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Blackview A8 Max – a good cheap phone

Blackview’s newest product is a low budget phone with a good design, $80 price and other assets, like being sold along with a plastic screen protector and a headset, relatively high quality of making, metal trim, well-fitting buttons etc. Specification: – 5.5 inch sceen, 720p,– 13mp main camera,– removable 3000mAh battery,– 4-core MTK6737 CPU,– 2GB RAM, 16GB ROM,– Android 6.0 OS. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Foxconn plans on selling its own smartphones

Internet website DigiTimes reports that the Taiwan company Foxconn plans on creating its own line of smartphones and selling them in Japan. Until now, the over one-million employees corporation is known mainly for producing phones for contractors such as Apple or Nokia, though they have already published InFocus, a low/mid-range phone released in Asia. We have yet to learn any details on the upcoming product. All we know is that Foxconn plans on releasing it in the first quarter of 2017 and that it will be produced by Sharp, Foxconn’s subsidiary. Sharp, bought over by Foxconn this ...

LYF Flame 7S, specification

Indian company LYF has been working on a new smartphone and now, two months after its precedessor called Flame 7, Flame 7S is available for sale. Here is its specification: – quad-core 1.5GHz processor,– 1GB RAM/8GB ROM, microSD card slot for up to 32GB ROM,– 4′ display, 480x800p,– 1800 mAh battery. The phone is available for buying offline in various retailer stores. Its cost is 3,499 INR. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Lenovo PHAB 2 Pro available in November

Lenovo PHAB 2 Pro will be the first available for buying phone participating in the Project Tango. Project Tango is the upcoming technology which is supposed to allow mobile devices to observe their surroundings in the same way we do. Right now this tech is in its infancy, but it is very promising. What else does PHAB 2 Pro have to offer? This: – Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS,– 6.4′ WQHD display, 2560x1440p,– Qualcomm Snapdragon 652 CPU, 1.8GHz, 64bit– Adreno 510 GPU,– 4GB RAM/64GB ROM,– 16mp main camera, fish eye, laser sharpness sensor,– 8mp ...

Leagoo Venture 1, specification

Leagoo Venture 1 is now available in pre-order until October 18th, which leads us to believe that the phone will launch on October 19th (my birthday!). Pre-ordered device will cost $169.99. Specification: – 5.0′ 720p display,– MediaTek MT6753 8-core chipset, 1.3GHz,– two memory variants, 3GB RAM/16GB ROM and 3GB RAM/32GB ROM (only the first one is available in pre-order),– microSD card slot up to 128GB,– back-mounted fingerprint sensor,– 13MP rear and 8MP front camera,– A 3000mAh battery,– Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS. As a bonus, the ...

OPPO F1s Diwali Limited Edition – specification

OPPO F1s is a smartphone made by the chinese company OPPO, released in August. Now, in reference to the upcoming Diwali festival, the company is releasing OPPO F1s’ Limited Edition called, yes, Diwali. Sounds fancy? Well, maybe it is. The model differs in no way from the normal F1s, except for having signatures of the OPPO’s brand ambassadors Hrithik Roshan and Sonam Kapoor on the rear of the phone. Wow. Very cools. Much bling. – ColorOS 3.0 (based on Android 5.1 Lollipop),– 5.5-inch HD resolution IPS display,– 64-bit MediaTek MT6750 8-core CPU,– 3GB of ...

A mysterious prototype scored over 200k on AnTuTu benchmark

Right now, benchmark lists are ruled by iPhone and iPhone 7s that both scored around 170 thousand points. LeEco Le Pro 3 is not far behind, scoring 160k, and third place is taken by Xiaomi Mi5s Plus. Guy nicknamed @Ricciolo1 leaked an interesting bit of news, though – it looks like some unknown model has both beat iPhone 7 AND broke the magical barrier of points, scoring 203737 (!). Nobody knows which model managed to do it, though some speculate that it was Galaxy S8 with Exynos 8895 CPU and Mali-G71 ...

Google Pixel and Pixel XL official, specification

After months of gathering leaks and unchecked news, it is official – Google is working on two new smartphone models, Google Pixel and Google Pixel XL. Both models (which, by the way are being made by HTC) have polished aluminium bodies available in three colours; Quite Black, Very Silver oraz Really Blue. Like its name states, Pixel XL will be the bigger of the two phones. Unfortunately, just as we predicted before, the size and resolution of display will almost be the only difference between the two phones, the other being their batteries: 3450mAh for Pixel XL and 2770mAh for ...

Google faces a gigantic fine

There has been a leak of a document from an European Commission regarding its penal proceedings against Google. According to the Commission, Google abuses its leading position in a mobile device market, for which it may be forced to pay enormously large fines. The case is that, reportedly, Google has been repeatedly bribing mobile device producers in exchange for them applicating Google’s software in their devices instead of that of other companies. Neither the exact amount of fine, nor the Commission’s decision on whether or not Google is innocent, is unknown. The amount of ...