Thursday, 8 January 2015

The Huawei's Honor 6 Plus and its Duo camera

Huawei recently unveiled the Honor 6 Plus, which you may think that it is like the Honor 6.
But let's not rush things, so let's take a closer look at the device.



The Huawei Honor 6 Plus has a 5.5-inch IPS panel with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 which results a 403 pixels per inch made by  a joint venture by Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi called JDI. Huawei has equipped the Honor 6 plus with one of its own processors, the HiSilicon Kirin 925, along with 3GB of RAM and 16GB of microSD expandable storage. The octa-core Kirin 925 works with four ARM Cortex-A7 and four Cortex-A15 cores with the ARM big-Little configuration, along with a hexa-core ARM Mali-T628 GPU. All of this is powered by a very large, 3,600 mAh juicer and Android 4.4.2 KitKat with Huawei's custom EMUI 3.0 on the software side.

Let's not forget about the most magic point in this device so let's go straight to the camera :

The Honor 6 Plus is equipped with two cameras, both are 8-megapixel with huge sensors, 1.85µm that should capture significantly more light compared with most other flagships. This Duo camera, called "Symmetrical dual camera technology". The two sensors have differing lenses : one with an f/2.0 aperture, and another with an f/2.4 aperture which allow very fast auto focus "0.1 seconds", which is even quicker than the 0.3 seconds of the Galaxy S5 and the LG G3.
The Honor 6 Plus shoot images with real depth-of-field.

The Honor 6 Plus is priced at 322$ for the 3G model and 402$ for the LTE edition in China, where sales will begin in about a week. It appears that Huawei is not willing to bring the Honor 6 Plus to Europe. Also the official US release isn't going to happen. However, various third-party eCommerce sites have confirmed that they will carry the device for $400-$420 which is a good price, we think.

For more details, stay tuned !

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Oppo U3 certified by TENAA

China's TENAA certified the Oppo U3. This device will be the thinnest smartphone to offer a 4X Optical Zoom. With 9mm, the Oppo U3 is thinner than the ASUS ZenFone Zoom, which is 11.95mm thick.

The Oppo U3 will have a 5.9-inch display, with a resolution of 1080 x 1920, octa-core 1.7GHz processor, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of native storage. A microSD slot is available for additional storage. Besides the 13MP camera on back, there is a 5MP "selfie" snapper up front. The price and availability is unknown up to this moment.

It is also expected that the Oppo will unveil a new headset.

For more details, stay tuned !

Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Apple : SIM-free iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus units for sale

Due to The iPhone 6's sales slowing down a bit which is expected, as the market gets saturated. Apple decided that this would be the perfect time to start selling its new handsets SIM-free, which may be something that a lot of users have been holding out for so far.

Since the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were launched back in September, the only way one could buy one of the new Apple handsets in the US was by either signing or renewing a contract with AT&T, Verizon, or Sprint, which means that the iPhone would be locked to the respective network, or grab an unlocked handset, but with a T-Mobile card inside, which makes some customers prefer not to bother.
The good news is that you can now buy a SIM-free iPhone 6 or directly from Apple, and the prices are the same as they were with the T-Mo unlocked variants.
iPhone 6 Plus

The prices are listed below :


16 GB64 GB128 GB
iPhone 6$649$749$849
iPhone 6 Plus$749$849$949


For more updates, stay tuned !

The Samsung Galaxy E5 and Galaxy E7 officially unveiled

Despite of that Samsung hardly ever mentioned the word "smartphone" at CES 2015 yesterday, the undisputed, yet troubled market leader today announced the company's mid-range portfolio for 2015. During the official announcement of the Galaxy A5 and Galaxy A7 in India, Samsung decided to show us what it's been brewing during the past few months or so.

The Samsung Galaxy E5 and Galaxy E7 are mostly mid-range devices, though the E7 is somewhat gravitating toward the upper mid-range one segment. They are to be viewed as cheaper alternatives to the A5 and A7. They both employ 7.3mm-thin aluminum unibodies, which makes them similar to the A5 and A7. The design is also reminding us of the A5 and A7.

The Samsung Galaxy E7 comes with a 5.5-inch, 720p Super AMOLED display, a quad-core SoC humming at 1.2GHz, 2GB RAM, 16GB on-board storage, a microSD card slot and a 13MP rear snapper, 5MP front-facing selfie one, a 2,950mAh juicer and two SIM card slots. The phone is priced at about $363.

The Samsung Galaxy E5, on the other hand comes with a 5", 720p Super AMOLED display, quad-core chipset running at 1.2GHz, 1.5GB of RAM, 16 gigs of available storage, and an 8MP rear shooter, 5MP front-facing one, a 2,400mAh battery, a microSD slot, and two SIM slots.
It is priced at about $305.

Both the Galaxy E5 and E7 are running Samsung's own TouchWiz UI over Android 4.4.4 KitKat, but Samsung said that they'll be receiving Lollipop in the future. We don't know about the International availability at this moment.

For more news, stay tuned !

Samsung announces SUHD TVs powered by Tizen OS

Samsung has just announced a new series of SUHD TVs featuring Samsung’s proprietary display technology, a unique re-mastering engine and the world’s first Tizen-based Smart TV dashboard at CES 2015 in Vegas, Nevada. 

SUHD TVs are Samsung’s flagship lineup of the year, and will benefit from premium Ultra-HD content, thanks to the newly formed UHD Alliance.
With the use of eco-friendly nano-crystal technology and smart re-mastering engine, Samsung is able to achieve remarkable progress in colour reproduction, brightness, contrast levels, and details, providing a high-caliber picture quality – which was never seen before. It’s the world’s most brightest and energy efficient display panel ever. The new nano-crystal technology transmits different colours of various sizes, depending on the demand of the content, which gives a wider colour gamut. The new TVs are highly power-efficient as well, thanks to the Korean firm’s latest re-mastering engine, which analyses the content and adjusts the brightness of the pixels automatically.
To demonstrate the capabilities of the new SUHD TVs, the Korean giant has partnered with Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox, and worked together with them to optimise selected content tailored to its new SUHD standards. Samsung will be offering three series of SUHD TVs – JS9500, JS9000 and JS8500 – with nine screen sizes to choose from. As you can tell from the model numbers, these are Samsung’s top tier televisions, and it will probably cost you some big bucks.


For more updates, stay tuned !