testing programme where registered users can install upcoming firmware updates to provide feedback to the company before it rolls out the final versions globally. Called the Galaxy Beta Program, the first beta test is for the Android 6.0 Marshmallow update for the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones.

As per Samsung's leaked Android 6.0 Marshmallow update roadmap, which surfaced on the Web last month, the company was supposed to start pushing the latest build this month with its Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge+ smartphones. It added the update to reach the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge in January. The Galaxy Note 4 and Galaxy Note Edge are claimed to receive the update in February

Unknown Pada 12/29/2015 11:47:00 AM Komentar

Saturday, December 26, 2015

Lenovo to launch K4 Note featuring 3GB RAM on January 5

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Mobile manufacturer Lenovo after the successful launch of Lenovo K3 Note is all set to launch its upgraded version next year.

According to a teaser posted by the company on micro blogging site twitter, it has revealed that the new device will be powered by 3GB RAM. Lenovo K3 Note on the other hand has 2GB RAM.

The company is all set to launch the new mobile on January 5 2016.

The other note worthy features that the new phone will support is a metallic frame along with a fingerprint scanner.

It is also said to be powered by a MediaTek Helio X10 processor and come equipped with an internal storage of 32GB. COmpany has also revealed this information on Lenovo K3 is powered by a 64-bit 1.7GHz octa-core MediaTek MT6572 processor coupled with 2GB of RAM.

It sports a 5.5-inch Full HD display with 1080 x 1920 pixels of resolution. The device supports 4G and runs Android 5.0 Lollipop with a layer of its own Vibe UI. The device measures 152.6 x 76.2 x 7.99mm and weighs 150gms.

The K3 Note comes with a 13-megapixel rear snapper with dual-LED flash and a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. The 16GB onboard storage is expandable up to 32GB via microSD card.

According to Flipkart Lenovo's A6000 Plus and the K3 Note were the two most popular phones that they have sold in the year 2015.

Unknown Pada 12/26/2015 05:44:00 PM Komentar