Helio X30 officialy announced

And belive me – for this SoC we can wait.Next top model from MediaTek will have two Cortex-A73 (Artemis) cores with (most likely) 2.8GHz clocks, four Cortex-A53 (2.2GHz) and four Cortex-A35 (2GHz) and also PoWerVR GPU what gives quite nice package.And it’s not all, processors will be in 10nm technology what will lessen energy usage and heat emission.For premiere of first devices with this SoC we will wait untill second half of 2017 but as I wrote earlier – we may wait for this goods.Source: GSM Maniak ...

Samsung’s patent

Interesting patent concerning wireless charging system for more then one device at the same time. It was spotted by Patently Mobile i American Patent Office.Basically it’s prism (or other shape) which allow user to simultaneously and comfortably charge smartphone and smartwatch (for example).It is interesting patent for sure and if design will be equally interesting it can be real hit. But for the moment we have only patent and some scatches.Source: mgsm (polish) Tweet Vote on ...

Durable battery in Blackview R7?

Durable is gigantic understatement!With full charge in 1.5h you can talk for 14h straight, play HD video for 7 hours or… put phone on stendby for 14 days (I don’t think it is possible to not use it for so long but, yeah) and all of this with 3000mAh battery!Wow, that’s what I understand under battery usage optimalization. As for components it looks quite good as well:System: Android 6.0;Screen: 5.5″ 1080p;CPU: MediaTek Helio P10;RAM: 4GBGB;Storage: 32GB + microSD up to 32GB;Cameras: 13/8MP;Battery: 3000mAh;Others: fingerprint scanner, Dual SIM (nano SIM/microSD ...

Economic tablet from Samsung

Samsung announced Galaxy Tab J – 7-inch tablet from low-end segment.Besides PLS screen with 800p resolution it have quad-core CPU with 1.5GHz clock, 1.5GB RAM, 8GB internal storage expandable with microSD cards, 8MP and 2MP cameras and 4000mAh battery.Price is TWD 5990 so around $185 what is quite fair bid. We don’t know about availability.Source: GSMArena Tweet Vote on HN ...

Motorola Moto E3 – smaller brother for G4 Play Plus

As far as we know at the moment Moto E3 will be smaller brother for G4 Play Plus (same design): 5″ 720p screen, Android 6.0, 8MP rear cammera and 5MP front one, 8GB internal memory and quad-core 1GHz MediaTek CPU.As I said, they wil look identical excluding size – E3 will be smaller.Both will be launched next month probably for £100 and £130 so around $132 and $171.Source: GSMArena Tweet Vote on HN ...

Lenovo K5 Note – regional versions?

It looks like some regions have unique specyfications of Lenovo K5 Note:China – 2GB RAM and 16GB internal storage;India – 4GB RAM and ?GB internal storage;Egypt – 3GB RAM and 32GB internal storage.I don’t know will bigger versions be attainable for rest of world.2GB variant price is around $165 and 3GB costs $315.Source: GSMArena Tweet Vote on HN ...

What drives Sailfish?

Thanks to @evleaks we know what we can expect from Sailfish despite the fact that it will hit shelfes probably in September or October.Honestly only new info about Sailfish is screen: 5.2″ instead of 5.0″ and confirmation on Snapdragon 820 as CPU.It looks like Sailfish will be for more affordable segment and Marlin will be true flagship.Source: techradar Tweet Vote on HN ...

Xiaomi will reveal high-end models this month?

Well, basically it’s sure now: July 27 Xiaomi will releace Redmi Pro about which we have pretty good info.It’s price will be, most likly, 1299/1399 Yuans so about $195/210 what is really tempting offer.About Xiaomi Note 2 we have hell of the lesser info – we know it is fueled by Snapdragon 820 and 3GB RAM if it realy is Capricorn. It’s price is speculated to be around 3000 Yuan so somewere around $450. Will it be worth it and is it accurate speculation? We will see maybe in few days or next month.Source: ...

WARNING! Actualization 9.3.3. for iOS

Your safety is my priority so I give you this information as fast as possible:There is a gap in iOS security which can be used by hacker to take over control under device.We are talking about all systems based on iOS – iOS, watchOS, tvOS and OSX. So it’s high priority to update your OS as fast as possible.Cisco Talos’s specialists informed about it some time ago.Source: gsmmaniak (polish) Tweet Vote on HN ...

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